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Hi everybody, I'm Sally Thorner.
The division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital is
consistently recognized as one of the top GI programs in the entire country.
That's according to US News and World Report's annual hospital rankings.
The doctors, nurses, researchers and staff are committed to
improving the understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal and liver diseases.
And these new patient care towers only enhance their mission.
Join me now is Doctor Patrick Okolo who is Chief of Endoscopy.
Hi doctor, how are you?
>> Hi Sally.
>> I'm really excited to see those new Endoscopy suites.
>> Fantastic.
They're just one floor up in the Shakeside Tower.
Why don't we go and take a look.
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And here we are in our family waiting area.
And the scenario that was designed just based on what our patients wanted.
>> So while the patients are undergoing
the procedure, the family members are waiting here.
What can they expect to happen in this space?
>> First of all, the therapeutic environment.
There'll be fish tanks here.
They can also expect a patient tracker board
which uses New technology to you privately, inform patients
as to how their loved ones are moving
through the care, care cycle, through the care process.
So that that diminishes anxiety, and lets them be well informed.
They will also be a patient care coordinator.
Who's job is really to serve as a liaison between the patients
and all the care processes in, in in the main unit itself.
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>> Okay, so here we are in a procedure room.
Pretty typical procedure room, but how is
this different from where you're coming from?
>> These rooms are much larger.
They're twice as large as the rooms that we've had.
Not just in square footage but rather in the way
they've been configured and in the functional space that's provided.
Because the equipment's on the booms, we're able
to increase the functional space that we have.
We've also gone from eight rooms to 13 rooms and this increases our capacity.
>> So it sounds like from all of these changes that you're
not only more efficient but you're set up for all sorts of scenarios.
>> Yes we are indeed set up for all sorts of scenarios.
These rooms are modeled after an operating room.
They're sterile.
They're capable of allowing us to perform hybrid procedures.
These are procedures that intersect endoscopy and surgery.
And so we're able to now really bring them into the clinical space.
And allow us to have patients get the
benefits that these procedures are able to provide.
>> Dr Okolo, so after the procedure, they go into recovery?
>> Indeed.
So after the procedure, they're able to move into a lovely recovery space.
>> Wow, okay.
So this is intake and recovery for patients?
>> Indeed.
This is where the care cycle would begin and end.
And you can see how this has been designed.
For very large vistas, easy to navigate hallways.
And will end up in a typical room like this.
And we have these rooms all around both our intake and our recovery areas.
Instead of having temporary dividers or temporary
partitions, this actually comes with a permanent partition.
And the effect of that is to give, patients, the
privacy cocoon that we think, we need to deliver care properly.
>> We can't have a discussion
about Johns Hopkins without talking patient safety.
How does that apply to the new endoscopy suites?
>> What we did was to take, every portion
of the patient care cycle, and look at that just,
in the very same way that the aviation industry for
example would look at different parts of the, care cycle.
In this new facility, we've brought all the new technologies to bear.
>> So to sum up, patients who come to Johns Hopkins
for endoscopy are gonna be treated to a whole new experience.
>> Without question.
This new facility takes into consideration, some of
the things that we've always done here at Hopkins.
We're just going to do it a whole lot better.
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