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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.

Group photo of the Abramson Cancer Center’s nurse navigators

If It Might Be Cancer, An Easier Path to Diagnosis and Care

New initiatives spearheaded by the Abramson Cancer Center’s nurse navigators are filling the care gap for Penn Medicine patients with a suspicion of cancer but no confirmed diagnosis.

A woman wearing a white coat looks on while a woman holding a bouquet of flowers rings a bell in front of a mural of a tree.

Ringing in the “Bell of Hope” With a New Location and Mural

The team at Penn Medicine Cherry Hill is transforming the bell-ringing ceremony to be inclusive of all cancer patients and celebrate a variety of milestones.

Several AED devices and user guides.

Seven Churches, Seven Lifesaving Devices, One Common Goal

Chester County Hospital teams up with community organizations in to provide Coatesville churches with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and training.

The Difference Makers logo.

Difference Maker: A Visual-Friendly Solution to Enhance Health Literacy

When a patient wasn't attending his scheduled appointments, oncology nurse navigator Jennifer Polo, BSN, RN, OCN, found a creative solution to get him back on track.

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  • Award Group

    Recognizing Leadership and Innovation

    April 01, 2019
    The 12th annual UPHS Quality and Safety Awards garnered 166 submissions — an all-time high!
  • Group photo

    LG Health Recognition

    April 01, 2019
    LG Health was named the 2018 winner of the Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service by the American Hospital Association.
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    Awards and Accolades

    April 01, 2019
    Learn how Penn clinicians and researchers are being honored by their peers.
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    PM@WORK

    April 01, 2019
    Open Enrollment and Health Fair season at UPHS is coming soon! Plus, there’s still time to enter the Race to Wellness!
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    CEO Column

    March 01, 2019
    Being engaged at work means more than job satisfaction, for example, or happiness. It’s about loyalty, commitment, and coming to work with your head and heart, ready to put forth your best.
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    Teaching Real-Life Experiences in a Simulated Setting

    March 01, 2019
    When Penn’s Simulation Center opened in 2008, it functioned primarily as an education tool, training and assessing the clinical skills of medical students, residents, nurses and other health care professionals.
  • Awards

    Recognizing Nursing Excellence

    March 01, 2019
    CEO Ralph Muller congratulated new inductees for receiving this “academy award,” prestigious recognition for their clinical excellence in what he called the “great revolution in health care. The patients you see are so much more complex than 35 years ago.”
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    Providing Education, Referrals and Compassion

    March 01, 2019
    At the end of 2017, Julie Funk, MS, RD, director of Community Health and Wellness Services at Chester County Hospital, received a request from the Honey Brook Food Pantry in the county’s northwest corner: Did the hospital have someone who could perform blood pressure screenings during food bank hours?
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    CPR: The Difference Between Life and Death

    March 01, 2019
    Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in America, with the vast majority — more than 350,000 each year — occurring outside of healthcare settings.
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    PAH’s “Escape” from Traditional Training

    March 01, 2019
    Practicing clear communication was key to solving the series of riddles, puzzles, and challenges — and to preventing the hypothetical adverse events.
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