Community Carey kicks off Jefferson’s 1998 United
Way campaign. Here from left, Thomas J. Lewis, President and CEO for the Hospital and
Beth-Ann Schauer, Executive Associate to Mr. Lewis, join United Way Campaign Co-Chair
Patricia A. Wallace, Manager, Volunteer Services and Patient Information, and United Way
Campaign Chair Kevin J. Donahue, Director, Accounting and Systems for Physical Resources,
in bringing Community Carey’s spirit to the Jefferson Community. There’s still
time to contribute to the United Way Campaign, which closes November 4.
During this fiscal year, all Hospital and University employees will
receive new employee identification badges. This effort is part of a Jefferson Health
System-wide initiative to implement a uniform employee ID program. Shown above, left, Tom
Faith from Identicard trains Department of Security employees to use the new equipment.
Security employees will take most employee photos on-site for departments and send ID
badges, similar to the one pictured above, to employees after the photos are added to the
badge software. This new process stores all employee photos electronically. So, if you
misplace your ID, the system can call up your original photo to produce a replacement ID
badge. Wearing your employee ID badge has always been an important part of keeping the
campus safe. This new ID system will allow employees to be easily recognized as a JHS
employee, while here and at other JHS locations, and keep us in compliance with recent
state regulations requiring all healthcare givers to display ID badges with their names
and positions.
The Department of Security’s Annual Jefferson Safety Fest,
“Taking Safety Home,” featured many Jefferson participants as well as local
businesses who provided safety tips and information, free food and giveaways to those who
attended. Here, Mary Kehner, Department of Nursing Service, second from left, and Kim
Sullivan from SmartCare, left, provide information on Jefferson’s switch from latex
to vinyl gloves to promote a latex-safe environment. The two help employees measure their
hands to choose proper fitting vinyl gloves. The vinyl gloves offer the same level of
protection as latex gloves and eliminate latex powder from the workplace. This powder has
been linked to increased sensitivity and allergies to latex.
The Women’s Board recently held its first Futures
Conference at the Philadelphia College of Physicians to plan the organization’s
direction and goals for the new millenium. Shown above at a planning luncheon preceding
the event are, left to right, Jean Haley, SaraKay Smullens, Deborah Shain, facilitator of
the Futures Conference, and Lisa Brownstein.
From the control room of Jefferson Hospital’s Cardiac
Electrophysiology Laboratory, Arnold J. Greenspon, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Associate Director of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory,
directs a cardiac catheterization procedure under way beyond the glass partition. The
event is unusual because the procedure is being simultaneously viewed via satellite link
by 1,500 engineers and scientists, from among more than 10,000 participants gathered at
the Baltimore, Convention Center for an international conference of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical
professional society composed of more than 320,000 members active in 152 countries. The
procedure, transmitted live, is of a radiofrequency catheter ablation performed on a
25-year-old woman to correct supraventricular tachycardia, causing an abnormally rapid
heart rate. The procedure, and the presentation explaining it, formed part of an IEEE
Keynote Address, “Radio Frequency/Microwave Applications in Medicine: RF
Ablation,” organized and presented by Drs. Greenspon and Arye Rosen, with the support
of Dr. Roger Kaul of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Society. Arye Rosen, PhD, is
Research Professor and Center Professor at Drexel University, and Associate in Medicine at
Jefferson Medical College. The presentation came about as part of the new Drexel-Jefferson
Academic Alliance. In the photo’s background, Richard Borge, MD, Fellow in
Cardiology, assists in the procedure. Pejman Makarechi, Director, Medical Media Services,
and his staff set up and conducted the live transmission to Baltimore, the first such
transmission ever from Jefferson.
Community Carey kicks off Jefferson’s 1998 United
Way campaign. Here from left, Thomas J. Lewis, President and CEO for the Hospital and
Beth-Ann Schauer, Executive Associate to Mr. Lewis, join United Way Campaign Co-Chair
Patricia A. Wallace, Manager, Volunteer Services and Patient Information, and United Way
Campaign Chair Kevin J. Donahue, Director, Accounting and Systems for Physical Resources,
in bringing Community Carey’s spirit to the Jefferson Community. There’s still
time to contribute to the United Way Campaign, which closes November 4.
During this fiscal year, all Hospital and University employees will
receive new employee identification badges. This effort is part of a Jefferson Health
System-wide initiative to implement a uniform employee ID program. Shown above, left, Tom
Faith from Identicard trains Department of Security employees to use the new equipment.
Security employees will take most employee photos on-site for departments and send ID
badges, similar to the one pictured above, to employees after the photos are added to the
badge software. This new process stores all employee photos electronically. So, if you
misplace your ID, the system can call up your original photo to produce a replacement ID
badge. Wearing your employee ID badge has always been an important part of keeping the
campus safe. This new ID system will allow employees to be easily recognized as a JHS
employee, while here and at other JHS locations, and keep us in compliance with recent
state regulations requiring all healthcare givers to display ID badges with their names
and positions. 
The Department of Security’s Annual Jefferson Safety Fest,
“Taking Safety Home,” featured many Jefferson participants as well as local
businesses who provided safety tips and information, free food and giveaways to those who
attended. Here, Mary Kehner, Department of Nursing Service, second from left, and Kim
Sullivan from SmartCare, left, provide information on Jefferson’s switch from latex
to vinyl gloves to promote a latex-safe environment. The two help employees measure their
hands to choose proper fitting vinyl gloves. The vinyl gloves offer the same level of
protection as latex gloves and eliminate latex powder from the workplace. This powder has
been linked to increased sensitivity and allergies to latex.
The Women’s Board recently held its first Futures
Conference at the Philadelphia College of Physicians to plan the organization’s
direction and goals for the new millenium. Shown above at a planning luncheon preceding
the event are, left to right, Jean Haley, SaraKay Smullens, Deborah Shain, facilitator of
the Futures Conference, and Lisa Brownstein.
From the control room of Jefferson Hospital’s Cardiac
Electrophysiology Laboratory, Arnold J. Greenspon, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Associate Director of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory,
directs a cardiac catheterization procedure under way beyond the glass partition. The
event is unusual because the procedure is being simultaneously viewed via satellite link
by 1,500 engineers and scientists, from among more than 10,000 participants gathered at
the Baltimore, Convention Center for an international conference of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical
professional society composed of more than 320,000 members active in 152 countries. The
procedure, transmitted live, is of a radiofrequency catheter ablation performed on a
25-year-old woman to correct supraventricular tachycardia, causing an abnormally rapid
heart rate. The procedure, and the presentation explaining it, formed part of an IEEE
Keynote Address, “Radio Frequency/Microwave Applications in Medicine: RF
Ablation,” organized and presented by Drs. Greenspon and Arye Rosen, with the support
of Dr. Roger Kaul of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Society. Arye Rosen, PhD, is
Research Professor and Center Professor at Drexel University, and Associate in Medicine at
Jefferson Medical College. The presentation came about as part of the new Drexel-Jefferson
Academic Alliance. In the photo’s background, Richard Borge, MD, Fellow in
Cardiology, assists in the procedure. Pejman Makarechi, Director, Medical Media Services,
and his staff set up and conducted the live transmission to Baltimore, the first such
transmission ever from Jefferson.