• Partners president outlines achievements, challenges at Town Meeting
  At his last official Town Meeting as president and chief executive officer for Partners HealthCare, Samuel O. Thier, MD, praised employees and staff for the eight years of success since the inception of the system.

• Partners Town Meeting questions
  The following questions were addressed by Samuel O. Thier, MD, president and CEO of Partners, and James J. Mongan, MD, president of the MGH, at the Partners Town Meeting Sept. 23.

• AMMP recognizes dedicated members and scholarship recipients
  The Association of Multicultural Members of Partners (AMMP) honored its members and scholarship recipients Sept. 12 during the organization's annual Scholarship and Member Recognition Luncheon.

• MGH success results in bonus for employees
  Good news for MGH employees was announced this week. Because the hospital demonstrated a successful financial performance in fiscal year 2002, all active employees will receive a bonus equal to 1 percent of their FY '02 regular earnings.
  

• Temporary changes announced in MGH administration
  After 14 years at the MGH, Kathleen E. Walsh, senior vice president for MGH Medicine and Cancer Care Services, will be leaving the hospital at the end of this month to join Novartis Pharma AG. She will serve as chief operating officer of the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, the company's new research facility located in Cambridge. With her departure, some members of the MGH senior leadership team will expand their responsibilities to cover Walsh's areas of responsibility until a successor is named.

• North End health center employees participate in new certificate program
  Employees at the North End Community Health Center (NECHC)
  recently participated in a one-year certificate program, which was developed by the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and Suffolk University. The program was designed to address many issues facing health center employees, including the enhancement of skills for qualified not-for-profit health center managers.
  

• MGHers with heart
  MGH employees and patients showed that they have heart as they joined hundreds of Bostonians Sept. 14 to participate in the American Heart Association's annual walkathon.
  

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