Volume 10
Issue 10
May 15, 2015
PRESBYbulletin Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Lab Week Celebration Lab Week recognizes the contributions of the more than 300,000 medical laboratory professionals across the United States who work around the clock to perform critical patient-care functions to help diagnose disease and keep patients safe throughout their hospital stays. As part of this year’s celebration, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine hosted an open house during the annual Take Your Kids to Work Day celebration. The event offered kids the opportunity to take a peek into one of the many departments that operates behind-the-scenes to make sure patients at PPMC are receiving the best care possible.
TAKE YOUR CHILD TO WORK DAY
A BIG SUCCESS • What are the signs someone might be having a stroke? • How much sugar is in a soda? • How does a cast help heal a broken arm? These were just three of the many things PPMC kids learned at the annual Take Your Child To Work Day, which combined fun and education to help youngsters better understand what their parents do at PPMC and health care in general. Kim Elam of Human Resources worked with staff to create seven stations that would give our young visitors an overview of some of the things health care workers might do during their day. In the Medical Conference Room, staff from Dietary talked to kids about making better beverage choices throughout the day. After a tour of the diet office, the kids were invited to make their own fruit infusion waters. The always popular stop at the decontamination showers was back this year, with visitors from the Safety office talking about how we transport some of our (continued on back)
Penn Medicine CAREs Grant Winners
Congratulations to the PPMC FY15 Q3 CAREs Grant Recipients! Helen Moragne, PPMC Human Resources, has been awarded grant funding for the project, Surviving to Thriving Program. For the past 40 years, Helen has volunteered five evenings each week to feed the homeless at Bright Hope Baptist at 12th and Cecil B. Moore Ave. Working with other volunteers, Helen helps to provide hot meals to 90 people and groceries to 10-20 needy families each night. Randi Jackson, Internal Medicine, has been awarded grant funding for Collaboration; a Shared Vision and Partnership. In her role as Chief’s Service Clinical Care Coordinator of the department of Medicine, Randi sees firsthand the importance of self-monitoring for patients with hypertension and congestive heart failure. Her new initiative identifies needy patients in these categories and gives them blood pressure cuffs and digital scales. In exchange, patients then contract with United Community Clinic (UCC) and adhere to monitoring. Under this care and support, patient is more apt to adhere to medication management and discharge follow up. Each quarter, the CAREs Foundation awards grants of up to $5,000 per project to community and hospital-based programs on behalf of employees or Perelman School of Medicine students who volunteer their time to support those programs. For more information and to apply, please visit www.Pennmedicine.org/ community. Deadline for applications for the next round of grants is June 1.
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most critically ill patients from ambulance bays to operating rooms, and how we keep our staff safe from potentially dangerous situations. On 4 East, kids learned about casting and even got to apply their own hand and arm casts. A team from the TSICU talked to kids about the dangers of drinking and driving, complete with a remote control simulation, and staff from the OR demonstrated how we care for and treat injured patients every day. Thanks so much to all out volunteers for making this a special day for both kids and their parents.
Don’t Forget: To Spread the Light of Knowledge Celebrate the 250th birthday of the nation’s first medical school – the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania – with a limited-edition book filled with nearly 200 pages of history. Illustrated with many archival documents, paintings and photographs never previously compiled, the book traces the bright path of Penn’s role as a pioneer in medical education, biomedical research and clinical care. To Spread the Light of Knowledge chronicles the fascinating history of the Perelman School of Medicine, from its beginning as a few lectures given in borrowed space to the extensive curriculum, research, and multidisciplinary clinical practice within Penn Medicine today. See the Presby Bulletin online for details on how to order your copy! Bulk ordering options are also available to Penn departments. Contact the Communications Department at 215.662.2560 for more details.
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