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Uams Medical Center Certified As First and Only Comprehensive Stroke Center in Arkansas CONSULT A Newsletter for Medical Professionals FALL 2018 UAMS MEDICAL CENTER CERTIFIED AS FIRST AND ONLY COMPREHENSIVE STROKE CENTER IN ARKANSAS UAMS Medical Center has According to the Joint “This is truly an extraordinary become the first and only health Commission, the certification is accomplishment that will save care provider in Arkansas to be the most demanding accreditation lives,” Patterson said. certified as a Comprehensive and is designed for those hospitals Stroke Center by The Joint that have the specific abilities to AR SAVES Commission. receive and treat the most complex The Comprehensive Stroke The Joint Commission is stroke cases. It also means certified Center designation adds to an independent, nonprofit hospitals can provide endovascular UAMS’ leadership in the area of organization that evaluates and procedures and post-procedural stroke already established by accredits more than 20,000 health care and have an emergency the Arkansas Stroke Assistance care organizations and programs in department with a dedicated though Virtual Emergency the United States. stroke-focused program. Support (AR SAVES) program. “Achieving the standard “Achieving Comprehensive Stroke AR SAVES allows 54 partnering of care required by The Joint Center designation places UAMS emergency rooms across the Commission to be certified as a among the top stroke centers in the state to consult with network Comprehensive Stroke Center country that have the resources and neurologists 24/7 through two- means a stroke patient at UAMS highly skilled health care teams with way live video. The consultation has a better chance here than advanced training to handle the allows doctors to quickly assess anywhere else in the state of not most complex stroke cases,” said whether a stroke patient is a only surviving but leaving our UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, candidate for alteplase, the clot- care with the best possible health M.D., MBA. “I am extremely proud busting drug that can be life- outcome,” said Martin Radvany, of our medical center and our saving and function-preserving for M.D., a professor and chief of stroke team for their dedication to the patient. Interventional Neuroradiology achieving this designation to provide For more information, visit at the University of Arkansas for Arkansans with access to the most ARSAVES.UAMS.edu. Medical Sciences (UAMS). advanced stroke care possible. (Continued on page 2) September 2018 Message from (Continued from page 1) Dr. Jansen Dear Colleagues, Investments in statewide telemedicine are bearing fruit in the lives of Arkansans from all walks of life. In 2010, Arkansas was awarded a Broadband Technology Opportunities grant, enabling the creation of more than 420 telemedicine sites across the state. From that initial vision, some truly amazing tools for better health care have emerged. The UAMS Medical Center stroke team along, with other UAMS physicians and staff, recently achieved Comprehensive Stroke Center designation from The Joint Commission. UAMS Medical Services such as Antenatal and Center is the first and only health care provider in Arkansas with the certification. Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning System (ANGELS) have helped many women and Achieving Comprehensive J.D. Day, M.D., is the chairman their families through high-risk of the UAMS College of Medicine’s pregnancies, reducing the risk of Stroke Status travel. Many walking and talking In July 2017, UAMS formed Department of Neurosurgery and Arkansans are direct beneficiaries of a team to work on getting director of the neurosciences Arkansas Stroke Assistance through the Medical Center ready for clinical program that includes the Virtual Emergency Support (AR the Comprehensive Stroke stroke service and multidisciplinary SAVES), which connects emergency Certification. A gap analysis was team leaders. room doctors across the state with neurologists who can determine performed to show what points To be a Comprehensive Stroke the appropriate and safe use of of care needed to be addressed Center, a hospital or clinic must clot-busting medications to salvage for certification. Multiple aspects be able to provide 24/7 care for brain function. of the stroke program had to be patients suffering from a stroke This method of virtual care is documented as well. and any cerebrovascular disorder, exploding. We are committed at An application for the including ruptured brain aneurysms UAMS to exploring more applications certification was sent to The Joint for its use. However, we don’t just and bleeding into and around do it because it’s “cool.” We apply Commission in August. In May, two the brain. The Joint Commission evidenced-based principles to assure commission surveyors conducted requires the provider hospital that care is high quality and furthers the comprehensive survey over the or clinic to have the following our mission of providing the best to course of two days. They toured all available to do that: an acute everyone in the state. areas that care for stroke patients. stroke team, neurointensive care In addition, the surveyors reviewed Sincerely, unit beds for complex stroke files and chart reviews and patients, the ability to meet the interviewed staff and patients. concurrent needs of two complex “This effort elevated the stroke patients, and neurosurgical Mark T. Jansen, M.D. requirements of 24/7 coverage Medical Director services. A center must be for all stroke providers at UAMS,” UAMS Physician Relations & Strategic said Matthew Mitchell, director of able to offer comprehensive Development the UAMS Stroke Program. “It took diagnostic services; have on-site everyone working in the program coverage by a neurospecialist using all their experience and energy for its neurointensive care unit; Gut Club Meets Quarterly to achieve the highest possible participate in patient-centered research that is approved by The Nov. 29 meeting will feature a certification. It was the culmination presentation on “Innovations in ADR of years of work. We will keep giving an institutional review board; Improvement and Removal of Large our all to maintain this standard and track, monitor and report Polyps” from Harry R. Aslanian, M.D., performance measures. professor, Department of Internal and to provide the best care for the Medicine, Section of Digestive state’s stroke patients. Dr. Radvany, To make a neurology referral, Diseases, Yale University School of Dr. Day and I, along with everyone call 501-686-5838. To make a Medicine. at UAMS, couldn’t be prouder of our neurosurgery referral, call Meetings are 6-8 p.m., 12th floor, UAMS Jackson T. Stephens Spine stroke team.” 501-686-5270. n & Neurosciences Institute. Details: Melanie Meyer at [email protected] or 501-686-8206. 2 News to Know: Updates from UAMS Physician Relations Martin Radvany, M.D., Heads Clementino Fraga Filho, Rio Physician Relations de Janeiro, Brazil. Machado & Strategic Development Interventional Neuroradiology Mark T. Jansen, M.D. completed a laparoscopic robotic Martin G. Radvany, M.D., an [email protected] internationally known leader in surgery fellowship at the Clinique interventional neuroradiology Saint Augustin, Bordeaux, France. Michael Manley, RN, MNSc and specialist To make a referral, call 501-526-1000. [email protected] in vascular disorders of Movement Disorders Adds Director the brain and Huntington’s Clinic Melanie Meyer, M.Ed. spine, has joined The UAMS Movement Disorders [email protected] the UAMS Clinic is offering a monthly clinic for Huntington’s disease, featuring Manager Department Carla Alexander, M.Ed. of Radiology a multidisciplinary approach for a [email protected] as professor one-stop shop for patients. and chief of The clinic’s multidisciplinary Byron Jarrett & Brian Mann interventional neuroradiology. team includes movement disorder [email protected] Radvany was director of neurologists, nurses and nurse interventional neuroradiology practitioners with expertise in at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Huntington’s disease, social Medical Center and director workers, nutritionists and speech CONSULT of the Endovascular Surgical and physical therapists. The clinic is produced by the UAMS Office Neuroradiology Training Program partners with neuropsychologists, of Communications & Marketing in the Johns Hopkins University psychiatrists and genetic and Physician Relations & School of Medicine. He also counselors for quick referrals. Strategic Development. established the Interventional To make a referral, call 501-526-5443. Editor Neuroradiology Program at Amy Widner WellSpan York Hospital in Sign up with EpicCare Link Pennsylvania. to Prevent Large Faxes Designer To make a referral, call 501-686-5745. When patients are discharged Norma Edwards from UAMS, continuity of care Bruno Machado, M.D., documents are sent to their Vice Chancellor for Joins UAMS Urology primary care physician. These Communications & Marketing Urologist Bruno Lopes documents can be lengthy and Leslie Taylor Cancado Machado, M.D., has can default to your fax machine. 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