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St. Paul Heart Clinic Cardiologists Seeing Patients at Somerset Clinic
To better serve the residents from surrounding western Wisconsin communities, Stillwater Medical Group and St. Paul Heart Clinic announce that cardiology services are now available at the Stillwater Medical Group Somerset Clinic in Somerset, Wisconsin.
"We know that patients value convenience, and the Somerset Clinic provides just such a location," said David Rothschiller, Executive Director of St. Paul Heart Clinic. "Our physicians want to provide high quality, easily accessible cardiovascular care to the residents of western Wisconsin."
St. Paul Heart clinic cardiologists Steven Benton, M.D., Charles Cliffe, M.D., Michael Garr, M.D. and Victor Tschida, M.D. are seeing patients at the Somerset Clinic. Cardiology services include new patient consultations, diagnostic testing and follow-up care. More advanced testing can be performed at the Lakeview Heart Center, located at Lakeview Hospital (Stillwater, MN). Patients requiring more complex care such as angioplasty and cardiovascular stent placement will be referred to the Nasseff Heart Center at United Hospital (St. Paul, MN).
Patients can schedule an appointment with a cardiologist at the Somerset Clinic by calling (651) 726-7000 or toll-free (800) 292-0616.
Stillwater Medical Group Somerset Clinic, located at 700 Rivard Street, also provides specialty services in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Podiatry and Urology.
Since 1976 St. Paul Heart Clinic has served patients and referring physicians from throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Today, St. Paul Heart Clinic is one of the largest, most active cardiovascular centers in the Midwest. Their 35 cardiologists provide specialized care in virtually all aspects of cardiology. St. Paul Heart Clinic consistently has the largest number of "Top Doctors" for cardiology as reported by Mpls/St. Paul magazine in their annual survey of physicians and nurses. St. Paul Heart Clinic's and United Hospital's Level One Program for the treatment of acute heart attack is the model for other hospitals in the region and rated in the top 10% nationally for performance. St. Paul Heart Clinic also sees patients in Stillwater, Hudson, Baldwin and River Falls. For more information about the comprehensive services of St. Paul Heart clinic, please visit www.stphc.com.
Stillwater Medical Group is a multi-specialty clinic with more than 80 healthcare providers. Its mission is to bring the best healthcare to neighbors in the St. Croix Valley, western Wisconsin and beyond. More information can be found at www.stillwatermedicalgroup.com.
Lakeview Health Achieves Historic $20 Million Capital Campaign Goal
Lakeview Health – the non-profit parent organization of Lakeview Hospital and Stillwater Medical Group – announced that it has reached its historic $20 million capital campaign goal.
To date, through the generosity of over 600 donors, Lakeview Health’s successful $20 million Best Medicine capital campaign strengthens the creation of a regional health care system with enhanced community health care services.
“A substantial financial investment in facilities, technology, programs and people is required to carry Lakeview’s legacy of providing independent, community-owned, cost-effective health care into the future,” said Orv Johnson, Campaign Chairman. He credited the efforts of his volunteer Campaign Cabinet, honorary chairs, volunteers and the support of board members, staff, physicians and donors for the $20 million the campaign has generated. “Fortunately, generous members of the community share our commitment to ensuring that St. Croix Valley residents will benefit from high-quality patient care, education programs in a community-owned health care system for years to come.”
“The Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation, Andersen Corporate Foundation, Hardenbergh Foundation, HRK Foundation, The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation, Hugh J. Andersen Foundation, Margaret Rivers Fund, Tozer Foundation and several generous special friends in the community all made leadership contributions to the campaign,” Johnson reported. In particular, Lakeview Foundation received numerous new and increased contributions thanks to the extraordinary $5 million matching grant from the Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation, the largest grant made to the Best Medicine campaign.
"In November, we received the capstone gift of an additional matching grant from the Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the Saint Paul Foundation, which gave us the necessary momentum to take us over goal," said Johnson. "This grant inspired many individuals and families in our community to make generous year-end contributions to the campaign and help us achieve the dollar-for-dollar match.”
Over a three-year period Lakeview crafted a master plan for a multidisciplinary, seamless continuum of care that would be coordinated, cost-efficient and responsive to the needs of both the patient and the larger community. The plan is a result of collaborative work between Lakeview Health-affiliated physicians, nurses, management, board members, architects, medical planners and community members.
According to Jeff Robertson, CEO of Lakeview Health, Lakeview’s $65 million redevelopment plan will now be a reality thanks to the generous support of donors. “We are adding physicians and specialties to serve a growing and aging population; instituting the latest technological advancements; enhancing our ability to provide comprehensive outpatient services; increasing capacity for providing emergency medicine; and facilitating continued recruitment of the best and brightest staff,” Robertson said. “In short, we are making our community an even better place to live and offering an enhanced quality of life to each and every citizen.”
“When our facility replacement and enhancement projects are complete, an exceptionally designed healthcare system will result,” Robertson said. “Our facilities and staff will continue to be dedicated to both medical excellence and the human touch. We will also be able to provide greater ease of access, convenient and appropriate locations for medical services, healing environments throughout the system, and an even stronger commitment to personalized service with the integration of technology. Initiatives included in the redevelopment plan and made possible by the Best Medicine campaign include:
· Building a new 90,000 square-foot Stillwater Medical Group clinic at Curve Crest and renovating and expanded a specialty service clinic to include urology, dermatology, gastroenterology, neurology and sports medicine.
· Creation of the Lakeview Heart Center, in partnership with St. Paul Heart, providing excellent cardiovascular care delivered in one convenient location.
· Establishment of a 17,500 square-foot Women’s Center with a full range of services, from preventative care exams to in-office procedures including pregnancy care, osteoporosis screenings, breast health and infertility care, designed to meet the needs of women through all stages of life.
· Expansion of the emergency department, including doubling the number of patient treatment areas.
· Creation of an Oncology Center with facilities and staff dedicated to the diagnosis, care and treatment of cancer.
· Integration of latest technology into all facets of the healthcare system to provide for significant patient care benefits, including improved diagnoses and screenings.
· Increased funding for land acquisition, so property can be purchased as the need for future health system expansion is identified.
A formal celebration-open house and report to the community is scheduled for later this spring.
Lakeview Health is an integrated, non-profit clinic and hospital system serving the eastern Twin Cities’ metro area and western Wisconsin. The system includes an acute care hospital (Lakeview Hospital), a multi-specialty physician/provider group (Stillwater Medical Group), and a foundation (Lakeview Foundation), which raises funds to support the health system mission. More than 300,000 residents in the core service area across Minnesota and Wisconsin have access to this continuum of services—from the prevention of illness and injury to the care of patients with complex medical conditions.
For more information about the Best Medicine campaign, contact Paul Erickson, Vice President for Development at Lakeview Foundation, at 651-430-4556 or email: perickson@lakeview.org.
Best Medicine Cabinet Members:
Orv Johnson, Chair
Dr. Bruce Bartie
Arba Della Beck
Dr. Kevin Bjork
Jim Bradshaw
Anne Brookman
Dick Olsen
Ron Phillippo
Dr. Paul Quinn
Peg Quinn
Jeff Robertson
Dr. David Wettergren
The Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the St. Paul Foundation Provides Strong Incentive for Best Medicine Campaign
With Lakeview Health’s historic $20 million Best Medicine capital campaign nearing its end, the Lakeview Foundation is pleased to announce a challenge gift. From now until the completion of the campaign, The Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the St. Paul Foundation, a longtime supporter of Lakeview’s mission, will match every contribution made to Best Medicine dollar-for-dollar up to $125,000. All new gifts to the campaign will have twice the impact.
“The unique and valuable service of Lakeview Health is being raised to a new level with the Best Medicine campaign, and we are asking everyone who values Lakeview Hospital and Stillwater Medical Group to do what they can to positively impact the healthcare delivery that is available in our community, now and into the future,” stated Orv Johnson, chair of the Best Medicine capital campaign. “Lakeview Health continues to be an independent hospital and clinic system governed by a board comprised of members from our community.”
“Your contribution will help bring the newest technologies, more specialists and enhanced facilities – any of which may help one of your friends, family members, or even yourself. Your gift is an investment toward a healthier community,” continued Johnson.
To date, $19.6 million has been raised towards the campaign goal of $20 million. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Best Medicine campaign, please call the Lakeview Foundation at (651) 430-4556 or visit www.supportlakeview.org.
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WomenHeart Support Network
This is a Cardiac Support Group for women of all ages with heart disease. We meet on the second Monday of each month, 6:15-7:30 p.m. at Stillwater Public Library, 224 Third St. N. in Stillwater. Call 651-773-5471 for more information.
Local man benefits from partnership between Lakeview Hospital, St. Paul Heart Clinic and United Hospital
 WEST LAKELAND TOWNSHIP, Minn. -- On Dec. 17, Roger felt what he thought was indigestion. The chest pains continued as he rested at his West Lakeland Township home, where his family has lived since 1962.
Roger’s son, Mike Quast, urged his 77-year-old father to let him drive him to Lakeview Hospital. But even before leaving the driveway, Roger collapsed in the car and experienced a heart attack. Mike immediately called 911 from his cell phone but hung up to take his father out of the car and lay him on the ground. The cell phone rang with a 911 operator giving step-by-step CPR instructions to Mike.
“I got as far as ripping his shirt open and two breaths” when Washington County deputies and Bayport Fire and Rescue pulled into the driveway, Mike said. Lakeview EMS came within minutes and shocked Roger’s heart with a defibrillator. “If it wasn’t for 911, he would have been dead,” Mike said. “We thought he was already gone.”
Time is the principal factor when a heart attack hits. Brain damage and death start to occur in just four to six minutes after someone experiences a heart attack. According to the American Heart Association, it’s estimated that more than 95 percent of cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital.
“Once the hospital had him, they knew what to do, thank God,” Mike said. “There’s nothing that you can say that really says it all, I could not believe they were that fast.”
Patients like Roger who experience heart attacks are fortunate to have the Lakeview Heart Center nearby. Heart specialists from Lakeview Hospital, St. Paul Heart Clinic and United Hospital partnered to offer the best in cardiac care at the Stillwater facility, as well as providing emergency cardiac treatments at United Hospital.
In the Lakeview Hospital Emergency Room doctors quickly recognized that Roger had a life-threatening cardiac emergency. The Lakeview EMS team immediately transported Roger to the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at United Hospital.
In 2006, 21 heart attack patients from Lakeview were transferred to United for heart treatments, said Jon Muller, Lakeview Hospital EMS director. “It’s a great process that’s in place. It’s really a successful relationship,” he said.
At United, St. Paul Heart Clinic cardiologists opened an artery to return blood to Roger’s heart. The Cath Lab includes 10 interventional cardiologists from St. Paul Heart Clinic who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, said Director Dr. Kenneth Baran of St. Paul Heart Clinic.
Dr. James Flink of St. Paul Lung Clinic and his critical care team followed by administering a cutting-edge treatment that induces mild hypothermia and halts damage to the heart. This hypothermia protocol cooled Roger’s body to 91 degrees — normal body temperature is about 98.6 degrees. Roger’s unresponsive body sat for days throughout the process. Researchers have found that the cooling process has a protective effect that decreases brain damage caused by cardiac arrest. Only about 15 percent of hospitals in the United States are using this new type of hypothermia protocol.
Despite the busy holiday season at his West St. Paul butcher shop, Mike Quast spent each morning at his father’s hospital bed. “It was very tough to look at him,” he said. After a few days Roger regained consciousness, relieving family members and his medical providers of any question that he had lost brain activity.
“Roger was fortunate to have every link in the chain work well,” said Dr. Uma Valeti, a St. Paul Heart Clinic interventional cardiologist who cared for Roger. “The community should recognize that these are resources that they can use readily.”
Valeti called Lakeview Hospital shortly after Roger came to United for treatment. He said he had to say “thanks.” Dr. Matthew Sedgley, a Stillwater Medical Group family medicine physician who worked in the Lakeview Hospital ER on Dec. 17, received the call.
“It was very nice to get the doctor’s call complimenting the whole process,” Sedgley said. “It truly was a great teamwork effort.”
Roger left United Hospital on Dec. 26 with full brain activity, enough to spar jokes with his son about saving his life. “Roger would never have lived if it weren’t for his son,” Valeti said.
Roger plans to continue his cardiac rehab at Lakeview Hospital and attend follow-up cardiac appointments at Lakeview Heart Center. “The heart care available in Stillwater that Roger and many others receive wouldn’t be possible without the partnership of these top-quality healthcare facilities,” Lakeview Hospital CEO Curt Geissler said.
Roger’s story is a testament to the unique and life-saving partnership between Lakeview Hospital, St. Paul Heart Clinic and United Hospital, Valeti agreed. “In the true sense of it all, it’s a great collaborative effort — right from the family to the doctor and the rest of the whole healthcare team,” he said.
For more information on Lakeview Heart Center and the partnership between Lakeview Hospital, St. Paul Heart Clinic and United Hospital, visit www.lakeviewheart.org.
Story and photo by Micki Adams
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