• Y2K – The Emergency Department is ready
  To make sure the MGH is ready for almost anything that the millennium may bring, the MGH Emergency Department has been planning for the past year and a half with the MGH Y2K and Disaster Planning committees, as well as the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals Disaster Committee.

• On the brink of BBA relief
  Last week, Congress moved closer to passage of a Balanced Budget Act (BBA) relief package that could provide up to $17 billion worth of relief nationally. Approximately $8.75 billion of the total relief package will go to hospitals.

• Thanks to the MGH Catheterization Unit
  A thank you letter was received from an MGH patient's wife about the care her husband received in the Catheterization Unit.

• MGH/Timilty Partnership enjoys an evening with the stars
  More than 350 students, family, faculty and MGH mentors participated in the annual Science Family Activity Night Nov. 16 at the James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston.

• MGH Revere Cares receives White House endorsement
  Revere CARES, a community coalition to fight substance abuse that is supported by the MGH Community Benefit Program and the MGH Revere HealthCare Center, recently received a grant from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the U.S. Department of Justice under the Drug Free Communities Program.

• "May I Help You?" posters greet patients and visitors
  Posters will be put on display throughout the hospital's ground floor and at the MGH's four health centers to encourage patients and visitors to ask employees for help when they come to the MGH.

• MGH clubs reap rewards for donating blood
  The MGH Bowling Club emerged victorious in a healthy competition over the summer to see which MGH club could give the most blood donations to the MGH Blood Donor Center.

• Partners in Excellence awards ceremonies
  MGHers are invited to join James J. Mongan, MD, MGH president; Samuel O. Thier, MD, president and CEO of Partners; and Jeff Davis, MGH senior vice president for Human Resources, in congratulating individual and team recipients of the Partners in Excellence Awards, Dec. 8, 4 pm in the WACC Lobby.

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