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It’s time to turn the ICU Blue! Our team is wearing blue today to celebrate our amazing ICU caregivers. Let's take a moment to give a big shoutout to our critical care team members. They inspire us every single day with their dedication and hard work. Help us say thank you! 🩵💙 #TurnYourICUBlueDay #UTMC #ICUBlueDay #UTMedicalCenter #CritCareMonth

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Happy Hospital Week! Every year, National Hospital Week gives us the opportunity to highlight all that our team members do and the ways they support the needs of our community. It takes every team member to help us continue to meet our mission to serve through healing, education and discovery. Help us celebrate our great team in the comments below - and if you're a UTMC team member please share your #HospitalWeek celebration photos here as well! #HospitalWeek2024 #UTMC #UTMCFamily #UTMedicalCenter

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National Women’s Health Week is a time to highlight women’s health issues and encourage women of all ages to prioritize their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. In honor of Women's Health Week we share Shirlee Patrick's story:For more than 30 years, Shirlee’s heart has given her trouble. “I’ve had heart issues since I was 40 and it’s progressively gotten worse,” Shirlee said. In 2006, she had a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted that she credits with saving her life at least five times. However, in 2020, Shirlee’s heart started deteriorating more, and her medicines were changed as a result. That worked for about two years, but then, “somewhere along the way, my cardiologist found a leaky valve,” she said. Shirlee was hospitalized with what felt to her like congestive heart failure. At that point, Shirlee was referred to the Heart Lung Vascular Institute at UT Medical Center where she met with Muddassir Mehmood, MD, a cardiologist and heart failure specialist who began treating her. By 2022, “I couldn’t walk twenty feet from the living room to the kitchen counter,” she said. “I couldn’t breathe or work.” It was so bad that Shirlee eventually had to quit her part-time job as a barista at Starbucks. After an ultrasound, she met with a surgeon but found out that she wasn’t a candidate for open heart surgery. Valve replacement was also out of the question. Another cardiologist, Carmelo Venero, MD, suggested the MitraClip, a small clip that’s attached to the heart’s mitral valve to help it close more completely, restoring normal blood flow."MitraClip is a minimally invasive procedure to treat patients with clinically significant mitral regurgitation refractory to medical therapy," Dr. Mehmood said. "At UT Medical Center’s Heart Failure clinic we take a patient-centric multidisciplinary approach to maximize medical therapy to help improve heart function and mitral regurgitation. It was highly rewarding to see Shirlee transform her heart failure journey into heart success," he added. In January 2023, Shirlee had the clip implanted in a relatively easy procedure. “Just one overnight in the hospital and then recovery at home,” she said. And the results were what she and her care team had hoped for. “It was like night and day immediately,” Shirlee said. “I walked around the hospital floor easily.” And though it took time to get her strength back, “I can walk across the room now and not feel like I’m dying,” she said. While the MitraClip is not a cure and Shirlee still has heart issues, “I recommend it to anyone who’s a candidate,” she said. Shirlee credits her cardiac team, including Drs. Baljepally, Venero, Mehmood and their teams for improving her life. “They are the greatest bunch of people. They helped me with the whole process,” she said. Thanks for sharing your story, Shirlee, and we continue to wish you all the best!#NWHW

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WBIR-TV feature story about how UT Medical Center is currently the only hospital in Tennessee to offer Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, or TILS therapy. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved TILS therapy to treat metastatic melanoma.https://lnkd.in/e74aYmmV

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Today is National #TraumaSurvivorsDay and we celebrate the strength and resiliency of trauma survivors and those who have helped them on the road to recovery. While volunteering with the American Eagle Foundation in September 2023, Terry Sherred suffered a severe injury, landing him in the hospital with a cervical spine fracture and spinal cord injury. "I landed on my right shoulder and head with the rest of my body stuck up in the air. I knew immediately it wasn’t good because Icouldn’t move anything," Terry recalls. Under the care of Dr. James A. Killeffer, he underwent treatment to stabilize the fracture and relieve pressure on the spine. Despite the seriousness of his injury, Terry's recovery was relatively quick. After five days in the hospital and a week of rehabilitation, he returned to his passion for volunteering. Terry sees the experience as a wakeup call and is grateful to be back doing what he loves. Thanks for sharing your journey, Terry! Share your messages of hope and encouragement to survivors here in May for #TraumaAwarenessMonth#TraumaAwareness #UTMedicalCenter #NTSD

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UT Medical Center is pleased to announce our achievement of becoming a TeamBirth Recognized Site. This recognition is a testament to the dedication of our staff and leadership to ensuring that every patient’s voice is heard throughout the birth experience. “At UT Medical Center, we want all people giving birth and the clinicians who care for them to feel empowered to participate in decisions made during labor and delivery,” said Dr. Kimberly Fortner, Vice President of the Center of Women & Infants at UTMC. “TeamBirth moves us closer to that goal by fostering teamwork and communication among physicians, nurses, staff and the person giving birth ensuring our patients feel heard and supported from the moment they walk into the hospital.” Read more about our TeamBirth recognition here:https://lnkd.in/e_pMnZyT

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May is American Stroke Awareness Month. Dr. Brian Wiseman, Medical Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at UT Medical Center recently joined WATE's Tearsa Smith to help people recognize signs of stroke and the importance of how to act F.A.S.T.https://lnkd.in/emn7bPnZ#strokeawareness #stroke #StrokeAwarenessMonth #StrokeMonth #strokesurvivor

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