NIH Clinical Center: Winter 2019

NIH Clinical Center: Winter 2019

Winter 2019 Read the complete edition online View past issues PRINT FEATURES: Virtual reality piloted in an NIEHS study for patients’ extended stay Healthcare advocate, parent of teen with chronic illness, speaks at NIH Staff honored for improving patient care and the workplace environment Hospital electronic medical record validated in 2018 as HIMSS Analytics: Stage 7 certification Redesign brings fresh look, added light to NIH’s Safra Family Lodge ONLINE FEATURES: 15th Annual NIH Gingerbread House Decorating Contest drew 77 entries Retired Navy Capt. and Clinical Center COO speaks at NIH Veterans day celebration Join a study at NIH ABOUT CC NEWS: Published by the Office of Communications and Media Relations. News, article ideas, calendar events and photos are welcome. Submissions may be edited. Clinical Center News National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Building 10, Room 6-2551  Bethesda, MD 20892 Tel: 301-594-5789 Fax: 301-402-0244 NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey launches The NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey launched Jan. 28 and is open to NIH employees, contractors, fellows, and special volunteers to take through March 25. Center for Cellular Engineering expands to Southeast Patio In January, the NIH celebrated the groundbreaking of a new cellular processing facility on the Southeast patio of Building 10 and establishment of the Clinical Center’s Center for Cellular Engineering. The facility marks the most recent expansion for the Department of Transfusion Medicine’s growing capacity to support intramural cellular therapy protocols. Spices & social skills mix in cooking group for NIMH study participants People with schizophrenia and related psychoses may struggle with social skills and pre-vocational skills like following directions and working with others. But there is one thing that can bring people together around the table – food. A weekly cooking group is held for these select patients admitted to the hospital for studies related to their psychoses. Clinical Center switches to electronic performance management tool In 2019, supervisors will be putting away their pens and paper and firing up their computers to establish their staff's annual performance evaluations.