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January/February 2006 Newsletter
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 Baptist Begins New Hospitalist Program Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi is pleased to provide a hospitalist program to our patients to help enhance the quality of their care while in the hospital. The program is staffed by three local physicians: hospitalist program medical director Kelton Pace, M.D.; Lynn Greene, M.D.; and Jimmy Thompson, M.D. These physicians will treat patients throughout their stay at the hospital and work with their primary physicians to coordinate care upon discharge. Baptist’s hospitalist program offers greater convenience, enhanced interaction with physicians and more timely care, with quicker decisions involving treatment as situations arise or as a patient’s condition changes, leading to shorter hospital stays. Baptist North Mississippi to Participate in National Quality Campaigns Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi is among the more than 3,000 hospitals participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 Lives Campaign. The campaign explores new proven methods of care for hospitalized patients. Through the 100,000 Lives campaign, best practices are turned into standardized methods of care for patients. Implementing these methods can help increase survival rates for the most critically ill patients. There are six initiatives of the 100,000 Lives campaign:
We have seen dramatic improvements with our patients since Baptist North Mississippi began using the ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle. Baptist North Mississippi also participates in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Core Measures project, which includes sets of indicators to assure delivery of evidence-based care for specific diagnoses. The Core Measures project includes the following initiatives: acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), community-acquired pneumonia, congestive heart failure and the surgical site infection prevention project. You may visit www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov to find out how our hospital is doing and how we compare with other hospitals. Baptist North Mississippi Welcomes New Heart Surgeon Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi welcomes cardiovascular surgeon Larry Deese, M.D., F.A.C.S., to its staff of highly qualified physicians. A graduate of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., Deese earned his medical degree from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, and completed his internship in general surgery at Shands at the University of Florida — the primary teaching hospital for the University of Florida in Gainesville. He completed a residency in general surgery at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Fla., and a specialty residency in thoracic surgery at the University of Missouri Hospitals and Clinics in Columbia, Mo. Deese comes to Baptist after 10 years of private practice in Gulfport, Miss. Please join us in welcoming him to Baptist North Mississippi’s staff. Baptist North Mississippi Named Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi and bariatric surgeon Dr. Michael King, of the Center for Bariatric Surgery, have been named an American Society of Bariatric Surgery Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. The ASBS Center of Excellence designation recognizes surgical programs with a demonstrated track record of favorable outcomes in bariatric surgery. To earn a Center of Excellence designation, Baptist North Mississippi underwent a series of site inspections during which all aspects of the program’s surgical processes were closely examined and data on health outcomes were collected. Baptist and other centers receiving the Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designation agree to continue to share clinical pathways, protocols and outcomes data. King and his colleague, Dr. Walker Byars, perform the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and LAP-BAND® gastric banding procedures at Baptist North Mississippi. For additional information or to attend a free seminar on surgical weight loss, please call the Baptist Center for Weight Loss at (800) 976-5589.  Top of Page |
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