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Features
2 Healthcare—anywhere!
12 Where high tech meets high touch
13 What’s love got to do with it?
14 Outpatientnursesdriveoptimalhealth
18 Medical pocket guide is a real page turner
20 Neurosurgeonsperformawakebrainsurgery
21 COPD clinical trial
28 Taking bold steps to reduce drug shortages
News from Christiana Care Health System
Christiana Care is Most Wired
Telemedicine - the new house call
New tech for new moms
On the cover: Digital technology empowers today’s consumers to get services, wherever and whenever they want. Read how Christiana Care is revolutionizing access to health care. (page 2)
Focus is published monthly by the Christiana Care Department of External Affairs. Read Focus online at news.christianacare.org.
Editor
Jennifer Baldino Bonett
Managing Editor
Patrick Ritchie
Contributors
Kelly Bachman Karen Halesky Megan McGuriman Hiran J. Ratnayake William Schmitt
Designer
Donna A. Perzel
External Affairs
Drewry Nash Fennell, Esq.
Chief Officer of Strategic Communication and Development
Karen Y. Browne
Vice President of Communications
Shane Hoffman
Director of Communications
Focus does not accept unsolicited advertising or articles from outside the organization. To contact the Focus editor, call 302-327-3300 or e-mail focuseditor@christianacare.org.
Health care –
anywhere.
See page 2.
Putting
patient 16 safetyfirst
In Every Issue
11 TheChristianaCareWay 22 Extraordinarypeople
26 Best practice review
29 Calendarofevents 30 PharmacyServices 32 Let’s commit to be fit
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, Christiana Care is one of the country’s most dynamic health systems, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. Christiana Care includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, medical aid units, two hospitals (1,227 beds), a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health.
Christiana Care is a not-for-profit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. We are continually ranked by US News & World Report as a Best Hospital. With our unique, data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care, Christiana Care is shaping the future of health care.
Learn how we deliver greater quality and value at christianacare.org.
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