UHCMC is the recipient of a $500,000-grant to help establish a new comprehensive maternal and fetal care center. The center will create a coordinated system to serve families facing high-risk pregnancies, complicated births, congenital issues or prematurity. Many expectant mothers in Northeast Ohio live below the poverty line and are more likely to experience such additional complicating factors as diabetes, obesity and hypertension. The aim of the center will be to coordinate care for these women across different areas of medicine.

The UH records management policy (GM-1) was recently updated to include e-mail. Beginning in July, e-mail messages will be automatically deleted from your mailbox unless the proper steps are taken to save the messages. Informational presentations will take place today and in April on the updated policy and how to appropriately retain e-mail messages. Click on the “Read More” link below to view dates, times and locations of the presentations.

A Fidelity representative will be available for individual retirement consultations at UHCMC on Tuesday, April 1; Wednesday, April 16; and Wednesday, April 23. We encourage employees to take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about investing for retirement.

Consultations may be scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. These meetings will take place in interview room D, located on the 5th Floor of the MCCO building at UHCMC.

Please call toll free (800) 642-7131 to schedule your individual consultation.

It is easy to support University Hospitals by making a planned gift of life insurance. Life insurance can enable you to make a generous financial contribution to UH without making a large payout all at once. A gift of life insurance can be made by transferring ownership of the policy to UH or by naming UH as the beneficiary of a policy. To make a gift of life insurance or other planned gift to UH, please contact a planned giving professional, Patrick J. Ertle, Esq. at (216) 844-0430 or Christina K. Beg at (216) 844-0432, in the Department of Institutional Relations & Development.

The neuroscience nursing conference will be held on April 17 from 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Wolstein building. The conference will include topics such as brain reperfusion, stroke rehabilitation and the use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Lunch will be provided and nurses will receive contact hours. Please RSVP to Jessica Cahill at (216) 844-2403 or by e-mail at Jessica.Cahill @UHhospitals.org

University Hospitals (OH-003/05-01-2008) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.