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Please print and post for staff who do not have access Tuesday, June 30, is the deadline to submit nominations for UPMC’s Award for Commitment and Excellence in Service (ACES). The 2009 ACES winners will be selected in July by each hospital or business unit and honored across the health system in the fall. Emmi programs offer web-based patient education at no cost to UPMC-affiliated physicians and their patients. Emmi programs allow patients to review short interactive programs about an upcoming treatment or procedure, and about how to manage chronic health conditions or take medications safely. For more information about Emmi and an updated list of new access codes, visit the Patient Safety and Risk Management site on Infonet. Earlier this month, 54 of your co-workers won $500 MyHealth Rewards by taking Healthy Steps. You could be among the next group of $500 winners. To be eligible for the next drawing, simply complete the following steps by July 1:
Many of you have completed all but the first item above. If you can find 18 spare minutes between now and July 1, you can finish that step and qualify for the drawing. For
more information on Take a Healthy Step 2010 and the MyHealth
Rewards drawings, log in to My HUB,
click on the Human Resources tab, and select the MyHealth/MyFlex
Advantage link. UPMC staff who donate three times within the fiscal year receive one PTO day; six donations earn two PTO days. Check your campus edition of Inside Extra or Extra Express for information about blood drives being held at a UPMC location near you. You also can donate at any Central Blood Bank drive or donation center.
Brighten Life Program To
become a Brighten Life member, visit www.cbbedonor.org
and create a personal account or call 1-866-680-BRIGHTEN. UPMC’s Systemwide Patient Education Committee recently made available 13 new and 18 revised patient education materials. UPMC staff can access more than 700 patient education sheets and booklets produced by the Patient Education Committee in partnership with UPMC Internal Communications. Single copies can be printed from the UPMC Patient Education Materials website. Larger quantities can be ordered on demand from the UPMC Print Shop. To place an order, complete a Printing/Duplicating Services Request Form and enter the form number in the appropriate space. Each patient education sheet or booklet has a form number located at the bottom under the UPMC logo. The only way to ensure that you use the most up-to-date UPMC patient education materials is to print them from the UPMC Patient Education Materials website or to place periodic on-demand orders with the UPMC Print Shop.
Revised patient education sheets
Ever wonder what all those numbers mean inside the triangular arrows stamped on the bottom of plastic containers? The symbol and numbers represent recycling codes that identify the resin content of the plastic. The numbers assist in sorting various plastic containers for recycling. For example, resin code number 1 refers to the polymer polyethelene terephthalate, or PET, used most commonly in soft drink bottles. Resin code number 2 identifies high-density polyethelene, or HDPE, used in gallon milk, juice, and water jugs. At UPMC, we recycle plastic material with codes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. When discarding plastic containers and wrapping material at UPMC, check the recycling code number. Common plastic water and soda bottles are usually code number 1. Plastics with resin codes 1 through 5 can be recycled in our blue recycling bins. In this way we can reduce waste and keep tons of plastic out of our landfills. Visit
the Environmental Initiatives
site on Infonet to view a brief training presentation on recycling. If you receive tuition advancement, remember that the state and some local municipalities consider this benefit to be taxable income. Staff who received tuition advancement for the spring 2009 semester will have applicable state and municipal taxes withheld from their pay today, if paid biweekly, or Tuesday, June 30, if paid monthly. The withholding rate for Pennsylvania state tax is 3.07 percent. The city of Pittsburgh tax rate is 3 percent. Other state and municipal tax rates vary. For
more information about tuition advancement, call the UPMC Employee
Service Center at 1-800-994-2752, option 3, or visit the Tuition
section of Infonet. Select your location for this
week's news and events specific to your campus or hospital. Oakland, Shadyside, and Corporate locations June
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