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FEATURED ARTICLES
- Physicians' Perceptions of Hope
- Neonatal Clinical Transformation: Using the Eat, Sleep, Console Method to Treat Opiate-Exposed Infants
- Congratulations to the TUSM-MMC Maine Track Class of 2018 and MMC Residency Programs
- Watch Antibiotic Resistance Before Your Eyes
Scroll down to read these and other new articles for this month.
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Letter from Joel and Lisa
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Happy springtime! Days of warmer weather, more light, new beginnings and an April issue full of news about medical staff members’ activities in clinical, teaching and research arenas. We hope you are inspired by all the news, especially Dr. Picarillo’s story of transformation in the Eat, Sleep and Console method of caring for opiate exposed infants...
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"
Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words
and never stops -- at all"
- Emily Dickinson
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Physicians' Perceptions of Hope
By Lisa Almeder, M.D., Medical Staff President
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What Is Hope? Our colleagues in the Department of Spiritual Care/Services conducted a study of HOPE, published in
American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine in 2018.
Researchers interviewed 10 physicians at MMC. They reviewed, coded and qualitatively thematically analyzed the responses to questions about hope to understand the role hope plays for patients and health professionals.
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Neonatal Clinical Transformation: Using the Eat, Sleep, Console Method to Treat Opiate-Exposed Infants
By
Alan Picarillo, M.D., Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
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This past year, opioid exposed infants were selected as the patient population for the year-long pediatric clinical transformation project. For this project, a multidisciplinary team at Maine Medical Center will be instituting a new care model (based on the experience of Yale New Haven and Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospitals) to educate parents and hospital staff on caring for these infants to decrease the need for pharmacological treatment. This new program, utilizing the Eat, Sleep, Console model shifts the focus to treating opiate exposed infants with non-pharmacological measures such as skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding when appropriate and low-light environments, rather than treating with medications.
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Congratulations to the TUSM-MMC Maine Track Class of 2018 and MMC Residency Programs
By Patti White, Administrative Specialist III, Department of Medical Education
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Match Day 2018 included the sixth class of students in the Maine Track program. Counting this year’s class, more than 204
students have graduated from the program since 2013.
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Watch Antibiotic Resistance Happen Before Your Eyes
By Eliza Dollard, PharmD, Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, MaineHealth Pharmacy Enterprise/Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital; Kristina Connolly, PharmD, BCPS, Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Maine Medical Center; Minkey Wungwattana, PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID, Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Maine Medical Center; Patricia Stogsdill, M.D., Infectious Diseases, InterMed
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MMC’s twenty-year-old Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) is a multidisciplinary team that supports the medical staff to optimize use of anti-infective agents, minimize the development of antimicrobial resistance and improve patient outcomes. The ASP has provided a powerful video to convey how microbes become resistant. Click the image at right to view.
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Patient Not Covered? What You Can Do to Help Using HINN
By Christopher Wellins, M.D., M.S., FACP, Senior Medical Director of Utilization Management
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We are all familiar with “social admits.” In general, these are patients who are seen in the emergency department and not felt to have the medical need to come into the hospital but do not have what is considered to be safe discharge options. A typical example is a frail elder brought in by family because their dementia is progressing to the point that the family can no longer cope with caring for them. There are specific regulatory and discharge planning steps that need to be executed to maximize opportunities for these patients and their families.
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Interdisciplinary Care Rounds 2.0
By Christopher Wellins, M.D., M.S., FACP, Senior Medical Director of Utilization Management; Mary McNulty, M.S.N., R.N., CCM, Senior Director of Care Management and ICCS; Katie Mauro, Administrative Fellow
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We all understand the importance of improving patient flow, decreasing delays, improving patient satisfaction and making more beds available for the patients that need them. We feel that one of the primary drivers of success to achieve those goals is the information that is exchanged at Interdisciplinary Care Rounds (IDCR) and for that reason we have worked hard at instituting changes in the IDCR.
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Great News for Clinical Documentation at MMC
By Samir Haydar, D.O., M.P.H.
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Maybe the first good news from the documentation world …
ever
!
Two process improvements have been put in place to make clinical documentation easier for clinical providers:
- Your CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) R.N. can now update the problem list with queried diagnoses that the clinician agrees is present.
- Dieticians consulted to make a malnutrition diagnosis can now add that diagnosis to the problem list.
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SeHR Shorts
By Donna Morong
, R.N., Manager of Clinical Informatics – Medical Affairs
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MMC Inpatient Provider Support
Don’t forget the new MMC provider support line,
662-0999
, is available. The MMC Medical Affairs Clinical Informatics team will staff the telephone line Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., excluding hospital holidays.
Discharge Summaries
On April 3, discharge summaries will be updated to include a SmartLink to pull in the most recent diet order and a new section for wound care instructions.
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AMION Pharmacy Numbers
By
Donald M. Watson, B.S. Pharm, J.D., PharmD, BCPS, Pharmacy Manager, Clinical Services
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The pharmacy has received numerous requests to have the Service-Based Pharmacists telephone numbers readily available to providers at MMC. They are now available in AMION.
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Programs for Compassion and Communication
By Helena Ackerson, MPPM, CPXP, Director of Patient Experience, and Mark Parker, M.D., V.P., Quality and Safety
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MMC’s Compassionate Interactions Workshop recently kicked off with a large contingent of nursing staff on P3CD and R4 enthusiastically participating in the workshop. Workshops will run now through June 20. All Medical Staff members are welcome to participate.
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MMC Receives Final Approval to Begin Construction on First Phase of its Hospital Expansion
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The City of Portland Planning Board voted last week to approve Maine Medical Center’s first site plan application as part of its $512 million expansion.
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MMC Receives Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification
By
Jane Morris, M.D., Medical Director, MMC Stroke Program and Medical Director of the MaineHealth Telestroke Network
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Becoming a Comprehensive Stroke Center has been a goal of Maine Medical Center for well over five years. This endeavor has required an intense commitment to elevate our standards of care for patients suffering from cerebrovascular disease that extends across multiple disciplines.
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MMP Specialty Practices Achieve Level 3 NCQA Recognition
By
Joel Botler, M.D., MMC Chief Medical Officer and MMP Interim President
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Twenty Maine Medical Partners specialty practice sites have been awarded Level 3 Patient-Centered Specialty Practice Recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
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Echocardiography Accreditation
By Tim Kafer, V.P., Cardiovascular Services
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We are pleased to announce that on February 2 the combined MaineHealth Echocardiography Laboratory received full accreditation in transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echocardiography.
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AIM APPs Care for General Medical Patients and Staff Homeless Clinic
By Mark Goode P.A.-C, Lead Physician Assistant, Adult Inpatient Medicine Service
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The Adult Inpatient Medicine (AIM) APP service is made up of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioner providers who care for adult general medical patients and coordinate care with all of Maine Health specialties, both at Maine Medical Center and Stephen's Memorial Hospital.
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Publications, Achievements and Recognition
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Events and Important Dates
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MaineTrack 2018 Celebration
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Academic Onboarding Event
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Brown Bag Series for Med Staff, Residents and Fellows
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Monthly Lunchtime Mindfulness and Meditation
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We Want Your Article Submissions
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Your participation is essential to making The Scope a dynamic and sustainable publication. Please submit articles of 250-300 words to
thescope@mmc.org
. Include practitioner’s byline with title, credentials and appropriate contact for further information.
We publish on the first Wednesday of each month, all submissions are due one week prior to publication.
Learn more.
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Medical Staff Value, Mission and Vision Statements
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Value Statement
The Medical Staff of Maine Medical Center values both individuality and collaboration. We will continually pursue higher value health care. We embrace a culture of curiosity and life-long learning. We are partners with Maine Medical Center, and we mirror its values of compassion, service, integrity, respect, and stewardship.
Mission Statement
The Mission of the Medical Staff of Maine Medical Center is to provide affordable, high-quality health care to our community. We teach future health care providers and develop innovative ways to improve the health of our community. In partnership with the Medical Center, we proudly accept our responsibility as one of Maine’s leaders in patient care, education, and research.
Vision Statement
The Medical Staff of Maine Medical Center will be the driving force within Maine Medical Center leading the way to making Maine the healthiest state in the nation.
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