Recommendation to receive and file a presentation from John Bishop, Chief Executive Officer, Long Beach Medical Center, to highlight new services provided at the Cherese Mari Laulhere Children’s Village (Children’s Village) in the Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital.
Thank you. And with that, we will go to the regular agenda and we'll come back to the CIA presentation. Now we're going to go to item number 19. Item number 19. Communication from. Councilwoman Sara recommendation to receive and file a presentation from John Bishop Long Beach Medical Center to highlight new services provided at the Children's Village in the Millers Children's and Women's Hospital. Actually, I'm going to accept. We're going to come to one song first. Oh, sorry. The problem documents are. Thank you, Mr. Bishop. I just want to make sure we warmly welcome you first. So I want to make sure we warmly welcome. Chief Executive Officer Mr. John Bishop here from Long Beach Medical Center to share with us the pediatric specialty care and medical and family support services provided at the Cherise marie Law here at Children's Village and how that has positively impacted their work as well as the city of Long Beach. So without further ado, Mr. Bishop, where we want to hear from you. All right. Thank you very much. Sorry about the false start. And I want to personally thank the council for all the. Support that. They've given to the hospitals and to the community through the pandemic. It's been an amazing period, and I think we've been a model across the country. But what I wanted to share with you today is one, something new at Miller Children's and Women's. And then talk a little bit about the. Services we provide. Because children's hospitals and there are only eight in California really provide services that are different from community hospitals. And that's because we have the ability to have multidisciplinary care where we have all the experts in one location, because our children are really not just small adults, they have different health care needs and they need physicians that are specifically trained for them. Looks like my presentation may be struggling. So what they're working on in the back. Okay. No worries. No worries. I've got most of it in my head, but I want to talk about the Sharice. Marie. Le outpatient village. It opened in February and it's really making a huge difference because it took all of our pediatric outpatient clinics and there are many, many specialties. There's endocrinology, there's cardiology, there's surgical clinic, there's there's infectious disease. And they were in different places around Long Beach and around our hospital. And that's particularly a challenge for families, you know, that have really sick kids that need to see multiple specialists. They may have transportation challenges. And what we were. Able to do. Is co-locate them all in one building where you can make one call and make one appointment and have all your your specialist needs taken care of in one location. So for the families and the patients and the physicians who can now make handoffs, and if you think about the advantage of having, you know, a cardiologist handing over a kid to an infectious disease expert, it makes all the difference in the world to say, hey, this is what I'm seeing, have the lab tests available in one location. So it's just a tremendous advancement. And thank you for the city for helping us process that through all the approval stages. It really has been an amazing asset to the community. And lastly, and I would just save time for my I have a. Brief video describing what we do. You know. One thing that we've seen over the past 18 months is a lot of people have deferred their care, not just on the adult side, but parents understandably very protective of their children, have not brought them into the hospital until it was it was too late. We've seen outcomes that were very avoidable. And so to the extent that you are out in the community, I would ask you to please advocate for taking care of your children. Get them. The preventative care hospitals are professional cleaners for a living or a hospital is a. Very, very safe place. If we have. Any COVID patients, they are in effectively vacuum sealed areas with negative airflow. Nothing gets out. And so please take care of not just your health needs, but the health needs of your kids. Because it really it breaks my heart to know that sometimes people don't get to the hospital in time because they were scared of something that was that was very preventable. So we could just see the video. Children need health care tailored to their unique needs, like doctors and nurses trained exclusively in pediatrics and in a kid friendly place. That's where children's hospitals come in. About one in 20 hospitals in the U.S. is a children's hospital, making them as unique as their mission, treating infants, children and teens. And you have one right here in your community. Memorial Care Miller Children's and Women's Hospital. Long Beach is one of only eight freestanding children's hospitals in California. We are even more unique since we're one of the only hospitals in the region to have maternity and pediatric care under one roof. Our pediatric specialty physicians have gone through additional schooling and more rigorous training than a typical doctor. And since our care teams exclusively treat kids, they understand the complexities of a growing body and the need for more than medicine to get well. From broken bones to fighting against pediatric cancer, we have doctors who are experts in more than 40 types of pediatric specialties to help kids find wellness again. For some kids, specialized care starts before they're even born. Our maternal fetal medicine specialists, who are experts in high risk pregnancies, provide care for expecting moms. Ensure that both mom and baby have a healthy outcome after birth. If the need arises, our neonatal intensive care unit is just down the hall so mom and baby can stay close together. We are one of only a few hospitals in California that provides 24/7 specialized care for moms and babies under one roof. But our mission goes beyond the walls of the hospital from the South Bay to Orange County. We have satellite centers that bring our expert care to kids right in their own community. And no matter where they live, we help all kids grow up healthy by pioneering new vaccines, clinical trials and treatments through national research consortiums. Knowing the future of medicine is in our hands. We partner with academic institutions across the region to ensure that doctors, nurses and clinical leaders of tomorrow get the advanced training they need today. Because Miller Children's and Women's is a not for profit organization that provides care regardless of a family's ability to pay, it depends on public and private support. You can support your children's hospital by visiting Miller Children's Dawgs if. Thank you. And in closing, I'll just say Long Beach is a big. City. But it acts like a little city. You have multiple generations. You have grandparents, parents, kids, grandkids. And that is such an asset because the pride of Long Beach really makes us a special place. And so our commitment to you is to try and keep you and your children out of the hospital and give you the preventative care to make sure that that happens. So we call it population health and we are on the journey. I thank you for your time and attention this evening. Thank you, Mr. Bishop. Comes from the price. I support this item and thank you very much for the presentation. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I just want to thank you for what you're doing. You talk about us being a big city and a small community. I think that that is very poignant. And I think that one of the things that we as a council during this economic recovery kind of discussed was that the districts across our city that are really job creators, a large share of the jobs of the city of Long Beach are in health care. And I'm sure you've heard from Mr. Heisler regarding the Innovation District and working together with the Economic Development Committee and Councilman Thoreau and the opportunities that we have to really bring people from the community into the medical field. L.A. County is doing a pilot project where we're taking individuals from disadvantaged communities and turning them into EMTs. And what does that look like after you become an EMT, to become a paramedic, to become a nurse? You become a all these different things where you talk about getting people to go into the hospital during these times. It's easier when they're going into the hospital and they see a familiar face from their community. So thank you for your support and your participation and the upcoming opportunities. I've heard that you've been engaged and we really appreciate it. I see. Richardson Thanks, Councilwoman, for bringing this forward. And John, thanks so much for the presentation updating us on this memorial. Just an incredible asset to our city. You know, both of my children were born there. One of my oldest spent a little time in that Nick. You know, it's one of those places, you know, where, you know, you don't really want to go back, but you had a great experience where you there those nurses are top notch and incredible. We owe a whole we owe so much to the incredible nurses at Memorial Care. So I wasn't going to let you come up here and make a presentation without acknowledging the incredible team you have. The children's hospital in the entire Long Beach Memorial family. So thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman Sorrell. Yeah. Just want to make sure to thank you, Mr. Bishop, for coming out today to giving us this presentation and sharing a little bit of an update and just proud to have you in my district and looking forward to ways in where we can continue exploring opportunities to improve. And but I do agree that just having, you know, the medical officers that you mentioned in one space really provides just saves so much time and relief for parents who are stressful and just making sure that it's accessible to the community. So thank you so much again. Thank you. And I'm just going to add, Mr. Bishop, it's been obviously just really great to work with you for particularly the last year and a half, pretty closely on everything related to the pandemic that we're going through. But just thank you and the entire team. I had a chance to be there at the groundbreaking breaking of this incredible facility. I remember it well and just hear kind of what was in store and now having now being able to see the finished product. It's really spectacular building and great to see so many, you know, clinicians and nurses and doctors all in one space. And I think you said it best. And I just want to highlight again that being able to bring all of those different specialty clinics to 1 to 1 building, and it really fosters a an ability for folks to work together and to have, most importantly, a space where parents and families can go to one building and receive a care for for their children. I mean, one space. And so I think that's really, really important. And we're grateful for memorial for this for this project. With that, there's a motion and this second and there's no other public comment. So please cast your votes. I'm Don Austin. Motion carries. We thank you. Now we're going to do item. Thank you, Mr. Bishop. We're going go ahead and do item number 28.