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Volume 16 • Issue 8 • $5.00 February 2020
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

CARDIOLOGY EDUCATION

Miami Dade College

Simulation Hospital:

Safe Practice Builds Confidence

BY BARBARA R. FALLON

Einstein extolled the virtue of experience as a valuable
teacher. Miami Dade College Medical Campus President
Dr. Bryan Stewart and the Health Career faculty couldn’t Lincoln Mendez
agree more.
Stewart brings his enthusiasm and experience to
Florida, creating a Simulation Hospital in which students Lincoln Mendez
Dr. I-wen Wang had first dibs in the Fall 2019 quarter! What was once an
underutilized parking lot is now a 5-story center for Reflects on
ECMO: experiential health science learning which broke ground
in 2016. An entire floor is devoted to 17 rooms where stu-
dent nurses have real life experiences delivering babies, Dr. Bryan Stewart Baptist Health-
A Machine that caring for post-operative patients, delivering home care
in an apartment scenario to trauma care readiness during EMS ambulance simula- Boca Raton
Helps Save Lives tions. Sophisticated, lifelike, state-of-the-art mannequins imitate the reality of imme-
diate health issues where students can react and apply classroom learning to monitor Merger and
a suspect heart tone, bowel sound, pulse, blood pressure reading or breathing incon-
BY I-WEN WANG, MD, PHD, FACS sistencies and other critical patient history and physical data. Instructional facilities
also include active learning classrooms, a technology-rich lecture hall, and a multi- Looks Ahead
ECMO (extracorporeal membrane purpose conference venue. What is the difference between this and a clinical nursing
oxygenation) is a technology that can internship you ask? Well, this simulated environment provides a realistic but safe
support a compromised heart and lungs, Continued on page 28 BY DANIEL CASCIATO
keeping critically-ill patients alive when
their own organs can't sustain them. A Last July, Lincoln Mendez of Baptist
machine does this by pumping blood Health South Florida succeeded Jerry
from the body to an artificial lung that The Business of Health Care - Fedele as CEO of Boca Raton Regional
adds oxygen and removes carbon diox- Hospital upon Fedele’s retirement and
ide. It then pumps the blood back to the Social Determinants, after the merger of the two healthcare
patient with the same force as the heart organizations. Prior to coming to Boca
to be circulated throughout the body. Economic and Political Impacts Raton Regional Hospital, Mendez had
While cardiac situations, such as also served as the CEO of South Miami
transplant, cardiac arrest, and acute Hospital since early 2010.
heart failure are among the most com- Mendez’s initial entry into the health-
mon uses for ECMO, it is now also BY BARBARA R. FALLON care industry was in the hospital labora-
being successfully used to provide life- tory, starting as a Medical Technologist
saving care in high-risk pregnancies, At first glance one might not see the link between a and eventually a Laboratory Director
trauma situations, in severe flu and renowned business school’s sponsorship of an interna- prior to transitioning into Hospital
pneumonia cases, and with auto- tional health care conference and the social determinants Administration. What motivated
immune disorders. It’s also increasingly of health care. However, Dr. Steven Ullmann, Department Mendez to enter the healthcare field was
seen as a favorable alternative in situa- Chair and Professor of Health Management and Policy at his three older brothers who had each
tions where high pressure ventilators University of Miami School of Business has plenty of rea- entered the healthcare industry in differ-
were traditionally used. sons why he is expecting 1,000 participants for the ent areas such as nursing and radiology.
school’s 9th annual signature program, focused on The “As I pursued my undergraduate
ECMO on the Go Business of Health Care: The Social, Political & degree in Biology, the field of Medical
While Memorial Healthcare System is Economic Determinants of Health. Dr. Steven Ullmann Technology seemed like a natural fit for
not alone in its ECMO capabilities in Dr. Ullmann, a pioneer in researching the synergy of what I had been exposed to in college,”
South Florida, what makes us unique, socio-economic determinants of health and business, views scenarios through an eco- says Mendez.
and an important resource to hospitals nomics academic stance. “Knowing ‘where’ and ‘how’ people live and work has an Mendez served as CEO of Doctors
throughout the region, is our mobile impact on productivity, presenteeism and absenteeism, and in turn, how business Hospital for 14 years and it was around
ECMO. Our cardiac and vascular unit plans affect health of their country, employees and communities at large,” he said. the halfway mark of his tenure at
has two (one for adult and one for pedi- “For example, one of our well-known global delivery and logistics companies con- Doctors Hospital, that Baptist Health
atric patients) specially-built, ambu- ducted a productivity study to determine the impact of weight gain on their drivers’ purchased that hospital from a for-profit
lance-like vehicles, each costing more speed of package delivery. The resulting decrease in productivity led to a review of organization.
than $350,000, that enables us to trans- workplace vending machine choices, among other things. Subsequently, as more busi- “After Baptist Health acquired that
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