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SPRING 2014
3 Inside RCH’s Exceptional Cancer Care
5 Healthy Recipes/Follow Dustin’s Weight
Loss Journey
6 Meet the Emergency Room’s Top Doc
8 Nurse Practitioner Sara Twardowski
10 Foundation News
Major News
Dear Friends,
As we move further into 2014, those of us at Rochelle Community Hospital take great pride
in our accomplishments of the past year and look forward to furthering our mission in the
coming year. As we’ve said many times before, we want to be your community hospital,
offering you high-quality healthcare with a personal touch. It will always be our focus to
provide Rochelle residents and those from surrounding communities the necessary services
with the highest level of technology available to us.
Our proudest moment of the last year occurred when we were recognized as the Top
Rated Critical Access Hospital in the State of Illinois for 2013. As you may know, we
were rated among the Top Five in Illinois and Top 100 in the Nation for 2012 and reached
the highest level in the state this past year. This ranking is based on publicly reported
information and is analyzed and researched by iVantage Health Analytics located in Portland, Maine. This rating is
based on 56 performance measures categorized as Market Strength, Quality, Patient Outcomes, Patient Perspective,
Costs and Charges, and Financial Stability. iVantage takes this information and analyzes it into comparative data of
approximately 1,300 Critical Access Hospitals nationwide. This serves as a great indicator of the quality care and
high level of customer service we provide at Rochelle Community Hospital.
Mark J. Batty
Chief Executive Officer
We have no intention of resting on our laurels which is why we continually look at the services we offer and
make sure they are meeting your needs. Having the right level of Primary Care Physicians to meet your family’s
expectations and having the specialty services in our Multi-Specialty Clinic at the hospital when needed are two
obvious ways we can be the provider you look to when you need healthcare.
Last fall we executed a Network Affiliation Agreement with OSF Healthcare through St. Anthony Medical
Center in Rockford. This year we will use this agreement to access a larger breadth of services through OSF,
maintaining quality care while remaining cost-effective. As a small community hospital, there are limitations on
the services and equipment we can offer, which is where our agreement with OSF provides the most value. This
agreement allows us to maintain our independence with local governance and sole responsibility for administration.
Going forward we will look at the locations and the offerings of each of our clinics and will recruit physicians when
and where they are needed. While healthcare reform brings with it many changes for healthcare institutions and
patients, one of our goals is to reduce your anxiety by making your healthcare easy to access and as pleasant as
possible. We will do this by maintaining that personal touch of which we have become so well known.
On behalf of all of us associated with Rochelle Community Hospital, I want to thank you for the trust and confidence
you place in us as your healthcare provider of choice.
Sincerely,
Mark J. Batty
Chief Executive Officer
Rochelle Community Hospital
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Proof
Inside RCH’s Exceptional
Cancer Care
Donna Williams, R.N., Becomes a Patient
The diagnosis was cancer. When Donna Williams
got the news, she had a lot of questions. But there
was no question about where she wanted to receive
treatment: Rochelle Community Hospital.
Donna, who works as an R.N. in the hospital’s
Intensive Care Unit, is intimately familiar with the
capabilities of RCH. Rather than sending her to a larger
facility – as her sister, a physician, initially urged – her
insider knowledge cemented the decision to put her
trust and, ultimately, her life in her co-workers’ hands.
From the very beginning, Donna knew her hospital was
the right choice. A mere four days from the time she’d
requested a diagnostic mammogram, she not only had
a diagnosis, but an immediate surgery date. “Nowhere
can you go from diagnosis to surgery to port implant
to chemo in less than a month,” she insists. “Only
here.”*
Unfortunately, experience had already taught her some
hard facts about waiting with cancer. Donna’s mother,
a pancreatic cancer patient, had to wait two months
for surgery at a larger hospital. And though Donna
was diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer, she knew
tumors could double in size in as little as 50 days – less
time than her mom had waited. “Time can be of the
essence. If I’d had to wait, it could have progressed,”
she says.
*Donna drives from Rockford to Rochelle for her treatments.
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Currently undergoing chemotherapy, Donna raves about the hospital’s
Outpatient Infusion Room, saying she wouldn’t go anywhere else. In
RCH Infusion Services
Conveniently located on the
fact, her first chemotherapy session was at a different hospital and
main floor just inside the Second
included an excruciating wait that stretched her appointment to six
Street entrance, the outpatient
hours. The RCH Infusion Room’s wait? Five minutes, maximum, thanks
infusion room offers the following
to a carefully streamlined process that had her out the door in about
3-1/2 hours.
Her experience during those few hours is another reason she’s
loyal to RCH’s Infusion Room. In addition to comfortable chairs and
televisions to pass the time, patients are treated to warm blankets,
snacks and even full meals. The staff bends over backward to make
it as comfortable as possible, she says, while also demonstrating
remarkable expertise. Services come to her, i.e., registration and lab,
so she doesn’t have to go from department to department with her
compromised immune system.
therapies:
• Chemotherapy administration
• Blood and blood product
transfusions
• Electrolyte replacement
(hydration)
• SQ/IM injections
• Procrit and Neupogen injections
• Tysabri and other infusions for
multiple sclerosis
• Iron therapy
That same level of TLC is available to everyone who visits the Infusion
• Solu-Medrol
Room, which offers a long list of medications and therapies – such
• Antibiotic therapy
as IV antibiotic therapies, osteoporosis treatment and lab draws – in
• Thrombolytic therapy (for blood
clots)
addition to chemotherapy.
• RhoGAM therapy
Take it from Donna: World-class care truly is close to home. “I love this
place – not just as a nurse, but as a patient,” she says. “The hospital is
a well-hidden secret that everyone deserves to know about.”
• Rabies vaccine series
• IV Immunoglobulin
• Prolastin (alpha-1-protein
inhibitor) therapy
• Vancomycin dosing per inpatient
pharmacy
• Lab draw from venous access
devices
• Maintenance/management of
central venous access devices
• Dressing changes for central
lines, PICCs and midlines
• Port-A-Cath access (for patients
with long-term needs)
• Therapeutic phlebotomy
• Wound care
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If you have any questions, please
call the Outpatient Services
Manager at 815-562-2181,
ext. 2580.
Check out the Healthy Recipes on Our Website!
We’re continually trying to add helpful information to the RCH website that will keep
you and your family healthy. Have you seen the “Recipe of the Week” provided by
Debbie Clark, our Food and Nutrition Manager?
Some recent recipes (yummy!) include:
• Baked Haddock with Lime Cilantro Butter
• Slow Cooker Breakfast Cereal
• Cheddar Broccoli Casserole with Crunchy Topping
• Slow-Cooked Stuffed Peppers
• Quick Cherry Cinnamon Cobbler
• And More!
You’ll also find job opportunities, community events and more on
our Facebook page and our website… visit RochelleHospital.com to
learn what’s happening at Rochelle Community Hospital!
Follow Dustin’s Weight
Loss Journey!
When Dustin Kerwin shared his resolution to lose 100
pounds in the Rochelle News-Leader early this year,
we approached him about working with Rochelle
Community Hospital professionals to help him achieve
his goal and develop lifelong skills for healthy living.
Following completion of a physical, he is pursuing his
weight loss journey with help from his RCH team: Sara
Twardowski, APN, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner
at Rochelle Medical Group; Rajni Sud, Dietitian/
Certified Diabetic Educator; Jaime Haedt, Exercise
Physiologist in the Fitness Center; and Debbie Clark,
Food and Nutrition Manager. Log onto
Dustin with his fitness trainer, Jaime Haedt.
RochelleHospital.com to follow Dustin’s progress!
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Lifestyle
Meet the ER’s Top Doc – Matthew Nitsche, M.D.
Matthew Nitsche, M.D., is celebrating his one-year anniversary as Emergency Room Medical Director at Rochelle
Community Hospital. And this 17-year veteran physician and family man is still enjoying the honeymoon.
How did you become interested in medicine?
Growing up, we had a good friend of the family… my “Uncle” Jim, who was an orthopedic surgeon. I was inspired
just by watching him and seeing what he did. He made me want to help people.
Why did you choose emergency medicine?
If I had picked a different specialty – say, lungs or kidneys – I would know a lot about one system but perhaps
lose day-to-day knowledge of other things. With this specialty, I have to be knowledgeable about every urgent to
emergent issue. The lifestyle also appealed to me. I have to work some weekends and holidays, but I always know
when I’m working and when I’m off. When I leave the hospital, my family life isn’t interrupted.
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Know the Signs,
Save Your Life
Want to save a life? Recognizing the
Why were you attracted to RCH?
signs of heart attack and stroke — and
I had been working in Joliet for a long time, and I was interested
getting help as soon as possible —
in coming to a quieter town. I wanted to spend more time with
is key in helping you or a loved one
patients, rather than rush around from room to room. I came from a
maximize survival and recovery rates.
60-bed ER to a six-bed ER, and I do feel like I’m spending real time
with people. I also have five kids I wanted to spend more time with.
Signs of stroke Where I was working before required a lot more time and energy.
• Difficulty with speech
Here, I can be home with my family more.
• Numbness and/or tingling in
arms or legs
What do you do as the ER Medical Director?
• Confusion
I work in conjunction with other doctors and nurses to make sure
• Vision changes
everything runs well, and I oversee other physicians. I also work fulltime in the ER, which is eight 24-hour shifts a month, or close to
Signs of heart attack
200 hours.
• Chest discomfort (heaviness,
tightness, pain)
What do you like best about being an ER physician?
I get to help people – whether I actually do something or just talk
to them to help ease their minds when they’re scared or upset. That
gives me a lot of satisfaction.
What do you find most challenging?
You never know what’s going to come through the doors next.
Ninety-nine percent of the time it’s nothing terribly complicated,
but you have to be prepared for anything.
What do you like about working at RCH?
The reasons I came here are still attractive, but there were some
benefits I didn’t learn about until I got here. The people in the
community and at the hospital are great, from the staff to the EMS
workers to the patients and their families. That’s what makes it easy
to enjoy working here and want to stay for a long time.
• Difficulty breathing
• Sweating
• Nausea
• Discomfort in the arms, neck or back
With heart attacks, your gender may
determine which symptoms you have.
“Women tend to experience more
nausea or back discomfort, while men
have more of the traditional discomfort
across the chest,” Dr. Matthew Nitsche
says.
Discomfort is the important word, he
stresses. “On TV, characters clutch their
chests in agony, so people may not
realize that discomfort – rather than
pain – can be a heart attack.”
The bottom line: Don’t wait to come
into the Emergency Room if you
have signs of heart attack or stroke,
Dr. Nitsche urges. “Time is of the
essence.”
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Other News
Nurse Practitioner Sara Twardowski
Combines Expertise and TLC
Sometimes a slight detour can actually help you find the right road. That was certainly the case for
Rochelle Medical Group’s (RMG) Nurse Practitioner, Sara Twardowski, APN, FNP-BC. After completing
an undergraduate degree in bio-chemistry at Cornell College in Iowa, the Ottawa native knew she
wanted to pursue a career in healthcare. The question was which one?
Jobs in a pediatrics office and a pre-school convinced Sara that nursing was the answer, so she went
back to school – first at DePaul University in Chicago for a Master’s in Nursing and then at Northern
Illinois University, where she earned a post-Master’s degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Ultimately, this winding road ended in the perfect destination: Rochelle Community Hospital, where
Sara is able to help heal and educate patients in a warm, supportive environment. “I immediately felt
like this was a place where I could settle in and really be part of the hospital and the community,”
she says.
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As a Nurse Practitioner, Sara partners with other
healthcare providers, but her extensive training
means she can treat patients independently.
Like physicians, nurse practitioners manage
both chronic and acute illnesses, order and
interpret tests, and prescribe medications. But
they work within a safety net. “If I have questions
or concerns, I can turn to Dr. Alanis,” she says of
RMG physician Diana Alanis.
Although they function like physicians in many
ways, at heart nurse practitioners are just that –
nurses. “We’re trained in the nursing model,”
Sara explains. “Our goal is to treat the whole
person – mind, body and spirit.”
In general, Sara is able to spend a significant amount of time with patients, providing
education about new medications or lifestyle changes. It’s a collaborative method that
many people, including some of her current patients, actively seek out. “My patients and I
are a team,” she says. “They’re in charge of their health; I’m here to ensure they have the
information they need to make the right decisions.”
Sara enjoys the variety of family practice, though
her background speaks to her particular interest in
pediatrics. “I take special joy in seeing young patients,”
she admits. “I love doing well-child visits and talking
with parents about development and behavior.”
Her next career goal is to become a hospitalist, a
healthcare provider who tends to hospitalized patients.
But Sara, who is currently undergoing the necessary
training, insists it will be an additional role, rather than a
different role. “I’ll still work full-time at the office, seeing
the same patients,” she promises.
For an appointment with Sara,
call 815-561-8335.
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Foundation News
Thank You to Our 2013
FOUNDATION
DONORS!
Diamond: $1,001 or Greater
Anytime Fitness Rochelle
Mark Batty
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In Loving Memory of Mildred B.
Lane 2013
In Loving Memory of Chhaganlal
Pandya
~Your Loving Family
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Pandya
~ The Pandya Family
In Loving Memory of Linda
Wetzel
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Do the 2014 Hustle on June 7!
Register and You Could Win a $100 Visa® Gift Card!
It’s time to do the Hustle again… the Hospital Hustle that is! Join us for fun during the 8th
Annual Hospital Hustle on Saturday, June 7, and help raise funds for six new Philips HeartStart
defibrillators. Hosted by the RCH Foundation, the Annual Hospital Hustle 5K (3.1 miles) Walk/
Run will be held at Rochelle Township High School (RTHS) starting at 8 a.m. The race will begin
at the RTHS campus (1406 Flagg Road) and follow the bike path to Atwood Park and back. We
encourage individuals and teams to participate and register early! In fact, anyone who registers
will be entered into a drawing for a $100 gift card. Pre-registration is $20 until May 31 and $25
beginning June 1 until race day at 7:45 a.m.
You can find more details, as well as registration forms and sponsorship information, on our
website – RochelleHospital.com/AnnualHustle – or contact Janet Stewart, Marketing/Public
Relations Coordinator, at 815-561-3113.
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Upcoming Community Events
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
FREE Community Presentation
“Why Do You Fall?” at RCH Auxiliary
Room, 6:00 p.m. with assorted
desserts.
Featuring M-O-I Physical Therapist,
Sarah Greenhagen, DPT.
Are you over the age of 65? Do you
fall once a year or more? Does fear of
falling limit what you do in your daily
life? Sarah will address what causes
you to fall, the negative impact falling
can have on your future health, as
well as how you can prevent future
falls. Please register by calling Janet
Stewart at 815-561-3113 no later
than April 21.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
RCH Auxiliary Garage Sale at Hicks
Hall, United Methodist Church at 709
Fourth Avenue, 7:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Includes gently used clothing. All
proceeds benefit the hospital.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
RCH Auxiliary Derby Day
Celebration at Beacon on the Green.
Begins at 4:00 p.m. with: Watering
Trough, Run for the Roses, Feedbag
Buffet, RTHS Jazz Band, Silent Auction
and Best Decorated Hat Contest.
Tickets are $30 each and available at
the RCH Gift Shoppe. All proceeds
benefit the hospital.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
FREE Community Presentation
“Let’s Talk About Stroke” at Beacon
on the Green. Featuring Dr. Monica
Simionescu, a neurologist with OSF
St. Anthony Medical Center in
Rockford. 5:00-6:00 p.m. Informational
Booths, 6:00 p.m. Presentation/Dinner
begins. A heart healthy dinner will be
served. Please register by calling
Janet Stewart at 815-561-3113 no
later than May 12.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
RCH Foundation 8th Annual
Hospital Hustle 5KWalk/Run at
Rochelle Township High School. For
more information, see page 11 or
check RochelleHospital.com/Annual
Hustle.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
The 20th Annual American Cancer
Society Relay For Life from noon
until midnight at Helms Field. Join
the RCH team as we celebrate and
give back to the fight against cancer
in our community. If you’d like more
information about the event and
forming a team, log onto
RelayForLife.org/RochelleIL.
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