UTMB Announcements for 7/26/2024

The benefits annual enrollment period for the 2024–2025 plan year is July 15–31. During this period, you may make changes to your benefits elections, add or remove dependents, and enroll in a flexible spending account.

To view or update your current coverage, log in to the My UT Benefits portal by identifying UTMB as your institution and entering your UTMB username and password.

• No action is necessary if you do not want to make any changes to your coverage for the upcoming plan year. However, it is recommended that you review your current elections and dependents to ensure they are correct.
• You must also actively enroll in UT FLEX each year if interested.
• Your annual enrollment elections and new rates are effective Sept. 1, 2024.

Please note: Beginning with this annual enrollment period, UT System is implementing an added security measure known as Two-Factor Authentication. This new security step will be needed when accessing the My UT Benefits portal from outside the UTMB network. Please contact the UTMB ITS Service Desk for assistance with setting up Two-Factor Authentication. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

For more annual enrollment information, including enrollment videos, employee guidebooks, and benefits cost worksheets, visit the Annual Enrollment web page.

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY IN LEAGUE CITY

FOR LONE STAR FINE DESIGNS!

LONE STAR FINE DESIGNS

is back again by popular demand, selling sterling silver

and high-quality fashion jewelry.

  If you have shopped with Lone Star Fine Designs

before, you will receive an additional 10% off. 

They will also be giving away a free pair of stud earrings

with every purchase, while supplies last, so plan to shop early.

FRIDAY, JULY 26^TH

9:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.

CLINIC SIDE – FIRST FLOOR

 Cash, MasterCard, Visa, Discover,

and American Express are all accepted.

Plan to shop for a great cause!

Proceeds benefit patient and volunteer programs.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!

UTMB Dermatology Resident BOTOX Event

Cosmetic BOTOX at $10 per Unit

RESTRICTED TO THIS EVENT ONLY

Appointments with dermatology residents supervised by our board-certified dermatologists, Dr. Erica Kelly, Dr. Kathleen Kroger, Dr. Anthony Linfante, Dr. Ayezel Munoz, Dr. Lindy Ross, and Dr. Janice Wilson.

This event is for cosmetic BOTOX only, any questions regarding other services will need to be addressed in a separate appointment.

August 16, 2024, 1:30 P.M. to 4:15 P.M.

UTMB Dermatology at Victory Lakes Town Center

2660 Gulf Freeway South, Entrance A

League City, Texas 77573

Contact the clinic at 832-505-3376 to schedule an appointment

**ORDER UTMB FY 2025 CALENDAR/PLANNERS NOW**

End of FY2024 is fast approaching so place your orders now for FY 2025 Calendar/Planners. We will begin to fulfill requests soon in the order they are received, so don’t wait if you want to use this year's funds! Order online today at https://utmb.us/asx

Wide format printing, posters, banners, signs, brochures, flyers, postcards, table covers, promotional items—and so much more, in small or large quantities—we do it all. 

Contact:  UTMB Graphic Design & Printing Services       Phone: 409-772-5900       Email: print.order@utmb.edu

Empower yourself with the tools to defuse tense situations and promote a healthy and safe work environment. Sign up today for our CPI® Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Verbal De-Escalation course to learn verbal de-escalation techniques and enhance communication skills.

Join us on one of the upcoming dates; all classes are from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM.

Wednesday, July 31 @ League City Campus

Tuesday, September 24 @ Galveston Campus

Wednesday, October 23 @ Angleton/Danbury Campus

Wednesday, November 6 @ Clear Lake Campus

Training and certification are:

• FREE to Nursing Services personnel
• Useful skills at work and home
• Valuable for evaluations and resumes
• Instructor: Clayton Collins, MSN, RN, CPN

Non-Nursing Services colleagues: Seats may be prioritized for nursing services staff. The cost of the workbook for non-nursing services colleagues is $26. 

Description:  This CPI® Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Verbal De-escalation class provides a framework and teaches skills to safely prevent and manage difficult behavior. For more information, please visit the CPI website at https://www.crisisprevention.com or contact Clayton Collins.

Requirements for participation: (please review carefully):

1. Ensure that your manager/supervisor has approved your attendance in training.
2. Must attend the full day for certification. Testing will be at the end of the day; participants who pass are issued a completion “blue” card.
3. Please wear comfortable clothing and a jacket or sweater as room temperatures can vary.

Registration for the course is on the Education Calendar on the Nursing Service website. https://innovation.utmb.edu/TrainingGateway/?type=nurse#/

We hope to see you there!

Clayton 

Keyboards and website accessibility

For a website to be accessible, it needs to be able to function with a keyboard alone (no mouse). When creating a page or web app, make sure that you can navigate and activate all parts of a page or app by using the keyboard only.  Use tab, enter, and the arrow key to navigate and activate any menus and forms.  Also check if you can easily see where you are on the page, is there a focus indicator that shows the active control?

Why is this important?

• People who use screen readers use the keyboard to navigate
• You can get a temporary disability, for example, an injury to your mouse hand

Relates to: WCAG 2.1 - Keyboard Accessible

#100DaysOfA11y

Check out the 100 Days of A11y page for the complete list of days so far!

On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, at 12:05 P.M., the UTMB Police Department will host a presentation about our Community Outreach Program (COP). This program is designed to inform and educate the community about their police department. The goal of the program is to encourage the community to be more familiar with the officers, administrative and support staff, and the roles/responsibilities/services we provide to ensure the safety of the campus and the community we serve.

We will provide food (pizza) and drinks. The presentation will take place at the UTMB Galveston Campus. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by emailing Corporal C. Dorsey at crdorsey@utmb.edu by August 5, 2024. The exact location of the presentation will be provided to those who RSVP.

We look forward to seeing you there and fostering a stronger connection with our community!

The following policy is available for review and comment:

 IHOP 03.01.01-  Staffing During Adverse Conditions

Comments on this policy will be accepted until 5:00 pm on 7/26/24 and may be submitted via email to policies@utmb.edu. Any comments written directly on to the draft policy via the website are unable to be accepted.

Email links should be clear and easy to understand and should indicate that they will send an email.

• Not recommended:
  • Email the marketing  team at marketing@example.com
  • The user usually won't type the email address, so selecting the link is enough.
  • It might not be clear that selecting the link will open an email.
  • They can copy the address, if needed
• Recommended:
  • Email the marketing team
  • indicates that the link will email the marketing team

Note:

Email links use mailto: instead of https://www, for example, <a href="mailto:marketing@example.com">

#100DaysOfA11y

Check out the 100 Days of A11y page for the complete list of days so far!

Every July is Disability Pride month.  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed on July 26, 1990 and celebrations of this important legislation started with the first Disability Pride Day in 1990 and have continued to present day.  The theme for 2024 is “We Want a Life Like Yours.”

Get to know some people with disabilities with TheArc's video story page and sign the pledge to include and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

#DisabilityPride #DisablityPrideMonth #100DaysOfA11y

Check out the 100 Days of A11y page for the complete list of days so far!

RE: Annual Wellness Visits for People with Dementia

• Have you billed at least one Annual Wellness Visit? You answer Yes.
• Are you currently practicing as a family medicine physician, internal medicine primary care physician, geriatrician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant? You answer Yes.

Please consider a brief 15-minute interview to share your insights with us. We will ask about your clinical experiences to hear from you about what works (or does not work) about Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) health policy. We seek to better understand wellness care for those living with cognitive impairment.

To participate, please contact Mr. Samuel David at savdavid@utmb.eduor call 409-772-5514, or click this link to sign up.

To learn more about this project, click this link. The project summary can be found here.

We appreciate your time to help us with this important project (approved by UTMB IRB).

With gratitude,  

Mukaila Raji, MD, MSc (Pharm), FACP, Geriatrician and Professor, Division Director, Internal Medicine-Geriatrics

Yong-Fang Kuo, PhD, RN, Chair and Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science

Ming Tzeng, PhD, BSN, RN, FAAN, Professor in Nursing  

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

The Caregiver Connection is a support group for family members and friends of people with Alzheimer's or other dementia.  The group is a safe, welcoming place to ask questions, learn about caring for someone with dementia and get tips for caregiver self-care. 

Meetings are held on 2^nd and 4^th Friday monthly from 12 – 1 pm

2^nd Friday is Hybrid meeting – In-person* at OLLI @ UTMB (1200 Market St. Galveston     4^th Friday  -  Zoom /phone only 

Meeting on Friday, July 26, is  ZOOM ONLY  or join by phone.  

ZOOM LINK  -  https://zoom.us/j/97547483595?pwd=cVpxcEJCYXJuTUlFdStZRHl3eWhQQT09

Meeting ID: 975 4748 3595   Passcode: 546406

To Join by Phone:   One tap mobile  +13462487799,,97547483595#,,,,*546406# US (Houston)

OR  Dial by your location          +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)   Meeting ID: 975 4748 3595 # #  Passcode: 546406#

Meeting hosted by Alice Williams, MS, LBSW, UTMB Sealy Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Association Trained Facilitator 

On Tuesday July 30, from 10pm through 2am July 31, ITS Voice Operations will be performing maintenance on the Avaya phone system.  Users may experience intermittent dropped calls during this time.  If you experience a dropped call, please hang up and try your call again.  Avaya contact center agents may be logged out during this change.  If required, please log back in accordingly.

Please Contact the ITS Service Desk at (409) 772-5200 if you have any questions.

CC# 45446

Overview:

In the early days of the internet, email addresses were added to electronic content (as regular text) so people would know how to contact a person, department, or company. When the ability to link email addresses arrived, many people used the same text for the link text.

Since selecting the link opens an email with the address in the To field, the user usually doesn't need to know the actual email address.  (In the occasional case where someone needs the address, they can copy it from the email message or link.)

Best Practices:

• Email links should contain clear text that explains what selecting the link will do - Email the marketing team
• Use the email address in the link code, not as the hyperlink the user will read and select -  it's difficult to read and for people using screen readers
• Always test email links before publishing them

Tips and tricks:

You can set the content of default fields on the email.

<a href="mailto:test@example.com?subject=Sample subject!">Email example team</a>

<a href="mailto:test@example.com?subject=Sample subject!?body=Body text">Email example team</a>

• You can add a subject line to the link, by adding ?subject=Testing a subject line into the link.
• You can add body text to the link, by adding ?body=sample message body text into the link.

Note: The user can update these when composing the message

#100DaysOfA11y

Check out the 100 Days of A11y page for the complete list of days so far!

The CDC announced updated the  Disability and Health Data System (DHDS) this month.  Findings show that Over 70 Million U.S. Adults Reported Having a Disability.  This means 1 in 4 adults in the US are affected by a disability more support for removing barriers to electronic content.

#100DaysOfA11y

Check out the 100 Days of A11y page for the complete list of days so far!