If you’ve been tuned into ThedaCare even a little bit, you know we’re focused on making health care better. Finding ways to improve has been in our DNA for more than 100 years. From cancer care to new imaging technology to open heart surgeries to neonatal intensive care and more, we’ve expanded services and tried new ideas.
Running or walking a Community First Fox Cities Marathon event can be hard on the body. ThedaCare Orthopedic Care staff members will offer free pre-race and post-race clinics to evaluate any aches and pains participants may have.
ThedaCare welcomes Shannon Schmidt, MD, a physician specializing in hematology and oncology who will practice at ThedaCare Regional Cancer Center in Appleton.
ThedaCare welcomes Kevin O’Donnell, MD, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine. He will practice with ThedaCare Orthopedic Care at multiple locations.
“Kids are more likely to break things than sprain things,” says Dr. Douglas Connor of ThedaCare Orthopedic Care. “Kids are not just little adults. What might cause an ankle sprain in an adult is much more likely to cause a fracture in a child.”
The Berlin School District and ThedaCare have received national recognition for the care provided to student athletes.
A huge congratulations to Heather Epley, lead RN at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah’s birth center, who recently received a 2016 Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing Practice.
Anna Horejs’ life changed forever last Nov. 15 on U.S. 10 in Waupaca County. Horejs, then a senior at Wauwatosa East High School, was driving her family’s van back after a visit at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she planned to attend college and study computer science and business this coming fall. Her vehicle, however, was hit head-on at highway speed by a driver going the wrong way on U.S. 10, leaving her with multiple serious injuries.
Dr. Kevin O’Donnell grew up in southern New Jersey in the Pine Barrens region, a heavily forested area of coastal plain that remarkably resembles northeastern Wisconsin in climate and foliage. “It’s not the New Jersey most people hear about. I grew up in a farming area and played baseball and soccer as a kid and football in high school.”
Amy Zafarani, DO, is now on the medical staff of ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton and ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah as an obstetrician and gynecologist. She is a member of the staff at Women’s Care of Wisconsin.
The Trauma Center at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah has been reverified as a Level II trauma center for the seventh time, marking 26 years as the first and longest continuously verified Level II trauma center north of Milwaukee and Madison.
ThedaCare welcomes Rebecca Fabisch, APNP, a nurse practitioner who will practice at ThedaCare Physicians-Infectious Disease, at Encircle Health in Appleton.
Let’s say Johnny sprains his ankle in football practice. If Johnny’s parents give Anna Linstedt, licensed athletic trainer with ThedaCare at Menasha High School, permission to evaluate and rehabilitate him right at school, he will likely save both money and time away from his sport.
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