Monument Health Honors Physicians In Annual Awards Ceremony
Monument Health recognized 10 physicians and providers at the second annual Physicians and Providers Awards Banquet on Thursday, March 30. The event was created to celebrate and honor the hard work and dedication providers have shown their patients and the communities they serve.
Monument Health Heart And Vascular Institute Recognized For Chest Pain Treatment
At first, Allie Frankhauser thought it was indigestion. She and her husband were driving from Rapid City to their home in Chadron, Neb. Somewhere near Hot Springs, she pulled over and asked her husband to drive. By then, her chest pain was unbearable. It felt as if an elephant was sitting on her chest.
Monument Health Heart & Vascular Institute, A New Home for the 'Heart Doctors'
From his corner office in the new Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute at Rapid City Hospital, Interventional cardiologist Drew Purdy, MD, can see a small building connected to the main hospital. It now serves as the Monument Health Infusion Center. But when it was constructed in the early 1990s, it was the first home for Purdy's original practice in the region, then referred to as the Heart Doctors.