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Health Care Is a Team Effort East Cooper Hospital, MUSC and Roper St. Francis
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INCE MY SON, ANTHONY MACCHIO, suffered a traumatic brain injury in San Francisco on Feb. 1, 2013, we’ve traveled to the West Coast and back, and we’ve benefited from some of best health care services this
country has to offer. We’ve received invaluable help from Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, a Vibra Healthcare acute
BY BILL MACCHIO
care hospital in Kentfield, California, and the Shepherd Rehabilitation Center in Atlanta. Anthony continues to receive award-winning treatment
here in the Lowcountry. Anyone who lives in the Charleston area knows we are fortunate to have access to incredible health care services. Since he returned home on Sept. 7, 2013, he has had access to health services that have greatly enhanced his recovery at East Cooper Medical Center, the Medical University of South Carolina and Roper St. Francis. Each of these facilities has provided remarkable care. Te Charleston
area is blessed with outstanding health care facilities and with loving and caring health care professionals. It is our responsibility as patients or caregivers to look beyond the services of these health care institutions. We have to remember that these providers have to
run a business, and, because of laws that are constantly changing, their business environment is more challenging than most. At the core of East Cooper Medical Center, MUSC
and Roper St. Francis are caring, compassionate and knowledgeable health care professionals. All of them care most about the health and wellness of their patients. Tapping into the best care possible is truly up to patients. By communicating with your health care professional, you will be able to experience the best Charleston has to offer. Te patient has to ask questions, listen to the answers and seek out more than one opinion. When you’re in a situation where you have good relationships with nurses, rehabilitation professionals and medical administrators, you can use their expertise to benefit your particular situation.
Anthony’s progress
is a result of his outstanding attitude and will to achieve independence. Aside from his attitude,
another asset is his ability to communicate with the health care professionals he’s visited along the way to recovery. Most of them still follow his progress, including the physician who actually operated on him – Odette Harris, MD, MPH, director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford Hospital.
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