How Residency Programs Bring Value to Organizations

10/31/22 • 32 min

Be Advised - Mary Free Bed Advisory Group Podcast

The newest episode of Mary Free Bed’s Advisory Group podcast, Be Advised, spotlights physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs and how they bring value to an organization.
This episode’s featured guest is Dr. Adam Lamm, assistant medical director for Mary Free Bed’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency (PM&R) program.
Dr. Lamm specializes in the care of adults with brain injuries and strokes. He works with patients in our inpatient and outpatient Brain Injury programs as well as our post-concussion program.
A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dr. Lamm earned his medical degree as well as a master’s degree in bioethics. He completed a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where he served as chief resident. Following his residency, Dr. Lamm completed a brain injury medicine fellowship at Spaulding.
Be Advised is hosted by Joyal Pavey, vice president of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. The podcast hosts experts who shine a spotlight on the field of medical rehabilitation as a critical component of health care.
This conversation covers a wide range of topics, including:

Dr. Lamm’s background and journey to the field of PM&R
The history of Mary Free Bed’s residency program
What value does a residency program add to an organization?
What can incoming residents expect from Mary Free Bed’s program?
Where do graduating residents go onto in their careers?

The comprehensive PM&R Residency at Mary Free Bed includes clinical, educational and research opportunities in all areas of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Resident physicians gain experience working with brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple trauma, amputation, cancer, COVID-19 rehabilitation and other diagnoses.
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Dr. Lamm’s background and journey to the field of PM&R
The history of Mary Free Bed’s residency program
What value does a residency program add to an organization?
What can incoming residents expect from Mary Free Bed’s program?
Where do graduating residents go onto in their careers?

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Leading Future-Forward Rehabilitation Programs

The ‘Be Advised’ Podcast is back with a new episode exploring the topic of medical leadership and what that looks like now and into the future of rehabilitation programs. This episode’s guest is Dr. Michael Jakubowski, the Chief Medical Officer of Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital.

Over the last several years, the inpatient rehabilitation industry has seen a rise in the complexity of persons served. Patients now often have multiple co-morbidities, a higher case mix index and require a well-coordinated team of specialty providers.

Through Dr. Jakubowski’s leadership, Mary Free Bed has been able to ensure patients with complex needs receive critically-important medical coordination, to help facilitate sustainable functional outcomes, as well as decrease complications of care.

On this episode of Be Advised, Dr. Jakubowski discusses the role medical leadership plays in a progressive, forward-focused rehabilitation program. He is joined by host, Joyal Pavey, vice president of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. Co-advisors, and co-hosts are J’nise Ramsey and Sherry Mullins who serve as regional directors of care transitions and Dr. Robert Krug.

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How High Value Rehabilitation Supports Healthier Communities

In a very special episode of Mary Free Bed’s Advisory Group podcast, Be Advised, we are joined by Airica Steed Ed.D, MBA, RN. Steed is the incoming President and CEO of Metro Health System in Cleveland Ohio and former Executive Vice President & System Chief Operating Officer of Sinai Chicago Health System, President of Mount Sinai and Sinai Children’s Hospital.

Steed has been listed in 2020 Modern Healthcare among its “Top 25 healthcare Innovators” and last year named as a “Top 25 Minority Leader”. Becker’s Hospital Review named this innovative and dynamic leader as one of the “Top 120 Women Hospital & Health System Leaders to Know” and placed her on their list of “75 Black Healthcare Leaders to know.”

In her role at Sinai Chicago, Steed led cultural, clinical and operational transformations that led to $200M in improvements over 3 years, while achieving substantial improvements in publicly reported quality measures.

During her conversation on Be Advised she discusses: