Leading the Way; Healthcare Leadership in 2022
As we do each December, we are excited to close out the year with a look back at some of the top stories featured in MED Magazine over the past 12 months.
Therapy Staff at Lifescape Paving the Way for Intensive Therapy
Evidence based practice. It is what guides clinicians in all areas of medicine and therapy. What happens when there is little or inconclusive evidence? Therapy staff at LifeScape are paving the way in our region, developing innovative programs, and contributing to the body of evidence whenever possible.
Lifescape Achieves CQL Person-Center Excellence Accreditation
LifeScape is excited to share that it has achieved Person-Centered Excellence Accreditation from CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership.
RISE Welcomes New Cranial Specialist
RISE Welcomes New Cranial Specialist
RISE Custom Solutions Honored with 2021 Freedom Award
RISE Custom Solutions (a division of LifeScape) is among 44 orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) providers across the nation that were recently honored with the 2021 Freedom Award.
USD and LifeScape Launch SD's First BCBA Program
State's first Behavior Analyst program will serve children and adults throughout the region.
Lifescape Welcomes Corey Camp, Director of RISE Custom Solutions
LifeScape is pleased to welcome Corey Camp as Director of RISE Custom Solutions, its subsidiary providing orthotics, prosthetics, and mobility solutions.
Giving Kids a Helping Hand
Children who suffer a brain injury, infection, tumor, stroke, or other type of head trauma can be left with the lingering effects of one-side paralysis or hemiplegia. Hemiplegia in an arm causes it to be weak, stiff, and lacking in muscle control. Not surprisingly, a child’s natural response is to stop using the affected limb in favor of the stronger, healthy arm.
LifeScape’s New CEO on Meaning, Expansion, and ‘Drinking from a Fire Hydrant’
In September, Steve Watkins, former CEO of Orion Foods, became the new CEO of Sioux Falls-based LifeScape. Since his unanimous approval by the Governing Board, Watkins has jumped into his new role with both feet - an experience her describes as “trying to drink from a fire hydrant.”
Pediatric Dysphagia: More Than Just “Picky”
Food aversions and obsessions, strange mealtime habits and behaviors, delays in developing the mechanics or the skills to self-feed, aspiration of liquids, difficulty swallowing, and flat-out refusal to eat.
Pediatric Dysphagia: More Than Just “Picky”
Food aversions and obsessions, strange mealtime habits and behaviors, delays in developing the mechanics or the skills to self-feed, aspiration of liquids, difficulty swallowing, and flat-out refusal to eat.
Better Together
Both South Dakota Achieve and Children’s Care Hospital and School have long been recognized for their ability to adapt to the changing medical needs of Sioux Falls and surrounding communities. Established in 1952 as a school for polio victims, the program originally known as Crippled Children’s Hospital and School transformed itself over the years to serve a variety of the most pressing medical and educational needs of children.