Around UMHS

• Did you know that since 2006, all visitors to Mott Hospital, the Women’s Birth Center and our Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit have been required to wear a visitor’s badge to maintain a safe and secure environment? There are two badging stations on Mott Level 2 where staff provide visitors with ID, conduct health screenings, validate visitor parking, direct patients and visitors, and answer questions. The stations also have basic first aid and AED (automatic external defibrillator) devices on hand for emergencies. About 4,750 people go through the badging stations weekly. Questions? Stop by a station or visit their Web site.
  
  
• Volunteer Services is bringing back a way finder program designed to provide escorts to patients, family members and guests to their destination upon arrival at Medical Center facilities. Though training is ongoing as new volunteers sign up, way finders are now stationed throughout Medical Center building entrances and hot spots, ready to help those in need. Training takes two to three weeks. If you want to volunteer or suggest a location where way finder volunteers should be stationed, call 734-936-4327 or e-mail.
  
  
• Parking & Transportation Services has launched GreenRide—a Web-based, ride-matching system that makes carpooling easy. Go online, create an account and the system matches you with other interested employees who share your schedule and commute route. Carpooling saves money, reduces parking and traffic congestion on campus, and improves the quality of the air. Need more incentive? Between July and December 2008, all new carpoolers who sign up through GreenRide will receive a 10 percent discount on their shared parking permit expense and be eligible to win a $25 gas card.

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