ERP News and Events

Awards

• UPMC Quality & Safety Fair: 1st Place in Innovation “ERAS” – Nursing Unit 10 North
• UPMC Presbyterian Service Excellence Award
• UPMC Shadyside Service Excellence Award
• UPMC Passavant, MAGNET Status 

Events

• Redesigning the Perioperative Process: Prehabilitation, ERAS, and Pain Management   
• UPMC Communications Conference: Back to Basics 

Presentations

• ASCRS – Abstract Presented at ASCRS on 6/12/17 
• AORN Presentation 

Press

• "Hospitals exploring opioid alternatives amid addiction crisis," YakimaHerald.com, May 3, 2017.
• "Fitness before surgery leads to easier recovery, Pittsburgh doctors say," The Morning Call, March 19, 2016
• “UPMC doctors get patients fit to speed recovery from surgery,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, March 14, 2016.
• “No drugs or devices need for surgery recovery method sparked in Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh WTAE News, December 2, 2016. 
• "Middle-aged women prescribed the most opioids, report finds," ABC News, September 26, 2017