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  • Focusing on LGBTQ+ needs

    Last year, Chester County Hospital was honored as a recipient of Leader status in the Human Rights Campaign Health Equality Index, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing equitable and inclusive care, support and advocacy for LGBTQ+ patients, staff and the community. All six of Penn Medicine’s hospitals will be recognized as 2019 leaders in LGBTQ healthcare equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Dental renews exchange with Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine

    Penn Dental Medicine has renewed ties with Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel, signing a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate collaborative exchange and research with faculty and students. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Penn Law’s Cindy Dahl comments on SCOTUS decision in trademark case

    Penn Law School Practice Professor of Law Cindy Dahl comments on the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Iancu v. Brunetti holding that the Lanham Act’s restriction on “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks violates the Constitution. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Empowering individuals in recovery through exercise

    Fitness in Recovery, founded by John Breen, the assistant coach for the Penn women’s rowing team and Sidra Ghafoor, a fellow in Addiction Psychiatry at Penn, works to empower individuals recovering from addiction, eating disorders, and trauma through exercise.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Having an IMPaCT on discharged patients

    As a social worker on the Internal Medicine service, John Schafhauser often works with community health workers from Penn Medicine’s IMPaCT program who help support patients from local communities who may be at high risk for readmission once discharged.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Shorter rotations in intensive care units mitigate burnout among physicians

    A Penn Medicine pilot study finds increased job fulfillment and decreased burnout for critical care physicians working seven- versus 14-day rotations.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • In tech-heavy world of innovation, communication still key

    For five months, three incubator projects in the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health’s first-ever incubator class have been working on pilots in three different areas of the health system, focusing on optimizing communication channels for patients.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • How a small change can help fix the health care system

    Wharton’s Ashley Swanson discusses her new research on preferred pharmacy networks, which have only been in place since 2010, and the potential savings for enrollees in Medicare.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • NPL student & AMCLI fellow reflects on Muslim American nonprofit leadership

    For Imrul Mazid, a student in the Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership program at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, his deep commitment to social justice is inextricably woven to his professional and personal life as a Muslim.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • With high-deductible employer health plans, who wins?

    Wharton health care management professor David Asch studies the reality of high deductible insurance plans, which a growing number of companies favor, yet employees and unions have pushed back on such plans because of their high cost to consumers. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →