Creation Health - Greene County: February 2015

Friday, February 27, 2015

Hospital Unit Displays

As you know, I have been doing a lot of work from home these days with all the winter weather and school cancellations. Not to mention the enormous amount of speaking engagements and events that have been cancelled and/or re-scheduled. However, I did make it up to the hospitals for a total of about 2 1/2 days this past week and I was thrilled to see some lovely Creation Health displays on my rounds!

We have been encouraging our coaches (the ones who are promoting Creation Health inside their units to their co-workers and patients) to put up a simple Creation Health display in their area of the hospital, where people can find materials and information, in an attempt to make the program more visible and available inside the hospitals. And I just love all of the displays I have seen so far...they are perfect!

By the way, have I shown you this brand new Creation Health water fountain that sits outside the cafe at Takoma?

It is extremely environmentally friendly in that it has a spout on top that allows people to refill their water bottles, so that they are not wasting plastic bottles. Plus, it is located in a high traffic area where it promotes Creation Health and E - Environment. Brilliant!

Have a great weekend and hopefully the weather will settle down so that I can participate in and report on some events next week! :)

About the Author: Erin Franklin is the Creation Health Coordinator for Greene County, the Head Volleyball Coach at Greeneville High School and the Founder/Director at Worthy of the Prize Sports Ministries. Erin has a BBA in Marketing and Management from TCU and a Masters of Christian Education in Church Recreation from Southwestern Seminary. She is a published, award-winning author and poet. Purchase her book Worthy of the Prize Sports Camps: A Church's Guide to Implementing an Effective, Community-Reaching Christian Sports Camp to be used as an outreach tool for your church or mission organization, and her ebook find joy in the journey: how 12 women could face tomorrow just because He lives for inspiring stories of women who found overwhelming joy despite their circumstances. Erin is the wife of Aaron, the Minister of Music & Senior Adults at FBC Greeneville, and the momma of 2 sons, Anderson and EJ. Click here for full bio.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Home Office

Remember last week when I told you how excited I am about my new offices at Takoma and Laughlin? Go here if you missed it.

Well, this week I had 5 events cancelled/re-scheduled and had to work from home because of all the lovely winter weather we've had! The first few days were so much fun...lots of family time (schools were closed the entire week), lots of rest and my boys had an absolute blast sledding and playing in the snow. BUT, I must admit that by about Day 3 of not leaving the house, I was getting a little stir crazy. Anybody with me?

I finally forced myself to get out once the weather settled down, the sunshine came out and the roads cleared a little, so that I could make some rounds at the hospitals, visiting coaches and re-stocking materials.

This is a display that one of my coaches at Laughlin put up in her unit and I just love it! She hung one of the brand new posters that came in this past week above a small table of materials, and it is perfect.

One of our 2015 goals is to make Creation Health more visible inside the hospitals and my coaches are off to a great start!

Hopefully next week I will have more to report...that is if the weather cooperates. ;) Hope everyone has had a great week and weekend, enjoying some snow fun with your loved ones!

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Office with a View

I believe I failed to mentioned that I now have an office space at both Takoma and Laughlin!

I have always worked from home and set my own schedule with this job, which makes it the perfect flexible job for our busy family life. At the same time, it is so nice to now have an office space at each hospital, where I can meet with people, get work done and store things, particularly on the days that I am on site or the days that I just need to get out of the house. ;)

This is the view from my Laughlin office. Isn't it lovely? Just this past week I hosted a meeting in it, my 3rd one so far, and it was very productive. Not only was I able to add another coach on site, but my new coach and I discussed ideas for some exciting things coming up inside the hospital, which I will share when there are more concrete details.

I got to work with a new group of kids during the Tusculum View Tiger Times after school program again this week and I held my 2nd seminar of the spring session (R - Rest) at Public Works for the city employees.

It was yet another great week in the life of Creation Health - Greene County!

Friday, February 6, 2015

City and County Leadership: Great Examples to Follow

It was another great week in the life of Creation - Health Greene County!

I told you last week how the county employees are on their way to getting healthy under the leadership of Mayor David Crum. If you missed it, click here. Today, I am happy to report that the city employees are doing the same.

For at least the past year or so, city employees have been showing up to a good number of my community events to earn "wellness points" required by their employer, in order to keep their insurance costs down. This past week, I had the privilege of leading the first of 8 Creation Health seminars held at Public Works for city employees to earn points as well. There are 33 of us who will be spending 1 lunch a week together for 8 weeks, taking a more in depth look at how the 8 Creation principles affect our overall health and well-being, encouraging one another to make small changes that will lead to big results in the long run. The first seminar ( C - Choice) was a success and I look forward to working with these lovely people for the next 7 weeks and then again with a new group in the fall, for our second round of seminars.

I am so thankful that the leadership in both our city and county are setting a great example for all of us in Greene County to follow!

I also spent a few afternoons this past week working on the new display for the main lobby at Laughlin, alongside Wellness Director Tracy Green, and I just love how it turned out! If you are at Laughlin, be sure to stop by, take a look and grab some free materials from the table.

Happy Weekend, friends!

Monday, February 2, 2015

On a Roll in 2015

I do not have any major events to report from this past week, but I did have the pleasure of attending my first County Wellness Committee meeting!

We will be meeting once a month to discuss ways for county employees to make their health and well-being a priority. They are currently having fun encouraging one another to get healthy through "secret wellness buddies" who leave each other little notes and other surprises that include healthy treats, wellness tips, healthy recipes, etc. They reported that it has been a fun, positive, successful way to encourage one another so far.

They have also put together a corporate wellness newsletter that will release once a month to all employees and they are in the midst of brainstorming other ideas including seminars and fitness competitions to keep people on track and motivated in the coming months. It is exciting to see the county employees getting serious about health and wellness under the leadership of Mayor David Crum, and I am honored to be a small part of it!

While out and about on my rounds at the hospitals this week, I was thrilled to see the new Creation Health feed streaming live in the waiting rooms at Takoma, and to snap a picture of the Blessings Board that one of my coaches had hanging in the break room in her unit during the holidays, for employees to "count their blessings."

I must say that Creation Health is off to a great start in 2015! We have already added 1 new coach at Laughlin and are working to make the program more visible inside each hospital through displays and available materials, as well as wellness activities done along the way.

We also have a few 8-week seminars in the works which I will share more about in the coming months, along with a few other exciting things on the horizon. I hope your year is off to a great start too!

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