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Once again, this year, the personal finance website WalletHub has ranked Sioux Falls as one of top 15 happiest cities in the country.
Stomach aches, respiratory infections, lacerations, and fractures may be all in a day's work for a busy emergency department like Sanford Health's. But when the patient is a child, even a routine case may turn out to be anything but.
Like many students who earn their undergraduate degrees at USD, Alec Baker chose to stay for his graduate studies.
Allegations of medication prescribing errors remain a leading cause of medical liability lawsuits in all patients and are particularly common in the elderly population.
This year, Make-A-Wish South Dakota & Montana is celebrating 40 years of granting life-changing wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses in our region.
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) welcomes Lindsay Stroman to the team as the Workforce Development Coordinator.
As the use of AI in healthcare ramps up, there is an ongoing necessity for healthcare systems to regularly assess the impact and risks of AI as its development and deployment is outpacing legal, medical, or business changes.
This past fall, James "Jim" Dover became the third President and CEO of Avera Health. What drew the California native to Avera? What impressions does he have after his first few months? And what are his hopes for Avera Health in the years ahead?
Dana Mach was just 9 years old when she discovered her love of taking care of other people. She’s the subject of this month’s USD School of Health Sciences Success Spotlight.
Oliver “Jack” Duck, Sr. has been in good health his entire life, but when he was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart failure, all hope seemed to be lost. Thankfully for Jack, the was able to intervene, restore his hope, and walk alongside him on the road to recovery.
Equipped with compassion, Sanford Community Health Workers (CHWs) assist patients in getting access to basic needs and essential support….
Each year, the Emergency Care Research Institute issues its Top 10 Health Patient Safety Concerns. Their most recent report identifies the top ten concerns to be aware of now.
When Diana Feldhacker enrolled in the Occupational Therapy program at Creighton University, she had no inkling that she would eventually be developing an OT doctoral curriculum herself and even directing the new program.
For a city with fewer than 25,000 people in one of the nation's most rural states, Watertown, South Dakota has long enjoyed an exceptionally high level of healthcare. For more than 80 years, Brown Clinic has been a big part of that…
The Helmsley Charitable Trust has granted nearly $16 million to help the American Heart Association (AHA) create the AHA Center for Telehealth, establishing a consortium of gold-standard telehealth education and resources.
Health care organizations with plans to renovate or expand existing facilities face the challenge of maintaining a sterile environment in a construction zone.
As health systems increasingly utilize more and more data, the demand for leaders with research backgrounds also surges. The University of South Dakota's Ph.D. in health sciences program is designed exactly for this…
For our end-of-the-year issues, we invited CEOs of some of the region's leading hospitals and health systems, both small and large, to share some of the things they are looking forward to at their respective organizations in 2024.
Sanford Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, delivers comprehensive and compassionate musculoskeletal care with a team approach.
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications is the most important new information technology in decades that will change healthcare. This creates an ongoing necessity for healthcare systems to regularly assess the impact and risks of AI as its development and deployment is outpacing legal, medical, or business changes.
For 16 years, Keeley Pollman has worked daily with advanced practice providers, physicians, nurses and therapists as a Physician Assistant at Surgical Institute of South Dakota. She says the physician assistant program at the USD School of Health Sciences was excellent preparation for the collaborative work she does now.
Autumn is an especially busy season for healthcare meetings and conferences around the region. Like many of you, we here at MED are grateful for the chance to interact face-to-face with other people again. And it made us wonder how - or if - the experience of organizing and hosting these kinds of events has changed in recent years.
Jennifer Bailey's path to public health has been an unusual one. A native of Vermillion, Bailey studied biology as an undergraduate at USD. For more than two decades, she has been a fish biologist at the La Crosse Fish Health Center, a US Fish and Wildlife facility in Onalaska, Wisconsin
"You're a survivor from the moment you're diagnosed." It's a mantra that is repeated over and over again among cancer care providers at Sanford. The Sanford Survivorship Program, under the direction of Stelby Terstriep, MD, puts it into action.
Ten undergraduate students from four Nebraska colleges and universities recently received the 2023 Richard Holland Future Scientist Award from Nebraska Cures.
It's a big leap from the small town of Castlewood, South Dakota to San Francisco, California, but Dustin Little, DPT, has had no trouble making it.
THe personal finance site WalletHub has named South Dakota the 9th best state for healthcare.
Sanford Children’s Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Sioux Falls recently secured extended funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for Neonatal Research Network (NRN) clinical trials through 2030.
Since its establishment as a non-profit corporation in 1973, CFM has been home to the Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency program (SFFMP) a program jointly and equally sponsored by Avera and Sanford It has trained more than 425 physicians, including nearly 40 percent of all board-certified family physicians in South Dakota.
As of April 5, 2021, all healthcare providers are required to comply with the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule. To assist in your compliance with this complex regulation, here are five practices to avoid.
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