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Enhancing rehabilitation medicine
Focused on function, the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute at the UPMC Mercy Pavilion addresses each patient ’s goal to get them independently up and moving. Physicians and researchers strive to maximize function for patients with neurologic conditions, musculoskeletal conditions, stroke, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries and other challenges.
“These conditions can be acquired or be something that someone is born with,” says Dr. Gwendolyn Sowa, director of the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute.
With…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - April 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Laurie Bailey Source Type: news
Finding better ways to fight heart disease and accelerate cardiac care progress
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Heart disease and stroke are among the forms of cardiovascular disease. In 2019, nearly 900,000 people died of cardiovascular disease in the United States, according to the American Heart Association. In Georgia, about 1 in 3 deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. Most of these deaths are premature and preventable.…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - February 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Battelle, AmplifyBio, Andelyn team up NIH contract targeting stroke, neurological disease
“If we can be part of bringing something like that to market – I think that’s a pretty big deal."
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 10, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Carrie Ghose Source Type: news
Urgency Room clinics drop walk-in model amid health staff burnout
The Urgency Room, a chain of Twin Cities medical clinics, has offered care to patients on a largely walk-in basis since it was founded more than a decade ago. But that strategy is no longer sustainable, officials say.
The Pioneer Press reports that Urgency Room locations are now requiring appointments for nearly all cases. (Patients suffering from things such as stroke symptoms or broken bones, or those referred from other emergency care centers, can still walk in.)
Appointments can be made up …
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Mark Reilly Source Type: news
Sense Diagnostics inks 'know-how' license agreement with Mayo Clinic
Norwood-based Sense Neuro Diagnostics, which is developing non-invasive brain scanners to improve outcomes for stroke and brain injury patients, has entered into a “know-how” license agreement with the Mayo Clinic.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 14, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Liz Engel Source Type: news
Why healthy hearts can benefit your business
You ’d be hard-pressed to find anything more disruptive to the U.S health care system than a lack of cardiovascular health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease and stroke kill more than 877,000 Americans each year — one-third of all deaths annually. Meanwhile, economic costs linked to heart surgeries, lengthy rehabilitations and prescription medicine regimens total a staggering $216 billion each year.
Businesses also buckle beneath such expenses. Strokes…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Keith Bachman Source Type: news
Wake Forest researchers create digital platform for stroke patients
One in four stroke survivors suffer a second stroke, which is often preventable. To decrease this statistic and reduce unnecessary costs, researchers and experts at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist ’s Comprehensive Stroke Center have created a digital health platform for stroke patients.
The platform, called COMPASS-CP (Comprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services – Care Plan), brings together health care providers and patients and can be embedded within…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - August 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Lillian Johnson Source Type: news
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Atrium Health WF Baptist create digital health platform for stroke patients
Combining health informatics algorithms with clinical data, the COMPASS-CP digital health program aims to reduce the reoccurrence of strokes and unnecessary costs for stroke patients. COMPASS-CP was created following a $14 million study.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - August 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Lillian Johnson Source Type: news
Athersys to cut up to 70% of its workers in effort to survive
Athersys Inc., the Cleveland-based regenerative medicine company, plans to cut its workforce by as much as 70% in a restructuring aimed at reducing costs and making it an attractive investment for potential financial or strategic partners.
Athersys has been developing its MultiStem adult stem cell therapy since 1994 and is in late-stage clinical trials with its Japanese partner, Healios K.K., to commercialize the therapy to treat ischemic stroke patients in Japan.
Three of the company's top executives…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 2, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Mary Vanac Source Type: news
Novel imaging technology allows for faster stroke care at Gates Vascular Institute
The Gates Vascular Institute at Buffalo General Medical Center installed a new 4-D CT scanner that will help save hundreds of millions of brain cells during stroke.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Tracey Drury Source Type: news
Advancements in medication, surgery aiding stroke victims
Sobering statistics show disparities in strokes in older adults and African Americans.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Owen Racer Source Type: news
National Stroke Awareness Month: How innovation promises to change the story of strokes
Medical innovations are changing the way we treat strokes, from earlier warnings and faster diagnoses to better treatment in the aftermath.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - April 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: J. Jennings Moss Source Type: news
Cooper University Health Care opens $14M acute stroke and neuro-interventional suite
Cooper University Health Care ’s Neurological Institute has opened a $14 million acute stroke and neuro-interventional suite within the walls of its emergency department in Camden.
The suite — designed to treat emergent and non-emergent forms of cerebrovascular disease — is the first of its kind in the country, according to Cooper. It is equipped to handle acute strokes of any type, cerebral aneurysms, carotid artery disease, and other vascular conditions affecting the brain and spinal cord.…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - March 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: John George Source Type: news
ClearSky Health announces plans to build rehabilitation hospital in Waxahachie
Rehabilitative healthcare provider ClearSky Health announced Friday it plans to build a 30-bed medical rehabilitation hospital in Waxahachie, Texas.
ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital of Waxahachie will offer rehabilitative and specialized care to about 650 patients living with disabling injuries and other diseases such as h ip fractures, brain injuries, stroke, spinal injuries and multiple sclerosis.
“The facility will be a great addition to our medical community in meeting our citizens’…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Plamedie Ifasso Source Type: news
This Cupertino startup is working on a tiara-like device that could make a world of difference for stroke patients
When treating a person who's suffered a stroke, it matters a lot what kind of stroke it was.
It's particularly important to know whether the stroke was caused by a blood clot in one of the large arteries leading to the brain. That's because that type of stroke, known as a large vessel occlusion, needs to be treated right away, but not every hospital is equipped to provide the necessary tr eatment.
Unfortunately, with the equipment they typically have, first responders generally can't tell whether…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Sonya Herrera Source Type: news
