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Left: Employee ambassadors Jill Riggsbee (left) and Kathy Brice (right) participated in the Stuff the Bus campaign with help from employee Gerald Bagley. Below: Employee ambassadors Joyce Kern, RN, BSN, clinical nurse IV (back center); Shalia Gregory, RN, BSN (back left); and Celeste Mayer, PhD, patient safety officer (back right), promote UNC Health Care in the community. Stuff the volunteers Bus h collect moreelped than items for O range County stu dents in need. 2,500 Success Story The program is relatively new, but it has already proved to be quite successful. Last summer, UNC Health Care participated in the Stuff the Bus campaign for Orange County schools. A call for volunteers to help collect school supplies was placed in the program’s monthly e-newsletter, and within the first couple of days, 25 ambassadors and other employees volunteered to help. Through this collective effort, more than 2,500 items were donated for students in need in Orange County. “We receive a lot of requests each year to support local charities, and occasionally we have to say no,” says Maltais. “This program allows us to offer some measure of support to charities that are closest to our employees’ hearts.” See Employees in Action Hear from the people who make UNC Health Care’s Employee Ambassador Program possible. Visit www.youtube. com/uncmedicine and search “employee ambassadors” to watch the videos. www.unchealthcare.org 5 http://www.youtube.com/uncmedicine http://www.youtube.com/uncmedicine http://www.unchealthcare.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Well - Fall 2011

Well - Fall 2011
Contents
UNC Health Care News
Community
An Urgent Solution
It’s Not Too Late to Get Your Flu Shot
Back in the Race
Nutrition
Calendar

Well - Fall 2011