Notable Heroes in Health Care: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) team
Children’s Wisconsin
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From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a main understanding was that it usually doesn’t affect children as seriously as adults. While that remains true, in early May reports of a “mysterious illness” in some kids who have been exposed to COVID-19 started to emerge.
Known as “Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children” (MIS-C), kids can present with many different symptoms, including a persistent high fever, swelling of the hands and feet, rash and red eyes and tongue. Some have also been found to have inflammation of many organs including the heart.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Pastoral Care team
Clement Manor
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For the 250 older adults who call Clement Manor home, their much-needed sense of community is significantly challenged by social distancing measures that put their mental and spiritual well-being at risk during an already trying time.
Clement Manor’s Pastoral Care team recognized the toll social distancing was taking on residents soon after the pandemic’s onset. Led by director of pastoral care and mission Alice Hatzenbeller, Chaplains Frather Bill Stanfield, Sister Nancy Sell, Karyl Daluga and Sharon Hanson developed fresh approaches to the in-person ministry inherent in the organization’s mission.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Ascension Wisconsin clinicians
400 W. River Woods Parkway, Glendale
Dec 16, 2020 4:09 pm
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At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems scrambled to optimize virtual care to continue caring for patients during a unique time of social distancing.
To proactively reach patients most at risk, Ascension Wisconsin clinicians coordinated with IT to sort medical records and identify people who were at higher risk for hospitalization if they contracted COVID-19.
Using the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and certain diagnosis codes the technology team scored patients and the clinical team contacted patients based on their risk score.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Critical Staffing Travel Program
Ascension Wisconsin
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To support the provision of safe, comprehensive care, hundreds of Ascension front-line nurses and respiratory therapists have traveled to other Ascension hospitals or taken on new roles to help during this crisis.
The teams are part of the Ascension Critical Staffing Travel Program, designed to mobilize associates not currently experiencing surges to areas of the country most in need as a r
To support the provision of safe, comprehensive care, hundreds of Ascension front-line nurses and respiratory therapists have traveled to other Ascension hospitals or taken on new roles to help during this crisis.
Notable Heroes in Health Care: Annamarie Strehlow
Physical Therapist II / Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
Dec 15, 2020 5:10 pm
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When Robert Goll was Annamarie Strehlow’s physical therapy patient, he was in bad shape following an extended hospitalization.
“I felt I could not add exercise to my routine because I was already wiped out. And at that time, I didn’t think physical therapy worked, based on some past history,” he said
Neither of these things deterred Strehlow. She met him exactly where he was, and patiently showed him that he was capable of doing much more than he thought.