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The Beat Goes On North Mountain Hospital Earns
Silver Stroke Award
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ohn C. Lincoln North Mountain Hospital has David Lincoln received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes North Mountain’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations. Studies demonstrate that patients who are taught how to manage their risk factors while still in the hospital reduce their risk of a second stroke or heart attack.
Patient-Provider
Relationships Personalized Health Care for the 21st Century
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arcus Welby has moved into the 21st Century. Although the friendly fictional family doctor’s delivery of personalized health care has long been rumored to be lost in the mists of history, American health care reform just may be bringing him back. Only better. “When it comes to health care, we’ve built more than a better mousetrap. We’ve built the best mousetrap in Arizona,” said Jim Dearing, DO, chief medical officer for John C. Lincoln’s Physician Network of primary and specialty care practices. “We have created a continuous healing relationship with our patients.” America’s new health care reform legislation refers to clinically integrated care
Deer Valley Hospital Earns
Platinum Quality Award
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ohn C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital has been recognized as a top performing hospital in the Midas+ Platinum Quality Award program. This award is based upon Deer Valley’s 2011 performance ranking in the top 5 percent of hospitals tracked in the Midas+ National Comparative Database.
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September / October 2012
Family physician Jim Dearing, DO, and patient Maria Malice, who appreciates patient centered care.
and other jargon, but what it’s all about is creating a team that includes patients, their families, their primary care physicians and other medical care providers who all communicate with each other and work together so the patient’s health is as good as it can be. The concept, Dr. Dearing explained, is to create a place where a medical team led by a primary care physician knows the patients, their families, their values, their medical histories and their medical needs. Bolstered by a single electronic medical record encompassing all of each patient’s history, diagnoses and care, the medical team can literally meet the patient’s needs before they are asked. “You can’t put a price on that kind of knowledge,” said Maria Malice, who’s been Dr. Dearing’s patient for 20 years. “When you have a doctor who’s in tune with you, you don’t worry because you know the doctor cares about you and knows what you need.” continued on page 2 >