Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Adult Neurology Residency Program

[MUSIC PLAYING] Allina Health Brain and Spine Institute is a distinctive clinical program within Allina Health and serves as a premier destination for complex neurological and spine care. We are a collaborative force of about 120-plus world-class neurologists, neurosurgeons, researchers, and specialists under one roof, which enables the Institute to transform impossible cases into stories of recovery. In our service line model, we have more than 16 centers which work together, always keeping the patients at the center with workflows designed around them.

Allina Health is a large healthcare system, serving about 1.5 million unique patients in Minnesota and Wisconsin, with about 12 hospitals and 90-plus clinical locations, including Abbott Northwestern Hospital, which is ranked in Newsweek as world's top-performing hospital, and is also ranked in the top 25 of the world's best smart hospitals.

The idea here is that our Institute is to put the patient in the center and really design care around the patient. So if you look at our facilities, including our new tower that we are building, this new tower is one of the most modern hospital buildings in the country, if not the world.

And the sixth floor of that building is entirely based for neuroscience. It's cutting-edge technologies that are going into building this most modern facilities for our patients. We've got some of the most advanced technologies so that we can provide that cutting-edge care to our community. Abbott Northwestern Hospital was the world's first hospital to adapt artificial intelligence utilization for outpatient EEG.

Among the various specialized centers, we have developed several programs of national prominence. This includes our stroke and cerebrovascular program, which has a multidisciplinary team of interventional neuroradiologists, nationally recognized neurosurgeons, vascular neurologists who are able to take care of complex neurological conditions, such as aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations. We also have a level 4 epilepsy center, which is able to deliver all therapeutic modalities for complex refractory epilepsy patients.

The research aspect of our team here at Allina Health, the Neuroscience Institute, is constantly involved in clinical trials specific to neurointervention Our team has consistently been involved in clinical trials related to new medical devices. And this often allows us to be first in line for the latest and greatest and be in a position to be able to provide our patients with all the most current treatment options.

Here at the Givens Brain Tumor Center, we strive to provide whole person care grounded in science, but also grounded in what patients really need and want. Multidisciplinary care is the standard.

Brain tumors don't exist in a silo, and these patients need care from multiple specialists. We have cutting-edge neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, neuropathologists, the neuro-oncology team. But we also work with our colleagues in other specialties, things like physical medicine and rehabilitation that focuses on a patient's mobility, psychology, nutrition, so that we can better optimize patients during their cancer treatment and along their brain tumor journey.

Across Allina Health, we provide a full continuum of stroke care, starting with community education, to recovery and rehabilitation. Our philosophy is that comprehensive stroke care is a community standard. Our program provides care for approximately 25% to 30% of Minnesotans with a stroke.

Teleneurology program delivers care to the patients, and we meet them where they are. So these rural hospitals that we work with would not otherwise have neurology specialty. So we deliver care where they need it, rather than having them come to us.

With regards to Telestroke, we make sure to mimic our quaternary centers, reach the same outcome metrics, reach the same results, and do things just as fast as we do in the metro hospitals at the rural sites, and we work with them to achieve this.

The focused ultrasound program at Allina Health has given us the opportunity to provide treatment options for patients that may not be candidates for other surgical procedures. This minimally invasive procedure allows us to treat some of these patients that otherwise have no other options and are very debilitated in their daily activities.

Offering this program has been life-changing for the people that have gone through it. This is a group of people who really thought there was nothing left for them, or they had kind of settled for subpar tremor control with side effects from medications. And now they're having their complete tremor elimination or significant tremor reduction. And then they've kind of gone back to living the life that they had kind of accepted was no longer a reality for them.

We just started a brand new neurology training program at Allina Health. This is the first one in the state of Minnesota to start in neurology after about 80 years. Minnesota and the upper Midwest, just like the rest of the nation, is facing a critical shortage of neurologists. So this is Allina Health's way of increasing the workforce.

This is an exciting time to be in neurosciences, with research and breakthrough happening every day that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. And our physicians are able to deliver care that seems nothing short of science fiction.

So the idea is that this is a place of excellence, that excellence is optimized by technology, artificial intelligence, and our triple mission of clinical care, education, and research come together through this. And we do all of this keeping our patients and our community at the center. The purpose is to bring world-class care at the doorsteps of our communities and our patients.

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