Collaboration Across the MGH Learning Community
To date, more than 1,250 nurses from 100 organizations have participated in the free Maine Nursing Preceptor Education Program.
Staff StoryNov | 5 | 2020
In late December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in China reported an outbreak of a pneumonia of unknown cause. Nine days later, officials determined the acute respiratory virus to be caused by a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Within days, members of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s senior leadership team and the Center for Disaster Medicine began to closely monitor the situation and mapped out plans for the virus’s possible spread across the globe, throughout the nation and right here in Boston.
Mass General staff would spend the next several months working tirelessly—while facing new challenges and difficult, often emotionally draining situations. They cared for thousands of patients while learning new treatment options, supported their colleagues by ensuring all areas of the hospital were cleaned using the latest infection prevention methods and sought to make a difference through innovative research methods.
While this global pandemic has altered life in many ways, it also highlighted that all levels of Mass General staff can be counted on to rise to any challenge. In this special edition of Mass General Hotline, we celebrate the more than 27,000 individuals who made such an incredible impact on our patients, our community and our colleagues during this time.
WE RECOGNIZE YOU. WE APPLAUD YOU. WE THANK YOU.
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We are ready to care for you—whatever your health care needs may be. We are committed to providing the very best and safest care possible.
To date, more than 1,250 nurses from 100 organizations have participated in the free Maine Nursing Preceptor Education Program.
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Malinda Buck, a patient access bed manager supervisor in the MGH Capacity Center, is determined to get patients where they need to be: in rooms, healing, and then going home.
Alysia Monaco, AGACNP-BC of MGH Cardiac Surgery, discusses treating patients and colleagues like family.
Erin Hachey, RN, of Bigelow 11, and Ben Orcutt, director of MGH Patient Access Services, work together daily to mitigate capacity challenges, yet they typically only communicate through an app called Voalte.
Amber Moore, MD, director of Inpatient Medicine in the Department of Medicine, is working to improve the process of patients seeking to transfer in from other care facilities.