- CarePages connect friends and family
- Return toner cartridges for Xerox printers via UPS
- UPMC HealthTrak continues to grow
- There's still time to donate blood, win passes to Steelers training camp
- Community Benefits Report: Did you know?
- Update your directory information
- Environmental initiatives: recycling cooking oil
- Communications templates available
- Campus news
Please print and post for staff who do not have access
to e-mail.
With CarePages, keeping in touch with concerned friends and family while a loved one is in the hospital is easier than ever. CarePages is a free Web service that enables patients and families to create a private webpage where they can share their latest news with friends and family. It takes just minutes to create and it's so easy that even the most inexperienced computer user can follow along.
If you would like a handout that describes CarePages to patients, a CarePages card is available from UPMC's Print Shop at the cost of 1 cent each (minimum order 50). To order, complete a Printing and Duplicating Service Request Form and specify 10617-82179-1008 in the space for Form Number.
Follow these steps to return used toner cartridges from Xerox devices:
- Package the old, empty unit in the packaging from the newly installed item.
- Use the return label found in the box the new toner came in. If a return label is not in the box, print a return label for the package from Xerox's recycling website. You will need to know the device model in order to print the correct label. (If there is a return label in the box from DHL, please disregard. DHL is no longer the carrier for returning supplies.)
- Ship the device back to Xerox via UPS. At most UPMC facilities, UPS packages will be picked up by UPMC Mail Services. Or, call 1-800-742-5877 or visit www.ups.com to arrange for a pickup. Xerox pays for the pickup charge.
Visit the Printer Resources section of Infonet for more information and a downloadable fact sheet.
UPMC HealthTrak continues to grow. More than 20,000 people have enrolled, and more than 20 physician practices in 53 locations now offer the clinical level of UPMC HealthTrak. For more information, read UPMC HealthTrak Offers Online Convenience. UPMC staff can submit an application online to request a UPMC HealthTrak account.
UPMC staff who donate blood by July 31 will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win passes to UPMC VIP Day at Steelers training camp in Latrobe, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 9.*
Already donated? Staff who gave blood since June 1 are automatically entered into the drawing.
Central Blood Bank's UPMC blood donation program enables staff who donate three times or more between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, to earn PTO days. Staff who donate three times will 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.
*One entry per person. Winners will be notified by mail and may bring one guest. Winners are responsible for their own transportation and for securing their own time off.
Did you know? Supporting research and educating health professionals constitute some of UPMC's most significant community contributions. In Fiscal Year 2008, UPMC invested a total of $250 million in research and education.
To learn more about the many unique and diverse ways in which UPMC serves western Pennsylvania and its people, review the UPMC Community Benefits Report, Fiscal Year 2008.
Have you recently moved to a new office or do you have a new phone, pager, or fax number? Make sure to update your directory listing -- including any additional phone or pager numbers -- on Infonet in the online Employee Directory.
To keep your information in Outlook
current, visit the ISD Help
Desk and select Update Your Exchange Address Book Information.
In a successful initiative to cut waste in food preparation at UPMC cafeterias, Food Services is recycling used cooking oil. Both vegetable oil used in the preparation of fried foods, such as french fries, and grease byproducts of grilled foods, such as hamburgers, are finding other commercial uses.
UPMC has contracted with a vendor to recover our used vegetable oils for use in the production of biofuels. An alternative to fossil fuels, biofuels are made from biodegradable organic materials, such as vegetable oil, for use in diesel engines. Diesel exhaust contains hundreds of toxic chemicals, carcinogens, and particulate matter that impair lung function. Biofuels can reduce particulate matter emissions by 12 percent, hydrocarbons by 20 percent, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide by 20 percent, and carbon dioxide by 14 percent.
Cooking grease also is collected and put to use in the manufacture of dog food.
Learn more about Environmental Initiatives at UPMC.
Need help creating an event announcement or nametags? Official UPMC templates are available for customization on the Public Relations site on Infonet. Choose from a variety of Microsoft Word templates to communicate messages to patients, promote blood drives, quality fairs, or employee training, or print UPMC name badges for an event you're planning.
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July 24, 2009