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n Levine Children’s Hospital Doctors department in February, she was close to At the Hospitals
losing her own life — and never getting
Join Forces to Save Teen’s Life the chance to meet her unborn child. The Advanced ranking recognizes
Doctors at Levine Children’s Hospital Carolinas HealthCare System
recently performed the hospital’s first Gaither was born with Marfan has achieved the highest level of
combined liver-kidney transplant on Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder technology integration. The industry-
a patient who made medical history that can cause heart conditions. On that standard benchmark study reveals
shortly after he was born. day in February, she was experiencing how organizations are leveraging
Bailey Frair’s connection to Levine an aortic dissection, and her body was technology to improve performance
Children’s Hospital began more than 16 shutting down. The wall of her aorta was for value-based health care in the
years ago. Six months after his birth, tearing, cutting off circulation to her areas of infrastructure, business and
he became the youngest patient in LCH organs and to her unborn baby. administrative management, quality
history to receive a liver transplant and safety, and clinical integration.
following a diagnosis of biliary atresia. After a transfer to Carolinas Medical
Years later, Bailey’s liver started to fail. Center, the lives of Gaither and her Health systems named to this year’s
He also developed a rare form of nephrotic baby were saved, thanks to nearly 20 Most Wired ranking demonstrated the
syndrome, a kidney disorder that requires care-team members, six hours in the ability to engage patients outside the
dialysis and causes kidney failure. operating room, and two major surgeries four walls of hospitals and medical
These complications led to the performed at the same time. practices, using technologies like
teenager’s second historic transplant. As mobile devices and apps for patient
few as 10 multiple-organ transplants are When Jeko Madjarov, MD, participation and virtual health
performed worldwide each year, making cardiothoracic surgeon with Carolinas encounters, Internet-based monitoring
Bailey’s liver-kidney transplant quite HealthCare System’s Sanger Heart devices to remotely manage chronic
rare. Doctors performed his lengthy & Vascular Institute, got word that health conditions, and social media to
surgery in July, and they expect him to Gaither was on her way to Carolinas provide support to patients with similar
make a full recovery. Medical Center, he made the quick, but health conditions.
Life after transplant will be dramatically unconventional, call to perform two
improved for Bailey. He’ll no longer need major operations — open-heart surgery AmMed Health, a Carolinas HealthCare
to sit through hours of grueling dialysis and a C-section — simultaneously, in an System hospital system in Anderson, S.C.,
treatments. He can go to school regularly, effort to save both lives. achieved the Most Wired designation for
get his driver’s license, and eat and drink the eighth consecutive year.
all the foods teenagers love. Once that decision was made, four
The double transplant surgery took a different teams, including anesthesiology, n A Final Tour of Duty for Grant
coordinated effort, from the operating neonatology, cardiothoracic surgery and Campbell, MD
room and the pediatric intensive care obstetrics, assembled for the delicate, After serving for nearly 10 years,
unit to the nephrology, gastroenterology highly coordinated and synchronized
and transplant teams. The transplant surgery. Heather Bane, MD, obstetrician Grant Campbell, MD, with Eastover
surgeons involved with Bailey’s care and gynecologist with Myers Park University OB/GYN, has fulfilled his
include David Levi, MD, Lon Eskind, Pediatrics, performed the emergency service commitment with the U.S.
MD, and Vincent Casingal, MD. The cesarean and coordinated with the Army Reserve, completing his duty on
medical team that cares for Bailey neonatology team. July 1. Through the years, Campbell
includes Susan Massengill, MD, and spent time in Iraq, Kuwait and
Vani Gopalareddy, MD. Gaither faces a lengthy road to Afghanistan, completing his third and
recovery. But, after months of gaining final deployment in December 2015.
n Open-Heart Surgery During a strength, she finally had the chance to
meet her son in June — a meeting she Dr. Campbell was deployed as a
C-Section Saves Mom and Baby says was worth the wait. surgeon with different teams and
When Danielle Gaither, 31 and different divisions. He saw a number of
pregnant, arrived at Carolinas n Carolinas HealthCare System Named injuries, mostly trauma cases, where his
HealthCare System Union’s emergency main goal was to stabilize soldiers for
Most Wired Advanced for Second Year hospital transfer.
Carolinas HealthCare System has
been awarded its 14th straight Most Campbell says the skills he picked
Wired and its second straight Most up during deployment help him when
Wired Advanced awards by the things go unexpectedly wrong here at
American Hospital Association’s Health home. “I think the biggest benefit has
Forum. Carolinas HealthCare System been a sense of calm, because I have
was one of just 26 healthcare systems been in far worse situations,” says
nationwide to receive the prestigious Campbell. “I remind myself I’ve seen
Most Wired Advanced designation. worse in battle, and whatever is in front
of me is fixable.”
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