Insurance Insights by Anne Noble, Benefits Manager
Four months into the new year and we have 50% of our employees enrolled in health insurance participating in HealthJoy! As a reminder, this tool is our new “Teledoc” and can also help you find a doctor, give you an estimate of how much a procedure will cost you, review a medical bill to determine if you were billed correctly and many more cost and time saving options. If you haven’t given it a try – please log in and see what HealthJoy has to offer. If you need assistance with the app or enrollment, contact Anne or Savannah in the Benefits Department. On-Site Health Changes One of the unique benefits of working at Crest Foods is that we have on-site health professionals that can help you with many health needs while you are at work. This saves you time, and also helps you address a health concern that you might otherwise ignore. We are constantly evaluating what is most beneficial to our employees. This is no small task, especially with the Covid waves that we can’t predict! Starting April 4th, the Nurse schedule has changed. We will still have a nurse available every day. Ann Lee, Nurse Practitioner, has taken a full-time position in the Hospital Medicine department at KSB. She will be available to our Crest employees twice a month, which requires that you schedule an appointment through one of the nurses, Heidi, Billie or Stephanie. Lab services also remain available one day each week. Please utilize our health services that free and convenient! Remembering Reggie by Jeff Meiners
One of the charms of living in a very small Midwest town is that the community itself has a tendency to adopt those that might need a lit- tle extra support. Thus was the relationship between the village of Ashton and Reggie Kooistra. Reggie recently passed away at the age of 84. He spent most of entire life in Ashton with some brief time away to attend college along with a stint in the Army. Reggie was a bright, kind man who battled personal demons that made it difficult to interact in social settings that many of us would consider normal. He worked at Crest as a draftsman for a number of years until the pressure of interacting with a large group of
people became too much for him to tolerate. When the reality of a typical work life no longer was a possibility for Reggie…he spent his time walking the streets of Ashton and surrounding towns chatting with anyone who would give him an opening. He loved a good joke, to share some philosophy and usually had some type of quote for anyone he bumped into. He wrote – he sang – he philosophized – he waved to everybody and seemingly knew everyone as everyone seemed to know Reggie. Sometimes Reggie would get to be a little overwhelming and he didn’t always have a feel for personal boundaries. Most people in town understood and dealt with that because he was simply one of our own. In his living his life in the only way he knew how…he reminded us all that we don’t always get to choose the cards we get dealt in life and the best we can do is make the most of the situation that is uniquely our own. Reggie made the best of the hand he was dealt and the community embraced him because of that. May he rest in peace.
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