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We also spoke with the new director of rehabilitation services at LifeScape, one of the physicians behind Sioux Falls’ newest urgent care facility, the man overseeing a new hyperbaric medicine program in Aberdeen, and researcher doing cutting edge work in stem cells for wounds. In addition, you’ll find our conversation with the man who is carrying on a legacy as the new president of Regional Health Spearfish Hospital and more on Sanford’s $1 million scientific award.

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6 | Physician Profile: Meet Kate Sigford, MD LifeScape's new Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services takes a whole-person approach 8| A ward Will Raise Sanford's Profile, Foster Connections 11 | S ioux Falls' Newest Urgent Care a conversation with Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital CEO Blake Curd, MD 18 | C oots Will Lead New Stem Cell Study Principal investigator of new trial talks about stem cells for venous stasis ulcers.

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22 | Along for the Ride Make-A-Wish can impact more that just the 'wish kid' . . . especially in a family of seven.

You may know their names but this month we bring you their stories of transition from Poland to the Prairie.

23 | Timmerman Continues to Rise Through the ACS Ranks

10 | Service Animals in

24 | Vitiello Lab Gearing Up for New Study A local man's fundraising campaign may revive research on a rare disease 26 | GER and GERD are Like Jekyll and Hyde 28 | Regional Health Enlists Kids to Perk Up the ER A little paint brings holiday cheer during construction 29 | Beef's Role in Weight Management and Cardiovascular Health

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[P H Y S IC I A N P R O F I L E]

Meet Kate Sigford, MD

A

S A CHILD, Kathryn “Kate” Sigford

even though it was going to take longer,” says

swore she would never be a doctor.

Sigford. “It forced me to ask myself, ‘Do I want to

Both of her parents had gone back

be fast, or do I want to be in the right place?’?

to medical school after she was

Sigford attended the University of California

born and she remembers not envying their

at Davis School of Medicine and completed her

journey.

residency at Stanford. When it came to choosing

“I thought it just looked like an awful lot of

a specialty, she was drawn to PM&R because it

work,” admits Sigford, a physical medicine and

allowed her to focus on the “whole person” rather

rehabilitation specialist who was recently named

than a single organ or system.

Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at LifeScape.

“The few places that I saw where you got full person care were that and primary care,” she

Although she was not interested in becoming

recalls. “But when I started doing my primary care

a physician, the St. Paul, Minnesota native was

rotation, I realized that I couldn’t do coughs and

attracted to healthcare as a way to use her intel-

colds every day!”

lect and help people. So she became a nursing

Today, Sigford is the only physician in the

assistant with her eye on nursing school. But when

region who is dual boarded in both physiatry and

the BA to BSN program she’d chosen rejected her

pediatric rehabilitation medicine. In her leader-

application, Sigford says she decided to “go for

ship role at LifeScape, she hopes to help expand

broke” and apply to medical school anyway.

inpatient acute rehabilitation services, most

“That’s where I knew I really wanted to be,

immediately in the area of post-operative care for selective dorsal rhizotomy patients. LifeScape is

“ WHEN I

partnering with Gillette Children’s Specialty

STARTED DOING MY PRIMARY CARE ROTATION, I REALIZED THAT I COULDN’T DO COUGHS AND COLDS EVERY DAY! ”

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Hospital in St. Paul to help bring young rhizotomy patients from the South Dakota region back to LifeScape about halfway through their four- to six-week stay.

“So mom and dad can go home and sleep in their own beds,” says Sigford, who also wants to help raise LifeScape’s profile as an acute inpatient rehabilitation facility.

“There are people even in Sioux Falls who say, ‘Don’t I have to go to Denver or St. Paul for that?’

We may not have all of the equipment of the bigger programs, but I would put our people and our expertise up against anyone.”

Sigford recently received the Sanford 2017 Advocate for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Award.

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T

HE MILLION DOLLAR medical award that Sanford plans to give to a pioneering

SEE IF WE CAN FIND AND

researcher or innovator at the

REWARD OTHERS LIKE

end of the year will likely pay significant

OURSELVES WHO ARE

dividends in terms of recognition for

PUSHING THE LIMITS. ”

Sanford, too. At least, that is the hope of Micah Aberson

IDEA WAS, LET’S

“ OUR

those who helped establish the Lorraine

DAVID PEARCE

Cross Award, announced in November.

“As we establish our global brand, this positions us in a unique light,” says Micah Aberson, Sanford’s chief global brand officer.

“We have aspirations that the attention of the medical and research institutions will be focused on South Dakota where this important decision will be made at Sanford

David Pearce

Health. The media exposure will elevate the attention.”

The Lorraine Cross Award at a Glance Award amount: $1 million

✚ Funding through $10 million endowment

✚ Nominations accepted through February 2018

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“Sanford already has a national and international reputation for developing treatments and innovations,” says David Pearce, PhD, executive vice president of Sanford Research.

“Our idea was, let’s see if we can find and reward others like ourselves who are pushing the limits. The process will probably bring more individuals to us that need someone like us to help push their project across the finish line.”

Beyond brand recognition, another big goal is connection. The application process alone will bring the work of some of the biggest medical innovators to Sanford’s doorstep, so to speak, creating the potential for

12-person panel of physicians and researchers to choose 3 finalists

synergies and collaborations that might

✚

developments and breakthroughs that

Winner to be named by Sanford International Board

we find to be particularly attractive,” says

✚ Finalists honored and winner announced in December 2018

never have happened otherwise.

“We will also be going out and sourcing

Aberson. “The ultimate winner will be mankind.” ❖

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Service Animals in the Medical Practice

By Brandy Boone

A

NIMALS ARE RARELY

of public accommodation, which

A HANDLER

SEEN IN PHYSICIAN

includes the following elements:

OF A SERVICE

OFFICES, so it may take

patients and staff by

It is only permissible to ask the

ANIMAL MAY

surprise when a person walks in

handler whether the animal is

with an animal. Many physicians

required for a disability and

ONLY BE ASKED

and their staffs actively discour-

what tasks the animal has been

TO REMOVE

age the presence of animals

trained to perform. Inquiries

THE ANIMAL

within the office for cleanliness

about the individual’s disabil-

and hygiene reasons —as well as

ity or the animal’s certification

FROM THE

the potential safety threat from an

are prohibited.3

uncontrollable animal. However, medical practices that prohibit

Neither allergies nor fear of

all animals from their premises

dogs are considered legitimate

under any circumstances risk

or valid reasons for denying

facing allegations that they have

services or access to premises

violated

to individuals using service

the

Americans

with

Disabilities Act (ADA).

animals.

Because medical offices or clinics are defined as “places of

In 2011, a physician’s office

public accommodation” by Title

in Florida reached a settlement

III of the ADA, they are prohibited

agreement with the Department

from discr iminating against

of Justice following a complaint;

individuals on the basis of dis-

an individual stated he was

ability; they must make policy,

treated inappropriately at the

practice, and procedure accom-

office because of his service

modations for service animals

animal.

of people with disabilities.1

PREMISES FOR TWO REASONS

 the handler takes no action to attempt to manage an out of control animal

 the animal is

not housebroken.4

The individual in question

The U.S. Department of Justice

was not asked to leave or remove

defines a service animal under the

his service dog from the premises.

ADA as a dog that is individually

His complaint was based on com-

trained to do work or perform tasks

ments by the office staff about the

for a person with a disability—

dog’s presence and inquiries about

although as of 2010, miniature

the dog’s training or certification.

horses have been included as

Under the settlement, the physi-

an exception to dogs in that

cian’s off ice was required to

definition.2

establish a service animal policy,

The Department of Justice

provide effective notice of the new

has also issued guidance on the

policy, retrain office staff, and pay

use of service animals in places

the complainant $500.00.5 ❖

BRANDY BOONE, JD Director of Education & Client Guidance at ProAssurance

Sources: 1. 42 U.S.C. § 12188, et seq.; 28 CFR § 36.104 2. 42 U.S.C. § 12188, et seq.; 28 CFR § 36.104; 28 CFR § 35.136(i) 3. 28 CFR § 35.136(f) 4. 28 CFR § 35.136(b) 5. http://www.ada.gov/berenson_settle.htm

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How is Sioux Falls’ Newest Urgent Care Different?

AN INTERVIEW WITH BLAKE CURD, MD CEO, SIOUX FALLS SPECIALTY HOSPITAL

E

ARLY LAST MONTH, Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital opened its first urgent care facility on Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls. And according to CEO Blake Curd, MD, it may not be its last. We spoke

with Dr. Curd about what he hopes will set Sioux Falls Urgent Care apart from others in the region.

MED: Why an urgent care facility?

SF Urgent Care

MED: Will the patient experience be any different?

VITAL STATS

Dr. C: For several years, we have been looking at the possibility of

Dr. C: We don’t have a traditional

entering into this part of health-

waiting area which you see in most

care. We have heard over and over

clinics. That is because we expect

that people need a quicker, easier

people to come in the door and

way to access the healthcare they

head right down the hall to see a

need when they need it. Access to

provider. We have access to these

urgent care allows the ER to be

patient rooms from the back side

used for what it was intended

and we have the ability to move

—accidents, heart attacks, etc.

into the occupational medicine side

Location 7600 South Minnesota Avenue, Sioux Falls Hours Monday to Friday, 7 am to 7 pm Sat and Sun, 8 am to 5 pm Physician owned and operated

if we need to. So the whole patient

MED: What is different about Sioux Falls Urgent Care from other urgent care facilities in the region?

Dr. C: For one thing, it was built

flow is designed to be much more efficient.

MED: Is this an area that SFSH is likely to delve into more deeply?

from the ground up to be an urgent care facility. It is not just a

Dr. C: We hear from a lot of

primary care clinic that decided

patients that they love our hospital

to have different hours. Secondly,

and want a way to see us when its

a significant portion of the building

not just for surgery. The area of

will be dedicated to occupational

town that we chose for our urgent

medicine. This will serve people

care is relatively underserved for

who need urgent access for

people with acute episodic

occupational injuries as well as

healthcare needs. We think there

those who need occupational

are other sites in the Sioux Falls

screenings. So we are the first

area that are also in need of a

the urgent care industry

facility to put these two things

similar facility. ❖

will increase 5.8 percent

together —urgent care and

DID YOU KNOW?

❱

The term “urgent care” was coined in 1973 but was not added to the dictionary until 2017.

❱

IBISWorld predicts that

through 2018.

occupational medicine.

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Happenings around the region

News & Notes

South Dakota | Southwest Minnesota | Northwest Iowa | Northeast Nebraska

AVERA

Avera Health and its web vendor, Geonetric of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have received the Gold Award in the Website Campaign of the Year category as part of the fourth annual Healthcare Marketing IMPACT Awards competition. The IMPACT competition is sponsored

by Modern Healthcare and its sister publication, Advertising Age. The award was presented in November during Modern Healthcare’s annual Strategic Marketing Conference in Chicago.

Avera launched a new system-wide website in June 2016.

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Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center is doubling the size of its Emergency Department.

Construction will start after the first of the year, and will involve a remodel and an addition. The 10,540-square-foot ED will have 10 private patient care rooms–two for trauma and eight for treatment–and a new ambulance garage. It will also feature the Lean design that is characteristic of other recent Avera EDs. The Marshall ED was last remodeled in 1997, when the hospital served fewer than 4,900 emergency patients a year. In 2016, 7,800 patients were seen in the ED.

Tri Valley Health System of Cambridge, Nebraska is the newest Affiliate Member of Avera Health.

Tri Valley signed a three year agreement in October which took effect on December 1. Under the agreement, Avera will provide consultation services and management support. The Board of Directors remains the decision-making body and ownership of the health campus remains local. The Tri Valley system includes Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Cambridge Medical Clinic with two satellite clinics in Arapahoe and Indianola, Heritage Plaza Retirement Village, Cambridge Manor, Tri Valley Assisted Living, and Tri Valley Wellness Center

RICH KORMAN Rich Korman has been named Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Avera Health.

Korman has been with Avera since 2011, having served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. His expanded role now includes government relations strategies, including the oversight of the Avera Center for Public Policy. Korman completed his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, and holds a JD from the William Mitchell College of Law

BLACK HILLS Regional Health Medical Clinic North 10th Street in Spearfish is now offering Genius 3D Mammography for patients throughout the Northern Hills.

The new technology improves early detection and treatment of breast cancer. The Genius 3D Mammography exam finds 20 to 65 percent more invasive breast cancers, where early detection is critical to recovery. With 3D’s clarity and depth, fewer patients will have to return for second mammograms. “I compare 3D mammography to reading a book. With 2D, you only see the covers.

With 3D you can flip through the pages and get the whole story,” said Lance Perrett, manager of Medical Imaging Services at Regional Health Spearfish Hospital.

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Walmart and Sam’s Club associates, customers, and members in the Black Hills put their money where the miracles are during the annual Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals fundraising campaign.

Locally, Walmart and Sam’s Club raised $51,722 for Children’s Miracle Network at Regional Health. The effort was part of a national campaign which raised $34 million for member hospitals across America.

THOMAS WORSLEY

Regional Health will partner with Compass One Healthcare to serve the dining, intra-hospital transportation, environmental services, and laundry needs of patients and families at Regional Health Rapid City Hospital.

Changes anticipated include a new design for the restaurant, room service for visiting family members, and a broader menu of food choices for patients and restaurant patrons.

The restaurant plan will turn the current first-floor dining area into more of a bistro-style eatery with more light, natural stone, wood and plants. The plan also calls for a pergola-like outdoor dining area and a nearby fire pit.

Regional Health has appointed Thomas Worsley as Interim President of Regional Health Spearfish Hospital and the Spearfish and Belle Fourche Market.

Worsley has been with Regional Health since 2015. He currently serves as Vice President of the Regional Health Rapid City Market. Worsley succeeds longtime President Larry W. Veitz, who died in early November. See page 21 for Worsley’s thoughts on his new role, the planned new healthcare campus, and his predecessor, Larry Veitz.

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• Happenings around the region

News & Notes

• Happenings around the region

News & Notes

SANFORD A new study at Sanford Health might help women determine how they should be screened for breast cancer based on their personal history.

Five universities and Sanford have teamed as members of the Athena Breast Health Network for the study, which began November 1 at the Edith Sanford Breast Center.

Participants in the Wisdom study will be randomly placed in one of two screening channels– traditional annual screening and risk-based screening.

The study will determine whether a personalized approach to breast cancer screening is as safe and effective as an annual mammogram. As part of the study, women in the risk-based group will be assessed using a combination of personal history, family history, breast density and genetic testing.

Sanford Health is the only site in the US outside of California to offer the study.

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NEIL JESSEN CRNA Neil Jessen is the latest Sanford USD Medical Center nurse to receive a Daisy Award.

Jessen was described by the patient who nominated him as reassuring and having “the most calming presence and made me feel safe.”

SIOUX LAND ALICIA HELD Alicia Held has been appointed Manager of Clinical Services–8SE at Mercy Medical Center -Sioux City. Held began her career at Mercy in 2010 as a CNA. She earned a BSN from Mount Marty College and holds a Master’s Degree in Nursing Management and Leadership from Walden University. Held is the former Clinical Educator for Inpatient Nursing at Mercy. She has been in her current position on an interim basis since August.

Siouxland Urology Center has become a Hospital Outpatient Department of the Dunes Surgical Hospital. The two entities say they will have integrated services and campuses to allow for better continuity of care.

“With this partnership, we will be sharing best practices and using the latest technology to advance the care experience for our patients,” said Greg Miner, CEO, of Dunes Surgical Hospital. Siouxland Urology employs five physicians, five PAs, and 33 employees.

The five physicians of Siouxland Urology are physician partners in the Dunes Surgical Hospital.

OTHER Huron Regional Medical Center (HRMC) Foundation has announced the return of an associate degree in nursing to Huron. Southeast Technical Institute will open a satellite registered nursing program in Huron with classes scheduled to begin in Fall 2018. Current LPN students with 750 hours of experience are eligible to apply for the hybrid program, which will include online classes through Southeast Tech and lab and clinicals at Huron Community Campus and local healthcare facilities. Huron has been without a two-year nursing program since 2016 when the last Dakota Wesleyan University-Huron site class graduated.

Homecare Services of South Dakota, Inc., a private agency that provides advice and specialized care to those who want to live independently at home, has opened a new office in Aberdeen. Homecare Services’ team of nurses, caregivers, and administrative staff offer a full range of in-home support services throughout South Dakota and into Minnesota.

Agency DIrector Steven Novotny says the office will begin hiring and training staff over the next six months. Initially, the Aberdeen office will serve residents of Brown County, but Novotny plans to expand their services to surrounding counties.

TIMOTHY PENDERGRASS Timothy Pendergrass, MD, is the new Chief of Staff at the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System. Dr. Pendergrass is a retired Colonel with over 30 years of active duty military service, first with the Army and then the Air Force. He received his MD from the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland and completed his residency at David Grant Air Force Medical Center in California.

Dr. Pendergrass is board-certified in diagnostic radiology.

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Veterans can now participate in a landmark gene-mapping project at the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center.

The VA recently became one of the 65 locations in the US where Veterans enrolled in the VA Health Care System may have a blood sample taken for the Million Veteran Program.

Researchers plan to use the samples to study diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and military-related illnesses like post traumatic stress.

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Sioux Falls Specialty Hospital opened its new Sioux Falls Urgent Care facility on Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls in early December. They celebrated with an open house and ribbon cutting on November 30. The new facility was planned and built as an urgent care facility. The clinic will be open from 7 am to 7 pm Monday to Friday and from 8 to 5 on the weekends.

See page 11 for our interview with SFSH CEO Blake Curd, MD.

Dakota Lions Sight and Health (DLSH) is now providing pre-loaded cornea tissues for transplant surgeries – just one of a few eye banks in the nation to offer this new, advanced service for cornea transplants. In this innovative procedure, a DLSH lab technician prepares Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) tissues for surgery and then packages the eye tissue in a specially made container. Before pre-loaded DMEK grafts, surgeons spent time in the operating room preparing the graft. The pre-loads allow surgeons to complete the procedure in less than half that time.

DMEK prep at DLSH

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A Family Focused on

HEART

By Alex Strauss

T

HE STYS NAMES — and even their faces — have been synonymous with heart care in the Sioux Falls region for many years. The three Warsaw natives are among 13 cardiovascular disease specialists at Sanford USD

Medical Center. Not only are they each distinguished experts in their field, but they also each have a heart for new challenges, for patients, for Sioux Falls, and for each other.

MARIA STYS, MD When people ask Maria Stys where her accent is from, she

her work and family responsibilities

always says Clear Lake, South Dakota. Although she was born

(two of her children are now in college

and raised in communist Poland, in many ways, she considers

and two are still at home), she is active

Clear Lake the “hometown” of her new life.

with the AHA’s Go Red for Women

“I finished medical school in Poland on a Friday, got married

initiative and is working to establish a

on a Saturday, and landed in the US on Sunday,” says Stys.

clinic for pregnant women with heart

“New life, new country, new language. It was all new.”

disease.

Her greatest wish had been to become a doctor, but her

“People say, how did you do all that?

greatest fear was that she wouldn’t make the grade in her

But the more work we have, the more

highly competitive new country. But with encouragement from

organized we are,” she says.“Cardiology

her new husband, Adam, Stys was accepted into the internal

means that we always have to be on our

medicine residency program at the State University of New

toes and keep learning new things.”

York at Stony Brook (SUNY), where Adam would study cardiology.

Math whiz Adam Stys had a full schol-

in New York I saw that I was able to actually make a differ-

arship to study computer science in

ence in human lives,” says Stys. “This was even better

Canada when he decided to sit for

motivation to study and be good in medicine.”

his medical school entrance exam in

Her knowledge of Latin helped her grasp English quickly

Warsaw instead. Like Maria, Adam and

(she also speaks Russian and German) and, just a few years

his younger brother Tom were natives

later, the Stys family and their new baby daughter were living

of Poland, but had grown up in Nigeria,

in Clear Lake, she practicing internal medicine, he, cardiology.

the sons of mathematicians.

Five years and two more daughters later, Maria decided that she, too, was attracted to cardiology.

“Only six to eight percent of people in cardiology are women,” muses Stys. “This was just like a green light for me.”

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ADAM STYS, MD

“In Poland, healthcare was run by the government. But

“My dad said he would buy me tickets to Warsaw to take the exam,” says Adam Stys. “He said, ‘I don’t think you will get in, but you can try.’”

So it was back to SUNY for a cardiology fellowship (during

But Stys did get in to Warsaw Uni-

which time Stys had her fourth child, a son) then to Sanford

versity Medical School where he met

Cardiovascular Institute in Sioux Falls, where she is now

Maria in his last year. (“She bought me

director of Women’s Cardiovascular Disease. In addition to

lunch, which I thought was a good

DID YOU GUESS? Missing from our front cover is Maria Stys, MD. Although she was scheduled to attend the cover photo shoot, duty called instead. It goes with the territory, as they say.

sign,” he laughs.)Although Nigeria

cardiology fellowship and now

“I saw huge potential for growth

was home, Poland was rich in his-

serves as program director for both

here, both for the system itself and

tory for Stys, who enjoyed summer

the Cardiovascular Disease and

also for my own personal career

visits to his grandparents’ farm and

Interventional Cardiology Fellow-

development,” says Stys, who is

did his Ob/Gyn rotation at the hos-

ship Programs.

now medical director of Sanford

pital where three generations of his

When asked what it is like to

Cardiovascular Institute and has

work with both his brother and

just finished his second term on

Attracted to the mechanical

his wife, Stys calls it “very comfort-

the board of the American Heart

aspects of the heart, Stys originally

able”. “When we discuss our work

Association. “I take personal pride

set his sights on cardiothoracic

at home, patients often get a double

in the heart program that we have

surgery. But a few months at Lon-

or triple consult without even

created.”

don’s National Heart and Lung

knowing it,” he says.

family had been born.

Institute doing transplants with a

Stys is especially proud of Sanford’s structural heart disease

renowned surgeon changed his

TOMASZ “TOM” STYS, MD

program (which he calls one of his

mind. “After 12 hours a day of

For much of his life, Tom Stys has

“pearls”) including transcatheter

holding the retractors, I decided that

followed in his older brother’s

aortic valve Implants. During the

this was not for me,” says Stys.

footsteps, including completing

six years he has been doing the

On the other hand, Stys liked the

medical school in Warsaw and

procedure, the TAVI program has

challenges of the emerging field

residency at SUNY. Every now and

progressed to the point where, on

of interventional cardiology. After

then, however, their roles have been

valve days, Stys often does as many

completing his fellowship at SUNY,

reversed; Tom finished his interven-

as seven.

Stys recalled his visits to Sioux Falls

tional training before Adam, who

As far as working with his

while in Clear Lake and decided to

then trained under him in New York.

brother, Tom admits that the two

interview at Sanford.

Stys says he always loved

are highly competitive But he is also

“One of my first meetings with

working with his hands and even

quick to compliment Adam, whose

administration at Sanford, I said

had his own animal lab during

office is literally next door to his

I would like to do two things: I

medical school. He saw interven-

own at Sanford, and is always happy

would like to establish a cardiology

tional cardiology as the practice of

to work at his side.

fellowship and I would like to see

the future. “Innovation in heart care

“I haven’t had another set of

Sanford build a heart hospital,” says

is evolving in the direction of doing

hands that I trust as much as

Stys. Within 18 months, both were

more and more complex proce-

Adam’s,” says Stys. “I trust in his

a reality.

dures, less and less invasively,” he

excellence. If we are doing a complex

Since that time, Stys has helped

says. “This will continue to grow.”

case, we usually scrub together.”

keep Sanford on the leading edge

Stys joined Sanford in 2004

Like Adam and Maria, Tom and

of heart care with innovations like

(three years before his brother) in

his wife have four children and all

transcatheter aortic valve implan-

part because he and his wife, a New

are glad to have made Sioux Falls

tations, percutaneous mitral valve

Yorker, wanted to raise their son

their adopted home.

repairs, absorbable stents, and

in a more “family friendly” place.

“I know that I would not be as

other new techniques. Last year, he

It turned out to be a good fit, both

happy in New York or Europe or

helped implement an interventional

personally and professionally.

Africa,” says Stys. ❖

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Coots Will Lead Sanford’s Study of Stem Cells for Wound Healing

S

IOUX FALLS PLASTIC surgeon Bradley Coots, MD, is the principal investigator on

could be life-changing for patients and money-saving for the entire healthcare system.

Sanford’s second trial of adipose-derived

“Wounds are a huge burden on our healthcare

stem cells —this one to address non-healing leg ulcers.

system, in the billions of dollars,” says Dr. Coots. “If we

Dr. Coots was a sub-investigator on the first stem cell

can speed up the healing process, it is going to save

trial for rotator cuff injuries.

“We will be focusing on venous stasis ulcers,” says Dr. Coots.

money, improve lives, and get

“ IF WE CAN SPEED UP THE

“For people with poor circulation in their legs, the blood pools in the legs and their legs swell up. They can develop wounds that are very hard to heel.”

But Coots says

HEALING PROCESS, IT IS GOING TO SAVE MONEY, IMPROVE LIVES, AND GET MORE OF THESE PATIENTS BACK INTO SOCIETY. ” BRADLEY COOTS

such wounds

more of these patients back into society.”

An estimated 6.5 million patients in the US are dealing with non-healing wounds — those that have been present for at least three months. Sanford’s Phase 1 trial, which opened in September, will accept 36 adult participants with wounds of 1 to 9 inches who have an A1C

typically heal when conditions

less than nine. Up to 200 cc of fluid will be liposuctioned

improve. Wraps and compression

from the patient’s abdomen, processed to isolate stem

often help, but healing can still

cells, suspended in saline, and applied topically as well

take many months. If stem cells

as injected into the wound.

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Now Available in Aberdeen

P

EOPLE WITH non-healing wounds

“What makes me so passionate about

in the Aberdeen area now have

being able to offer this here is that, without

easier access to hyperbaric oxygen

this type of treatment, some of these

therapy (HBOT).

“WHAT WAS HAPPENING IS

wounds progress to the point where theses

Avera St. Luke’s Hospital recently

patients need amputation,” says Geffre.

installed two hyperbaric oxygen

“Hyperbaric treatment saves

chambers, one of which is already

limbs.”

being used at capacity. Chief

In Sioux Falls, board-certified

THAT PATIENTS

Nursing Officer Cory Geffre will

hyperbaric physician Christo-

lead the department and spoke

pher Auvenshine, DO, now leads

WHO NEEDED

to MED about the significance of

the HBOT program which has

the new equipment.

been in existence at Avera

THIS TREATMENT JUST WEREN’T GETTING IT.” CORY GEFFRE

“What was happening is that

Mckennan Hospital & University

patients who needed this treat-

Health Center since 1991. The

ment just weren’t getting it,”

therapy was made possible

says Geffre. “These patients get 20 to 30 treatments, five days a

Cory Geffre

in Aberdeen in part by the relatively recent availability of

week, at about 90 minutes per treatment.

on-site training, which allows smaller hos-

It is a little bit like dialysis in that respect.”

pitals to avoid the expense of sending staff

With the nearest hyperbaric chambers

elsewhere for the 40+ hours of training on

in Fargo, Sioux Falls or well into Minnesota,

the equipment.

Geffre says patients within St. Luke’s

The hyperbaric chambers are housed in

70-mile service area would likely have to

a newly-remodeled area of the hospital

relocate in order to take advantage of the

which features private changing areas. They

healing power of HBOT, and many simply

are equipped with television and two-way

were not willing or able to do so.

communication. ❖

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Artist's rendering of the planned Avera Cancer Institute in Pierre.

Photo courtesy Avera.

PIERRE’S NEW CANCER CENTER GETS A BOOST ON “GIVING TUESDAY”

H

UNDREDS OF PIERRE

after Thanksgiving. The Found-

several thousand dollars from the

area residents rose to

ation received cash gifts, checks

Bill and Melinda Gates challenge

the Helmsley Center

and credit card donations through

gift through Facebook. When all

Challenge in November and made

its Facebook page. In addition,

funds are collected, the Leona M.

donations toward the building of

sixty-six people walked their

and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable

the Avera Cancer Institute in Pierre.

donations into the hospital to take

Trust will match every dollar raised.

The Avera St. Mary’s Foundation

advantage of up to $10,000 in

The Foundation aims to raise

reports that more than $90,000

matching funds from an anony-

a minimum of $3 million toward

was raised on so-called “Giving

mous donor.

the $12.5 million cost of the oncology

Tuesday”, traditionally the Tuesday

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Larry’s Legacy

By Alex Strauss

W

HEN LARRY VEITZ, the longtime president of Regional Health Spearfish Hospital and the Spearfish and Belle Fourche

Markets, died in an ATV accident in early November, he left behind more than a grieving family and community. He also left behind a significant legacy of vision for healthcare in Spearfish–a vision that his successor, Thomas Worsley, is proud to be carrying forward.

Worsley, who is married to a nurse and has four children, has been with Regional Health since 2015. He has served as VP of the Regional Health Rapid City market, but as the new interim president of Spearfish Hospital, he will be turning his attention now to the healthcare facility that Becker’s last year called a Top 100 rural hospital.

“Spearfish is a growing community with about a 20-mile radius of smaller rural communities that rely on us and our 50-bed hospital as their primary place to receive healthcare,” says Worsley While Spearfish is increasingly well-equipped to meet those needs (services like same-day total joints and 3D mammography are available here), what they do not have is space.

“ I T WAS A RICH EXPERIENCE TO INTERACT WITH HIM AND LEARN FROM HIM.”

Larry Veitz and Brent Phillips, President and CEO of Regional Health

THOMAS WORSLEY

“We are pretty much bursting at the seams here,” says Worsley. “We have clinics that don’t have the capacity to add additional providers

healthcare campus would look

and the hospital itself is landlocked.”

like,” says Worsley. “He was a key

But that is about to change. In late November, a 40-acre land donation marked the start of a fundraising drive to create a $100 million healthcare campus on the north edge of Spearfish.

player in narrowing down on this vision and this location.”

But Worsley says Larry Veitz did more than push for more progressive

“It is going to be a campus that is focused

rural healthcare; he was also a

beyond a traditional hospital. It is going to be a

mentor to those he knew would carry

true wellness campus with things like cooking

the torch after him.

demonstrations and wellness classes,” says

“Larry was really viewed as a

Worsley. “It will be transformative in its scale and

sage,” says Worsley. “When I think

scope.”

of him, I think of someone who was

Although Veitz did not live to see it, Worsley

wise and really wasn’t interested in

says the planned campus owes much to his passion

just keeping that wisdom to himself.

for rural medicine. “He had been working for many

It was a rich experience to interact

years on different iterations of what an expanded

with him and learn from him.” ❖

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“

We had always wanted to take him there . . . but with four other kids, we knew we would never be able to afford it.

” MANDI STEELE

M

ANDI STEELE of Tea knew there was something wrong with her son Weldon by the time he was one year

old. But it wasn’t until he turned 13 that they finally got a diagnosis–a rare subtype of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a degenerative neurological condition. By that time, Weldon had four younger sisters —all of whom have grown up in the shadow of his many needs.

“My girls are some of the most compasThe Steele family at Disney World.

Photo courtesy Make A Wish

sionate, patient, understanding and kind human beings,” says Steele of her daughters, now ages 12, 10, 6, and 5. “But the hard part of having all of those qualities is having to be selfless and understand that, if Weldon needs something, he gets it.”

Many “common activities" like ballet lessons and swim classes have been out of the question for Weldon’s sisters, simply because of logistics.

“So I have always felt like the worst mom in the world because my kids haven’t been

Along for the Ride MAKE-A-WISH CAN IMPACT MORE THAN JUST THE ‘WISH KID’ . . . ESPECIALLY IN A FAMILY OF SEVEN.

able to do those other things,” says Steele.

When Weldon’s neurologist referred the

only arranged to send the family

we have Weldon as a brother.’ It

family to Make-A-Wish South Dakota, Steele

to SeaWorld, but included

did so much for them, their

knew exactly what wish he’d choose. Weldon

Universal Studios and the Disney

relationship with Weldon, and

had been fascinated by fish and water since

theme parks —a dream come

their growth.” For her part,

young childhood and has long loved a video-

true for Weldon’s little sisters.

Steele says she relished the

tape of SeaWorld’s “Shamu Show”.

“Weldon appreciated the

break from household duties

“We had always wanted to take him there

trip, but what it did for my four

and the chance to enjoy making

to experience that, but with four other kids,

daughters was just as great,”

memories together.

we knew we would never be able to afford it,”

says Steele. “My 10-year-old said

says Steele. Make-A-Wish South Dakota not

‘Right now, I’m thankful that

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Timmerman Becomes Second SD Physician Elected to ACS Board of Regents

S

IOUX FALLS SURGEON GARY TIMMERMAN, MD has been elected

to serve on the Board of Regents for the American College of Surgeons, becoming only the second South Dakota physician to do so.

Timmerman is one of 23 regents that will direct the Chicago-based ACS, considered one of the world’s most important medical organizations.

ACS, founded in 1913, has more than 80,000 members from across the United States and around the globe.

A professor and chair of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine department of surgery, Dr. Timmerman attended USD Medical School before graduating from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

He has extensive leadership experience with ACS, including as President of the South Dakota Chapter and a variety of other regional and national positions over the past 20 years. During 2013-2014, he was the Chair of the National ACS Board of Governors.

The first South Dakota physician to serve on the ACS Board of Regents was Yankton surgeon Chester McVay, MD, who served from 1974 to 1983. ❖

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VITIELLO LAB GEARS UP TO REVIVE ABANDONED STUDY

“I SENT AN EMAIL TO SANFORD, WHERE MY COUSIN WORKS IN THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT. I SAID,

S

ANFORD researcher Peter Vitiello, PhD, is

in a collaboration with a

“I have optimism that the

now-retired Mayo clinic

science is going to figure this

readying his lab for a

FA researcher in 2012.

out,” says Brendtro.

new research study.

“Only a handful of folks

Provided that the Brendtros

The study is unique for

even knew that I was

reach their $75,000 goal,

Vitiello in both its focus and

involved in that project,”

Vitiello will be able to

its funding source. Vitiello,

says Vitiello. “But the timing

sidestep the lengthy grant

who has been studying the

was just right and the right

application process and

role of antioxidant enzymes

people heard about it.”

could potentially produce

in disease at Sanford for the

After talking with the

the first findings within

‘MY DAUGHTER HAS

last eight years, may soon

Brentros, Vitiello agreed to

THIS RARE DISEASE

be the recipient of $75,000 in

revive that shelved research

AND WE WOULD LIKE

private funds that will take

study and take it to the

get certain projects funded

his work in an unanticipated

next level in his own lab at

in my lab,” says Vitiello. “To

direction.

Sanford.

interact with someone who

TO RAISE MONEY TO SPONSOR A SANFORD RESEARCH STUDY.’ I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW THAT THIS WASN'T

“As a scientist, I try to be

months.

“It has taken me years to

“The fact that we have

wants to do this at this level

as logical as possible,” says

an emphasis on rare disease

and is able to fast-track the

Vitiello. “But when something

research and an infrastruc-

funding is unprecedented

like this happens, it really

ture in place that could help

for me.”

touches the emotional side.”

me get this project going

In October, Vitiello was

was critical,” says Vitiello.

HOW IT WAS DONE.”

approached by a Sioux Falls attorney whose 16-year-old

make up one of the largest

DAN BRENDTRO.

daughter has Friedreich’s

components of Sanford’s

Ataxia, a protein deficiency

CoRDS rare disease database,

that destroys cells in the

the only free national rare

nervous system and lungs.

disease registry not affiliated

Dan Brendtro wanted to

with any single illness. FA

raise money to fund an FA

has also garnered national

research study at Sanford.

attention in this year; a

As fortune would have it,

Philadelphia lab is conduct-

although FA has not been a

ing a 5-year natural history

crowdfunding campaign

primary focus for Vitiello, he

study thanks to a $2 million

(TheFinishLine.org) got

had been briefly involved

NIH grant.

some additional attention

Peter Vitiello in his lab.

In fact, FA registrants

Dan Brendtro and daughter Raena

Last month, the Brendtros’

when the local news media picked up on the story. As of this writing, the campaign is more than halfway to its goal and Vitiello continues to prepare his lab for the anticipated start of the study this month. ❖

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• Functional movement screenings

• Rehab perspectives on FAI

• Hip dominant training

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GER and GERD are Like Jekyll and Hyde

I

T IS THE MEDICAL EQUIVALENT OF

“We use ancillary and radiologic

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One condition is

tests to help us make a correlation

relatively benign; its closely-related alter

between the reflux and other prob-

ego is more sinister.

lems, such as aspiration, pneumonia,

“There is a very thin line between GER

failure to thrive, and even neurolog-

and GERD,” says Andrew Huang, MD, Children’s Specialty

ical problems,” says Huang. “A cow’s

Physicians, Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital & Med-

milk protein allergy or intolerance

ical Center.

is one of the problems we look

Gastroesophageal reflux (GER), also known as acid

for in patients with GERD. We also

reflux, is “normal”, the result of stomach contents reflux-

look for gastric emptying problems,

ing into the esophagus. Most babies spit up a few times

anatomical abnormalities that can

a day and most outgrow this by the time they are 18

be surgically corrected, and other

months old.

manifestations of reflux, such as

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), on the other

eosinophilic esophagitis.”

hand, is GER to an extreme–chronic, more frequent, and capable of causing serious complications.

TREATING GERD

“This is the part where medicine transitions from

In many cases, diet and lifestyle

being a science to becoming an art,” says Dr. Huang. “How

changes can help ease GERD. For

do you differentiate one from the other? And how do you

babies, this may include a formula

best manage those patients who require more treatment

change, adding rice cereal to thicken

and a more surgical or procedural approach?”

the formula or breast milk, and

In other words – when does Dr. Jekyll become

avoiding over-feeding. Older children

Mr. Hyde?“GER becomes abnormal when there are other

should be offered smaller portions at

problems associated with it,” Dr. Huang explains.

mealtimes and avoid fried and fatty foods, peppermint, chocolate, tomato

THESE PROBLEMS CAN INCLUDE:

products, caffeinated drinks and

G

Failure to thrive/reach milestones

G

Frequent vomiting, including bloody vomiting

G

Dysphagia

Histamine-2 (H2) blockers and proton

G

Recurrent infections, especially upper respiratory

pump inhibitors may be prescribed.

and lower respiratory infections

citrus fruit and juices.

Medications may help with reflux.

When surgery is deemed neces-

G

Associated neurological symptoms such as

sary, Dr. Huang says, “We work

movement disorders or developmental delay

closely with our colleagues in

G

A ny association with an apparent

pediatric surgery either by placing

life-threatening episode (ALTE)

gastrostomy tubes, gastrojejunostomy tubes or even taking patients

DIAGNOSING GERD

in for fundoplication. If the patient

An infant may have GERD if symptoms such as

also has an upper respiratory ana-

vomiting, gagging, coughing and trouble breathing

tomical problem, we work with

prevent him or her from feeding, or if the infant has

pulmonary and ENT.” ❖

had GER for more than 18 months.

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“ THIS IS THE PART WHERE MEDICINE

TRANSITIONS FROM BEING A SCIENCE TO BECOMING AN ART. HOW DO YOU DIFFERENTIATE ONE FROM THE OTHER? ”

ANDREW HUANG

POTENTIAL GERD COMPLICATIONS • Asthma • Problems with weight gain • Poor nutrition • I nflammation of the esophagus (esophagitis) • Esophageal sores or ulcers Andrew Huang

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The window art of students from General Beadle Elementary School

Regional Health Enlists Kids to Perk Up the Emergency Room Young artists from General Beadle Elementary School in Rapid City

B

UDDING ARTISTS from six Rapid Cityarea elementary schools were invited to help spruce up the the Regional

Health Rapid City Hospital Emergency Room during construction by painting the waiting room windows.

The hospital hosted a contest on its Facebook page in November and offered a grand prize of $1,000 —$500 to the charity of the kids’ choice and $500

Window painters from Robbinsdale Elementary School in Rapid City

toward art supplies for their school. The theme for the window painting contest was “My Favorite Holiday Tradition”.

Regional Health Rapid City Hospital is undergoing a major campus expansion and renovation project that includes a new main entrance, an office building for specialty services, new parking structures, private patient rooms, and a larger ED. ❖

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Beef’s Role in Weight Management and Cardiovascular Health

By Holly Swee

N

EW RESE ARCH CONTIN U ES TO REINFORCE THE evolving body of evidence that demonstrates beef’s role in weight loss, weight management and cardiovascular health.

The new Beef WISE (Weight Improvement, Satisfaction, and

Energy) study was conducted at the University of Colorado with a research grant from the Beef Checkoff and published in Obesity Science & Practice.

In recent years, higher protein diets have gained popularity and some experts suggest leaning away from red meat as a protein source. The Beef WISE researchers compared different high-quality protein sources to understand their effectiveness in a weight loss or maintenance diet.

The study revealed that lean beef doesn’t have to be restricted in a higher-protein diet and is just as effective as other protein choices in supporting healthy weight loss, weight management, and heart health. ❖

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HOLLY SWEE, RN, LN , Director of Nutrition & Consumer Information at the South Dakota Beef Industry Council

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What’s Your Resolution?

We asked some friends of MED to share a resolution or goal for 2018. Here is what they had to say.

“My goal is to find my dream house in Sioux Falls this year. Beyond that, I just hope be able to stay healthy and active.”

“I want to focus more on my two college girls this year and, hopefully, visit them more! Professionally, my goal is to establish a clinic for pregnant women with heart disease.”

“I would like to see our contrast reduction algorithm for coronary intervention published in more places. We came up with an algorithm that allows us to use up to ten times less than others around the world.

I would like to make it more widely known.”

Kate Sigford, MD,

Medical Director for Rehabilitation Services, LifeScape

Thomas Worsley, Interim President, Regional Health Spearfish Hospital

“ My resolution is to put the phone down! I am looking for increased blocks of time to disconnect and focus on the amazing people around me that uplift and make me a better friend, husband, father and leader.”

“ My goal this year is to strengthen my relationship with my kids.”

Maria Stys, MD,

Sanford Cardiologist

Mandi Steele,

Mother of Five, Make-A-Wish parent

“ I have resolved to streamline my processes this year so that I can get away from my computer and take a walk outside every single day!”

Adam Stys, MD, Sanford Cardiologist

Alex Strauss, Editor-in-Chief, MED Magazine

“ I tell every patient to take care of themselves in terms of diet and exercise. So this year I promised my wife to take better care of myself!”

Tom Stys, MD, Sanford Cardiologist

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Learning Opportunities JANUARY 24

MARCH 9

12:00 pm

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Sanford Imagenetics Lecture Series

11th Annual Avera Brain & Spine Institute Conference: Stroke and Spine Update

LOCATION: Sanford USD Medical Center REGISTRATION: sanfordhealth.org, keyword ‘Frontiers’

LOCATION Hilton Garden Inn Downtown, Sioux Falls

JANUARY 25–28

INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

averacontinuingeducation@avera.org 605-322-8950

Great Plains EMS Conference LOCATION: Hilton Garden Inn, Sioux Falls INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

MAY 16

schoolofemsorg/south-dakota-conference

8:30 am – 4:00 pm

JANUARY 30

Avera Caring Professionals Conference

4:30 pm - 8:00 pm

SAVE THE DATE

LOCATION: Sioux Falls Convention Center

2018 Sioux Falls Go Red for Women

INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

LOCATION: Sioux Falls Convention Center

averacontinuingeducation@avera.org 605-322-8950

INFORMATION: heart.org/southdakota

FEBRUARY 15 12:00 pm

Sanford Imagenetics Lecture Series LOCATION Sanford USD Medical Center

REGISTRATION sanfordhealth.org keyword ‘Frontiers’

Wise Choices for a Healthy Diet & Lifestyle

FEBRUARY 23–24 UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s 2018 EMS Conference LOCATION Sioux City Convention Center

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