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Making Surgical Care Easy and Equitable at HUP–Cedar

The HUP–Cedar surgical access team is making sure patients get the surgical care they need, even without surgeons on site.

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  HUP’s Expanded Capacity Management Center Keeps Pace During COVID Surge

  July 08, 2020

  With the opening of Penn Medicine’s newly renovated and expanded Capacity Management Center earlier this year, transferring patients into HUP, Penn Presbyterian, and Pennsylvania Hospital became a faster and more efficient process. And, as it turned out, the improvement came just in time to handle the COVID surge.
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  Books Can Heal

  July 08, 2020

  To support essential workers, along with small businesses, during the pandemic, Eugenia South, MD, of Emergency Medicine, collaborated with Harriet’s Book Shop, a black-owned small business that supports women authors and artists, to donate books to those working on the front line.
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  Keeping the Wheels of Care Turning Smoothly Behind The Scenes Heroes

  June 01, 2020

  As the pandemic worked its way into our region, HUP’s clinical staff mobilized to provide necessary care on the front line. And while they battled COVID 19, behind-the-scenes work helped keep day-to-day operations as smooth as possible.
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  Making HUP East Patient Ready 15 Months Ahead of Schedule

  June 01, 2020

  When construction on the Pavilion (HUP East) was allowed to continue despite statewide shutdowns of many other building projects, an idea surfaced: could space in the facility be made patient-ready before a surge hit?
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  Recognizing Our “Distinguished” Nurse Clinicians

  April 02, 2020

  Each year, Penn Medicine’s Distinguished Nursing Clinician Academy brings in new members who not only exemplify clinical excellence but also exhibit compassion and empathy in the direct care of patients and families.
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  Getting the Right Patients to the Right Place

  April 02, 2020

  HUP CEO Regina Cunningham, PhD, RN, sees the opening of the Pavilion as a “great opportunity to think differently about how we deliver care, to not stay wedded to how things are always done but rather to drive positive changes.”
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  Preventing Violence Before It Occurs

  April 02, 2020

  Preventing workplace violence is part of HUP’s wide-ranging efforts to keep patients, families and staff safe.
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  True Difference Makers

  April 02, 2020

  In challenging times, so many of us working in health care — time and again — find ways to go above and beyond.
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  Another “Look Back” at HUP

  February 28, 2020

  Next in our continuing series about the history of HUP West comes the D. Hayes Agnew Memorial Pavilion, which, in 1897, was added to HUP’s growing footprint.
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  Support Associates: An Integral Part of Patient Care

  February 28, 2020

  Nursing associates are, basically, the engine that keeps patient care units humming along — the wind beneath their wings.