February MHHRA Newsletter
February 2005
Dear MHHRA Members:
As another year came to a close, it gave us time to pause and reflect on the months past -- our year in review. It was an interesting year for us as HR professionals and MHHRA members.
In September, Judge James Tamm (former judge and adjunct professor for the University of California), presented "Building Collaborative Relationships in a Pressure Cooker Environment." Participants were able to identify and see how their own behaviors could block their effectiveness in negotiations. Useful concepts to apply at work came from the "Radiant Transit Exercises." Members left the presentation armed with handouts to assist them in cultivating employee collaboration and to reduce conflict in the workplace.
Senior HR Leaders came together on October 28 at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham. This was a valuable opportunity to network with colleagues, interact with one another on "what keeps them up at night", and best practices. Brandon Melton, SVP HR, LifeSpan, was a superb facilitator as we discussed different perspectives of HR strategies and execution. We are grateful to Mark Manin and Linda Rappaport, Business Partners Chairs, who took the lead in organizing this event and obtaining Business Partner Sponsors for this elegant affair.
In November, MHHRA collaborated with MHA at their 6th Annual Summit "Into Thin Air: Conquering the Workforce Summit". This provided an excellent opportunity for members to learn how to survive the quest for sourcing candidates and keeping employees in the workforce.
Steve Salvo, Diane Bono, Mark Manin, and Denise McNulty worked diligently to update and revise the MHHRA website. We used Flyte New Media as our website developer. We look forward to celebrating our website debut in late January. Kudos to the website team!
Congratulations to Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) a nationally recognized public healthcare system focused on diversity and the community it serves. CHA, along with Donna Bonaparte, Senior HR Director, HR Operations, were showcased in the May/June 2004 issue of Profiles in Diversity Journal.
Donna Bonaparte and Jim Canavan, Program Chairs, along with their Program Champions, have come up with an exciting slate for the 2005 program year. Be sure to mark these events on your 2005 calendar. You won't want to miss the following:
February 10
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MHHRA Annual Social:
Spinnaker, Cambridge Hyatt |
| March 31 |
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MHHRA Breakfast:
Best Practices: Comcast |
| April 21 |
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MHHRA Breakfast:
Cultivating a Diverse Workforce: A Toolkit that Works |
| May 6 |
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MHA/MHHRA Joint Conference:
Labor Forum |
| June 7 |
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MHHRA Evening:
Annual Meeting and Award Recognition |
All programs are presented at The Conference Center at Waltham
Woods, except the February 10th event, which will be held at the
Spinnaker, Cambridge Hyatt Regency and the May 6th event, at the
Sheraton Tara Hotel in Framingham.
It continues to be a productive year for MHHRA and an enormous undertaking for the Board. I want to personally thank Board members for their commitment, time, energy and involvement.
As the New Year continues, we encourage our members to become involved in MHHRA by attending programs and in joining one of our committees. Self nomination forms can be found on our new website under Member Login.
Margie Ransom
MHHRA President
February 10, 2005: MHHRA Annual Social
Come and join us for a relaxing evening at one of Boston's only
revolving restaurants - Spinnakers! Entertainment will be provided
by Harvard University's original acappella group the Harvard Din & Tonics
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Spinnakers
Hyatt Regency Hotel
575 Memorial Drive, 16th Floor, Cambridge MA
Phone: 617-492-1234 |
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
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6:00 pm Cocktails/7:00 pm Dinner |
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Members/NonMembers: $50 |
Click here to register for this program and view upcoming programs
MHHRA's NEW website at www.mhhra.org
Featuring:
Online Membership Directory
Hot Job Survey Results
Quarterly Newsletter
Resource Links
Online Credit Card Processing for Program Registration
Our new web site features a new members-only section. Please respect the privacy of our membership!!
We are very interested in your comments and thoughts - please share them with us via email at mhhra@mhhra.org.
This wonderful member benefit would not be possible without the help of our Business Partners:
Bernard HODES Group
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BostonWorks
A division of the Boston Globe, BostonWorks is the largest and most popular recruitment tool dedicated to the Boston market. BostonWorks has more jobs, more resumes and reaches more active and passive job seekers than any other recruitment site in the market. BostonWorks and BostonWorks.com leverage the power of The Boston Globe and Boston.com to reach an audience of more than 2.4 million each week.
In addition to the BostonWorks section in The Boston Sunday Globe and the online recruitment site BostonWorks.com, the division offers industry-specific magazines such as "On Call" for nurses and allied health professionals and JobSource, a weekly career publication with distribution of over 100,000. BostonWorks also produces a number of career fairs held in Greater Boston throughout the year. Please visit http://www.bostonworks.com.
LaRhette Manin Benefit Service Group
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Our capabilities are built on an infrastructure of NASD-registered account executives, licensed insurance representatives and certified benefits counselors who have been trained in all aspects of compensation reward systems that offer employees choices and options - which we believe to be the cornerstone of future benefits strategy. Please visit http://www.lmbsg.com.
2005 Massachusetts Healthcare and Related Employment Trends Industry watchers predict three major trends continuing through early 2005.
Trend One: despite a projected 32% of employees looking to change jobs within the next two months, many recruiters - 76% of them-report continued problems sourcing qualified candidates locally.
Trend Two: suggests problems staffing for growth will be compounded by a first quarter spike in employee attrition - 54% of employers reporting.
Trend Three: predicts it will take up to 20% longer to fill many positions with an average increase of 7% in cost-per-hire.
One thing is for sure: recruiters who are able to reach untapped nursing, allied health and related candidates in and around Massachusetts - at a time just before they are most active- will likely survive their counterparts who cannot. And, those recruiters who can deliver their employment branding and retention message at the same time- without spending a dollar more- will be able to resist trends, one, two, three.
Sources: CareerBuilder's "The Pulse: Quarterly Employment Forecast", the "Manpower Employment Outlook Survey", BestJobsUSA.com's "2005 Regional Employment Trends
1. To ensure that the mission of the organization is carried out:
Mission Statement: Through educational programs and collegial exchanges, the mission of MHHRA is to develop leadership, increase competencies and foster excellence for Human Resources professionals and service producers in the healthcare industry.
2. To ensure that on-going program development meets the needs of the membership.
President - Marge Ransom
1. Ensure MHHRA is a strategic, vibrantly, strong (50% member growth) association for health care and health care related industry human resources professionals demonstrated through membership growth, diverse educational/networking programs, communications updated via technology (website) and financial stability.
2. Secure collaboration and strategic relationships with targeted organizations, such as MHA, MONE, Higher Education, ASHHRA, and other ASHHRA New England Chapters.
3. Seek additional opportunities for work force development, enhancing the healthcare/healthcare related industry, as a desired field of employment opportunities through such vehicles as the Human Resources Work Group (HRWG) and Pulse.
4. Guide and support the achievement of goals and objectives established by the Board of Directors.
Immediate Past President - Maria Roloff
1. Assist the President, President-elect and Association Manager in the preparation of the ASHHRA Chapter Management submission
2. Serve on other projects as determined by the President
President Elect - Diane Bono
1. Collaborate with the Past President for the ASHHRA Chapter Management submission.
2. Participate in Board and Executive Committee meetings
3. Fill in for the President in his/her absence.
Secretary/Treasurer - Nanette Smith Callihan
1. Record all minutes and all associated documents of Board of Directors meetings
2. Oversee the ongoing, timely payment of bills.
3. Report periodically to the membership on the Chapter's financial status.
4. Ensure the timely completion and filing of all tax and government reports.
5. Provides quarterly report to the Board of Directors the status of the budget and any significant variances.
Program/Diversity Committee - Donna Bonaparte and James Canavan
1. Define members' needs for education and training through surveys, focus groups, and/or other research.
2. Provide forums of information sharing, training and development that assist healthcare HR professionals address or respond to challenging related issues.
3. Incorporate diversity into programming.
4. Assist our members to build collaborative relationships with HR professionals within healthcare and partnering organizations.
5. Promote chapter's program calendar and individual programs through strategic, creative marketing and to increase chapter membership.
Recruitment/Retention/Recognition Committee - Ginny Rehberg and Julie Thistlethwaite
1. Continue to reach out to HR professionals in the broader Massachusetts and Rhode Island healthcare industry including mental health, home care organizations, skilled nursing home facilities, managed care and community health organizations; examine feasibility of inclusion of healthcare-related areas such as medical technology, biotechnology, medical device organizations, etc.
2. Continue to collaborate with various board committees to more closely to ensure membership and program activities are pursuing the same goals, serving the membership needs and evaluating results for ongoing improvement.
3. Devise new ways to boost membership including personal outreach to new prospective members and former members as well as innovative reward programs.
Labor/Legislative/Employee Relations Committee - David Ryan, Louis Scrima
1. Serve as an informational resource to MHHRA members relative to labor and employee relations issues affecting health care and health care management and communicate such information via the MHHRA newsletter or web site, as appropriate.
2. Provide information relative to legislation impacting human resources management in health care.
3. Develop three (3) or more articles for the MHHRA newsletter.
4. Collaborate with the Program/Diversity Committee with one educational program or presentation focusing on public/legislative affairs.
5. Respond appropriately to inquiries from MHHRA members regarding labor, employee relations and legislative matters.
Regional Integration Partners - Brendan Egan, Joan Handstad, Leonard Pansa and David DeJesus
1. Attempt to host a meeting or contact in some way each region (south, north, west, and central) during the year to solicit advice and ideas on recruiting new members, interesting programs, and other issues of importance to other regions.
2. Develop contacts in other regions to assist in meeting planning, speaker and locations of regional meetings.
3. Attend meetings of the ASHHRA Region I leadership committee and report back to MHHRA on national issues
Business Partners - Mark Manin, Linda Rappaport
1. Increase number of business partner relationships.
MHHRA's most recent budget is available to our members. To view a copy, please download the PDF.
MHHRA would like to welcome the following new and returning members to our Chapter!
Linea Aspesi, HR Generalist, Partners Healthcare
Louise Backaler, Director Employment, UMass Memorial Healthcare
Joan Barton, Director New Business, Harger Howe & Walsh
Mark Campbell, President, MJ Campbell Associates
Carolyn Carpentier, Director of HR, Charlton Hospital
John Carroll, Senior Director Human Resources, Youville Hospital and Rehab Center
John Cavanaugh, HR Generalist, McLean Hospital
Lori Cunningham, Employment Operations Coordinator, Boston Medical Center
Karen Curley, OD Specialist, UMass Memorial Healthcare
Pamela Donovan, Director of Benefits, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Tamara Dujovna, OD Coordinator, UMass Memorial Healthcare
Bryan Farrow, Account Executive, JWT Specialized Communications
Donna Gould Pordes, Associate Director of Advertising, Nursing Spectrum
Beverly Hope, Human Resource Generalist, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Lindsay Jacobs
John Kelleher, Senior HR Generalist, Boston Medical Center
Kristina Kelly
Ellen Leader, Organizational Consultant, Authenticity
Lori Mahoney, Director of Human Resources, Southcoast Hospital Group
Robert Mahoney, Boston Medical Center
Jean Mansfield, Human Resources and Pension Manager, McLean Hospital
John McGlew, Director, Employment/Employee Relations, Sisters of Providence Health System
Brent Neese, District Manager, AIG VALIC
Jennifer Patnaude, HR Consultant, Southcoast Hospitals Group
Jose Ramirez, Senior Director, HR Medical Group, UMass Memorial Healthcare
Lauri Rich, Senior Health Care Recruiter, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Marianne Roy, OD Specilist, Umass Memorial Healthcare
Vandy Rudkin, Senior HR Generalist, Linden Ponds
David Ryan, Vice President HR, Quincy Medical Center
Pamela Sande, Director Compensation & Benefits, UMass Memorial Healthcare
Michael Vangel, Managing Director, JWT Specialized Communications
Cheryl Villani, Vice President HR, Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Timothy Wood, Brigham & Women's
MHHRA is a chapter of the American Society for Healthcare Human Resource Administration of the American Hospital Association (ASHHRA). To Join ASHHRA, please visit www.ashhra.org today! |
