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In case of tornado, EH Rs
can be just the prescription
By Jenny OoM
t very one rxpmta a hospital to
be reads to lump into action when
disaster strike* But what about
when the disaster devastates the
biwpitat it wit*
lurm out. it hHpi a lot to have
an eks tnmic medical rex ord ivitm
in plate
At least that w as the case at
Moons Medic al Center in
t Oklahoma, a small hospital right in
the path of the tornado that npped
through the suburbs ot Oklahoma
t in cm Marncfay -1 hnx- hundred
people —. staH. patients and com-
munit\ members - hunkered
dow n m the catetrna. stairwells
and chapel as 2U>-roiles-per-hour
» mds demolished the building
around them
One patient in labor stay ed on
tbe second fkieg with two nurses,
*» here they could continue to mon-
itor the fetal heartbeat
Amazingly. everyone survived
Within an hour. 10 patients had
been tr ansi erred to the two other
hospitals that are part of the
Norman Regional Health SysArm
And every one of them arrived
with their medical histories fulls
intact the woman m labor even
delivered a healths baby later that
evening
"The transfer wa* totalis seam-
less." says John Meharg. director at
health inhumation trchmdogv at
Norman, which has had an elec
tnmir health record system fur the
past five years "We nt very fortu-
nate that we're a little ahead of the
game," he said
If the hospital system had still
we would
been using paper. Norman
explains, "the first thing we w
have had to do was find their
records
And with all of the hustle and
hustle of a disaster, they can easily
get list * As tor anv records left
behind in files, he continues, "if the
tornado doHi't get them, the sub-
sequent ram would ruin them I he
mot's gone, the walk are gone, and
the windows are gone"
Instead, physicians at the two
transfer hospital* were able to pick
up care for the Misirv patients
where their home physicians left
off liven it the patients had been
taken to hospitals outside of the
Norman sv stem, their records
would stilt have gone along with
them
I hat s because CH lahoma City
has a regional health information
exchange that allows the various
hospital systems m the area to
access all patent records, says
Meharg
"I'm very happy," hr adds,
breathing a sigh off relief "the sys-
tems never missed a beat It would
really have been a mess if we
weren’t electronic "
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Kaiser family Foundation, a'nonprofit
nonparttsan health polity research and
commutncaftam organization not affil-
iated iinth Kahet I’crmanenhe.
Obamacare insurance won’t cover
weight-loss surgery in many states
1
By S«rah Varney
r .*•»«! HeaNh Near*
►. or* v
small empkn ers. includ-
ing those in Misisissipyn.
don't cover it
JACKSON, Mem -
f hat economic fact is
■
.........Liunsunxl Ainc*mans who
wrtting the course hg the*
an* hoping the* new health
nrflout erf the Afftgdabk-
insurance law w ill give
them .ktvss to weight km
treatments are Ukelv k» be
C are Ac t
Dr. John Mortem is
llinvUw (g banatnc sur-
disapp mt«xl I hot S ,-s|x-
cialh lix- taw in tbe I Vx*p
Noth where ubesrtv rat***
jry wane ol live highest in
tic- nation. and states giH
is 4 rvcfuirv Ixvilth pUns
soid on the new onlmr
insurance marketjrfacvs to
cover medical weight lews
treatments, w hether pn-
m option drugs or hanatm
surgerv
I >r Tnn C ummtns
directs the banatnc sur-
gery department at
l entral Mississippi
Medical Center in the
stale capital of Jackson
she grew up in the* Delta
her husband is a cotton
farmer, and although
she's petite and fit. she*
understands well enough
lx iw Mississippi a ns end
up on her operating table
lou have to realize in
the South everything
revolve* around loud
Reunions, funerals, par-
ti.". everything
revolve* around food."
L ummtns says.
I fiat king standing cut-
tun- and other lactors
hke inactivity amt poverty
have saddled
Mississippi with live high
i«st obesitx rate- in the
nation I Vxtors here are
m> longer surpnsed to see
2U*omethings with diahr
tes. hv pretension, skvp
apnea. heart dneasr amt
severe g«nt pain And the
prev alence ot sev ere and
super-obesity is grow ing
rapidly Tor those (salients,
(vinatnc surgery is consul
rrvd the most effective
treatment to induce signif-
icant weight kwx
Cummin* describes the
prxsvdure 'lAe'n* restnet-
mg the stemvach size to
w here a patient isn't going
to eat as much Then w e
rv-route thr intestine* a
little bit and malign it to
de-lav digestion, so to
speak, to b> pans it. So
everything a patient eats
in a gastric bypaw. is not
going to be absorbed "
After surgery many of
the- <om plications ot obe-
sity like sleep apnea and
high blood pressure, ate
rv versed. Multiple studies
have 11 si ml that BO- to
HS-percent of diabetic*
can stop medwratiem in
the find year
Medicare and aom*
two-thirds of large
empkreers in the US.
cpwon HI
Seaeasg**1
gerv at *ganlonl l mvers-fv
and has led hts surgical
asMHiatMMV's national and
state lobby ing etturts
"Our hoM.***,^.,
there would be a single
benefit for the entire*
country, and as part of
that benefit them would
1* i overage for obesitx «*.
trv-atrm-nt," save Morton
But amid womes that a
uniform set ot benefits
would be tax* expensive in
some states and sensitive
to the iftm of the federal
government laying down
one rule for aH states, the
US ivpartment of Health
and 11 unvan Services
changed course It decid-
ed to nave the benchmark
plan — that vets the* mini-
mum level ot benefits that
must be covered — key
off the moat popular small
group plan *4d in each
state, in esaenc^mfleciing
l»xal competitiv e haws
I hat s led hi an odd
twist: In rmav than two
dozen states, obesity
trvainvents - including
intensive weight torn
ounwlmg, drugs apd
surgery - won'tnave to
be* covered in plans sold
on the exchanges
Some of these- stairs —
Alabama. louisiana.
Arkansas, texas arid
Mississippi — haw the
highest obesitx rates m the*
nation. acv« acting to the
t enters few Disease
Control Morton applaud-,
thr growing awareness
around ctonutv prevention
in the US. but W sayx,
wane IS mi Ikon Americans
who are already severely
obese still need medical
troatment.
"If they don't have
insurance, they 're not
going to get the therapy,"
Morton save "Wr see can-
cer therapy covered mu-
ni x-lx We see heart ditvase
covered routinely Whv t*
it that we don't see obesity
ancrage routmeiv ?*
lU-resr Hanna
Kxixubve I hnxtur of the
C enter ka Mreawappi
I k-akh l okrv rai l surprised
that ebewty treatments an-
eveiudex) in plans wild cei
the insurance exchange in
her state She says It all has
to do with kcvjxng cost
down fur many popk- who
w ill tie buying insurance kv
the first time
"With the dwcimionx
ansi ml what should be*
covered under the
exchange within the Mate,
a kg of it had to do with
balancing coat versus the
coverage," says Hanna
Hannah says -......
Mivxisstppians who buv
insurance* on the
exchange will likely be
the cashiers, cookie clean
ers and construction
workers that make up
much ol the state’s unin-
sured And even though
many of them will qualify
tor federal subsidies, the
price of monthly prvmi-
▼ ASK DOCTOR K
KNEECAP PAIN IS
USUALLY RESULT OF
EXCESSIVE EXERCISE
ay ANTHOHV L. KOMAHOFF. M O
DEAR IXXTfOR K I have pam in my kneecap,
right in front of my knee It hurls to walk dow n
the stairs or even sit k* too long W hat can I do?
1)1:AR KLAIM-R It sounds like you have what w
called patetUitcmoral pain That's pain w here vour
kneecap (patrlia) meets your thighbone (temurl It
usually results trom overdoing exercise
Fortunately, then* s a kg you
can do to prevent and rebevc
this yvain Io understand this
cunditXMV. here's a brief
anatomy lesson Set in a chair,
and then lift up vour fucg (on
ci ther k*g) and hi hi your leg
stnugN mil. How were vuu abk-
to do this’ A big muscle in the*
front of your Bugb (your
quadrxvps. i» "quads") w
attached to a Uwgh tendon The
tendon is like a and, it runs over
thr lop of your line and attaches bo the* liggest bone
in vour lower leg, the tibia When vour quadnevps
muscle shortens and tugs cm the tendoa it lifts up
vour lower k*g and kxg
In the middle erf the tcixkwi. nght over the knee, is a
small bone the patella, or kneecap It pregexts the
hones of the knee gunt by putting a hard bone m
front eg thrm to take the hit it you tail on your turns*
Your patella glides within a gnxrve in thr thighbone
Amthuq; that stresses, that connection can cacwe “
patrlkgimoral pain Pak-ikrfemoral pain can occur
w ith one-time* os eruse (such as several sets erf tennis
when you haven t played regularly) or from chronic
stress It's common in peopk* who run a teg,
especially on hi IK It's aho exanmem ui peopk- who
plav spurt* involving gimptng or troquent skips or
directoun changes I Xx tors a glen see it in people who
suddenlv start to work out much harder and mure
often. C cftain phcswral charactensbcv such as Bat
fret, can aW> ccaitnbute Pain-tnre exercise n. the
cornerstone- of treatment A workout plan lu relieve
unH ~*“^|.be j^ptkrw cornerstone eg treatment A xiAwit plan tu relieve
people w cMildn t be able
to attord the cm erage. so.
vuu defeat the purpose- "
Hanna says "And that s
been most of the discus-
sKtn in our Mate is how
do we providr the kind
of can* lew things like
high bkxid pressure, dia-
betes and heart disease
So we have a kg of needs
to be covered other than
obesity itself "
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editorially independent pro-
gtam of the Henry / Karser
Family Foundation, a non-
profit, nonparthan health
pviiey reteanh and comma-
nnatiom organization not
affiliated unth Kaiser
Prnnanente
examine* cm mv website. ArfPtckrK arn) Work
with a physical therapist who can design hn
individuali/vd exercise (Hiigram he whj
While you're rexiwetmg, dem't do any thing that
causes pain If you run, avoid hilks go kg shorter
distantv*> or subsbtuk- cgher acti vibes. Avtkd high-
impact exenires and scfuatting or kneeling TVm’t
wear high bevh or sit w ith vcnir legs bent kg km
tong lor and nonMenudal anti-infUmmakgv drugs
such as ibuprofen (Mcg’nn. ighcts) eg nayuoxen sodi-
um ( Aleve, ighcrs) can help ease immediate pain It
you have flat tc-et vou max need additurfial arch
support If you're still in pain after more than one
year, vou max have to consider surgerv I ven
then, surgery is recommended tmlv it there is an
obvious anatomical pnibk*m \
(Pr Ktunarotf is a physn tan and pnofessof at
Harvard Med toil School To >end questions go to
Asilhu,loiK.com. or write AM Doctor K, 10 Shattmi
St.. Second Floor Boston \1A 0211$ >
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