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As you are (hopefully) aware, our 2024 strategic plan includes seven goals, one of which is tied to Pride Initiative F.3.1. In that initiative (and its accompanying WIG), we aim to improve the variance against our staffing standard as a way to help us remain profitable and thereby contribute toward ensuring the organization’s future. A committee overseeing this important goal has met with every Mh department, working with managers and directors to determine how to meet the initiative. One department in particular has stood out thus far, in accomplishing this vital objective. MedSurg/ICU, under the direction of Angie Hathaway and Stephanie Hart, has made huge strides in trimming staffing hours to meet the standard. For the first time in a year, the department’s staffing levels were actually within their department’s standard. Last year, an external consulting firm was utilized to provide Mh leadership with benchmarking statistics, including direct comparisons of...
Maggie Wilkins was born in Argentina. She later moved to the US, where she was raised in a healthcare-centric environment in the Boise area. As a grade-schooler, she often sat in the local hospital’s nursing station after school, listening to her mother as she translated doctors’ and nurses’ instructions into Spanish. After witnessing firsthand how instrumental healthcare professionals could be in changing lives, Maggie decided to join the medical field herself. She enrolled in the University of Washington School of Medicine’s WWAMI satellite program and is now excited to add some hands-on experience to her classroom learning. “I feel like I’ve learned more (shadowing Dr. Packer) in the past 3 days,” she said, “than I have in the past year of med school. Med school provided a foundation to work from, but being with patients every day is great because I can actually apply what I’ve been taught.” Dr. Packer’s...
In Rexburg this holiday season, try to keep your blood sugar level in control by using recipes which call for less sugar, like these ones. Enjoy! Almond Chocolate Chip CookiesAlmond Chocolate Chip CookiesMakes 18 cookies INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup grass-fed butter 1/3 cup sweetener of choice (xylitol or stevia work well) 2 large eggs 1 tbsp vanilla extract 2 cups blanched almond flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 2/3 cup semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350o F and spray two baking sheets with coconut oil baking spray. Set aside.Using a mixer, beat together butter and sweetener. Add one egg at a time, beating for one minute and scraping the bowl after each addition. Add in vanilla extract and beat until smooth.Add almond flour and baking soda and mix until thoroughly combined. Fold in chocolate chips with a spatula.Use a tablespoon to portion out 18 cookies, dividing them between...
Travis J. Weiszhaar, PA-C has been serving in the military for almost 19 years. Originally, he had joined to help pay off student loans, but after having served in Iraq for 18 months, he had a greater appreciation for military life and stayed in. He also has a special gratitude for the military because his father served for 34 years and his grandfather was in World War II. While Travis appreciates the military during the fourth of July, he thinks about soldiers who have passed that he has known as well as in his family’s history more so on Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. “The 4th of July, for me, is more of an appreciation of being in this country. The quality of life we enjoy and the freedoms we have been given are not to be taken for granted. Rexburg and Eastern Idaho is the greatest place on earth. We have...
MONDAY, June 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Shingles isn’t usually considered a kids’ disease, but children can get this painful condition. Fortunately, the chickenpox vaccine can also protect them against it, a new study finds. “The virus that causes chickenpox also causes shingles. It’s pretty uncommon in kids, but we wanted to see what would happen to the rates of shingles among children over time as more kids received the vaccine,” said study lead author Sheila Weinmann. She’s a senior investigator and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Ore. What the researchers found was that kids who were vaccinated against chickenpox had a 78% lower risk of developing shingles. And the rate of shingles dropped in the entire group — vaccinated and unvaccinated — by 72% between 2003 and 2014. Weinmann said the overall drop was large because so much less of the virus was circulating in the general...
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