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Attendance at 50% (1) Hospital Staff meeting per Calendar Year is required for Active Staff members by the MLH Medical Staff Bylaws. You may attend any ONE of the following meetings, at the hospital of your choice, whether that hospital … Continue reading →

CMS says it wants to cut paperwork. Providers have ideas. Healthcare Dive: CMS says it wants to cut red tape, and players across the healthcare industry are weighing in with a plethora of suggestions. The agency received roughly 440 comments … Continue reading →

Creating Connections, Conversations to Advance a Healthy Community for All, will be held on Friday October 18, 2019, 8am – 3pm at Lankenau Medical Center, Annenberg Conference Center. The program is a day of collaborative talks and roundtable discussions to … Continue reading →

This week’s STEEEP Huddle, contributed by Maureen A. Hennessey, Ed.D., manager, Community Health and Equity, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and chair, Montgomery County Immunization Coalition (MCIC), focuses on National Immunization Awareness Month (August). Main Line Health strives to ensure the health … Continue reading →

By Donna Loyle, communications specialist, LIMR Researchers seek patients who’ve been diagnosed with severe claudication or critical ischemia to a lower limb for a randomized study to determine the appropriate dosage of the FDA-approved medication Torisel® (temsirolimus). The research objective … Continue reading →

Six mission-driven, nonprofit academic health organizations across Greater Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley won a collective bid for the physician residency program at Hahnemann University Hospital. The move ensures access to patient care services—especially for the underserved—and stabilizes the education … Continue reading →

Physician burnout lessens when patients’ social needs are met, study finds Becker’s Hospital Review: Physicians who feel their clinic can address patients’ unmet social needs are less likely to be burned out, according to a study published earlier this year … Continue reading →

This week’s STEEEP Huddle, contributed by Karen Fitzpatrick-Smith, manager, Organizational Development, HR, focuses on communicating respectfully in a diverse workforce and community. Diversity, Respect and Inclusion Learning Experience has been a course offered at Main Line Health to leaders and … Continue reading →

By Donna Loyle, communications specialist, LIMR Tailor RT is a multicenter, randomized, non-inferiority phase III trial evaluating outcomes among certain breast cancer patients treated with regional radiotherapy (RT), that is, RT to regional nodes following breast-conserving surgery (BCS) or RT … Continue reading →

The latest issue of the Lab Link newsletter includes stories on: MLH Labs’ HAP award; Babesiosis; and Driving down pre-analytical errors. Lab Link Summer 2019