July 27, 2007 Table of Contents
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  • Are you prepared for an emergency at the MGH? How about at home?
    No one can predict when a disaster will occur; however, the MGH must always be ready to respond to emergencies within minutes. Employees, patients and visitors learned about the crucial role of emergency planning – a key to dealing with disasters – when MGH Emergency Preparedness sponsored an Emergency Preparedness Day in the Main Corridor July 25.
  • The MGH Stroke Service: among the best of the best
    The MGH consistently has remained among the best in the country in stroke care because of the efforts of the MGH Acute Stroke Quality Taskforce and the other departments that care for stroke patients. In recognition of this accomplishment, the hospital was listed in the July 23 issue of US News & World Report by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines – Stroke (GWTG – Stroke) quality improvement program in a special three-page feature.
  • The future of bioengineering
    Opto-electronics, microfluidics and regenerative medicine were just a few of the topics covered July 12 at the second annual Methods in Bioengineering Conference, co-hosted by the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
  • Easy links to good summer health
    Many of the health plans offered to MGH benefits-eligible employees have online resources that offer advice for staying safe and healthy this summer.
  • A sister's mission for good skin health
    When Melanie Clarkson died at age 40 from malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, it became her sister Cheryl’s mission to help find a cure for the disease. Today, Cheryl Clarkson is the president and chief executive officer of SkinHealth, a cosmetic skin treatment company, which recently joined forces with the MGH Cancer Center to raise money for melanoma research.
  • Joining the movement for service improvement
    A leader has assessed the service culture of her workplace though tools such as surveys, interviews and focus groups, and she has begun planning for positive change in that culture through strategy design and the collection and interpretation of data. What’s next?

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