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Think about: a aircraft full of individuals placing their PTO to good use for a long-awaited trip or a go to to faraway household and mates, and simply because the aircraft reaches its cruising altitude, the pilot makes the distressing request for a health care provider. aboard.
Possibly it's a fortunate day and the passenger in seat 14B is a newly minted physician, however do you know that UPMC has a complete crew devoted to answering calls from the sky, throughout which employees accompanies the flight crew via your medical emergencies?
The November difficulty of first friday highlights the heroes on the bottom who expertly deal with these emergency calls, showcases the UPMC Pinnacle Basis's Farm to Hospital program at UPMC Memorial, celebrates a Medicare Well being Plan victory, and appears again on a decade of questions and solutions:
Making a distinction via senior well being care protection
Begin this month with a victory. UPMC for all times, UPMC Well being Plan Medicare Benefit Plan, gives personalised, award-winning help to assist members perceive plan advantages via the Well being Care Concierge crew.
Emergency Care within the Air: Q&A with TJ Doyle, STAT-MD Medical Director
STAT-MD is a element of the Western Pennsylvania Emergency Drugs Middle, a enterprise unit of UPMC. Headquartered in a brand new communications middle in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, STAT-MD employees handles roughly 16,000 calls annually from a wide range of business, company and personal airways.
From farm to desk at UPMC Memorial
The UPMC Pinnacle Basis's Farm to Hospital program at UPMC Memorial gives contemporary produce to sufferers, employees and the neighborhood year-round.. Along with serving to fight meals insecurity and including vitamins to hospital plates, the farm's aim is to handle the foundation explanation for illness by specializing in the influence of weight loss plan and train.
Ten years of questions and solutions
Q&As have all the time been a First Friday stapleoffering readers the chance to be taught extra about their leaders, enterprise items, and organizational initiatives immediately from the supply. Have a look again at a decade of a few of our most memorable Q&As.
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