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Cincinnati Performance Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Amazing patient care Patient story

Mercy Health — Fairfield HealthPlex has launched a gentle Mary was unable to find relief from her hand pain and
movement class for female breast cancer patients. Many weakness so she scheduled an appointment to see
breast cancer treatments, including breast biopsy, lymph Mark Yuhas, MD. Dr. Yuhas specializes in the treatment of
node biopsy or removal, breast conservation surgery, hand, wrist, and elbow conditions and he is a member of
mastectomy and breast reconstruction, can affect a Wellington Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, a partner of
woman’s ability to move her shoulders and arms. This Mercy Health. “I was very impressed how fast I got in for
restorative class teaches gentle stretching and movement this appointment. This is an excellent, capable group of
techniques to improve posture, flexibility, blood flow and people, from the doctor to all his staff and therapy team.
overall well-being. The series of classes occurs the fourth A great bunch of people to receive care from,” said Mary.
Wednesday of each month at 5pm and focuses on upper She had been encouraged to have surgery by another
body mobility and lengthening to help breast cancer provider, but after a thorough examination, Dr. Yuhas
patients at all stages of survivorship. Breast surgeon and proposed a less invasive course of treatment. “Dr. Yuhas
surgical oncologist Jacquelyn Palmer, MD was the special did a great job of explaining to me my injury and what he
guest at the first class. could do to help. After our discussion, we decided on
conservative management. After getting an injection, and
Operational excellence some therapy I have been able to pick up my
grandchildren without any pain! I have recommended
Supply Chain is working on the best pricing in the industry
through contracts for both supplies and purchased Dr. Yuhas and his team to all my friends and family.”
services. Newly formed relationships with GE Clinical
Engineering and AVI Nutritional Services have saved over
$330,000 this September. New system-wide agreements Clinician story
signed last month for total orthopaedic joints will reduce
prices by approximately $800 per implant. Increased Reza Mehzad, MD, a member of
utilization of third party vendors and reprocessed supplies the Mercy Health — The Heart
is driving additional savings for the region. In addition, we Institute, was visited by a patient
have implemented new analytical tools to track daily seeking an alternative therapy to
supply spending, ensuring Cincinnati is maintaining its anticoagulation. He had multiple
operational excellence by being good stewards of our medical problems and could no
financial resources. longer take Coumadin. He was
at high risk of stroke and
Creating the future thromboembolic events.
Following a complete examination,
The Cincinnati region’s school-based health program Dr. Mehzad proposed the installation of a Watchman™
integrates health centers into our community schools, device, an implant placed inside the left atrial appendage
allowing the opportunity to provide quality healthcare to that reduces the risk of stroke. The procedure was
vulnerable populations facing significant barriers to performed successfully, and when the patient was
access. Creating community learning centers with re-evaluated weeks after surgery, the left atrial appendage
integrated healthcare is the future of providing excellent was completely closed. The patient continues doing
healthcare to communities with a disparity of services. We well without anticoagulation and is very pleased with
currently have five school-based health centers providing the results.
care for students, school staff, and community members,
treating acute and chronic illnesses. We provide regular
health maintenance visits, immunizations, referrals for
mental health and substance abuse treatment, and
education to promote healthy eating and active living. Last
school year, we touched the lives of 1,046 patients.

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