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| Current Arkansas Medical News |
State Effort Begins to End Bloodstream Infections
Michigan's Rate Dropped to Nearly Zero in Three Months
Arkansas hospitals are hoping to replicate the success of a program that reduced catheter-related bloodstream infections in many Michigan hospitals to zero within three months of its implementation there.
STEVE BRAWNER |
LEADERS IN HEALTHCARE: Cheri Lattimer, Case Management Society of America
One of the best kept secrets in Arkansas, Cheri Lattimer says, is that the national headquarters of the Case Management Society of America is found right here in Little Rock. Lattimer, RN, BSN, has been executive director of CMSA since moving to Arkansas in 2005. The role is more than a job for her; it's the culmination of a lifelong passion for making life better and easier for patients and their families.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
Vietnam Vets of a Different Sort
Memphis and Little Rock Orthopedic Surgeons Participate in Annual Overseas Outreach Projects
In 2001, Pierce Scranton, MD, a Washington orthopedic surgeon presiding over the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS), wanted to organize an official Overseas Outreach Project.
LYNNE JETER |
Help Wanted
Hospitals Market Themselves to Prospective Docs and Nurses
Jennifer Hickey knows that part of the reason the Baptist Health System operates its School of Nursing is to create its own workforce, with herself part of it. And she doesn't mind a bit.
STEVE BRAWNER |
| Health Information Technology Focus |
End-of-Life Caregivers Stretched by Home, Work
Initiative Seeks to Educate Employers
If anybody knows the pressures facing employees who are caring for loved ones who are at the end of life, it's June Thompson.
Thompson has worked as a home health aide for Peachtree Hospice for eight years, the last four in Fort Smith. Now when she arrives home from work, she takes care of her 90-year-old mother, Mona Brothers, who lives with her and suffers from Parkinson's disease and dementia.
STEVE BRAWNER |
SOS: Save Our Seniors
Campaign Decries Impact of Proposed Cuts on Senior Care Facilities
The American Health Care Association (AHCA) and its affiliated National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) have launched a vigorous national campaign to make Congress aware of what proposed Medicare cuts and potential reform measures could mean to some of the nation's oldest, frailest and most vulnerable citizens. The SOS – Save Our Seniors – campaign is a grassroots measure encouraging long-term care providers to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill.
CINDY SANDERS |
Squeaking Hip Replacements Annoy and Worry Patients and Physicians
Go ahead. Log on to www.youtube.com and type the phrase "squeaking or squeaky hip replacements" in the search box. What pops up is an array of home videos, most featuring senior patients, who are documenting a noise their replacement joint makes with each step. For some, the noise resembles the sound of air released in sporadic bursts from a child's balloon. For others, the noise – all clichés aside – sounds just like a fingernail quickly scraping down a blackboard. For some of the patients, the sound is a popping, occasionally accompanied by the squeak.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Jeanne Yichen Wei, MD, PhD
LITTLE ROCK--When Jeanne Yichen Wei, MD, PhD, was a medical school student excelling in cardiology, she became acutely interested in why heart disease remains the leading killer of men and women over the age of 65. She asked her medical school professors their opinion of specializing in gerontology and they told her not to do it. "It would be academic suicide," they said. "Why would you do that when you're doing so well in cardiology?"
LYNNE JETER |
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