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Thursday, January 22, 2015
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Grant Announcement - Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Nonprofit organizations can apply for Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Awards that add up to a total of $85,000 to help fund health and wellness programs in upstate New York.
Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organizations in Excellus BlueCross BlueShield’s 31-county upstate New York region are invited to apply for an award of up to $4,000 each. The award can be used for programs that have clear goals to improve the health or health care of a specific population. Programs that improve the health status of the community, reduce the incidence of specific diseases, promote health education and overall wellness will be considered.
“The company’s Community Health Awards demonstrate a corporate commitment to support local organizations that share our mission as a nonprofit health plan,” said Arthur Vercillo, M.D., regional president, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. “These awards complement our existing grants and sponsorships with agencies that work to enhance quality of life, including health status, in upstate New York.”
The deadline to submit an application to be considered for an Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Award is Feb. 9.
Applications and additional information are available online at www.excellusbcbs.com/wps/wcm/
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is a nonprofit independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organizations in Excellus BlueCross BlueShield’s 31-county upstate New York region are invited to apply for an award of up to $4,000 each. The award can be used for programs that have clear goals to improve the health or health care of a specific population. Programs that improve the health status of the community, reduce the incidence of specific diseases, promote health education and overall wellness will be considered.
“The company’s Community Health Awards demonstrate a corporate commitment to support local organizations that share our mission as a nonprofit health plan,” said Arthur Vercillo, M.D., regional president, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. “These awards complement our existing grants and sponsorships with agencies that work to enhance quality of life, including health status, in upstate New York.”
The deadline to submit an application to be considered for an Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Award is Feb. 9.
Applications and additional information are available online at www.excellusbcbs.com/wps/wcm/
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is a nonprofit independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Thank you,
Jacqueline Iacovelli, MPA, FAHM
Community & Regional Affairs Director
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
jacqueline.iacovelli@Excellus.
333 Butternut Drive
Syracuse, NY 13214
Ph: 315 671 6947
Fax: 315 671 6407
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
May I Help You? RISK eNews
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January 15, 2015
May I Help You?
Last week I was among the weary passengers on board a flight stranded at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. After our delayed flight from sunny California landed around 8:30 pm, the pilot brought our plane to a ‘complete stop’ about 200 feet from the terminal. We remained parked there for 90 minutes due to the lack of an open gate. One by one, we watched helplessly as connecting flights completed boarding and taxied to the snowy runway.
The experience was frustrating but also a bit surprising. The surprising part was the reaction of my fellow passengers. Instead of becoming visibly angry, impatient and emotional, everyone around me remained calm and dare I say, jovial. Not what I was expecting at the late hour and under the circumstances! I attribute the mood on board to one thing: excellent customer service. The flight attendants were thoughtful, professional and clearly concerned. Instead of hiding in the galley to avoid the brunt of unhappy passengers, they walked up and down the aisle to engage in conversation with customers, even offering post-landing beverages to anyone who was thirsty. The pilot provided frequent updates and apologized.
If you think about the fundamental purpose of risk management—to inspire confidence on the part of an organization’s stakeholders—risk management and great customer service go hand in hand. Remember that the customer service professionals of any organization, including a nonprofit, play offense and defense. They offer support to back up the promises associated with the nonprofit’s products and services, and they serve as the first point of contact with happy as well as disgruntled clients.
Yet too often there is a distance between the risk management function and the customer service team in an organization. There shouldn’t be.
Reposition Risk
Perhaps it’s time to rethink the risk function in your organization to ensure that is grounded in the principles of excellent customer service, such as:
· Your staff members are the organization: Your employees’ actions and reputations are directly linked to that of your nonprofit. If your employees provide great customer service, that is what your nonprofit will be remembered for (and vice versa). Think about a time you had a positive or negative customer service experience—maybe while shopping, trying to get a broken machine fixed or replaced, or while on board a delayed flight. Your interaction with a single customer service associate can lead you to harbor strong feelings about an organization or brand, like “I’ll never go back to that store again!”
· Employee satisfaction matters: Research shows that employee satisfaction leads to high performance, including customer service. Don’t assume you know what’s best for your staff or what they want or need. Ask them what they value and find ways to deliver the kind of workplace and workplace culture your staff will boast about.
· Your nonprofit has both internal and external customers: We focus heavily on pleasing our external stakeholders, which means that important internal stakeholders get pushed aside. Since employee and customer satisfaction are linked, it’s essential that you provide the same level of care to your employees that you ask them to provide to your clients, consumers, service recipients, members and donors.
· Customer service comes first: At the Center, our motto is that anyone can be trained to be an effective risk champion as long as they have the fundamental skills necessary to support the job. The same approach is embraced by Apple’s retail stores. While ‘auditioning’ for the position of sales associate, candidates are rarely asked about their technical skills or their knowledge of Apple products. Instead, they are asked behavioral questions, like how they would respond to challenging customer service scenarios. Apple, a hugely successful company, insists that customer service is key—and that value has made a huge impact on the company’s culture, customer loyalty and bottom-line.
At the Center, we rarely identify customer service as a critical element of risk management. But now we recognize that this oft forgotten component can influence the effectiveness of the risk management function as much as—or more than—headline issues like catastrophic losses, loss ratios and the like. As we move forward into the New Year, remind employees with risk responsibility that great customer service is job #1 in their area as well. Likewise, remind yourself to ask your direct reports, superiors, and the colleagues you interact with every day, “May I help you?”
Melanie Lockwood Herman is Executive Director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center and the principal author of the Center’s new book: Exposed: A Legal Field Guide for Nonprofit Executives-2nd Edition. To inquire about bulk orders of Exposed or Melanie’s availability for a speaking engagement, contact Kay Nakamura at 703.777.3504 or Kay@nonprofitrisk.org.
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