A wonderful thing has happened at Suburban Community Hospital in Norristown. Doctors in the emergency department can now go several days without seeing a patient who tests positive for COVID-19.“It’s refreshing,” said Richard Lucas, chair of the hospital’s department of emergency medicine. “… It feels like the first spring day after a long winter.” He can remember when Suburban Community was .
A junior at Sacred Heart Academy, Emily Schlegel is a National Honor Society member, and is a leader in the schoolâs SpeakUp! Program. She belongs to the schoolsâ Girls in Medicine club; is a member of the planning committee for No Place for Hate, a program which advocates for a safe environment for kids, and works to fight against bullying, discrimination, and harm to others; and plays field hockey for Sacred Heart. Schlegel dedicates much service time to children with special needs, and finds opportunities for ways to give back to the community, such as Project Ensonga. This summer, she will be volunteering at a summer program for children with speech and language impairments at the Phoebe Anna Thorne School in Bryn Mawr.
Main Line Health Selects Owl Insights to Improve the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services
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The Owl platform will enable Main Line Health to enhance and differentiate their behavioral health service through improved clinical workflows, the delivery of evidence based care, better patient experience and clinical outcomes PORTLAND, Ore. (PRWEB) May 06, 2021
Owl Insights Inc., a leading provider of tech-enabled precision-guided behavioral health (BH), today announced that Main Line Health, a not-for-profit health system serving the greater Philadelphia region, has selected the Owl Platform to implement a measurement-based strategy.
The Owl s cloud-based platform will seamlessly integrate with Main Line Health’s electronic health record (EHR) system to screen, stratify and monitor patient progress with data from evidence-based, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and social determinants of health
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See the latest safety grades for area hospitals here. (Shutterstock)
WYNNEWOOD, PA Lankenau Medical Center is toward the bottom of the pack in the latest hospital safety grades put out by the research group Leapfrog.
The hospital was among 30 across Pennsylvania to receive the C grade for safety, the study shows. Specifically, the study ranked hospitals based on their ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
More than 2,700 general, acute-care U.S. hospitals were assessed nationwide for Leapfrog s Spring Safety Grades.
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To determine each grade, Leapfrog used up to 28 national performance measures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and information from other supplemental data sources. When averaged, performance measures produce a single letter grade representing a hospital s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preve
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Family: Sherri Crane and her husband Andrew who live in Charlottesville, Virginia; and Janet Audrain McGovern, Ph.D., and her husband Paul McGovern, M.D., who live in Berwyn along with my two grandsons, Connor and Sean, ages 17 and 15 years old, respectively.
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Education: University of South Florida, Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2000; St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, Fla., Associate in Science in Nursing 1997.
Occupation: RN, BSN, Retired. 14 years experience in nursing.
Five years at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, where I provided nursing care for critically ill patients and chaired the Unit Council, a quality improvement committee responsible for identifying any quality of care issues and developing action plans and policies to resolve issues.