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New Hospital Design Approved for 2012

©2008 The Nemours Foundation.

In this Issue:

2 Two Minimally Invasive ORs

3 News and Appointments at Nemours

4 New Hospital Design - continued

Mark your calendar

Late Effects of Childhood Cancer SurvivorsWednesday, October 1AIDHC, Wilmington, DE

Advocacy, Policy & Progress in the Fight Against Childhood ObesityOctober 23-24DuPont Hotel, Wilmington, DE

Tonsillectomy & Adenoidectomy: Techniques and TechnologiesFriday, October 24AIDHC, Wilmington, DE

39th Annual Robert O.Y. Warren, MD Memorial Seminar Wednesday, November 12 AIDHC, Wilmington, DE

For details and registration on these lectures or others, please visit PedsEducation.org or call the Office of CME at 302-651-6750.

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This edition of YourNemours replaces the Around Nemours physician’s newsletter previously distributed by Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. We hope you enjoy it.

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In 2012, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children will unveil a whole new look. In May 2008, the Nemours Board of Directors approved an estimated $200 million facility expansion plan. The planning and design process will take place over the next 12 to 18 months, and is expected to include a new inpatient tower, complete renovation of the outpatient care areas and integration of advance technology and digital operations.

According to Tom Ferry, Senior Vice President, Hospital Operations for Nemours and CEO of the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, the plans to expand the hospital’s capabilities and efficiencies are necessary to meet the increasingly complex needs of today’s hospitalized child. Hospitalized children are more likely to be repeat patients, requiring sophisticated support and amenities.

“This is an exciting time for the duPont Hospital for Children,” Ferry says. “By building a new inpatient tower from the ground up, Nemours will be able to re-invent the patient/family experience by taking advantage of the best, evidence–based design techniques and advanced technologies.”

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Following seventeen months of planning and construction, AIDHC held a grand opening on July 28 to celebrate an important addition to the hospital - two minimally invasive operating rooms. Minimally invasive surgery requires smaller surgical incisions, which can support faster recoveries and less pain for the patient postoperatively.

Grand Opening of Two Minimally Invasive ORs

Using the latest technology, surgeons can now use high definition video equipment to perform endoscopic and laparoscopic procedures. They project surgical images to a variety of monitors around the suite, providing a view of the surgery to the entire surgical team. This not only allows the surgeons and OR staff to have a clear view the surgery, meaning better accuracy and better outcomes, but can also provide remote learning, projecting these same images to a variety on conference rooms within the hospital.

To allow greater flexibility in the room, all equipment is placed on booms, keeping wires and carts off the floor. New LED

lights technology provides the surgeon with an unparalleled view of the surgical field. And new ‘green lights’ improve visibility, by helping to reduce the glare produced on monitors by strong surgical lights. They even help the environment, requiring less energy than other surgical lights and bulbs need to be changed less often.

Krishna White, MD, MPH, Director of Adolescent Medicine Program, is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at duPont Hospital for Children. She is

a graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. She completed her residency in pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, and served her fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. She also obtained a Masters of Public Health in Health Policy at The George Washington University. Dr. White is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Welcome Our New PhysiciansMichael Andrew McCulloch, MD, is a cardiologist at the Nemours Cardiac Center.

He is a graduate of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center

in San Antonio School of Medicine and served both his residency in pediatrics and his fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He is board certified in pediatrics. His special interests include echocardiography, cardiac MRI and intensive care.

Brian J. Duffy, MD, is a pediatric surgeon at duPont Hospital for Children.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of

Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and served his residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Duffy completed two fellowships, one in Pediatric surgery at J.W. Riley Hospital for Children and another in Research at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

To schedule an appointment at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, have your patients call 1-800-413-4441, Monday - Friday from 7:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. Or we’ll call them! Just have them visit www.nemours.org/neonlineappt and let us know when they’re available. They can expect a return call within 48 hours.

Nemours is pleased to now bring outpatient pediatric specialty care to Newtown Square.

Located on the beautiful Ellis Preserve, Nemours Children’s Clinic Newtown Square combines outstanding physicians and state-of-the-art facilities. Nemours now offers convenient health care, with a full range of pediatric specialty care services, easy scheduling and extensive free parking.

The duPont Hospital for Children provides a range of diagnostic evaluation and hearing screening services with the latest technology and pediatric audiologists. In addition, EKG and echocardiography services are available.

Specialties include:

Bryn Mawr Hospital Health Center offers on-site laboratory, imaging and pediatric rehabilitation services.

Nemours Children’s Clinic Newtown Square Bryn Mawr Hospital Health Center3855 West Chester Pike, Suite 280Newtown Square, PA 19073Office: (610) 557-4800

To schedule an appointment, please call 800-416-4441.

J. Fernando del Rosario, MD, has been named Chief, Division of Gastroenterology. Dr. del Rosario has served as Interim Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology since August 2007 and is the Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program. He is a graduate of the UERM College of Medicine in Manila, Philippines and completed his residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and at Dayton Children’s Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He served his fellow-ship in pediatric gastroenterology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is board certified in pediatrics and pediat-ric gastroenterology.

Paul D. Kempinski, FACHE, Chief Operating Officer for AIDHC, received his Fellow status with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

ACHE is an international professional society of healthcare executives who are leaders in the healthcare setting. Only 7,500 healthcare executives hold the dis-tinction of board certification in health-care management as an ACHE Fellow.

Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD, has assumed the role of Interim Co-Director of Behavioral Health. Dr. Pendley has been a member of the Division for 13 years during which time she has held the position of Psychology Residency Training Director, directed

the Division’s Behavioral Consultation Clinic, and has actively been involved in research.

Louanne A. Stratton, PhD, RN, accepted the position of Chief Nursing Executive for AIDHC. Dr. Stratton has served as the Interim Chief Nursing Executive since March of this year.

During that time, she established herself as a respected and visionary leader who has significantly advanced our journey toward nursing excellence. Before joining Nemours, Dr. Stratton served in a variety of leadership and consultative capacities at hospitals and healthcare organizations across the country. She has a strong track record of accomplishment in nursing leadership, clinical operations, preparation for Magnet seeking organizations, teaching, collaborative research, recruitment/retention, and Joint Commission preparation.

Joanne M. Plesnick, MBA, joined Nemours as the Administrative Director of Pediatrics. She comes to Nemours with over 27 years of healthcare expe-rience and has both a clinical and administrative background. Most recently, Plesnick was the Assistant Vice President of the Crozer Keystone Health Network. The network includes 240 employed primary and specialty care physicians at 36 sites throughout Delaware County, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

News and Appointments at NemoursNemours Expands Outpatient Pediatric Specialty Care

AudiologyCardiology Endocrinology Gastroenterology SurgeryHematology/Oncology

NeurologyNeurosurgery OrthopedicsOtolaryngology PulmonologyUrology Weight Mngmnt

“The evidence-based approach to the design at the duPont Hospital is similar to concepts being employed in the development of the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando—natural light, bringing the outdoors into the kind of healthy environment proven to benefit healing. The patient experience will be designed and delivered in a very similar way, North and South…the Nemours Way,” says David J. Bailey, MD, MBA, Nemours President and CEO.The goal will be to create a physical environment for duPont Hospital’s in- and outpatients that increases safety, decreases

stress and symbolizes caring, healing and respect for patients and their families.Initial plans call for extensive redesign of the existing space, including:

Building a new inpatient facility • that integrates environmentally sustainable design and construction practices, with the flexibility to adapt to future needs

Creating an expansive new atrium • that will likely encompass the entire side of the hospital

Completely renovating the outpatient • care areas

Expanding and renovating the • existing Intensive Care Units

Design considerations expected to • enhance patient safety and family-centered care initiatives include:

Moving the medical/surgical nursing • units in the current facility to an all-private bed configuration in the tower

Utilizing advanced technology like • Wi-Fi, robotics and fully-integrated digital operations.

Reconfiguring the current 24-bed • inpatient nursing units into smaller groups that will provide increased flexibility

Increasing patient/family amenities • like healing and recreation spaces and in-room patient portals that provide Internet, TV, on-demand movies and games and health care information that leverages KidsHealth.org content.

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