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Traveling down the Amazon River, reaching out to help people in jungle areas, was how Joe Lamb, MD, family physician at ThedaCare Physicians-New London spent his time in Peru on a recent mission trip with Christ the Rock Community Church in Menasha.
ThedaCare welcomes Sarah Newburg, PA-C, a certified physician assistant who will serve as a hospitalist at Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah.
Billie Sturgeon, NP, is now on the medical staff of Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center as a nurse practitioner specializing in neurosurgery. She is a member of the staff at Neuroscience Group.
Area students will learn about good nutrition and physical activity through ThedaCare’s new Good to Go initiative. From April 27 to May 1, ThedaCare employees will volunteer at six Northeast Wisconsin schools offering a variety of activities that promote healthy habits in students. Berlin schools will participate the following week, May 4 to May 8.
March 30, 2015 marks National Doctors’ Day and is a great opportunity to thank your own doctors for their service. Each of us, either personally or via family members, has been profoundly touched by a doctor’s compassionate care. Each doctor is committed to keeping us healthy or restoring us to health when sick, so it makes sense to take a few moments each year to acknowledge all they do to improve our lives.
Dave Massonette said God was watching out for him and the crew of ThedaStar last November after a duodenal ulcer eroded a nearby artery, causing a life-threatening internal hemorrhage.
Wild Rose Community Memorial Hospital and ThedaCare have long collaborated to improve the health of the communities we serve.
ThedaCare welcomes Mary A. Connelly, MD, a physician specializing in integrative medicine for oncology, to practice at Appleton Medical Center.
Jenny Goss, CNM, APNP, is now on the medical staff of Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center as a certified nurse midwife. She is a member of the staff at Women’s Care of Wisconsin.
ThedaCare recently acquired the newest robotic system – the da Vinci Xi Surgical System – and patients are already enjoying the benefits of the new technology. In 2007, Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah was the first to offer da Vinci technology in the Fox Cities and ThedaCare continues to be at the technological forefront by being the first healthcare system outside of Milwaukee and Madison to offer the latest da Vinci robotics.
ThedaCare announced plans for a newly constructed clinic in Neenah to replace its two family practice locations on S. Commercial Street and Tullar Road in Neenah and the endocrine and internal medicine clinics currently located in the office buildings at Theda Clark Medical Center. The newly consolidated clinic’s future location is not yet confirmed, although officials said they are focused on property that is easily accessible from Hwy. 41. Construction is slated to begin this spring and should take 10 to 12 months.
Endings often times remind us of our beginnings. Sometimes we never know the value of our minutes until they become our memories. On November 20, many current and former ThedaStar crew members, gathered to attend the funeral of George Miller (one of the first pilots), who died on November 15, 2014, from debilitating pulmonary fibrosis secondary to Agent Orange exposure in the Vietnam War.
Einstein’s classic definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result – often applies to health care. No matter how hard we work, and how many changes any given provider system like ThedaCare effects in our safety, quality, transparency, cost, outcomes and more, health care remains driven by a fee-for-service model that encourages payers to reward services, procedures and tests generated by providers, instead of the value providers deliver.
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