Providence News - InBrief

VHA recognized Providence Health & Services for supply chain innovation and creativity on May 17, 2009.

Providence Health & Services received a Leadership Award for Supply Chain Management Excellence from VHA Inc., on May 17, 2009. The VHA 2009 Leadership Award for Supply chain Management Excellence is given to member organizations that demonstrate high levels of performance and Providence is one of only eight VHA member hospitals nationwide to receive the award..
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The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions's "Tom Harkin Global Communications Center" is playing a central role in delivering information about the recent swine flu outbreak. The CDC is providing daily upates about the outbreak.

An unusual influenza strain has recently been discovered to cause illness among many people living in Mexico and in the United States. In addition, cases have been identified in Canada, Spain, Israel, and New Zealand.
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Hennessey, a surgeon at Centralia's Providence Hospital, was recently recognized as one of America's top surgeons by the National Consumer Research Council.

Dr. Stephen Hennessey was given the National Consumer Research Council's award as one of America's Top Surgeons. The council is an independent research firm in Washington, D.C. Hennessey was one of very few Washingtonians chosen.
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Levant Logo, Sela Kakiva and Siaki Tito serenade Betty Chamberlain with song at Providence Alaska Medical Center.

Working out in the cold for eight hours a day, five days a week, parking cars for people coming to a place most would rather not be - how does that make a young man feel?

It makes the valets at Providence Alaska Medical Center feel like singing, anyway.
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Reinaldo Acosta, MD, says he hopes that additional ultrasound screenings provided in a national study ultimately will help improve outcomes for women with a condition that puts them at risk for preterm labor.

Providence Medical Research Center in Spokane has added a perinatal research section to its lineup of medical research areas, and is enrolling or preparing for several studies in that new program. Perinatology, also called maternal-fetal medicine, is a subspecialty of obstetrics and focuses on care of the fetus and complicated pregnancies.
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