By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A new neuroscience program at Mosaic Life Care will help expand services treating different forms of neurological disorders.
The program will help focus on areas such as Alzheimer’s, brain tumors and seizures among others.
Program Director Dr. Saleem Abdulrauf says the program will focus on the patient experience and providing better outcomes.
"Part of that is to have, for example, joint meetings when we're discussing a patient," Abdulrauf tells reporters. "For example, if a patient has a brain tumor you have the neurosurgeon, the neurologist, the oncologist, all meeting together to discuss that at the same time versus having them be seen at different places."
Abdulrauf says the ability for patients to meet with every doctor at once will help provide better outcomes for the treatments they might need.
Abdulrauf says all this new care and new equipment the program brings to Mosaic requires the work of every neuroscience department
"This is just an enhancement of the excellent physicians and healthcare providers already here, but also adding layers of new treatments for brain tumors, for Alzheimer's, for vascular disease that are going to be investments in technology and the teams that go with them," Abdulrauf says.
Abdulrauf says the primary need in this region is primary care physicians.
"While the primary care has really evolved in that integrated fashion, then secondary and tertiary care level that what this program envisions to do is that for patients to have those kinds of specialized and super specialists available to do those types of procedures," Abdulrauf explains.
Abdulrauf will work with Mosaic's directors of neurology and neurosurgery with the program to help expand services to provide patients better outcomes and a better patient experience.