• Leadership meeting outlines hospital activities
  In a leadership meeting April 28, MGH department heads, managers and supervisors heard a range of presentations about the hospital's goals and financial performance, current activities of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) and the status of the ambulatory care building project.

• Two MGHers receive Pamela J. Ellis award on Secretary's Day
  It was a tough decision for the Pamela J. Ellis Memorial Secretarial Award selection committee to make this year. The decision was so tough, they decided to select two MGHers to receive the award at the MGH Secretary's Day luncheon April 26.

• Governor announces statewide task force on health care
  Gov. Paul Cellucci, Lt. Gov. Jane Swift, Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham, House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran and several other key Massachusetts state leaders held a press conference in the MGH Ether Dome May 1 to announce the formation of a statewide task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the health care industry in Massachusetts.

• Support service grant helping employees to get ahead
  MGH employee Richard Kumahia had aspirations to go back to school to earn a degree in science management. Having worked at the MGH for eight years, Kumahia finally found the opportunity to combine a college career with his full-time job through the assistance of the Support Service Employee Grant Program.

• MGH Downtown celebrates fifth anniversary
  Much has changed over the past five years for MGH Downtown. Started in 1994 in a small office at Emerson Place with one physician and a handful of patients, the practice, now located in the heart of Downtown Crossing, has four full-time physicians, 11 support staff members and nearly 10,000 patients.

• A future in surgery?
  More than 125 youngsters participated in Take Our Children to Work Day at the MGH April 27. Activities included touring areas such as the Pharmacy, the Chapel, the Electric Shop, the Blum Patient and Family Learning Center and the Police and Security Department.

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