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Urdu“We’re very excited about this event,” said Pierre Monice, president of MacNeal Hospital. “It lets the Berwyn community know that MacNeal is willing to invest in innovation. This is just the beginning. We want to keep investing, and we want to let the community know that we’re dedicated to their health care.”
The da Vinci Xi is a versatile and flexible system for robotic-assisted surgeries designed to promote operating room efficiency. In appropriately selected patients, robotic surgery results in faster healing time, shorter hospital stays and lower complication rates compared with other techniques, making them more cost-effective in the long run. Surgeries done using the da Vinci robot are also less invasive and cause less pain for patients. Such improvements in patient care are encouraging when it comes to future investments in robotic-assisted surgical care.
Since the da Vinci Xi began its tenure at MacNeal, the number of surgeries done with the robot has gone up, especially in the past few months, and surgeons have been able to take on increasingly complex cases within their specialties. The surgical team has also expanded. The robots have been used in urology, gynecology, gynoncology and general surgery.
“Our patients and community will benefit from seeing this advanced technology in the hands of our skillful surgeons,” said Charles Bareis, MD, FACP, chief medical officer at MacNeal Hospital. MacNeal’s team of expert surgeons will be available to demonstrate the system as well as discuss the benefits and outcomes of robotic surgery procedures. Event attendees will also have the chance to try out the robot themselves and speak with surgeons, including Samer Totonchi, DO, chair of MacNeal’s Robotics Committee.
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About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago’s western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,800 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. & Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois’s largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with the newly renovated Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services, acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics. Loyola Medical Group, a team of primary and specialty care physicians, offers care at over 15 Chicago-area locations. For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 92 hospitals, as well as 100 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2.5 million visits annually. Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $18.8 billion and assets of $30.5 billion, the organization returns $1.3 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity Health employs about 123,000 colleagues, including 6,800 employed physicians and clinicians. Committed to those who are poor and underserved in its communities, Trinity Health is known for its focus on the country’s aging population. As a single, unified ministry, the organization is the innovator of Senior Emergency Departments, the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care services — ranked by number of visits — in the nation, as well as the nation’s leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) based on the number of available programs. For more information, visit trinity-health.org. You can also follow Trinity Health on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
