A Not-So-Typical Day at HUP
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
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
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
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
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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Emotional First Aid
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
