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LemonAide offers amenities to improve lives of patients - and their caregivers

Admission Service Assignments for ED Patients (pdf)

From a sterling clinical program all good things will flow ...

Tsunami Disaster:
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School, SHC join initiative to improve patient service

Friends of Nursing group offers scholarships and grants

Geriatric health program coordinates services

Medical Center studies Michigan's joint venture

Look, No Paper Charts!

January storms

Family Care
Conference

Tell us about your awards and accomplishments, or those of your colleagues. Send your contributions to Mike Goodkind, Editor (goodkind@stanford.edu) or fax /voice (650) 854-2653.

JEANNE KENNEDY, director of Community and Patient Relations at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, retired Dec. 1 after more than 25 years of service at Stanford. Kennedy is expected to continue her community affairs consulting practice.

GERALD REAVEN, professor of medicine emeritus, has been awarded the Ellen Browning Scripps Medal for 2004, recognizing a significant contribution to the care of patients and the advancement of medical science. In addition, Reaven also recently received the Astute Clinicians Award from the NIH. This honor acknowledges a clinical scientist whose research has made a major impact on medicine.

JUDY SWAIN, the Arthur L Bloomfield and the George E. Becker Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, has decided to become the first director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences at her alma mater, the University of California, San Diego. She had served as chair of medicine for the past eight years.

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