Carpal tunnel is the leading occupational hazard of the computer age, affecting over five million American workers. However, says Dr. Christopher Koontz, a hand surgeon at SBH Health System, it’s not only a repetitive motion injury, […]
Author: Kenneth Ho
SBH’S VERSION OF “CALL THE MIDWIFE”
By Steven Clark “Call the Midwife” rings true to Jacqueline Biggs because, in part, she lived it. The popular PBS and Neflix series, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name, features the midwives and […]
A Visit With The SBH Rooftop Farm Beekeeper
About a quarter of a million bees called the Bronx home this spring and summer, residing in four colonies on the rooftop farm at the SBH Health and Wellness Center. In what beekeeper Eric Hanan of […]
REDUCING INCOME TAXES IN RETIREMENT
By Howard Hook, CPA, CFP Howard Hook is a fee-only Certified Financial Planner and CPA with the wealth management firm of EKS Associates in Princeton, NJ. He has been named to Medical Economics’ list of top […]
Unique Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Offered
SBH Health System is one of the few institutions in the country to offer a two-year clinical fellowship in quality and safety. The program, which will admit one fellow beginning July 1, 2021, is open to […]
Urgent Care Comes To The Bronx
A holistic approach to caring for the whole patient, proactively, episodically and continuously, enhances the effectiveness of preventative measures and improves patient outcomes overall. As a means to this end, the new Health & Wellness Center […]
TAKE THE FIRST LOOK AT A REMARKABLE NEW FACILITY
Welcome to the SBH Health and Wellness Center A little over four years ago Dr. David Perlstein, president and chief executive officer of SBH Health System, and executives from L+M Development Partners, SBH board members and […]
SBH Sponsors Translational Medicine Program at CUNY
By Steven Clark On its website, the Master’s in Translational Medicine (MTM) program at The City College of New York is described as a collaboration between The Grove School of Engineering and The CUNY School of […]
New Video Interpretation System Rolls into SBH
By Steven Clark Is she checking her blood sugars?¿Ella se está monitoreando los niveles de azúcar? Does she do this before breakfast?¿Ella se chequea el azúcar antes del desayuno? Do you have any questions?¿Tiene alguna pregunta? […]
SBH Welcomes Team of Physician Assistants
There are an estimated 115,000 physician assistants in the U.S. It’s considered the fastest growing segment in the healthcare field and one of the fastest growing professions in the entire labor market. According to the American […]
DIABETIC ULCERS: One Patient’s Story
To this day, Peter Visvardis is still not sure how he got it. It may have been when walking barefoot around the pool while vacationing in Arizona. Or, he may have gotten that small puncture wound […]
When Technology Supports Patient-Centered Care
A patient with congestive heart failure (CHF), who was recently discharged from a nursing home, was experiencing shortness of breath especially at night. He triggered an alert to a triage nurse specialist who called him and […]
Pharmacy: Leveraging IV Workflow For Error Prevention
The opportunity for medication errors to occur is prevalent when using a manual approach to sterile compounding. Even a small discrepancy can result in devastating consequences.
SBH Health System Opens Geriatric ED
Located in a separate area down the hall from the trauma bay, the new emergency department at SBH dedicated to geriatric patients accommodates four patient beds and includes such features as natural lighting, non-slip floors and […]
A Day In The Life (Of a Psychiatrist in New York City)
Our hospital ethics committee calls an urgent session to consider ventilator allocation as the COVID-19 pandemic is worsening; we review the color-coding system that was developed to classify patients’ mortality rates based on their clinical condition and severity of organ failure.
Reflections from a Chaplain during COVID-19
This time of pandemic reminds me of scenes from the movie Inception. I enter a dream world of empty streets. No people can be seen. I think I’m in the Bronx. Where is everyone? What is everyone doing? Where are the children?
Transitioning Patients From Hospital To Home
The initial meeting didn’t go well. When Yareliz Oliveras, the Hospital-to-Home care coordinator, entered the patient’s room, she quickly saw the handwriting on the wall. “When I went in to see the guy, he cursed at […]
Center for Culinary Medicine/Teaching Kitchen to Open Soon
You are what you eat. This metaphor on life is what makes Chef Emily Schlag’s job so rewarding. Chef Emily, who is also a registered dietitian, is the director of the new Center for Culinary Medicine […]
Doctors Make Major Diet Changes
When not discussing hospital business, their emails, texts and face-to-faces can at times pivot to such abstruse topics as hemp protein and nutritional yeast. Omega 3’s and omega 6’s. Dr. Michael Greger and Mike the Vegan. […]
Telehealth Emerges from the Pandemic
The pandemic, as lethal as it was in the Bronx, gave telehealth much neededlife. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, the advent of telehealth was slowed by regulatory burdens. By providers schooled on the importance of touch. […]