Volume 25
Number 20
October 3, 2014
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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L o ngevity & Lo yalty The year was 1989. Roseanne, The Cosby Show and Cheers were the three top-rated television shows. A gallon of gas cost less than a dollar; a loaf of bread was 67 cents. That was also the year that our 88 new inductees into the UPHS 25-Year Club started working here. They join a group that now tops more than 1,400 employees! CEO Ralph Muller thanked everyone for their hard work and loyalty, especially in light of the hospital’s “intense pace.”
The Caring Corner: A Commitment to Education....2
In a 1989 HUPdate, Arthur Asbury, MD, interim executive VP of the Medical Center, said that their goals were to “retain and improve our position as a nationally ranked education and research resource” and “maintain our economic viability and build reserves for future program investments.” They remain our goals 25 years later, but with many successes along the way. Indeed, noting that HUP/PPMC were ranked as 7th best in the nation by this year’s U.S. News & World Report, Muller told attendees, “We receive this national recognition because of all you do.”
CC Riders Mark their 8th Road Trip....................................2
Congratulations to all members of the UPHS 25-Year Club and thank you for your many contributions.
2014 Employee Flu Campaign Starts Soon!...............................3
Go to http://news.pennmedicine.org/inside/hupdate/ to see more photos from the 25-YearClub celebration.
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Penn Medicine Wins Donate Life Hospital Challenge.............3
`` A: ( L—R ) Bea Travisano, Craig Kean, Cathleen Dorsey, and Doreen Nation.
Blood Donation Center Moves.........................................3
`` B: (Standing, L—R) Dorsey Green, Mary Cwiertniewicz, and John Detruf. (Sitting, L—R) Francine Horsey, Wanda Henderson, Roxanne Williams, and Patircia Demary.
Fit Around Philly........................4
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Caring Corner
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A Commitment to Education
“The most important thing is education,” said Nihill. “Penn Medicine offers employees the opportunity to go back to school and invest in themselves through great benefits. What I do at the Drueding Center centers around education, helping kids create a future for themselves.”
Do you volunteer in the community?
If so, be sure to report your efforts on the Penn Medicine CAREs website (http://uphsxnet.uphs.upenn.edu/community/).
As a workforce development consultant at Penn Medicine Academy, Kerry Nihill is passionate about creating opportunities. Through on-site degree programs, a learning ambassadors program, managing new employee orientation, workshops, and other initiatives, Nihill strives to help Penn Medicine employees reach their professional goals. This dedication to helping others reach their potential extends to the community. It is this desire to support the community that attracted Nihill to the Drueding Center, an organization offering transitional housing and support services to single mothers and their children. Nihill and her mom both assist the Center’s weekly “Homework Helper” program. Each volunteer is assigned to one child in elementary school for the entire school year. “We help with arts and crafts, reading, writing. Every week is different, but the child is the same,” said Nihill. “The overarching mission of the Drueding Center is to provide permanent housing for these families. You can work with someone for four months and then they’re placed somewhere — which is great, but bittersweet for us.” The kids thrive through the one-on-one attention they receive in the program. “The most recent girl I tutored said she would tell her friends at school about how tutoring was not just ‘doing boring homework’ but was actually a lot of fun!” The center also offers résumé workshops, funding for women to buy professional clothes, and other career support. The goal is for each other mother to receive housing with her child(ren) and employment within two years.
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CC Riders Mark their
8th Road Trip
Members of HUP’s intensive care nursery came out to greet the CC Riders, a small cycling team made up of family and close friends who ride approximately 130 miles — from the March of Dimes home office to HUP — to raise money for the organization. The twin daughters of Mark Mills (who leads the ride) and his wife, Rajasi, were born 10 ½ weeks premature. Chessa died just prior to delivery but Chloe was able to go home after receiving seven weeks of care in HUP’s intensive care nursery. Today Chloe is an active, healthy eight year old.
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Employee Flu Campaign
Starts Soon! Over the past five years, more than 98% of HUP and UPHS employees have been vaccinated for seasonal influenza. Getting the flu vaccine reduces the risk of illness for our staff and helps keep our patients, colleagues, and families safe and healthy. Annual vaccination is needed for maximum protection and is provided free of charge to all Penn Medicine staff, clinical faculty and contractors. The Occupational Medicine Flu Vaccine Clinics will come to a wide variety of locations, starting Wednesday, October 8. (Egg-free vaccines have been manufactured and FDA-approved; we hope to have these available to egg-allergic employees by mid-October.) To ensure minimal waiting times and rapid documentation, employees should bring a bar-coded vaccine consent form. You can find both the times and locations of the Flu Vaccine Clinics – as well as the necessary bar-coded form – on the Intranet home page, under “What’s Hot.” If you choose to be vaccinated outside a UPHS Flu Vaccine Clinic, please send your documentation to HUP Occupational Medicine with a copy of your bar-coded form to make sure you get timely credit. Employees who submit their completed flu bar-coded consent form by October 27 will be entered into the raffle and eligible to win one of several prizes. Prizes include a Touch-Screen Samsung Tablet, iPod Shuffle, and Fitbit! The UPHS Influenza Vaccine Policy is unchanged from last year. Contact your HR generalist for any questions about the policy or see the policy on the Flu Campaign Page.
`` Howard Nathan (r.), Gift of Life president and CEO, presented the Highest Total Points award to (from left): Garry Scheib, Katherine Geiger, Amy Martiner, Diane Jakobowski, Pam Mack Brooks, Katherine Ventura, and John Kerry.
Penn Medicine Wins 2014 Pennsylvania Donate Life Hospital Challenge Earlier this year, the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) partnered with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE), and the Gift of Life Donor Program to create the 2014 Pennsylvania Donate Life Hospital Challenge. Teams from throughout the Health System hosted several activities to educate staff members, patients and their families, visitors, and the extended community on the critical need for organ donation and to provide opportunities for people to sign up as organ, eye, and tissue donors. Teams captured those activities on a scorecard in an effort to achieve platinum, gold, silver, and bronze level point totals. HAP recognized Penn Medicine as the health system with the Highest Total Points Achieved! Howard Nathan, Gift of Life president and CEO, presented the award plaque at a recent meeting, noting that GOL has partnered for over 40 years with Penn’s Transplant Program, the “largest program on the East Coast and one of its leaders.” “I am very proud of the work that Chester County, Penn Presbyterian, Pennsylvania Hospital and HUP achieved with this recognition,” said John Kirby, HUP’s associate executive director of Operations. “Raising donor awareness will benefit all future organ transplant recipients in this region.”
Blood Donation Center The Penn Medicine Blood Donation Center has moved from the Penn Tower Bridge level to the new Apheresis, Infusion and Blood Donation Center on Ravdin 3. Now it’s more convenient than ever to make a life-saving donation. The Center is open Monday to Friday from 8 am to 4 pm. You can schedule an appointment online or just walk in.
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HUP uses over 60,000 blood components every year. Shortages of certain blood types are common. Your blood donation will help ensure an uninterrupted supply of blood. To learn more about how you can save lives — and to schedule an appointment — go to pennmedicine.org/give-blood/.
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Celebrating
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Longevity & Lo yalty
To celebrate the fall season and our great city, Wellfocused is challenging you and your department to join us for the Fit Around Philly Challenge. The goal is to exercise 150 minutes per week. The departments with the highest average number of minutes will be featured on the Fit Around `` (L—R) Carolyn Cutilli, Mary Denno, Heather Smith, Alma Golden, Diane McMichael, and Dorrita Cliett.
Philly leader board and in the end, the department with the highest average
Welcome to the Club!
number of minutes will get 100 healthy
Congratulations to the newest members of the UPHS 25-Year-Club:
also be a bonus challenge to earn
C o r p orate Renee Althouse-Cave Patricia Demary Natalie Bain Edward Charlton Michele Donati
reward points! Each week there will
Doreen Nation Gwendolyn Dennis Robert Giuliano Carol Greipp Mary Cwiertniewicz
Craig Kean Diane Kirkpatrick Rani Fogel Shirley Webb Cindy Freeman
Cathleen Dorsey Mary Ellen Kearney
Anne Gleason Robin Hughes Sabrina Hunter Tanya Kurtz Fay Lovett
Letonia McKnight Michelle Montes Dorothea Pfohl Patricia Schuster Mary Shaw
Heather Smith Joan Sparano Sue Spinello Lisa Wright
points for doing something healthy in Philadelphia. To join, click on” HR & You” on the Intranet home page and go to the Healthy Rewards Center link.
CPUP Neal Ali Lee Cohen Cecilia DiSandro Mary Edwards Valerie Garfield
Editorial Staff Sally Sapega Editor and Photographer
HUP Michael Albright Sharon Baliker Audrey Baylock Robyn BeverlyBroomer Jeanette Bioteau Catherine Bloch Lorrie Bokelman Beth Boruta Andrea Brokenbough Dana Butler Richard Carson Lisamma Cheriakalathil
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