In Roads
JANUARY 24, 2014
Inside information for the employees of Mercy Medical Center
Mercy Medical Center Takes on The Great Kindness Challenge Dignity Health is partnering with Kids for Peace to sponsor this year’s The Great Kindness Challenge, a global program that aims to inspire students to make a lifelong commitment to service and kindness. The Great Kindness Challenge School Edition is an anti-bullying initiative dedicated to creating a culture of kindness in elementary, middle, and high schools worldwide. Between Jan. 27 and 31, students nationwide will be provided a checklist of 50 kind deeds to perform to create positive change. To learn more, and get your child’s school involved, visit www. greatkindnesschallenge.org. Dignity Health has also customized a kindness challenge for our employees, physicians, and volunteers as a way to strengthen the human connection and encourage more acts of kindness within our own Dignity Health family. Mercy Medical Center will be participating in the challenge the same week local schools will participate – January 27-31. To join the challenge, pick up a kindness checklist in the
We challenge you can in on you to perform as many acts of kindn e week. Using this list, kind deeds as ch ess as you go . Have fun! eck off your January 27-3 1, 2014
Dignity Health Checklist Say ‘Good Morn ing’ to
15 people Write a loving note to a family member Take a hot bever Take a walk with a cowo age or treat rker during member(s) order from an your break and deliver Hold the door inpatient’s family it to him or open for some her the next Read a favori one day Pat yourself te on the back patient durin story to a pediatric inpati g your break ent or the child Complimen of a t five people Read a favori te book or look Be kind to yours inpatient (fami ly member canat photo album with an elf and have elderl a health bring y Learn some y snack album) Write notes thing new about of cafeteria, securgratitude to people outsid your supervisor Walk or bike e of your depar ity, receptionis or another cowo to work t, etc. tment: rker Make some Hold the eleva heart tor for 10 peopl Surprise cowo s with your own positi ve words or rkers with these e Learn to say quotes. in their mailb ‘Thank You’ Bake some oxes in a new langu cookies, pan Call a coworker age operators or dulce, or bring in security guard another facilit apples for night for how their s y or office and shift work helps Collect and thank them you in yours deliver sleep Visit a differ ing bags or ent floor or warm coats Pick up trash department for the home or clean up to introduce Volunteer at less graffiti in your yourself a local charit Write, draw, neighborhood y or with your make, or buy Donate some child’s schoo who is exper thing to a local l iencing difficusomething encouraging animal shelte for a colleague lties Deliver a speci Leave a treat r al gift to a patien on had many visitor gravitate towar the desk of a coworker t in the hospi s ds you don’t norm tal who hasn’ t ally Call your paren Collect goods ts, sibling, or in your workp on their past lace to donat lives acquaintanc Bring in a health e to a food bank e to get caugh y snack to share t up or shelter Make sack lunches for with coworkers Tell a joke and the homeless make some Be a friend one laugh who Leave kind without lookin listens: Have a meal notes for five with your family g at your phon of your neigh Surprise a cowo e bors or friends Take a deep, rker with a favori cleansing breat te beverage Share a huma h each day Surprise a cowo nkindness story rker or neigh at hellohuman Make a donat bor with flowe kindness.org Make “Than ion to a cowo rs ks rker’s favori them to anyon for your humankindness” Leave a piece te charity e you notice of chocolate d performing note cards and give on everyone’s Park farther Treat a cowo a kind deed desk away from the rker to lunch park closer building entra Offer to help nce to allow a co-worker others to Let someone with errands Collect books go in front of you in line for your local Retur library n your shopp Smile at 25 ing cart (and/ people leaving it in or someone the parking else’s) instea lot Buy a visitor d of Start contributin lunch in the cafeteria g to your your choice hospital’s found ation or a charit y of Create your own kind deed
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Administration office on the Garden Level of the hospital, and complete as many kind deeds as you can during the week of January 27th. We also encourage you to tweet or instagram your kind deeds using #DignityHealthGKC and #hellohumankindness. Thank you in advance. Together we are leading the humankindness movement. You can also print off the checklist at the end of this issue!
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” - Dalai Llama
Living Spirituality by Sister Lucille Carreau, DHS Asst. Director of Spiritual Services
Thought:
Sometimes people get the notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of our existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms. - David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B. The most common definition of spirituality is that which defines all our relationships giving the meaning and purpose to our lives. It is to have a right relationship with God, self, others and creation.
Practice:
Take time to think about your relationships with God, self, others and creation. Is there room for growth? Which gives the greatest motivation to your daily work? Plan on improving your relationship in one of these areas.
Hello humankindness Here’s one of the new commercials Dignity Health is running now This message features the song “Rock A Bye Baby” performed by Kim Glennie of the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Click on the image to see the “Rock A Bye Baby” video.