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The NSRC is proud to present this month’s Respiratory Showcase, Nebraska Heart Hospital - Respiratory Care Department The Nebraska Heart Hospital (NHH) is the region's premiere facility for cardiac, vascular and thoracic services. Throughout the last 30 years, the physicians of the Nebraska Heart Institute have created a standard of excellence in caring for patients across the Midwest. Today, the same physicians and philosophy of care provide the foundation for Nebraska's first exclusive Heart Hospital.
NHH opened in May 2003, and has been serving patients with inpatient and outpatient care from the facility located in southeast Lincoln, Nebraska. NHH raises the bar on how care is delivered. Closer proximity of patients to services improves efficiencies; specialized staff creates better outcomes; and centralization promotes cost-effectiveness. By providing focused care on one specialty, physicians and staff work together, in partnership, to be the best.
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Nebraska Heart Hospital
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Anthony Marx, RRT and Rob Dickhaut, RRT review the Maquet Servo i ventilator with past AARC International Fellow, Shamurad Takhirov, MD, PhD, from Uzbekistan.
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Jill Anderson, RRT performs pulmonary function maneuver on a patient.
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Tom Fitzpatrick, RRT manually ventilates a patient in the 64-Slice CT scanner.
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Nebraska Heart Hospital Anesthesiologist Eric Crimmins, MD (far left), poses with Nebraska Heart Hospital RTs following his poster presentation at the AARC International Congress in Orlando, Florida, this past December.
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Three-dimensional CT image of lung tissue and bronchus.
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Imagery construction of thorax from a 64-Slice CT scan.
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Select members of the Nebraska Heart Hospital Respiratory Care Department.
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Chris Akers, RRT, RPGST and Kelli Arnett, RRT review a sleep study.
The Nebraska Heart Hospital has 19 registered respiratory therapists and nine dual credentialed therapists. NHH respiratory therapists work with Nebraska Heart surgeons and cardiologists as well as pulmonologists and primary care physicians, in the treatment of pulmonary disease and cardiac surgery recovery. NHH respiratory therapists lend their expertise to the organization’s 18 cardiologists, 2 electrophysiologists, 5 surgeons, 3 anesthesiologists, and 21 MLPs. The Nebraska Heart Hospital offers comprehensive respiratory care services, as well as provides a four bed sleep lab that allows scheduling six nights a week. In addition, NHH has an in-house pulmonary function laboratory and assists consulting pulmonary and gastroenterology physicians with endoscopy services. The organization’s clinical strengths has earned the trust of the physicians and generated clinical autonomy that allows them to utilize the AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines and treat the patient as necessary, improving outcomes. NHH respiratory therapists are involved within the facility on multiple committees. Therapists are also involved in the community with disaster preparedness and the local respiratory therapy school as a clinical site and a member of the advisory board. Recently, the anesthesiology and respiratory care departments presented two poster presentations at the AARC International Congress in Orlando, Florida, which earned recognition on an international level. The department is also proud to have coordinated and participated in hosting every AARC International Fellow since the hospital opened in 2003 and for receiving the AARC Quality Respiratory Care Recognition Award from 2005-2008. The Nebraska Heart Hospital was the first recipient of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska 2007 Recognition for Quality Award and received the 2007 American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines™ Sustained Performance Gold Award and 2006 & 2007 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success Award Winner. The respiratory care department is proud to contribute to the 98 percent rating of patients who received antibiotics one hour before surgery and 81 percent rating of patients always receiving help when they wanted it; a higher rating than the Nebraska state average according to www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. For more information, please visit the Nebraska Heart website at www.nebraskaheart.com/NHH/Respiratory.asp. Disclaimer:
The information and pictures in the Respiratory Showcase are provided
with the permission of the submitting hospital.
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