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ADULTS We will test your hearing and speech understanding both with and without your hearing aids to determine if you could benefit from an implant. Testing is performed by an audiologist who specializes in advanced hearing care. You should bring your recent hearing tests and your hearing aids to your appointment. If you do not have hearing aids – or – if your current aids are not appropriate for your hearing loss, a trial period with new devices will be offered. This step is required by the FDA to ensure that candidates for implantation are selected appropriately. If the audiologist feels
A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device for people who cannot benefit from hearing aids. 1. A device that looks like a small hearing aid fits behind the ear and is held in place on the scalp by a magnet. 2. The internal device is surgically placed under the scalp and sends the signals from the external processor through a small array of electrodes to the inner ear. 3. The signals through the electrodes stimulate the hearing nerve allowing the brain to perceive sound.
written by Karen Carlson | photographed by Jason Johnson “It’s not about health care. It’s about the health of the population. That’s the most important thing.” So said John Whittington, MD, senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Whittington has more than 30 years’ experience in medicine, population health and patient safety and was one of the co-authors of the Triple Aim framework published in 2007. The Triple Aim is “one aim with three dimensions: improving the health of populations, improving the patient experience of care and reducing the
SIU Medicine and its programs hit the marks Written by Karen Carlson | Photographed by Jason Johnson Dean and Provost Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH, closes nearly every presentation with a particular slide: The Triple Aim + 1. The Triple Aim is a nationally known health care philosophy that has been steadily woven into the fabric of SIU Medicine for years. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) published the Triple Aim in 2007. Great minds think alike: the SIU School of Medicine Department of Family & Community Medicine (FCM) had been promoting similar principles for nearly a decade and
Jason Kegg, MD, Emergency Medicine, has been named medical director of the Illinois Emergency Medical Services Program at the Illinois Department of Public Health. When he's not treating emergencies, Dr. Kegg will provide consultation expertise for emergency services, trauma care, stroke care, emergency transportation and promote highway safety.
