Problem-Solving Care

Sharing our health experts’ lifelong drive to solve challenges

By Todd Taylor

At UF Health, we are surrounded by expert problem-solvers — professionals who are focused on finding solutions to even the most complex medical issues. Through teamwork and a level of innovation only possible at an academic health center, our faculty and staff work side-by-side to improve our patients’ lives and advance medicine.

In 2013, we introduced the new UF Health brand through our Invisible Connections concept, which showed patients going about their day in the community and unknowingly crossing paths with UF Health medical researchers who developed life-changing solutions. Then in 2015, our No Two Alike concept featured patients who came to UF Health during a crisis and received personalized care tailored to their medical condition.

This month, we introduce the next phase of our UF Health branding effort, themed Problem-Solving Care, and showcase another aspect of what makes our academic health center unique. We’re sharing compelling stories about four patients who came to UF Health seeking answers to their unique health conditions. The creative approach shows our physicians portrayed as children whose innate talents lend themselves to solving problems, and then we see them today as experts in the medical field, collaborating in a multidisciplinary setting with other health care professionals to improve patients’ lives.

See how this problem-solving mindset helps us move medicine forward.

Problem-Solving Care, an evolution of the new UF Health branding effort, shares compelling stories about four patients who came to UF Health seeking answers to their unique health conditions.

Patient: Tionna
Condition: Leukemia
Procedure: Bone marrow transplant with partial match from her.
Physician: William Slayton, M.D., UF College of Medicine Pediatric Hematology, Oncology chief and program director

 

“Tionna’s case was complicated from the beginning to the end. Dr. Slayton and his team worked to find ways to help her. It was amazing to watch them and to know they were not giving up on her.”
Shamani Moore, Tionna's mother
Problem-Solving Care, an evolution of the new UF Health branding effort, shares compelling stories about four patients who came to UF Health seeking answers to their unique health conditions.

Patient: Mark Mason
Condition: Parkinson’s disease
Procedure: Deep brain stimulation
Physician: Kelly Foote, M.D., UF College of Medicine, Neurosurgeon and UF Health Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration co-director

“When you are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, it’s not going to go away. You have to learn to live with it. The creative problem-solvers at UF Health helped us learn how to do that.”
Mark Mason
Problem-Solving Care, an evolution of the new UF Health branding effort, shares compelling stories about four patients who came to UF Health seeking answers to their unique health conditions.

Patient: Gail Morell
Condition: Heart failure and cardiogenic shock
Procedure: Left ventricular assist device implant (LVAD)
Physician: Thomas Beaver, M.D., M.P.H., UF College of Medicine Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery chief

 

“Dr. Beaver and Dr. Aranda never gave up on me and I’m so grateful. I knew I was in good hands with those Gators.”
Gail Morell
Problem-Solving Care, an evolution of the new UF Health branding effort, shares compelling stories about four patients who came to UF Health seeking answers to their unique health conditions.

Patient: Debbie Paine
Condition: Breast cancer
Procedure: Lumpectomy and radiation
Physician: Lisa Speiguel, M.D., UF College of Medicine breast cancer surgeon

 

“I knew immediately that Dr. Spiguel was speaking my language and that she and I would work well together.”
Debbie Paine

 

Visit the public site, ProblemSolvingCare.org:

  • Read about our featured patients and care teams
  • Watch videos featuring patient stories
  • Learn how our faculty and staff approach problem-solving care
  • Discover more about our interdisciplinary care team

Visit the Bridge site, bridge.UFHealth.org/problem-solving-care:

  • See more examples from the Problem-Solving Care series
  • Read FAQs about our branding efforts
  • Leaders, check out the leader toolkit

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Debbie Paine, Gail Morell, Kelly Foote, Lisa Spiguel, Mark Mason, News&Notes, Problem-Solving Care, Thomas Beaver, Tionna, UF Health, UF Health brand, William Slayton

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Todd Taylor
Assistant Director of Communications, McKnight Brain Institute

Todd Taylor is the assistant director of communications for the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, also known as the MBI. He first joined UF Health Communications in 2014 as a communications coordinator for the Strategic Communications team. He previously worked as a public relations associate for UF Performing Arts and served as a journalist for several publications, including as sports editor for the Hendricks County Flyer in the greater Indianapolis area. He holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Central Florida and a master’s degree in journalism from Ball State University.

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