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  • Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • The hospital admitted its first patient on October 1, 1874 – a 28-year-old pregnant woman who had accidently fallen into a kettle of boiling water. Hospital records show she remained a patient for three months after suffering burns to her arms and abdomen. As we have since that first day, the team at Salem Hospital healed, comforted, and sent a patient home to loved ones. That is an incredible legacy,” said president and chief operating officer Roxanne Ruppel. “This story reminds us of our shared purpose and how important we are to the patients and families in this community. Now, it conducts surgeries on patients using robots and sends them home the same day.
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  • Care Decisions | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Our Ethics Advisory Committee is always available for consultation with individuals and families facing patient care decisions. For patients under age 18, a parent or guardian usually makes these decisions. A living will provides doctors, family members, and others close to a patient with written instructions describing the patient's views and choices about possible future medical treatment, including palliative care and organ donation.
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  • Filtered Press Item List | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Supported by a $1 million challenge grant from the Davenport Fund, the program will be the only one of its kind on the North Shore. “Adding robotic surgery to NSMC is an exciting advance for our facility and our patients,” says Marc S. Rubin, M.D., Chair of Surgery at NSMC. Standing Strong: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Helps Diabetic Wound Patient Get Back on His Feet In her 30 years as an oncologist, Karen Krag, M.D., has always empathized with her patients—to help them cope with their diagnoses, make decisions about their treatment and manage the effects of cancer on their physical and emotional health.
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  • Support Groups Surgical Weight Management | Salem Hospital
  • We strongly recommend new patients to attend at least one support group prior to surgery. Program participants will receive a Patient Gateway message with information on how to join an upcoming support group as the date approaches. Los participantes del programa recibirán un mensaje de Patient Gateway con información sobre cómo unirse a un próximo grupo de apoyo a medida que se acerque la fecha.
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  • Specialist Internal Medicine - Salem Hospital
  • An internal medicine specialist provides primary care for adult patients, diagnosing and treating a range of conditions, and offering physical examinations, routine health screenings and other preventative health care measures. A Salem Hospital specialist in internal medicine refers patients as needed to other specialists in other areas of medicine, for example, to a gastroenterologist if a gastroenterology procedure is needed, to a cardiologist for a cardiac exam, to an endocrinologist if they need a diabetes treatment plan, and so on. If a patient requires special diagnostics and treatment, a specialist in internal medicine or family medicine will refer them to Salem Hospital specialists in all areas of medicine, including: Through our membership in Mass General Brigham, our patients have access to some of the world's most talented specialists at other hospitals in the network. Family medicine specialists also provide check ups for younger patients, offer age-appropriate screenings and vaccinations, and treat a range of conditions in children.
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  • Hospital Medicine | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Our Hospital Medicine Service is comprised of more than 30 board certified Internal Medicine physicians who specialize in providing comprehensive care to hospitalized patients. Hospitalists focus their practice on a specific group of patients and have expertise in managing very ill patients in the hospital setting. They provide high quality, evidence-based and efficient patient and family centered care.
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  • Collaborative Governance Councils | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Our collaborative governance councils enable our nurses to contribute collectively to quality patient care, nursing practice, and the nursing work environment. Organizations that establish collaborative governance councils are often associated with improved patient outcomes. The Nursing Peer Review Council provides a forum for our nurses to examine their practice within a patient- and family-centered model of care. The Nursing Quality Council develops the annual Patient Care Services Quality and Safety Goals. It endorses and monitors unit-based quality improvement plans, and monitors and analyzes data relative to Patient Care Services quality and safety.
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  • Post-Doctoral Fellowships | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Patients are referred by a number of collaborators including families and caregivers, schools, pediatricians, neurologists, therapists, psychiatrists, and state agencies. Emphasis is placed on patient/family-centered care and offering individualized, meaningful results that are readily understood by all stakeholders. The training program follows a scientist-practitioner model with 60% of time engaged in clinical work, including face-to-face patient care and report writing, and 40% of time spent in weekly supervision, seminars, staff meetings, and other educational endeavors attending grand rounds, reviewing relevant research, improving writing skills, etc..
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  • Ethics Advisory Committee | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • The Ethics Advisory Committee is available to help patients and families weigh all the options needed to make a decision, and they can offer feedback and suggestions based upon ethical principles. Patients, families or care team members may request a consultation with the Ethics Advisory Committee regarding the care and treatment of a patient at our hospital.
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  • Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • After completing an in-depth interview about her medical and family history, her likes and dislikes including favorite colors and music, she met with certified hypnotist Karen Pischke, R.N., B.S.N. 978.741.4151. “The more we can learn about what appeals to a patient, the more we can individualize the hypnosis,” explained Pischke. The preliminary results of the study, led by Faysal Hasan, M.D., medical director of NSMC’s smoking cessation program, showed that patients who participated in one hypnotherapy session were more likely to be non-smokers at six months compared with patients using nicotine replacement therapy alone or patients who quit “cold turkey.” “This study suggests that hypnotherapy can be very us... Karen Pischke, R.N., B.S.N., who hypnotized patients for the study, hopes the results will satisfy skeptics.
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  • Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • But the Burgers have not forgotten the care team that NSMC assembled to save their daughter’s life and have taken action to support a unique stress reduction program for pre-teen patients as a way of saying thanks. Dr. Bailey transferred his new patient to the pediatric emergency department at MassGeneral for Children at North Shore Medical Center and quickly pulled together a care team that included Jefferson Prince, M.D., Director of Child Psychiatry. For any eating disorder,” says Dr. Bailey, “the first step is determining the root cause and then using behavioral programs to get the patient to eat. It’s terribly difficult for the patient and his or her family—but it works.”
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  • Publications | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • You’ll read about our new, expanded Emergency Department, additional private patient rooms and the impressive Epstein Center for Behavioral Health, which represents our deep commitment to addressing mental health conditions that impact so many families we know. 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. Also included are articles on the MDVIP program, a new approach to primary care medicine offered by North Shore Physicians Group, and shared medical appointments for diabetes patients.
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  • Professional Development | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • To view complete details on the classes offered, Salem Hospital nurses are encouraged to go to the Nursing/Patient Care page on the Intranet and click Professional Development. HealthStream is used for mandatory education, roll-out of hospital initiatives and other courses that teach safe and effective care of patients and their families. Nursing Grand Rounds strengthen relationships in the nursing division through networking and also help nurses appreciate each other and their varied roles throughout patient care at Salem Hospital.
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  • Arrhythmia Treatment and Electrophysiology - Salem Hospital
  • This procedure offers a minimally invasive solution for patients with abnormal or slow heart rhythms. Nathan Van Houzen, MD, cardiac electrophysist, and the cardiac catheterization lab team, successfully performed the procedure on a 57-year-old patient. The leadless system allows patients to enjoy all the benefits of a pacemaker without the restrictions of a traditional device". says Dr. Van Houzen. Patients and their significant others are invited to attend.
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  • Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • A multidisciplinary team at North Shore Medical Center is collaborating to ensure that we are ready to respond if there is a need to test or provide care for patients with possible COVID-19 infection. Most cases of COVID-19 are mild, but some patients, in particular older people and those with underlying chronic medical conditions that may compromise immunity may be at higher risk for more severe outcomes. We have updated our screening protocols so that we may rapidly detect patients with possible COVID-19 infections. We are educating our providers about what to do if they are concerned a patient may have COVID-19. Our multidisciplinary team is meeting daily with experts from NSMC, Partners HealthCare, and local and state experts to ensure that patients receive appropriate care and shall remain safe.
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  • Robotic Surgery | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Top-ranked surgeons from both Salem Hospital, a member of Mass General Brigham, and Massachusetts General Hospital. are repeatedly recognized for exemplary outcomes in surgical patient care. Salem Hospital and Mass General work closely together, sharing common quality and safety standards, best practices, a common medical record and a team approach to caring for patients. By bringing together these talents experts in a convenient location, we offer patients on the North Shore the best choice for care.
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  • Press Item | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • The surgery lasted about two hours and was followed by a couple days of recovery in a recently renovated private patient room. The goals of physical therapy are to prevent healing muscles from getting too tight, improve a patient’s understanding of how to exercise, and strengthen muscles around the hip joint through controlled exercises. In the majority of patients, the implant can last at least 15 years,” explains Dr. Murzic. “Long-term results have been improving impressively with new devices and techniques.”
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  • Cardiovascular Conditions | Salem Hospital | Mass General Brigham
  • Our registered dietitians provide nutrition education to help patients prevent and control cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, high cholesterol and elevated triglycerides. Patient education includes a one-on-one consultation to establish an individualized plan for the reduction of cardiovascular risk factors and improvement of diet and lifestyle choices. Continuous communication with members of the patient’s care team.
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