highlights & strategic accomplishments outpatient pain management care for up to eight weeks after surgery. Under the direction of Dr. Vladimir Kramskiy, this exciting new program provides continuity of care for ARJR patients who experience atypical pain after discharge from the Hospital.
acute pain medicine service volume 12,000
11,000 10,000
9,000 8,000
The RPM Pain Hotline also serves as a “safety net” so that our patient’s pain concerns never go unanswered. In 2010 there was a 277 percent increase in calls to the Pain Hotline, primarily due to the expansion of our RPM service to the outpatient population.
2006
2009
2010
2008–2010
1,200
900
Division of Musculoskeletal and Interventional Pain Management
Under the direction of Dr. Seth Waldman, the CPS staff provided care to over 15,000 patients in 2010. Our team treated 8,288 outpatients and
2008
1,500
600
The Division of Musculoskeletal and Interventional Pain Management, known internally as the Chronic Pain Service (CPS), provides consultation, assessment and specialized treatment to patients in need of extended pain management care.
2007
recuperative pain medicine service volume
VLADIMIR KRAMSKIY, MD
Medical Director Ambulatory Recuperative Pain Medicine
2006–2010
2008
2009
2010
division of musculoskeletal and interventional pain management volume 2006–2010 20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
MY PAIN MANAGEMENT DOCTOR IS OUTSTANDING. HE LISTENED TO MY CONCERNS AND MADE SURE I WAS COMFORTABLE WITH MY PAIN MANAGEMENT PLAN. HE IS ONE OF—IF NOT THE MOST—COMPASSIONATE PHYSICIANS I HAVE EVER MET.
—EXCERPT FROM A 2010 PRESS GANEY PATIENT SURVEY
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