DID YOU KNOW? Truman Medical Centers is set to open the new 90,000 sq. ft., $29 million University Health facility

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1 Truman Medical Centers is set to open the new 90,000 sq. ft., $29 million University Health facility The new facility consolidates outpatient medical and surgical services into a single, state-of-the-art, modern location for the comfort and care of patients.

2 Mark Steele, MD, was named Truman Medical Centers Chief Operating Officer. He continues to serve as Chief Medical Officer for the organization. His focus includes the clinical and business operations of TMC and quality, productivity, patient safety and satisfaction, and patient throughput.

3 Anxiety is a common comorbidity in COPD patients Because many symptoms of COPD and Anxiety overlap, standard assessments for the general population may not properly identify anxiety in COPD patients. TMC and UMKC researchers are using the Anxiety Inventory for Respiratory Disease (AIR) questionnaire to detect anxiety in the COPD population Investigator: Gary Salzman, MD

4 Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill is the 1 st in the metro to earn the international Baby-Friendly designation from Baby-Friendly USA, Inc. There are more than 20,000 designated Baby-Friendly hospitals and birth centers worldwide. Currently there are just over 200 active Baby-Friendly hospitals and birth centers in the United States.

5 TMC is 1 of 5 sites participating in a National Institutes of Health grant through the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) The objective of the Decisional Quality in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease (DEQCAD) is to measure the quality of the decision-making process for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The study seeks to answer: a) How informed are patients about their treatment choices, b) are patients participating as much as they would like to, and c) do the treatment decisions made match patients' preferences? Investigator: Javed Ashraf, MD

6 Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health created the Perinatal Community Initiative (PCI) in response to the growing need to integrate physical and behavioral health for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs). The project ensures that perinatal mental health screenings take place in diverse settings such as hospitals, healthcare clinics, home nursing programs and early childhood educational programs. When/if symptoms of PMADs are detected, women receive seamless transition to the mental healthcare they need.

7 TMC is participating in a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) clinical trial. SWOG trial S1007 is working to determine the effect of chemotherapy in patients with node positive breast cancer (1-3 positive nodes) and hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. The purpose is to evaluate therapy on the difference in disease-free survival rates. TMC is a member of the Midwest Cancer Alliance Investigator: Sheshadri Madhusudhana, MD

8 TMC is working on a project sponsored by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Patient-centered Outcomes Related to Treatment practices in peripheral Arterial disease: an Investigating Trajectories PORTRAIT PORTRAIT is a multi-center study designed to evaluate differences in patient characteristics, treatment methods and physician adherence to recently endorsed peripheral arterial disease measures. Investigators: Mark Friedell, MD (TMC Chair of Surgery) Kim Smolderen, PhD (UMKC & Saint Luke s Hospital)

9 TMC and the University of Kansas Cancer Center collaborated to create one of the first regional biobanks (collections of specimens such as blood, saliva and tissue) vital to translational cancer research. Translational research takes what is learned in the lab and applies it or translates it -- to clinical trials that can help patients. The biobank collects biospecimens from a diverse population of patients to help improve the overall geographic and population diversity of cancer research. Less than 2 percent of all clinical cancer research studies focus on ethnic groups.

10 TMC was named for the fifth consecutive year as one of Health Care s Most Wired organizations of 2015 by the American Hospital Association and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).