If you had the chance to relive your adolescence, would you? Adolescence is a time of change physically, emotionally, socially, and developmentally - and those changes can be overwhelming. Adolescent medicine specialist Dr. Lonna Gordon joins us to talk about defining adolescent medicine and the importance of welcoming children into this new phase of their lives and of their relationship with their healthcare provider. Carol Vassar, producer
It's episode 100 of the Nemours Champions for Children podcast, and we are talking all things patient experience with Dr. Peggy Greco. Peggy is Nemours Enterprise Patient Experience Medical Director. Carol Vassar, producer
In April 2021, a Minneapolis jury returned a guilty verdict against the former police officer responsible for the Memorial Day 2020 killing of George Floyd. Floyds death prompted demonstrations and inspired Nemours associates to hold their anti-racism demonstration: White Coats for Black Lives. So what movement has occurred at Nemours toward anti-racism and diversity, inclusion, and equity? Cindy Bo, Senior Vice-President for Strategy and Business Development in the Delaware Valley and interim e...
The Integrator Learning Lab began as a concept paper in 2012, and is now a fully realized, evidence-based set of nine scalable integrator networks aimed at improving health outcomes within communities through cooperative effort. Learn how Nemours leaders helped bring this national project from concept to reality. To bring this concept to your community, check out the Integrator Learning Lab tool kit....
What was once a 2012 concept paper written by Nemours associates is now a fully realized, national, evidence-based set of nine scalable integrator networks aimed at improving health outcomes within communities through cooperative effort, and led by those who best understand a communitys overall health needs: the people who live and work there. Interested in starting an integrator network in your community? Check out the toolkit here . Carol Vassar, producer...
To celebrate PRIDE month in June, we held a roundtable discussion with members of the Nemours PRIDE Associate resource group (ARG) about enterprise-wide efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion related to the LGBTQ associate, patient and family populations. Carol Vassar, producer
Nemours orthopedic surgeon Dr. Alfred Atanda has an additional role: Chief of Clinician Experience Officer. We'll hear about his vision for, and approach to looking out for the physical and mental health of his fellow Nemours clinicians. Carol Vassar, producer
Dr. Lauren Averill, Chair, Department of Medical Imaging the Nemours Children's Hospital in Wilmington, and Dr. Ted Harcke, continue their conversation about the past, present and future of radiology at Nemours. Theyll touch on a variety of topics, including work/life balance, the effects of the growth of technology in healthcare, the standard practice that Dr. Harcke helped to pioneer for the diagnosis and treatment of dysplasia of the hip in infants, and the satisfaction derived from prac...
In 1981, "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes was the number-one song, and Raiders of the Lost Ark was the top-grossing movie. Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan survived attempts on their lives, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer, and America celebrated the release of hostages held in its embassy in Iran after 444 days of captivity. It was also the year pediatric radiologist Dr. Ted Harcke arrived at Nemours. Carol Vassar, producer
Patient Michael Alexander, working with mentors from the A.I. Dupont Institute, finds a keen interest in science and medicine - enough to become a doctor at the very institution that served him as a child seeking rehabilitative services as a result of polio. Carol Vassar, produer
While most of us don't think of hospitals as summer camps, that metaphor looms large for one former Nemours patient. Michael Allen Alexander was born i n 1947, and, as a boy, contracted polio. This was before the develo pment of safe and effective polio vaccines, which we have today. There is no cure for polio, but for those who have been paralyzed due to contracting the disease, there are treatments: long-term rehabilitation, physical therapy, braces, corrective shoes, and orthopedic surge...
Nemours President and CEO Dr. R. Laurence Moss talks about the "big and bold" strategic plan released last week, a plan strongly rooted in Nemours history and heritage. Nemours' Chief Heritage Officer, John Rumm, John Rumm joins the conversation for a brief history of Nemours. A new book on the history of Nemours - written by Dr. Moss - is now available. Carol Vassar, producer...
It's a Founder's Day edition of the podcast! Founders Day 2021 marks a turning point with news of the Nemours Countdown to Liftoff: Celebrating our Future, which includes a new strategy, created with the help of over 4,500 Nemours associates and a new unifying brand. Carol Vassar, producer
Thirty-seven-year-old Kyle Kibler has seen Nemours from two distinct perspectives: patient and associate. Kyle is the switchboard supervisor at the AI Dupont Hospital for Children in Wilmington. He talks about "a-plus" care he received at the hospital between the ages of 3 and 21 - a time period that included 22 surgeries to treat cerebral palsy.
Do you know how many people does it take to process payroll on-time and accurately for every Nemours associate? The answer is surprisingly low: just six, with significant help from an Enterprise resource planning platform, known as an ERP. Payroll is a department with a ton of fiduciary responsibility to Nemours as an enterprise, and to every single one of Nemours 8,000-plus associates. It's a department headed by Shirley Williamson, a seasoned payroll professional with two Master's de...
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there was a renewed societal effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by washing our hands, wearing masks, and disinfecting everything in sight. Healthcare workers have been employing these methods - and many more - from as far back as the mid-19th century to ensure patient safety. Entire hospital departments - sterile processing and housekeeping to name just two - are built for cleaning, decontaminating, processing, sterilizing, assembling, testing, pac...
Nemours associate Heather Quinn's personal COVID-19 story serves as a stark reminder that even as millions of people are vaccinated against the coronavirus each day here in the U.S. that it is still deadly. Her story begins in March 2020, when the pandemic commandeered both her professional and personal life. Carol Vassar, producer
When it comes to ongoing professional development for Nemours associates, the place to turn is to the enterprise-wide online learning management system known as Nemours University. As a learning solutions specialist, Veronica Wisely understands - and works to meet - the thirst for knowledge of her fellow associates - especially during the pandemic. Carol Vassar, host/producer
The shutdown of hospital services due to the pandemic in 2020 placed an extraordinary burden on departments for which remote work was nearly impossible. Audiology is one such department. It's a discipline where "up-close-and-personal" is vital to a patient's progress and success. Pediatric audiologist Tammy Riegner recalls how the audiology team at the A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children coped with last spring's service shutdown, and on the concept that the COVID-19 pandem...
The Nemours Center for Health Delivery Innovation (CHDI) has long been the place within the enterprise responsible for developing, deploying and integrating digital health care tools designed to improve the patient experience and deliver better health outcomes. Which is exactly why this team was called upon at the pandemics start in March 2020: to quickly, efficiently and safely grow and innovate digital technologies at an unprecedented pace so as to meet patient and business imperatives. Carol ...
As a core function within primary care, care coordinators need to be organized and resourceful. And they MUST be excellent communicators. Turns out, these are the very skills possessed by Katrina Wilson, a care coordinator at the Nemours Primary Care practice in Milford, Delaware. They are the same skills that Katrina used in force as life in the pandemic of 2020 closed in around her and her family at this time last year. Carol Vassar, producer
Amber Combs, Nemours Fundraising Database Manager, shares the story of her family's COVID-19 experience in the earliest days of the pandemic. Carol Vassar, producer
Dr. Maureen Leffler and Dr. Jay Greenspan they look back on Year One of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of Dr. Greenspan: how this once-in-a-lifetime event changed Nemours, and him as he served as the Nemours COVID-19 Enterprise Incident Commander. Starting Monday, March 15, the podcast turns its focus toward hearing the COVID-19 stories of associates from across the enterprise. Arrange to share yours by email podcast@nemours.org . Carol Vassar, producer...
In addition to a Nemours COVID-19 situational update, co-hosts Dr. Maureen Leffler and Dr. Jay Greenspan talk with Dr. Raul Pino, Florida Department of Health Commissioner for Orange County, which includes Orlando and the Nemours Children's Hospital. Dr. Pino has been the familiar, trusted public health spokesperson reporting evidence based facts and prevention measures on COVID-19 to the people of Orange County. Carol Vassar, producer
A situational update on COVID-19, plus part two of two parts honoring Black History Month, as we welcome the man responsible for creating the Nemours Office of Health Equity and Inclusion more than ten years ago, Dr. Kevin Churchwell. Dr. Churchwell is currently President and CEO of Boston Children's Hospital. Carol Vassar, producer
Dr. Claudia Thomas is the first black woman orthopedic surgeon in the United States. Her journey, though, starts before her residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, before medical school at Johns Hopkins, and even before she risked her professional future leading a student sit-in at her undergraduate alma mater, Vassar College, in the late 1960's. It begins with the values she learned from her parents. Carol Vassar, producer
Neonatologist Dr. Mark Hudak, Professor & Chair for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Florida School of Medicine in Jacksonville talks all thing COVID-19 and babies. He also provides preliminary data from a national mother-baby he established to study the effects of COVID-19 on that population. Hell have an overview of preliminary data from the registry, which is proving useful in guiding women through pregnancy in the midst of this pandemic. For information on the registry f...
John Carney is the 74th Governor of the State of Delaware, but did you know that he was a summer associate for Nemours in the mid-1970's? Today he joins hosts Dr. Jay Greenspan and Dr. Maureen Leffler to talk all things COVID-19: the states response, the vaccine rollout, the effect of the pandemic on health care and other front line workers, and what pandemic-related issues keep him up at night as year one of the pandemic comes to a close. Carol Vassar, producer...
This week, news emerged related to COVID-19 and pregnancy, raising questions about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women, and the risks related to contracting COVID-19 while pregnant. Host Dr. Jay Greenspan talks with maternal/fetal medicine specialist Dr. Lindsay Maggio from the Nemours Center for Fetal Care in Orlando on these and other subjects related to COVID-19 and pregnancy. Carol Vassar, producer...
One year ago this week, the first U.S. case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Washington state. Today, the nation is looking at some grim COVID-19 milestones, as host Dr. Jay Greenspan will talk about in his situational weekly update. Hell also have a conversation with Sandy Gomberg, CEO of the COVID-19 Response Team for the City of Philadelphia. Sandys a nurse by training and practice, a former hospital and health system CEO, a health educator, and even the leader of a health technology start-up. Sh...
