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Changing The Landscape:

How TGH Is Leading

Health Care Innovation And
Improving Patient Care

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) serves as an economic
engine, entrepreneurial focal point and academic center
of excellence driving innovation across Tampa Bay and
beyond. As Florida’s leading academic health system
for more than 50 years, and one of the largest hospitals
in America, TGH combines education, research and
clinical care that leverages cutting-edge technologies, and
deploys innovative approaches to provide next-generation
therapies and treatment.
One TGH program that exemplifies the use of innovative maximum occupancy, has decreased the average length of professionals to help navigate patients through their health
technology and innovation to measurably improve patient stays from 6.2 to 5.7 days and has reduced emergency room care journey, ensuring there is always someone there to help
care is CareComm. Launched in 2019, CareComm utilizes diversion by 25 percent for the Level I Trauma Center. guide and support them,” said Scott Arnold, executive vice
20 artificial intelligence (AI) applications to ensure the These improvements equate to 30 beds of additional president, CIO and chief of innovation for TGH.
most efficient use of its staff and resources. The system capacity. Most of all, it means patients are receiving more CareComm is a testament to technology’s increasing
helps coordinate the various departments and personnel effective, efficient care. influence in how TGH delivers care. The program’s blend
across the hospital to reallocate staff, adjust rotations, keep Within the past year, TGH further scaled this technology of data sources and intelligence creates a treatment road map
communication open, and prevent the siloing of patients to develop an early warning and management system for that CareComm Command Center’s multidisciplinary team
and their treatment. sepsis, a serious condition in which the body responds can easily understand. The next step, according to Arnold, is
Within the first two years of its launch, CareComm improperly to infection. The sepsis early warning and to become predictive in nature – identifying potential risks
reduced the length of hospital stays by half a day, removed management system saved more than 50 lives within the first and taking the appropriate actions to prevent further illness
20,000 excess days and generated $40 million in savings six months of use. “Health systems often suffer from patients before it happens.
by eliminating redundancies and other inefficiencies. having episodes of ill-coordinated care. To mitigate that, we For more information about how TGH is leading health
Additionally, the program has helped TGH operate at harness a combination of process, technology and health care care innovation and improving patient care, visit TGH.org.

Film Review

The Wall not be concerned about the quality of couple call for their dog, Lynx, to join
dubbing since there is essentially no them, but the dog returns instead to the
By Nils A. Shapiro dialogue at all after the first minute of cabin to be with the woman.
I have no idea how you will react to this film. the just over one-and-a-half hours of the After a while, the woman decides to
I started to watch it because I was intrigued by the brief film! take a walk in the forest accompanied
description Amazon Prime Video offered of the film as I Instead, what we hear are the by the wonderful, sweet dog—who
was looking for one deserving of a review in this month’s narrated thoughts of one woman— instantly won me over as my favorite
column. Referring to it as an “art house film” (which to me actress Martina Gedeck in a tour de character in the film—and suddenly,
denotes a work of unusual quality), the two-sentence hint of force performance—expressed so shockingly strikes her head into a wall,
its story line made it clear that this would be very different artfully that time and again I absorbed an invisible barrier, one that she cannot
from the typical action flicks, comedies and rom-coms that this film as a true poetic experience. see but feels with the palms of her hands
dominate today’s streaming services. The reason for the lack of dialogue is and is clearly impenetrable! There is no
What an understatement that turned out to be! clear from the story line. In the opening way around it nor over it.
The Wall is an Austrian production filmed in the moments of the film, a woman is waving As she soon discovers, for no
Austrian Alps, written and directed by Julian Polaner. It her wishes for a pleasant trip to a couple discernible reason she has been cut off
was originally released in 2012 and garnered 12 award in a wagon. She has been visiting as from all humanity. The couple who left
nominations in several categories, winning four, at a guest in their cabin, located in the her earlier that day never return; no
international film festivals. Filmed in the German language, middle of a forest, and they are going cars nor travelers ever pass. One day
the Prime Video version is in English … although you need to the nearest village for the day. The she sees through the invisible wall an
old-timer and his wife in strangely silent, unmoving poses
unable to hear her.
She is alone with her dog, joined as the weeks and
months pass by two cats and a cow that somehow strays
onto the cabin’s property before giving birth to a calf. Over
a period of three years, alone with her animals—and despite
her horror of the need to hunt and kill deer and other small
creatures of the forest in order to provide food for her own
and her animals companions’ survival—we are witnesses as
the woman undergoes stages of emotional and psychological
confusion, terror, calm and acceptance in an effort to retain
some semblance of sanity.
During that time she decides to write a report of her
daily life as a way to fill the loneliness, and most of what
we hear are words she writes…both exquisite and tragic.
Then, just as the woman has found solace in the beauty
of the nature that surrounds her —the scents and sights of
the pastures and mountains, the trees that provide wood for
warming hearth fires in the cold winters, the endless stars
that fill her night skies—humanity appears once again in
her life!
And with the reappearance of humanity—a man in her
forest—comes an act so inhumane that it depressed me to
the point only my commitment to this review kept me from
turning off the film without waiting for the ending.
To explain further would be a spoiler and unfair to those
of you whose sensitivity to the particular act might not equal
mine. This film deserves better than that.
I opened this review by noting that I have no idea how
this column’s readers will react to The Wall. My wife, Linda,
watched it with me. After the first half hour, she turned to
me and asked, “How can you watch this film?” I didn’t reply
because I saw promise in what was unfolding on the screen.
When the film was over, Linda’s opinion had changed:
“What a brilliant and fascinating film. You really must
write about it.”
The rest is up to you.