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n orthopedic attending got the ball rolling for us.
"Listen, I believe that we can become the first aca-
demic medical center in New York City to implement
a same-day hip replacement program," he told our
facility's leadership team. That was in 2015, and we
haven't looked back since.
Of course, we'd been preparing ourselves to move in that direction
long before that attending made the official ask. For one thing, the
constant changes in the rates at which insurance companies will
reimburse facilities for inpatient total joint procedures made explor-
Kimberly Jean-Louis, DNP, MSN, MPA, RN, NEA-BC
Ann Marie Moynihan, MSN, APRN, RN, ONC | New York, N.Y.
Same-Day Success Is a Multi-Person Effort
Our total joints program hinged on collaboration among a diverse team.
• THE ANTERIOR EFFECT By using a minimally invasive anterior approach for total hip replacements, not only do we reduce
patients' post-op pain (no cut tendons), we're also getting them up and moving much sooner.
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN,
CNOR
