Eastern Plumas Health Care would like to congratulate the co-winners of our Employee of the Month Award: Tracy Allara and Debbie Espana.
\nTracy Allara gives multi-tasking a new meaning–overseeing Infection Control and Employee Health as well as working in Utilization Review and Quality Assurance. Finally, she serves as an Acute\/Emergency Room RN and an Operating Room RN. According to Tracy, who has worked for EPHC for nine years, the \u201cstrong feeling of family and community make [EPHC] a warm and welcoming place to work.\u201d
\nTeresa Whitfield, Director of Quality and Operations, said of Tracy: \u201cAbove all else, Tracy is a team player who lives our mission\u2014\u2018The patient comes first.\u2019\u201d
\nDebbie Espana works in Health Information Management\/Medical Records. She said, \u201cI especially enjoy and love the people I work with.\u201d Like Tracy, she wears many hats. She works closely with many departments, helping the Business Office with Medicare audits and Treatment Authorization Requests, and helping out as needed in the Skilled Nursing Department. She also works closely with doctors and the clinics.
\nDebbie has worked for EPHC since it came to the aid of the Loyalton Hospital in 2003, where she worked as a unit clerk and in medical records. She\u2019s also worked as a CNA, Ward Clerk\/Heart Monitor Tech., Coder, and throughout the Billing Dept.
\nDebbie speaks from experience when she says that what she likes best about working at EPHC is that \u201cit is like a big family\u2014everyone is very kind and considerate.\u201d It\u2019s likely that Debbie helps bring that out in her co-workers. According to former HIM Director, Lydia Wahab, Debbie \u201cis the \u2018glue\u2019 of the department, keeping it all together.\u201d She is meticulous in chasing down missing pieces of documentation, she answers all questions knowledgeably and promptly, and is adept at communicating with physicians. All of this she does, \u201cprofessionally, with graciousness and, always, with a smile,\u201d said Lydia.
\nFinally, Debbie has strong ties to this community. She was born in the old Portola Railroad Hospital and has lived in this community on and off throughout her life. Her relatives have lived here since the early 1930s. \u201cMany of my relatives lived, loved, married, and are buried here in this community. It is a great place to live and work\u2014my hope is, for many more years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eastern Plumas Health Care would like to congratulate the co-winners of our Employee of the Month Award: Tracy Allara and Debbie Espana. Tracy Allara gives multi-tasking a new meaning–overseeing Infection Control and Employee Health as well as working in Utilization Review and Quality Assurance. Finally, she serves as an Acute\/Emergency Room RN and an Operating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}