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How (and Why) to Pitch a News Story to the Media or Your PR Department

Jan 02, 2020 ● By MED Magazine

Sharing your health news with the media – What’s in it for you?

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Aging “Escape Room” Designed to Grow Awareness and Empathy

Jan 02, 2020 ● By MED Magazine

These challenges inspired Carole South-Winter, EdD, assistant professor of Health Services Administration (HSAD) at the USD Beacom School of Business, to find a creative solution to help healthcare organizations better prepare their workforce to care for their current and future patients.

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Rebrand Reflects Monumental Changes at Regional Health

Jan 02, 2020

This month, Rapid City-based Regional Health will officially become Monument Health.

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Yankton Respiratory Therapist Battling eCigarette Use with Education

Jan 02, 2020

Vaping is generally thought to be safer than smoking traditional cigarettes, but it is not without risk. As of November 2019, the CDC confirmed 47 deaths in patients with e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury.

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Sioux Falls Heart Surgeon First in the Nation to Use Newly-Approved Occlusion Device

Jan 02, 2020

Michael Bacharach, MD, a vascular medicine specialist with Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, recently became the first doctor in the country to use a new minimally invasive device for large atrial septal defects commercially.

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Reverse Shoulder Replacement Now Offered in Spearfish

Jan 02, 2020 ● By MED Magazine

People in the Spearfish, South Dakota area with shoulder problems now have a new option for relief thanks to orthopedic surgeon Ray Jensen, DO

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Considerations for Law Enforcement Interactions

Jan 02, 2020

Health care providers may experience interactions with law enforcement personnel that create uncertainty around their responsibilities to patients, including the duty to protect patients’ privacy.

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“I Want a Whole-Body MRI” When Patients Demand Unnecessary Tests

Nov 26, 2019 ● By MED Magazine

This case illustrates several of the issues that may arise when patients demand unnecessary tests.

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Seeing Red

Nov 26, 2019 ● By MED Magazine

Dozens of Sioux Falls-area businesses leaders donned their red and gathered to celebrate the fundraising kick-off for the 2020 Go Red for Women event on Friday, October 25 at Sanford USD Medical Center.

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