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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Hays Medical Center > 2016 > June
Jun30
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HaysMed Purchases NEW Office Building for HaysMed Business Center

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News

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Hays, Kansas (June 30, 2016) – HaysMed recently purchased the former NEW Building on Commerce Parkway from the Heart of American Development Corporation.   The 42,873 square foot building was built in 1996 and was most recently used by Ellis county during the renovations of the courthouse.  The original facility housed the Sykes call center.

The HaysMed Business Center will house several departments of the hospital that have been located in separate locations off  the main campus.  The departments moving to the Commerce Parkway location include:  Accounting, Central Billing Office (CBO), Centralized Outpatient Scheduling (COPS), Patient Accounts, Patient Financial Services, Customer Service Teams and Health Information Management (HIM).  There will be approximately 75 HaysMed Associates relocated to the new space.

“This is a great opportunity for us to combine several areas of the hospital that have historically been located at separate locations.”  said Shae Veach, VP of Regional Development and Marketing.  “It is also a plus for Hays in having a large business facility occupied with a long term entity.”

HaysMed has begun making minor cosmetic changes to the building, cleaning the grounds and erecting new signage.

“We hope to move our first occupants in mid July with the others to follow later in the summer and fall.” noted Veach.  “Purchasing this building affords new opportunities for growth at HaysMed and that in itself will have a positive impact on Hays and the region.”

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Jun27
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HaysMed Chef Competes in National Blended Burger Competition

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News

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HAYS, Kansas (June 27, 2016)—  HaysMed’s Rock Garden Café is participating in the James Beard Blended Burger Project.  John Fitzthum, Executive Chef/Food Service Director at HaysMed has created the Blue Hill Blended Burger to enter into the competition.

The Blended Burger Project encourages chefs to create a healthier, more sustainable, and tastier burger that can be enjoyed by consumers across the country, while also educating diners about the many benefits of The Blend and the future of food.  The competition was designed to create awareness that infusing a burger with a perceived more sustainable product (mushroom) not only can reduce the calories and fat, create unique flavor profiles and create sustainability. Chefs from across the country submit their entries and the public are encouraged to vote.

For the past several years, chefs have faced increasing pressure to serve healthier and more sustainable meals that reduce calories and sodium and still taste delicious. Simultaneously achieving nutrition, sustainability, and flavor is a core value of America’s food system.

Fitzthum’s creation, the Blue Hill Blended Burger, is a blend of Kansas grass-fed beef, mushrooms, garlic, onion and French Roquefort cheese. The burger is served on fresh whole wheat focaccia and topped with lettuce, tomato and cucumber.  The burger has 450 calories and 668 mg of sodium. The burger name ties to a prominent grassland area in Kansas and the French Roquefort cheese is fun play on a reference to Kansas role in saving the French wine industry.

“I am always looking for ways to expand my culinary knowledge and knowledge of the idea of sustainability. Said Fitzthum.  “The Blended Burger Project was a great tie in to our Healthy Kansas Hospitals Award of Excellence that HaysMed just received”

The burgers are featured at https://www.jamesbeard.org/blendedburgerproject/voteand the public can vote now through July 31.  You can place a vote every day by going to the site and typing in HaysMed in the Search Entries box and double clicking on the burger photo.

Fitzthum is offering the opportunity to taste Blue Hill Blended Burger at the Rock Garden Cafe on June 28th ~ 30th and again July 12th ~ 14th, July 19th ~ 21st and July 26th ~ 28th.
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Jun24
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HaysMed receives award for healthy initiatives

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News

Hays Daily News
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Hays Medical Center had 1,000 reasons to celebrate Wednesday afternoon.

The hospital was one of two chosen for the Healthy Kansas Hospitals Centers of Excellence Award, with a $1,000 check presented during a ceremony in the recently renovated dining area.

The Rock Garden Cafe, opened in March, brings healthier food options to patients and hospital staff. Fried foods have been replaced with nutritious items like fresh-made hummus, baklava and grilled salmon. A larger portion of the hospital’s food budget is dedicated to purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables and offering more beverage items such as fruit-infused water as an option to sugary soft drinks.

The hospital joined the Healthy Kansas Hospitals initiative at its inception in 2014 and was one of 27 to follow through on changes, said Melissa Hungerford, CEO of the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, which created the initiative.

Clara Barton Hospital in Great Bend also received the award.

Part of the driving force in the changes was the hiring of John Fitzthum as executive chef, said Dr. John Jeter, HaysMed president and CEO.

“There’s a big topic in the chef world of knowing where your food comes from and what are the ingredients,” Fitzthum said. “In industrial cooking, things come prepared for you, and when things come prepared for you, they’re not as fresh.”

He has agreements to purchase fruits and vegetables with Bethesda Place, a privately owned 45-acre farm west of Hays that houses and employs men with mental disabilities.

“I’ve been in conversation with a Kansas beef supplier, so we are constantly improving our local sourcing,” Fitzthum said.

The chef acknowledged an increase in costs — approximately 12 percent — since he started at the hospital in October 2014, but only part of that is due to the extra labor of chopping fruits and vegetables, roasting meats and baking bread every day. Food prices in general have increased, he said.

Another part of the hospital’s success in the initiative was the cooperation between food services and the hospital’s Center for Health Improvement, Jeter said.

“What a great marriage of the components that make us healthy related to diet, related to exercise, related to other lifestyle factors,” Jeter said.

“I would say we’re way ahead of the curve when it comes to the national movement toward population health.”

The hospital added two indoor walking trails for staff and visitors, conducts 15-minute workouts classes for staff and offers free cooking classes open to the public.

“I think that’s how health care is changing, just combining some departments that you never would have thought would fit together,” said Stephanie Howie, fitness director at the health center.

Jun23
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HaysMed CardioPulmonary Staff Earn Certifications

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News

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HAYS, Kan. (June 23, 2016)  Amy Choitz, RN, BSN, CCRP and Macy Linn, MS, CCRP recently earned certification from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR).

The Certified Cardiac Rehabilitation Professional (CCRP), exclusively for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) professionals, is the only certification aligned with the published CR competencies. The exam required for certification is based on nation-wide standards and assesses proficiency in a variety of areas including, patient

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assessment, nutrition management, weight management, blood pressure management, blood lipid management, diabetes management, tobacco cessation, psychosocial management, physical activity counseling and exercise training.

Choitz is the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Clinical Coordinator at HaysMed and has been at HaysMed for 22 years.  Linn is an Exercise Physiologist and has been with HaysMed for 3 years.

Jun22
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HaysMed Honors Nurses Completing the RN Residency Program

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News

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HAYS, Kansas (June 22, 2016)—  Eighteen registered nurses at HaysMed were honored recently at a recognition ceremony and luncheon.  They completed the year long RN Residency Program offered at HaysMed.

The program began a year ago in July and the nurses spent the first 3 weeks in a classroom setting.  The remainder of training focuses on clinical experience, one on one mentorship with their preceptor, high-fidelity simulations and on the job training. Additionally, nurses receive training from professionals in several departments, such as radiology, pharmacy, cardiac care, OB and others.

The RN Residency class included Jennifer Anderson, RN, Cassandra Armbruster, RN, Calie Borthwick, RN, Eric Bose, RN, Sheylynn Eickhoff, RN,  Whitney Hoban, RN, Leah Houston, RN, Emily LaBarge, RN, Elizabeth McElroy, RN, Christy Moeder, RN, Cole Reichert, RN, Gage Reichert, RN, Desirea Renz, RN, Gwen Sillmon, RN, Hali Sprenkel, RN, Amber Thompson, RN, Christina Thomsen, RN and Annie VonFeldt, RN.

The RN Residency Program at HaysMed is one of only two in the state and has been offered since 2008.  Shari Hertel, RN heads the program and has oversight of all the training.   HaysMed also works closely with critical access hospitals in the region through a rural residency program to provide training to nurses practicing in the rural setting.

“It is a great program.” said Hertel.  “Having one year of focused, on the job evidenced based learning produces nurses who are more confident and competent in their skills which translates into improved patient care.”

Currently there are 11 nurses scheduled in the next program which begins in July.  The program is open to newly graduated RNs.

Jun16
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Healthy Kansas Hospitals Centers of Excellence to Hays Medical Center

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News

Kansas Hospital Association Release
June 15, 2016

An Award Ceremony will be at 3:00 p.m. on June 22 in the Rock Garden Cafe

If you haven’t visited Hays Medical Center in a while, you might be surprised by some of the changes you see—and taste. The newly remodeled hospital dining area, now called the Rock Garden Café, is the face of a much broader set of healthy initiatives HaysMed has championed in recent months. The 207-bed community hospital – one of the largest employers in Hays – has made significant changes to its food and beverage policy to promote healthy choices among staff, patients and guests. Hospital administrators, physicians and associates are taking the message out to the wider community as well.

“For decades our core purpose has been to help people be healthy, and that involves more than taking care of the sick and injured – it also involves taking steps to improve population health,” says John Jeter, MD, Hays Medical Center President and CEO. “For us, the Healthy Kansas Hospitals initiative fell right in line with our core purpose and represents our shared goal for creating healthier Kansas communities.”

That was the driving force behind the hospital’s pledge in 2014 to participate in Healthy Kansas Hospitals, which is a project of the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation. The program’s goal is to help hospitals provide healthier food and beverage options throughout the facility for hospital employees, patients and visitors.

“The whole concept of health care is changing for the better,” says Stephanie Howie, Fitness Director at HaysMed’s Center for Health Improvement, where the prevailing philosophy on fitness can be found in signage that says, ‘Exercise is Medicine.’ “Keeping people out of the hospital has become integral to our mission, and we are doing that by promoting healthy habits and physical activity.”

Within two months of signing the pledge, the hospital formed a Healthy Hospital Committee comprised of diet, fitness, and wellness experts working alongside marketing and associate development personnel. Collectively, the Committee keeps new ideas coming to fruition, maintains momentum for overall sustainability, and works to engage others in both the journey and the goal. John Fitzthum joined the team as Executive Chef/Food Service Director to oversee the hospital’s dietary department. Fitzthum says he recognized something extraordinary about what HaysMed wanted to achieve as a Healthy Kansas Hospital, and he was eager to come on board to help lead the way to better health.

“The health care industry is finally taking a positive turn when it comes to fresh and fun foods,” he says. “More and more provider organizations are coming to the realization that the processed, high sodium and nutritiously insufficient foods we’ve been eating for the last 25 to 30 years have really affected our health—and that eating correctly should be part of a wellness program for the betterment of patients.”

Renovations for Rock Garden Café were completed in March. The updated eating area no longer serves fried foods, which have been replaced with more nutritious menu items like homemade hummus, baklava and grilled salmon. The hospital now dedicates a larger portion of its food budget to fresh fruits and vegetables, and more than two-thirds of all beverages served in the hospital have no added sugars. Very few starchy food options are still available, and café pricing and placement strategies make the few remaining unhealthy options more “out of reach” than before.

Through the Café’s “Ingredient of the Month” program, they are teaching different ways to prepare healthy foods that satisfy even the choosiest of palates. Recipes involving each ingredient of the month also are published in the local newspaper to expand reach beyond the hospital walls.

Aside from offering healthier items, the hospital also has found fun ways to get people up and moving throughout the day. They added two indoor walking trails for associates and visitors, and they host four 15-minute workout classes every week for hospital associates. They also offer free cooking classes, open to the community as well as hospital staff.

“It’s about being a leader in health care, and that means taking care of not only our patients and their families, but also the 1,200 associates that work at the hospital every day,” says Howie, whose team also works to educate associates about the benefits of the improvements made with regard to healthy food options and opportunities for exercise.

Outside the hospital, HaysMed has taken an innovative and integrated approach to environmental health as well, reducing waste and increasing the vitality of the environment, purchasing a new dishwasher to save 350 gallons of water per week, as well as adding a cardboard and aluminum/plastic recycling program. They replaced most of the fescue grass on campus with native grasses and plants that require far less water for upkeep, and the hospital partners with several members of the community—including WorkWell Kansas, the local school district, and others—to create new opportunities to improve public health.

HaysMed has made exceptional strides both inside and outside the hospital. For its outstanding achievements and innovation, HaysMed has been selected by KHERF as one of two 2016 recipients of the Healthy Kansas Hospitals Centers of Excellence Award. The hospital will receive the award and a monetary contribution to support its continued efforts at a special award ceremony on June 22.

“Our designation as a Centers of Excellence for Healthy Kansas Hospitals is a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone involved, particularly our medical fitness center and dietary department leaders who work tirelessly to keep bringing bigger and better ideas to life,” says Jeter. “Together with their teams, they are finding ways to fuse healthy lifestyle changes into our culture and making healthy living pervasive within the whole organization.”

Jun13
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Hays Orthopedic Institute Sponsors Let’s Talk Program on a New Procedure – Direct Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacement

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News,Upcoming Events

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Hays, Kansas (June 13, 2016) – The Hays Orthopedic Institute will sponsor Let’s Talk on Thursday, July 21, 2016  at the HaysMed Center for Health Improvement (CHI) Education Room, 2500 Canterbury Drive, Hays Kansas.  Participants are asked to use Entrance F – South Entrance to CHI.

The program will feature a question and answer discussion with Dr. Sukchan Lee, Orthopedic Surgeon and Amy E. Glover, Physician Assistant, both from the Hays Orthopedic Institute.  Topic for the discussion is “Direct Anterior Approach to Total Hip Replacement Demystified – Evolution or Revolution, Gimmick or Substance?”  HaysMed is now offering this new procedure designed to reduce the recovery time and shorten the hospital stay after hip replacement.

The program begins at 6:00 pm with registration and healthy snacks followed by the discussion from 6:15 pm – 7:00 pm.  The program is designed for those who have orthopedic needs and the people who care about them.

Registration is FREE but limited.  Please RSVP to www.haysmed.com/education

Or call 623-5500 by July 18.

Jun13
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HaysMed Hosts FREE Educational Program on Asthma and Allergies

By Alan Wamser - HaysMed News,Upcoming Events

HAYS, Kansas (June 13, 2016)—  HaysMed Pulmonology Associates is sponsoring a free educational class on Asthma and Allergies on Tuesday, July 12 at the HaysMed Center for Health Improvement Education Room, 2500 Canterbury Drive, Hays, Kansas.  Participants are asked to use the South Entrance and park in Parking Lot F.  The program will feature a presentation and roundtable discussion by Roman Reznik, MD, Pulmonologist, Lesa Klozenbucher, APRN and Chris Fisher, RN, RRT.

This program is designed for those who have questions about allergies and asthma including treatments and medication.

The program begins at 5:30 pm with healthy snacks followed by the discussion from 6:00 to
7:00 pm.

Please RSVP by July 8 to www.haysmed.com/education  or call 785-261-7452.  Registration is required.

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