In this issue:

• Influenza Shots and Declinations
• National Wear Red Day for American Heart Month
  
• Tobacco-Free Campus Launch
• 403(b) After-Tax Contribution Now Available
  

Save the Date!

• Feb. 2: National Wear Red Day
• Feb. 5: YKHC Goes Tobacco Free
  
• Feb. 19: Finance Committee Meeting
• Feb. 19-20: Governing Body Meeting
• April 11-12: Tribal Gathering XXV

February is American Heart Month and to celebrate, the Diabetes Department will be hosting a booth at the hospital on Friday, Feb. 2, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in recognition of National Wear Red Day. When you fill out a pledge and take a photo, you enter for a chance to win a fitness tracker, $30 AC gift card for fruit and vegetables, or Diabetes Department gear. A winner will be selected and notified at the end of the event.

For those unable to join the event Feb. 2, submit a Heart Health Pledge and a photo of you wearing red by 12 p.m. on Feb. 28 to Diabetes_Program@ykhc.org. Please email the Diabetes Department to receive the Heart Health documents. Three participants will be selected and notified on February 28th and featured in YKHC communications. 

There are still two months left in the flu season. To be compliant with CDC requirements, all YK employees must have a flu shot or complete a declination form. The form must be completed even if an employee received the flu shot somewhere other than YKHC. The declination form is available on the Intranet here.

Within the next two weeks Linda Mertens, Employee Health Nurse, and Susan Demuth, Infection Preventionist, will be visiting all departments to give flu shots or have declination forms signed. The goal is 100% compliance by February 16, 2018.

FedEx has changed their process with FedEx ground. They no longer use the Post Office for the last leg from Anchorage, they are utilizing Ravn.

With this change, for now, Materials Management is picking up the orders and sorting them out to deliver.

Please do not use a personal name on these corporate purchases, as we do not pick up personal purchases. If your purchase is a corporate purchase, please use YKHC as the recipient and your name as an ATTN: line. 

Questions? Contact Chrissie Christiansen at ext. 6040.

Employees now have the option to choose two different retirement plans. This week, we are offering employees to enroll in a 403(b) ROTH after-tax contribution in addition to the existing pre-tax 403b retirement plan.

To enroll, employees can download the forms from the document library. The pre-tax form is here; the after-tax form is here.

Employees must fill out the Participant Information and the Participant Election section toward the bottom. In the Election section, indicate your deduction amount. Minimum deduction is 1% of total earnings or $25 per paycheck.

For questions, please contact Eva Malvich, Benefits Manager, at ext. 6096 or eva_malvich@ykhc.org