The JPS Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Who takes care of you in a post-acute setting?
Hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings learn about post-acute care services, how we ensure patients don't fall through the gaps, and are set up for better success in taking charge of their health.
In this season, we're highlighting the stories of how, in spite of a difficult diagnosis, we ultimiately can take back control of our lives.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS Newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
In this season, we're highlighting the stories of how, in spite of a difficult diagnosis, we ultimiately can take back control of our lives.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS Newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
Hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings meet with JPS sepsis coordinators to break down myths and get the word out: what is sepsis?
In this season, we're highlighting the stories of how, in spite of a difficult diagnosis, we ultimiately can take back control of our lives.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS Newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
Advancements in the ways we treat and talk about HIV have come a long way, but how can we come together as a community to be even better?
Hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings sit down with patient Albert Jones and Healing Wings social worker Danielle Call to talk about breaking down barriers and moving past stigmas when being there for those living with HIV.
In this season, we're highlighting the stories of how, in spite of a difficult diagnosis, we ultimiately can take back control of our lives.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS Newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
"I have too much to be here for, and I have too much to do to just let these things put me in a state of mind where I can't get up and do anything."
Armando Enrriques was hit with a life-altering diabetes diagnosis that sent him immediately to the ER. Emerging from a near-fatal stay, Enrriques decided with the help of his JPS educators a new plan of action so that he could live the life he wanted to live, on his terms, and stay healthy to keep his diabetes in check.
Hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings sit with inpatient diabetes educators Val Smyre and Bea Pandit to talk living with diabetes and how to change the trajectory of one's life for the better.
In this season, we're highlighting the stories of how, in spite of a difficult diagnosis, we ultimiately can take back control of our lives.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS Newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
How do you define a life well-lived?
Chronic pain impacts individuals both mentally and physically, often leaving patients with a seemingly impossible dilema: let pain control your life or adjust for the life you want to live.
This week, hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings meet with clinical psychologist Dr. Adam Guck to explore the complex aspects of a diagnosis, chronic pain, and how to reframe what a win is.
In this season, we're highlighting the stories of how, in spite of a difficult diagnosis, we ultimiately can take back control of our lives.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS Newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
We're back with with season 5 of The JPS Podcast! Hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings hightlight the resilience in us all, whether through conversations on living with diabetes or managing recovery in a post-acute setting. In spite of whatever it is you're dealing with, you still have the power to change your life for the better.
Episodes start dropping July 11, 2024!
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The OR can be a lot to take in as a patient, and can be the source of a lot of stress and misunderstanding. So what does JPS do differently in the OR to communicate better with patients and team members to cultivate a positive and safe environment for all?
Tatiyana Giddings and Brian Maschino get to listen to some voices from the OR and sit with RN clinical manager Allison Nelson to hear about the huddle process, and all the hands it takes to keep this well-oiled machine running.
This wraps up our 4th season of The JPS Podcast. We're proud of how far we've come, and you all make this possible. If you haven't already, scroll around and listen to some of our other great episodes from the season.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
The residency programs at JPS Health Network allow doctors to enhance their knowledge and skills while striving to provide exceptional patient care.
While attending new resident orientation with PGY 1 interns, hosts Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings get to the core of "why" we do what we do, and how new generations of physicians are paying it forward for communities at home and abroad.
Learn more about educational opportunities at JPS and our residency programs here: https://www.jpshealthnet.org/medical-professionals/residency-programs
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
As JPS expands westward, how do we build and add upon the strong sense of community existing in diverse pockets across Tarrant County? And how does the community help in return by keeping us a pillar for health delivery? Polytechnic Health Center is that pillar for its area, central to Tarrant County. Could there be something about the care provided there that could be replicated abroad?
Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings chat with Dr. Robert Richard about the special ingredients that make the Polytechnic Health Center an anchor for its community.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
Over years of service, forensic nurse Connie Housley found her niche at JPS helping survivors of sexual assault, and through her dedication has continuously built a robust Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program to support adolescent and adult victims.
Host Tatiyana Giddings sits with Connie to talk JPS' SANE Program, and how we provide a compassionate and secure environment for victims of sexual assault.
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program Resources:
JPS Forensics Department: 817-702-7263
Tarrant County Rape Crisis Center: 817-927-2737
SAFE Haven of Tarrant County: 877-701-7233
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
It's okay to not be okay, and you're not alone in feeling it.
Hosts Tatiyana Giddings and Brian Maschino meet with peer support specialists Frances Wall and Melanie Cooper who have lived their own struggles with mental health and substance abuse, and came out on the other side to be the support needed for others dealing with those same struggles. Through their personal journeys, Frances and Melanie describe the invaluable tools and perspectives they bring to the table when providing behavioral health care for the JPS Health Network.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org/
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
"You can't pour from an empty glass." That's how Obstetrics and Gynecology NP Melissa De Hoyos sees it. Many women put their health on the back burner for their family, career, life in general. It's easy to not realize that taking time to care for yourself benefits everything in our orbit.
Tatiyana Giddings meets with Melissa to discuss the importance of caring for yourself and the benefits of maintaining your overall health.
If you're interested in learning more about this conversation or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org/
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
Congestive heart failure is a disease that affects people of all ages, and may sound scary if you aren't properly informed on what the diagnosis means. Join Tatiyana Giddings and Brian Maschino as they break down CHF with Dr. Sandeep Kamath and PA Gregory Duck. It may seem like a lot, but it's not the death sentence it once was.
If you're interested in learning more about CHF or how we put the show together, visit the JPS newsroom to find our episode show notes: https://www.jpshealthnet.org/
Tell us your story, or just let us know how we're doing. We read every comment: podcast@jpshealth.org
Host Tatyiana Giddings' grandma swears by the hidden power of sweet potatoes: that they help her prevent cancer. The relationship between food and healthcare can be challenging to explain. In this episode, we meet with Megan Settlemyer, an Outpatient Dietitian, to learn more about oncology nutrition and to find an answer to that burning question she's had all these years regarding her grandma and those sweet potatoes.
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You can find additional resources in our show notes, as well as more behind-the-scenes information on everything discussed in this episode PLUS a recipe to help you enjoy sweet potatoes in a new light.
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In this bonus episode to our season launch, we're proud to share an interview from October 2021 at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art with Dr. Virginia Watson and Amanda Blake, the Carter's Director of Education, Library, and Visitor Experience, talking more about how we use the arts to bridge these gaps in our communication. As well, we take a closer look at artwork from episode one and touch on how photography can assist those with dementia.
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Art surrounds us, art motivates us, art speaks to something often unspoken. So how exactly does medicine fit into this? Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings meet up with Dr. Ginger Watson, a hospitalist at JPS Health Network, to understand how art bridges these gaps in the conversations we're having to be better caregivers, patients, people.
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You can dig more into our show notes, listen to an additional conversation we had with Dr. Watson and Amanda Blake of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and browse stories from everything else happening at JPS!
If this conversation in art and medicine speaks to you, speak to us: podcast@jpshealth.org
We're back with more for season 4! Brian Maschino and Tatiyana Giddings take us on a journey to see how partnering with our community improves the ways we give and receive care.
Tatiyana Giddings sits down with Dr. Alan Podawiltz, JPS Chair of Psychology, to discuss suicide and how to help those showing signs of ideation.
How does JPS innovate its healthcare delivery? Scott Wuerz sits down with Robert Earley and Mark Hallman to ask just that, and how JPS can become a better partner to the community.
After a year on the frontlines battling COVID-19, some JPS team members share their hardships and how they found the strength to push forward.
The best doctors and nurses in the world can't solve the problems of patients if people can't tell them what's going on. Scott Wuerz sits down with members of JPS Language Services to discuss how they bridge that communication gap, so patients of all cultures can get better no matter what language they speak.
Our first year residents reflect on what their first year was like at JPS, and how being thrown directly into the middle of the pandemic has made them more adaptable providers.
Host Scott Wuerz sits down with Glenda Mutinda and Annia Palacios to demystify grief, and discuss that it's okay to not feel okay.
The need for geriatric care is rising. This week, Scott sits down with doctors Reena Mathews and Nnyekaa Collins to discuss the rising need for senior care, and what JPS is doing to ensure those resources are available.
Aside from COVID-19 infections shining a spotlight on comorbidities, feelings of isolation and loneliness due to the pandemic have further amplified existing conditions. Dr. Buck helps us identify these feelings, and how we can better help our mental health.
Volunteers have been an integral part of the care found at John Peter Smith hospital. Until the pandemic sent them all home. This week Scott sits down with Volunteer Services to talk what’s changed during the pandemic, and what’s next for our community members looking to serve.
When resources shifted to help efforts in responding to COVID-19, new challenges arose when addressing the needs of many in the community. This week, host Scott Wuerz looks at how team members adapt to ensure those who are the most marginalized aren’t left behind.
For a year, we have endured COVID-19. This week, we kick off the season with Dr. Rick Miller as helps guide us on our path back to reclaiming our lives.
Welcome back for our third season of The JPS Podcast! Join host Scott Wuerz as he asks what we've been all thinking a year into this pandemic: how do we take back control of our lives?
Own it. Seek joy. Don’t be a jerk. Those are the rules of the road at JPS. President and CEO Robert Earley talks about how in the face of a pandemic those rules are now more than ever key to the care we provide.
COVID-19 has put pressure on the healthcare system and our caregivers, but we’re responding at record speed. Dr. Steve Davis gives us a look into what we’ve learned over the last nine months, and how we’re taking that into the future of medicine.
About 40 years before COVID-19, another deadly virus swept the globe. JPS Health Network’s Healing Wings program has played a vital role over the decades in helping to tame HIV in Tarrant County.
While HIV has never been cured, it’s become something those infected can live with. Healing Wings serves about 2,000 patients a month, making sure they get the medication and all the associated care they need to continue to live to their fullest.
These are tough times, not only for healthcare workers, but for everyone. So, how do JPS team members, nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, find the determination to keep serving their community?
We handed them the microphone and asked where they find the strength, courage and willpower to be ready to serve when they're needed.
It may seem like time stands still for family members as they wait for a loved one to emerge from trauma surgery, but things happen fast when lives are in the balance. That’s why there’s no substitute for the skill and experience of the Level I Trauma team at JPS. Trauma surgeons Dr. Carlos Rodriguez and Dr. Raj Gandhi discuss what Level I Trauma care means for patients in an emergency and the community as a whole.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of fear and anxiety for many of us, but getting the care we need can be a challenge when we're supposed to stay apart. Fortunately, the JPS Behavioral Health team is finding new ways to connect with patients remotely, ensuring they get the counseling and resources they need to be well.
Intimate partner violence comes in many forms. Still, it is such a taboo subject that some people don't even realize when abuse is happening to them. This week, Scott Wuerz sits down with Manza Agovi and Mary Ann Contreras to discuss the processes JPS has in place, and the ways we connect patients to safety and community.
A combination of influenza and COVID-19, potentially dangerous on their own, could be too much for a body to fight off at the same time. This week, we're talking with Krystle Gandhi, Executive Director of Clinical Informatics and Operations, about everything you ever wanted to know about the flu.
Technology helps bridge the communication gap, but recent efforts made by JPS team members have created the biggest impact. Devon Armstrong tells us how her team of social workers and nurse case managers has forged trusting relationships with the people they care for to help them overcome isolation and the fear of recovering from COVID-19 alone.
The fight against COVID-19 has been the toughest test that healthcare workers across the country have ever faced. When the flow of patients in need of intensive care doesn’t seem like it will ever stop and there are more questions than answers, how do doctors and nurses keep moving forward?
This week, we’re talking with pulmonologist Dr. Razaq Badamosi, Director of the Intensive Care Unit at JPS Health Network, about how COVID care has evolved over the last six months, where the battle against the virus stands and how the members of his team stay on top of their profession during seemingly endless shifts for the benefit of their patients.
JPS not only offers the highest standard of care to every behavioral health patient. It's also a leader in developing the psychiatrists of the future, teaching them how to treat people in need of behavioral health care in one of the premiere four-year psychiatry residency programs in the country.
JPS Health Network is always reaching for new ways to care for patients. Listen in to find out how medical homes and telehealth keep patients connected with personalized care tailored to their individual needs.
When a person's appearance has been altered because of an accident or health condition, the operation to save their life is only the beginning of the healing process. Listen in to find out how Dr. Steven Mapula and his team give hope and confidence to those patients so they can feel like themselves again.
Being a cop isn't only about pursuing bad guys, investigating crimes and other typical police duties. It's about creating a safe place where people can get the care they need.
A decade ago, JPS earned Level 1 Trauma Center status under the guidance of Trauma Medical Director Dr. Raj Gandhi. It's a standard no other Fort Worth hospital has been able to meet in the ten years that followed. Listen to find out more.
Cancer is the word no one wants to hear. We all live in fear of it every day because in the past a cancer diagnosis was almost always a death sentence. But Dr. Bassam Ghabach, Medical Director of the JPS Health Network Oncology and Infusion Center, said new treatments, techniques and philosophies have given doctors more tools to fight the disease than they’ve had before. Listen in to find out how oncologists are taking the battle to cancer these days, giving patients longer, healthier lives and a real chance to beat the disease.
It’s the job of Dr. Richard Teames to make the pain go away as patients recover from injuries or surgery. But, in a world where opioid drug abuse has been ignored for too long, Teames is on the cutting edge of finding non-narcotic ways to help control pain. Is it working? Tune in to find out more.
Dr. Anthony Zepeda and social worker Kelle White join Scott Wuerz to discuss palliative care at JPS, giving us insight into this unique relationship between patient, provider and family. Palliative care has grown tremendously in recent years as the American population ages, still many people don’t know exactly what it is. We discuss the support our palliative care team offers to patients and their families and how to connect to those services.
Lewis Jackson talks with Joel Hunt, Director of Care Connections, about establishing trust with patients experiencing homelessness. When a person has lost everything, it often leads to them giving up on taking care of themselves. Joel discusses the JPS/Acclaim Street Medicine program and the efforts they make to care for this population and give consistent, compassionate medical care, the first step in helping a person without a home reclaim their life.
Tarrant County is quickly becoming an international community with people from all of the world calling it their new home. So how does JPS care for people with different cultural and religious beliefs? How do we connect with patients who don’t speak English well – or perhaps at all? Scott Wuerz sits down with Lee Ann Franklin, Executive Director of Spiritual Care and Ethics and Michelle Green-Ford, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, to talk about how we meet the needs of our diverse patient population.
The first season of The JPS Podcast explores the relationship between provider and patient. Every patient case is unique. The JPS patient population is diverse and their needs vary greatly. How do our providers and team members here at JPS address those issues? How do we establish trust and create buy-in with our patients? Tune in to this introductory episode for a glimpse into this first season of The JPS Podcast.