• Witches, ghosts and goblins – oh my!
  Screeches and screams filled the hallways as MassGeneral Hospital for Children celebrated Halloween this week. Pediatric patients and caregivers enjoyed a spooky good time at a haunted house Oct. 29 on Ellison 18.
  
  

• Leadership meeting highlights hospital's fiscal performance, other activities
  In one of his last leadership meetings as president of the MGH, James J. Mongan, MD, gave a status report Oct. 25 on the hospital's fiscal year 2002 performance and offered updates on a variety of other hospital issues.
  

• Partners celebrates new proteomics facility
  More than 200 Partners researchers gathered at a symposium Oct. 18 to celebrate the opening of the new proteomics facility at the Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics.
  

• HMS professorship named for Zervas
  The distinguished honor of a named professorship at Harvard Medical School
  (HMS) recently was awarded to former chief of MGH Neurosurgery, Nicholas
  T. Zervas, MD.
  

• Employee benefits open enrollment
  Open enrollment will be held at the MGH Nov. 4 to 24 for weekly and monthly paid employees. Open enrollment is the one time of year when benefits-eligible employees, who are regularly scheduled to work at least 20 hours per week, can enroll, change, or add family members to their benefit plan.

• BeneFairs and QuickStops
  MGHers are invited to stop by information sessions – called BeneFairs and QuickStops – to ask questions about various benefit programs. At the BeneFairs, employees will have the opportunity to speak to representatives from companies that provide benefits to the MGH. The MGH Human Resources staff will be available to answer questions at the QuickStops.

• Park dedication celebrates 34-year legacy
  After a summer of planning and plotting, MGHers from the MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center marked the opening of the new John P. Connelly Memorial Park, with a special dedication Oct. 19. The park is named in honor of John P. Connelly, MD, who was medical director of the Bunker Hill Health Center (re-named MGH Charlestown) when it first opened in September 1968.
  

• Prizes for pledges
  Jennifer Jackson, administrative director for MGH Radiation Oncology, and Diane Gardner, manager of Outpatient Registration, co-chairs of the United Way raffle committee, draw one of the winners of the first of five United Way Campaign raffles.

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