The Blood Center Picnic! - TBC Intranet

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June 2011
The Blood Center Picnic!
TBC employees, family and friends gathered at Lafreniere Park on Sunday, May 15th for our annual picnic! Attendees enjoyed spicy crawfish,
grilled hotdogs and hamburgers, ice-cold snowballs and a myriad of delicious desserts. The afternoon concluded with the “Soak the Boss” winners pummeling water balloons at their bosses, who took the splashes in
stride. Additional water balloon purchases ramped up the fun and raised
$125 for The Blood Center Foundation!
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mployee of the Month
Keosha Damond Apheresis Specialist
With the continued growth in apheresis collections over the last several years, Keosha
has been instrumental in the daily quality
control and review of all automated collections. She has overseen the increase in
collections by troubleshooting calls from
our donor techs as well as monthly tracking
and oversight of quality control standards.
She works directly with vendors to facilitate
exchange of information and reports that are
critical to achieving collection targets in the
Vista system and apheresis centers.
Keosha has also been a critical team player
and liaison between the Apheresis Department and the Reference Lab throughout
several new initiatives that have impacted
operations of both departments. She has
become the primary contact point in the
department for maintenance and record
review for all quality control topics. Keosha
consistently displays the initiative, dedication,
and work ethic that is the foundation for The
Blood Center’s success.
Laboratory Scrabble Contest Team Winners:
Karla Carpenter and Lindsay Thompson
(created 29 lab words)
Lab Coat Decorating Contest Participants:
Tonia Mitchell and Kim King
(pictured below)
Spirit Banner/Poster:
Reference, NAT, and Processing Labs all had
great spirit posters!
Thanks to everyone for
making Lab Week so fun!
Stacy Cunningham
Distribution Tech I
Drew Milton
Component Lab Tech
Zoe White
Distribution Tech I
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Ashley Lee
Distribution Tech I
June Birthdays:
June Anniversaries:
Uneike McGrew
6/1
Daniel Thompson 6/1
Trudy Woodard
6/2
Heather Gunn
6/5
Sharon Fiorenza
6/7
Gene Brockhaus Jr 6/8
Daniel Held
6/9
Sue Mole Shelly
6/10
Moses Ponce
6/11
Linda Brown
6/11
Terri Duplessis-McCrea 6/13
Claudia Baker
6/14
Kirsten Keller
6/15
Teresa Roberts
6/22
Lindsay Thompson 6/22
Cadette Jones
6/23
Sharon Posey
6/24
Georgia Henderson 6/25
Sue Gebhart
6/28
Hazel Moses
6/29
Julie Fast-Winston 6/30
Karina Lopez
Elois Sance
Bridget Landry Katherine Adatto
Ashleigh Collins
Andrika Cooper
Chad Montero
Kathy Burke
Rosetta Fassitt
Sharon Posey
Lyne’Ara McGee
Cammie Proctor
Kelly Felder
Jazmine Jacob
Robbie Kreamer
Ian Stephens
Tina Williams
George Roth
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Tuesday, August 2nd
6pm-8pm
Night out
Against Crime
St. Joseph’s Rebuild Center, 1803 Gravier St.
(Behind St. Joseph’s Church on Tulane Ave.)
FOOD, FUN & ENTERTAINMENT!
Food provided by Anita’s Grill - pot-luck dessert!
Sno-balls and face painting!
Meet your neighbors and community business partners!
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Have People News or photos to
share? E-mail Amy Goldfine at
[email protected]
or call her at (504) 592-1555!
Donor Services QA Coordinator Joy
Paloade graduated with a Master’s of
Social Work on May 7th from
Southern University at New Orleans.
Joy also reeived her department’s
Academic Achievement Award for
earning a GPA of 3.914, and was
inducted into the Xi Phi chapter of
Phi Alpha National Honor Society
for Social Workers.
Congratulations Joy!!
Puzzler
Who am I?
(hint a famous historical person)
May Puzzler Winner & Answer
I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter,
a bit remains.
If you remove the second,
bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able
to remove the third one also,
but it remains.
It dies hard!
What is it?
Answers need to be mailed or emailed to
Latorya Jones at ljones@thebloodcenter.
org by the 20th. All employees with correct answers will be put into a pool, and
a winner will be randomly chosen from
that pool. The winner will receive
a $20 gift card from Wal Mart !!!
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QA Associate Sharon Fiorenza is the
proud mother of a UNO Graduate!
Her daughther, Brittany, graduated on
May 20th with a degree in Accounting.
She has an internship with Freeport
McMoran for the summer and will start
graduate school in the fall at UNO.
Congratulations Sharon and Brittany!
Customer Service
Corner:
“If you do build a great experience,
customers tell each other about that.
Word of mouth is very powerful.”
A Habit !
Tiffany Williams
Donor Services
Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com