{"id":4824,"date":"2019-11-27T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2019-11-27T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:03:33","slug":"respiratory-care-week-at-the-medisys-health-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/respiratory-care-week-at-the-medisys-health-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Care Week at the MediSys Health Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/respiratory-care-week-at-the-medisys-health-network\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Last month, Jamaica and Flushing Hospital Medical Center celebrated Respiratory Care week by hosting a series of educational events.<\/p>\n<p>Both hospitals aimed to raise awareness of various lung diseases such as COPD and asthma, and inform their communities about practices utilized by respiratory therapists to treat these issues. Members of each hospital\u2019s Respiratory Care Department also demonstrated how to operate several respiratory devices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4825 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/respiratory-care-week-2-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"175\" \/>The Respiratory Care Department at Jamaica Hospital conducted demonstrations and displayed educational materials in the hospital\u2019s cafeteria.\u00a0 Guests and staff participated in interactive exercises in which they learned about the life-saving services respiratory therapists provide. The week ended with an asthma education and device training session for healthcare professionals that included residents, pharmacists, case managers and nurses. \u00a0Devices such as meter dose inhalers, spacers and peak flow meters were demonstrated to attendees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4826\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/respiratory-care-week-fhmc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/respiratory-care-week-fhmc.jpg 854w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/respiratory-care-week-fhmc-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/respiratory-care-week-fhmc-768x871.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>Flushing Hospital celebrated Respiratory Care Week by hosting workshops for therapists throughout the week. The Respiratory Care Department also displayed educational boards in the hospital\u2019s main lobby and engaged guests in trivia that included interesting respiratory facts and the history of respiratory care.<\/p>\n<p>Respiratory care therapists play a vital role in the community and MediSys Health Network\u2019s healthcare team.\u00a0 They deliver care in various medical settings throughout the network including ICU\u2019s, sleep centers, outpatient clinics, pulmonary clinics and operating rooms. Each day, respiratory therapists work side-by-side with doctors, nurses and other healthcare practitioners to ensure that patients receive excellent care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareLast month, Jamaica and Flushing Hospital Medical Center celebrated Respiratory Care week by hosting a series of educational events. Both hospitals aimed to raise awareness of various lung diseases such as COPD and asthma, and inform their communities about practices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/respiratory-care-week-at-the-medisys-health-network\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}