Camille Filoromo is the chief nursing officer at MUSC Health’s Lancaster and Chester hospitals. In this episode of Advance with MUSC Health, she talks about this special community of talented nurses and how patients benefit from receiving nursing close to home.

Healthy Me – Healthy SC is now planning to extend its reach even further. On this episode of Advance with MUSC Health, Kapri Kreps Rhodes and David Sudduth, director and executive director of Healthy Me – Healthy SC, join the show to discuss these new developments and share a bit more about this innovative program.

In this episode, Patrick Cawley, MD, CEO of MUSC Health and Vice President for Health Affairs of the Medical University of South Carolina, shares exciting updates and goals for 2022 and beyond.

Elizabeth Wallis, MD, explains warning signs of eating disorders, effective therapies and the different paths young patients and their families take to make a full recovery. She is the Director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at MUSC Health and Medical Director of the Friedman Center for Eating Disorders at MUSC Health.

Kevin Hughes, MD, Director of Cancer Genetics and the McCoy Rose Professor of Surgery at MUSC Health explains the importance of yearly screening for women over 40 and Tonya Perkins, MSN, a MUSC Health nurse practitioner explains how the mobile unit works.

Topics covered in this show:

• The decline in routine health care visits across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The importance of annual wellness check-ins and physicals to screen for problems such as breast or colon cancer.
• How MUSC addressed the problem of underrepresented minorities and lower income people are going back for screenings at a lower rate than white people. 
• COVID-19 hesitancy and how Dr. Steyer communicates with patients who are hesitant.
• How hospitalized COVID-19 patients can delay care for other patients with other health conditions.
• Why it is important for children to continue getting well child visits to stay ahead of any developmental issues that could arise. 
• The importance of getting the influenza shot.
• Steyer shares his personal story of getting COVID-19 despite being vaccinated and explains that his case was mild because of being vaccinated. 
• The mental health aspects of quarantine with COVID-19

Topics covered in this show:

• Centerspace opened in 2020, the center uses FDA-approved and other evidence-based treatments to guide individuals through an intentional and unique journey that uses non-traditional approaches to arrive at the best version of themselves.
• They offer ketamine, a cutting-edge treatment, has been shown to be an effective medication in difficult-to-treat conditions including: depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, addictions and chronic pain syndrome. 
• Ketamine has been approved as an anesthesia agent since the 1970s. It has been used in battlefields and pediatric emergency rooms frequently because it's very safe and does not decrease the breathing drive, unlike a lot of the different opiate types of medications that are used for pain.
• At Centerspace there are two types of Ketamine treatments. One is given as an intramuscular injection and the other is the FDA-approved nasal spray SPRAVATO®,  which is often covered by insurance. 
• The Ketamine therapies are given in the clinic under supervision of the Centerspace medical team. The treatment takes about two hours and requires the patient to have a ride home after.
• Jones usually tells patients to anticipate an initial series of four to six treatments.
• Unlike most antidepressants, which Jones says usually take four to six weeks to be effective, the effects of ketamine are sometimes felt within a day. 
• Jones says ketamine has been life-changing for many patients who never found relief from other prescription antidepressants. 
• She details a success story of a woman who was plagued by feelings of guilt and chronic anxiety with no relief from antidepressants. After ketamine treatments she now feels content and happy and is able to enjoy being with her family. 
• Jones says there is also evidence that ketamine is helping people overcome substance abuse problems.

 More about Centerspace:

Location: 270 Coleman Boulevard Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

Phone: 843-876-1193

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Dr. Danielle Scheurer is the chief quality officer and a professor of medicine at MUSC Health. She is also a board-certified internal medicine physician whose life's work revolves around improving the quality of care and patient safety in all health care settings. In this episode she offers insights into how to choose or change doctors.