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From the cath lab to the OR to the executive's office and from the Black Hills to Watertown to Sioux City, we recap the top 21 stories to grace the pages of MED Magazine in 2021.

CONTENTS PAGE 5 | How to Refer a

Child to Make-A-Wish PAGE 6 | [Interview]

Lorenzo Suter, Regional President & CEO of Unity Point Health–Sioux City PAGE 8 | This Month Online

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FROM US TO YOU elcome to MED Magazine’s 12th annual holiday issue. As we round out another year with you, we want to express our thanks for your continued readership, support, and service to our communities.

In keeping with our annual tradition, we are bringing you a visual roundup of some of the people and programs that graced these pages in 2021. Do you know someone you’d like to see featured here next year at this time? We welcome your suggestions for articles and cover features any time at Info@MidwestMedicalEdition.com.

Of course, you’ll also find the latest news, a chat with Siouxland’s newest healthcare CEO, a compilation of articles and information you’ll only find on our website, and more.

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[ INTERVIEW ]

LORENZO SUTER, REGIONAL PRESIDENT & CEO OF UNITYPOINT HEALTH–SIOUX CITY lived under a bridge and I was

I thought they just wore suits and

surrounded by drugs and alcohol.

walked around. But this CEO was

But there were also some awesome

bringing in new services and it

people in that community who

intrigued me. I decided that was

encouraged me not to settle and

what I really wanted to do, so I

helped build my character. My early

changed to a Masters in Healthcare

years taught me that, in order to

Administration.

help people, you have to meet them where they are. I see myself as

MED: What attracted you to Sioux City?

someone who works for the staff

LS: The first thing that attracted

that shows up every day to do

me to the community is the size.

what’s right for our community.

I have lived in downtown Chicago

They and the community are my

and that was intense. I didn’t know

bosses.

my neighbors there for two years.

MED: You trained as a nurse before moving into administration. What drew you to healthcare?

But when I moved here, my neighbors brought me baked goods!

I also appreciated the access to critical access hospitals in the

LS: My grandmother was killed HIS PAST SUMMER, Lorenzo

region. These are so important.

by a caregiver at a skilled nursing

Third, I researched the UnityPoint

Suter became the Regional Pres-

facility when I was about 13. I had

Health System and found that

ident and CEO of UnityPoint

assumed that you are supposed

they really cared about the people

Health–Sioux City and Senior VP of

to be treated well at a healthcare

in their communities. I would not

UnityPoint Health. Among the usual

facility. That incident really made

be in my role today without the

activities of a new CEO, Suter started

me want to be an agent of change.

support of caring people in my

his tenure by scheduling one-on-one

I wanted to be a different kind

community, so that meant a lot

meetings with every one of his 1,700

of caregiver. I wanted to go to

to me.

employees. We caught up with him

medical school, but I was broke.

between meetings to find out more

So I started as a CNA then got a

about his management style, his first

BSN and enrolled in an NP

few months in Sioux City, and his

program. I worked in the ICU, the

MED: What excites you most about the things that are happening at UnityPoint right now?

hopes for the future.

OR, and CCU, and as a travelling

LS: I’m most excited about our

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nurse.

MED: Both the board chairman and the CEO of UnityPoint Health made a point of mentioning your people-centered leadership style as reasons for your selection. What shaped your approach to management?

MED: How did you end up in administration?

2022 strategic plan. We have a new approach that’s coming down from corporate around the concept of ‘Onward’. We are

LS: At some point in my NP

moving onward to provide the best

program, an administrator

possible care to our community.

noticed that I could write well

That means that more resources

LS: I grew up homeless in a small

and suggested that I meet with

are going to be invested and more

community in Kentucky. My mom

a CEO. At the time, I had some

services are going to be brought

was a single mom. We literally

assumptions about administrators.

into our region. ❖

You can read more of our interview with Lorenzo Suter on our website.

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BY ALEX STRAUSS

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EACH YEAR, WE USE THIS SPACE TO BRING YOU A LOOK BACK AT

SOME OF THE TOP STORIES FROM

Our first cover feature

of 2021 celebrated the

opening of the new Mon-

ument Health Heart and Vascular

THE PAST YEAR, INCLUDING THE

Institute at Rapid City Hospital.

PEOPLE WE CHOSE TO FEATURE

The facility brought interventional

ON OUR COVERS. THIS YEAR,

cardiologists Drew Purdy, MD,

THOSE COVERS INCLUDED

and Samuel Durr, MD, and their

CARDIOLOGISTS, GENERAL

colleagues back to the hospital

SURGEONS, NURSES, AN INFEC-

campus after many years away.

TIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST, A

The practice originally known as

HOSPITALIST, A PULMONOLOGIST,

The Heart Doctors started on the

AND A CEO AND REPRESENTED

hospital campus in what is now the infusion center. Today, the Monu-

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providers.

In September 2020, they moved from their previous building a few blocks away from the hospital campus into the new addition to Rapid City Hospital — a visually stunning addition that clearly reflects the value that Monument places on the program.

“When you walk in, it looks like a first class heart program,” says Dr. Purdy.

“Cardiologists and the hospital go hand-in-hand. It makes sense to be here.”

“The good thing is it is just easier and more efficient,” Dr. Durr told MED. “You are able to see patients in the clinic and then easily go over to the hospital.

It allows us to do much more with our day when we need to.”

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Avera announces plans to build a new four-story wing at the Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls in response to Community Health Needs Assessment

that identified gaps in services for behavioral health and chemical dependency, made worse by the pandemic.

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Local healthcare facilities begin offering monoclonal antibody treatment with bamlanivimab for high-risk people with COVID-19 after the FDA cleared the drug

for emergency use.

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Clay

Holderman

becomes President and CEO of Unity-

Point Health and Sanjeeb Khatua is named President and CEO of UnityPoint Clinic.

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The USD School of Health Sciences, the USD Center for Disabilities, and LifeScape launch South Dakota’s

first certification program for Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA). The program will fill a major gap in care for children and

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adults with problematic behaviors.

On the March cover, we introduced Sanford Health’s new CEO, Bill Gassen, who took the

helm in December 2020, at a time of unprecedented change for the health system and for healthcare in general.

MED: What is one thing that the pandemic has taught the organization?

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With the release of the first COVID-19 vaccines, South Dakota’s healthcare system kicked

into high gear to get shots in arms. Their unprecedented cooperation was the focus of our April/May Cover feature.

The FDA approved the first COVID-19 vaccine on December 18 and by December 21, the first South Dakota patients were

BG: I think it has reinforced for us the strength of being an integrated

being vaccinated. And as the rollout con-

system. It allowed us to bring together the whole sum of our resources

tinued, South Dakota quickly pulled far

and leadership to benefit the whole company. It allowed us, for

ahead of other states in the percentage of

instance, to provide sufficient PPE to Good Samaritan Society facilities

the population getting vaccinated.

when other facilities were struggling. It gave us the opportunity to

By mid-March, South Dakota had fully

move COVID-positive patients to locations where we could provide

vaccinated nearly 16 percent of its popu-

the best possible care for them and reserve ICU space for those who

lation, compared to a national average of

needed it most. It reaffirms for me the need to be even more tightly integrated.

MED: What lasting impact do you think the pandemic will have on Sanford as an organization?

BG: I think it will definitely change us for the better as we move forward. It highlighted both the things we were doing well and the things we need to do better. It showed us that there is very little margin for not being prepared or not being in a position to be prepared quickly.

And it has forced us to keep in mind that, when it comes to our employ-

just 11 percent. Only Alaska and New Mexico were doing better and only by a couple of percentage points.

“We were very fortunate that the South Dakota health department has been an excellent partner in making sure that we were all kept informed,” Shankar Kurra, MD, Vice President of Medical Affairs at Monument Health Rapid City Hospital told MED. “Already in November, they were let-

ees, we have to take care of the whole person. We have to be mindful

ting us know that the vaccines were getting

that when they come in every day, they bring with them their respon-

close to their trial dates and we were begin-

sibilities outside the workplace.

ning to coordinate across the state on how we would do this. That allowed us to get prepared.”

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The South Dakota Board of Nursing approves Yankton Medical Clinic to offer a 320-hour clinical enrichment program for up to three

qualifying nursing students.

In the June issue, we highlighted Jacob Weasel, MD, Rapid

City’s first Lakota surgeon and the newly- appointed Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at USD Sanford School of Medicine.

“At 16, I told my girlfriend that I was The first step to vaccinating South

going to go to medical school to become

Dakota was to divide the workload. The

a surgeon,” Monument Health general

state’s health systems conferred to decide

surgeon Dr. Jacob Weasel told MED.

who would take which counties.

“When I wrote my personal statements,

“I think the key to our success as a state

I always said that my goal was to have

has been clear messaging and consistent

a significant impact on Native Ameri-

communication,” said David Erickson,

can healthcare. That is what really

MD, Chief Medical & Innovation Officer

started the whole journey for me.”

for Avera Health. “When it came to the

During his general surgery resi-

vaccine, everyone’s goal was just to get

dency in Des Moines, Weasel began to

shots in arms. We all know that vaccination

search for a position that would allow

is the only way forward out of this

him to practice the advanced surgical

pandemic.”

techniques he had learned and simultaneously support the health of native people.

Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, with its large population of Native American patients and it’s advanced medical facilities, was the perfect solution. Dr. Weasel, his wife, and three children moved to Rapid City in 2018 at the end of his residency.

“Most of my patients know that I’m native and that I’m Lakota,” says Weasel. “At first, they are surprised and then there is this comfort level. People open up to you in a way that they might not with other healthcare providers and I’ve been able to help restore trust in the healthcare system.”

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Carl June, MD, professor of immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine

at the University of Pennsylvania wins

Sanford’s $1 million Lorraine Cross Award for achievements in medical sciences.

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Dakota Lions Sight & Health announces a partnership with Avera to bring the first birth tissue donation program to South Dakota. Later in the year, DLSH added a birth

tissue donation program at Monument Health.

The USD Sanford School of Medicine ranks No. 6 among the nation’s 160 medical education programs for the percentage of graduates working in rural areas.

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Monument Health announces a

Kentucky native Lorenzo

partnership with Vibra

Suter, BSN, MHA,

Healthcare to build the

DHA, becomes

area’s first long-term

the new regional

acute care hospital and

president and

expanded rehabilitation

CEO of UnityPoint

facility in Rapid City.

Health–Sioux City

The facility will fill a

and senior VP for

care gap highlighted

UnityPoint Health.

by the pandemic.

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In July/August, we paid tribute to pediatric infectious disease specialist Ashlesha

Kaushik of UnityPoint Health who had

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Huron Regional Medical Center kicks off a $9.3 million construction project to add 23,000 square feet to its multi-specialty clinic and

expand the imaging department to accommodate stateof-the-art MRI and 3D mammography.

more about COVID-19 infection in children

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and teenagers than UnityPoint Health-St.

ing the Sanford Sports Complex,

been recently selected to the national faculty of a CDC/AAP project to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in children.

Few physicians in the country know

million initiative

delivery and access by expandcreating eight new residencies

cialist Ashlesha Kaushik, MBBS, MD, FAAP.

and fellowships in critical

Last summer, while the rest of the

specialty areas, and building a

world was still trying to wrap its head

60,000 square foot virtual care

around the scope of the pandemic and

center. We discussed the project

ICUs across the country were filling up

with hospitalist Jeremy Cauwels,

with sick patients, Kaushik was already matory syndrome (MIS-C), one of the most

Health

announced a $300

to transform rural healthcare

Luke’s Pediatric Infectious Disease spe-

publishing papers on multisystem inflam-

Sanford

MD, chief physician at Sanford Health, and surgeon Luis Garcia, MD, president of Sanford Health’s

serious illnesses caused by SARS-CoV-2

clinic division for our September/October cover.

infection in young patients.

MED: Why is it important to make this investment in rural healthcare

Kaushik, winner of the CDC 2019 Childhood Immunization Champion Award, also serves as the hospital’s Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship.

“Antimicrobial stewardship is really the need of the hour,” says Kaushik. “Antibiotic-resistant microbes are becoming a

now, when so many Americans are moving to larger cities?

JC: While some towns are shrinking, other towns and other ways to earn a living in those areas are absolutely growing. Part of our job, if we want to be the premier rural health provider in the US, is to find ways to reach out and deliver premium care to those rural patients, whether they live 7 miles away from a medical center or 70 miles.

bigger threat globally because of overuse.

That is our mission.

We have to continue to share the basics

LG: The reality is that about 20 percent of the US population

of infection control and the principle of

still lives in rural areas. Rural Americans are more likely

using the most narrow antibiotic possible

to die from the four leading causes of death in this country:

for the problem.”

heart disease, cancer, storke, and injury. Most of these

The message has hit home for UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s, which has reduced its own antibiotic use by 50 percent in the last three years.

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deaths are preventable with better access to care. While the attention tends to turn toward urban settings, one

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fifth of our population is still living in rural areas.

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“This is what our health system needed to be and I am proud of the way they have fulfilled that role,” says Senne. Senne himself has done multiple interviews with local media outlets to encourage masking, vaccination, and other safety practices. He’s also worked to arm primary care providers with information they need to help get their own patients vaccinated.

“I challenge people when they cite misinformation,” he says. “And it can be hard to challenge your neighbors.”

Clinic in Dakota Dukes in January. The strategic

its new Hubbard Center for Children,

alignment of the two practices will expand CNOS’ reach in the

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nearly doubling Children’s physical

region and will allow them to offer new specialties.

capacity.

The Hubbard Center for Children

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The orthopedic and general surgeons of Tri-State Specialists, LLP, of Sioux City will join the CNOS

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Omaha Children’s Hospital and Medical Center celebrates the opening of

MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center unveils its newly renovated emergency department called Fast Track, designed to provide access to experts in

90-minutes or less.

For our November cover story, we shined the spotlight on Watertown pulmonologist Dr. Svien Senne who is carrying on the family tradition

of facing healthcare challenges with compassion and equanimity at Prairie Lakes Healthcare System.

Svien Senne, DO, has a special place in his heart for grandparents. Not only is the Vermillion native descended from a long

line of prominent healthcare providers in the region, but, as a Pulmonologist and Critical Care specialist at Prairie Lakes Healthcare System, he’s also spent much of the last year-and-a-half trying to make it safe for others to spend time with their own aging relatives again.

“I’m trying to navigate us through this pandemic so that we can all hang out with our grandparents again,” says Dr. Senne.

During the pandemic, Dr. Senne has been a key player in Prairie Lakes’ response, not only as it relates to the care of their own patients but also as a public health

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Sanford Health has been recognized by Military Times for being one of the best employers across the country for veterans.

The 2021 Best for Vets: Employers List highlights 161 employers, and Sanford Health landed at the no. 36 spot, up from 42 last year and number one in the business category rankings for Healthcare Services and Nonprofit. This is the third year in a row Sanford Health has been recognized on this list.

SANFORD An investigational device invented at Sanford Health that helps high-risk vascular disease patients has been granted a breakthrough device designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Vascular surgeon Patrick Kelly, MD, invented the aortic stent graft system designed to treat a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. Dr. Kelly’s concept has the potential to treat more people utilizing a minimally invasive approach. More than 150 patients have been treated with the device at Sanford over the past nine years.

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NATHAN SCHEMA Sanford Health joined the NIH, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Oregon Health & Science University, and an Australian health insurer in a recently-published study of healthcare costs for patients with rare diseases. The retrospective study examined medical and insurance records for people with rare diseases and found medical costs for those with rare diseases are similar to those for cancer, heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease–up to five times higher than the general public.

Nathan Schema has been named the new president and CEO of The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, the nation’s largest non-profit provider of senior care and services.

Schema’s dedication and leadership has led to a successful career with the Good Samaritan Society, serving as a nursing home administrator; the associate director of operations; regional vice president of operations; and most recently as the vice president of operations.

He will replace Randy Bury, who is retiring December 31st.

The American Medical Association has recognized Sanford Health as a recipient of the 2021 Joy in Medicine Health System Recognition Program.

The AMA distinction recognized an elite group of 44 health systems for their demonstrated commitment to preserving the well-being of healthcare team members by engaging in proven efforts to combat work-related stress and burnout.

AVERA Avera has again earned the highest level of recognition as a Level 10 organization in the 2021 Digital Health Most Wired Survey conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. This is the third year that Avera has been named as a Level 10 organization, achieving the highest level for both acute and ambulatory settings, with previous elite designations including Top 10 and “advanced.” A total of 36,674 organizations were represented in the 2021 Digital Health Most Wired program. This is the 22nd time Avera has been honored on the Most Wired list.

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RISE Custom Solutions (a division of LifeScape) is among 44 orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) providers across the nation that were recently honored with the 2021 Freedom Award.

The annual award, sponsored by Orthotic and Prosthetic Group of America (OPGA), recognizes O&P providers who deliver exceptional standards of care for military personnel needing orthotic and prosthetic devices. Recipients of the 2021 Freedom Award received a framed award to showcase in their patient care facility.

KRISTEN HUGHES Kristen Hughes, MD, an internal medicine physician at Huron Regional Medical Center, passed her board exam and is now board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Hughes earned her medical degree at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences in St. Kitts & Nevis. She completed her internal medicine residency at Wayne State University in Michigan.

The Lodge at Deadwood, a longtime supporter of MED Magazine, has started construction on a hotel expansion. All 40+ of the new rooms and suites will offer views of the Black Hills as well as the luxury and comfort that the hotel is known for.

Completion is expected in Spring 22.

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Prairie Lakes Cancer Center held an unveiling ceremony for the Cancer Center’s new Bell in October. The Cancer Center purchased the bell with a donation from the Prairie Lakes Healthcare Foundation. The bell is mounted on a plaque on the wall in the Cancer Center and will help cancer patients celebrate their accomplishments and journey milestones.

INCREASED COLLABORATION. GREATER ACCESS. MORE SPECIALTIES.

Surgeons at Brookings Health System performed the first robotic-assisted surgery using the newly acquired da Vinci Xi in October. Brookings Health first invested in the da Vinci robotic platform in 2013, becoming the third hospital in South Dakota to actively offer robotic surgical technology. The upgraded system allows Brookings Health to perform more procedures robotically, including acid reflux surgery, colon and gastrointestinal surgery and endometriosis surgery.

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Aaron Althaus, MD • Joanie Columbia, MD • Raymond Kuwahara, MD Kevin Liudahl, MD • Joseph Morris, MD • Phinit Phisitkul, MD Bill Samuelson, MD

SIOUXLAND UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s is participating in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Perinatal Improvement Collaborative, a large-scale, data-driven collaborative of 200+ leading hospitals caring for diverse populations in all 50 states. The HHS Perinatal Improvement Collaborative will test interventions and protocols to reduce preventable deaths and complications among mothers and their babies.

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Improving Health, TOGETHER

We are pleased to announce that effective January 3, 2022, the physicians of Tri-State Specialists will join CNOS. Together, we’ll expand quality patient care through enhanced collaboration and the addition of new specialties.

REFER TO 605-217-2667, OPTION 7.

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Happenings around the region

DANIELLE PINGEL

Siouxland made miracles happen for local children during the UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Children’s Miracle Network 2021 Mediathon event on November 9th and 10th. The two-day event was broadcast live on KG95 and KTIV, as the community pledged their support to our local Children’s Miracle Network. A total of $125,095 was raised by our community, supporters, and sponsors for the kids of Siouxland!

Danielle Pingel is the new Executive Director of Rural Hospital and Clinic Operations at MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center.

Pingel comes to Sioux City from UnityPoint Fort Dodge, Iowa where she was Director of Clinic Operations over multi-specialty clinics and family medicine clinics, a women’s imaging center, and a fully owned independent lab. Pingel was previously the Manager of Population Health and an administrative fellow at MercyOne.

MIR RAUF SUBLA

Patients across Siouxland will now have quicker access to the highest quality of care thanks to the new transport vehicle commissioned by UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s.

The NICU Transport Vehicle’s primary purpose will be to transport Neonatal Intensive Care Unit staff to the bedside in cases where advanced care is needed in rural communities.

It will also serve to transport newborns to the area’s only Level II NICU at UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s for continued care and monitoring.

UnityPoint Health – Sioux City plans to open another UnityPoint Clinic location in Sioux City. Located in the old Shopko building on Hamilton Boulevard, between Once Upon a Child and Wilmes Hardware, UnityPoint Clinic – Marketplace will include 7,742 square feet of space and will be home to four family medicine providers and two urgent care providers.

Construction started in November and the new location is expected to open in the spring.

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Dr. Mir Rauf Subla, MD, FACC, FSCAI is the new Medical Director of Cardiology at MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center.

Dr. Subla is quadruple board-certified in internal medicine, critical care medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology.

He completed fellowships in Heart Failure at Cleveland Clinic, Cardiovascular disease at Mayo Clinic and Interventional Cardiology at Duke University Hospital.

He also holds an assistant professor of medicine position at Mayo College of Medicine and Science in the Division of Cardiology and Critical Care at Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Subla performs all major interventional procedures including TAVR, MitraClip, Watchmen, CardioMEMS and EKOS.

GARY CHAN Dr. Gary Chan, DO, PhD, has joined MercyOne Siouxland Heart and Vascular Center as a general cardiologist.

Dr. Chan finished his fellowship at the University of Arizona last year. He went to medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and in between he did a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine. He will be concentrating his practice in the outpatient clinic.

MercyOne Dakota Dunes Breast Care Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography. The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. MercyOne Dakota Dunes Breast Care Center is the only ACR Breast Center of Excellence in the tri-state area representing accreditation in mammography, ultrasound, stereotactic biopsy and breast MRI.

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When Providers Criticize Other Providers Recognizing the difference between medical errors and jousting

BY COPIC’S PATIENT SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT CASE STUDY 1 A neurologist sees a patient for a stroke follow up. In reviewing the medical records, he sees that she had complained to her PCP about palpitations prior to her stroke.

The EKG at that time showed atrial fibrillation, but the issue was never addressed. The neurologist believes that the atrial fibrillation was causative of the stroke and the patient will need anticoagulation.1 CASE STUDY 2 A 35-year-old man with a comminuted humerus fracture is treated surgically by Doctor A. The patient moves to another state and follows up with a different orthopedic surgeon, Doctor Joust. Upon reviewing the X-ray, Doctor Joust asks “Why did Doctor A use this hardware? That’s crazy. What an idiot!”

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics

Ethics Manual 2 states, “It is unethical

Opinions 9.4.2 notes that “Reporting

for a physician to disparage the

a colleague who is incompetent or

professional competence, knowl-

who engages in unethical behavior

edge, qualifications, or services of

is intended not only to protect

another physician to a patient or

patients, but also to help ensure

third party or to state or imply that

that colleagues receive appropriate

a patient was poorly managed or

assistance from a physician health

mistreated by a colleague, without

program or other service to be able

substantial evidence.”

to practice safely and ethically.”

The issue of criticizing other providers is further highlighted

JOUSTING

in a Journal of General Internal Medi-

Jousting is making negative com-

cine article 3 about a study where

ments on prior care without

recorded patient interviews showed

complete knowledge of the facts.

that 30% of physician’s comments

The American College of Physician

were critical of prior care. ❖

1 N Engl J Med 369;18 1752-1757 (case study was adapted from this article) 2 www.acponline.org/clinical-information/ethics-and-professionalism 3 J Gen Intern Med. 2013 Nov; 28(11): 1405–1409.

❱S ee the extended version of this article for more on physician criticism and its implications.

In the first case, there appears to be a medical error and an ethical responsibility to be transparent with the patient. The second case represents a scenario where “jousting” occurred and the subsequent provider is critical of a previous provider’s care without a full understanding of what happened.

WHEN A MEDICAL ERROR OCCURRED Talking with patients about other clinicians’ errors was the focus of a New England Journal of Medicine article1 which notes that even though physicians recognize the ethical duty to be transparent with patients, there are uncertainties with fulfilling this responsibility.

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