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Shaping the Future of Rural Healthcare at Avera James “Jim” Dover, President & CEO, Avera Health

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PAGE 6 | This Month Online A roundup of articles and information you′ll only find on our website PAGE 10 | Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

■ By Alan Lembitz, MD

Artificial intelligence in medical practice is not without risk. Here are some pitfalls to watch out for.

PAGE 11 | USD School of Health Sciences Success Spotlight: DANA MACH, BSN, DNP

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Shaping the Future of Rural Healthcare at Avera

Patient Overcomes Heart Failure with Help from Sanford Health When a Navy veteran is diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart failure, all hope seems to be lost until the heart care team at Sanford intervenes.

PAGE 14 | NEWS & NOTES PAGE 20 | [SPONSORED]

James Dover, President & CEO of Avera Health

■ By Alex Strauss As James Dover wraps up his first three months at the helm of Avera Health, we speak with him about what drew him to the region, what he′s noticed, and where he hopes to steer the health system in the next five years.

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Bridging Compassion and Resources to Help Patients Find Hope A team of local community health workers steps in to support a patient with food insecurity and uncontrolled diabetes.

PAGE 22 | [SPONSORED] Comprehensive Cardiac Care Across Nebraska, the Region and Beyond How pediatric cardiology and heart surgery teams at the Criss Heart Center at Children's Nebraska provide comprehensive cardiac care at all stages of life

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For our Cover Feature, as Avera Health transitions to new leadership, we spoke with President and CEO Jim Dover about his impressions so far and his hopes for the future.

Also in this issue, more healthcare institutions are transitioning to AI-enhanced systems of all kinds.

But the experts at COPIC caution providers to watch for legal pitfalls.

We bring you the second part of this two-part series.

In the face of worsening workforce shortages, CHWs are filling some critical gaps —with positive results. Plus, how two area institutions are advancing heart care for children and adults. And, of course, all the news from around the region.

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Go Red helps raise funds to save and improve women’s lives by advancing equitable research and care, advocating for inclusive health policies and raising awareness of women’s number one health threat. The annual event honors survivors and celebrates advancements in heart health.

Nearly 45% of women over age 20 are living with some form of CVD. But younger generations of women are less likely to be aware of their greatest health threat, including knowing the warning signs of heart attacks and strokes.

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SHAPING THE FUTURE OF RURAL HEALTHCARE AT AVERA

BY ALEX STRAUSS

James Dover, President & CEO of Avera Health

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HIS PAST FALL, James “Jim” Dover left his position at the helm of a large Michigan health system to become the third President and CEO of Avera Health, one of the largest not-for-profit rural healthcare systems in the Midwest and one of the “big three” in South Dakota. Avera’s footprint includes locations in five states and the health system employs more than 20,000 people at its 37 hospitals, 200 clinics, and 40 long-term care facilities.

What drew the California native to Avera and to the Sioux Falls community?

What impressions does he have after his first few months? And what are his hopes for Avera Health in the years ahead? With so many of MED’s readers depending on the “health” of Avera, we sat down with Dover to find out.

MED: Had you been to Sioux Falls before you moved here? What do you think of our community?

JD: My family and I drove through The campus of Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls

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been embedded in the community.

Sioux Falls will be the largest small town I’ll ever live in. Before I moved here, I went to a restaurant

the state years ago [Note: Dover is a

and I was chatting with the wait-

father of four] and we stopped at The

ress there and found out that she

Falls. But this is the first time I’ve

works at Avera. Everyone here either

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“I DON'T FIND A LOT OF BRAGGADOCIOUS PEOPLE HERE. WE ARE PROOF THAT YOU CAN VALUE KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY AND STILL BE EFFICIENT AND COMPETITIVE.”

MED: What have you noticed in your first 90 days that you wouldn’t necessarily have seen from the outside?

JD: A lot of people associate Avera Health with rural healthcare. But we are also a large, integrated health system. In South Dakota alone, our

works at Avera or has been treated at

annual payroll is a billion dollars.

an Avera facility or has a friend or

That is pretty big. And we have a

relative who works here.

research institute doing research

It’s also a community whereby the

that is so important that the federal

mayor, city council, and the local busi-

government gave us 58 million dollars

ness community all work together for

just last year.

the benefit of the entire community.

But at the same time we are not

In Sioux Falls, it’s clear that these enti-

flashy or self-promoting. I don’t find

ties get together and hash out what

a lot of braggadocious people here.

they’re going to get done. You can tell

We are proof that you can value kind-

that this is happening when you look

ness and hospitality and still be

at the coordinated growth. And that

efficient and competitive.

is really refreshing.

And I love that they let you drive 80 miles an hour on the interstate.

And, of course, I’ve noticed the incredible competency of our people.

The level of clinical expertise here is remarkable. These are highly trained

MED: What drew you to Avera Health?

providers, nurses, staff and leaders.

JD: First and foremost is the Mission.

People trained at the Mayo Clinic, the

Avera is an authentic Catholic health ministry to both urban and rural areas and the Benedictine and Presentation sisters live that out every day. And it was clear that our providers, leaders, and governance are all centered around the mission, too. I feel like work that is not mission-driven leaves you wanting at the end of the day.

University of Iowa, and other topranked institutions. Our nurses are coming out of top notch programs.

They are very well-trained but very understated.

MED: What is ahead for Avera in the next few years?

JD: I expect us to make some pretty

The second thing that impressed

significant capital investments after

me was the professional opportunity.

a pause over the last few years. The

At Avera, I am able to practice at the

market is growing, as is our market

top of my license. At an organization

share. We are getting to the point

like ours, a leader wants to be able to

where we are reaching maximum

lead in a full manner and not be lim-

capacity, especially in Sioux Falls. We

ited. It has been a pleasure to lead

need to build for the future, so we

from that standpoint.

never have to turn a patient away.

The third thing that really drew

We’ll also be making clinical

me to Avera was the chance to be a

investments to support the continued

part of their growth. Sometimes, as a

growth of our oncology, heart and

leader, you come into a turnaround

orthopedics programs. And we expect

situation where an organization is in

to add another 120 physicians and

decline. And there is satisfaction in

advanced practice providers over the

that. But to join an organization in

next five years to expand our clinical

such a positive position is always very

footprint.

attractive to a health system leader.

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MED: What do you see as the biggest challenges for the health system right now?

JD: There are the normal environmental hurdles. We have a congress that is locked up and can’t get things passed. Meanwhile, our industry is heavily regulated.

Workforce is also a big issue. How can we support our academic institutions to produce more nurses? I’ve already started to have conversations with Southeast Technical Institute, Mount Marty University, and others to figure out how we can work together to do that.

I also worry about the rising costs of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. If these costs are growing at six percent a year and reimbursements are only growing at one percent, that’s going to be a bigger and bigger challenge.

MED: How do you see Avera contributing to the bigger picture of healthcare going forward?

JD: One big opportunity is through research. Research shouldn’t be limited to academic institutions. We see 50,000 inpatients a year. We have over 2 million clinic visits and over a million ambulatory encounters. Today alone, there will be 3,000 primary care visits across our footprint.

We need to be able to use that data to help advance medical research. We have a responsibility to improve the health of all of the communities that we serve. I see this advancing in the future. ❖

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine [part 2]

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BY ALAN LEMBITZ, MD HE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

making. Standards of care will begin

applications is the most important new information

to incorporate expectations for

technology in decades that will change healthcare. This

AI use, as they did for other tech-

creates an ongoing necessity for healthcare systems to

nologies (like EKG and MRI).

regularly assess the impact and risks of AI as its develop-

Guidelines will constantly evolve

ment and deployment is outpacing legal, medical, or

for what “a reasonable provider in

business changes. The implications carry enormous benefits, risks, and unforeseen consequences.

CONSIDER THESE IMPORTANT LIABILITY AND SAFETY ISSUES

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THE PRACTITIONER

maintaining systems or training

REMAINS RESPONSIBLE

users.

FOR THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE .

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CREDIBILITY IS A CHALLENGE;

INACCURACIES CAN PROPAGATE AND

BE DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY.

Credibility of the medical record

Investigating an AI claim will

and the decision-making process will

require determining the exact version

face challenges, as the line blurs

Introducing another entity into

and configuration of the tool and

between what is generated by AI and

the care process creates potential

manner of its use, and reviewing its

what is contributed by human

liability, and it does not necessarily

activity logs and possibly its operat-

judgment.

reduce r isk exposure for the

ing code.

Similarly to what occurred in

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EHRs when copy-paste began to be

provider-user.

THE USE OF AI NEEDS

used, the credibility of an entire

TO BE TRANSPARENT,

record can be called into question

VERIFIABLE, AND

when content is fabricated or faulty.

REPRODUCIBLE.

The fluency of AI-generated records

Users of AI applications need to

may make it more difficult to spot

theories tend to follow the model

be able to explain in general how

documentation errors. Rapid propa-

of “device safety.” Liability for AI

they work and what safety mea-

gation

mishaps potentially involves both

sures apply to them.

networks amplifies the impact of

It is still the licensed provider who is practicing medicine. Apportioning

contr ibutions

to

the

outcome may take new forms when AI is used, but current regulatory

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similar circumstances” should do.

of

information

across

device and human accountability.

A foreseeable deposit ion

content errors and imposes a higher

Fully autonomous systems will

question in a malpractice claim

responsibility upon users to proof-

doubtless begin to appear, but

involving AI might be, “Please

read AI-assisted work products.

humans are likely to remain in the

describe exactly how this event

AI tools are only as good as their

accountability loop.

happened.” Answering this can be

training data. Building them upon

Legislatures, courts, and agen-

problematic with some applications

large medical record archives—

cies like the FDA will determine if

that operate as black boxes, without

which are well known to contain

additional liabilities attach to enti-

user visibility into algorithms that

inaccuracies and biases—has been

ties besides practitioners. There

even the developers may not be fully

shown to produce outputs that can

may be claims against vendors

able to explain.

sometimes be strikingly inappropri-

when product defects are not appar-

Nevertheless, defending good

ate, discriminatory, or dangerously

ent or foreseeable. There may also

care will require you to show what

wrong. There is an urgent call for

be claims against organizations

tool you used, how you reviewed the

explanatory systems that allow users

that fail to use diligence in speci-

output from that tool, and the role it

to audit and examine AI thought

fying, acquiring, configuring, or

played in clinical care and decision

processes.

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PRIVACY ISSUES

ARE COMPLEX AND ARE ALREADY

CHALLENGING

CURRENT SAFEGUARDS.

Large AI systems typically

require data processing by remote cloud servers. When patient data,

images, or recordings are transmit-

ted to external parties, issues

arise about how they are stored and processed, and how the information

Dana Mach, BSN, DNP

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Current Position: Nurse Practitioner in the Emergency Room at Mercy Medical Center, Sioux City, IA

can be used. For example, many

machine learning systems incorporate data they receive into their permanent training sets.

This is a different situation

from “a transcriptionist in the

back room.” Patient consent is not required for functions that are

simply part of healthcare operations. But if protected health

information is re-purposed for uses

other than the benefit of a particular patient, there needs to be a specific disclosure and consent.

Providers need to understand

their user agreements and HIPAA

Business Associate Agreements with vendors of applications that involve PHI. Claims that “data are de-identified” need to be verified because it has been shown that large databases can be used to re-identify confidential information that is presumed to be anonymous.

Providers who use AI-powered search engines, intelligent assistants, documentation, and decision support applications that have

Dana Mach was just 9 years old when she discovered her love of taking care of other people. That is the year her little sister was born and young Dana was tasked with much of her care.

When she was old enough, she worked as a CNA in a nursing home and decided that nursing would be her path.

As a native of Viborg and the daughter of a USD alumna, the USD School of Health Sciences was a natural choice for her undergraduate education. Hers was the second class to graduate from USD’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

“One of the things that drew me to USD was the fact that they have great connections at Sanford and Avera, both of which have trauma centers” says Bach. “I’m an ER nurse so I love trauma centers.”

USD School of Health Sciences has a strong track record of training graduates to practice in rural communities, but Mach says she also felt well-equipped to start her nursing career in Sanford’s busy ED. “USD prepares its nursing students well, so that, even if they do come from a smaller town, they have the ability to go into a big hospital system,” says Mach.

Armed with her USD education and her trauma center experience, Mach spent three months as a travel nurse in California before returning to the area. She went on to earn her DNP and has most recently worked as an NP in Mercy Medical Center’s ER. She’ll soon transfer to a position as an ER nurse and hospitalist at Wagner Community Memorial Hospital Avera in Wagner, South Dakota.

“USD was a great foundation for me,” says Mach. “The connections I made with many of my USD instructors were also a big help with recommendations for references and jobs.”

access to PHI need to inquire carefully how vendors comply with HIPAA and other privacy rules. ❖

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“ Their attention to detail has been absolutely phenomenal,” says Oliver “Jack” Duck, Sr. of the heart care team at Sanford Health.

“I couldn't be more pleased with the treatment I get from the people here.”

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Patient overcomes heart failure with help from Sanford Health O

His physician’s assistant offered to explain everything that was happening to his heart in detail, which Jack really appreciated.

“She took a piece of paper and drew every part of the heart on it and explained how I was in AFib. She even explained the ejection fraction and why I needed the vest,” said Jack. “She spent an hour in there and I love her to death. She was fantastic.”

Jack still has that piece of paper to this day.

Managing AFib and heart failure with support from Sanford Health Jack was worried his diagnosis would be fatal.

As he began treatment, he made some lifestyle changes to lower his cholesterol. He lost 30 pounds and managed to raise his ejection fraction (the percentage of blood pumped out from the heart) to a safer range.

LIVER “JACK” DUCK, SR.

CPAP machine for sleep apnea.

“I was originally at 30 percent,

has been in good health

As part of his care plan, he was

and the normal range is 55 to 70.

his entire life, but when

required to receive an exam from a

When I came for the second echo-

pulmonologist.

cardiogram, I was at 42,” said Jack.

he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart failure, all hope seemed to be lost.

Thankfully for Jack, the heart care team at Sanford Health was

At that exam, Jack was told he had to check into the emergency room for an electrocardiogram (EKG) and other tests.

“My PA told me I could take the vest off and I cried.”

Since then, Jack’s health has continued to improve. He stays in

able to intervene, restore his hope,

Jack was eventually diagnosed

contact with his team and has

and walk alongside him on the road

with heart failure and AFib. He was

frequent in-person checkups with

to recovery.

fitted with a defibrillator vest that

them to track his progress.

Being diagnosed with AFib and heart failure

delivers therapeutic shocks when-

He truly feels like his old self

ever it detects dangerous rhythms.

again, and he’s thankful the Sanford

Jack and his wife were very

Health team was there to support

Jack has spent much of his life

concerned and wanted to get more

serving in the Navy and has always

information about what exactly they

lived an active lifestyle.

were facing.

him on his journey.

“Their attention to detail has been absolutely phenomenal,” said Jack.

“For the most part I’m a pretty

“If you want to tell me some-

“I couldn’t be more pleased with the

healthy guy,” said Jack. “I was a

thing, hit me between the eyes,”

treatment I get from the people

marathoner and I still run at 70

said Jack. “When I was on a Navy

here.”

years old.”

ship in enemy waters, I wanted to

If you need support for your heart,

know all the risks. I’ve been that way

visit sanfordhealth.org to find a pro-

all my life.”

vider near you. ❖

Before his heart conditions appeared, Jack started using a

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NEWS & NOTES

Happenings around the region

News & Notes South Dakota | Southwest Minnesota | Northwest Iowa | Northeast Nebraska

AVERA Avera is expanding access to inpatient behavioral healthcare in Sioux Falls and Aberdeen. In Sioux Falls, Avera Behavioral Health will finish shell space in the new Helmsley Behavioral Health Center, adding 16 beds for adult care. The new unit will be for patients with more serious mental health disorders. It will feature single, private rooms, plus shared space for laundry, dining and meeting rooms. The existing Adult A unit will be remodeled for a new Adult D unit, which will have 18 beds for sub-acute care.

These changes will allow for grouping of similar patients on adult units. The project is expected to be complete in spring of 2025.

In Aberdeen, past Community Health Needs Assessments have pointed to a need for more inpatient behavioral healthcare.

Avera St. Luke’s Hospital currently has space for 10 inpatients.

Creating a new unit will improve and expand upon that, with 18 private rooms, plus space for gym and activities as well as therapy groups. Avera St. Luke’s will continue to offer residential addiction care in its existing location in the hospital. The new unit is expected to be finished by fall.

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Cortney Wieseler (with flowers) with her teammates on the Medical/Surgical Floor at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital since July 2022.

Cortney Wieseler, RN, is the most recent recipient of the quarterly DAISY Award for outstanding nursing at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton. Wieseler was nominated by the loved ones of two patients. The first was by a family whose mother was in hospice care. The second nomination was from the friend of a patient who had undergone surgery. She has been a registered nurse on the Medical/Surgical Floor at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital since July 2022.

More than 200 area Medicare and Medicaid recipients have now received hospital-level care in their own homes through Hospital@Home, a collaboration between Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center and Avera@Home, Avera’s home care and hospice agency. Avera McKennan began piloting the program two years ago and has and has now provided care equivalent to over 500 bed days. The program is part of CMS’s Hospital Without Walls initiative to address concerns about hospital bed capacity due to COVID-19. To be selected for Hospital@Home, a patient must have a care plan that would work in the home and must live within a 30-mile radius of the hospital.

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For the second year in a row, Press Ganey honored the Avera Addiction Care Center with a Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award.

This award is part of Press Ganey’s annual ranking of the top hospitals and health systems in the country, according to performance in patient experience. Winning this award means that the Avera Addiction Care Center ranked in the top 5% of healthcare providers in delivering patient experience in each of the last two years.

The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers has granted accredited status to the Monument Health Breast Care Program in Rapid City. To achieve voluntary NAPBC accreditation, a breast center demonstrates compliance with the NAPBC standards for leadership, clinical services, research, community outreach, professional education and quality improvement for patients. NAPBC accredited breast centers must undergo a site visit every three years.

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Monument Health Custer Hospital has been named a 2023 Human Experience (HX) Guardian of Excellence Award winner by Press Ganey. This award is part of Press Ganey’s annual ranking of the top hospitals and health systems in the country, according to performance in patient experience. The hospital’s Emergency Department was recognized for being in the top five percent in the overall rating of care in the last year.

Monument Health urologist Levi Hamilton, MD, urologist, demonstrates the da Vinci robot to a young summit attendee.

Monument Health once again hosted a Community Health Summit during the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo Rapid City at The Monument in January. The summit featured free preventative screenings, cooking demonstrations, and health and nutrition education, as well as interactive displays of two of the robotic-surgical systems used at Monument Health. Throughout the 10-day event Monument had 15 physicians and providers come speak with community members and caregiver volunteers provided 3,600 free health screenings.

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SANFORD Becker’s Hospital Review has named Sanford Health to the first edition of its “Hospitals and health systems with great psychiatry and mental health programs” list. Sanford Health’s behavioral health department guides patients through their mental health journeys via virtual and in-person care.To compile the inaugural list, the Becker’s editorial team accepted nominations and completed editorial research. The full list features individual profiles of all hospitals and health systems on the list and can be read on the MED website.

Sanford Health held a ribbon cutting in early February for the new Sanford Madison & Veterans Parkway Clinic in northeast Sioux Falls. The new clinic on E. Madison Street also includes an attached Lewis Drug retail store and pharmacy and features 34 clinical exam rooms, housing family medicine, pediatrics, outpatient rehabilitation and women’s services. There is also a lab, radiology and ultrasound services on site and the Sanford Health 3D mammography mobile truck will be parked at the new clinic routinely.

TOMMY IBRAHIM Sanford Health has named Tommy Ibrahim, MD, MBA, the new president and CEO of Sanford Health Plan. Ibrahim most recently served as president and CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network in Cooperstown, New York. He earned his MD at St. Christopher’s College of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, an academic affiliate of Johns Hopkins. Ibrahim holds an MBA from Columbia and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Fellow in Hospital Medicine. He succeeds John Snyder who is retiring this year.

NICHOLAS HARMS Nicholas Harms, MD, general surgeon, recently joined the Sanford Health Watertown Clinic. As a general surgeon, he Specializes in surgical treatment for a variety of conditions and diseases.

Harms graduated from the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota and has a decade of experience providing surgical care. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.

SCOTT WOOTEN Scott Wooten, FACHE, MBA, started his role as the new CFO of Sanford Health in January.

Wooten graduated from Union College and completed his MBA at the University of Dayton.

He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and completed strategy certificates at Harvard Business School and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Wooten succeeds Bill Marlette who came out of retirement to fill the CFO position until a permanent replacement was found.

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• Happenings around the region

News & Notes

NEWS & NOTES

Happenings around the region

INDEPENDENTS CHAD HANSON

SIOUXLAND In honor of Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (February 7-15), MercyOne gave every baby born at MercyOne and Genesis a red hat in February. The CDC says CHDs are the most common birth defect in the US. MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center is one of five MercyOne hospitals taking advantage of a new delivery model recently announced by their parent company Trinity Health. TogetherTeam Virtual Connected Care is designed to address workforce challenges, improve care delivery, and increase job satisfaction for nurses. Patients are treated by a direct care RN, an on-site nursing assistant or LPN, and an RN who joins virtually from a local campus (as opposed to a call center). The presence of an experienced virtual nurse provides mentoring and support to the direct care nurses, especially new graduates.

Eighteen nurses from MercyOne owned and managed medical centers and 41 nurses practicing at UnityPoint Health facilities and affiliates across Iowa have been selected as 2024 Great Iowa Nurses. This year’s list of honorees includes Eileen Hansen, RN, from UnityPoint Health–Sioux City and Andrea Queen and Kristen Loffswold from MercyOne Siouxland. Great Iowa Nurses annually recognizes Iowa-licensed nurses who have made a significant contribution to their patients, team members and the nursing profession. The program also provides financial support to nursing students in MSN, DNP, or PhD programs. The 2024 award recipients will be honored during a virtual recognition ceremony this spring.

KEVIN REE and TONYA FLAUGH UnityPoint Health–Sioux City’s newest healthcare facility, UnityPoint Clinic–Dakota Dunes, is now open on Gold Circle Drive in Sioux City. Kevin Ree, DO, and Tonya Flaugh, ARNP, offer family medicine services at the new location. The clinic plans to add urgent care and foot and ankle surgery clinic services soon.

UnityPoint Health will host a ribbon cutting and open house for the new clinic in March.

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Chad Hanson has joined the Rehabilitation Services team at Prairie Lakes Healthcare System in Watertown. Hanson received his bachelor’s degree in athletic training from South Dakota State University and earned his master’s degree in physical therapy from the University of South Dakota.

Hanson is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, South Dakota Physical Therapy Association, National Athletic Trainers Association, as well as the South Dakota Athletic Trainers Association. Hanson and his wife recently moved to the area from Sioux Falls where he owned his own physical therapy practice for the past 19 years.

MICHAEL MOORE Michael Moore is the new Director of Supply Chain at PLHS. His responsibilities include planning, coordinating, and supervising the delivery of supply chain products and services provided by the Materials Management department.

Moore comes to Prairie Lakes with 25 years of experience in the supply chain industry and the last 15 years as a supply chain director in the healthcare industry.

He has been serving as the Interim Director of Materials Management since October.

JESSICA ORMSMITH Board-certified family medicine physician Jessica Ormsmith, MD, has joined the Huron Regional Medical Center. Dr. Ormsmith earned her Doctor of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and completed her residency at Chesterfield Family Practice Residency Program, also in Richmond.

Originally from Virginia, she moved to South Dakota two years ago when her husband, began work as Superintendent of Schools for the Wessington Springs.

CY HAATVEDT Cy Haatvedt, MD, general surgeon and Chief Medical Officer at HRMC retired from practice this year after nearly 30 years of providing general surgery services to the community. He is staying on as CMO.

JENNY REIMER HRMC wound care nurse Jenny Reimer, RN, is the recipient of HRMC’s Employee of the Year Award for 2023. Reimer was also recognized for 40 years of service at the hospital. She was one of 42 employees with milestone service anniversaries ranging from 5 to 45 years who were recognized at a ceremony and luncheon earlier this year.

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Lacey Larson, RN, is the most recent recipient of the DAISY Award at HRMC. Larson began her career in healthcare at the young age of 14 as a dining assistant at a local nursing home. At age 16, she took courses to become a certified nurse aide and eventually completed her education to become a registered nurse, continuing her work within long term care until she joined HRMC in 2014. Larson is the sixth DAISY Award winner at HRMC, with one nurse recognized each quarter.

Brookings Health System recently upgraded to a new, state-of-the-art GE Fortis ultrasound system. For maternal fetal medicine, the new ultrasound system offers improved color doppler to show more precise blood flow in the fetal heart.

For obstetrics patients, that means higher quality diagnostic images can be captured locally in Brookings. The advanced system also offers better penetration to create clearer images of deeper structures. The system is ergonomically designed for technologist operation and uses AI tools to increase efficiency.

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The CNOS Clinic in Dakota Dunes recently added Semaglutide injections to its list of weight loss options. Semaglutide is now available to non-diabetic patients seeking effective and sustainable solutions to manage their weight. “In addition to the Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass, Semaglutide injections will be another medical option to help (non-diabetic) individuals fight the disease of obesity,” says CNOS general surgeon William Rizk, MD.

CNOS is celebrating its 25th anniversary in the region in 2024.

The group was founded in 1999 to offer neurological and musculoskeletal services under one umbrella. CNOS now also includes gastroenterology, general surgery, dermatology, occupational medicine, and rheumatology, with over 40 physicians and surgeons.

A number of celebratory events are planned throughout the year.

The FDA has approved a new glaucoma treatment first implanted by Dr. John Berdahl of Vance Thompson Vision in Sioux Falls as part of a clinical trial. The iDose TR implant is part of a new generation of procedural pharmaceutical solutions for glaucoma, a disease which causes irreversible damage to the optic nerve. “The clinical data suggest that iDoseTR is not only effective with a favorable safety profile, but it has potential to relieve patients from the burdens of prescription eye drops for an extended period of time,” says Berdahl.

JENNA WICKERSHAM Jenna Wickersham, DO, is the new Site Director for the Pierre Rural Family Medicine Residency program. Dr. Wickersham earned her medical degree at A.T. Still University, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri and is a graduate of the Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency. She spent six years at the Avera Medical Group in Pierre as Family Physician and Chief of Staff. Established in 2018, the Pierre Rural Family Medicine Residency is the rural training track and sister program to the Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency.

It accepts two residents each year.

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food insecurity. To address the patient’s financial situa-

Community Health Workers (CHWs)

tion, the CHW helped connect the patient with an attorney

assist patients in getting access to basic

to aid in applying for disability benefits. The CHW also

needs and essential support. As a rural

brought the patient’s financial situation to the attention

health system, Sanford Health’s CHWs

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his medical regimen.

determinants of health concerns.

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stability and well-being. The patient’s transition to more

his first no-show to an appointment in five years.

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