Spaulding Clinicians Bring Rehab Medicine Best Practices to South Korea
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Matt Keilty, Director of Professional Development at Spaulding Cape Cod, provides guidance on the use of Rate of Perceived Exertion scale during onsite training for the High Intensity Gait Training session.
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Cara Brickley, Director of Operations and Director of Inpatient Therapy at Spaulding Rehabilitation Charlestown, oversees Daegu therapists facilitating bilateral upper extremity repetition tasks. Dr. Kang, CEO of Daegu Health College Hospital, (far right) participated in the training session.
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International symposium speakers showing the Daegu heart sign. Included in the front row (left to right) is the Mass General Brigham Global Advisory team of Dawn Lucier and Jeanne Cooper, Dr. Kang (CEO Daegu Health College Hospital), President Sung Hee Nam (Daegu Health College), and Mass General Brigham team of Bob McCall, Matt Keilty, and Cara Brickley.
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Cara Brickley, Director of Operations and Director of Inpatient Therapy at Spaulding Rehabilitation Charlestown, presenting “From Surgery to Home. Following a Patient’s Total Hip Replacement Journey in the United States.”
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Matt Keilty, Director of Professional Development at Spaulding Cape Cod, presenting “High Intensity Training to Promote Recovery in Stroke Survivors.”
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Jeanne Cooper, Vice President of International Services for Spaulding Rehabilitation, and part of the Global Advisory team, delivering closing remarks at the Daegu International Symposium.
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The Mass General Brigham and Daegu teams demonstrating signs of strength.
In September 2023, members from Spaulding Rehabilitation participated in a 3-day onsite visit to Daegu Health College Hospital in Daegu, South Korea to lead their rehabilitation staff in onsite training and meetings to share best practices in rehabilitation medicine. The visit is part of an ongoing collaboration that is supported by Mass General Brigham’s Global Advisory services. The Spaulding and Daegu teams focused on several areas, including high intensity/high repetition training for stroke survivors, and participated in a rehabilitation symposium focused on advances in the care of stroke patients and musculo-skeletal patients.
The Daegu Health College Hospital, Daegu Health College, and Mass General Brigham teams discussed possible workstreams and prioritized activities for the next scope of work during the strategy session.
“It was incredibly gratifying to learn how the Daegu team has already incorporated our recommendations such as daily huddle meetings and incorporation of family education and training intro treatment planning to improve their delivery of care,” said Jeanne Cooper, Vice President International Services, Spaulding Rehabilitation and Mass General Brigham Global Advisory. "Being on-site with them for trainings was exciting for our whole team to be able to put our mission of raising the level of rehabilitative medicine globally into action.”
The ongoing advisory agreement with Mass General Brigham Advisory brings the expertise of Spaulding Rehabilitation to advise and support Daegu Health College Hospital’s efforts to advance its rehabilitation quality programming through education, training, and workforce development. Both Spaulding and Daegu Health College Hospital share the same commitment to clinical excellence, quality care, and training the next generation leaders in rehabilitation medicine. Building on this partnership, both institutions will work towards to outline a long-term vision and roadmap that supports Daegu Health College Hospital’s goal in building the best rehabilitation services for its patients in South Korea.
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