[Inaudible] hi.
I'm Dana Jay. And this is Henry Ford health System News.
Here at Henry Ford our team members make the impossible possible.
That could be through groundbreaking research or finding ways to help each other
through tough times.
It always means taking action when someone needs help,
which is exactly what three team members recently did at a parking garage in
Grosse Point.
The last time these Henry Ford heroes saw Antoinette Coleman.
There wasn't time for pleasantries. There was a crisis.
Antoinette had pulled into the parking garage at Pierson clinic.
Her baby Jayden, who'd been born premature and wears an oxygen monitor.
Had an appointment as Antoinette was getting out of the car.
The alarm on Jayden's monitors started going off. He wasn't breathing.
I noticed he was, you know, like a, a red out just stiff and, uh,
real, uh, foaming at the mouth and not responsive.
She grabbed him from his car seat and took off for the stairwell.
I, uh,
ran with him and one arm and the stroller and the other arm,
as far as I could to get into the doors to get.
Eleanor Glover was the screener on duty on the first floor of the clinic that
day, she heard something, a few floors up that didn't sound right.
A lot of commotion, patting patting.
So I got up to look to see what was going on.
She found Antoinette and Jayden at the top of the stairs. She just.
Start padding and patting. And then she looked at me and she said, go get help.
My adrenaline just went to 200 at that point. And I just took off,
started running and ran to the second floor, got to the middle of the floor.
And I asked someone, please do an overhead page.
We have a baby on a third floor Pierson clinic in the garage.
That's not breathing.
Registered nurse Kelly Heid heard the page and came running.
I saw the mom coming at me. I'm holding her baby. You know,
just kind of up in her arms like this saying, he's not breathing.
He's not breathing very well.
And she just kind of succumbed and handed the baby over to me.
Kelly took over for mom, continuing to pat Jayden on the back,
trying to get him to take a breath. Kathy Kokesh a nurse in pediatrics,
ran up next and took over.
Kelly said, something's coming out. And sure enough,
we got a big mucus plug out and I could feel him moving. I could hear him.
I flipped them over. He was doing all the right things.
But when she recognized the patient, she knew she had more to do.
I knew he was a preemie premature. I knew he had some lung issues.
I knew we had to do something fast.
We couldn't just stand here and watch this baby. The next.
Call was to a pediatrician and then 9 1,
1 Jayden spent some time in the hospital, but now he's doing fine. His mom,
who's also a nurse. Henry Ford hospital.
Wanted to bring him back to meet his heroes and say, thank you in person.
They don't, they don't get the
appreciation they deserve on a daily basis.
The empathy that they showed and compassion that they show. Um,
we appreciate.
That was all back in June.
Jayden who had been born premature in March was only out of the hospital for
about three weeks at the time. Now he's five months old.
And as you can see doing just fine. Now,
let's go to the Hermelin brain tumor center where researchers are developing a
test called liquid biopsy. It could prove to be a more efficient,
but less invasive way to monitor and diagnose tumors.
At the Homeland brain tumor center.
Our patient donors are contributing to exciting new research in liquid biopsy.
In addition to donating tumor tissue,
our patients are now donating blood to the tumor bank.
Our researchers at Henry Ford are developing a blood-based test called liquid
biopsy to diagnose brain cancer,
suggest a course of treatment and monitor tumor progression.
Right now we have to wait for a surgical procedure to biopsy a tumor and make a
diagnosis with liquid biopsy.
We can collect a blood sample as soon as we see what resembles a tumor on an MRI
scan. And we can use that blood sample to make a diagnosis.
Liquid biopsy can be done anywhere.
You can get a blood draw by extracting serum plasma from the blood,
and we can find the DNA of the patient's tumor.
Once you have the tumor DNA of the patient,
you can use artificial intelligence to determine the best course of treatment.
I believe our research can really improve the quality of life of our patient.
What I think is so cool about liquid biopsy is it's a tool that we can use to
understand how a tumor is behaving at a genetic or molecular level as
someone who's going through treatment in real time.
So what that means is we can capture changes in someone's tumor behavior.
Before we see that change on an MRI scan so we can know someone's treatment is
working right now, and if it's not working,
we can change it before the tumors had a chance to grow and respond to that.
If we can prove this works,
this simple approach could be a historic breakthrough and the way we diagnose,
treat and monitor all types of cancer.
I encourage my patients to participate in the liquid biopsy study because I
think it truly is groundbreaking research that will change the way we care for
patients in the future.
A big thanks to the folks at the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center for having us in
their lab and sharing their research with us. Well,
we're all stronger when we work together.
That's the premise behind Henry Ford's Stronger Together buddy program.
It's one of the programs that's been available to team members to help manage
stress over past year, whether they're working in a hospital,
remotely or somewhere in between.
I recently connected with three team members who wanted to tell you how the
Stronger Together program helped them.
I started by asking them what drew them to the program.
COVID hit 2020.
And it was just a very difficult time for my team and myself.
And I was just looking for some support, my team and my coworkers.
It's like, well, we really connected so well with each other.
And we just had to cut that connection off once COVID came. And, you know,
it was just like the only time we saw each other and spoke to each other,
it was always virtually.
And we missed that conversation at the lunch table or the
coffee pot.
I saw it come across my email and I was kind of going through a tough time,
a lot of transition in my personal life, transitioning in my career.
And when I saw the opportunity that I thought, you know, maybe I will,
maybe I will, I'll talk to some one every day, you know.
But he's agreed to check in on each other regularly, either by phone,
text or email, you can ask to be paired with someone, you know,
or meet someone new prompts from organizers, help break the ice.
Me and my buddy, we dealt really well.
And instead of communicating weekly,
we communicated daily every morning,
I would send her inspirational texts or she would send me
a workout video. I mean, we take it to the limit. You know,
I wasn't uncomfortable or didn't feel any type of way. I just felt like, Hey,
you know what? I'm going to meet a new every four family members. I'd say,
if you're looking to be supported, if you're looking to support, um,
if you're looking for an opportunity to do something that you haven't done it
during a time where change is just happening everywhere,
this would be a good avenue to do so because it's not just,
it's not just a Henry Ford thing, it's a great Henry Ford thing,
but it also just allows you to, um, develop some, uh, almost a skill really,
um, that you can use in other spaces as well.
Team members can find more information about the Stronger Together buddy program
and other resources for managing mental health on the Recover and Heal page of
One Henry. All right,
let's do the featured photo here's members of our virtual care department,
picking up an award for outstanding innovation from the Upper Midwest
Tele-health Resource Center. Congratulations. And thanks for all your hard work.
Don't forget to tell us about the team members you see making the impossible
possible. You can email us at newstips at hfhs dot org.
Thanks for watching. And I'll see you around
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