Excela Insight 10/20/2022

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Excela Health Adds New Certification to Growing List of National Heart Care Accolades

Children’s Grief Awareness Day Event

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LAHAS Helps Local School

Employee Assistance ProgramFall Newsletter Available

The Heart Center at Excela Health has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Heart Association’s Heart-Check mark for Advanced Primary Heart Attack Center Certification. Excela Westmoreland Hospital is one of 40 hospitals in the United States and four in Pennsylvania to earn Primary Heart Attack Center (PHAC) certification.

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PHAC certification is one of The Joint Commission’s four Advanced Cardiac certifications offered in collaboration with the American Heart Association. The certification standardizes and improves coordinated systems of care across settings regarding identification, assessment, monitoring, management, data sharing and performance improvement for multidisciplinary ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) heart attack care.

Excela Health Adds New Certification to Growing List of National Heart Care Accolades

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Excela’s Heart Center underwent a rigorous unannounced onsite review in April 2022. During the visit, a team of Joint Commission reviewers evaluated compliance with related certification standards including delivering and facilitating clinical care, supporting self-management, performance measurement, and program management.

“We congratulate Excela Health for this outstanding achievement,” added Nancy Brown, chief executive officer, the American Heart Association. “This certification reflects Excela’s commitment to providing the highest quality of care for cardiac patients.”

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Children’s Grief Awareness Day Event

Excela Health Home Care & Hospice and Hartman-Graziano Funeral Home Inc. have partnered to promote community support for children coping with grief and loss through special activities tied to the national observance of Children’s Grief Awareness Day held each year on the third Thursday in November.

The two organizations will co-host a free art activity for children, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, November 17 at the Latrobe Art Center, 819 Ligonier Street, Latrobe. Participants will be creating an ornament that will honor their loved one as well as represent the various feelings they have experienced following the loss. There also will be information available for adults on how to support grieving children and on the Neighborhood Kids Program, a family-based support group for children, offered by Excela Health.

Seating is limited for this event and reservations are required. An adult must accompany the child that evening and register the child for the art activity by calling the Hartman-Graziano Funeral Home Inc., 724-537-5575, by November 11.

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LAHAS Helps Local School

Latrobe Area Hospital Aid Society (LAHAS) recently made a donation to Grandview Elementary School in the Derry Area School District. Hygiene kits were donated for students who may be in need. Accepting for Grandview is the school nurse Kim Long (left). Marlene Cavicchio chairs the project for LAHAS.

Employee Assistance Program - Fall Newsletter Available

The Washington EAP Fall Newsletter is now available. Topics include navigating stress through the holidays, communication tactics to use with children and self-care options for the caregiver.

Lights of Love

The 35th Annual Lights of Love Light Up Night will be held on Tuesday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m. at Robindale Auditorium, 1501 Ligonier Street, Latrobe (formerly Latrobe Elementary School).

n Handicapped parking and ADA ramp at Ligonier Street entrance to Robindale property.

n Brief program including the Ceremony of Remembrance and Honor.

n Light refreshments following the program.

Accepting donations by mail at Lights of Love, LAHAS, One Mellon Way, Latrobe, PA 15650 and online at www.ExcelaHealth.org/LightsofLove

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Excela Health Employment Team Participates in Disability Mentoring Day

The Excela Health Employment Team, as well as managers from Food & Nutrition Services and Environmental Services, participated in a Disability Mentoring Day to promote career development for high school students with disabilities through job shadowing and hands on career exploration. Activities at the event included career area explorations, leadership presentations, resume/interview skill building and more. Our employment team presented career opportunities in healthcare, discussed high school intern positions and reviewed interviewing etiquette with students from the local areas, including several students from Derry High School.

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Team trainer, Virginia Tinkey gets a shout out from one of the athletes on the team she supports.

Just a little appreciation post to the best athletic trainer on the @tinkATC you deserve just as much credit as anyone for the sucess of every sports team @GCC_Centurions Thank you for everything Miss V!

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Lily Altman, HUC

Environmental Services

Jennifer Clark, Environmental Services Technician

Progressive Care Unit

So Kyung Kwak, Technical Partner

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GI Lab

Colleen McElhaney, Unit Clerk

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Janine Sarnese, Unit Clerk

Environmental Services

Joshua Short, Environmental Services Technician

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