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Happy Friday, HRD! It feels like the week has simultaneously been too long and too short; hopefully you have some fun plans for the weekend, whether that’s resting or activities you enjoy.
Today is our HRD Town Hall for July! We’ll be doing a retrospective of all the amazing things we’ve accomplished this year – and it’s a lot. As always, if you aren’t able to make it the slides and recording will be made available for you in the MDH_HRD team and on our SharePoint homepage.
We restarted our Redesign Conversations this week with a series exploring each team and functional area. This week, we heard from Martha with an overview of the Shared Services area, and Hardi introduced the Budget Unit within Shared Services. The Shared Services group will perform some of the functions (like cash management and supply orders) that were previously handled by individual programs in order to centralize and streamline these processes. Here’s what the agenda looks like for the next few sessions:
- July 20: Admin Generalist, Admin Specialist, Call Center
- July 27: Intake and Case Mix Review (CMR)
- Aug 3: Policy, Rules, and Reconsiderations, Planning and Partnerships
- Aug 10: State Evaluation and Rapid Response, Federal Evaluation and Rapid Response
- Aug 17: Triage (State and Federal) and Evaluation Workload Scheduling (EWS)
- Aug 24: Enforcement and Licensing, Credentialing, and Registration (LCR)
With all these new teams, we have some new ways to communicate. As a division, we want to move towards emailing teams, rather than individuals, to make sure that issues can be handled or requests can be received by a group rather than a single person. This balances the workload a bit and ensures that one person doesn’t slow progress if they’re busy or out of the office. You can reach the following teams at their emails:
This week we’re featuring Erika, one of our Mortician Investigators. Erika is super knowledgeable in her field and spent a bunch of time helpfully answering all of our questions about green burial at our last Intro to HRD session. We hope you enjoy learning more about her!
Name / Pronouns / Position: Erika Fulgern / Evaluator, Mortician Investigator
Location: St. Paul
Tell us about your background. How long have you been in HRD? How did you get here?: I have been with HRD for 8 years now; prior to coming to the State, I worked as a mortician in the Twin Cities!
What's your role within HRD? What do you work on?: My role in HRD is to inspect funeral homes, crematories, and alkaline hydrolysis facilities, enforce the laws of mortuary science, investigate complaints, provide information to the public regarding the laws of mortuary science, and etc.
Describe a current project you're excited about, or an accomplishment you are proud of: An accomplishment that I am proud of is that I am eating better, exercising 6 days a week, and putting my health first!
What do you like to do when you aren't working?: When I am away from work, I enjoy spending time with my family and making positive memories!
If you would like to share about yourself or think there’s someone in the division who people should know about, send an email to Health.HRDCommunications@state.mn.us. We’d love to learn more about you.
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This week we have two postings, one of which was previously open (so if you already applied, no need to reapply!).
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Public Health Sanitarian 2, Job ID: 46338: These two positions will provide training, surveillance, consultation, guidance and evaluation of health care providers using specialized knowledge in Food Preparation Safety to assure a level of quality care based upon compliance with Federal and State laws and rules. Closes July 23, 2021.
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Agency Policy Specialist, Job ID: 47160: This position will provide sophisticated, effective, high quality legislative and policy research and analysis to support the Health Regulation Division’s Executive Management team in fulfilling the Health Regulation Division’s regulatory responsibilities to protect the health and safety of Minnesotans. This position will also oversee the development, promulgation and adoption of rules related to the work done by the Health Regulation Division. Closes July 23, 2021.
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Nursing Evaluator, Job ID: 47268: These seven (7) positions will be based at offices around the state. They will provide surveillance and guidance to health care providers in an effort to assure a level of quality care based upon compliance with Federal and State laws and rules which directly relate to the provision of nursing and health services, and will be part of the Regional Federal Operations team in the Evaluation functional area. Closes July 29, 2021.
If you are a current State employee and want to apply for these positions, please follow the steps below:
- Sign into Employee Self Service.
- On the State of MN Self Service Page, click on “Careers,” enter the Job Opening ID in the Keywords search box and click “Search.”
- Click on the job title to view the job posting.
- Scroll to the bottom of the job posting and click “Apply.”
To celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights is sponsoring a webinar. The webinar will be held on July 26, 2021, at 12 PM via Zoom; you can sign up here: Webinar Registration. The free, 90-minute virtual event will feature informative, engaging, and entertaining speakers and performances from across our state, including several special guest performers.
This virtual event is free and open to the public. ASL and CART services will be provided. Portions will be audio described. To request additional accommodations, contact Cindy Tarshish at 651-603-2015, 1-888-630-9793, MN Relay 711, or cindyt@mcil-mn.org. Deadline for accommodation requests is July 12. More information at CelebrateADAMN.com and on Facebook at CelebrateADAMN.
This week, HRD welcomed the following people to the division. Send them a message to say hello!
- Sarah Ohrmundt, Evaluation (Nurse Evaluator)
- Michael Jensen, Evaluation (Nurse Evaluator)
- Amy Wendinger, Evaluation (Nurse Evaluator)
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