Volume 26
Number 15
July 24, 2015
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
PIPELINE GRADUATES
EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS
`` This year’s Pipeline graduates (from left): Julhon Randolph, Kariema Moore, Haseena Hayes, Caplealisha Moodie, Kayla Bradford, Ashya Hawkins, Michelle Campbell, and Mickai Mercer (holding his cousin). `` Not pictured: Julien Carroll, Jordan Smith, and Kent Tran.
INSIDE Educating and Empowering Young Girls................................2 Keeping our Most Vulnerable Patients Safe..............................3 Molina Wins Two International Awards.......................................3 Where Science Meets Community................................4
The school year has ended, signaling another successful graduating class from Penn Medicine’s Pipeline Program. But the journey to complete the two-year program isn’t easy. While these high school juniors and seniors are taking their normal school classes, they are also learning about health care through on-site experiences and taking college courses. “You met — and exceeded — our expectations,” said Francis Graham, director of Workforce Development. Indeed, all of the 2015 graduates not only completed high school (versus 64 percent for the city’s school district), but were also accepted to college. (See page 4) “This is a huge achievement,” Graham told the graduates, their families, and UPHS mentors at the end-of-year Pipeline celebration. “We are so excited!”
Since the program started in 2007 (as a summer internship), more than 100 students from West Philadelphia high schools have participated in Pipeline. The program exposes students to the health care field while providing job readiness and professional development. The students work with mentors in areas throughout the Health System. This year’s graduates attended Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School, Paul Robeson High School for Human Services, and William L. Sayre High School. The Pipeline Program works in partnership with the Community College of Philadelphia, Peirce College, the Philadelphia Youth Network, and the Lenfest Foundation. As part of the celebration, earlier graduates spoke to the class of 2015 about Pipeline’s (Continued on page 4)
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Educating & Empowering YOUNG GIRLS facebook.com/dodiaspora
@dodiaspora
African-American females in this country are twice as likely to become pregnant in their teens as their white counterparts and also have a higher rate of sexually transmitted infections. Joy Cooper, MD, an OB/GYN resident, hopes to help reduce those numbers in West Philadelphia through a pilot program and social media. The pilot, which starts in September, comprises six Saturday sessions to be held in the recently opened Henry Jordan Medical Education Center of the Perelman School of Medicine. Female African-American med students from Penn will lead the small groups (up to 20 high school students), helping them learn more about contraception and STDs. “We’re taking it beyond the birds and the bees,” Cooper said. “The med students will teach anatomy and physiology so the girls understand their bodies and how contraception works. We want them to get to know themselves inside and out.”
@dodiaspora undergrads and research coordinators in our department — will brainstorm for topics and post daily,” Cooper said. “I want this information to go viral!” Thanks to her Penn Medicine CAREs grant, Cooper will not only have funds for the pilot project but for additional outreach efforts as well, including a middle school assembly project and dinners to bring adolescents and young women together to discuss pertinent health and cultural issues.
Cooper specifically asked African American med students to be a part of the pilot. “I’m hoping that seeing the female med students — who look like them — will build the girls’ self-esteem, empower them,” Cooper said. “When you have power and care about yourself, you’re less likely to fall prey to pregnancy and STDs.” Cooper also plans to use social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to help get out the information. “This is a medium these girls use every day. A multidisciplinary group — including Penn
`` (From left) Joy Cooper with med students Ivy Maina and Claudia Gambrah, and Janice Okeke, workshop facilitator and CDC fellow.
Congratulations to Our Latest CAREs Grant Recipients!
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Youth Ministry/Holy Cross Helen Chavar | PPMC
Asian American Senior Cares Qunbin Xioing | HUP
Operation Yellow Ribbon of South Jersey Mary Bradis | PAH
Give Back Anthony Bracey | PPMC
The Dina Project Jawanza Bundy | PAH
16th Annual School Supply Giveaway Johanne Louis | HUP
Brims and Brunch for Breast Cancer Awareness Chante' Thompson | CPUP
Esophagectomy Support Group Beauty Averion | HUP
Adult Literacy and GED Program Joseph Oaster | Corp
"Building Better Bridges" Back to School Party Madeline Dawson | HUP
Connect by Night Joan Wielgoszinski | CPUP
What's a Typical Day? Photo-Elicitation Project with Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment Tigist Hailu | HUP
KEEPING OUR MOST VULNERABLE PATIENTS SAFE Infant abduction from a hospital is not a common event but, when it happens, the results can be devastating. That’s why HUP takes this crime so seriously, using a state-of-the-art electronic security system, trained staff, and yearly “Code Amber” drills to ensure the safety of its most vulnerable patients.
What’s In Place Advanced technology (Hugs®) helps protect all infants on HUP’s Silverstein 8 (postpartum) and Labor and Delivery units. Special sensor tags on a baby’s ankle register the name and room on Navicare and continually track the infant’s exact location, on the unit or anywhere in the hospital. An alarm sounds within seconds if someone tries to tamper with the tag in any way. If an infant is brought too close to the unit entrance, another alarm sounds and the door automatically locks until the baby is moved back beyond the warning radius. Joe Forte, director of Security, said that if a person is able to bring the baby through an alreadyopened door (for example, someone has just entered the unit), an alarm goes off and a notification that ‘The baby has left the floor’ will appear not only on the unit’s computers but in Security as well. How does the staff differentiate this alarm from the others more commonly heard on a unit? “This one is very loud,” said nurse manager Jessica Lazzeri, MSN. “You know it if you hear it.” Even the elevators are connected to this alarm system. “A person might get on the elevator but it won’t go anywhere,” Forte said, adding that cameras throughout the two units digitally record activity 24 hours a day. To help Security cover HUP’s numerous exits, a specially trained Perimeter Control team, comprised of members of Support Services, immediately “secures” the nearest exit when a Code Amber is called.
“Members of our committee have timed how quickly they get to exits from the time the alarm sounds,” he said. “They’re outstanding.” Once the alert is called, everyone who leaves the facility — including staff — is asked to voluntarily agree to a search of their property and/or person. A visual non-contact search is done on all large boxes and bags — even handbags large enough to conceal an infant. Large coats must be removed. If an indivudal refuses, Security is immediately contacted.
The Role of the Nurse Nurses play a significant role in keeping babies safe. Indeed, “they are the first line of responsibility,” Forte said. Lazzeri said that all staff undergo competency training. “Our nurses are always very vigilant, both on Silverstein 8 and Labor and Delivery,” she said. “Every nurse has an assigned zone. If an alarm goes off, they immediately count babies in their areas,” she said. “They’ll also cover all exits to the unit. All the staff know their roles in the case of a Code Amber.” Mothers also receive training. “Abductors have been known to wear scrubs and impersonate a nurse to take the baby,” Lazzeri said. The unit staff wear special ID tags to identify them. HUP’s Infant Security Committee — a multidisciplinary group comprising Security, Nursing and other departments — meets monthly to examine concerns and plan the annual Code Amber drill. During this year’s drill, the “abductor” (played by Alison Carey of Penn Medicine Security) dressed in scrubs and went into a patient’s room. This mom had agreed to take part in the drill and knew exactly what would be happening ahead of
`` During HUP's annual Code Amber drill, Alissa Ferri (holding the Hugs security tag) helped Security track down the "abductor."
time, including the identity of the abductor. But her baby was nowhere near the scene, Forte stressed. “The charge nurse and a member of Security brought the baby to the nurse manager’s office; the infant does not leave the unit,” Forte said. A doll is used in the baby’s place. Two seconds after the Hugs tag was cut, the alarm went off, alerting the staff. The abductor was able to get out via a firedoor but Alissa Ferri, BSN, followed her down two floors, where the abductor had pulled off her scrubs and put the doll into a bag she had waiting there. Ferri then called Security and gave them a full description of the abductor’s clothing. Forte said this was one of their most challenging drills but “we had outstanding results…. You always learn things in a drill to make the process even more secure.”
MOLINA WINS TWO INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Maria Molina, CRNP, MSN, of Penn Transplant, received the 2015 International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) Nursing Excellence Award and the 2015 ITNS Symposium Best Research Abstract Award. Given annually, the ITNS Nursing Excellence Awards recognize nurses whose work best represent the organization’s mission of “promotion of excellence in transplant clinical nursing through the provision of educational and professional growth opportunities, interdisciplinary networking, collaborative activities, and transplant nursing research.” Molina was recognized for her tireless clinical and academic work, in which she helped to create the national guidelines in cardiovascular scope of practice and contributed to several practice-based outcome studies.
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PIPELINE GRADUATES
EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS Congratulations Graduates!
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This year’s Pipeline graduates and where they’ll be continuing their education:
impact on their lives. Following her graduation last year, Shawnee Boone became an intern at the Penn Medicine Academy, working 20 hours at UPHS while being paid for 40 and taking college courses. Now a sophomore at Temple University, she said, “The Pipeline program broke us down and then built us back up. Thank you for preparing me — for the confidence and independence you instilled.”
certificates to several of the graduates, “to help make your school year successful. We’re very proud of you.”
First, “hang with the right people … no one who will bring you down.”
Mickai Mercer, Bates College
Alexis Jackson, a 2013 graduate, now works as a Patient Services Representative in CPUP. She plans to complete classes at CCP and attend Temple University. “Be grateful for the advice and experiences you receive,” she told the graduates. “There are risks but the battles make success so much sweeter.”
Second, quoting Steve Jobs, he said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
Caplealeisha Moodie, Chestnut Hill College
Rhonda Holmstrom, Trauma Outpatient and Injury Prevention coordinator, presented $500 Barnes & Nobel gift
Kevin Mahoney, SVP and chief administrative officer of the Health System, concluded the event with three important pieces of advice for “this terrific group.”
And, finally, from Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, he told the graduates, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” “Keep in touch,” he said. “If you need us, call. We’ll always be here.”
Kayla Bradford, Millersville University Michelle Campbell, Rosemont College Ashya Hawkins, Rosemont College
Julhon Randolph, Moorehouse College
Kariema Moore, CCP Jordan Smith, Temple University Haseena Hayes, Lincoln University Julien Carroll, Temple University Kent Tran, Temple University
WHERE SCIENCE MEETS COMMUNITY Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center supports numerous initiatives to benefit our patients, caregivers, and their families as well as the Greater Delaware Valley community we serve. From prevention to screening to diagnosis to management to survivorship, our research and clinical services are shaped by an intimate knowledge of the cities, towns, neighborhoods and counties that comprise our region. This knowledge guides our work and inspires us to find tomorrow’s cures today. Science Meets Community highlights the cancer burden in the Greater Delaware Valley (which is higher than the national average) and the work that is going on at the Abramson Cancer Center to decrease this burden. To learn more, go to PennCancer.org/ScienceMeetsCommunity.
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