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As the year progressed,
she found she liked not rush-
ing to find the time or the
place to light up.
Hummel and some friends
travel together frequently
and this past year they spent
some time in Los Vegas.
“I could have smoked in
the casinos but I was now a
non-smoker,” she said. She
also recalled that in year’s
past when she and her trav-
eling companions would be
at a airport, she was always
thinking about how she
would get in a smoke before
the plane would be taking
off. None of her travel pals
smoke so she was able to be
with them throughout their
trip.
“This winter when I went
to get out my winter coat, I
opened the closet and the
smell nearly knocked me
over,” she said. “I took my
coat out of there and washed
it but, I won’t put it back in
there. When I cleaned and
painted, I hadn’t thought of
that closet. The smoke odor
had permeated everything. I
will be tackling that closet
this spring.
“Now I really don’t want
anyone smoking in my
house.”
Hummel is very glad she
quit smoking and is happy to
be able to get the reduced
premium that is taken out of
her paycheck.
“I gained 30 pounds. Food
tastes and smells so good,”
she said. “I knew I couldn’t
try to lose weight while I was
quitting. That wi
for this year,”
wonder if my c
gone up with
weight?”
Other positi
has noticed – s
energy and for
in years she d
bout of bronchit
Kick
Employee incentivized
to kick habit
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By Erin Palko
Public Relations Manager
UPMC Horizon
Health care continues to
evolve and change rapidly. In
today’s challenging environ-
ment, UPMC Horizon is
poised to face those changes
while still meeting its core
values of providing quality
medical care and an excel-
lent experience for its pa-
tients.
A year ago, UPMC Hori-
zon began using electronic
medical records. Today, we
are among the top hospitals
in the use of information
technology in the clinical en-
vironment. With the goal of
improving patient safety and
quality, the initiative was ex-
panded to our primary care
physician offices last sum-
mer and fall, with several
specialist offices scheduled
to come online later this
year.
We are only at the fore-
front of how information
technology will transform the
care being
delivered in
the future.
After a
s u c c e s s f u l
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Farrell last year, the program
was expanded to Greenville
this past fall and has been
extremely well received by
the physicians using the
service. This new program
follows a trend in health care
where primary care physi-
cians are opting to focus ex-
clusively on an outpatient
only practice rather than the
traditional practice of follow-
ing their patients through
hospitalized stays.
A hospitalist program ben-
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fronts – hospitalized patients
are able to receive more per-
sonalized attention from the
attending physician who is
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fice setting are able to re-
ceive more one-on-one time
with their physicians. In ad-
dition, a team approach en-
sures that our hospitalist
physicians communicate
with the patient’s primary
care physicians to offer
seamless care.
Part of UPMC Horizon’s
uniqueness as a community
hospital is its ability to lever-
age the strengths of a world-
renowned academic medical
system. As we deal with the
changes in health care, we
are diligently at work focus-
ing on improving the quality
and safety of the care we
provide. This past year we
were recognized for those ef-
forts in numerous ways,
ranging from recognition by
the Joint Commission as a
Top Performer on key quali-
ty measures to maximum
performance under High-
mark’s Quality Blue Pro-
gram.
UPMC Horizon is proud
of the care we provide to our
community. As we look to
the future, we will remain fo-
cused on our mission of de-
livering high-quality, patient-
centered care to the
communities we serve.
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