Birth is an intimate and life-changing experience that is different for every mother. To learn how the Birth Center at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) respects and supports that experience with a comprehensive care team, we sat down with Dr.’s Tara Gustilo and Laura Nezworski to learn more about what makes The Birth Center a great place to give birth. (more…)
Are you tired during the day? Is your energy low? Do you have trouble concentrating? Your daytime challenges could be due to nighttime troubles.
Most sleep disorders are easily diagnosed and treated. Yet today, up to 80 percent of individuals with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea don’t know it and aren’t getting help.
For them, daytime sleepiness, decreased energy and trouble concentrating could cause accidents, moodiness and poor productivity, but it’s a problem they just live with or blame on something else. (more…)
It’s hard being a woman, right? Going to your primary care provider you learn about which screenings you need and when, which vaccinations should be updated, breast health, cholesterol, etc. But unless you bring it up, you are not usually screened for the common condition of urinary incontinence. Do you have problems with urine leakage? About one in every three women over the age of 45 do. Discuss urinary incontinence with your provider. It is common and can be distressing, but it is treatable with more than just damage-control pads for protection. Don’t be embarrassed, seek help. (more…)
It doesn’t happen every day – the opportunity to build a new surgery and procedure unit from scratch. As a critical component of HCMC’s new Clinic and Specialty Center, an internal team had the opportunity to re-imagine the entire process of same-day surgical procedures.
Using the 3P design approach – evaluating the process, product and people involved in the redesign – a clinical work group developed a single-flow patient-centered design to (more…)
Urologist Kendall Feia, MD has performed hundreds of robot assisted minimally invasive surgeries, and with the latest generation da Vinci Xi HD Surgical System in place at HCMC, he, along with other surgeons, will be able to offer the advantages of this technology for HCMC patients.
The advanced, four-arm robotic system allows surgeons to (more…)
Preparing to move to the new Clinic and Specialty Center next April is much more than packing boxes and moving the equipment to a new location. In reality, it represents a tremendous opportunity to rethink clinic flow, standardize the process and determine what it will take to deliver the best experience for our patients and the most efficient model for providers.
That’s why our orthopedic team started participating as a Model Cell, and evaluating every aspect of their operation almost two years in advance of their anticipated move. They are piloting tests of change to enhance our services, and the improvements will be imbedded in every clinical area that is moving to the new building. (more…)
Take preventive measures against ticks year-round, especially in the warmer months from April to September, when ticks are most active.
May is Stroke Awareness Month so it’s a good time to learn some interesting facts about strokes and the importance of recognizing the signs of a stroke. It is often thought strokes only happen to older people and that isn’t true. A stroke can happen at any age. In fact, stroke is on the rise in adults age 25-55. For people under the age of 45 almost ¾ experiencing the signs of a stroke would wait and seek medical attention only if symptoms progressed. At HCMC about half of stroke patients are younger than age 65. (more…)
