WINTER 2017

A “Birth” Dream Come True

A New Place to Turn for Behavioral Health Care

HEALTHY HABITS How to Strengthen Your Immune System MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 1 [CONTENTS] WINTER 2017 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

FEATURES As we welcome in the New Year, I can’t help but reflect on MedStar A “Birth” Dream Harbor ’s achievements 4 Come True in 2016, celebrate our present and imagine the possibilities for At the Top our future. I’m reminded that 8 of Her Game at the center of it all is—YOU— our valued patient. At MedStar A New Place to Turn for Harbor, we continuously gauge the needs of the Behavioral Health Care communities we serve. To build upon our foundation 10 for continued success, we never stop seeking out opportunities to better deliver the right care. Introducing Our New 14 Nurse Practitioners When we conducted our last community needs assessment, the overwhelming need for behavioral health services was unmistakable. Almost 40,000 adult patients with mental health or substance abuse disorders were admitted to Maryland’s in fiscal year 2016, and our service area accounted for about 8,000 of these admissions. Only about 10 percent of these patients received care in their own community; DEPARTMENTS most had to travel to receive inpatient services.

3 WHAT’S NEW I am, therefore, very proud to announce that MedStar Harbor recently began offering adult behavioral 6 CARING FOR YOU health services. We now provide a comprehensive approach to treating individuals seeking care for HEALTHY HABITS 7  behavioral health, psychiatric difficulties, emotional 13 CANCER UPDATE challenges, substance use challenges and more— right in your community. You’ll read about these meaningful new offerings in this issue of Waterfront.

On the cover: Rochelle Catterton delivered a healthy baby boy Also, within the pages of this magazine, we feature just as she hoped under the care of Yael Haken, MD. our patients who have overcome health challenges with the help of our expert, caring physicians, and we introduce you to several new providers who have joined our medical staff. After more than a century of healing, MedStar Harbor Hospital is a mainstay in the community, serving patients from City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard Counties. Our convenient I hope as you read through Waterfront, you will get waterside location combines the services of a large, regional medical a small glimpse of the important work we do and of center with a smaller, more personal environment. From general medicine and surgery, obstetrics, orthopaedics and geriatrics, to our commitment to our patients, their loved ones cardiology, gastroenterology and urology, our team of caring physicians and caregivers. and associates professionally serves the unique needs of every patient.

Waterfront is published by the Marketing and Communications department of MedStar Harbor Hospital. The information provided in this publication is intended to educate readers about subjects pertinent to their health and is not a substitute for In good health, consultation with a personal physician. For more information, call 855-546-0862. Printed in the U.S.A. Copyright 2017. Dennis W. Pullin, FACHE President, MedStar Harbor Hospital Senior Vice President, MedStar Health

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U.S.News & World Report Recognizes MedStar Harbor Hospital for HIGH PERFORMANCE

edStar Harbor Hospital was named a top hospital in Maryland and the Baltimore metropolitan area in the latest rankings by U.S.News & World Report. We were M specifically recognized for our performance in six areas. We received high performance ratings in four adult specialty areas: Gastroenterology and GI Surgery; Gynecology; Orthopedics; and Pulmonology. In addition, we were ranked as high performing for treating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Heart Failure.

The rankings are based on data from nearly 5,000 centers across the country and the scores are based on a variety of patient-outcome and care-related factors, such as patient safety and nurse staffing.

MEDSTAR HARBOR HOSPITAL Honored for Environmental Achievement

edStar Harbor Hospital was recently honored with the “Partner for Change” award by Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading organization for facilities committed M to environmentally responsible operations.

The “Partner for Change” award recognizes MedStar Harbor participates healthcare facilities that continuously in an array of engagement improve and expand upon their mercury activities and innovative elimination, waste reduction, recycling and programs essential to source reduction programs. At a minimum, establishing and maintaining facilities applying for this award must be best management practices. recycling 15 percent of their total waste, have Among the notable achievements reduced regulated medical waste, are well recognized by Practice Greenhealth were along the way to mercury elimination and the hospital’s focus on the reduction of have developed other successful pollution Styrofoam® use and the decreased use prevention programs in many different areas. of regulated medical waste bags.

To be connected to the physician offices mentioned in this issue of Waterfront, please call 855-546-0862 or visit MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront to learn more.

MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 3 A “Birth” Dream Come True

WHEN ROCHELLE CATTERTON via VBAC, as long as doing so for a vaginal birth. We use this found out she was pregnant with would not compromise her or her information to make the best and her second child, she was over the unborn child’s safety. Dr. Haken safest decisions for each patient moon with happiness. Then, fear stressed the importance of being as she prepares for childbirth set in. Four years earlier she had open-minded, but confirmed that once again,” she notes. experienced a number of health Catterton appeared to be a good challenges while pregnant with candidate for a VBAC. On July 8, 2016, following a little her daughter, Nyomi, leading to more than 24 hours of labor, a caesarean section (C-section) Catterton successfully delivered delivery. It was a successful, but her seven-pound, 14-ounce baby traumatic, birthing experience— FAST FACT: boy, Jaxon, exactly the way she one Catterton was determined A vaginal birth is possible had hoped. She says she will not to repeat. after a prior caesarean forever be thankful to Dr. Haken section delivery for women for her support, both throughout “My physician took good care of meeting certain criteria. her pregnancy and during the me, but surgery scared me and I labor and delivery process really wanted to try to experience at MedStar Harbor. a vaginal birth,” she says. “When I found out that my obstetrician “We take a close look at what “Each time I saw Dr. Haken, from was no longer delivering babies led to a patient’s prior C-section the beginning to the end, she and that I would need to find to understand if a VBAC might encouraged me and reminded me a new physician, I did a lot of be possible and safe,” explains that I could do this. We developed research to find someone who Dr. Haken. a really strong bond. She made believed in VBAC (vaginal birth me feel special,” she says. after C-section) and who would “For example, if my patient tells support me in reaching my goal.” me she had a C-section because Reflecting back on the care she her baby was in a breech position, provided to Catterton, Dr. Haken She found exactly what she was or that his or her heartbeat notes that she was, in fact, special. looking for in Yael Haken, MD, an dropped during labor, those are obstetrician and gynecologist at situations that won’t necessarily “Rochelle did a lot of research MedStar Harbor Women’s Care, a repeat. If she tells me she pushed and was very committed to trying specialty women’s health practice for three or four hours without a VBAC,” says Dr. Haken. “She at MedStar Harbor Hospital. success, and then ultimately asked a lot of questions during Meeting with Dr. Haken for the delivered a six-pound baby by her pregnancy, which helped first time, Catterton expressed C-section, that’s an indicator that her prepare for the vaginal birth her desire to deliver her baby perhaps her pelvis isn’t ideal of her child and reminded her

4 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | WINTER 2017 DID YOU KNOW? The Women and Infants’ Center at MedStar Harbor Hospital offers all phases of maternity care, from labor and delivery through postpartum care. Our family- centered approach encourages parents to build a strong bond with their baby from the start and helps prepare them for caring for their infant once they are home.

Dr. Haken and Catterton share a special moment bonding with baby Jaxon. that anything is possible when the “I often tell my patients that time comes.” what ultimately is going to happen isn’t in their hands or For that reason, when her patients even in mine,” she adds. “It’s want to pursue a VBAC, Dr. Haken in the baby’s hands. We are is quick to remind them how here to help the patient reach important it is to be flexible her goal and have a good on the big day. experience.”

MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 5 [CARING for you]

Navigating in the Right PATIENTS Direction

edStar Harbor Hospital’s full-service EMS-certified Emergency department (ED) never closes. We are open at all times to handle medical emergencies and M urgent concerns. Anyone can be seen, regardless of insurance coverage or ability to pay. All patients are cared for by emergency medicine specialists recognized for clinical leadership in managing the busiest and most efficient emergency rooms in Maryland.

David Hager, MD We are always looking at new and improved A patient with cold or flu symptoms ways to better meet our patients’ needs. would likely be navigated to MedStar As such, we recently introduced a new Harbor Primary Care. And a woman with assessment and treatment program for gynecologic complaints who visits our patients who come to our ED. Called ED might be directed to MedStar Harbor Patients are greeted on FlexCare, it allows us to better deliver Women’s Care. arrival by an efficient and expedited experience caring staff for patients with less emergent medical “FlexCare creates a true win-win, because members. situations—and further ensure that those who we can better prioritize patients in the ED come to the hospital with true emergencies and connect people to the right specialists can be seen and treated in a timely manner. very quickly based on the type of care they 1 need,” says David Hager, MD, chairman of FlexCare, available Monday through Emergency Medicine at MedStar Harbor. ED clinician Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., is designed “This program is one example of our gathers to navigate individuals to the appropriate organization’s commitment to maximizing information and performs treatment area based on their type of the patient experience.” an initial illness or injury, in or outside of the ED. assessment. To provide the quickest service possible, To further complement our new FlexCare care begins the moment our patients walk program, our ED also offers FastER Care, through the door. Patients are immediately an accelerated emergency care service 2 greeted by caring staff members, including offered daily from 7 a.m. to midnight. an ED nurse, who gathers medical history Like FlexCare, patients with minor illnesses Patients are information and performs an initial or injuries—possible broken bones, directed assessment, including vital signs and an lacerations requiring stitches, sprains, to suitable providers for examination. Following assessment and strains, cold/flu symptoms and other less additional stabilizing treatment by an ED clinician, serious ailments—are triaged and treated evaluation patients are directed to the most suitable in the most efficient manner possible. and treatment. providers for additional evaluation Patients are able to sit in treatment chairs, and treatment. rather than having to put on a gown and be placed in an exam room with a bed, For example, an ill or injured child might and they are invited to wait for test results 3 be referred to MedStar Harbor Pediatrics. in a designated waiting area.

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Want to IMPROVE Your Strengthen Your HEALTH?Immune System

veryone knows somebody who never seems to get sick. But did you ever wonder why? It’s not because they are able to avoid exposure to germs; that’s nearly impossible. E It’s because their immune system is able to keep them healthy. According to Stephanie Greisman, CRNP, at MedStar Harbor Primary Care, there are a number of simple ways to build an immune system that can help you stay well and avoid illness.

“Many people eat a lot of junk and processed foods over the holidays and don’t get the Stephanie exercise or sleep they need. This can have a negative impact on your immune system, Greisman, CRNP making you more susceptible to colds and the flu,” she explains.

EAT A BALANCED DIET “You need many nutrients to support your function, improves sleep quality immune system,” Greisman says. “So focus and makes you stronger. on eating whole foods that provide lots of vitamins and minerals. Making healthier “Studies have shown that moderate food choices and eating lighter will help you intensity exercise may cut down on feel better and lose weight, if that is a goal.” the number of colds you get,” Greisman says. STAY HYDRATED Many people find it hard to stay hydrated GET SEVEN TO EIGHT HOURS during the winter months. Poor hydration OF SLEEP A DAY weakens the immune system and can lead Not getting enough sleep has been to nutritional and other imbalances that linked to many health problems, can cause health problems. including those that stem from an impaired immune system. “Being properly hydrated can help you lose weight too,” she adds. “In fact, many people “Sleep loss influences how we fight mistake thirst for hunger, causing them to illnesses,” she notes. “If you can, sleep consume calories they don’t need.” at least seven to eight hours a day.”

EXERCISE By adopting just a few healthy habits, you Exercising is not only a great way to get can do wonders for your immune system. in shape, it also increases your immune That’s the key to staying well all year long.

MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 7 At the Top OF HER GAME

LEAH DUNN IS AT THE TOP of her game. A 19-year-old sophomore at the Florida Institute of Technology, more commonly known as FIT or Florida Tech, she is now preparing for her second season on the women’s lacrosse team after a first season that earned her accolades for her talents.

And her accomplishments extend beyond the athletic field. Dunn, a pre-med major, was also named to the 2016 Sunshine State Conference Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll for maintaining a GPA of 3.76 during the season, as well as the FIT Athletic Director’s Honor Roll—notable achievements for a young athlete.

She credits her drive and her success, in large part, to Milford H. Marchant Jr., MD, an orthopaedic surgeon with MedStar Harbor Hospital’s Sports Medicine and Shoulder Center. Only a sophomore, Dunn is now a starter on the Florida Tech Women’s Lacrosse Team thanks to the care she received at MedStar Harbor Hospital. “Dr. Marchant is my main inspiration,” says Dunn, who Photos of Leah Dunn courtesy of Amanda Stratford Photography decided to pursue the study of medicine after spending countless before she was in her teens, she athletics needed. She ended up hours under his care as a result of experienced her first ACL tear with a limp, cutting her career in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) while tumbling. She had surgery gymnastics short. tears in both knees. at the age of 12 at another area hospital and was then sent to Not content to give up sports all Dunn’s story is remarkable. Named physical therapy. But the care she together, Dunn started playing an all-around Maryland State received was not what a young lacrosse. But her limp was a gymnastic champion three times person aspiring to continue in concern to her parents. They

8 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | WINTER 2017 turned to the Sports Medicine To keep her knee straight during and Shoulder Center at MedStar the first month, Dunn had to Harbor, which is known for wear a brace and use crutches. treating athletes. There Dunn met She then returned to rehab at Dr. Marchant, who got her into a MedStar Harbor for rehabilitation sports-specific rehab program. with therapists from MedStar NRH Rehabilitation Network. Using “Our rehab specialists work leading-edge technology, such as with athletes competing at the Alter-G Antigravity treadmill, Milford H. some of the highest levels in a therapists helped get her back Marchant Jr., MD wide variety of sports, and they into playing shape. During understand how important it this process, Dunn developed is for them to get back in the a strong interest in medicine. game,” says Dr. Marchant. She joined the Doctor’s Club “By knowing the biomechanics at her high school and started required of various sports, we volunteering at a local hospital. Dunn was can design programs that restore The encouragement she received so inspired the strength, flexibility, range of while in rehabilitation, combined by her motion, endurance and balance with her own determination, experience at MedStar needed for the athlete to return made all the difference. Harbor to their previous level of activity.” Hospital, “Leah’s commitment to she is now majoring in After rehabilitation, Dunn returned following the rehabilitation pre-med. to lacrosse faster and stronger protocol was extraordinary,” than ever. Then the unthinkable adds Dr. Marchant. “And, as a happened. She tore her other result, she was able to get back ACL, as well as her meniscus, to playing at a very high level.” FAST FACT: in the middle of a game. Females are up to 10 times She returned to the lacrosse more likely than males to have “I was really concerned,” Dunn field her junior year and, by the an ACL injury playing the same says, who was 16 and a high time she graduated from high sport due, in large part, to school sophomore at the time. school, had earned six letters as anatomical differences. “I was hoping to play lacrosse a member of the lacrosse and in college and that’s when they cheerleading teams and was start looking at players to recruit.” named a Brine National Lacrosse All-American. DID YOU KNOW? Dunn’s second injury was more There are more than severe than the first. To fix the “I probably spent two to three 100,000 ACL tears per year damage, Dr. Marchant performed years of my life being around in the US. Most ACL injuries arthroscopic ACL reconstruction doctors because of my injuries,” surgery. Dunn says. “The more time I spent occur without contact, with them, the more I felt like it while landing or cutting. “During the procedure, we did was something I wanted to do, For this reason, the highest an anatomical reconstruction of too. They helped me get back to prevalence of knee injuries Leah’s torn ACL,” Dr. Marchant where I wanted to be and I want occur in soccer, lacrosse, explains. “The torn meniscus, which to do the same for other athletes. basketball, volleyball and is cartilage that serves as a shock I hope to be a surgeon and field hockey. absorber between the ends of the I would really like to intern leg bones, was repaired as well.” with Dr. Marchant someday.”

MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 9 for Behavioral A New Place to Turn Health Care

IT’S NO SECRET THAT PEOPLE a brand new, state-of-the-art FAST who live in Baltimore have many Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit FACT: choices when it comes to selecting on the sixth floor of the hospital. According to where they receive their health the National care. While some of the region’s “When we conducted our Institute of most renowned specialists community needs assessment, Mental Health, practice here, access to care the overwhelming need for approximately for those in need of behavioral behavioral health services in one in five adults health, psychiatric or counseling our hospital, our health system, Jill Johnson in the U.S.— services has been lacking. and our state was clear,” explains 18.5 percent— Jill Johnson, vice president of experience DID YOU Until now. Operations at MedStar Harbor. KNOW? mental illness in a given year. MedStar Harbor Hospital recently (continued on page 12) Almost 40,000 changed that with the opening adults with of several new clinical units mental health devoted entirely to caring for or substance patients who are dealing with abuse disorders behavioral or mental health issues. were admitted Patients who have historically to Maryland’s traveled out of the city or even the state of Maryland for help acute care now have access to traditional hospitals outpatient care, as well as a partial last year. hospitalization program, which Only about typically involves ongoing daily 10 percent treatment, without overnight received care hospital stays. Additionally, MedStar Harbor has opened in their own community due to lack The activity area in the new, state-of-the-art Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit is located of available adjacent to the nurse’s station so patients services. can be closely monitored.

10 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | WINTER 2017 MEET SOME OF OUR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS MedStar Harbor Hospital has brought three new behavioral health specialists on board as part of its commitment to meeting the need for these services in the region.

Donna Keaveney, LCSW-C Melanie Lyles-Williams, MSW, William Wagner, MA, LCPC LCSW-C Donna William Keaveney Melanie Lyles- Wagner utilizes a Williams has a provides variety of special affinity therapy for a therapeutic for working wide variety techniques, with children, of behavioral such as adolescents health needs, FAST cognitive- and young including behavioral adults, and depression, FACT: therapy, solution-focused specializes mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, According to therapy, psychodynamic therapy in treatments relating to mood post-traumatic stress, family the National and strength-based therapy to management, behavioral change, dynamics, alcohol and drug Institute of promote healing, growth and family functioning and urban addictions, and attention deficit Mental Health, positive changes in her clients. social work issues. She has and hyperactive disorders, to approximately She treats individuals with behavioral health experience name a few. He has experience as one in five adults behavioral health needs ranging working across a range of care an outpatient therapist working in the U.S.— from depression and anxiety from residential treatment to for the Anne Arundel Medical 18.5 percent— disorders to stress management outpatient clinics, schools, in Center’s Pathways addiction clinic experience and relationship problems. Since homes, in shelters and in other where he offered therapeutic mental illness 2013, she has been working as an community settings. She is support to adolescents, adults and in a given year. outpatient mental health therapist excited to utilize her expertise their families. He also provided providing counseling to adult in the domains of partial mental health services in the individuals. Her clinical interests hospitalization and intensive District of Columbia Public School include geriatrics, working with outpatient treatment. system as a school psychologist. patients with chronic illnesses Lyles-Williams received a Wagner holds a bachelor’s and caregiver stress. master’s degree in social work degree in psychology from the Keaveney has a bachelor’s degree with a concentration in mental University of Maryland and earned in sociology from Towson State health and management and a specialist level master’s degree University and a master’s degree community organization from the in counseling psychology from in social work from the University University of Maryland, Baltimore, Bowie State University. During of Maryland School of Social and holds a bachelor’s degree his graduate studies, he interned Work. She is board certified in in psychology from Amherst with the Department of Behavior Maryland as both a social worker College. She is licensed as a and Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and clinical supervisor. certified clinical social worker Bayview Campus. He is a licensed (LCSW-C) through the Maryland clinical professional counselor Board of Social Work. and is certified by the State of Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists.

MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 11 The behavioral health spaces were designed to create an enhanced therapeutic environment for patients— from the lights to the floors to the colors used throughout.

“People were traveling far “Patients are coming to us distances for these services, from our local community as but they wanted to stay close well as from other areas, for care,” to home. Now they can.” says Johnson. “Approximately one third of our hospital’s Conceptual planning and inpatient beds are now devoted construction of the hospital’s to Behavioral Health. It’s a new behavioral health units, as reflection of our commitment well as a redesign of space in as an organization to providing the Emergency department to the health and medical services offer crisis intervention services that people need most.” for patients in distress, took just under one year to complete. Johnson notes, “In addition to Comprehensive psychiatric care providing clinical care, MedStar for adults is offered by a mix Harbor’s expanded behavioral of physicians, psychologists, health program will aim to increase psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, collaboration among community case managers and social workers, behavioral health programs. whose work is already putting This is a team effort that requires MedStar Harbor on the map as a innovation, communication and leading provider in the region for compassion. We will work together behavioral health services. to make a difference.”

12 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | WINTER 2017 [STAY[CANCER active update] ]

Get Screened Start the Year RIGHT for Cancer

here are approximately 14.5 million cancer survivors in the U.S. today—a number that is expected to grow to almost 19 million by 2024, according to a recent report from T the American Cancer Society (ACS). The report attributes this good news, in part, to improvements in cancer screening.

Cancer screenings enable medical providers COLORECTAL to catch cancer in the early stages when the Screenings are recommended for all adults disease is most treatable. That’s why they are age 50 and older, or younger if at high risk. so important. • Colonoscopy every 10 years BREAST Following are screening guidelines from • Fecal occult blood test every year MedStar Health Cancer Network for a • Flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, or few of the most common cancers. Some • Double-contrast barium enema every individuals may need earlier or more five years frequent screenings depending on their Free colorectal screenings are available risk factors. This is something you should CERVICAL to individuals age 50 and older, with limited discuss with your provider. income, and who are uninsured or underinsured. Call 410-350-8216 to see if you qualify. BREAST Screenings are recommended for LUNG all women. Screenings are recommended for individuals COLORECTAL • Breast exam by a medical provider who are at high risk based on the following (every three years for women ages 20 criteria: to 39 and every year after age 40) • 55 to 77 years of age • Annual mammograms and breast exams • A smoker of a pack of cigarettes a day by a medical provider for women ages for 30 years or more LUNG 40 and older, or younger if at high risk • Currently smoking or have quit fewer than 15 years ago CERVICAL Screenings are recommended for all PROSTATE women age 21 and older, or upon Screenings can be beneficial for men becoming sexually active. age 50 and older, or younger if at high risk. PROSTATE • Periodic Pap tests with frequency Men should talk to their medical provider based on age (after three normal tests, about the value of two tests: a woman may need less frequently) • Digital rectal exams Free breast and cervical screenings are • Prostate-specific antigen blood tests available to women who are 40 and older, with limited income, and who are uninsured Visit MedStarCancer.org/Baltimore or or underinsured. Call 410-350-2066 to call 877-715-HOPE (4673) for more see if you qualify. information or a free physician referral.

MedStarHarbor.org/Waterfront • 855-546-0862 13 Introducing Our NEW Nurse Practitioners

MEDSTAR HARBOR HOSPITAL to become a certified nursing good knowing that my work can is proud to introduce two new assistant,” she says. Wanting to help keep my patients on a good, nurse practitioners to our team advance in her chosen profession, healthy path in life.” of clinical care providers—Anta she immediately enrolled in Kah, MSN, CRNP, has joined the nursing program at Towson When she is not working, Kah MedStar Harbor Primary Care, University, where she earned her enjoys reading to relax and and Tiffany Reabold, MS, CRNP, bachelor’s degree. She continued jogging for exercise. is now part of the Centers for her studies while working as Orthopaedics at MedStar Harbor a staff nurse, completing a Meet Tiffany and MedStar Orthopaedics. master’s in nursing as a family Tiffany nurse practitioner from Bowie Reabold, MS, Meet Anta State University and becoming CRNP, worked Anta credentialed by the American as a nurse Kah, MSN, Nurses Credentialing Center. on a hospital CRNP, inpatient unit developed Kah recently joined MedStar for seven years her interest Harbor Primary Care after and then in the field of eight years at MedStar Union decided the health care as Memorial Hospital and is grateful time was right to shift gears a bit. a young child. for the opportunity. She returned to school to earn her master’s degree as a family nurse “I had a close family member “As a nurse practitioner, I can practitioner, became certified who had cancer and I used to care for people at a higher level. by the American Academy of go with him to his appointments,” You have more independence Nurse Practitioners and joined Kah explains. Witnessing what and more one-on-one time. the medical staff at MedStar he went through instilled in her That makes it possible to focus Harbor with a vision to serve a passion for helping others. on important topics such as in a leadership role. preventive care,” she notes. “I like By the time she was in high the interpersonal connections “Nurse practitioners work school, Kah was already that come with being a nurse collaboratively with physicians pursuing her dream. practitioner.” to assess and diagnose patients, order testing and therapy, “My high school had a medical Kah adds, “The relationships prescribe medications and develop careers program, which provided I build provide valuable insight treatment plans for patients,” said me with the hands-on experience into each patient’s needs. I feel Reabold. “I like that I get to be a

14 Waterfront • MedStar Harbor Hospital | WINTER 2017 WHAT A NURSE Reabold consults with her PRACTITIONER patient, Margaret Suter about treatment options for an CAN DO FOR YOU orthopaedic condition. Nurse practitioners are advanced-practice registered nurses with a postgraduate nursing degree. In the primary care setting, a nurse practitioner can serve as a patient’s primary care provider. He or she can offer individualized care and diagnose and recommend treatment for a wide range of health issues, including the initial evaluation of new symptoms and ongoing care for chronic diseases and preventive services, such as immunizations or screenings. The nurse practitioners at MedStar Harbor Hospital are highly skilled, compassionate caregivers who are focused on your health needs.

decision maker and can provide University School of Nursing in total care for patients in my role.” addition to her master’s from the FAST FACT: University of Maryland School Today, nurse Reabold has concentrated her of Nursing. practitioners practice on orthopaedics since are filling an 2004, working at Johns Hopkins “It’s interesting and challenging essential need Hospital before joining the team at to assess a patient’s injury and for more MedStar Harbor. Some of the more then develop a treatment plan accessible common conditions she treats that will help them recover and health care include sprains, fractures, tendinitis, get back to the things they enjoy for families due arthritis, joint pain and injuries. most in life.” to a growing shortage of “I find the science of the human Reabold is married with two primary care body fascinating,” said Reabold, daughters. She enjoys spending physicians. who holds a bachelor of science time with her family and traveling in nursing from Johns Hopkins in her free time.

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