• Mass. senate president visits MGH
  Massachusetts Senate President Robert Travaglini paid a visit to the MGH March 21 to meet with MGH and Partners leaders and to tour areas of the hospital.

• Be Fit: Materials Management gets motivated
  Joe Panzera of Patient Transport in MGH Materials Management is a motivator. As the team leader of the Materials Management team in the Be Fit program — the 12-week nutrition and fitness pilot program sponsored by MGH Nutrition and Food Services and the Clubs at Charles River Park — Panzera has worked hard to help educate and lead his team to a healthier life.

• What's in a name? A call for titles for the MGH magazine
  The MGH has been working with a team from Time, Inc. Strategic Communications to plan and produce a quarterly magazine that will focus on medical innovation, discovery and the path and progress toward the health care of tomorrow. With a target date of September for the first issue, the magazine is yet to be named.
  

• Barraclough celebrated at reception
  A reception was held March 16 in honor of Susan Barraclough, MS, RD, who recently assumed her new leadership role as the director of MGH Nutrition and Food Services.
  

• Neither rain nor sleet nor snow...
  A nother winter snowstorm March 1 didn't keep nearly 300 house staff physicians from attending the ninth annual Partners HealthCare House Staff Core Curriculum Retreat. The two-day event had a record turnout.

• Anticonvulsant drug may pose greater birth-defect risk
  Use of the anticonvulsant drug valproate during pregnancy may carry a greater risk of birth defects than do other antiseizure medications. In the March 22 issue of Neurology, researchers from the North American AED (Antiepileptic Drug) Pregnancy Registry at the MGH report that women taking valproate alone had four times greater risk of having a child with a major malformation than did women taking other drugs.
  

• Countdown to paperless purchasing
  April 4 marks the deadline for the hospital's purchasing system to go entirely paperless with the new eBuy online requisitioning system. So far, the 1,100 MGHers who have been granted system access are averaging more than 1,600 requisitions weekly through the PeopleSoft E-Procurement system.

• A science connection
  The MGH East Garden Dining Room was overflowing with science fair projects March 11 as students from the James P. Timility Middle School in Roxbury showcased projects they had been working on since October.
  

• In General

• What's Happening

Hotline Home Page | Back Issues | News Releases | News & Information | MGH Home Page