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Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital WaKeeney, Kansas |
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Our Family Caring for Yours |
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Volume 1, Issue 2 Fall/Winder 2011 |
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Mission: Delivering quality, cost effective, efficient health care to the community. Values: Premier Service, Integrity, Teamwork, Stewardship, Goal Oriented |
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We are pleased to announce that the Ellis Family Care Center has a new location at 10th and Washington in Ellis, thanks to the efforts of a group of people including the City of Ellis, Ellis Economic Development Group, Doug Shaw (a local Ellis Developer), and the WaKeeney Family Care Center. The providers and staff of the WaKeeney Family Care Center have served the medical needs of the Ellis Community since 2006 in its current location. The relocation of the medical facility in Ellis is due to an increased number of patients seen at the Ellis Family Care Center and the need for more space. With six providers, Dr. Gordon Lang, Internal Medicine; Dr. Robert Clark, Family Medicine; Dr. Kristie Clark, Pediatrics; Lisa Frost, ARNP-C; David Day, PA-C; and Jesse Belville, PA-C, and future plans for a full-time provider in Ellis, the new location will allow for an up-to-date medical facility with easier access for the Ellis Community. The providers and staff of Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney Family Care Center, and the Ellis Family |
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Care Center are very pleased and excited about the new location and look forward to continuing to serve the medical needs of Ellis and the surrounding communities. |
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This project will enhance the already positive relationship between our communities and strengthen the medical services available at home. Join us for an Open House celebration on Thursday, December 8, 2011, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., for refreshments. For an appointment with one of our providers, please call (785) 726-4956. |
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Ellis Family Care Center Announces New Location |
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Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital Health Services 320 N. 13th Street WaKeeney, KS 67672 Switchboard: (785) 743-2182 LTC: (785) 743-5586 www.tclmh.org Our Family Caring for Yours Local Family Practice Providers Gordon Lang, MD Robert Clark, Jr., MD Kristie Clark, MD Lisa Frost, ARNP-C David Day, PA-C Jesse Belville, PA-C ***** Visiting Physicians Surgery Michael Lasley, MD Ross Stadalman, MD Charles Schultz, MD To schedule, contact TCLMH Surgical Nursing at (785) 743-2182 ext. 125 Cardiology Jeffery Curtis, MD To schedule, call DeBakey Heart Institute at (888) 625-4699 Endocrinology Richard Guthrie, MD To schedule, call Mid-America Diabetes at (888) 878-5101 Orthopedics Robert Bassett, MD To schedule, call Hays Orthopedic Institute at (866) 428-8221 Podiatry Tony Fornelli, DPM To schedule, call WaKeeney Family Care Center at (785) 743-2124 Pulmonology Kent Berquist, MD To schedule (by referral), call Mowery Clinic at (800) 223-0845
***** Physician Clinics
WaKeeney Family Care Center (785) 743-2124 333 N. 14th Street, WaKeeney Appointments Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Ellis Family Care Center (785) 726-4956 1000 Washington Street, Ellis Appointments Tuesday through Friday* Ellis lab draw schedule: Tuesday & Friday 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. *Appointments are available Tuesday through Friday. The providers rotate one day a week with hours that are unique to his/her schedule. Please call for an available appointment time.
***** We hope you clip and save the above information. Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access health care facility providing inpatient, emergency and outpatient services. WaKeeney and Ellis Family Care Centers offer clinic services aimed to fulfill all of your family’s needs. Our Home Health Agency serves Ellis, Gove, Graham, Ness and Trego Counties. An attached 37-bed Long Term Care unit, 6-bed Assisted Living complex, and home delivered meals complete the package by providing all aspects of care under one roof. |
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Gordon Lang, MD Internal Medicine |
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Robert Clark, MD Family Medicine |
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Kristie Clark, MD Pediatrics |
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Lisa Frost, ARNP-C |
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David Day, PA-C |
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Jesse Belville, PA-C |
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PA Students to Visit TCLMH
TCLMH once again has the privilege of hosting physician assistant students from Wichita State University for the next academic year. Five students have been selected for our clinical training opportunity. The average PA program takes 26.5 months to complete. The first year generally is composed of classroom studies—the essential medical sciences such as microbiology, anatomy, and physiology—followed by a year of clinical rotations in private practice and institutional settings. The students will spend four to six weeks in WaKeeney and will be able to work with all of the clinic providers in order to be exposed to all aspects of medicine in rural communities. Please help us to welcome these PA students. |
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Immunizations! Get your children’s shots now at WaKeeney and Ellis Family Care Centers. Call (785) 743-2124 or (785) 726-4956 for details. Allergy Testing! WaKeeney Family Care Center now offers Allergy Testing using the new Multi-Test II®. To see a demonstration, visit our website at www.tclmh.org. Please make an appointment with your primary provider to see if you are a candidate for allergy testing. Call (785) 743-2124. Vaccines! Adults can help prevent Pneumonia and Influenza right here at WaKeeney Family Care Center. For details call (785) 743-2124. |
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Look Who’s Holding Clinics at TCLMH! TCLMH is proud to announce the addition of Dr. Kent Berquist to its outpatient clinic staff. Dr. Berquist, a pulmonologist from the Mowery Clinic in Salina, will be coming to TCLMH on a monthly basis. Appointments can be made by referral through your primary care physician. Dr. Berquist is a native of Claflin, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas (KU), majoring in microbiology, and subsequently received his medical degree from KU Medical Center in Kansas City. His postgraduate training is in internal medicine, while his chief residency year and fellowship were in pulmonary and critical care medicine—all at KU—and he is Board certified in all three. Dr. Berquist has practiced in Salina since 1989. Dr. Berquist and wife, Dena, have been married for 34 years. They have three grown daughters and recently welcomed their first grandchild into the world - a little boy. Dena also studied at KU and holds a B.A. in Cello Performance. She served as Principle Cellist for the Salina Symphony for 20 years and continues to play with the symphony, as well as serve as the Symphony Guild President. She also has an active string studio. Dr. Berquist’s major hobby is photography. He uses large format cameras to create platinum/palladium and carbon transfer prints. Please welcome Dr. Berquist as you come into contact with him through the TCLMH facility and surrounding community.
Thank you, Dr. Berquist, we look forward to your visiting our community! |
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WaKeeney Physician Prescribes Reading! After learning that kindergarten teachers in Kansas reported that as many as half of their students enter school without the literacy skills needed to learn to read, the Kansas Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (KAAP) developed Turn a Page. Touch a Mind. (TAP-TAM) in 2004. TAP-TAM is an early literacy program that takes advantage of the trusted and consistent relationship between a child’s physician and parents. In just seven years participating physicians have distributed over 200,000 new, developmentally appropriate books to Kansas kids 6 months through 5 years old.
Kristie Clark, MD has been giving books as a part of her standard well-child care to her patients in Wakeeney for the last two years, paying for them out of her own pocket because she believes that her patients should be healthy in mind and body. Dr. Clark would like to be able to become a part of TAP-TAM so that all of the physicians and providers at Wakeeney Family Care and the Ellis Family Care Center can give out books at each well-check visit. TAP-TAM providers give out new, developmentally appropriate books to their patients at each well check from 6 months through 5 years old, and encourage parents to take time each day to read with their children. Studies have shown that reading daily is the single most effective way to help children develop the early literacy skills needed to learn to read, and hearing this message from a trusted source of guidance, the child’s physician, is a powerful tool in making sure that children start school ready to learn to read. The physicians and providers at Wakeeney Family Care Center and Ellis Family Care Center would give out about 300 books to their patients each year!
In order to bring TAP-TAM to Wakeeney and Ellis a designated endowment must be started so that funding can be secured to this area of the state far into the future. Gifts given to the Kansas Pediatric Foundation and designated to Wakeeney and Ellis will make it possible to bring TAP-TAM to this area as soon as January 2012!
To help bring TAP-TAM to the Wakeeney and Ellis area, you can give a tax-deductible gift at www.kansaspediatricfoundation.org or mail payment made out to the Kansas Pediatric Foundation to PO Box 860481, Shawnee, KS 66286. All gifts given by December 31, 2011, will be matched by TAP-TAM participating physicians!
The Kansas Pediatric Foundation, the charitable arm of the Kansas Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics has a mission to develop partnerships with individuals, foundations, and organizations who share our commitment for a healthy and meaningful life for our children and adolescents in Kansas. |
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Kent B. Berquist, MD Pulmonologist |
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Nutrition Services
Nutrition services at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital and Long Term Care currently operates with 15 employees and a registered dietitian. Among the staff are a certified dietary manager and another employee completing a certification. Certification entails a one-year self study course, with the dietitian as preceptor, and successful completion of the national exam. Our service includes serving an average of 250-275 meals per day to our residents, patients, employees, and community. We offer a selective menu with all types of therapeutic diets to our residents and patients, as well as home delivered meals. Our mission is to provide quality customer service through serving nutritious palatable meals and top nutritional education. Nutritional education or Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) is provided by our registered dietitian. Our registered dietitian has a bachelor of science degree in nutrition food science with an emphasis in dietetics and enjoys working in areas of health maintenance and promotion. MNT is available as a patient in our hospital or long-term care and as an outpatient service. Education may be given in numerous areas such as diabetes, heart diseases, kidney disease, weight loss, gastrointestinal problems, and wound healing. |
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NURSES ATTEND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TRAINING Three TCLMH staff members have completed emergency preparedness training offered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). Shawna Koehn, RN, Teressa Williams, RN, and Bradley Wyatt, CRNA, Emergency Preparedness Committee Members from the Acute Care Department, traveled to Anniston, Alabama, for an intensive training program in August. Wyatt has been interested in disaster preparedness for years, stating that this course was “an extension of training I received in the Army in the 1970’s.” Koehn, Williams, and Wyatt attended a 4-day program dedicated to training hospital and health care professionals in disaster preparedness and response. This program included training in natural and man-made disasters and acts of terrorism. Koehn was enlightened by the amount of insight participants brought to each scenario, as well as the experiences that the instructors shared regarding the Katrina and Haiti disasters. Instructors highlighted that “incidents are ever changing, and changes need to be made as an incident is evolving,” Williams added. The final tabletop exercise provided an opportunity for them to apply a majority of the fundamental principles learned in the course. Wyatt was able to gain “a clear understanding that in the event of a disaster, help is available and will be on it’s way, [but] for a period of time [TCLMH] will have to stand on our own.” Koehn added it is important that we “know how long we are capable of functioning independently without outside help; that means knowing intimately what our resources are.” The ability for participants to apply the learned knowledge to real-life scenarios can prove invaluable to our community. All three participants look forward to being able to contribute more knowledge to the development and exercising of our local plans. Williams pointed out that “Incident Command can be used for many things, not just disasters; it can be used on a daily basis...to help us run more efficiently.” Koehn “learned it is important for each member [at TCLMH] to know what each member’s responsibilities are, so that if needed, we could step into each others spot without missing a beat.” We would like to thank the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for providing funding for the training; including round-trip air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals.
~Jessica Albers, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator |
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Shawna Koehn, RN, and Teressa Williams, RN, enjoy the Alabama foliage along the walkway to the mess hall. |
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Bradley Wyatt, RN, discusses preparedness issues with a CDP Instructor during the final tabletop exercise. |
DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS CLASSES OFFERED AT TCLMHTrego County Lemke Memorial Hospital (TCLMH) has begun offering diabetes self-management skills education. This 4-week class held in a group setting is aimed at teaching individuals with diabetes the skills necessary to manage and take control of their disease.Class content will include glucose monitoring, nutrition, exercise, diabetes medications, standards of care, reducing complications, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, and daily self management. Insulin adjustment is not taught as part of the group class.Outcomes - Our diabetes education program incorporates problem solving and real world experiences. Follow-up average data, at six months, demonstrates a drop in A1C (3 month blood sugar average) of greater than 1%. Diet, exercise and weight loss are important areas to concentrate on to aid in lowering blood sugars. Many attendees with Type 2 diabetes have reported weight loss. TCLMH is working with Mid-America Diabetes Associates (Wichita) to bring this program to rural northwest Kansas. The Mid-America Diabetes Associates program is recognized by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). This national recognition meets the requirements for Medicare (CMS) and other insurance reimbursement. Medicare covers ten (10) hours of initial education and two (2) hours annually thereafter. Insurance will be filed for patients with a signed physician referral/authoriza-tion. An initial assessment is scheduled the week before class to review personal lifestyles and health goals. A foot exam and blood pressure check will be performed during this visit. Watch for an upcoming schedule of classes for 2012 in the Western Kansas World and Ellis Review newspapers. Care partners are encouraged to attend at no additional cost. Group classes are held in the TCLMH Hamilton Conference Room at 320 N. 13th Street, WaKeeney, Kansas.
Class instructors (featured below from left to right) are David Day, PA-C; Libby Ziegler, RN; and Kay Riedel, RD/LD. To schedule your reservation for an initial assessment and group education, contact Libby Ziegler, RN, at (785) 743-2182 x170. |
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What is Hippotherapy? Hthis non-profit foundation. We would like to thank Jared Schreiner and his family for their support. Monica Krenzer, PT; Michelle Brungardt, Pippotherapy is a treatment involving horses to accomplish physical, occupational and/or speech therapy goals. The word “hippotherapy” is derived from the Greek word “hippo” which means horse. A horse’s movement varies by modifying the rhythm, tempo and cadence of the horse’s step. Each horse has something different to offer the client due to its varying size. A particular horse is chosen for a particular client. How does hippotherapy help? Hippotherapy can work to improve a client’s balance, posture, coordination, strength, core control and sensory processing. This in turn improves the client’s way of life and functional abilities. Can this be found in Trego County? Yes. A program has been started with the help of Chuck and Lori Mattke with Hooves of Heaven along with Monica Krenzer and Michelle Brungardt, our local physical therapists from Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital (TCLMH). Jared Schreiner, a local young man battling brain cancer, has participated in the hippotherapy program this past year. Jared’s determination, along with the support of his family has proven the benefits of hippotherapy. The large variety of gentle horses available to Jared has been tremendous. Because of the variety of horses available, Jared has been able to challenge himself greatly to improve strength, coordination, posture, and sensory integration. September was National Rehab Month. We wanted to share this story in recognition of that occassion. We are very lucky to have “Hooves of Heaven” in our county. Chuck and Lori Mattke have generously donated their time and talents to organize T; Kim Cunningham, CPTA; and Christina Weigel have also volunteered to help make this program a success. If you have an interest to participate or volunteer, please contact Hooves of Heaven (www.hoovesofheaven.com) or the Rehab department at TCLMH (785) 743-2293. |
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You and Your Medications When you present to the WaKeeney Family Care Center to see your physician, the receptionist hands you a sheet of paper with a list of your medications. Do you read it? The physicians and nurses at WaKeeney Family Care Center depend on you to be familiar with your medications in order to keep their records current. The nurses at WaKeeney Family Care Center review these medications with you while you are present for your appointment. They ask that you carry this list on your person and present it to any physician you may visit for special needs in between regular checkups. When you present to the Emergency Department, whether planned or a true emergency, we also depend on you to be familiar with your medications. Obviously, there may be times you will present to the Emergency Department and cannot speak. It is vital to your care that a list of all the medications you take is on your person. To make this process easier and safer for you and those caring for you, take the bottles of all medications with you to the Emergency Department. Equally important is to provide a list of allergies, the name of your physician, the name of your pharmacy, and the name and phone number of an emergency contact person, on the same list that features yoclassrur medications. It is important to note that although you may see a physician in WaKeeney, the Emergency Department at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital does not have access to any of your personal information on file in the WaKeeney Family Care Center. Keep this list of medications, the dosage, and the frequency each medication is taken, in your purse or billfold. If you want to be extra helpful, please include all chronic illnesses and pat surgeries. A handy medication log that is small, can be folded, and easily fits into your wallet or purse, can be obtained at four handy locations: WaKeeney and Ellis Family Care Centers, Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, and Trego County Health Department. Please help us help you by being an active, knowledgeable participant in your care. ~Shawna Koehn, RN |
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From left to right: Chuck Mattke, Monica Krenzer, PT, Jared Schreiner, Lori Mattke, and Michelle Brungardt, PT |
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What You Should Know About Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by bacteria. Pertussis is known for uncontrollable, violent coughing, often making it hard to breathe. The “whooping” sound can be heard after someone with pertussis tries to take a deep breath due to coughing fits. Pertussis most commonly affects infants and young children and can be fatal, especially in babies less than one year of age. Adults can be a carrier of pertussis without feeling sick. The best way to protect against pertussis is through immunization. Pertussis is now included in the vaccines that are made to help prevent tetanus and diphtheria (www.cdc.gov). To see if you or a member of your family needs a pertussis shot, please contact your primary care provider. ~Hannah Bebb, RN |
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Exciting Advancements in ITV Education TCLMH has broadened it’s horizons in education! Teaming up with Wesley Medical Center, we have provided free continuing education to healthcare workers through Interactive TV (ITV). ITV allows participants to see the presenter without having to travel. Kicking off the ITV programs, Wesley Medical speakers flew to WaKeeney to present on topics in their area of expertise. Robert Wittler, MD, presented on “Pediatric Upper Respiratory Tract Infections” in June. Next, Pediatric Pharmacist, Chris Durham, PharmD, presented on “Pedatric Phamacolocy: They’re Not Just Little Adults” in August. These programs were seen live at TCLMH and broadcast via ITV to 8 hospitals in Kansas, reaching a total of 18 Physicians/PA’s/Nurse Practitioners, 2 Phamacists, 37 Nurses, 2 EMT’s and 1 student. We are excited to announce the upcoming program entitled “Asthma, Allergies & Atopic Dermatitis” which will be presented by TCLMH’s Pediatrician, Kristie Clark, MD in January. Stay tuned for more details. TCLMH is increasing continuing educational offerings on a wide variety of healthcare topics via ITV. Visit our website at www.tclmh.org for a complete listing of upcoming events. ~Jessica Albers, RN, Education Coordinator |
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Thank you Eva Michaelis |
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TCLMH wishes to thank the family of Eva Michaelis for a memorial with the request that it be put toward the purchase of this sit-to-stand lift. Families considering leaving memorial monies may designate how they would like the memorial used. If you have questions about memorials, please call the Endowment at (785) 743-2182 ext. 272
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Thank You VanAusdales!
The Wellness Committee would like to give a big “THANK YOU” to Ozzie and Lynette VanAusdale for the donation of materials to make a bike rack for the hospital. The bike rack is located in the back of the hospital by the ER entrance. It is available for employees as well as visitors. |
