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Moore I'm Karalee SBA welcome to On cue. Coming up a local civil rights landmark is recognized by the city of Pittsburgh and will pay a visit to freedom corner. Plus unique antiques from the Carnegie Museum of Art and the modern alternative rock sounds of mind's eye. There are Thursday Night Live musical guests but first co-host Stacey Smith is going to get us started with tonight's cover story Stacey. Carol Chris thank you. We begin tonight with efforts to redesign health care in western Pennsylvania. The goal is to prevent mistakes and treating you at local hospitals and doctors offices. And already Pittsburgh has been recognized nationally as being ahead of the game of trying to

prevent medical errors on cue correspondent Michael Bartley is here now to explain. Michael Stacy the Institute of Medicine recently issued a national report on ways to fix health care delivery and it just so happens the Pittsburgh region had already been working on instituting the reforms in fact. Pittsburgh is three years ahead of the National curve and coming together to prevent medical errors. The Pittsburgh regional health care initiative a consortium of local hospitals insurers corporations and foundations have come together to institute change for better patient care. Their efforts came in response to a 1999 study showing up to ninety eight thousand people nationally died each year because of medical mistakes. Tonight just one example of how one local hospital is responding. It is called the paperless emergency room at UPMC President Bush. Let me know what you mean.

This is the BNP press that you know let's have a partner look at today's EKG had for nearly 50000 people. I'm everything your honor this is great. Get access to health it is not nonstop. Hurry up stay the present be emergency and trauma center ranks second busiest in the region behind only children's hospital. Some injuries and illnesses seem minor though compared to what the trauma staff dealt with on this particular day we had two victims of shootings one of which expired on the table and another of which is in extremely critical condition in the intensive care unit. Dr. Townsend moved quickly from those patients to this woman in pain. We couldn't help but notice her empty shoes. She had fallen down a long flight of stairs.

If you're falling down a flight of stairs you can be literally hurt from the top you had to touch your toes and everything in between. The trauma team worked fast to get X-rays. A team of doctors almost immediately pored over the X-ray results and preliminary results were good news. She looks like she's going to recover very well. I have Jason to the trauma center the emergency department where illnesses and injuries are not as life threatening at least not on this day. So I have to know from a young woman complaining of flu like symptoms. To an elderly gentleman whose surgical incision on his arm opened back on the right hand will make this stuff stop ok. Dr. Ted Delbridge is the emergency department director. He says overall emergency trauma treatment used to take a lot longer because paperwork had to go from department to department to compare test results and so forth. But no more of that here.

He calls this a paperless E.R. event for us is that we can find out a lot more information about the patients were seeing quickly so that we can initiate the appropriate care for them and get them moving into the health care system as fast as they can a computer system called first net has been on line here since November. The high tech program offers of media information about a patient and it's at a doctor's fingertips. And it's based on past medical records even X-rays and other medical tests are displayed in mediately throughout first net computers Delbridge says it's saving vital emergency care time in treating a patient well in the past when we needed for example to find out about a test the patient may have had months ago. We called medical records we waited for a medical records technician the find the char. We waited for the truck to arrive in one's apartment and that it could delay care significantly. I want to help somebody for example who is let's say seriously injured in a car accident. Well the good part the same kind of way.

Oftentimes the board table felt less about their past a little history for example. Some aspects of that could be vitally important to how we go about evaluating the care of the laboratory tests come back to us faster. As Instead of coming out of a trip or someplace that we have as a policy support for a way soon as a laboratory result is available instantaneously available to me on a computer screen. The radiologist can be anywhere at the hospital looking at these x and that's ramble. Yeah so it allows us some ability to consult with folks who might have input into what it is we're doing real time instead of a delay. Half hour more. In other words you're connected in the real time cutting time on the patient's behalf. That's right so you get more immediate medical care is that correct that patients get more immediate medical care and the likelihood for errors is actually reduced and reducing

error is crucial. Just Pittsburgh regional hospitals continue to work together to find innovative ways to reduce errors. Forty six year old Bill foreman of Penn Hills comes to the emergency room about twice a month because of complications of sickle cell. He's confident the Presby staff will make no errors because they're all on the same page he says. Due to the first net computer program Foreman's continuing health history is a mouse click away and one can get back here and one a doctor seen in. You're pretty much on your way. But not all is perfect of course. It can still take a lot of time to get even bigger and be seen by a doctor. Sometimes you can sit out the right and wrong. Why didn't we get back here for 6 hours long but that's when I have people sitting on top each other NG none the less. First night is being touted so far as a major success and Dr Delbridge predicts the paperless NPR will become a national trend and

hospitals around the country will be hooked up by computer to share the vital and time saving medical records of a patient in need. For example if you traveled out of state and had an emergency medical history would be available to an emergency room doctor there. Our society is trans people come and go and travel all the time. And as people are living longer and living with more about one problems and problems they're more complex. It's critical that we be able to exchange information. And that is a critical example of how patient care can be improved and how errors and treating patients can be avoided. According to the Pittsburgh health care initiative the focus is on improvement with the bottom line being the patient

is the constant. Some say the main accomplishment locally is that competing hospitals are sitting down together to come up with ways to improve patient care and that means all these local hospitals that compete against each other that's a big deal. That is a big deal. Michael are there any other examples of how Pittsburgh hospitals are out in the in the four of them as opposed to other cities. There's no question about it Stacey were way out there there's a major effort to improve patient safety reducing pharmaceutical errors. And another goal the goal of achieving the world's best patient outcomes in the areas of cardiac surgery depression diabetes and several other areas if you look at the numbers. Yes we are way ahead of other big cities. So I get the impression from what you're saying this isn't just like a one time study or something this is something that just continues on and on. Absolutely this is sort of long term the main thing here again is that just about every entity the Pittsburgh area medical community working together to prevent medical mistakes now that's not to say there are major problems with the local medical care. It's just an

effort to improve. And they are doing it right. Thank you Michael. Coming up next the unveiling of freedom corner in Pittsburgh after this look ahead to Friday on cue. It's the Friday for some for some who is in the guest chair John David. He's part of the popular morning team from being 94 Dave's an early bird but agreed to stay up late for a live appearance on cue. Let's hope he can wake up for some regulars Ruthann Baker Alan Cox and for the Hans Berger and you've heard of temperamental TV personalities. Well once again Dave and Dave are on their high horse tune in for their great Western adventure Friday. Well everybody knows that we folks in western Pennsylvania love our antiques and collectibles and that's why the Carnegie Museum of Art expects its ninth annual antique show to be another big success. It's called objects of our

affection. Here tonight with a preview is Gail Murphy she's with the museum's women's committee which is hosting the show. And Michael Malley owner of East and galleries in Shadyside. Welcome. Well can you tell us a little bit about the antique show the antique show is in its ninth year and it is the major fundraiser for the Carnegie Museum of Art. We have 44 dealers from really all across the country with a wide range of items that perhaps people in western Pennsylvania don't always see the show runs Friday through Sunday and tomorrow morning we have Richard Jenrette as our main speaker in the morning at 10:00 o'clock. Speaking about his homes which he's had all across the country and it will be a fascinating lecture and that looks like a wonderful show. It is a wonderfully empty show been to it and it is spectacular and so many different things there's a greater array of things now. Michael you're here to help us out with the things that these are part of the show you can see the part of the show so you can tell us about them.

Yes we'll try. OK. What we have here is a piece of Pittsburgh memorabilia power part. Team photograph from 1999 discussed for a bad along there is Honus Wagner that's being offered. We also have another piece of local in the sense of a new Geneva flask that came from the early 19th century. We have a wonderful butterfly if you can see that it's made of cut steel comes from England in the early 19th century about 18 20. You're saying this was actually cut to look like they were rose cut diamonds they were meant to look like Rose cut diamonds basically early 1900s caution jewelry also would have worn That's what this had been a wealthy one. Well not of wealth not a wealthy one and learn. Yes. Some what were trying to pretend they have diamonds they were trying to pretend we have diamonds and it's beautifully made if you look at the back. Here we have some things that were interesting his part of Russia in the late 19th century. This would have been given to newly married couples and it shows

the three saints that were involved with love and reproduction. And finally we have a pair of candlesticks pushups from the late 19th century. Again these are going along with the light exhibit that's also going on at the Carnegie Museum. But these are for sale the things that the museum exhibit or not I mean that's an example some of the things we've brought are wonderful but you call these push up. Yes take us underneath. There is said that when the candle would burn down too far. So you didn't have to take it out. Yeah you could just push the pig out a question the icons that came out of Russia they were it was a very rare one point now is that market opened up or is isn't that what that is and I thought that is an icon and it has a silver gold. It's called a reserve and it comes off and so that you can see the Saints themselves and the market has just picked up a bit as they've opened up the yeah but the older ones seem to be really want is that

ever look at us we have a few photos that we have about a minute left maybe we can take a look at these and some of the more I know you. These are more candlesticks right now these are all about 100 maybe 75 years later than the brass ones we showed these were by Steve Benen the mapping of the 30s. Again going along with a light exhibit that's not at the Carnegie. What else do we have on the from the same pair of oil lamps also from the 19th century. Now on cue was at the light exhibit we actually did a story on it was absolutely fascinating. It's a light throughout the ages and we so take it for granted we can flick a switch and the lights come on. Thank you so much and good luck on the A.M. show it really is a fascinating show trying get down there again you'll find dealers of antique glass furniture jewelry rugs works of art and so much more at the Carnegie Museum of Arts antique show it's called objects of our affection. And it opens Friday April 20th and runs through Sunday the 22nd. Another big event this weekend also deals with the past not things but a very

important place in Pittsburgh history. It's got it. It got its name during the turbulent 60s freedom corner is the name center and Crawford where a lot was drawn in the sand on what was seen as blacks by blacks as the destruction of the lower heeled district. The city fathers called this project. These buildings were leveled in order to construct what was then called the civic arena. Residents of the 54 ward in the lower hill saw it as the destruction and dispersal of their black political power base. They decided it would stop at the corner of center and cross which became the rally point more than just civil rights demonstrations there soon will stand upon it at that very in a section to those who were involved in the civil rights movement in Pittsburgh. That means a lot to city councilman Salo Dean who spearheaded the 12 year fund raising drive to build. Well I was born right in this neighborhood where the city demolished the lower Hill district

in the late 1950s and early 60s. And this is the corner where Frankie pace and the NWA Sepi and other civil rights leaders to McCoy put up billboards draw a line in the sand to stop the city from further demolition of the Hill District that became known as Freedom quarter and the day we visited. Construction proceeded at a feverish pace. Architect Howard Graves who designed the monument was there. He said there was a spirit of unity in the workers that will ensure that it will be ready for the dedication you guys talking break a few you guys talk and tell you I fear if you guys talk in Swahili OK but they all get along. That is not the case. The whole mission is the job. Anybody understands that. Now up on this wall here will be. You may have seen this symbol called the spirit form.

It's going to be a huge broad figure of the spirit for me which was really inspired by the outstretched of say Benedict the more in the church across the street because this church has acted as the custody and freedom corner all this time the freedom court a monument pays lasting tribute to many of the leaders of the civil rights movement in Pittsburgh. Those are my heroes and they are the heroes of this city these are the people these are the fallen heroes and they've given their lives for the civil rights movement and so the least we could do is on of them by inscribing their names in granite to make sure that children and our children's children never forget their history and a contribution they made. The official dedication ceremonies began Saturday night April 21st with a dinner at Mount air at Baptist Church. Tickets are $20 an going fast call councilman Salo dean's office at 4 1 2 2 5 5 2 1 3 4.

That's 4 1 2 2 5 5 2 1 3 4 for more information. The official dedication takes place Sunday April 22nd at 3 pm at Freedom corner center and Crawford streets in the Hill District Come One Come All. Up next live music with minds eye but first a look at the PNC past community calendar. Well Thursday night means live music around here.

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That's got her to say we painted the floor black for you guys just for you. So what's going on you got to see it happen you know we have three CDs already and I. The last ones in the stores right now right. I know we always do this right after they've been playing they're totally out of breath let me ask you a couple questions. And who are you playing anywhere locally. We're back in the studio recording for good and then we're going right on Route and do some touring. Yeah so you got a website I have a website and mines I dot com you go and it's it's and I know it's I there you go get it around the house. OK so we're going to play us out with songs Burnitz on our last CD. OK OK well while mind's eye gets ready there are some of our upcoming shows that we want to tell you about the performances next Tuesday ice cream headache this is a local guitar and vocal duo sometimes they're here to perform live next Tuesday night and then a week from tonight crêpe they finish second in the graffiti Rock Challenge earlier this year and again that scrape next Thursday night.

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