Visitor's Corner
July - August 2010

Comfort Items

We want to emphasize again the purpose of our comfort items, such as combs, pens, pencils, magnifying glasses, toothpaste, toothbrushes and playing cards. We have them in limited quantities.

We suggest that when you request comfort items you give them directly to the Veterans when they come into the VA as patients. It will help them until they get the hospital supply. Since our supply is limited we don’t encourage you to put them out for free distribution.

Your Masonic Hospital Visitor

We hope you enjoyed the pictures and write-ups in the issue received with the June Short Talk Bulletin. We try to use as many pictures as we can and still stay within the number of pages allotted. We are quite proud of this issue and its contents.

If you sent a picture that was not used it was either; you sent several and we had to choose 1 or 2 or the picture could not be reproduced by our publisher.

Any comments are always welcome.

We do thank you all for making sure we have pictures to fill the pages.

Regulations At The VAVS Level

We have had some comments on new rules and regulations being instituted at many of the VA’s. The only thing we can request that you do is conform to these rules and regulations. We are sure the VA have their reasons and if we go against what we are asked to do, then our Veterans will be the losers because we won’t be able to serve them. We must always remember our Veterans are our main focus. We do thank you in advance for your patience!

Annual Joint Reviews

At the beginning of each new year the VAVS start their Annual Joint Reviews. We want all of you who are Reps to make sure you go for your review. It is a way for the VAVS and MSA to work jointly with our Reps. When we get these reviews we make a copy and send the original back to you with our comments. Paperwork never seems to end.

This is a very important review that we all must participate in.

SMILE AND THE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU!

Summer Should Be In Full Swing By Now

We hope your summer is going along smoothly and with temperatures that you all like. We doubt it, but being without snow can be comforting too. Enjoy the times that are good and relax when you can’t do anything else.

Quarterly VAVS Meetings

In the last Visitors Corner it was spelled out that all Reps and Deputy Reps are required to attend the Quarterly VAVS meetings. If you don’t have any Deputies then your own attendance is mandatory. Attendance at these meetings does keep the MSA Certification current. Since you are all part of the MSA Family we do appreciate your cooperation in making this happen.

July/August Birthdays

To everyone who is celebrating a birthday during the months of July and August—we hope it will be very eventful. Birthdays are unique to you even if others share the same day. It should be your day and celebrated as you want. Sounds good to us!

Time isn’t your enemy unless you try to kill it!

These Are The Months When Outdoor Activities For Our Veterans Are Held

These are the months when our Veterans are taken outside for fun events. A time to make sure they are treated with good food and games. Pictures should be taken to put in our Hospital Visitor. A win win situation!

Why do each of you get (4) copies of the visitors corner?

All Reps and Coordinators, get (4) copies. Please share with your Deputies, if you have any, or anyone else you might think of! We try to give you information that we feel is helpful. Just another way to stay in touch with our special people.

The Visitors Corner is put on our website at www.msana.com under the Hospital Visitation section. We are also willing to send one to anyone you might like to have a copy.

DVD or VIDEO on “Others” and “When the Band Stops Playing” also available

These are good programs to make others aware of the Hospital Visitation Program. We are happy to send one for your use at a meeting and when finished you can return it for others to use. It tells about the Hospital Visitation program and how it works.

Visitor's Corner July - August 2010