• Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
  It may not have been the Blizzard of '78, but Tuesday's winter blast was big enough to shut down much of Boston and the surrounding areas, leaving stores closed, roads blocked, grocery stores bare and schools empty. Yet nothing is big enough to stop the hustle and bustle at the MGH. It's at times like these that hospital staff team together to cooperate, coordinate and collaborate to ensure that the hospital runs like a well-oiled machine.

• Backup Child Care Center is home away from home
  Rainbow colors decorate the windows, a slide and jungle gym sit invitingly, and peals of laughter ring out from the Warren Lobby. This is the MGH Backup Child Care Center, a hospital resource that was created to provide emergency child care for MGH and Partners employees and patients.

• MGH health centers help smokers kick the habit
  Three MGHers provide smoking cessation – now called tobacco treatment – to Chelsea, Revere and Charlestown residents through the Pack-It-In Program, operated by MGH Community Health Associates.

• In Memoriam
  William H. Sweet, MD, PhD, former chief of the Neurosurgery Service at the MGH and professor of Surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died of complications from Parkinson's disease at his home in Brookline Jan. 22.

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