Archive
of Past Items from
the Unofficial Columbia University Medical Center
Lung Transplant Support Home
This
site is completely and
totally unofficial/unauthorized by CUMC or anyone on staff at the
Center.
Past Items:
TX News Notes (Archived since the
opening of this web site. For earlier versions, email
us)
2-14-2007 Final Edition
1-24-2007
1-22-2007 Mold
Report
1-9-2007 Special
Edition
1-1-2007
12-20-2006
Caregivers'
Forum:
We've all asked for
it! Now, it's here!! Take a look at the flyer (in MS Word or Adobe PDF format)
which announces the TRANSPLANT CAREGIVERS NEW CAREGIVERS' FORUM,
26 in the Presbyterian Hospital on the 14th floor - Room 101.
Each session will run
4:00-5:30 PM - and is open to all caregivers of pre- and/or post-tx
patients - no matter what the organ. The issues and questions are
often the same among liver and lung people.
Adline Warwick-Thompson, social work intern, will be facilitating the
sessions. She can be reached
at 212-305-1884
Please RSVP if you plan to attend,
or call if you
have any questions.
Y'all take advantage of this opportunity! Come equipped with all
your expertise, your stories, your questions. It's a good chance
to get the help and support you want and offer benefit of your
experience. And maybe even make some new friends. Thanks,
Adline! and Thanks, Terry, for getting the word out to all.
Please be sure to ask me
about reduced parking passes for those of you who are interested.
Have you
seen the New York State "Keep
Your Germs To Yourself" commercials? Pretty cool. You can check out
the video on a Syracuse, NY TV stations's Web Site.
Interested in the NY
Times' Health Update Podcasts ? You can either
just download & listen, or subscribe.
Here's an interesting one on the Effects
of Air Fresheners on the Lungs .
Instant
Poll where you can express your opinion on
hospitals' opt-out of organ donation after cardiac death. For more
info, see the Past
Items
section of this web site and the news article "A
Second Look at Death"
Has this ever happened to you? Excellent Article
on Drug Errors from this week's Science
Times ( Here in PDF
format )
Interesting Times article on all the outbreaks of Dangerous
Food lately ( Here as PDF
)
Google Transplant News
NYPH was voted the Best
Hospital in New York
Magazine's 2006 Rankings
Moving? Don't live in NY area? U.S. News ranked the 176
Best
Hospitals in America
Medicare
(CMS) is requesting
public comment on the need for pulmonary rehab until January 26. You can help.
To
comment:
If you have
any problems loading the page, here
is Google's cached version of the cms
web
site,
and here is the Public
Comment page.
Looking for our User's Group? It
has been shut down due to privacy issues. If you are interested in a
good TX user's group:
Transplant
Support User's Group on MSN (Lung, Heart, Heart/Lung)
In the News:
An interesting column on hospitals and organ donation from the Dec. 15
New York Times Op-Ed page by Francis L. Delmonico - a transplant
surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and the medical director of
the New England Organ Bank entitled a Second Look at Death.
You can find it on the New
York Times web site ., or here as a PDF file
Other recent articles on transplants from the New York Times
(1st link is to Times' Web Site, 2nd link is to PDF file stored on this
site):
A
Medical Dimension to a Religious Debate - November,
2006
Lung
Patients See a New Era of Transplants - September
2006
If you are a news junky like I am, here's Google's
Lung Transplant News and Yahoo's
Lung Transplant News pages.
Interesting article
in Jan 16 NY Times on
increase
in organ donors in the NY metro area due to new program (PDF Version)
Latest budget from the White House
proposes reducing
the cap on O2 payments down to 13 months.
Times
article on latest proposed
cuts to Medicaid/Medicare, and one on counterfeit
drugs in China.
Interesting
article
in Jan 16 NY Times on
increase
in organ donors in the NY metro area due to new program (PDF Version)
As of October, 2006, new (New York) drivers licenses will include a
space for identifying organ donors.
And, beginning in January, 2007, license applications and renewal forms
(in NY) will encourage voluntary $1 contributions to " Donate
Life----Pass It On ", the state Department of
Health's registry for organ and tissue donation. And, Donate
Life America lists contacts for organ donation
through the U.S.
For more information on the new NY laws, see the New Rules of the Road for
2007 .
Here's a fun
toy for your kids or grandkids so they can have some empathy for
you.
Advanced
Directives - includes
links for the tri-state area.
Dr. Jessie Wilt
presented her talk on Advanced Directives at the January 9th meeting.
After the presentation, Phyllis ran a Q&A discussion group. Great
to see all the new members in the program, and we hope to see more of
you at future meetings.
Here is a copy of Dr. Wilt's presentation in PowerPoint
and Adobe
PDF formats.
If you are interested in
the Health Care Proxy form from New York State, you can either download
and print a copy (in any one of four languages), or you can order the
form mailed to your home or business. The New York State DOH
additionally has training material on the New
York State Health Care Proxy Web Site.
There is also some interesting and
useful information there on Patient's
Rights. Worth taking a look at.
If you live in New Jersey, here are two excellent documents:
Advanced Directives Brochure (2 pages) and Advanced
Directives for Health Care in PDF
or MS
Word
format (27 pages)
For those in Connecticut, check out Advanced
Directive - Planning for Important Health Care Decisions
March 18-24 is
National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week. Many rehab
facilities will have special activities - open houses, free spirometry
tests, educational programs, etc.
Here's a few of the larger ones in the NY Metro area:
Columbia New York Presbyterian http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu
Contact: Kim: 212-305-0890
Hackensack Pulmonary Rehabilitation: http://www.humc.com/pulmonaryrehab
201-996-3856
Nassau University Medical Center: http://www.numc.edu
(516) 572 0123
Good Samaritan Pulmonary Rehab: http://goodsamaritan.chsli.org
(631)376-4108
Helen Hayes Pulmonary Rehab: http://www.helenhayeshospital.org
845 786-4254 or 1-888-70-REHAB, ext. 4254
Documents available for download (For News
Notes, see above):
Audio
& Video:
Circle for Life: Transplant Awareness
Celebration - Friday May 4,2007 in the Armory
Past Meetings:
Tuesday,
Jan. 9, 4-6 pm
Jessie
Wilt, MD: Advanced Directives
Wednesday,
Jan. 17, 1:30-3:30 Theresa M.
Daly,
FNP Lung Tx:
Is it really worth it?
Thursday,
Jan 25, 1-3 pm
Charlotte
Cabello, DNP
The
Post Operative Transplant Care Unit and You
Monday,
Feb. 5, 4-6 pm
Jessie
Wilt, MD Bronchoscopy
and
Post-transplant infections POSTPONED
Tuesday,
Feb 13, 4-6 pm:
Selim
Arcasoy, MD, FCCP, FACP
Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1:30-3:30
(3)
Theresa M. Daly, FNP
Monday,
March 5, 4-6 pm
Mathew
Bartels, MD, MPH Rehabilitation
Medicine
Jay L.
(Lackritz@Optonline.net)
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visits since
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