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HUPdate Digital Edition - May 17, 2013

A Not-So-Typical Day at HUP

Stethoscope
What happens in the OR? What do my arteries and veins look like? And what the heck are leeches doing in a hospital?! Answers to these questions –- and hundreds more –- were part of the annual Take Your Child to Work Day at HUP, when...Full story

Bringing Down the Barriers

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Saving Lives with a Colonoscopy Two eye-opening facts: * The average lifetime risk in this country of getting colon cancer is six percent, but when a pre-cancerous polyp is present, the lifetime risk increases by three to five times. ...Full story

Clinical Nutrition Team Wins Distinction Award

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When a HUP patient is identified as malnourished or at nutrition risk on admission, Clinical Nutrition Support Services is called on to intervene. “Proper nourishment has an impact on patient outcomes,” said Lauren Hudson, MS, RD, LDN, prog...Full story

Rich Wins National Diversity Award

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Victoria Rich, PhD, RN, chief nurse executive, UPMC, has received the Prism Diversity Award from the American Organization of Nurse Executives. The award acknowledges her success in promoting diversity in the nursing workforce and hel...Full story

A New Tournament with a New Focus

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Building off of the success of the “Your Big Idea Innovation Tournament,” Penn Medicine will embark onthe “Your Big Idea Challenge.” This program will focus on finding opportunities to be more efficient while continuing to excel in patient ...Full story

Open Enrollment Change Period – May 13 -19

Open Enrollment has ended but you will have another opportunity to log in and make changes to your benefits or to enroll. If you have logged in and made changes, you were asked to print out your confirmation statement with your elections fo...Full story

Give Your Garden a Boost!

Give your garden a boost with organic compost created right here in University City from fallen leaves and food waste. Come to The Dirt Factory on Saturday, May 18, from 10 am to 2 pm, and take up to 10 gallons of compost for free! Wh...Full story

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HUPdate Digital Edition - May 3, 2013

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Emotional First Aid

Second-victim
A trauma nurse faces the tragic loss of a young patient close to his own son’s age. A transporter must bring an infant who died in the Neo-ICU down to the morgue. A pharmacist hears that his patient had an anaphylactic reaction to a ...Full story

 

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