Volume 8 Issue 10 May 17, 2013

PRESBYbulletinPenn Presbyterian Medical Center

Three hundred of Presbyterian’s staff and supporters gathered at Vie on Friday, March 15 to celebrate the 12th annual Presby fundraiser. Together with corporate sponsors, PPMC far surpassed its previous fundraising record ($88,000 in 2011) raising over $175,000.

Guests attended in their vintage best to fit this year’s Mad Men-inspired theme, Mad Party, and enjoyed an evening of glamour, swanky music and classic cocktails reminiscent of the 1960s.

The true highlight of the evening was honoring PPMC’s Chief of Medicine Jack Ende, MD, with the Hospital Hero Award. This annual award recognizes people who make vital contributions to Presby and share the spirit of loyalty and passion with the broader Health System. A special tribute video helped explain why Dr. Ende is truly Penn Presbyterian’s Hospital Hero.

Proceeds from the event will support the Penn Mesothelioma and Pleural Program. When treating patients with mesothelioma or pleural disease, Penn Medicine specialists offer more treatment options than most other health systems across the country and around the world. Funds raised at this year’s event will make it possible for Penn Presbyterian to continue to provide better outcomes to cancer patients and helps to give patients access to the most advanced treatment, surgical techniques and clinical trials.

Congratulations to all the staff and administration at Penn Presbyterian!

For more photos from the evening’s festivities, and to view the Hospital Hero tribute video, please visit http://2013ppmcmadparty.shutterfly.com/

Open Enrollment has ended but you 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 for the upcoming year. Please review this document carefully since it lists the benefit elections that you made for the FY14 benefit plan year (July 1 – June 30). Please use the online enrollment website www.enrollone.com/uphs to make changes or corrections. If all of the information is complete and accurate, no further action is required. Please keep the printed confirmation statement for your records.

The enrollment or changes that you make during this time will take effect July 1, 2013. Once the enrollment period closes on May 19th, you will not be eligible to make changes to your benefits until either the next open enrollment period or you have experienced a qualified life event or status change that would allow you to make changes to your current elections.

If you have any questions, please contact the Benefits Department at 215.615.2675, option#4

Open Enrollment Change Period –

Until May 19

PPMC GOES MAD!

Contact Us: Katie Delach | katie.delach@uphs.upenn.edu | http://news.pennmedicine.org/inside/presbybulletin/

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National Nurses Week (May 6-10) started with the center of PPMC’s Professional Practice Model and a fundamental component PPMC’s mission to serve the community. Under the Nursing Professional Development Council leadership, PPMC volunteers made the 5th Annual “Spring into Health Community Day” a major success for local residents, meeting with more than 400 attendees.

Through both the “Spring into Health Community Day” and last month’s “The Sounds of West Philadelphia at Life – 3rd Annual Community Wellness Day” volunteers met with over 1,200 people in the West Philadelphia community to learn more information and new ways to improve their health.

Stay tuned in future issues of the Presby Bulletin for more on how we celebrated National Nurses Week.

Putting the Kids to Work

Last year, two ideas, Patient Services Kiosks and myPenn Scheduler, were selected as the winners of Your Big Idea: Penn Medicine’s Innovation Tournament. Today, both of these ideas are a reality, thanks to the hard work of the Your Big Idea winners and skilled

collaborators from all across Penn Medicine. In addition to those winning ideas, we’ve implemented dozens of other ideas that were submitted.

Now, The Your Big Challenge will focus on finding opportunities to be more efficient while continuing to excel at our tripartite mission of Patient Care, Teaching & Research. The Challenge includes some new features and enhancements—including the Prove Us Wrong Challenge, where you’ll have a chance to develop your idea even if it doesn’t make it through to the next round right away. Most importantly, we’ll implement more ideas than last year, by providing you with the training and resources to pursue your teams’ ideas independently.

The new Your Big Idea Cost-Savings Challenge is now open. The deadline to submit your idea is June 7. Winners will be announced the week of June 24, 2013.

For more information, please visit www.pennmedicine.org/YourBigIdea.

Last month PPMC took part in another successful, “Take Your Kids to Work Day.” Over 200 children from PPMC employee families attended this year’s educational and entertaining activities. Each year, participating groups develop new interactive activities for children to learn about healthcare as a career choice and educate children on health prevention/improvement. This year, kids received hands-on CPR training, learned about respiration therapy techniques, participated in simulated laproscopic surgery, and more!

Thank you to all our volunteers and participants for making the day a success and enhancing our culture of excellence at PPMC. Please see the Presby Bulletin online for a slideshow of photos from the day’s activities.