Building team camaraderie while distanced is a challenge. As part of the Neighborhood’s regular online meetings, Project Manager DJ Vaglia started a weekly trivia competition to see who knows the most about Pittsburgh’s many historical and iconic bridges. The Manchester Bridge is one of the storied structures from our neighborly trivia game.
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Our process improvement teams partnered with frontline employees and Leaders in Magee Imaging departments to help decrease “turnaround times” (the time it takes for a patient who is ordered an imaging exam to have the exam completed). It used shadowing, WMTY (of frontline employees), PCVS Jump Start, and care experience flow mapping.
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As a high-volume destination for Total Joint Replacement (TJR) patients, as well as Bariatric patients, and with the changing rules and protocols of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 4100 Unit team adapted to the challenges before them in unprecedented ways.
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As the Bone and Joint Center’s Rapid Recovery Program expanded to include both Total Hip Replacement and Total Knee Replacement patients this year, the BJC continued to rely on lessons learned from shadowing and other person-centered design strategies to make changes and improvements that better serve patients and families.
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Every patient is unique, and has a personalized list of priorities when it comes to health and wellness. Hear how the Center for Bone and Joint Health helped Katie Bicknell be proactive about her arthritis and live the healthiest life possible.
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Taking a more holistic view of your health, including your personal lifestyle, behaviors, attitudes, and other pieces of the puzzle, helps you get a better snapshot of your overall wellness so that you can make healthier choices.
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By personalizing the care experience to better meet the particular needs of each patient, we believe that we can begin to reduce musculoskeletal disparities and promote improved health and wellness for all people. Exemplifying this belief is the new Center for Bone and Joint Health at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. By pulling together providers, resources, and services that better meet patients’ personal and specific needs, the Center is addressing the crisis threatening to disable a significant portion of the US population and that‘s placing growing, burdensome costs on the healthcare system.
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Every year, the Operation Walk Pittsburgh team spends months preparing to embark on its mission trip to Antigua, Guatemala. After postponing the mission last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team behind the scenes worked diligently to structure a 2021 Mission that would deliver the same mobility-restoring procedures to patients in need while ensuring safety for all involved.
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During a time of uncertainty and rapidly evolving change in the healthcare sector, it is imperative that we center and value what is important to the patients we serve and employees with whom we work. At the core of our value system is this commitment to listening and respecting one another, even and perhaps especially, during times of crisis. True human-centered co-design begins with understanding what matters to people.
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Living an active life requires bone and joint health. Musculoskeletal conditions like osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, inflammatory arthritis, and osteoporosis lessen a person’s quality of life, cause pain and disability, and significantly increase healthcare costs. The threat of limited mobility and disability from chronic pain and weakened bones is concerning for increasingly large portions of the aging US population.
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