Redesigning care, with your safety top of mind.
Hospitals and medical offices are now permitted to see patients for all types of care, including elective surgery. We have been working hard to ensure that the hospital and physicians' practices are ready for you. Please call your provider or login to MyChart to schedule an in-person or telehealth video visit today!
Keeping You Safe
Hospitals and medical offices are now permitted to see patients for all types of care, including elective surgery. We have been working hard to ensure that the hospital and physicians' practices are ready for you. We have redesigned the way we provide care with your safety in mind.We will continue to offer telehealth video visits for anyone who prefers that option. However, we want to reassure you that we are taking the necessary steps to protect your safety when you need to come to the hospital, a primary care office, or one of our specialty practices.
Some of the measures GBMC Health Partners is taking to protect patients include:
- GBMC Health Partners is seeing patients in person and via telehealth video visits. Using video visits allows you to talk with your doctor without leaving home. This reduces the number of patients coming through the office and decreases the potential for inadvertent exposure of patients and staff to COVID-19. Thus, in-person visits can be done safely for those who need them. We encourage you to utilize MyChart for your telehealth needs, and you can also call your doctor if you need help. We are ready to assist you.
- Extensive cleaning of all work spaces and patient areas is performed between encounters and throughout the day.
- Temperature screening stations are in place at hospital entrances and in our practices. All patients, providers, and staff members have their temperature checked upon arrival and must wear masks (along with other appropriate personal protective equipment "PPE" if necessary).
- All patients are asked COVID-19 screening questions when they make their appointment and again when they arrive. Patients are given specific appointment times to limit the number of people in the offices at one time, and are kept in private exam rooms during their visits.
- To allow for safe distancing, our office hours may be adjusted during this time, and offices themselves have been rearranged. In certain locations, there may be physical barriers in place, and in some cases, family members may be asked to wait in their vehicles. A family member or friend may accompany a patient if it is medically necessary for the patient, or if the patient is a minor.
- All surgical patients are tested for COVID-19 pre-operatively.
- COVID-19 positive patients and patients under investigation (PUIs) who require hospital admission are sequestered in the hospital. Outpatients who are COVID-19 positive or PUIs are encouraged to utilize telehealth video visits to determine whether in-person care is needed.
Sessions are held in the Civiletti Conference Center, Mondays and Fridays from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
GBMC, in partnership with Tafiya Yoga and Wellness, offers a yoga program designed to improve stroke survivors' health, well-being and disabilities that result from stroke. Yoga involves strength training, stretching, balance, coordination and breathing techniques, which can all be incorporated into the daily lives of stroke patients. These yoga sessions are open to any stroke survivors in the community who have completed rehabilitation, regardless of their level of ability, including GBMC employees and volunteers.
Certified yoga instructor and physical therapist Kelli Bethel of Tafiya Yoga and Wellness is a practicing physical therapist with over 27 years of experience, is an IAYT certified yoga therapist and an experienced registered yoga instructor. Kelli is the owner of Tafiya Yoga and Wellness in Maryland and has worked as a physical therapist with both adult and pediatric clients, with an emphasis on neurologic injuries and diseases.
For more information about Yoga for Stroke Survivors, contact Kelli Bethel at 410-302-7663 or info@tafiyayoga.com.
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