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Dr. Greg Hrynchyshyn, Medical Director
of the Edmonton Zone Virtual Home Hospital, with (left), Laura Mumme, Senior Project Manager, and Lisa Marco, Patient Care Manager.
being able to go home with your newborn baby because you need hospital-level care,” she says. “Or being an elderly patient, whose spouse has a difficult time coming to the hospital to visit because of their own health challenges. We can help improve the patient experience in both scenarios by moving care into their home.”
Beyond improving the patient experience, EZVHH also plays a key role in addressing acute-care pressures in Edmonton hospitals.
“Our team is constantly looking for opportunities
to support patients safely at home instead of the hospital, so beds are available for patients who truly need care in a bricks-and-mortar hospital,” says Dr. Greg Hrynchyshyn, medical director of the EZVHH. “EZVHH is part of the solution, and we continue to look for ways to support new patient populations.”
“The opportunity to be continuously innovative, explore new patient populations and reimagine how care is delivered is an exciting venture,” adds Laura Mumme, senior project manager of the EZVHH. “Our program
is truly breaking new ground daily and represents the future of health care in Alberta.”
Dr. Sean Bagshaw
Chair and Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Outcomes and Systems Evaluation
“Donors to the University Hospital Foundation play a vital role in supporting the specialty of critical care and can help to promote the central role our specialty has in fostering innovation in clinical care, research, and training.
They can play an equally significant role in supporting training platforms for a generation of health-care professionals, researchers and clinical trialists who will be the drivers of this innovation for decades to come.
Pre-care, aftercare and learning how best to mitigate the long-term consequences of critical illness will
be important in 2050. I believe we
will see real innovations in precision approaches to therapies for individual patients both during the acute phases and during recovery from critical illness. In the ICU, we have enormous capacity to leverage our data-rich environment to better predict and customize therapeutics and clinical decision-making aimed at optimizing the survival and quality of recovery for our patients. This will be a major innovation that we see evolving over the next 10 or 15 years.”
Dr. Bagshaw researches how intensive care units are organized and multi- organ system failure in patients with critical illness.
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