10456 LakeWood Nov14 - LakeWood Health Center

northreach newsletter
Fall/Winter 2014 www.lakewoodhealthcenter.org
CHI Provides
Life-Saving Tools
Surrounded by towering pines, Lake of the Woods draws
thousands of visitors annually to its remote fishing
vacation spot. The last thing anyone wants while reeling
in another walleye is to experience sudden cardiac arrest
(SCA). But if that happens, more organizations now have
automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at the ready.
An On-Site Heart-Saver
SCA can happen to anyone. Suddenly, the heart stops beating
and there are only a few minutes to live, warns the American
Heart Association, unless the right help arrives in time. The
nearest hospital to many of the area’s fishing destinations can
be 15 minutes or more away. So it’s a good thing to have a
portable medical device on site to deliver a life-saving
electrical shock, if it’s needed, to get the heart pumping again.
Keeping the Community Safe
Ballard’s Resort is one of eight area organizations that
received an AED in 2014 from CHI LakeWood Health.
LakeWood joins 11 other CHI hospitals in distributing a total
of 220 AEDs throughout rural Minnesota and North Dakota
over the next three years. This community improvement
initiative was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Health
Resources and Services Administration.
All AEDs come with certified Red Cross training, which
covers: CPR, safety for victims and rescuers, and hands-on
practice. “Its simple audio commands and step-by-step
prompts are designed to give the user the confidence to
operate it in a tense life-or-death situation,” says Danielle
Rudd, who attended the training and is the resort’s office
manager.
LakeWood Update from
President Breuer
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Community
Benefit Report
Danielle Rudd and Jessie
Anthony show their new AED.
“If we ever have to use the AED,” adds Jessie Anthony,
the resort’s managing partner, “we still would utilize
emergency services by calling 911. Meanwhile, we’re wise to keep
up with the medical technologies available, so that in a time of
emergency, we can be of even better service to our guests.”
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
awarded a three-year Rural Access to Emergency Devices grant
to 12 CHI rural hospitals within CHI’s Fargo Division, including
CHI LakeWood Health. The total estimated cost for the AED
Collaborative project is $1,034,720 over the next three years.
Of this, HRSA has awarded $198,061 in federal funds in the
first year, with the remaining year one cost of $143,080 to be
provided as a match from the CHI facilities. The award is for a
12-month budget period with two additional allocations for
the remaining two years, providing $595,920 of potential
federal assistance over the three-year period.
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Cold-Weather
Exercise Tips
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Meet Our
New Providers
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LakeWood Update
from President
Jason Breuer
Building a Healthier
Community Together
Welcome to another edition of NorthReach. At CHI LakeWood Health, we will continue to
evolve to meet the changing needs of our community. Along with our new name, CHI
LakeWood Health, we also have an updated mission statement that incorporates our focus
on education and research.
Page 4: Community Benefits
On pages 4 and 5, you will find information from our community benefit report. Last year,
our community benefit totaled more than $1 million; the report identifies the services we
provide to promote the health of our neighbors.
Page 7: New Ambulance Cots
LakeWood Regional Healthcare Foundation, with the help of the Baudette Rotary Club, North
Star Electric Cooperative, CoBank, and local donors, helped purchase two hydraulic cots for
the ambulance service. We are blessed to have such a generous community that once again
joined forces to help address this need.
Page 8: Welcome New Providers
CHI LakeWood Health is excited to introduce its two newest providers: Laci Burk, F.N.P., and
Maile Roper, D.O. They will become familiar faces at the clinic, hospital, and care center. Please
welcome them to our community.
We continue to partner with Sanford Health in Bemidji to provide specialist services. Jolyn
Seitz, M.D., is providing OB/GYN services and Adam Johnson, M.D., is providing services in
podiatry. Both are at CHI LakeWood Health on a monthly basis. Your provider can refer you to see
these physicians.
As I close this message, I wish you a happy holiday season, which will soon be here. Slow down
to enjoy the best part of life: family and friends.
Focus on Safety
Vicki Fulton, R.N., safety coach lead, and
Lindsay Nagle, R.T. (R) RDMS, safety coach
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SafetyFirst is a program designed to
strengthen CHI LakeWood Health’s
commitment to always putting patient,
employee, and medical staff safety first.
As part of the program, employees from
various departments have committed
to the role of safety coach.
Coaches help promote the
importance of using SafetyFirst tools
and techniques to improve patient and
employee safety. They also attend safety
coach trainings and meetings, record
formal safety observations, and share
good catches with their respective
departments, among other duties.
Says Lindsay Nagle, a radiologic
technologist and safety coach at CHI
LakeWood Health: “If we are always in the
habit of safe practices, we can be
confident that we are offering the very
best for the patients we serve. We also
know that we are being safe, which
affects our jobs, our families, and the
community.”
Mission Moment
by Kay M. Schell, Mission Leader
Facebook CTA To Come
Serving Others and Giving
Back to the Community
Catholic hospitals were born out of community need and that
tradition continues to this day. At CHI LakeWood Health, we express
our mission each day through our work serving the broader
community and those with greater need.
Community benefit is one of the ways our mission is brought to life.
We believe it is necessary to extend beyond our walls and to lend a
helping hand for the good of the whole community. CHI
LakeWood Health offers numerous programs that are subsidized or
offered at minimal cost to improve access to health care services,
to enhance the health of the community, or to advance health care
knowledge. We also participate in mission programs and other outreach
programs across the nation and globally.
Just as our values of reverence, integrity, compassion, and excellence
are woven into our work in the community, our involvement in the
community is woven into our identity as a health care provider.
Contributing to the health and well-being of our neighbors isn’t just
something we do; it’s who we are.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to make tangible, positive
differences in the lives of those who live, work, and play in Lake of the
Woods County and the surrounding area.
Community benefit prayer: Loving God, we thank and praise you for the
power of your presence deep in our hearts. May our love for you overflow into
joyous service to others. We pray for deep commitment to the healing ministry
especially as we serve the poor and vulnerable. Breathe into us a restlessness
that we may embrace the Gospel path to which we are called and with the help
of the Holy Spirit we may use our resources wisely for the good of all. Amen.
Grandma Melvie’s
Potato Dumplings
Fill a large cooking pot ½ to ¾ full of water. Place
one medium sized ham bone in the water and
bring to a boil, then let simmer for two to three
hours before making potato dumplings.
Potato Dumplings:
5 to 6 large russet potatoes
½ lb. diced ham or salt pork
2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
2 sticks butter
Grate or grind potatoes, then add flour and salt.
Form mixture into oval balls. Place a piece of
cubed ham in the center of each ball. Place balls
into the simmering ham broth and cook
approximately two hours, stirring occasionally.
Dumplings will slowly rise to the top of the broth
as they cook. When the dumplings are done, place
one stick of butter in a container and pour some
ham broth over it to melt it. Pour this mixture over
dumplings when serving. Dumplings can be
served with sliced baked ham and butter.
A recipe from LakeWood’s
Tasteful Treasures Cookbook
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CHI LakeWood Health:
Serving the Community
At CHI LakeWood Health, our goal is to contribute to the
health and quality of life of our community. We strive
to make community benefit a visible part of who we
are. We are thankful that we have the resources of
time, talent, and other gifts to share. Please read on to
find some of the benefits provided to the community.
Medicare Part D Open Enrollment Runs Through December 7
CHI LakeWood Health is offering free appointments to community
members who need assistance changing or enrolling in a Medicare
prescription drug plan (Part D). Call Chrissy at 218-634-3487 to
schedule an appointment. Guests should bring their Medicare and
health insurance cards and all current medications in their original
labeled bottles.
Chrissy Draper can assist with
Medicare Part D enrollment.
• Childbirth classes
• Alzheimer’s support group
• CPR classes
• Dietitian newspaper column
• Concussion screening program
• Diabetes Resource Center
• Freedom From Smoking program
• Health fairs
• Family health counseling
•Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
CHI LakeWood Health is fortunate for the
opportunity to donate to causes, programs,
projects, and events that positively affect
the community. Donations may come in
the form of money, staff time, talent,
meeting space, office equipment, supplies,
or whatever else is needed. Donations this
year were made to:
• Chamber of Commerce
• Child Protection Team meetings
• Dollars for Scholars
• Christmas Giving Tree
•International mission project
• Baudette Area Ministerium
• Pequana Playhouse
• United Blood Services blood drive
• Youth Hockey
• Triple A Boosters Club
• Lake of the Woods County Relay for Life
Healthy Communities Initiative
• Baudette Community Foundation
• Emergency disaster planning
• Disease prevention control
•The Salvation Army – Lake of the
Community Health Education
Classes and programs offer reliable
health information and resources that
help community members achieve
their best health:
Local Donations
CHI LakeWood Health is committed to
building a healthier, safer community. To
do so, we have participated in, donated to,
or promoted the following:
(Philippines)
• Minnesota Healthcare Engineers
Woods County Service Unit
•Lake of the Woods County Prevention
Coalition (alcohol, tobacco, and
other drugs)
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program for Lake of the Woods County
•Pharmaceutical patient assistance program
• Skin cancer screening program
• Visually impaired support group
• Violence prevention
•Statewide Health Improvement
Program (SHIP)
•Lake of the Woods County Board
of Adjustments
•Medicare Part D Enrollment
Assistance
Donated AEDs Protect
Community Hearts
On page 1, you read about CHI hospitals distributing AEDs
to provide better care for people who experience sudden
cardiac arrest. CHI LakeWood Health has distributed AEDs to
the following community businesses and organizations:
• Arnesen’s Rock Harbor Lodge
• Ballard’s Resort
• CHI LakeWood Health Ambulance
•Lake of the Woods County
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Law Enforcement
Mt. Carmel Lutheran Church
Sportsman’s Lodge
Sportsman’s Lodge Oak Island
Zippel Bay Resort
CHI LakeWood Health
Statistics
July 2013 to June 2014
Hospital
Patients admitted
(includes swing and respite): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Patient days of care
(includes swing and respite): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643
Average length of stay
(includes swing and respite): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1 days
Surgical procedures
(including scopes): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
ER visits: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,296
Outpatients registered: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,657
Ambulance runs: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Care Center
Total resident days: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,154
Percentage occupancy: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.5%
Clinic
Clinic visits: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,875
Parker’s Arc—Assisted Living
Total tenant days: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,179
Percentage occupancy: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.1%
A Prescription for
a Healthy Diet
The Fresh Start Farmers Market in Baudette works hard
each year to bring fruits, vegetables, meats, and other
fresh foods to community members. This year the
market began working with CHI LakeWood Health on
a new program that has the opportunity to bring the
market’s fresh foods to even more area families.
During the 2015 market season the two
organizations will work together to spread the word
about how foods from the market can contribute to a
healthier diet. Through healthy cooking
demonstrations and taste testing, families will see
how easy it can be to incorporate our local summer
and fall harvest into their current meal planning.
CHI LakeWood Health Employees: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
July 2013 to June 2014 Community
Benefit Ministry Total: $1,484,229
Activities and programs
for the poor and underserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26,283
“Spirit of Caring” (charity care) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $184,789
Unpaid cost of Medicaid and
other public programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,171,335
Activities and programs for
the broader community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $101,822
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Are You Ready for Colder Days?
Cold-weather exercise tips from
CHI LakeWood Therapy Services
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
68 percent of adults over the age of 20 are either overweight
or obese. One of the best ways people can prevent or combat
obesity and its consequences is by making the commitment
to be physically active—even in the winter.
The Department of Health and Human Services
recommends that children and adolescents get at least one
hour of physical activity per day. Adults should get two and
a half hours of moderate-intensity activity per week, or one
hour and 15 minutes’ worth of vigorous-intensity activity.
Here are some tips that can help you and your family stay
active this winter:
• Plan weekend outings that involve physical activity. This
could include cross country skiing, downhill sledding, or
just building a snowman.
• Help your children plan physical activities with friends,
such as ice skating.
• Have a “snow day” game plan of fitness games, such as
Wii Fit or Dance Dance Revolution.
•Be your child’s “exercise buddy.” Plan daily activities and
set goals together for increasing physical activity. This is
a great way to spend time together!
•Do exercises while watching TV (or at least during
commercials). Try situps, pushups, or jumping jacks.
•Design a backyard obstacle course as a fun, costeffective activity for your family. This can be especially
fun with mounds of snow!
Stay Warm and Fit with a 24-Hour Fitness Center Membership
A membership to the Body Works Fitness Center gives you 24-hour access to treadmills,
a stair climber, elliptical machines, a recumbent bike, a rowing machine, and free and
stationary weights. The facility offers a locker room, changing room, and shower room.
Several large flat-screen TVs are available for viewing during your workout.
CHI LakeWood Therapy Services staff is also available to help develop a personalized
exercise program specially tailored to address your needs. Personalized workout plans are
available for a one-time cost of $40. Your personal plan includes:
• A needs analysis
• Personal exercise program development
Stop in for membership rates
• Follow-up within 30 days to review exercise
or call CHI LakeWood Therapy
techniques and modify the program as needed
Services at 218-634-3429.
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Recent Events
Ambulance Cots Arrive
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) from CHI LakeWood
Health Ambulance Service attended the Baudette Rotary
Club meeting on September 25 to demonstrate their new
hydraulic cots. See page 2 for information about the cots’
purchase. The cots allow patients to be moved up and down
with the touch of a button, sparing the backs of EMTs and
improving patient safety. EMTs pictured: Bobby Jo Castle,
Gwenn Johnson, Don McKay, and Scott Christensen. Ann Ellis,
a Baudette Rotary Club Member, volunteered as “the patient”
during the demonstration.
Apple Fest
Parker’s Arc celebrated fall with its annual Apple Fest on
October 8. Residents, community members, and staff
gathered for apple cider and freshly baked apple goodies.
Parker’s Arc is the assisted living facility at CHI LakeWood
Health, providing apartments with health-related services.
Community Dinner
LakeWood’s annual community dinner was held
on Thursday, September 4 in the Care Center
backyard. The Highway 11 Ramblers provided
entertainment to the 565 guests who attended.
Upcoming Event
EMT Training Class
In late November, the CHI LakeWood Health Ambulance Service
is offering an EMT training class. Call Ambulance Service director
Bobby Jo Castle at 218-434-1112 for more information.
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CHI LakeWood Health
600 Main Avenue South
Baudette, MN 56623
www.lakewoodhealthcenter.org
Nonprofit
U.S. Postage
Paid
Lakewood
Health Center
218-634-2120
800-245-9483
The Mission of Catholic Health
Initiatives is to nurture the
healing ministry of the Church,
supported by education and
research. Fidelity to the Gospel
urges us to emphasize human
dignity and social justice as we
create healthier communities.
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Meet Our New Providers
Welcome Laci Burk, F.N.P.
Laci Burk, a board certified family nurse
practitioner, recently joined the CHI
LakeWood Health staff and began
seeing patients in September.
Burk graduated with a bachelor’s in
nursing from the University of Maine
at Fort Kent. She went on to complete
her master’s in nursing as a family
nurse practitioner at Montana State
University. Burk completed a
preceptorship in women’s health and
has been practicing in women’s health
and primary care for the past two years.
Burk and her husband, Eric, are originally from Montana.
They have two boys, ages 3 years and 5 months. The family
enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping.
To schedule an appointment,
call CHI LakeWood Health
Clinic at 218-634-1655.
Welcome
Maile Roper, D.O.
Maile Roper, D.O., joined the staff at CHI
LakeWood Health in October.
Dr. Roper attended medical school at the Kansas City
University of Medicine and Biosciences College of
Osteopathic Medicine. She completed an internship
in Family Medicine at Maine Medical Center’s Brighton
Campus in Portland, Maine. Dr. Roper is certified by
the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians
and has more than 35 years of experience in family
medicine and women’s health.
Dr. Roper has lived
in Minnesota for the
past 10 years. She has
four children and eight
grandchildren. She
enjoys reading,
gardening, and
woodworking, and is
excited for the
opportunity to learn
more about farming.