Mayo Clinic Clinic Care Medical Director Mark Larson presents Memorial Well being System with a commemorative plaque to begin their partnership. From left are: Dan Breece, Memorial Well being System Vice President of Physicians Companies and Chief Medical Officer, Stephen Keiser, Vice Chair of Marietta Space Well being Care Inc, and Scott Cantley, Memorial Well being System President and Chief Govt Officer.
(Photograph by Kristen Hainkel)
Memorial Well being System has joined forces with Mayo Clinic, well being care officers introduced Thursday.
“This can be a historic day,” Memorial Well being System President and Chief Govt Officer Scott Cantley stated. “We’ve got been anxious to share this announcement with our group.”
The brand new collaboration will allow Memorial Well being System to entry Mayo Clinic’s databases, seek the advice of with their specialists on affected person circumstances, take part in video conferences and throughout entry to their medical sources.
“The flexibility to have entry to all of the experience of the world’s most outstanding well being care entity brings to their sufferers on daily basis. For us to make that out there to the sufferers of the Mid Ohio Valley is among the unbelievable alternatives that this area has ever had,” Cantley stated.
“It connects our suppliers to 4,500 suppliers and now have fast entry to the experience of the Mayo Clinic which is considered the primary model in well being care,” stated Dan Breece, Memorial Well being System Vice President of Physicians Companies and Chief Medical Officer.
Mayo Clinic Clinic Care Medical Director Mark Larson offered examples of knowledge sharing in actual life eventualities.
“If you happen to’ve bought nursing leaders that say, What are you doing to eradicate an an infection at a hospital? We at the moment are working collectively. If you happen to’ve bought new most cancers therapies which can be being unfolded, we at the moment are working collectively to ship that sort of care,” he stated.
He added, “Now, these sufferers have along with their native supplier, they’ve a very giant crew to name on. They now have 4,500 extra physicians who’re specialists and subspecialists that may be known as on by means of digital session, sharing sources and dealing with groups of specialists that your sufferers can draw from.”
Breece stated the challenge began with a want to advance the standard of care Memorial Well being System offers. Officers determined they wished to pursue aligning with Mayo Clinic.
“You’ll be able to name the Mayo Clinic and ask to be part of the Mayo Clinic community. They’ll take that decision, nevertheless it’s not that simple. It’s a rigorous course of with a whole lot of due diligence that occurs to have the ability to get hold of the power simply to undergo the journey and turn into a part of the community,” he stated.
Memorial Well being System suppliers will now have entry to digital libraries of Mayo Clinic protocols, analysis, and remedy suggestions. They’ll additionally talk with suppliers electronically by means of messaging and video chats. Larson stated this characteristic can be significantly helpful for sufferers with complicated sicknesses with no need to journey a protracted distance.
“Your sufferers will obtain the profit from this with out having to journey and with no extra price to the affected person and extra peace of thoughts. Lots of the sources allow a connection between a supplier right here and a supplier at Mayo Clinic. For instance, if they’ve a sophisticated, complicated situation, they’ll seek the advice of and say, what would you do, what would you advocate for this affected person?”
Memorial Well being System sufferers won’t see the Mayo Clinic medical doctors head to head, solely the suppliers will.
Officers went by means of a two-year course of to solidify the collaboration, together with what Breece known as “a minor setback” of an information breach in summer time 2021.
Larson stated Mayo Clinic selected to align with Memorial Well being System as a result of their core values aligned, comparable to working collectively and placing the affected person’s wants first.
“We’ve seen time and time once more that our imaginative and prescient of how we expect well being care must be delivered and your imaginative and prescient and our imaginative and prescient align rather well. It’s crucial that our methods work collectively. We’re not on totally different pages,” he stated.
