NEWS & REMINDERS
Reminder: Suburban Hospital CME Diabetes Symposium
Save the Date: Suburban Hospital CME Diabetes Symposium
Annual Mastering Children's Orthopaedics Course
Annual Leadership Meeting and State of Johns Hopkins Medicine
MEDICAL STAFF CALENDAR
Click here for the August 2019 calendar.
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins Medicine Continuing Medical Education Series
All grand rounds are on hiatus for the summer and will return in the fall.
RESEARCH CORNER
Johns Hopkins Co-Leads Research on Child ‘Poliolike’ Condition
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine will co-lead a multicenter, multinational study of acute flaccid myelitis, a condition likened to polio that causes loss of muscle control in children. Read more about this research.
5-Hour Test Accurately Detects Breast Cancer
WORKPLACE SAFETY
Code Green
As we continue to focus on creating a safe workplace and care environment, please remember that violent situational response team activation applies not only to patients, but also to family and visitors.
To report a violent person or situation, dial the Call Center at 14 to notify security. Please specify whether the combative person is a patient or a family or visitor(s). The overhead announcement for a combative patient is “Code Green.” For combative family or visitors, the overhead is “Code Green Visitor.” This will help our Security team as they intervene and help reinforce Suburban’s standards of civil behavior.
HOPKINS GREATER WASHINGTON MD HIGHLIGHT
Modern Techniques of Aortic Valve Repair
Watch Michael Siegenthaler, M.D., assistant professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and cardiovascular surgeon at Suburban Hospital, explain modern techniques of aortic valve repair including bicuspid valve repair, TAVR, TMVR, and the treatment of aortic aneurysms on HopkinsGreaterWashingtonMD.org. Dr. Siegenthaler performs TAVRs with the Suburban Hospital structural heart team, including interventional
cardiologists Greg Kumkumian, M.D., Eric Lieberman, M.D. and Rani Hasan, M.D.
CREDENTIALED AT SUBURBAN
Pain Management
For a list of Pain Management Specialists practicing at Suburban Hospital, click here.
EPIC TIP OF THE WEEK
OR Pathology and Cytology Orders Now Appear for Signature in Cosign Tab and In Basket
Effective Aug. 8, all surgical pathology and cytology orders placed by nursing during procedures will require a cosignature in order to maintain compliance with regulatory standards. Surgeons, Gastroenterologist, and Pulmonologist performing procedures with pathology and/or cytology specimens ordered during the procedure will see a cosignature prompt in the Cosign tab of the Orders activity and In Basket. Only one signature is required for surgical pathology specimens and one signature for cytology specimens, regardless of the actual number of specimens ordered. Download this handout to learn more.