HJNO Nov/Dec 2021

HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS I  NOV / DEC 2021 59 For weekly eNews updates and to read the journal online, visit HealthcareJournalNO.com select novel pacemaker procedures. • STS/ACC TVT Registry (transcatheter valve therapy procedures) —monitors real-world outcomes on transcatheter valve therapies leading to improved patient outcomes, enhanced assessment of treatment options and results, and more informed decision making. • Chest Pain – MI Registry (acute myocardial infarction treatment) — leverages national evidence-based standards for understand- ing and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for heart attack patients. Thibodaux Regional Health SystemWelcomes Derek Neupert, MD Thibodaux Regional Health System is announced the addition of Derek Neupert, MD, neurologist, to the active medical staff. Neupert is available to care for patients at Thibodaux Regional Neurology Clinic, located 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 2300 in Thibodaux. Neupert received an undergraduate degree from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. He earned a medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and performed a neurology residency at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. While at Tulane, he served as chief resident dur- ing his final year and was elected into the AOA Honor Medical Society. Additionally, Neupert completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiol- ogy at Duke University School of Medicine in Dur- ham, North Carolina. Thibodaux Regional Health SystemAcquires Coastal Urgent Care Centers in Thibodaux, Houma Thibodaux Regional Health System and Coastal Urgent Care have finalized an agreement for Thibodaux Regional to acquire the company’s urgent care locations in Thibodaux and Houma. The two locations, which serve thousands of resi- dents throughout the Bayou Region, will be for- mally rebranded as Thibodaux Regional Urgent Care. “Thibodaux Regional and Coastal Urgent Care have worked well together in the past. The inte- gration of these two urgent care centers to our network will provide patients additional access to hospital services and physicians,” said Greg Stock, CEO of Thibodaux Regional Health System. “Patients seeking treatment for non-life- threaten- ing medical care will benefit by receiving care in the most effective and efficient manner possible.” Thibodaux Regional Health System assumed day-to-day operational responsibility for the loca- tions at 2031 Audubon Avenue in Thibodaux and 1411 St. Charles Street in Houma. LakeviewRegional Announces Daisy AwardWinner Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a campus of Tulane Medical Center, announced that Michelle Bergeron, RN, received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses during the second quarter of 2021. She received a hand-carved statue and a framed certificate from the DAISY organization. The DAISY Award is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the skillful, compassionate care that nurses provide every day. “Our nurses are more than just employees doing what they were trained to do,” said Jennifer Schmidt, chief nursing officer. “When life serves a devastating experience, our nurses are there with more than skilled care; they also offer the compas- sion to help patients and their loved ones through it, and often beyond.” Bergeron, an ICU nurse, was nominated for her kindness and compassion by the surviving spouse of a recent patient. The patient was rushed to Lakeview Regional following a cardiac event and was in a coma during her time at Lakeview. After an eight-day stay, she returned home on hospice, where she passed away two days later. “Those days at the hospital were the most brutal of my life, but Michelle made my nights bearable by her compassion, kindness, and love,” read the nom- ination. “I feel like she was an angel during this time, gently assisting me through the most diffi- cult experience of my life. She shared her own dif- ficult stories that she had experienced, and that was everything I needed to get myself through this. She is an extraordinary human being!” The DAISY Foundation was established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes after he died from com- plications of the auto-immune disease ITP in 1999. STHS Listed in Best Hospitals Guidebook for 2022 St. Tammany Health System’s award-winning heart care program has earned recognition in U.S. News &World Report ’s 2022 Best Hospitals guide- book, which recognizes hospitals for their commit- ment to quality and patient improvement in the heart care arena, as designated by the American College of Cardiology. STHS’s accreditation as a Chest Pain Center and participation in data registries related to cardio- vascular care in the 2022 guidebook are: • Chest Pain Center Accreditation — recog- nizes hospitals that integrate triage treat- ment protocols, risk stratification and best practices for the emergency care of acute coronary syndrome patients. • Chest Pain - MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award — recognizes hospitals participating in Chest Pain - MI Registry that have demonstrated sustained, top-level per- formance in quality of care and adherence to guideline recommendations. • CathPCI Registry (diagnostic cardiac cathe- terization and percutaneous coronary inter- vention) — measures adherence to the ACC/AHA clinical practice guideline recom- mendations, procedure performance stan- dards and appropriate use criteria for coro- nary revascularization. • EP Device Implant Registry (implantable car- dioverter defibrillator and pacemaker pro- cedures) — provides a national standard for understanding patient characteristics, treatments, outcomes, device safety and the overall quality of care for ICD/CRT-D and Derek Neupert, MD