• MGH selects architect for new ambulatory care building
  The MGH planning committee for the new ambulatory care building project recently announced the selection of local firm Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., in collaboration with Michael Fieldman of New York to form a team of architects for the new building project.

• Testosterone skin patch improves sexual functioning in surgically menopausal women
  A multi-institutional research group has found that use of an experimental testosterone skin patch can relieve impaired sexual functioning in surgically menopausal women – that is, women who have had their ovaries removed before natural menopause. The report in the Sept. 7 New England Journal of Medicine comes from a team led by researchers from the MGH and Watson Laboratories, Inc.-Utah, the developers of the patch.

• MGH participates in nationwide forum on end-of-life care
  The MGH is joining with organizations across the country to discuss ways to improve end-of-life care. The effort is in conjunction with the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series "On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying," which airs Sept. 10 to 13 on local station WGBH, Channel 2.

• Cliff Stewart Scholarship presentation
  Cliff Stewart, a former leader of on-site construction services for Walsh Brothers contractors, tragically died recently, but his legacy lives on at the MGH. One way is through the Clifford Stewart Memorial Scholarship, established at the MGH by employees and Stewart's friends and family members.

• FYI posters about JCAHO preparation
  The most recent poster in the FYI campaign is being distributed throughout the hospital this week. The goal of this poster is to offer MGHers important tips to help prepare for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey that will take place Sept. 18 to 22.

• Summer jobs expose students to health care
  Like most teenagers, Rafhel Morgado isn't sure what he wants to do when he grows up. Working in the MGH President's Office this summer, however, helped Morgado get closer to deciding. Thanks to the Partners Summer Jobs Program, sponsored by Partners Human Resources, Morgado, along with 75 other high school students, worked all summer long at various Partners institutions.

• ID badges and JCAHO survey
  To help patients, visitors and fellow MGHers identify MGH employees, and to comply with state law, hospital regulations and the guidelines set by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the Department of Police and Security reminds all employees to wear their photo ID badges.

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