• One patient's legacy: A new MGH president
  Louis Tokson was a wise and respected leader, a pillar of his community in turn-of-the-century Malden, Mass. A freak accident left a chip of wood embedded in Tokson's leg, and he developed a severe infection. Each week – for nearly 10 years – Tokson would take the streetcar from Malden to the MGH. On Jan. 1, 2003, Louis Tokson's great-grandson, Peter L. Slavin, MD, MBA, will become president of the MGH.

• Sit back, relax, watch a little TV, surf the net, catch up on e-mail, give blood platelets ...
  Phil Evans, a retired flower shop owner from Peabody, Mass., has donated blood platelets at the MGH Blood Donor Center for the past five years. Platelet donation can be a time-consuming procedure, but now the 2 1/2-hour donation process is made much easier for donors such as Evans thanks to a new device at the MGH called the E-Chair.
  
  

• The art of teamwork: PACE members exercise their creativity
  Since the launch of the Patient Administrative Cycle Enhancements (PACE) project in February, PACE teams have been working diligently to design the framework of what will be a comprehensive redesign of the hospital's patient administration process. PACE team members recently took a break from their usual planning meetings to exercise their creativity in a half-day art workshop held July 11 at CNY.
  

• Savory samplings for Senior Supper Club
  Julia Child couldn't have done it better. Helen Doherty, RD, director of MGH Nutrition and Food Services, and Susan Barraclough, MS, RD, senior manager of Retail Operations and Production for the department, hosted a lively cooking demonstration at the MGH June 24 as a part of the MGH Senior Supper Club.

• Nominations for the Nathaniel Bowditch Prize
  Nominations now are being accepted for the 2003 Nathaniel Bowditch Prize. The $5,000 award will be presented to an MGH employee – clinician or nonclinician – who has made a significant contribution to improving the quality of care at the hospital while reducing the cost of such care.
  

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