Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast

Delaware State Senator Nicole Poore joins host Dr. Jay Greenspan to talk about the toll the pandemic has taken on families, like hers, that include a young adult whose medical needs are complex, the stress of having that young adult age out of the pediatric health care system in the midst of a pandemic, her own personal experience battling COVID-19 and the lengths to which she and her husband went to protect all three of their children from becoming infected with virus.

Plus, a Nemours COVID-19 situational update from Dr. Greenspan, and an update on the distribution of vaccines to Nemours associates. 

Carol Vassar, producer

Nemours COVID-19 Incident Commander Dr. Jay Greenspan provides a situational update regarding the pandemic, and speak with Nemours infectious disease specialist Dr. Neil Rellosa about the vaccine rollout within the enterprise, when the vaccine might be available for kids, the new variant COVID-19 strain emerging in the U.K., and what’s it’s like to actually receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Carol Vassar, producer

For over a century, Christmas at the Nemours Mansion and Estate in Wilmington, Delaware has been an opportunity to decorate, celebrate, and welcome the public for an immersive experience of holiday life behind the walls of Nemours in days of yore.

2020 is an exception, however, as COVID-19 has closed the mansion until Spring 2021. Instead, enjoy a social distanced audio love letter that provides a taste of that immersive experience, with Nemours associate Riva Brown as our guide

Also, an encore airing of a story that first appeared on the podcast in August 2019, and yet has its own holiday theme. It features Jacksonville-based Nemours talent acquisition partner Dragona Piljug. Her path to Nemours begins fair away in both time and place: Bosnia in the 1980’s.

Carol Vassar, producer

En esta edición del podcast de actualización de COVID-19 de Nemours Champions for Children, la Dra. Diana Carao de A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children en Wilmington, Delaware ofrece una actualización de la situación de COVID-19 en toda la empresa en español. La Dra. Carao y el Dr. Jay Greenspan también discuten la eficacia, la seguridad y la importancia para la salud pública de las nuevas vacunas COVID-19.

Carol Vassar, producer

This edition of the Nemours Champions for Children COVID-19 update features a situational update from host and Nemours COVID-19 Incident Commander, Dr. Jay Greenspan.

Dr. Greenspan is joined by Florida-based Nemours pediatrician Dr. Odett Stanley Brown to talk about the ways in which the practice of pediatrics in communities like The Village, Florida has changed  since the pandemic's onset.

Drs. Greenspan and Stanley-Brown also share their concerns about the pandemic's disproportionate impact on Black and Brown community members, and Nemours own efforts toward diversity and inclusion in the healthcare space. 

To here to view the NCH COVID-19 Grand Rounds from December 9, 2020 referenced by Dr. Brown in this podcast. 

Carol Vassar, producer

By now all are well-versed in the physical PPE required to help safeguard us from the pandemic: masks, gloves, gowns, shields, etc. But what about safeguarding your emotional self?

Psychologist Dr. Meghan Walls joins host Dr. Jay Greenspan to talk about the importance of "psychological PPE" to protect you from what some are calling the “COVID Cloud” of doom and gloom.

Plus, Dr. Greenspan provides a situational update from his perspective as Nemours pandemic response incident commander.

RESOURCES:

Nemours Virtual Wellness Fair (12/10/2020)

Nemours Peer Support

Nemours Vaccine FAQs (12/9/2020)

Carol Vassar, producer

The situation surrounding COVID-19 is constantly changing. This podcast provides you with the most up-to-date information related to COVID-19 and your work as a Nemours associate. From operational changes to rumor busting, Nemours COVID-19 Incident Commander Dr. Jay Greenspan and his team of experts provide you with the most accurate and up-to-date information on all things COVID from across the enterprise - directly from the source.

This week, Dr. Greenspan talks with Dr. Kenneth Alexander about the two new COVID-19 vaccines: how safe are they? When can you expect to get one? They also provide an overall situational update applicable to all Nemours associates. 

Carol Vassar, producer

Nemours Director of Community Affairs for the Delaware Valley, Michelle Burroughs, opens up about her daughter's health issue, and the effects of COVID-19 on her family.

We'll also hear from Dr. Amber Hoffman about her involvement directing the Nemours Children’s Hospital Pediatric Residency Program. 

Carol Vassar, producer

Dr. Amber Hoffman wears many hats at the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando: Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program, Director of the Medically Complex Coordination Clinic, and member of the hospital medical division.

She has long possessed an inquisitiveness that, in turn, dgave rise to her youthful desire to go into medicine - a dream nearly derailed when, as she puts it, “life happened.”

Carol Vassar, producer

Meet Debra Morales, Administrative Coordinator for Perioperative Services at the A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, and a 15-year Nemours associate. She has been referred to by at least one fellow associate as the person who makes the Wilmington O.R. the great place to work that it is. For that, we can thank Debra's late mom, Christine, who to this day has a significant influence on Debra’s life - including her career choices. 

Also, meet Dr. Steven Selbst, who has distinguished himself as a medical doctor and as an academic. He is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children, director of the Nemours Pediatric Residency Program, and a professor and Vice-Chairman for Education for the Department of Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As it happens, he was also on the forefront of that development of pediatric emergency medicine as a specialty! 

Carol Vassar, producer