December 8, 2005
CONTACT: Olivia Fermano
(215) 349-5653
olivia.fermano@uphs.upenn.edu
Invitation to Cover
Great Holiday Season Photo Opportunity!!
| WHAT: | The 11th Annual Holiday Tree Decorating Contest at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
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| WHO: | For over a century, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s
Abrahamsohn Committee of the Board of Women Visitors,
a volunteer organization dedicated to enhancing the hospital environment,
has been spreading cheer among patients and their loved ones during
the holiday season by providing patient-care areas with holiday plants
and trees.
Once again this year, the trees - all of which are provided by the Committee - will be creatively and cleverly decorated by HUP staff, patients, and their loved ones, in each clinical unit. A panel of judges representing HUP and the Abrahamsohn Committee will choose ten “tree finalists.” Five winners will be selected and the units they represent will each be awarded $150 and a commemorative plaque.
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| WHEN: | Monday, December 12, 2005
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| WHERE: | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia Ravdin Lobby (starting point for tour of units) |
Not interested? Think it'll be totally boring? Think again! According to committee co-chair, Nancy Kneeland, the participating hospital units are VERY secretive, VERY competitive, and VERY creative when it comes to this annual contest. For example, last year’s finalists included:
- The Philly Tree, decorated with soft-pretzels, Liberty Bells, and sports team logos, all to theme of ROCKY playing in the background.
- The PENN-opoly Tree, decorated in the theme of one of America’s most popular board games - Monopoly - with a distinctive PENN flair.
- The gigantic PENNguin tree…pretty much speaks for itself…
- …and on a more serious note, the in-patient Oncology Unit decorated a beautiful moving tree completely with customized ribbons representing all types of cancer.
Editor’s Note: Media planning to cover this event should please call Olivia Fermano in the Department of Communications, at (215) 349-5653. Please call (215) 662-2560 day of event.
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schools. Supporting 1,400 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School
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of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic
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the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, consistently rated one
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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; a faculty practice plan; a primary-care
provider network; two multispecialty satellite facilities; and home health
care and hospice.
This release is available online at http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/dec05/tree.htm