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As of September 2023, Penn Medicine’s official employee newsletter in print is Inside Penn Medicine. Many of our employee newsletter stories are now published throughout each month on the Penn Medicine News Blog. Older stories are available to browse in these archives.

Margaret “Maggie” Erdman, MMS, PA-C, Katlin “Katie” Dlugosz, MMS, PA-C, and Lisa George, MS, stand with a poster that describes the HUP–Cedar surgical access initiative.

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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Respectful Mindfulness = Medication Safety

May 30, 2018

Anyone with children knows about interruptions – in the middle of cooking, in the middle of talking on the phone … pretty much any time. While sometimes annoying, these interruptions rarely result in anything serious.
Kids at “Work” Learn and Have Fun!

May 30, 2018

HUP’s Bring Your Children to Work Day was total success! Nearly 750 kids came to learn more about the inner workings of a hospital and to have fun. Missions accomplished!
Helping with Scanxiety

May 30, 2018

Scans are used at every step of the cancer care process – to diagnose, to track effectiveness of treatment, and to determine if cancer remains in remission. But living from scan to scan can be filled with anxiety.
HUP’s Be the Match Celebrates Patients, Donors and Staff

May 30, 2018

Walking alone (or with a little help from their “friends”), they do laps around the unit with their families and staff to celebrate their marrow donors, their medical teams, and to help raise awareness of the need for people to add their names to the Be The Match Registry, which is part of the National Marrow Donor Program.
Super Bowl Efforts for Patient Safety

April 27, 2018

Still high from the Eagles’ Super Bowl win, HUP and CPUP staff joined forces for the annual Patient Safety Fair to create their own “Safety Super Bowl” to illustrate the many ways we are keeping patients, families and staff safe.
Quick Thinking Saves a Life

April 27, 2018

Saving a person’s life was the last thing on Erin McCormick’s mind as she sat in a movie theater with her mom. Yet, not 15 minutes into the film, she found herself doing just that.
Making Exercise Fun

April 27, 2018

According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 20 percent of school age children and young people (6 to 19 years) in this country are obese. And the majority will grow up to be obese adults. For the past 10 years, Rachel Bastian, administrative director for Education at the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, has been doing her part to change those statistics, one group of kids at a time, at Camp ENERGY.
Don’t Give Up

April 27, 2018

After Mark Dillon, BSN, of HUP’s Cardiac Care Unit on Founders 8, was in an accident that resulted in a loss of one of his legs, Shannon Camps, an Employee Relations & Retention specialist in Human Resources, did everything she could to help. But then she took it one step further.
Support the Million Dollar Ride

April 27, 2018

The Penn Medicine Orphan Disease Center (ODC) will host the 5th Annual Million Dollar Bike Ride on Sunday, May 20, to raise money for rare disease research.
Heartfelt Thanks

April 27, 2018

“I [recently] reached the one-year mark of my double lung transplant. It’s hard for me to express in words or in a letter the depths of my overwhelming gratitude to the wonderful staff at the University of Pennsylvania and Perelman Center..."