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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- She says right away, the NSMC Cancer Center felt competent and caring. “The people at the Cancer Center are some of the nicest I have ever met,” she said. “In addition to providing the highest level of care, they are kind, loving, and they’re interested in you—not just as a patient but as a person.”
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Although very rare, sometimes a patient can suffer from viral cardiomyopathy,” said Dr. Katcher. “Sometimes a simple virus, like one that can cause a cold or attack a person’s lungs, can attack a person’s heart and make the heart beat irregularly.” Viral cardiomyopathy affects people of any age and can come with no warning.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Donahue became an active advocate for her care, bringing a notebook of questions to every appointment with oncologist Amy Comander, M.D. “Dr. Comander never made me feel like she had to get to the next patient.
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- Filtered Press Item List | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Also included is a feature on a Lynn patient treated at the NSMC Heart Center, an update on the recently renovated Special Care Nursery and a story on a teen who learned valuable life skills working with NSMC pediatricians and adolescent psychiatrists.
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- Filtered Press Item List | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Also included is a feature on a Lynn patient treated at the NSMC Heart Center, an update on the recently renovated Special Care Nursery and a story on a teen who learned valuable life skills working with NSMC pediatricians and adolescent psychiatrists.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- In addition, a “Keep Cases Down” public information campaign has launched and includes multilingual digital, billboard and social media advertising as well as personalized patient messages through the Mass General Brigham Patient Gateway system.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- From Caregiver to Patient, One Medical Worker's Fight Against the Coronavirus
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- Recovery Post-Labor | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- The visitor should wash or sanitize his or her hands before entering the patient room and is welcome to stay overnight. Special Care Nursery patients can be visited by his or her mother and one support person.
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- Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy - Salem Hospital
- For the patient, this advance means that the surgery can be performed with smaller incisions, less anesthesia, less scarring, and shorter and easier recovery periods.
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- Our Doctors | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- This selective designation is awarded by the Surgical Review Corporation and AAGL, and is given to those hospitals and surgeons that meet specific quality and practice criteria following a comprehensive evaluation of hospital facilities, policies, procedures, and patient outcomes.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- The procedure is safe, causes minimal pain to the patient and is highly effective.” An anesthetic can also be injected into the trigger point to help ease pain. Dr. Mahooti also recommends physical therapy and deep tissue massage for some patients suffering with trigger points, but finds that many prefer the injections because they are often less painful, performed in an office setting and are typically covered by health insurance.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- The effectiveness of pain injections varies for every patient.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- The Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center combines the expertise of Massachusetts General Hospital and North Shore Medical Center to provide the highest caliber of care in a supportive, convenient and patient-focused manner. I want to help raise money for other patients who might be battling cancer so they can receive the same excellent care that I did at North Shore Medical Center and the Mass General/North Shore Cancer Center,” says Donahue.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- It is often caused when a patient has an extra electrical connection between the upper and lower chambers of the heart,” explains Dr. Van Houzen. “When the extra connection is triggered, the heart races. Cardiac ablation is a procedure used to treat a number of different heart arrhythmias that is highly successful in correcting SVT,” says Dr. Van Houzen. “During the procedure, we use catheters—long, flexible tubes inserted through a vein in the patient’s groin and threaded up to the heart—to selectively destroy the extra connection that is triggering the abnormal heart rhythm.”
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- She liked that it offered private patient rooms--something many of Erin’s friends had missed out on when they gave birth at hospitals in Boston. At the Birthplace, however, staff patiently supported her throughout the process and her second daughter was born without complications.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- The aim is to generate a comprehensive representation of overall quality that can be interpreted by patients and consumers, but also to identify performance categories within the large number of hospitals in the US. Each hospital's score is based on an online survey of more than 85,000 medical experts and public data from post-hospitalization patient surveys on their general satisfaction,” said Nancy Cooper, global editor in chief of Newsweek on the publication’s website. “There aren't many decisions more important than choosing the right hospital to provide care for yourself or a loved one.”
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- Questions | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- The hospitalists act as the attending physicians during the time that residents move through the in-patient portion of their training.
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- Conferences | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Chaos can be created on demand and scenarios can mimic physiologic changes just as they would occur in real patients during a critical care response or code blue. Our internal medicine residents learn to acquire and interpret focused cardiac, pulmonary, abdominal and procedural ultrasound images and integrate this information into their patient management decisions.
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- Internal Medicine Residency | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Residents in our program learn the entire spectrum of Internal Medicine, from taking care of patients in the continuity clinic on a longitudinal basis, to acute medicine on the inpatient floors, to providing clinical care in our new state of art Intensive Care Unit ICU. Our program goals including providing a nurturing environment that fosters the development of highly competent, clinically astute, evidence-based and humane physicians, with an emphasis on comprehensive, patient-centered care that requires a lifetime commitment to learning.
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- Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
- Especially for a patient like Steve, who is active and has a high level of physical ability, these features can make a significant difference,” says Dr. O’Brien. “Whether treating an injury due to an accident or a degenerative condition that requires joint reconstruction or replacement, our team offers highly specialized treatments and advanced technology right here in the community.”
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