- Hi, I'm Cara Nuss.
I'm a nurse practitioner
at Kansas City Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine.
We're located here on the campus
of Menorah Medical Center, building C.
Welcome back.
As you may notice, when you come in,
we have hand sanitizing stations for you.
Here at the hospital and our medical practice.
We're doing everything we can to keep you safe and healthy.
And now I wanna show you what we're doing
to ensure your safety on your way up to the clinic.
As you come up to the clinic on the elevator,
we have signage to remind you.
Please limit the number of people on the elevator,
stay safe and leave space.
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- Hi guys, I'm Alicia Cross Tipton
and I'm a PA
here at Kansas City Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine.
We are so excited to welcome you guys back.
We wanted to go ahead and review
some of the precautions that we have in place.
Your safety is our utmost importance
and we are glad and happy to have you back.
As you come in our office, you will notice
that we do have hand sanitizer here.
We'd like every patient to go ahead and utilize this.
You'll come on down this way
we've rearranged our office a little bit.
If you'll notice in our waiting area,
we have social distancing precautions as well
as science to remind you
how close is safe enough to stay away from everyone
but yet be treated.
Alright, let's head this way to our front desk
so we can get you checked in.
This is Meghan she's one of our medical office specialists.
Hey Meghan, can we get a mask from you please.
- Yeah.
- Every patient here at our practice is wearing a mask.
There you go sir.
And you'll go ahead and continue to wear it
throughout your entire stay with us.
Additionally, we do have some sanitized pins.
Pins are being sanitized for every patient
that comes through the door.
Every patient gets their individual pen.
We'll place that in the use used penholder here.
Alright, Meghan, why don't you head on back here with me.
Alright, come on back this way,
Let's get you an exam room.
Hi, Ashley.
Ashley is one of our medical assistants
and as you can see, she's preparing the exam room.
We prepare all of our exam rooms in between every patient.
They're wiped down with CDC-recommended wipes.
Every surface that would have any opportunity
to have hand touch or hand contact with, has been cleaned.
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Thank you, Meghan.
Alright, hold on just a moment.
Let me get Dr. Anderson for you.
- Hi, I'm Dr. Anderson.
Welcome to our clinic
at Kansas City Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine.
We've had a lot of questions about Covid,
and what's going on with the pandemic
in relation to orthopedics,
particularly sports medicine and joint replacement.
I spent a lot of time now talking to patients
about, in addition to their joint problems,
what we're going to do about this to be safe
and ethical in how we take care of patients,
in this time, which had a lot of people anxious
and depressed about lots of things,
mostly joint pain, now this is gonna recur.
I wanna assure you
that we've done things very well for many years,
with a very, very low complication rate,
including infection, and post operative complications
with regards to our normal care in general.
So, as far as processes in the operating room
and what we've done,
we're continuing,
continuing to do the things we've always done
to have a very, very good success rate with our patients
after joint replacement
in the clinic.
I'm gonna take you this way
and show you what's going on here.
Some of the things we've done
to help keep the complication rate low
and make sure we're maintaining sterility.
This is our X-ray room
where people come in and get X-rays done.
You can see it Ashley here, after a patient,
wiping down the machines,
making sure we get a good, clean,
friendly place for you to get your X-rays done.
And then I'll have to come out this way
for the rest of the clinic
and kinda take you down this way.
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- Hi there, my name is Dr. Shah.
During these last several months,
we've all been spending some time outdoors
and perhaps working out at home.
If perhaps you've hurt yourself doing a DIY project,
or exercising
or whatever the case may be,
please know that we're here and available
to help take care of you
at Kansas City Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine Center.
- Hi there.
Come on in, we'll talk about some other options for you.
Now, there's oftentimes,
multiple reasons people maybe can't make it into the office.
So we do have other options.
So we can still take care of your musculoskeletal needs,
even if you aren't physically here.
One option is to actually call you
on this old-fashioned thing called the telephone,
we can just discuss it with you over the phone,
and a lot of times we can alleviate any of your concerns
or figure out what's going on just from talking to you.
There's an old adage in medicine
that you get 90% of what you need from taking the history.
So just by talking to people,
oftentimes we can figure something out.
Another option is we can do telemedicine with zoom calls,
and we can actually have
vital signs taken by the nurses and techs.
We get good information from that.
We can also then obviously talk to you on the zoom call.
And then we can look at incisions
or we can look at how you're walking
and get an idea of what's going on.
So, aside from taking X-rays,
we can do most of what we need to do
from an exam perspective without actually having
to physically have you in the office.
So in these uncertain times, just another option.
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- As you can see, we're taking several precautions
to make sure our office and building
are as clean and safe as possible to you.
Your health is the most important to us
here at Kansas City Joint Replacement and Sports Medicine.
We look forward to welcoming you back when you're ready.
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