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In this issue:
Pa 2: Goppert-Trinity Family
Care Open House/Charity Yard
Sale
Pa 5: 22nd Annual Research
Golf Classic
Pa 7: Clinical Excellence
Update
Pa 8: Country Music Half
Marathon
Pa 10: ECHO Team
Membership Drive
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RESEARCH MEDCA CETER A PUCATO FOR EMPOYEES jUY 2011
CARECOMPASSO. ATTTUDE. RESPECT. ECEECE.
According to the Trauma Center Association o
America (TCAA), traumatic injuriessuch asmotorcycle and car crashes, assaults and alls
rom signifcant heightsare the cause o nearly
170,000 deaths each year in the United States.
That accounts or 400 deaths each daymany
o which can be prevented. In its continuing
commitment to the community to provide
excellent medical care, Research Medical Center
has been named a Level One Trauma Center,
the highest level designated by the Missouri
Department o Health. This designation reects
Research Medical Centers dedication to provide advanced lie-saving emergency and trauma care
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To become a Level One Trauma Center, Research Medical Centerwhich is celebrating its 125th
year o serving the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area had to meet stringent regulations and
each member o the trauma team, including physicians, surgeons and nurses, met strict education
requirements.
H. Scott Bjerke, MD, FACS, medical director o the Trauma Program, says trauma is 100 percent
preventable and Research Medical Center will expand community education regarding trauma
prevention. Trauma is the leading cause o death among children and adults below the age o
45, says Dr. Bjerke. According to the TCAA, traumatic injuries are the leading cause o disability
among Americans.
Research Medical Center has fve trauma surgeons on the Level One Trauma Center team, plus
two orthopedic traumatologists who can provide care or complex pelvic ractures. Its not oten
that a designated Level One Trauma Center has a specially trained orthopedic traumatologist, let
alone two, says Carla Sage, Trauma Center service director.
Research Medical Center also provides education support to outlying rural acilities and local
Emergency Medical Service providers. These eorts will enhance our mission o ensuring that
medical proessionals receive optimal education to maximize our trauma care, says Dr. Bjerke.
Kevin J. Hicks, chie executive ofcer at Research Medical Center, says that the Level One Trauma
Center designation aligns with the hospitals leadership in comprehensive care or patients. The
Level One Trauma Center is a valuable resource to the community that is available all the time,
he says.
Research Medical Center ReceivesLevel One Trauma Center DesignationHighest level f tm ce vilble 24 hs , seven s eek
t ce f tmtic injies
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Goppert-Trinity Family Care will hold an Open House and Charity Yard Sale on Saturday, July 9 rom 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its new
Research Brookside Campus location. The charity yard sale will beneft Rose Brooks Center and Kansas Citys Medicine Cabinet.
Tours o the clinic, giveaways, and hundreds o items will be on sale -- all or charity! The Goppert Express Clinic is now accepting
walk-in patients. The Clinic is open Monday through Friday rom 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ppet-init Fmil Ce
6675 Holmes Suite 360
Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday 8:30 a.m. - noon
abt rse Bks Cente
Rose Brooks Center is the leader in innovative domestic violence programs and support. We believe the destructive cycle o
abuse can only be broken by oering a ull continuum o care including prevention programming, crisis intervention, lie skills
development, and other supportive and therapeutic services. This comprehensive spectrum o programs and services is what setsRose Brooks Center apart rom other domestic violence agencies.
abt Knss Cits Meicine Cbinet
Each day, hundreds o Kansas City amilies must make heartbreaking choices. Buy groceries? Pay rent and utilities? Or take care
o a medical need? Rising insurance costs and expensive prescriptions orce many o our neighbors to seek emergency medical
assistance. Families seeking immediate, short-term medical care can get the help they need through Kansas Citys Medicine Cabinet
LLC. a program o Baptist-Trinity Lutheran Legacy Foundation.
Goppert-Trinity Family Care to HostOpen House/Charity Yard Saleppet-init Fmil Ce celebtes ne lctin n clinic;
Chit y Sle ill benet rse Bks Cente n Knss Cits Meicine Cbinet
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27th Annual Practical Cardiology Symposium
This is one packagethat could save your life
1-888-505-8880 MidwestHeartScreen.com
Fi, Septembe 30 Shetn oveln Pk Htel
The symposium has been planned and designed to provide primary members o the healthcare team with the tools and knowledge theyneed to identiy and treat various signs and symptoms o cardiovascular disease. The seminar is open to physicians and other healthcareproessionals. For more inormation, please call The Research Foundation at 816-276-4218. Registration ees - $90 Physicians; $80 Research Physicians and Honorary Physicians; $70 All Nurses and Allied Health Proessionals.
(enttive agen)
7:15 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakast
7:55 a.m. Welcome & Introduction
8 a.m. Stt Zich, Md, FaCC
Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes
9 a.m. Jhn Chill, Md
Multi-Modality Imaging, Noninvasive Measurement and Cardiac Outcomes in Heart Failure: Advances in Risk
Assessment, CRT Planning, and Potential for Patient-Centered Guided Therapeutic Intervention
10 a.m. Morning Break
10:30 a.m. rmesh dgbti, Md, FaCC, FaSC
ACS: Inpatient and Outpatient Management
11:30 a.m. Luncheon
12:30 p.m. Hl Stites, Md, FaCC
Updates on Arrhythmias Management
1:30 p.m. Ctlin ghin, Md, FaCC
Valvular Heart Disease the New Era
2:30 p.m. Aternoon Break
2:45 p.m. Bngle deepk, Md, FaCC, rPV
Approach to the Patient with Peripheral Vascular Disease
3:45 p.m. Summary/Evaluation
4 p.m. Adjournment
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This is Where I Needed to Go
Goppert-Trinity Family CareWeve Moved!
6675 Holmes Road Suite 360 Kansas City, MO 64131
Goppert-trinity Family Care
open House & CHarity yard sale
saturday, July 9tH 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Come join us as we celebrate our new location and clinicon the Research Brookside Campus. Goppert-Trinity FamilyCare will also hold a charity yard sale, which will benefit
Rose Brooks Center.
Tours of the clinic, giveaways, and hundreds of itemswill be on sale -- all for charity!
Goppert Express Clinic is now accepting walk-in patients.
Monday-Friday 8:15 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Goppert-trinity Family Care
6675 Holmes suite 360
Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.Saturday 8:30 a.m. - noon
By Linda Friedel
Reprinted courtesy of The Kansas City Nursing News
Kansas City nurses cared or Joplins wounded ater a deadly tornado
charged through the Missouri town, leaving miles o destruction.
I had never seen as many people with so many dierent wounds, said
Myra Merritt, RN, BSN, a critical care nurse at Research Medical Center.
There were just so many people admitted rom the tornado.
Merritt joined a team o nurses rom Research and a dozen more rom St.
Marys Medical Center and North Kansas City Hospital or our days o
service at Joplins Freeman Health System May 24-27. They slept on cots in
the hospitals conerence room and washed with bottled water.
I got to know my ellow nurses, Merritt said. We got very close. We ate
together, we slept together.
Freeman Health System needed critical care nurses to help with a surge o patients the first week ollowing the May 22 tornado that
touched down in Joplin leaving hundreds wounded. Merritt said by the time she arrived, the acility had admitted more than 375 tornado
victims on top o existing patients and recently transerred patients rom St. Johns Regional Medical Center, severely damaged by the
storm. Merritt said she elt pulled to go.
I would just hope that i that happened in Kansas City, they would do the same thing, she said. Thats exactly what nursing is about.
This is where I needed to go.
(cnt n pg. 6)
Jplin n relief em
(From left): Brad Bryant, Myra Merritt, Laura Fowlston, Lynnette Hayes and Ben Baker.
Not pictured: Pat Conley, Roaslia Molina, Paige Pasternak and Ryan Saling.
Photo courtesy of Phil Licata
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Juy 9: Goppert-Trinity Family
Care Open House/Yard Sale @
6675 Holmes, Ste. 360, 9 a.m. - 1
p.m.
Juy 14: Second Quarter
Employee of the Month/
Retirement Reception @ RMC
cafeteria, 3-4 p.m.
Juy 18: evel One Trauma
Center Celebration @ RMC
Emergency department, 4:30-6p.m.
auuS 5: i-State Stroke
Education Consortium @ RMC
Auditorium, 7:30 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
auuS 15: 22nd Annual
Research Golf Classic @ lue
Hills Country Club, 12:30 p.m.
SPMBr 30: 27th
Annual Practical Cardiology
Symposium @ Sheraton
Overland Park Hotel.
oVMBr 5: Research
Royal Rebound @ The College
asketball Experience.Call (816) 276-4218 for more
information.
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Events
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22nd Annual Research Golf ClassicIts nearly time to tee it up or the 22ndAnnual Research Gol Classic to beneftThinkFirst, The Research Foundations injuryprevention program. This years tournamentwill be played on Monday, Aug. 15 at BlueHills Country Club with its customary 12:30p.m. shotgun start.
The tournament is played as an 18-hole, ourperson scramble. Entry ee or the event is$275 per goler and includes green ees; golcart rental; boxed lunch; on course beveragesand snacks; player git; cocktail party; buet dinner; and opportunities to win prizes.Golers can also enjoy on course contests, a putting contest, a rae, oursome prizes inall three ights and a silent auction.
For more inormation on the Research Gol Classic or to register or the tournament,visit www.theresearchoundationkc.org.
Blue Hills Country Club
The Bi-State Stroke Education Consortium, slated or August 5 at Research Medical Center
(B-level auditorium), is composed o 27 health organizations and the American Stroke
Association. These organizations have agreed to collaborate to enhance the educational
opportunities or providers o stroke care across the continuum. For more inormation, call
Stacie Underwood at (816) 276-4108.
(AgendA)
7:30-8 a.m Registration/Introduction
8-9 a.m. Stkes n Seizesftekh ahme, Md
9-10 a.m. Pst CVa Behvil n mtinl ssesKn Mnl, Md
10-10:15 a.m. Break
10:15--11:15 a.m. . Stnce Cntl othticsMike Shltz, BS, MBa, CPo
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Spsticit in Stke Jlie webe, P
12:15-12:30 p.m. Evaluation and Wrap-Up
Bi-State Stroke Education ConsortiumStke Ce - nptient n Ben
If te kha r A hm ed , MD Kon oy Ma nd al , MD
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Merritt admitted patients,
perormed histories, started
IVs and gave tetanus
shots. She watched a
steady stream o patients
arrive daily with crush
injuries, head injuries, skull
ractures, broken bones,
and cuts and bruises head
to toe rom flying debris.
One patient had surgery to
remove a board impaled
in his back, she said, while
others arrived with two
black eyes or multiple
abrasions. Patients needed
stitches, staples and surgeries. By her last day, patients werearriving with inections rom wounds improperly cared or or
neglected altogether.
It was Merritts first time helping in a disaster, and she was
glad to go. Our hospital was very supportive o us going
down there, she said.
Research gave the nurses a heros send-o and a hospital-wide
welcome home. It was very nice to see they were thinking o
us while we were down there, she said.
Merritt said when she wasnt at the bedside or filling in
anywhere the hospital needed her, she and her bunkmatesexplored the town. She saw trees uprooted rom the ground,
crumbled houses, cars crushed into a giant balls o metal, cars
on roos, cars wrapped on light posts and roos stacked two
and three deep on the ground. It was just like a bomb went
o, she said. Something just blew up.
But most proound, Merritt
said, was watching people
walking in their ormer
homes, debris beneath
their eet, searching or
possessions or pets. It was
just pretty sad, she said.Everyone wanted to tell
their story. I just listened,
let them know that were
there or them.
Another group rom
Research arrived in Joplin
as the frst wave let.
Merritt said the hospital will continue to send nurses as long
as help is needed. She said she would even return. This is our
community. This is our state, she said. The TV doesnt even
compare to what is out there in real lie.
Merritt said she will never orget the patients who thanked
her repeatedly, nor will she orget the day she stepped o the
bus in Joplin. Sirens screamed, warning o another tornado.
Patients were already coping with post traumatic stress, she
said, and now there was another wave o storms.
The people were very scared, she said. It took a lot to calm
them down.
Merritt said the best thing she did at the hospital was listen.
Let them tell their story she said. Thats something that
nurses tend to do. Listen to the patient and listen to what theyhave to say.
Lynnette Hayes, BSN, clinical manager or cardiac telemetry
at Research Medical Center, was part o Merritts team. Hayes
said Research has a strong tradition o community service
in Kansas City, engaging in local health airs and undraisers
or the American Heart Association. She said the nurses who
stayed home to work at Research deserve recognition, as they
covered or the Joplin teams, making it a hospital-wide eort.
It was just a very easy transition to Joplin, she said. It elt
like the right thing to do. We did pretty much whatever they
asked.
Hayes spent a air amount o time distributing bottled water
throughout the hospital. Bottled water was used or bathing
patients, drinking and hand washing, she said. Like Merritt,
she listened.
They needed to process the event, she said. Its a huge
healing process. Its going to be a very long emotional process.
This is Where I Needed to Go (cnt fm pg. 4)
M MeittPhoto courtesy of Lynnette Hayes
B BntPhoto courtesy of Lynnette Hayes
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Cmpetenc FiWe would like to thank all our employees who helpedmake the 2nd Competency Fair on June 7 a huge success.We could not have done it without help rom otherdepartments/units that assisted at the stations. A totalo 247 employees attended this air. The last o theMandatory Competency Fairs or 2011 is October 12 rom7:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. (no one will be admitted to stationsater this time). It will be held at the Research BrooksideCampus, so please plan your schedule accordingly. I youwere hired ater Dec. 31, 2010, you do not have to attendthe air this year.
Cente f sing resechIn collaboration with the Research College o Nursing,
Research Medical Center is developing a center ornursing research. The purpose o the center is to providesupport or nurses to conduct research to improve patientoutcomes. A planning meeting was held on June 24; moreinormation to ollow. I you are interested in being a parto this exciting endeavor, contact Dr. Rebecca Saxton [email protected].
Stke ctin HsThe Bi-State Stroke Education Consortium will be oeringa our contact hour course Getting to the Heart o Strokeon July 14 rom 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at Olathe MedicalCenter. This program is ree to Research Medical Centeremployees because we are a member o the Consortium.I you would like to attend this program, you can registeronline at www.olathehealth.org or call (913) 791-4312 ormore inormation.
Schl t wkThe Clinical Excellence department is currently recruitingemployees or the August School at Work program.School at Work is a career development system thatbrings education directly to the work site. The purpose othe program is to:
Allow our employees to learn during normalworking hours
Learn skills necessary to explore other careeropportunities in healthcare
Experience the joy o learning with your co-workers Provide opportunities or employees to challenge
themselves Enhance computer skills
Applications are being accepted through July 8.
te se resiencPlease join us in welcoming all o our new sta membersto Research Medical Center. We have 38 graduate nursesjoining the Research team. They will begin the GraduateNurse Residency this month and fnish in December.
Me/Sg Cetictin revie CseAttention all Med/Surg nurses! I you are interested intaking the Med/Surg Certifcation Exam, there will be aour-day review course August 11, 18, 25, and September1. This course is FREE to Research Medical Centeremployees due to our membership in the consortium.Registration orms are available in the Clinical Excellenceofce or rom your manager/director. You may ax yourcompleted orm to Julia Payne at 276-3182 or deliver it tothe Clinical Excellence ofce by July 21. I you have anyquestions, contact Julia Payne at 276-9217.
isten n enCome join us or a Listen and Learn -- HowtoTurntheKnowledgeyouHaveintoaPresentation -- on July 19 at
7:30-8:30 a.m. in the Auxiliary Room.Sbmitte b:
Julia Payne, RNC, BSN
Clinical Excellence Update
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2011 Country Music Half Marathon
Keep an eye on that guy in the Employee AdvisoryGroup who says hell look into a new idea to helpHCAs Hope Fund. Next thing you know, hell have
you and your coworkers running a marathon.
At least thats how it will play out i the investigatorin question is Rick Jonardi, HCAs director ointernal communications and a longtime runner.Given that the Country Music Marathon happensalmost outside his ofce window every year, he saysit was easy to imagine the possibilities o employeesbuilding teams together, improving their ownpersonal health, and running to collect unds tobeneft a great cause, the HCA Hope Fund.
The initial question was, Would HCA consider
sponsoring employees in this annual event?, whichis one o the largest races in the U.S., Jonardi recalled. The answer was absolutely, and Team HCA was born.
That was 2009, and the team has grown in size and scope ever since.That frst year, the group was mostly Nashville-areaemployees, while a companywide rollout last year ballooned participant numbers to more than 550, and 2011s tally came in at540. In three years o running in the event,Team HCA has raised more than $314,000 or the Hope Fund.
And those fgures are only hal the story.Teams nowadays include walkers who are competing in the hal marathon, as well as thehard-core runners who have been onboard rom the outset. And many are doing it as part o their acilitys wellness program, sothey are raising money while also improving their own ftness.
Thats the case at Research Medical Center (RMC) in Kansas City, Mo., where team captain Cheri Hampton has turned her HRposition into a cheerleading platorm or Team HCA.
As the benefts person, I knew about the opportunity. In 2008 I began walking or ftness and was looking or new ways to dosomething in pursuit o a healthy liestyle,Hampton said. I wanted to do the Country Music Marathon, but not alone, so at ourbenefts meetings I began reaching out to people. We were determined not to let it happen again without representation rom ouracility. I was going to go alone i I had to, but some people picked up the challenge and now were the Kansas City Cruisers.
The 15-member gang rom RMC represents all areas o the hospital, rom the med-surg unit all the way to rehab and transplants.Theyve worked out at the hospitals ftness club, where a personal trainer has chipped in time to help them prepare, and havealso mapped out a hal-mile walking trail within the hospital thats open to employees and visitors alike.
In a hal hour, you can get a couple o miles in,Hampton said. Were doing that, using the treadmill and going outside in niceweather.We all came in at dierent levels, but everybody has gotten into it big time!
All but one team member will be walking the hal marathon, and many are olding this eort in to a local Biggest Loserinitiative.
We are fnding multiple ways to support ourselves in our ftness programs, Hampton said. And were also doing a lot oundraisers or the Hope Fund its all come together very organically.
The Cruisers had better keep an eye out or the team rom Rose Medical Center in Denver, Colo., where the buildup or itssecond year o participation has been intense.
Stng pticiptin in the Cnt Msic Mthn bsts ellness n Hpe Fn giving
2011 Cnt Msic Hlf Mthn shville,
Kimberly Cocos (center), a registered nurse on 3 North, was one of 13 employees
from Research Medical Center who participated in the event.
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Last year we had our runners, so we continued to recruit,said Sue Hobza, director o the physical medicine andrehabilitation department at Rose and the team captain. Itgets our team working toward a goal, both individually andcollectively. Its also an opportunity to demonstrate to theemployees how much we value them and how important itis to take care o our own through the Hope Fund. Hobzaalso applauds how the marathon provides a challenge thatcan spread out over many months, allowing or both ongoingexercise and undraising campaigns.
Thats one o the best things, she said. Having the physicalchallenge o preparing and participating in the marathon orhal marathon, but also the challenge to raise money or theHope Fund. Our hospital has a strong commitment to thecommunity and a long history o community service, so weorganize teams several times throughout the year to participate
in other events.The whole idea is that we look or causes that employees are passionate about, organize a team, undraise andbuild camaraderie all along the way.
The act that many participants are walking, rather than trying to win a running race, and ocusing on their own well-being aspart o their participation is encouraging to Jonardi.
The true spirit o being a member o Team HCA is to embrace health,help and hope, he said. Most o our participants arent seasoned runners;theyre coming together to run and walk, or serve as volunteers, in the spirito ulflling HCAs overall mission. Folks do this because they want to betterthemselves and help others at the same time, especially colleagues and theiramilies, who because o dire circumstances, are in fnancial need.
The participants eel the same way about the Hope Fund, and say all the workis well worth the eort.
This gives us the chance to help someone else in this building, or anotherbuilding, said Hampton. Everybody here loves the opportunity to providethat kind o help.
Rose concurs, said Hobza, adding that the idea o so many hospital teamscoming together rom around the country to be one single HCA team is apowerul experience, and makes you eel proud to be part o HCA.
Note:ResearchMedicalCenterreceivedpermissiontoreprintthisarticlefromthepublishersofYOUmagazine.
2011 Country Music Half Marathon (cnt fm pg. 9)
2011 Cnt Msic Hlf Mthn shville,
(From left): Debbie Jines, Cheri Hampton, Susan Hendrickson and Sue Funk
2011 Cnt Msic Hlf Mthn shville,
(From left): Cady Pembroke and Sherry Potts
Lisa Burke - 3 NorthKacey Clevenger - 3 NorthKim Cocos - 3 NorthSue Funk - 2 NorthCheri Hampton - Human Resources
Susan Hendrickson - 2 NorthDebbie Jines - 2 NorthDianna Lusso - 3 North
James Maliszewski, MDCady Pembroke - The Transplant Institute
Sherry Potts - The Transplant InstituteDeb Shane - The Transplant InstituteHolly Tye - 3 North
resech Meicl Cente Hlf Mthn Pticipnts
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Nearly 500 Research Medical Center employees contributed to the 2011 ECHO
Team (Employees Contributing to Help Others) Membership Drive. The annualevent was established to create the Employee Assistance Fund or ResearchMedical Center employees, providing emergency fnancial assistance or rent/mortgage payments, utilities, ood and other special needs. Since the und wascreated in 1994, more than 1,800 Research employees have received assistance.
This years drive could not have been successul without the hard work o theECHO committee. The Research Foundation would like to thank them or theircommitment. The members include: Joyce Akpolughe, Sixth Floor; Cyndy Bond,Human Resources; Jennier Cooper, Research College o Nursing; JoAnn Cooper,Pharmacy; Sylvester Glenn, Security; Dave Glover, Plant Operations; May Hill,Pain Clinic-Brookside; Ann Jensen, Laboratory; Deb Law, Goppert-Trinity FamilyCare Center; Jennier Libeer, Rehab Services; Kelly Litle, Pharmacy; Bill Ludwig,
Security; Jennier Miles, Radiology; Mary Moss, Pastoral Care; Rose Simone, TheResearch Foundation; and Gina Taylor, 4 West.
The committee would like to thank the members, as well as the sponsors or their support o the ECHO Team. The sponsorsincluded Research Medical Center, Service Partners Organization SPO Git Shop and Healthcare Community Credit Union.
ECHO Team Membership DriveCompletes Another Successful Year
2011 CHo em Membeship dive
(From left): Patty Frank of the SPO Gift Shop presents a $5,000 check to
Rose Simone of The Research Foundation to support the ECHO Team.
We would like to thank our doctors, nurses, technicians and
healthcare professionals at Research Medical Center for delivering
quality, compassionate care that ranks among the nations best.
2316 E. Meyer Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64132
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Research Medical Center is proud to be part oU.S. News & World Reports frst-ever Best Hospitals
metro area rankings or Kansas City. This specialrecognition highlights hospitals in or near major
cities with a record o high perormance in key medicalspecialties.
To be ranked in its metro area, a hospital had to score in the
top 25 percent among its peers in at least one o 16 medicalspecialties. Research Medical Center was recognized or itsspecialties o ear, nose and throat and kidney disorders.
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Employee of the Month
Congratulations to Raul Ortega, patient transporter, or being selected Employee o the Month or June.
Nomination comments by his co-workers include:
Raul is always very pleasant and works very hard.
He genuinely cares about what he does and it shows in his work ethic.
Raul is very appreciated by all departments. throughout the hospital.
RAul ORtegA PAtient tRAnsPORteR
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