Rachel Basham

Oct 29, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Rachel Basham |Joshua W. Elder |Tamara Scott |Betsy Castillo

I have been in health care and worked as a bedside nurse for more than 30 years now. Early in my career a surgeon said to me, “I could have made changes if I had that information sooner. I’ve had 200 people on my operating room table during this time.”The surgeon was referring to critical data within medical registries, which are used by clinicians to improve care delivery.

Jun 19, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Harsh Moolani |Lauren Weber |Julie Craig |Rachel Basham

“I broke our only promise,” swelling with guilt, Sarah wept as she stumbled out of the front door. Two years ago, her father asked her to never leave him in a nursing home. They pinky promised. But how could anyone have predicted what would follow in the upcoming years? His dementia progressively worsened, complicated by falls every three months.

Sep 27, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Rachel Basham |Richard Young |Stephen Parodi |Rosalind Kaplan

Imagine you are in a bad car accident. You are in and out of consciousness. There are lights and sirens and the smell of gasoline. Everything hurts more than you can bear. Hands pull you from the car and place you on a hard backboard with a rigid cervical collar around your neck. You bump down the road in the back of an ambulance as you start feeling like you can’t breathe. You arrive at a local trauma center where they are short 50 percent of their ED nurses.