Thursday, March 14, 2013
The artist is a Lower Merion resident.
On March 6, Bryn Mawr Hospital hosted a reception marking the installation of a $50,000 signature work of art by Bala Cynwyd's Jonathan Mandell in the Warden Lobby Quilt Room. The 6- by 8-foot piece, commissioned by the Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation, features 16 images that speak to the hospital’s 100-plus year history and future. It was made using many different materials, including ceramic tile, mirror metals and glass. The grout lines act as drawing lines, bringing the imagery to life as they establish both depth perspective and volume of form, and encourages people to view it up close and touch it. “We’re thrilled to have one of Jonathan Mandell’s mosaics at Bryn Mawr Hospital, especially one that is so personalized to reflect the …
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Transradial Catheterization means a heart attack patient could be sitting up shortly after.
If you have not been in Bryn Mawr Hospital’s Cath Lab, where they do coronary emergencies, acute stroke intervention and limb salvage procedures, you’d probably count yourself lucky. Related: When Calling 9-1-1 Improves Your Chances of Living But you’d probably also not know that the traditional form of artery de-clogging using a “balloon” and entering through a vein in the groin is not how it’s done any more. There are better ways to treat coronary emergencies, Dr. Antonis Pratsos, MD, Chief of Cardiac Cath Lab, told Patch. These days they do about 90 percent of the treatment in the lab is done with Transradial Catheterization, in which you access the body from the radial artery in the wrist. Traditionally hospitals have used, and most …
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Twenty minutes could mean the difference between life and death.
This past week, Bryn Mawr Hospital and Narberth Ambulance Company drilled on transporting a dummy heart attack patient to the hospital to see how long it took to get him to Bryn Mawr's cath lab. The hospital will soon change its practice of patients stopping in the Emergency Room to be stabilized because the tools to do that are available in ambulances, and the processes like taking blood can be done in the cath lab, where treatments to open arteries occurs. In this business, as they say, time is muscle. As the hospital tries to shorten its "door-to-device" time, it asks the community to help them do that by calling 911 if someone thinks they are having a heart attack. "Do not drive yourself in," said Kim Mayhew, the Chest Pain Center …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
The hospital will soon have heart attack patients bypass the Emergency Room.
On Thursday morning a man having a heart attack was on his way to Bryn Mawr Hospital in an ambulance. The Narberth Ambulance medics notified the hospital by transmitting his EKG and were working on stabilizing him as they transported him. When he arrived at Bryn Mawr, the man was not breathing. Not because of his heart attack, but because he was never alive to begin with. He was a practice "dummy." The training is part of the hospital's attempt to reduce the "door to device" time in cardiac care. Soon the hospital will stop the practice of admitting heart attack patients in the ER first and then sending them to the "cath lab" for procedures to open arteries, said Kim Mayhew, the chest pain center coordinator at Bryn Mawr. Now all of the …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The 18-year-old from Massachusetts was hospitalized Dec. 2.
A Villanova University student was hospitalized and cited for public intoxication early Sunday morning after his blood alcohol content tested at life-threatening levels, Lower Merion police said Monday. Bryn Mawr Hospital staff called police about 2:15 a.m. to report a very drunk man had just left the emergency room. Whether the man—an 18-year-old Villanova freshman from Newton, MA—had been receiving medical treatment, and how he had arrived at the hospital, was not immediately known. Officers encountered the student on a sidewalk a block away from the hospital, staggering and speaking incomprehensibly, police said. His only statement police understood was that he had been drinking beer and vodka. The student's blood alcohol content …
Sunday, July 29, 2012
See where Bryn Mawr Hospital ranks in the region and in the state.
Bryn Mawr Hospital has once again been ranked among the best of the greater Philadelphia region and of the state by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital is ranked 16th best in the Philadelphia metropolitan area (which includes Camden, NJ, and Wilmington, DE) and 30th best in Pennsylvania, according to the recent rankings on the U.S. News & World Report website. Only 21 of the Philadelphia region's 93 hospitals were determined to be top-ranking. Regional hospitals were determined to be "high-performing" if they were nationally ranked or high-performing in at least one specialty. Bryn Mawr Hospital, which has 319 beds, is high-performing in three specialties: geriatrics, orthopedics and urology. Eighty percent of patients would recommend …
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
A Bryn Mawr Hospital dietician shares her top seven superfoods for summer.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
From Greek yogurt to gazpacho, there are some healthy, low-calorie options to consider especially in the summertime. Bryn Mawr Hospital clinical dietician Rebecca Stack Shenkman writes about seven of her favorite summer superfoods in this wellness article. Read her article for the rest of the list and for serving suggestions.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Police said the man went missing about 9:30 a.m.
1:40 p.m. update: The man has been found and returned to the hospital, Lower Merion Police Superintendent Michael McGrath told Patch. Radnor police found him on Bryn Mawr Avenue near Sproul Road. 12 p.m.: A 72-year-old Narberth man with dementia went missing from his Bryn Mawr Hospital room Wednesday morning, Lower Merion police said. Lower Merion and Radnor police are combing the complex and the surrounding neighborhood for a a white man about 6 feet tall, with white hair and glasses, wearing a green Marines T-shirt, blue jeans and hiking boots, Lt. Christopher Polo told Patch. "We're going through cameras now to see if he left the hospital," Polo said. A nurse had apparently seen the man walking down the hallway from his room about 9:30…
Saturday, May 12, 2012
The Bryn Mawr road will be closed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Old Lancaster Road will be closed between Summit Grove and Mondella avenues from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday for equipment installation using a crane, according to a release from Lower Merion Township. Emergency vehicles will not have access at the closure and should use Lindsay Avenue via County Line Road, the release states. The Bryn Mawr Hospital entrance on Old Lancaster Road will be accessible to vehicles coming from Bryn Mawr Avenue, and the parking garage will be accessible to vehicles traveling east from Mondella Avenue/County Line Road, according to the release. The area between the hospital entrance and the parking garage entrance will be closed. Read more about construction on the Bryn Mawr Medical Arts Pavilion.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Main Line Health Announces First Cord Blood Match at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Marking the one-year anniversary of the Mason Shaffer Public Cord Blood Program at Main Line Health, the first cord blood match has taken place at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Paulana and Steven Tagliatelli of Royersford, PA, donated the cord blood of daughter Laura Maria on July 11, 2011 at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Her cord blood has now been donated to a patient with lymphoma. “I always loved helping others and thought that by donating my daughter’s cord blood I could help someone who really needs it,” explained Paulana. “Perhaps one day my family will need a donation like that. It didn't hurt, it didn't put us at any risk, so I was very happy to do it.” Umbilical cord blood is rich in non-controversial stem cells which can be used to successfully …
Jim Tierney
11:51 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
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