• Mayor's committee to eliminate health disparities unveils recommendations
  In 2003, Mayor Thomas Menino and the Boston Public Health Commission issued an invitation to Boston hospital leadership, including Peter L. Slavin, MD, president of the MGH, to address the issue of racially and ethnically based disparities in access to and delivery of health care in the city. Despite the advances that have been made in the modern medical system, studies have shown that minorities often receive lower quality care than white Americans, even when insurance status, income, age and severity of illness are comparable.

• Save the Date - You're Invited!
  Peter L. Slavin, MD, president of the MGH, invites all MGH employees, staff and volunteers to the MGH Annual Summer Picnic Wednesday, June 29, 2005. Join us for lunch, games and music. A complimentary picnic-style lunch, provided by MGH Nutrition and Food Services, will be served from 11:30 am to 2 pm under the Bulfinch Patio tent, rain or shine.

• Stepping Up to Stop Domestic Abuse
  For most people, a mention of Father's Day conjures up a range of familiar images: gifts of striped ties, coffee mugs and an afternoon devoted to 18 holes of golf. For a new group at the MGH, however, this Father's Day was the launching point for an entirely different sort of recognition. MGH Men Against Abuse, a subgroup of the MGH Domestic Violence Working Group, was formed by a group of male employees to create awareness and provide education to men about domestic abuse.

• On the radio: Summer health and safety tips
  To help the general public enjoy summertime activities in a healthy and safe way, MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHC) has sponsored radio advertising that features summer safety tips for children. Alan Ezekowitz, MBChB, DPhil, chief of Pediatrics for MGHC, and Joseph “Jay” Vacanti, MD, chief of Pediatric Surgery for MGHC, recorded the voiceovers for the radio spots that are being aired on 92.9 WBOS and 105.7 WROR.

• MGH helps ID a mummy
  Curators at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Department of Egyptology had an unusual dilemma — how could they obtain important information about a wrapped mummified head in their collection? The 4,000 year-old head, which in life belonged to an Egyptian named Djehutynakht, had been at the MFA following excavation from a looted tomb in 1915. Although assumed to belong to Djehutynakht, some of the Egyptologists questioned whether the mummy might be that of his wife, who was buried in the same tomb, and asked Paul Chapman, MD, a neurosurgeon at the MGH and a member of the MFA's visiting committee, for his help.

• Author Joanne Koenig Coste speaks about Alzheimer's
  According to the Alzheimer's Association, more than 70 percent of people with Alzheimer's
  disease live at home, where family and friends provide the majority of care. To learn more about how to handle all stages of the disease, MGH employees, family caregivers and health care providers gathered June 13 in the O'Keeffe Auditorium to hear Joanne Koenig Coste speak.

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