Ayn's Multiple World

Just getting in a few work thoughts - home computer is down

Good morning. This is me. It’s Monday morning at 9:45 am and I’m at work. We just got done checking through the mail and we did our hour with Group 1. I also stopped to talk to Sr. Theresa for a few moments and we went over a few things. We need to be doing some check up on something called circuit breaker for free transportation for people with disabilities. We also had to let her know that we had two doctor appointments coming up next week. One of them is Tuesday afternoon with our regular doctor, Dr. Albright and the other is to get a mammogram and ultrasound. There was a problem nodule that needs to be checked on now 6 months down the line. Ack!

Sr. Theresa looks very relaxed coming back into her work. When I found her she was shifting around crackers from box to box. She said they learned from St. Paul and the Priest was a musician so that was incorporated into the services. She said that Pennsylvania is beautiful at this time of the year. Good for her. She was also prompt in saying not for me to leave CARF to the last moment. I tried to buy out with work on annuals, but she thought I still have time and should be doing both books at once. That’s my general memory of it too, but you can see how I’m using these moments here with the blog.

Mostly, we like to avoid, but also my home computer went down yesterday afternoon.

That is a big problem. I fell into disrepair. I went from one kids show to another trying to remain somewhat grounded although I can’t say by too much. Rich had left about 10 am to meet his son so they could watch the White Sox. Then they went out and Rich drove his son home. He got back about 8-8:30 pm. We were pretty much weirded out. Not real noticeably except when the movies switched from a calm one on dolphins to another where the little boy got lost in the middle of a stampede of people during the war.

I just remember Rich coming out and scolding us … he turned off the tv and told us we could come in with him and watch football, but then not too late we got better and suggested we watch football out in the living room, but then we fell asleep. Part of it was that we’d forgotten to take our medicine. I should know better than that, but we’d not really moved much from one movie to another. We were ok by the time he took our glasses and tucked us in.

Rich called this morning, because he was going to have a very big meeting with his boss. He asked before the weekend to his boss if he should get his resume in order.

That’s about the status of JVS. As it turns out, JVS is going to close down the Bloomberg Center. That’s the workshop I met Rich at and the center that I learned how to use the computers. That’s where we fell in love. I felt bad that it wasn’t going to be there, happy that Rich still had a job, but not so happy for Sean … Sean is going to lose his job after about 25-30 years with the company. That tells you what an idiotic company it is … Stupid ass thing to put in your whole life and 3-4 years before retirement they lay you off. Sean has been with JVS about 5 years longer than Rich. It’s a bad thing for him.

Rich is already working at getting Sean in at another company he works at. It would be for like 25% less pay. I think that Sean should do better than that … he’s a professional, but Rich says anything is better than nothing. I think it’s a real shame. Sean has a lot of experience working with people. We liked him a lot.

Rich says that in about a year, they probably will close down the other two shops too. They are working on just mental health issues and not rehabilitation. Rich says that 45% of the work he does is for JVS and he’s worked hard over the last few years to diversify himself. He says he’s got 6 months to move things around. I think that if they let go of this facility and people that quickly with maybe a couple weeks severance pay – which they are going to have no bones about letting him go either. Everything is in jeopardy, but Rich is calm. He says he just needs some time to work things around and being able to keep his customers happy at other facilities. He says its going to be an intense 6 months.

Rich is I think 56 or 57. That means he has at least about 8 years left, although he may have looked toward retiring a couple years before that. The trip up north with him Sunday didn’t turn out very well. He wasn’t in the mood for talking and he wouldn’t tell me where we were going or what our objective was, even if it was to say drive for two hours, have lunch and come back. We both got frustrated with each other and then later he told me about this meeting he was going to have this morning.

He was tied to secrecy because most won’t hear about it until Friday or next Monday.

We went out to eat after we got back – we had Italian linguini and meatballs, but we were pretty out of it by then. We were tired and defensive – younger parts. We did somehow manage to come back to our older selves in that someone went to bed with Rich that night. And, I guess I can say that literally too, because we forgot to wake up later to go to our own place. But, Rich had been ancy and ended up sleeping on the couch. My poor baby. He also said something about his wife emailing him at midnight to suggest that Rich shouldn’t have his son on Sunday, because I think it’s today that is their anniversary. I guess that’s her way of saying she’s going to have big problems and needing to put it down on the son. Felt bad for him and them, but it didn’t have anything to do with me. I’m not the one married/divorcing.

Rich seemed to have a better time later after things were settled. We helped him with a couple of loads of clothes before he left and then another one after he’d gotten home last night. He’s a hard worker. I think he’s going fishing this weekend – leaving on Thursday and then he’s going to have to cancel the following weekend he’d been planning to spend with his daughter. He will ask her to move the time up another month. Rich says that he’s got to be around as some of these changes at JVS are happening. I felt bad because I know how much he’s looking forward to seeing his daughter.

The situation didn’t come up about money in particular … we figured that from what he was saying that we were going to have to work it out on our own to be paying Thom’s fare. He’s going to be giving me the money for his part of the rent – and instead of school loan which is being deferred a month – we will give Thom $300. And, we will make sure the payment goes through for his Best buy. I looked again this morning and it didn’t go through, so I’m thinking that it didn’t get approved.

We should get paid today or tomorrow, but that money is going for rent and car payment. No way to avoid that. We’re going to have to skimp to get gas payments and money for parking. Rich said that if I ordered my medicine this morning, which I did … he would help me with my medicine. He says that I will have to pay short one of my other payments, so in that respect I might be late with the car payment. I’m not so close to those people. Rich will just give me that much less payment – than he has to make picking up my medicine today. It’s going to be a pretty skimpy month. Just have to be careful with Rich … we don’t want him overwhelmed with us with all whatever going on in his career.

I’m going to try working this morning a bit on CARF … I would like to make it a goal to have something to hand in to sister at the end of the week. I hear the clients in the background … they must be having a very good time at break. Maybe we should stop and have the cottage cheese first before we move on. I don’t however think there’s too much more to write about yesterday. It really was quite blah.

We’re getting out the Paper Tiger now. Hmm, came up pretty fast. We’re going to need getting out the 2008-2009 Survey. I think we left the other records in order.

It just looks like we’re about 5 complete. Maybe we should pull those out to figure out the style we were using.

Ok, we’re stepping out in the right fashion. We’ve gone over what we had worked on and now we’re going over the next question which is How would surveyors see
demonstration of leadership guiding financial solvency?

Survey Resources: St. Rose Center can demonstrate leadership guiding financial solvency through: 1) the James Shaver CARF Survey Report where he states that St. Rose Center enjoys a positive financial status, met fiscal challenges, and has appropriate support and by his stating that St. Rose Center complies with all legal and regulatory requirements, financial-budget(s) that are prepared, shared, and reflective of strategic planning, actual financial results reported and compared to budgeted performance and organizational review as well as the center having sound fiscal policies and procedures (doc353), 2) the Policy and Procedure of the Leadership Guide which amongst other corporate ideals notes that St. Rose Center remains financially solvent (Thin Book- doc339), 3) By the collection of information that can be reproduced, able to measure what it is intended to measure, complete and accurate such as its financial planning records and DMHDD Compliance records (Information Mgt and Performance Improvement 1.3.11.a, b, c & d), 4) the William Adam CARF Survey Report where he states that St. Rose Center has as strengths - diligence, oversight, responsibility and financially stability (doc146), and 5) responding to information from persons served from the performance improvement reports that include outcomes for financial efficiency (doc196).

Survey Resources: St. Rose Center demonstrates leadership guiding compliancy with insurance and risk management requirements by: 1) maintaining a leadership guide policy and procedure where it lists insurance and risk management requirements along with corporate responsibilities and compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements (Thin 13 – doc339), 2) notation in the William Adam CARF survey report stating our insurance orientation and comprehensive insurance coverage and ability to secure assets (doc146), 3) notation in the James Shaver Adam CARF Survey Report stating we have written risk managements plan and adequate insurance coverage (doc253), 4) notation in the Nancy Flax CARF Survey Report stating that we’ve worked through potential risks (doc148), and 5) SWOT Analysis listing as important – liability coverage and coverage of insurance costs (doc206), 6) Policy on workplace wrongdoing – no tolerance listing insurance claim health care benefits and workers compensation benefits program (doc246), 7) a notation in our technology and system plan that our insurance company completing a frequent risk management survey (2005-2006 Survey – 1.C.8.a.4.06, -AA -), 8) written policies and procedures to request reports from Motor Vehicle for the purpose of insurance, 9) policies and procedures concerning environmental management that list needs such as having an insurance identification card and information regarding coverage, procedure, vehicle safety and inspections (Information Management and Performance Improvement – 1.3.12.2.1-8), policy on vehicular accidents requiring that insurance information be obtained from the other driver in an accident (doc96), 9) policies and procedures for reporting investigations and corrective actions when state insurance carriers be notified (doc97), 10) the Board Approval of “CARF checklist documents that ensures proper insurance coverage (doc210), through dialogue with our Risk Management Insurance attorney for gaining procedures on subpoena, search warrants, investigations, or other legal actions, 11) complying with Christian Brothers Risk management services checklist as a part of the accessibility outline (Information Management and Performance Improvement – 1.13.12.5), 12) as noted in our risk management services summary of coverage (Information Management and Performance Improvement 1.3.12.b.6), and in our Business Improvement Report under risk analysis reports (same report – 1.3.12.b.6. 1-9), and finally by sets of reports on risk management under risk severity matrix, risk management, assessment findings and plan and risk reduction in performance improvement activities (doc300-307).

posted by Ann Marie @ 9/29/2008 03:24:00 PM Comments: 0