New Orleans looks to Cleveland for pediatric coverage
Children’s Hospital New Orleans is tapping Cleveland Clinic as a way to make sure Pelican State families have ready access to board-certified pediatric radiologists.
Along with interpretations supplied via teleradiology, Cleveland Clinic will offer Nola colleagues clinician consultations, protocol refinement assistance and image sharing capabilities.
Cleveland Clinic will use its up and running eRadiology service to conduct operations for the new affiliation, according to an announcement posted Aug. 24 by Children’s Hospital New Orleans.
The partnership will support pediatric radiologists at Children’s Hospital with 24/7 availability of some 16 radiologists, all of whom have had advanced subspecialist training in pediatric imaging, according to the announcement.
The institutions plan to grow the relationship to where Cleveland Clinic can assign four more radiologists to read cardiac MRI for pediatric patients.
Further, the partnership is set to support Children’s Hospital’s pediatric trauma program, which is the only such service in the region and is currently seeking accreditation from the American College of Surgeons.
Children’s Hospital COO and chief strategy officer Jonathan Brouk says the move means that “families will know their child’s imaging is read by pediatric experts at all Children’s Hospital New Orleans locations at any time of day, instead of having to rely on adult radiologists or waiting until the next day for a study to be read by a pediatric expert, as is the case at other pediatric facilities in our community.”
Children’s Hospital New Orleans notes the development follows the opening of an all-new imaging center it opened in 2020.
Read the full announcement.
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