Same Mission, New Look Lean Daily Management, a four year- old initiative at SBH that engages senior and front line staff in problem solving, is back after a year-long COVID-19 hiatus. Only, at least for now, […]
Author: Kenneth Ho
The Importance of Mentoring
By Steven Clark As Dr. Jacqueline Witter explained in her paper on mentoring nurses published in the Journal of Business and Economics, “Mentoring is a two-way circular dance that provides opportunities for experience, giving and receiving […]
Adolescents Are Impacted by COVID-19 Too
By Faith Daniel The COVID-19 virus has impacted our lives in a myriad of ways, from the way we interact with each another to the landscape of health care today. Adolescents in particular are facing a […]
Lessons Learned During the Pandemic
with Dr. Manisha Kulshreshtha and Dr. Dan Lombardi March 2020 was when New Yorkers were first introduced to a lethal virus that would soon change the lives of frontline workers and patients in hospital emergency rooms […]
Breath In … Breathe Out
By Dr. Angela Babaev, Assistant VP for Education and Nursing Recruitment at SBH Yes, 2020 was a challenging year. The COVID-19 encounter is unquestionably a worldwide team effort, but as health care providers we have a […]
Health Care Workers In Covid: Transparent Heroes
By Stephen Kramer, MD, Attending, Department of Psychiatry at SBH The global coronavirus epidemic of 2020 has generated a multitude of iconic images, perhaps none more ubiquitous than people banging pots and pans and clapping in […]
Telehealth Comes to the ER
The SBH emergency department has introduced a program that providestelehealth visits for a limited number of patients who present in the ER with mild COVID-19. These patients, who must have smartphones and Wi-fi at home, leave […]
Patients in Renal Failure to Get Benefit of CRRT
By Steven Clark The “canary in the coal mine” analogy is how critical care physicians tend to view Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) within their ICU population. Like the caged canaries that miners brought with them down […]
Workforce Wellness is Goal of Committee
By Jennifer Rogers The stress of being a frontline worker during the pandemic has impacted us all – whether you are a doctor having to deliver the news of yet another patient passing from COVID-19 or […]
The Rules for Living and Dying
By Steven Reichert, MD, Director, Palliative Care The hospital admits a 50-year-old woman with a history of obesity, drug abuse and bipolar illness after she was found in the street with evidence of head trauma. A […]
Recharge Room Supports Resilience of Front Line Workers
By SBH Chaplain Ruth Diones Attending the orientation to the Recharge Room amazed me. I am so impressed by the love and thoughtfulness that has gone into the design and construction of the room. The central […]
Foreign Medical Graduates Face Huge Odds
By Steven Clark The numbers tell it all. While 94 percent of American medical school graduates matched this year into hospital residency programs, that number plummeted to just 57 percent among international medical graduates (IMGs) – […]
How the Pandemic Changed the Residency Recruitment Process
By Steven Clark When the residency program director points to a chair and asks you to sit in it during your interview, it’s probably not a good idea to pick the chair up and move it […]
Merits of Retail Pharmacy First Came to Life in Business School Assignment
Dr. Ruth Cassidy laid out her arguments for opening a retail pharmacy at St. Barnabas Hospital by writing a 10-page paper for a class in her MBA program. In the paper, the senior vice president of […]
Medication Management
By Patricia Hane, RPh, Associate Director of Pharmacy Operations, SBH Medication management is a cornerstone of patient care for many diseases and conditions. National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) index for […]
Falling for Your Peloton Instructor
By Steven Clark Relationship status update: I am in love with a man who shows up for me daily, encourages me to keep going, and tells me he is so proud of me – yes, I […]
A Look Back: Vaccinating a Community Hit Hard by COVID-19
By Luci Dehaan In a community where COVID-19 virus positivity rates were among the highest in the country, many welcomed the vaccine with open arms. But distribution of the vaccines didn’t happen by chance. Here’s a […]
Maintaining Flexibility In An Uncertain World
Howard Hook is a fee-only Certified Financial Planner and CPA with the wealth management firm of EKS Associates in Princeton, NJ. He has been named to Medical Economics’ list of top financial planners for physicians for […]
OBSERVARE: Intersection of Art and Medicine
Earlier this month, the entire 3rd year Class of CUNY medical students assembled virtually to look at art. One exercise they performed together was observing John Singleton Copley’s painting, Watson and the Shark. Considered the first […]
GLAUCOMA: Early Screenings save sight
“Glaucoma is a devastating disease.” This is a phrase that Dr. Michelle Packles, an ophthalmologist at SBH, uses regularly when discussing an eye disease that affects an estimated three million Americans. What makes it particularly troublesome […]