About

Welcome to Group Health connects! The purpose of this blog is to support and connect all of the passionate Group Health staff and members who are active in the community. The goal of this blog is to establish a “staff to staff/member to member” online meeting place where we can connect, recruit, share and motivate!

We encourage you to communicate about the following:

1. Event participation in Group Health sponsored activities
2. Staff/member participation in your local community – walks, runs, triathlons, rides, community-building/health and human services opportunities, etc.
3. Recruitment of fellow staff/members
4. Organization of activities
5. Information/tip sharing
6. Story sharing
7. Photo sharing
8. Fundraising solicitation*
9. Spread the enthusiasm!

This blog serves as a compliment to Total Health (for GH staff/spouses/partners).
Participation in these community events = Total Health points!

*The priority of this blog is not necessarily to promote fundraising but it can be used as a fundraising tool to a degree. If we find that fundraising requests are beginning to overwhelm the blog, we will have to implement some guidelines.

To register to the blog:
(you will automatically become a “subscriber” and will receive regular notifications of new posts. You will also be able to create your own posts)

1) Click on link www.grouphealthconnects.org

2) Click on the blue “log in” button to the right, which will take you to a WordPress page. Instead of “logging in”, you first need to REGISTER. Click the bottom left link for “register”.

3) Make sure you are in “register” mode and choose a screen name for yourself and type in your email address

4) Check your email – within a few moments, you should receive an email from WordPress. This email will contain your password.

5) Copy the password given by WordPress (you can change it later, if you want to), click on the link in the email (it will take you to the log-in screen) and paste the password under your screen name. Make sure you are in “log-in” mode NOT “register” mode.

To post:

6) Make sure you are registered (one time thing) and click the blue “log in here” button. Log in (enter screen name and password) and you will be taken to the blog’s “dashboard”. In the top right you will see a box that says, “Quick Press”

7) Enter a title and write the content of your blog message. Then make sure to click the “submit for review” button. Your post will be reviewed and approved, and will appear on the blog within a day.

House Rules

Group Health supports community discussion and debate about health care and public health issues, including on the Web.

If you participate in discussions via public Internet communications and Web logs (blogs), you may:
• Talk about your experience and what you’ve learned at Group Health.
• Participate in community dialogue about health care issues.
• Share your medical or health plan expertise.

However, you must:
• Protect patient confidentiality; following HIPAA and all other related laws.
• Never disclose proprietary or other confidential business information, even if you no longer work for Group Health.
• Clearly differentiate your personal opinion from Group Health positions.
• Be respectful of other Group Health staff, patients, partners, affiliates, and competitors.

If appropriate to your work, your manager may permit you to read or participate in public Internet communications about health care issues while you’re at work. But you should not read or participate in pubic Internet communications about personal matters or interests while at work. Please see Group Health’s Internet use policy for more information.

Have questions you don’t want to post?? Don’t know if your post is right for the blog?? You can e-mail us.

Group Health Communications and Community Relations (CCR) department monitors references to Group Health in the media and on the Internet. CCR holds the administrative rights to monitor, manage and edit all communications on this blog.