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When You Need to Say No GETTING BEYOND THE FEAR OF A PATIENT’S DISSATISFACTION JUST MIGHT SAVE THEIR LIFE BY EMILY CLEGG
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N CONVERSATIONS ABOUT OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS, there can
be unspoken fears and motivations swirling beneath the surface. The patient may be fearful, aggressive or even dishonest. The clinician may fear backlash if the answer is no, but also knows that saying no could save a life.
Dan O’Connell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who trains, coaches and consults with clinicians
on improving communication and patient relationships. He promotes the idea that patients are not the problem, but neither is the clinician. “The problem,” he says, “is that opioids may be causing more harm than good.”
A SIMPLE STRATEGY When the answer may be saying “no,” a
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BE SOFT ON THE PEOPLE, BUT BE HARD ON THE PROBLEM.
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CONCLUDING THE CONVERSATION
conversation is one place to start. Dr.
After following this format, present a clear
O’Connell suggests talking about safety
conclusion. If opioids may be doing more
and effectiveness, then using the patient’s
harm than good, agreeing to a different
answers to balance the two.
plan or to a contract that includes opioids
SAFETY: Draw out the patient’s understanding related to safety, then educate to fill in gaps. Ask, “Do you find yourself needing more and more?” or, “How would you know if you were becoming addicted?”
EFFECTIVENESS: Reflect the patient’s own complaints back to them. For example,
and parameters to ensure they aren’t doing harm are two possibilities. If a patient grows angry or disagrees, Dr. O’Connell suggests using a defusing technique such as getting a second opinion or the input of a specialist. He advises “Be soft on the people, but be hard on the problem.”
“If opioids were the most effective way to help, I would expect them to be making more of a difference,” or, “I’m hearing your biggest issues are stress and lack of
This article is reprinted by permission from the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Brink magazine, published by Constellation.
sleep—let me propose a more effective approach.”
BALANCING SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS: Reframe the conversation: “I’m open to considering any plan we both agree is the safest, most effective way to help your pain, and which we are certain won’t do more harm than good.”
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Leadership THIS YEAR, after more than four decades at the helm of Avera Health, and on the brink of his 70th birthday, President and CEO John Porter retired. In a March interview we asked him to name the accomplishment he was
most proud of. “The fact that we were able to take these two disparate Catholic groups who had been engaged in their own separate ministries for 100 years and bring them together,” said Porter. “At one time, they saw each other as competitors. To have them come together and share a vision of a system that could be stronger and bigger, that was significant.” • THE SYSTEM that Porter helped unite took center stage in April/May when we featured The Presentation and Benedictine Sisters of Avera Health on MED’s Cover. System Member chair, Sister Mary Kay Panowicz of the
“We are the premier eHealth system in the country. Telemedicine has helped us not only save money and improve the quality of care in rural areas, but it has also made it easier to recruit providers into these areas. It’s about Christ serving the world through us.” •
REGIONAL HEALTH’S new President/CEO, Paulette Davidson, who worked her way to the top from hospital housekeeping, was our cover feature in November. “Community healthcare is vital for industry. It is the economic engine of the community,” Davidson told MED
MED’S SEPTEMBER interview
as she detailed the health
with Jill Fuller, recently-retired
system’s 5-part ‘roadmap’ for
President/CEO of Prairie Lakes
the future. “Our intention is
Healthcare System in Watertown,
to be here to take care of our grandchildren and our grandchildren’s grandchildren. That means we have to make good decisions so that we can support the other four missions.” •
contained this nugget of wisdom for anyone beginning a journey in healthcare administration:
“I think it is important to really learn the culture of your organization,” advised Fuller. “In our case, our culture is very unique and we have been successful because of it. You need to listen and learn, which is going to help you build your relationships. When you understand the context, you don’t try to apply cookie cutter solutions.” •
SIOUX FALLS Surgeon Gary Timmerman, MD, became the second South Dakota physician to serve on the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents. Timmerman is one of 23 regents that direct the 80,000 member
Yankton Benedictines —Sacred
ACS, considered one of the world’s
Heart Monastery told MED,
foremost medical organizations. Sr. Mary Kay Pancowicz and the Avera System Members
A professor and chair of the USD Sanford School of Medicine department of surgery, Timmerman has been active with the ACS for more than 20 years. •
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Research REGIONAL HEALTH radiation oncologist, Daniel Petereit, MD, graced the MED cover in March for his groundbreaking work in addressing cancer disparity among Northern Plains American Indians through the Walking
Lora Black
Forward program which he started in 2002. Early this year,
IN A DISCUSSION of the
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
challenges of including more
approved a 3-year 1.6 million
women in clinical trials in
dollar grant for the next iteration
March, Sanford researcher and
of Walking Forward— Increasing
USD Sanford School of Medicine
Lung Cancer Screening for High
clinical instructor Lora Black
SANFORD HEALTH gave a boost to
Risk Smokers in a Frontier
told MED, “It’s not just about equal
its global brand and fostered new
Population project—a low-dose CT
connections with the announce-
screening project which began in
ment of the $1 million Lorraine
May. “A big part of the program was
Cross national research award
just gaining the trust of the tribal community,” Petereit told MED. •
representation. Men and women differ at the cellular level. Women have different organs and different hormones. Sometimes even cycles can affect medications and dosages, etc.” NIH no longer funds projects
David Pearce
covered in MED’s January/ February issue. “Sanford already
has a national and international reputation for developing treatments and innovations,” David
ALSO ANNOUNCED in March,
that do not include a gender
another researcher with
breakdown in animal trials and
expertise in health disparities,
report on the sex, race, and
Pearce, PhD, executive vice
Amy Elliott, MD, and members
ethnicity of the people enrolled.
president of Sanford Research
of her research team joined Avera
Black says it is incumbent upon
said. “Our idea was, let’s see if we
Research Institute as the Center
providers to invite eligible female
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.” •
for Pediatrics and Community
and minority patients into clinical
Research early in the year.
trials. •
Dr. Elliott has been a principal investigator on several NIH-
IN THE APRIL/MAY issue, MED
funded research projects
announced that The Sanford
including an initiative to reduce
Project: T-Rex Study, a Phase 2
infant mortality in American
clinical trial on diabetes in
SANFORD’S SECOND trial of
Indian Communities. In August,
children, enrolled the last of its
adipose-derived stem cells began
her lab secured a $17.1 million
110 trial participants. The project
this year with Sioux Falls plastic
NIH grant for its work on a
is studying the potential of a cell
surgeon Bradley Coots, MD, at
children’s health study called
therapy developed by Caladrius
the helm. Coots was a sub-investi-
ECHO. “We are the only site in the
that uses each patient’s own
gator on the first stem cell trial
middle of the country,” said Dr. Elliott. “This is great opportunity for us to represent rural populations and the Midwest.” •
regulatory T cells, or Tregs, to fight
for rotator cuff injuries. The new trial is focused on non-healing leg ulcers. “Wounds are a huge burden
on our healthcare system, in the billions of dollars,” Dr. Coots told MED in January/February. “If we can speed up the healing process, it is going to save money, improve lives, and get more of these patients back into society.” •
type 1 diabetes. “It is still a long
way from having the answer, but reaching full enrollment essentially tells us that we are going to get there,” said Kurt Griffin, MD, PhD, director of clinical trials for The Sanford Project. •
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IN THE SAME issue, MED reported that
Daniel Petereit
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) would take part in one of the nation’s first large-scale trials of clinical whole-genome sequencing (cWGS) in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit (NICU and PICU) environments. “In the next 10 years, we will see a dramatic shift in the implementation of precision neonatal medicine, coupled with improvements in areas such as ventilation, nutrition and pharmacogenomics,” said Luca Brunelli, MD, PhD, Children’s Specialty Physicians, Division Chief of Neonatology at Children’s. • THE KEYNOTE trial on the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) at Sanford Health, which wrapped up in 2018, had important implications for non-small cell lung cancer patients in the region. Thanks to Sanford’s involvement, patients with an illness that is often fatal within a year, had access to a promising new treatment long before they might otherwise have even heard about it.
“Now we can run any National Cancer Institute trials, we get to pick from pharmaceutical trials, and some of the universities are even contacting us,” lead investigator Steven Powell, MD, told MED in June. “It is great to be able to offer
cutting-edge trials to our patients.” •
Amy Elliott
December 2018
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Kurt Griffin
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Research
Kristi Egland
SANFORD HEALTH and medical
WHEN THE WINNERS of 2018’s
technology company Inanovate
Nobel Prize for Medicine were
have launched a clinical trial to
announced in October, we
confirm the accuracy of a breast
turned again to Sanford
cancer blood test developed by
Researcher Steven Powell, MD,
Sanford researcher and breast
an immuno-oncology researcher,
cancer survivor Kristi Egland,
to share his thoughts in the
PhD. Egland says it was her
November issue. “These guys found a piece of the puzzle that was integral to making immunotherapy work,” said Dr. Powell. “We now have about a half dozen trials looking at other immune checkpoints, besides the ones identified by Allison and Honjo. We are also trying to learn how to use immunotherapy with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatments to get the most out of it.” •
diagnosis that drove her to develop the new test. “I was
thinking, I want to be able to make a test that can monitor patients during treatment and after that would hopefully be sensitive enough to detect recurrence,” Dr. Egland told MED in September. “That could give us a shot at curing more patients.” •
Steven Powell
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Expansions and Initiatives SIOUX FALLS Specialty Hospital opened its first urgent care facility just over a year ago in Sioux Falls. In January/February, CEO Blake Curd, MD, talked to MED about what makes this facility different from other area urgent
cares. “For one thing, it was built from the ground up to be an urgent care facility,” said Dr. Curd. “Secondly, a significant portion of the building will be dedicated to occupational medicine. We are the first facility to put these two things together.” Curd says the facility was designed without a central
IN THE SPRING, Prairie Lakes
waiting area to make patient flow more streamlined and efficient. •
iVantage list of Top 20 Rural
Healthcare System in Watertown became the only independent hospital in the region to make the Community Hospitals. In June,
IN MARCH, Rita Blasius, President
AHA Senior Vice President and
MED asked then President and
and CEO of Avera St. Benedict in
Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt,
CEO Jill Fuller how this hospital
Parkston, spoke with MED about
MD, told MED in the April/May
in a town of just 22,000 people
the pervasive problem of housing
issue, “As healthcare delivery
medical workers in rural areas.
“Many times, we have had the chance to hire someone but couldn’t find a place for them to live in our community,” said Blasius. In partnership
changes from fee-for-service to a value-based system, it is incredibly important to have physicians shaping the future along with administrative leadership.” The initiative provides
made the cut. “Our board made a strategic decision in 2003 . . . that we were going to better serve the 90,000 people in our 10-county service area by expanding our services,” said Fuller. The hospital recently built
with Avera and the Parkston Area
tools and resources for senior
a $32 million dollar specialty
Development Foundation, the
physician leaders at AHA member
clinic and offers more than 10
hospital helped fund a four-plex
institutions as well as frontline
specialties including cardiology,
housing unit specifically for
employed physicians. •
nephrology, and wound care. •
healthcare workers. Meanwhile, SDAHO has established a website dedicated to supporting facilities like Avera St. Benedict in their efforts to create more workforce housing. • THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL Association invited physicians to “Lead Well. Be Well. Care Well” as part of a new initiative to support well-being and encourage leadership among medical professionals.
December 2018
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Jay Bhatt
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Expansions and Initiatives
Tammy Reiff
Candace Zweifel
Sreekanth Donepudi
THE SIOUX FALLS VA Health Care System was recognized once again
AVERA CANCER Institute’s sixth
this year as a leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights
location, the Helmsley Center in
Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest
Pierre, held a grand opening in
LGBT civil rights organization. The VA is the only healthcare facility
September. The 57,000 square
in South Dakota to receive the honor, which is awarded to facilities
foot facility connects patients
that meet key criteria for equitable care, including nondiscrimination
with radiation and medical
policies and LGBT health education for staff. “It is not just about having
oncologists, oncology nurses,
policies in place that say we’re LGBT friendly,” says VA primary care
and radiation therapists, as well
social worker Tammy Reiff. •
as a physicist and dosimetrist. In a March interview, Pierre
IN THE JULY/AUGUST issue, we highlighted LSVT Big & LSVT Loud,
oncologist Sreekanth Donepudi,
programs that are allowing Parkinson’s Disease patients at Sanford
MD, said the center will help him
facilities in Vermillion and Canton to make major strides in their
and his colleagues deliver better
ability to move and speak more normally. “Having them concentrate
care. “At least a third to a half
only on being loud improves not only volume but articulation, pitch range, and even swallowing,” said Speech-Language Pathologist
of cancer patients need radiation therapy,” he said. “It is difficult to tell patients they have to go somewhere else for six to eight weeks of treatment.” •
Candace Zweifel, MA, CCC-SLP. LSVT Big adopts the same concept to improve slow walking and small movements. 100% of LSVT Loud patients report improved communication while LSVT Big patients walk faster and have better balance. •
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THE SIOUX FALLS VA Healthcare System is in year two of a bold experiment integrating physical therapy into primary care. Since 2016, patients who visit the VA’s primary care clinic for a musculoskeletal issue see a PT first, cutting out the time and delay involved in getting a referral first. “We are meeting
the veteran’s needs comprehensively and providing better care while simultaneously saving time for the primary care doctor,” said Brandon Peterson, DPT, Cert. MDT, who heads up the project.
“Our VA is setting a model for other VAs as well as private sector hospitals.” • AS MED TOLD you in September, Regional Health Heart and
Jessica Tvedt
Vascular Institute has reduced the number of patients who seek care for heart failure in the ED, as well as the number of patients who are readmitted for HF. Through a combination of education, interventions such as IV diuretic therapy, and monitoring, the multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinic provides both an alternative to the emergency room and peace of mind for HF patients and their doctors. “If
their heart function is less than 35 percent and no one is keeping a close eye on them, they may end up with a defibrillator down the road,” said the clinic’s Jessica Tvedt, CNP. •
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Clinical Advances PEOPLE WITH non-healing wounds in Aberdeen got easier access to hyperbaric oxygen therapy thanks to the installation of two hyperbaric oxygen chambers early in the year. “What was happening is that patients who needed this treatment just weren’t getting it,” Chief Nursing Officer
Chris Adducci
Cory Geffre said in MED’s
PRAIRIE LAKES Urologist Chris
January/February issue. Before
Adducci, MD, brought transurethral
the new chambers were
radiofrequency thermal therapy
installed, the nearest hyper-
with the Rezum system to qualified
baric chambers were in Fargo,
Watertown patients who either want
Sioux Falls, or well into
to get off medication for BPH or
Minnesota and many patients
avoid it altogether. “This represents the latest in-office procedure for BPH but it is one that is very, very tolerable,” Dr. Adducci told MED in
were unwilling or unable to travel for treatment. •
March. Adducci says Rezum can be used for a wider range of patients than some other minimally invasive BPH treatments and does not cause
Adam & Tomasz Stys
incontinence or ED. • MED’s first cover story of 2018 focused on Warsaw natives and Sanford cardiovascular disease specialists Adam, Maria, and Tomasz Stys of Sioux Falls who are responsible for significant
Cory Geffre
advances in heart care at Sanford. As director of the Women’s Heart Program, Maria Stys is active with
CARDIOTHORACIC surgeon
AHA’s “Go Red for Women” and
Ali Ibrahimiye, MD, of Children’s
has worked to establish a clinic
Specialty Physicians in Omaha
for pregnant women with heart
introduced several complex
disease. Her husband Adam helped
cardiothoracic surgical procedures
establish Sanford’s cardiology
as part of the new Pulmonary
fellowship and was a major force
Artery Rehabilitation Program at
behind the Heart Hospital. His
Children’s Hospital and Medical
younger brother Tomasz, medical
Center. One of the new procedures
director of Sanford Cardiovascular
offered is unifocalization, a procedure to repair tetralogy of
Institute, counts the transcatheter
Fallot with pulmonary atresia and major aortopulmonary
aortic valve implant (TAVI)
collaterals. “A surgeon has to do a lot of these operations to learn
Ali Ibrahimiye
program among his proudest
how to do it well and be comfortable performing it,” Dr. Ibrahimiye
achievements at Sanford. •
said in a March article. •
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CNOS ORTHOPEDIC surgeon Brian Johnson, MD, of Dakota Dunes has become a regional expert in a procedure that
Ebima Okundaye
attempts to get around one of the problems inherent in a diseased
REGIONAL HEALTH Rapid City
or injured rotator cuff: the fact
Hospital began offering therapeutic
that it is unlikely to support
plasma exchange or plasmapheresis
a standard total shoulder
for patients with autoimmune
replacement. Johnson performs
conditions such as lupus, Guil-
reverse total shoulder replace-
lain-Barre, Goodpasture syndrome,
ments, which reverse the ball and
and myasthenia gravis. “We can now treat them by combining a treatment like TPE to remove [immunoglobulins and antibodies] with immunosuppressive therapy to stop their production,”
socket of the shoulder joint. As MED reported in April/May, Johnson has performed more than 500 of these procedures over the past 11 years. “This procedure offers options for something that didn’t have options,” he said. •
nephrologist Ebima Okundaye, MD, told MED in June. Before TPE was available, some patients declined treatment or took higher doses of immunosuppressants to avoid having to travel to get treatment. •
DAKOTA LIONS Sight and Health in Sioux Falls became one of just a few elite eye banks in the country to begin offering pre-loaded corneal tissue for transplant surgery. In the April/May issue, Fargo ophthalmologist Dr. Michael Greenwood of Vance Thompson Vision, told
Luis Rojas
MED that the Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK)
AVERA GYNECOLOGIC oncologist
grafts make the corneal transplant
Luis Rojas, MD, is changing the
procedure less stressful for
way endometrial and cervix
everyone involved. “It not only
cancers are being treated in the
AS MED reported in July/August,
saves me a step but it also means that I don’t have to worry about the possibility of making a mistake while I am preparing the tissue,”
region. Instead of removing as
Brookings Health System became
many lymph nodes as possible
the second facility in South Dakota
throughout the pelvis, which
to offer robotic-arm assisted total
results in lymphedema in nearly
knee, partial knee and total hip
he said. •
half of patients, Rojas now
replacements with Stryker’s Mako
dissects only the first set of
System. The Mako system negates
lymph nodes — or sentinel nodes
the need for manual templates and
— into which the uterus drains.
cutting blocks, allowing for a truly
“We know that the sentinel nodes are the nodes with the highest likelihood of having metastatic disease,” says Rojas. In the first 20
personalized approach to surgery
test cases at Avera, the sentinel
Mark Mayer
based on each patient’s diagnosis and anatomy. “Now, I can say, let’s take another ½ mm off of the end of the femur and then reassess,”
nodes were 100 percent accurate
said surgeon Mark Mayer, MD, who
in predicting the presence of
relocated to Brookings this year.
metastatic cells in other nodes. •
“You can make that decision during surgery.” •
DMEK
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Clinical Advances
Muhammad Alsumrain
RAPID CITY pulmonologist Muhammad Alsumrain, MD, brought a higher level of knowledge on a range of complex and rare lung disorders to Regional Health this year. Alsumrain has been fellowship trained in interstitial lung disease and pulmonary vasculitis at Mayo Clinic. “In the past, we often
had to send patients for surgical lung biopsy to confirm the diagnosis,” Dr. Alsumrain told MED in July/August. “But with more understanding of the different radiographic findings and ordering the right blood
Tom Howard and Richard Howard
IN JULY/AUGUST, MED also introduced readers to the eye-opening power of UV photography and skin analysis with VISIA at The Body Garage Medical Spa in SIoux Falls. “With this tool, we can look for skin
cancer, fine lines, do pore counts and, most impressively, perform a UV damage index,” said plastic surgeon Richard Howard, MD. Howard and his son and partner Tom Howard, MD, use VISIA to determine skin type, texture, special needs, etc., in order to recommend a product or procedure that may help prevent further damage. “It’s just like
exercise,” says Dr. Howard. “If you quit taking care of your skin, you lose the effects.” •
tests, we have been able to decrease the likelihood of
IN NOVEMBER, we reported that
needing surgical intervention
interventional radiologist Charles Voigt,
to make a diagnosis.” •
MD, had begun performing Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (also called radioembolization) at Regional Health Rapid City Hospital. The minimally invasive procedure involves injecting tiny resin beads filled with the radioactive isotope yttrium Y-90 into the blood vessels Charles Voight
that feed liver tumors. The microspheres block the tumor’s blood supply while the radioactive isotope destroys cancer cells.
“We felt it was important to bring this here because, once cancer happens inside the liver, systemic chemotherapy is not usually very effective,” said Dr. Voigt. • MED wants to know about the clinical advances happening at your institution. Send your suggestions our way at Info@MidwestMedicalEdition.com.
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Martin Digler
Kate Sigford
Talking to . . .
Interesting People
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Hunter Moyer
LIFESCAPE’S Medical Director of
IN MARCH, Martin Digler, a
RAPID CITY plastic surgeon
Rehabilitation Services once swore
PA at Regional Health Heart and
Hunter Moyer, MD, was an
she would never be a physician. In
Vascular Institute, told MED the
established expert in breast
January/February, Kate Sigford,
story of his harrowing escape from
reconstruction in Atlanta when
MD, told MED that watching her
violence, disease and poverty in
his wife was diagnosed with
parents return to med school late
his West African homeland of
breast cancer at the age of 35. His
in life convinced her that it was
Liberia. Joel Swiesow, a Rapid City
personal experience, along with
not for her. “I thought it just looked
man on a two-week mission trip
his training in Emory’s large breast
like an awful lot of work,” said the
to Liberia in 1999, eventually
reconstruction program, have
physical medicine and rehabilita-
arranged Digler’s move to the US,
made him especially passionate
tion specialist. But she was
hosted him in his home, and
about this area of plastic surgery.
eventually drawn to PM&R for its
helped him pursue a college
ability to deliver “whole person”
education. After graduating from
“The first goal is to eradicate disease,” Dr. Moyer said in a
care without what she saw as the
the School of Mines and Technol-
March interview with MED. “But
downsides of primary care. “When
ogy, Digler earner his PA at Long
a lot of studies and my personal
I started doing my primary care
Island University and returned
experience has shown that the
rotation, I realized that I couldn’t
to the Black Hills to work. “God
secondary goal of restoring form
do coughs and colds every day,”
just opened up the doors for me,”
can have a huge impact on how
said Sigford. •
he says. •
women feel about themselves.” •
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Allison Wierda Suttle
Benson Hsu
Michael Bacharach
IN THE APRIL/MAY issue, we
SANFORD’S Chief Medical
VASCULAR MEDICINE specialist
brought you a profile of Allison
Analytics Officer, Sioux Falls
Michael Bacharach, MD, spoke
Wierda Suttle, MD, MBA, Chief
Pediatrician Benson Hsu, MD,
to MED this summer about the
Medical Officer at Sanford. Suttle
became one of 24 people chosen
origins of the Avera Heart Hospital
is the Daughter of a Sioux Falls
from a pool of 751 applicants to
which grew from a program he
radiologist who grew up around
receive a 2018 Bush Fellowship.
helped to start at North Central
medicine. After a decade as an
The fellowship provides up
Heart. “[The Heart Hospital]
Ob/Gyn, Suttle earned an MBA at
to $100,000 over 1 to 2 years.
USF and, in 2015, became a full
Dr. Hsu told MED he wants to use
time administrator. “It is an
the money to find better ways of
consolidated and improved heart care in the community and became a model for the future, too,” said
amazing time to be in healthcare,”
stopping preventable childhood
Bacharach, who came to Sioux
said Suttle. “It’s fascinating to think
illnesses and injuries. “I always
Falls from Cleveland Clinic in
about our work as physicians and how that changes. We are now moving into more collaboration with patients.” Suttle keeps herself
have this lingering thought: Is there something we could have done to keep this child from needing care in the first place?” said Hsu. “My mind
1995 for what he expected to be
connected to the healing arts as
goes to immunization, nutrition,
a part time yoga teacher. •
seatbelts, ect.” •
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a short-term stay. “Although Sioux Falls was a small community, it had skilled, well-trained subspecialists and offered advanced procedures,” he said. •
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Mark Ptacek
Mike Nieman
SANFORD GENETICIST Cassie Hajek,
IN SEPTEMBER, MED gave readers
MD, told MED in July/August that she
a firsthand look at the impact of
expected to have to leave her home
corneal transplant with the story of
state of South Dakota for good when she
a Renner man who has been living
decided to move from primary care into
with his for more than 20 years.
complex genomic medicine. She had left
Mike Nieman was just a teenager
the area twice before, first to pursue an
when he began to experience the
engineering degree and later to do her
effects of Fuch’s Dystrophy. Full
primary care residency. But after her
thickness corneal transplants in the
medical genetics fellowship at UCLA,
late ‘90s and laser surgery in 2005
Hajek found just what she was looking
eventually fully restored his sight.
for in Sanford’s Imagenetics program.
“Nieman’s transplant is special
“What we are doing here at Sanford is very rare,” she says. “I knew it was a huge opportunity that I would be unlikely to find elsewhere.” •
because he is among the 71 percent of
Cassie Hajek
PK transplants with 20/20 vision after 15 years,” said Marcy Dimond CEO of Dakota Lions Sight and Health. “I did
OUR SEPTEMBER cover story,
not fully appreciate at the time what it really meant to receive donor tissues,”
CNOS Sports Medicine Specialist
said Nieman, who now serves on the
Ryan Meis, MD, of Dakota Dunes, has
DLSH board of directors. •
become a fixture on the sidelines of high school, college and championship
FAMILY MEDICINE physician Mark
sports events in the region. Meis
Ptacek, MD, of Lead-Deadwood Regional
has a passion for managing complex
Hospital and Clinic, was first introduced
shoulder, knee, and elbow injuries
to the world of aviation in medical school
and performs advanced procedures
in Omaha. He earned his pilot’s license
like arthroscopic shoulder surgery,
in his second year of residency and has
multi-ligament knee repair and ulnar
even built his own plane. A long-time
collateral ligament reconstruction.
member of the Flying Physicians
He told MED he felt “drawn” to the CNOS
Association, Ptacek has this advice for
clinic, which integrates orthopedics and
healthcare professionals considering
neurology. “We manage on the sidelines,
aviation: “I encourage young docs,
provide care if there are injuries, and... have physical therapy to help them recover,” said Meis. •
especially if they are going to be in a rural area, to get a pilot’s license. If you are bitten by the ‘aviation bug’ . . . it is a very good fit with medicine.” •
Ryan Meis
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A Great Year for Make-A-Wish
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018 HAS BEEN A BIG YEAR for the South Dakota chapter of Make-A-Wish. The organization got a new President and CEO in February and, by the end of its fiscal year in August, had achieved an 11 percent year-to-year increase in the number of
wishes granted to critically ill children in the state. MED spoke with CEO Sue Salter about this banner year and the new referral process that will be the icing on the cake.
MED: How many wishes did Make-A-Wish grant this year and what does it mean for the organization? SS: By August, we had granted 80 wishes to South Dakota children with critical illnesses. The vision of Make-A-Wish is to grant a life changing wish to every eligible child. The Number of wishes granted is a key metric for us and we see the upward trend continuing.
MED: Why do you think it was such a successful year for wishes? SS: I think a lot of it has to do with the clarity of our mission and vision. We grant life-changing wishes to critically ill children in our state. It is crystal clear and that clarity attracts donors and referrals. It is one of the things that impresses me most about Make-A-Wish.
MED: Tell us about the new referral process. SS: We recently rolled out a new online referral and medical eligibility process. It eliminates paper, saves time, and makes the process of referring a child to Make-A-Wish much more streamlined. In addition to these efficiencies, there are algorithms built into the site that can determine medical eligibility almost immediately.
MED: How will the site impact wish recipients? SS: The streamlined process not only saves time for the person making the referral, but it will also cut down some of the time between when a wish is approved and when it is actually granted. There is naturally going to be some delay there, but we are always looking for ways to reduce it. â?–
To refer to a child to Make-A-Wish South Dakota, visit MD.WISH.ORG.
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Happenings around the region
News & Notes
South Dakota | Southwest Minnesota | Northwest Iowa | Northeast Nebraska
AVERA
For the first time ever, Avera Careflight has based a new PC-12 fixed-wing plane in South Dakota’s capital city. A new 13,000-square foot hangar at the Pierre airport provides 10,000 square feet of hangar space plus staff sleeping quarters, a meeting room, training room, commons area and storage space. A staff of three are stationed at the hanger around the clock, including a nurse, a paramedic and a pilot. In addition to Pierre, Avera Careflight has a fixed-wing plane and helicopter based in Sioux Falls and a helicopter in Aberdeen.
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Avera Health was recently named one of the nation’s Top 10 Most Wired organizations in healthcare. This is the 19th time that Avera that received the Most Wired honor. As a Top 10 winner, Avera was recognized on stage in San Diego last month. In addition to its telehealth system, other innovative uses of technology at Avea include a virtual visit platform, a patient portal, smartphone with secure messaging for hospital staff, and a fully integrated EMR that can be accessed from the patient bedside. Avera was the only South Dakota health system named to the 2018 list.
BLACK HILLS SAMANTHA LOEN Samantha Loen, an RN at Regional Health Rapid City Hospital has been recognized with a DAISY Award for outstanding nursing. In her nomination, the family member of a former patient thanked Loen for her “advocacy”. “She kept dad’s medical team informed and helped make decisions regarding his care,” stated the nomination. Regional Health Home+ Home Health in Rapid City has been awarded the Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) Best Superior Performer award. Home Health achieved an overall patient satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20th percentile of all SHP clients during the 2017 calendar year. Rapid City Home+ offers a wide array of home health services including hospice, skilled nursing care, rehabilitative therapy, palliative care, specialty and long-term-care pharmacy, home infusion and home medical equipment.
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JORDAN ANDERSON Jordan Anderson recently joined Avera Health Plans as Vice President of Sales. Anderson will work with both DAKOTACARE and Avera Health Plans to grow both business models. He comes to Avera from UnitedHealthcare where he was Director of Sales.
Nurse Meghan Lupica of Sanford’s RN Central Resource Pool was recognized with a DAISY Award this Fall. She was described as caring, compassionate, creative, prompt, positive, and thoughtful.
SIOUXLAND DAVID SLY Dave Sly, DO, FAAFP, has joined UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine–Sunnybrook. Sly received his undergraduate education from Northeast Missouri State University/Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri and his DO from A.T. Still University - Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. He completed his residency in Family Medicine in Illinois and is passionate about preventative medicine, chronic disease management and nutrition.
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PHINIT PHISITKUL RUSLAN SAFAROV Orthopedic Surgeon Phinit Phisitkul, MD, and Sports Medicine Physician Ruslan Safarov, MD, have joined Tri-State Specialists, LLP, in Sioux City. Dr. Phisitkul is fellowship trained in orthopedic foot and ankle surgery as well as sports medicine and has expertise in minimally invasive arthroscopic and endoscopic procedures, ankle replacement, tendon and ligament reconstruction, and the correction of bunions, hammertoes, and flatfoot. Dr. Safarov completed his sports medicine fellowship at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and sees patients with shoulder, elbow, and knee problems. He also has special expertise in arthroscopic surgery as well as the treatment of work-related injuries and fracture care.
OTHER Prairie Lakes’ $40 million Specialty Clinic opened in October after two years of construction. Specialty services in the Prairie Lakes Specialty Clinic include cardiology, dermatology (skin), general surgery, nephrology, pulmonology, and urology. The 65,000 square foot building also includes a lab, PT, OT, Glacial Lakes Orthopaedics, and a therapy pool. The campus also got an east entrance canopy and the helipad was relocated. A public open house was held October 23rd.
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha was named a Best Children’s Hospital by the Women’s Choice Award in November. Children’s also earned its Best Children’s Emergency Care Award, based on being an accredited pediatric trauma center and offering a regional pediatric ICU. “Our Best Children’s Hospitals award helps raise awareness of the top quality care offered for children—not only the critically ill—with specialists, services and technologies for their unique needs,” says Delia Passi, founder and CEO of the Women’s Choice Award.
Children’s Hospital’s Hand in Hand program has been recognized by the American Hospital Association for providing innovative and collaborative palliative and end-of-life care. With the Circle of Life Award Citation of Honor, the AHA praised Children’s program for its “devoted support for seriously ill patients and their families from diagnosis through end of life and beyond”. The program was also commended for its efforts to reach families throughout a multi-state rural area and to overcome economic disparities.
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SIGNS THAT A PATIENT MAY NEED HOME CARE and Tips for Approaching Them
P
ROVIDING CARE for elderly patients presents some unique challenges for healthcare providers. In patients facing physical or cognitive decline, the idea of “care” sometimes needs to reach beyond what can be offered in a clinic or hospital setting to include
what is needed at home. The difficulty of broaching the subject can be compounded by the fact that deciding what to do about a parent or grandparent’s decline can be mentally taxing and emotionally draining for the patient’s family members. But according to a 2016 article in Family Practice Management, the official journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians, “Collaboration with home care providers allows family physicians to extend their influence over patient outcomes and health care costs.” In an increasingly value-based payment environment, such collaborations can be key to influencing positive health outcomes. Visiting Angels, a provider of senior home care services in Sioux Falls, offers the following list of signs that it may be time to consider home care for a patient or loved one. Although some suggestions may seem obvious, together they help paint a picture that can make a difficult decision a little more clear-cut. ◆ If a patient poses a threat to his or
◆ If a patient is having trouble
her own well-being, care options
preparing his or her own meals,
should be considered immediately.
home care should be considered.
◆ A recent hospital discharge can make
◆ Patients who cannot maintain their
it difficult for a loved one to under-
lifestyles independently might be
take his or her usual daily routine.
in need of assistance.
◆ Physical limitations in general can
hinder daily activities. ◆ Patients of any age might be in need
of homecare if they are undergoing rehabilitation. ◆ Memory lapses can impede daily
functions and can lead to a potentially dangerous environment.
◆ If a patient often needs help in
the middle of the night, caregiver assistance should be considered. ◆ Patients who overburden the
personal schedules of their loved ones are most likely in need of full-time care. ◆ If a patient’s family member is
exhausted by caregiving duties, it might be time to seek a professional caregiver.
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Reference: Labson, M and Wyatt, R, “Home Care Gets a New Place in the Medical Neighborhood”, July/Aug 2016, Family Practice Management, https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0700/p18.html
❱ Find tips for talking to families and patients about homecare in the extended version of this article.
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December, January, February
Upcoming Events Because many area institutions take a hiatus from conference and symposiums during the holiday season, we are giving you a jumpstart on 2019 with a look at events coming up in the Spring.
DECEMBER 7
FEBRUARY 1 – 8
APRIL 5
7:00 pm
UnityPoint Health Mid-Winter Medical Education Conference
9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Holiday Jam with the Hegg Brothers (LifeScape Benefit) Location: Performing Arts Center, Rapid City
Location: Fairmont Orchid, Big Island, Hawaii Registration: 800-441-1414 (by Jan. 1 for discounted rate)
Tickets and Information: LifeScapeSD.org/events
DECEMBER 16 4:00 pm Holiday Jam with the Hegg Brothers (LifeScape Benefit) Location: Orpheum Theater,
FEBRUARY 22 – 23 8:00 am Friday – 4:00 pm Saturday 39th SD Conference in Emergency Medicine Location: Hilton Garden Inn,
Edith Sanford Breast Center Symposium Location: Delta Hotel by Marriott, Fargo
MAY 16 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Sanford Imagenetics Lecture Series Location: Schroeder Auditorium, Sanford USD Medical Center
Sioux Falls Information: sdacepconference.com
Sioux Falls Tickets and information: LifeScapeSD.org/events
THROUGH JANUARY 1 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm Christmas at the Western Mall, (Freewill donations benefit Make-A-Wish South Dakota) Information: WesternMallChristmas.com
JANUARY 7 5:00 pm Grand Opening Event
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