What's new -- 6/13/14

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Volume 3

WHAT’Snew

Number 12

June 13, 2014

Pennsylvania Hospital

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Delivering the Best in Cancer Care

In stitu te-d esig nat e d Co mpreh ensiv e Canc e r Center s in th e r e gi o n

The Abramson Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital PAH is now also home to Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center (ACC), the region’s number one cancer program. Under the direction of Arthur Staddon, MD, ACC PAH has become a nationally recognized center renowned for specializing in treating bone and soft tissue sarcoma, gynecological cancers, breast cancer, and more.

Inside New Infusion Department Opens at ACC PAH....................2 More News from the ACC PAH… Integrated Breast Center One of America’s Best..............2 The Patient Experience.............2 Celebrate Life! Living With, Through and Beyond a Diagnosis of Cancer..................3 The Mother of All U.S. Hospitals Turns 263!.................3 What’s Happening.....................4 2014 Ehrenzeller Award Recipient........................4

As one of the locations of Penn’s ACC — one of only two National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the region — PAH can now offer the full gamut of cancer diagnosis and treatment options, plus research and the latest clinical care.

options located at PAH — the only site in the ACC to offer these modalities.

Patients, their families and caregivers will continue to receive the excellent supportive care services they have always received through the newly named Joan Karnell Supportive Care Program (JKSCP). This program combines the specialized, “Being a part of the Abramson Cancer supplemental care ACC PAH is able to offer Center gives our patients access to specialized patients and their families to help them cope with modalities as only a truly comprehensive cancer the physical and emotional distress that a cancer center can — such as additional clinical trials, diagnosis and treatment brings. Services include: personalized treatment plans through the Center art therapy, mindfulness based stress reduction, for Personalized Diagnostics, genetic testing, cutting-edge vaccine therapies, and proton therapy music therapy, nutrition counseling, psychological counseling, shiatsu massage therapy, social work at Penn’s Roberts Proton Therapy Center,” said counseling, and spiritual counseling. In addition, R. Michael Buckley, MD, executive director of PAH. “We’re grateful to be a part of such a leading there are eight supportive care programs available, including an Older Adult Oncology Program, a academic medical system like Penn Medicine Cancer Risk Evaluation Program, and Palliative and an international leader in cancer research, Care Program. treatment, and education such as the Abramson Cancer Center.” The JKSCP also hosts multiple support groups and offers free educational resources to The Penn Gamma Knife Center and patients and caregivers. Cyberknife®, are two additional radiation

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New Infusion Department Opens at ACC PAH The Abramson Cancer Center Pennsylvania Hospital (ACC PAH) officially launched last month with a formal reception and an employee open house in the new Infusion Department. Formerly located on the second floor of cancer center in the Farm Journal, the site of the new, larger department opened on the fifth floor of Farm Journal. Its previous site on the second floor is now dedicated to cancer research and expanded space for supportive care services. “The growth of our cancer center is perfectly illustrated by the opening of our new Infusion Department,” said Dr. Staddon. “This, of course, is where our patients come for treatment — patients

who spend a considerable amount of time under our roof, entrusting us to help them overcome their own personal battle with cancer. You’ve heard the expression, ‘It takes a village…?’ Well, we assembled our own village of sorts to create this new department. We sought input from an interdisciplinary team of members from multiple hospital departments and most importantly, we sought the input of our patients and staff. Collectively, this priceless insight helped us to better understand the needs of everyone — patients, family members, caregivers, physicians and staff — so we could create the most accommodating and effective treatment environment possible.”

The new Infusion Department is equipped with the latest technology and amenities to address individual patient needs. The department’s décor is comprised of calming surfaces (think panes of glass that resemble rippling pools of water), soothing colors, comfortable furniture, and lots of natural light, as well as treatment bays and rooms to accommodate all stages of care and desired amounts of privacy for patients. The new department also offers strategically located nurses stations, patient intake areas, a dedicated pharmacy equipped with its own chemotherapy mixing room, and staff break room.

More News from the ACC PAH…

Integrated Breast Center One of America’s Best

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The Patient Ex p e ri e nc e

Earlier this year, WomenCertified, Inc., selected the Integrated Breast Center at ACC PAH as one of America’s Best Breast Centers. A leading consumer advocacy organization for women, WomenCertified helps women identify where they can receive the very best in breast cancer care.

Patient and Guest Relations recently received thank you notes from the children of a PAH patient commending Monique Neault, CRNP, and Mindi Roeser, MD, clinical associate professor of Medicine.

The Integrated Breast Center was selected because it met the following three criteria: meeting the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers standards from the American College of Surgeons (ACC PAH received a full, three year accreditation in February 2014); earning the Seal of the American College of Radiologists as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence; and achieving outstanding scores on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services patient satisfaction measures.

Dear Monique, I really can’t imagine a more perfect person to have been with me on the day my mom died. You were so warm, caring, sympathetic, comforting, reassuring, and somehow appropriately cheerful. Through everything you were within reach. I will always remember you, and I thank you for making that day as good as it could be.

“Fewer than 300 breast centers nation-wide were honored with this award in 2014,” said Mary Pat Lynch, CRNP, MSN, AOCNP, administrator, ACC PAH. “It truly is an exclusive distinction that demonstrates our commitment to the needs and preference of our patients. Thank you to everyone who helped us achieve this honor, including Dr. Dahlia Sataloff and Dr. Brian Englander for their stellar leadership of our Integrated Breast Center and Women’s Imaging Center.”

Dear Monique and Dr. Roeser, My sisters and I would like to extend a sincere thank you for your compassionate and enlightening help with honoring our mother’s end of life wishes. Your guidance made our mother’s last days happen on her own terms. Again, thank you for all that you do.


Celebrate Life!

Living With, Through and Beyond a Diagnosis of Cancer The 27th National Cancer Survivor’s Day, which was celebrated this year on Sunday, June 1, is an annual, worldwide “Celebration of Life” held in hundreds of communities throughout the US, Canada, and beyond. The Karnell Supportive Care Program at ACC PAH strives to enforce the national initiative to improve the care of cancer patients as they transition from active treatment to survivorship. For the second year, the ACC PAH is kicking cancer survivorship celebrations up a notch with events throughout the whole month of June. Resources, education, support and empowerment for survivors and their loved ones and caregivers, are available as we focus on our outpatients undergoing treatment and follow-up at all our treatment sites — Medical Oncology, Infusion, Radiation Oncology, and Penn Medicine Radnor — as well as our inpatients on 6 Schiedt and 5 Cathcart.

June Cancer Survivorship Calendar – Remaining Events June 16

Pet Therapy with Brealey

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Yoga for Cancer Patients Old Pine Community Center Tuesday, from 5:30-7 p.m. T o register, email:

m@michellestortx.com or call 215-242-1366.

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Walkabout: Looking in, Looking Out Mindfulness Based Art Therapy ACC PAH 2nd Floor Conference Room | 4:30-7 p.m. T o register, call: 215-829-8700

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Since its official opening in 1751, PAH has continued to be an innovator in patient care, treatment techniques, and medical research — and there was much to celebrate! In the year since its last birthday:

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»» The hospital’s first all private room patient units opened, including the new Well Mother and Baby Unit, making PAH the first hospital in the City of Philadelphia to offer all private maternity suites.

Walkabout: Looking in, Looking Out Mindfulness Based Art Therapy Easy Breezy Summer Cooking! Demonstration Cooking Program ACC PAH 1st Floor Conference Room | 5–7 p.m. To re g ister , call : 215-829-6560

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Open Studio Art Therapy

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Pet Therapy with Brealey

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On May 12, employees, staff, and volunteers gathered in the Elm Garden Café for cake in celebration of PAH’s 263rd year in continuous operation. Sunday, May 11, 1751, was the actual “birthday” of the hospital — which just happened to also be Mother’s Day this year — a fitting coincidence for our nation’s first hospital.

»» Penn Medicine Washington Square, the state-of-the-art, outpatient services facility, opened at 8th and Walnut Streets.

Shiatsu Therapy

Open Studio Art Therapy

The Mother of All U.S. Hospitals Turns 263!

Yoga for Cancer Patients Old Pine Community Center

Easy Breezy Summer Cooking! Demonstration Cooking Program ACC PAH 1st Floor Conference Room | 2–4 p.m. To re g ister , call : 215-829-6560

Shiatsu Therapy

`` Suzanne Y. Brown, MS, RPh, director of Pharmacy, shown here serving cake to PAH employees, shares the same birthday as PAH – May 11.

215-829-6466.

»» The Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center Pennsylvania Hospital launched. »» The new ACC PAH Infusion Department opened. »» The divisions of Hematology-Oncology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, and the Endoscopy Center have all transitioned into the Penn Medicine practice plan and hospital-based centers.

T h e F o und i n g of PA H : What can it teach the hospital’s of today? A news story that ran in multiple outlets — including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Stamford CT Advocate, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and the Connecticut Post recently reported on the how future hospitals will reflect better design with private rooms and noise control leading to shorter stays and better patient outcomes. The article, which features Pennsylvania Hospital as the nation’s first hospital, notes, “American hospitals of the future may take at least one important cue from their earliest predecessor, which was seen not just as a place for the sick but as a crown jewel” of the city and a vital part of its community. Visit here to read the story: http://bit.ly/1kMKTFE.

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WHAT’S H a p p ening

Your resource for e v ents and happenin g s throu g hout PA H and P enn M edicine

For complete events listing, please visit What’s New on the Inside Penn Medicine web site at: http://news.pennmedicine.org/inside

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Penn Program for Mindfulness & Special Events PAH Town Meeting

Deadline for Mandatory Employee HIPAA Privacy Training UPenn Baseball Summer Youth Camp

National Veterans Wheelchair Games Penn’s 3rd Annual 5K for the IOA & Memory Mile Walk

September 27-28

34th Bike MS City to Shore Ride – 4th Annual Team UPHS/Penn

Robert A. Aronowitz, MD, Named

October 11-12

Ride to Conquer Cancer©

2014 Ehrenzeller Award Recipient Robert A. Aronowitz, MD, professor and chair of the Department of History and Sociology of Science in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of this year’s Ehrenzeller Award, given annually to a former Pennsylvania Hospital resident. Dr. Aronowitz — from the PAH intern group of 1985-86 — was honored on May 1, at a traditional Medical Grand Rounds lecture and ceremony presented by the Ex-Residents Association.

WHAT’Snew EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Staff Olivia Fermano

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This was the 52nd year this award — named after Jacob Ehrenzeller, PAH’s very first resident, in 1773 — was given to a former resident who has excelled in his or her field and upheld the high quality of training at PAH. Dr. Aronowitz’s current career focus is on the history of health risks in modern American medicine and society, and the history of how the efficacy of modern medical interventions has been determined. The keynote speaker at

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PAH’s 2014 History of Women’s Health Conference, Dr. Aronowitz gave the lecture, “Do Not Delay — Early Detection Campaigns before Mammography.” Board certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Aronowitz received his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at Pennsylvania Hospital and a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Penn.

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