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Health Careers Futures 2008 Summit

June 04, 2008

HIGH SCHOOLS & CAREERS: The New Value Proposition. The goal of the Summit was to make career ambition and career knowledge a core part of the high school experience and an essential component of high school reform.

Slimming down is a goal of WE CAN

November 30, 2007

Pittsburgh is joining eight other cities in a federal program to help kids slim down by eating smart, exercising more and spending less time watching television or playing video games.

Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives

November 19, 2007

Just published, with a foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.

Program aims to cut staph at VA facilities

August 02, 2006

A pilot project at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System to reduce the prevalence of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria has grown into a nationwide initiative to eradicate the organism throughout all VA hospitals.

"The only way to defeat MRSA is to tackle the transmission," said Peter Perreiah, managing director of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, which along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was involved in the pilot project. "It's doing a thousand things right when you're caring for patients."

Pittsburgh to lead battle over bacteria

August 02, 2006

The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System will lead an effort to help veterans hospitals around the nation prevent patients from being infected with MRSA, an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria.

Peter Perreiah, managing director of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, said he knew of no effort of similar scope among the nation's hospital systems.

Recruiting Workers

August 01, 2006

"Aging industries share need for workers" (June 13) highlighted a half dozen regional industries profiled in a series of reports...Omitted from the list was a vital sector of the region's economy and a crucial part of all of our lives: health care.

Toyota model improves infection rates at PA hospitals

August 01, 2006

“The real plus in Toyota is that you take problems [that] you face on a daily basis and learn in the course of work how to redesign the system to prevent them,” says Perreiah, manager of the PPC Applications Center. “We want to put hospital staff back into the process [and] get them out of the conference room and onto the floor.”

From: Briefings on Quality Improvement and Data Reporting, Vol. 2 No. 8 August 2006.

Private Sector: Safe hospitals

July 25, 2006

The business case for achieving zero medical errors has strengthened.

Hospitals Move to Cut Dangerous Lab Errors

June 14, 2006

Hospitals and health-care-quality groups around the country are working on initiatives to bring more rigorous standards to pathology labs, with support from government and nonprofit groups including the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative.

U.S. grant enables Squirrel Hill Health Center to open by June

March 01, 2006

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation has announced the receipt of a $643,500 award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that will enable the center to open, probably before the end of June.