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“This recognition reaffirms the com- mitment of our surgical nursing staff
to provide care that is safest and
of the highest quality from the time a patient becomes eligible for surgery to their procedure to their return to home,” said Judith A.
Townsley, MSN, RN, CPAN, vice president of Perioperative Services at
Christiana Care.
Christiana Care was honored with ACS NSQIP recognition for its performance in eight clinical areas:
• Mortality.
• Cardiac arrest and heart attack.
• Pneumonia.
• Unplanned intubation.
• Ventilator use for longer than 48 hours. • Renal failure.
• Surgical site infections.
• Urinary tract infection.
Christiana Care’s Surgical Service Line provides coordinated delivery of perioperative care within the general, colorectal, kidney transplant, ophthalmologic, plastic, trauma critical care, oral and maxillofacial, and otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) surgery specialties.
The Surgical Service Line includes two outpatient surgery centers: the Roxana Cannon Arsht Surgicenter in Wilmington and the Christiana Surgicenter on the Christiana Hospital campus in Newark. Both outpatient centers provide patient- friendly care and offer the latest technology for a variety of surgical procedures.
Christiana Care manages more than 38,000 surgical procedures each year at both its hospitals — Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital — and at its outpatient surgical centers. Since Christiana Care began its participation in NSQIP a decade ago, the health system has experienced improvements in patient outcomes that include a reduction in the rates of wound infection, deep vein thrombosis and several other post-operative complications. ●
SURGICAL SERVICES
4th Annual HVIS Conference highlights Christiana Care’s heart and vascular expertise
Christiana Care Health System hosted its 4th Annual Heart & Vascular Interventional Services (HVIS) Conference, Nov. 4 at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center.
“The conference was a great success, highlighting the diversity of the procedures and conditions that are treated by interventional physicians in our services,” said Billie Speakman, vice president, Heart & Vascular Health. “We are very proud of the technical expertise we provide
for our community.”
The day-long event was devoted to developments in treatments for heart disease. Featured speakers included heart surgeon Wasif A. Qureshi,
M.D.; cardiologists Brian H. Sarter, M.D., and Sandra Weiss, M.D., FACC; neurointerventional surgeon Thinesh Sivapatham, M.D.; interventional radiologist Christopher Grilli, M.D.; vascular and interventional radiologist Samuel Putnam, M.D.; and Christiana Care nurses Edith Scheidt, BSN, RN; Stacy Noel, MSN, RN; Susan Adams, BSN, RN, CCRN; and Inga Sinyangwe, MSN, RN. ●
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Edith Scheidt, BSN, RN, Alison Purner, RN, Stacy Noel, MSN, RN, Thinesh Sivapatham, M.D., Sandra Weiss, M.D., Susan Adams, BSN, RN, Wasif Qureshi, M.D., Brian Sarter, M.D., and Theresa Barker, RT.