Calling All Grads!
INSIGHT MAY 16, 2019
Kindness MovemenT Buying a coworker a coffee, offering a patient your umbrella when it's raining and helping an elderly woman cross the street are all acts of kindness. When Excela Health nurses decided to start a “kindness movement” at Excela Health, they enlisted the help of the Well-Being Center to spread the word and to encourage others to pass along kindness. A “kindness card” was developed and it was distributed at the Leadership meeting held in early May. Departments will be receiving the cards, and will be encouraged to use them as a reminder to the recipient to pay it forward. If you experience one of these acts of kindness (giving or receiving) please share the story at ewellness@excelahealth.org. To order more kindness cards visit the Well-Being Center on the Intranet.
Athletic Trainer Recognized by International Organization Drug Free Sport International, a worldwide provider of drug-use prevention services for athletes, established the Drug Free Sport Continuing Education Award to recognize selfless work of the athletic trainers who ensure the health and safety of their athletes. Megan Smith, Excela Health Assistant Athletic Trainer at Seton Hill University, is one of five recipients for 2019. Congratulations to Megan!
We will be honoring employees who have recently earned degrees and their offspring (sons and daughters or stepchildren) who are graduating from high school, college or technical school. The graduation gallery will be posted for all to view on Featured News and EMA. Please email a photo to EMA@excelahealth.org and include the following: first and last name of graduate, department of employee, graduation school and/or degree and future plans.
Excela Health Latrobe Family Medicine Residency Hosts visitors from Japan Excela Health Latrobe Family Medicine Residency Program was the first stop Monday on a statewide tour by representatives of the Japan Association for Development of Community Medicine (JADECOM) coordinated by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The purpose of the visit which took Japanese physicians from Pittsburgh International Airport through Amish country in York and Lancaster counties is to learn more about how rural U.S. communities meet healthcare needs and to foster opportunities for international exchange in settings such as Westmoreland County for Japanese physicians in training. Yumiko Radi, director of operations, Jefferson Japan Center and Robert Motley, MD, professor and vice chair, Community Medicine and co-director of the Physician Shortage Area Program at Jefferson; Mike Semelka, DO, FAAFP, Chair, Excela Health Department of Family Medicine and Program director, Excela Health Latrobe Hospital Family Medicine Residency, and Daniel DiCola, MD associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at Jefferson as well as a faculty member of the Latrobe Family Medicine Residency, fielded questions from the group before touring the facility, including a stop by the Empathy Collection.
Follow us on Social Media
Vol. 2 Issue 20