With the impending opening of a newly constructed fifth-floor specialty clinic, Cooper Green staff faced more than the challenge of navigating an unfamiliar space. They also needed to ensure they could respond quickly and effectively to medical emergencies in the new environment.
In collaboration with UAB Medicine Radiology leadership, the sim center’s systems team developed an in situ resuscitation simulation to be held unannounced on a Saturday in The Kirklin Clinic’s basement MRI suite.
The road to recovery starts with practice, and at the new UAB Rehabilitation Pavilion, that practice began with simulation.
This past July, UAB Clinical Simulation partnered with UAB Medicine’s ambulatory and physical therapy leadership to conduct medical emergency systems simulations prior to the opening of a new UAB community physical therapy clinic on Dunnavant Valley Road in Birmingham.
As one of UAB Medicine’s newest clinics, Lee Branch Primary & Specialty Care enlisted the help of UAB Clinical Simulation to put its systems to the test.