Beaumont offers vaccine for everyone aged 12 and older, CEO Update: Announcing Dawn Geisert's departure, Major security vulnerability uncovered in Adobe software; patch released this week
Beaumont offers vaccine for everyone aged 12 and older
Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the Pfizer vaccine for children 12 to 15 years old, so this age group is now eligible to receive their COVID-19 vaccination at Beaumont’s vaccine clinics in Troy and Southfield. To schedule, you can:
Vaccinating those as young as 12 will further advance Beaumont’s goal of achieving high rates of vaccination. Those under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
CEO Update: Announcing Dawn Geisert's departure
Beaumont Health’s Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Dawn Geisert, has accepted a position as senior vice president, chief compliance & integrity officer for Trinity Health. Her last day at Beaumont Health will be Thursday, May 27. This is a significant professional opportunity for Dawn to advance her career and expand her responsibility by working for an $18.8 billion organization that reaches across 22 states and includes 92 hospitals. We wish her well.
Dawn has been with Beaumont since 2015, providing strategic leadership for business ethics and corporate compliance programs, including education and training programs, compliance plan development and reporting mechanisms, compliance investigations, vulnerability and risk assessment and conflict of interest programs. She was also responsible for Beaumont’s enterprise risk management program and the accreditation compliance support team.
During her tenure, she helped launch and shape the foundational compliance policies of the organization. She also created a comprehensive fraud, waste and abuse prevention program. Most recently, Dawn spearheaded two years of Corporate Integrity Agreement compliance operations, including centralizing contracting functions, creating automated workflows and finalizing more than 30 new policies. She also implemented governance, risk and compliance software and functional compliance risk plans.
In addition, Dawn established Beaumont’s Enterprise Risk Management Program, which included developing policies, procedures and a governance structure to focus on high-priority organizational risks and on-going mitigation efforts.
Please join me in wishing Dawn and her family the best.
Soon, we will begin both an internal and external search for Dawn’s replacement. Until then, Susan Thomas, a consultant from PYA, a national compliance services company, who has worked extensively with Beaumont for several years, has been retained as an interim compliance leader. Aaron Gillingham will also be working with me and Susan as an internal coordinating executive. Thank you.
John Fox
Major security vulnerability uncovered in Adobe software; patch released this week
You may have seen in the news, on Tuesday, May 11, Adobe announced a patch to its products that fixes a Zero Day security hole in their Acrobat and Reader PDF software that can allow hackers to take remote control of infected computers.
“Beaumont Health’s Cybersecurity team analyzed the threat and confirmed immediate projection is in place both from our virus protection tools and our regular Microsoft Windows updates,” said Hans Keil, senior vice president and chief information officer. “The team has also formulated a plan to update all Beaumont computers to the latest, patched version of Adobe. In the meantime, you may continue to use Adobe software.”
Protect yourself at home and your physician office
While IT is taking steps to protect computers on the Beaumont network, we strongly recommend that you take similar actions and update your personal Windows and Apple computers at home, your physician office, etc., to the latest version of Adobe. Not sure if you have Adobe products installed? Click the start menu and search for Adobe. If you do:
- Open Adobe Acrobat and/or Adobe Reader, click Help at the top menu and select Check for Updates.
- Note, you may already have the latest, protected, version.
- The latest version of Acrobat Reader can be downloaded at Acrobat Reader Download Center.
For more information and technical details, review the Cybersecurity team’s threat report and visit Adobe’s Security Bulletin. As always, be suspicious of emails with unusual requests or from unknown sources; only open PDF documents received from trusted sources.
If you have questions, please contact the Service Desk at 888-481-2448.