Celebrating our Collaborative Efforts

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Celebrating our Collaborative Efforts
http//www.jmu.edu/rmh-jmu/
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Family Academy

• The Family Academy will help parents raise their
  children to be healthy, happy, and ready for
  school by providing
• Support
• Resources
• Education
• Over 60 families are being served in the Family
  Academy. A database has been developed and
  implemented to track progress

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Cardiac Diagnostics Using Sophisticated Fluid
Mechanics Techniques

• An analytical tool was developed to characterize
  cardiac flow. The tools measure various flow
  parameters including the propulsive efficiency of
  the mitral inflow as a means of describing
  cardiac health, cardiac disease stages and heart
  failure. This work could lead to a
  commercializable and sophisticated cardiac
  diagnostic tool.

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Chronic Illness Strategies Clinic

• The purpose of the Chronic Illness Strategies
  Clinic is to empower individuals with chronic
  illnesses to manage their disease, prevent acute
  exacerbations, delay further decline and maximize
  quality of life. It will be designed as an
  adjunct to primary care services, and will
  provide innovative, evidence-based
  multi-disciplinary strategies not feasible in
  primary care settings today.

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Creation of a Simulation Center

• A simulation center has the potential to provide
  regional services to enhance education/practice
  partnerships by providing staff development and
  continuing education for area health care
  providers.

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Development of an Immunoassay for Human Tear
Lacritin

• Lacritin is a natural human tear protein being
  developed as a new topical therapeutic to treat
  dry eye, microbial infections, and corneal wound
  healing. In conjunction with this, a team is
  developing an ELISA-based immunoassay to detect
  lacritin and variants of lacritin in human tears.
  They are interested in obtaining tear samples
  from healthy individuals as well as individuals
  with ocular infections or diseases.

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Energy Conservation - Alternative Fuel Showcase

• A power company may provide grant money
  dependent upon consumer education provided by
  RMH, perhaps in collaboration with JMU.

The left pot is burning diesel fuel. The right is
burning biodiesel fuel.
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Evidence Based Practice - Developing a
Collaborative Model for Scholarship

• EBP promotes the collection, interpretation, and
  integration of valid and applicable
  patient-reported, clinician-observed, and
  research-derived evidence. Research/workshops
  linked to topics identified by clinical nurses
  include
• Foley catheters in the OR
• Umbilical cord care
• Pain management in the confused patient
• Scopolamine patches and nauseaand more

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Functional Mapping of Hospital Costs

• Researchers would use mathematical modeling to
  calculate functional distances between various
  costs for a number of patients as the difference
  between the billed amounts. Multidimensional
  scaling would then reduce the complexity of those
  data to a two-dimensional graphical depiction.
• Result insight into how costs accrue, and in
  the recognition of different patterns in
  different patients. Eventually this model should
  help predict what resources will be needed.

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Harrisonburg Community Health Center

• RMH and JMU, in collaboration with the Healthy
  Community Council, are providing support to a
  Federally Qualified Community Health Center
  (FQHC) in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.
  The practice is busy and growing, with 3
  physicians, 2 nurse practitioners and 10 other
  staff persons. They are currently engaged in a
  strategic planning process.

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Integrative Health

• Goal Collaborate in developing integrative
  health education and practice
• Examples underway
• Continuing medical education session offered
  through RMH
• Mindfulness based stress reduction collaborative
  research project

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Center for Voice and Swallowing Assessment and
Treatment

• The center, a collaboration between physicians
  in the region, the RMH, and JMU faculty, will
  provide previously unavailable specialized
  services for the Shenandoah Valley region to
  serve patients with voice, speech and swallowing
  disorders

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Modeling Waiting Times in the Emergency Department

• Using Emergency Department data from RMH
  in a constructed cartography model to determine
  patient flow and ultimately reduce any
  bottlenecks.

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Training Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk

• Designed for RMH and college campus mental health
  clinicians
• Goal increase suicide prevention preparedness

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Video games for balance rehabilitation

• JMU researchers wish to collaborate with RMH by
  testing participants in a balance study using the
  Wii and Wii Fit video gaming system

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Workshops/Education sessions on environmental
sustainability

• JMU Scholars are available for group discussion
  and education
• Wetland preservation
• Water/soil management
• Integrated medicine with healthy environment
• Recycling wastes

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Learning Tour of RMH Hardware

• Tour of RMH facilities by interested Computer
  Information Systems faculty in order to learn
  more about the computer hardware being used
• Objectives include acquisition of outgoing RMH
  hardware for JMU student learning activities as
  well as identification of research possibilities

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Medical Imaging for JMU Athletics

• Onsite x-ray services for JMUs student-athletes
  at athletic events

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Teaching/Learning Collaboration

• Adjunct appointments
• Guest lectures
• Clinical teaching

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Touchscreen Computer Kiosks

• Goal help persons of low literacy by improving
  access to effective, high quality health
  information

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Recycling at RMH

• Collaborative effort of JMUs Institute for
  Stewardship of the Natural World and RMH Surgical
  services

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Health Literacy Game

• Goal Educate community health workers and
  others

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LEED Certification Educational DVD
Helping to inform and enlighten the greater
Harrisonburg population to understand the
benefits for becoming LEED certified
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Human Resource Projects

• Video on peer interviewing procedures
• Video orientation for new hires at RMH

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Journal Club

• Focus on topics of interest to clinical nurses
  on units

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Chronic Illness Strategies Classes

• A 6-week educational program for persons with
  chronic illnesses covers nutrition, exercise, use
  of medications, evaluating new treatment options,
  effective communication, and strategies for
  addressing problems.
• Outcomes include decreased days in the
  hospital, improvement in health behaviors and
  health status.