Magnolia Hospital Development Foundation, Welcomes New Foundation Director, Evie Storey Boyd
Magnolia Regional Health Center Development Foundation’s Board of Directors is proud to announce that Evie Storey Boyd has been named the Foundation Director.
Boyd holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi State University. Evie Storey Boyd will be leaving her current position as Director of Communications/Assistant Director of Finance and Administration with the CREATE Foundation.
Care+ Welcomes Dr. Todd Perkins
Crossgates River Oaks Hospital (formerly Rankin Medical Center) and Care+ Family Medical Clinic are pleased to announce Dr. Todd Perkins, has joined the staff of the medical center and will be joining Dr. Cynthia Allen, and Dr. Brad Madden, and Sara Murray, C.F.N.P., in practice at Care+ Family Medical Clinic at 4290 Lakeland Drive. Dr. Perkins recently completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Perkins received a bachelors degree in finance from the University of Mississippi and a masters degree in Theology from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. He has also worked as a youth minister at Faith Presbyterian Church in Brookhaven, MS and as a junior high school teacher at Brookhaven Academy.
Dr. Perkins is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association, Christian Medical and Dental Association and Mississippi State Medical Association
Summerlin Joins Medical Staff
The Board of Trustees of Singing River Hospital System has announced the addition of a new physician to the Medical Staff at Singing River Hospital.
Dr. Holly Summerlin, OB/GYN, received her medical degree from the University of Mississippi in Jackson, MS. She also performed a residency at The University of Mississippi in Jackson. Dr. Summerlin is board eligible in Obstetrics/Gynecology, and will practice at Gulf Coast OB/GYN in Pascagoula.
Jaime L. Molina, M.D., Pulmonologist, Joins DRMC Staff
Delta Regional Medical Center announces the addition of Dr. Jaime L. Molina, Pulmonologist to its medical staff. Dr. Molina is Board Certified in Critical Care and Internal Medicine. He completed his Pulmonary Disease Fellowship at Yale University.
Dr. Molina began his medical training at the Iberoamericana Medical School in the Dominican Republic. He went on to serve a Rural Medicine Internship there, at the H. Alonzo Rural Clinic. He then lived for 3 years in Birmingham Alabama, where he completed his Internal Medicine Fellowship at Carraway Methodist Medical Center. At the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of University of Dental and Medical Health of New Jersey, Dr. Molina completed his Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and served as Chief Fellow under Dr. Phillip Dellinger at UMDNJ, who is recognized as one of the world’s top Critical Care physicians. Dr. Molina was then accepted into the Yale University Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Disease.
Biloxi Regional Medical Center Nurses Have Key to Eliminating Medication Errors in The Palm of Their Hand
Nurses at Biloxi Regional Medical Center are among the first in the nation to begin using the most innovative technology available to safeguard their patients from medication errors.
The medical center has invested in the SafeScan System, handheld interactive devices which link wirelessly to the hospital’s pharmacy, to ensure and document the right medications are given to the right patient, in the right dose, at the right time and in the right manner.
Forrest General Announces New Chief Medical Officer
HATTIESBURG — Forrest General is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Dr. Steven Farrell, as the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr. Farrell also serves as Director of the Hospitalist Services program at Forrest General.
This position will assist in facilitating communications between hospital administration and physicians. Dr. Farrell will be assisted by a CMO Council, made up of four physicians ranging in medical specialty and expertise. The physicians who have agreed to serve on the council are Dr. Joe Campbell, an anesthesiologist with Hattiesburg Clinic; Dr. John Nelson, an emergency medicine physician with South Mississippi Emergency Physicians, P.A.; Dr. Steve Stogner a pulmonologist with Hattiesburg Clinic, and Dr. Mike Stonnington, an orthopedic surgeon with Southern Bone & Joint Specialists, P.A.
Dr. Farrell, who is employed by Hattiesburg Clinic, previously served as President of Forrest General’s Medical Staff. He attended medical school at the University of Texas in Houston and completed his internship in categorical medicine and his residency in medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
New Screening Program To Begin In KDMC Emergency Department; To Streamline Patient Care And Customer Service
On any given 24-hour day in King’s Daughters Medical Center’s Emergency Department, up to 80 people seek medical attention. Sometimes it’s a matter of life and death. Often it is a matter of illness or injury. Sometimes it’s neither.
Out of the 22,000 people seeking care in the KDMC Emergency Department in the coming year, about one in every five patients does not have a serious medical condition and could receive more appropriate medical care in another setting.
In order to keep the emergency department as a resource for highly specialized, emergency medicine, the minor ailments and chronic problems that are not life threatening should be treated elsewhere.
Beginning Tuesday, July 15 at the KDMC Emergency Department, specially trained licensed nurse practitioners and physicians will perform medical assessments of the patients who do not appear to have a serious medical problem. If the assessment determines that there is no emergency medical condition or high risk factor, and the patient is not experiencing an urgent need, the staff will offer these patients the following options:
- Information on more appropriate options for care, such as the King’s Daughters Quick Care Medical Clinic
- If the patient chooses to be treated in the Emergency Department, they will be required to provide a $200 deposit or the applicable insurance deductible/co-pay.
This new procedure will not change the medical triage that takes place whenever a person arrives at the emergency department. Patients with serious medical conditions will continue to receive immediate care.
Hospital emergency departments across the country are adopting similar screening procedures in an effort to cope with increasing numbers of visits related to non-urgent conditions – to provide timely and appropriate care to the most sick or injured in the community.
Southern Miss School of Nursing Receives $50,000 From Biloxi Regional Medical Center
BILOXI — The University of Southern Mississippi School of Nursing recently received a $50,000 donation from Biloxi Regional Medical Center . BRMC chairman of the board, Rob Briscoe, fourth from left, presented the check to Southern Miss representatives, from left, Dr. David Wolf, vice president for advancement; Dr. Faye Mitchell, chair and assistant professor for the School of Nursing on the Gulf Coast; Dr. Katherine Nugent, associate dean for the College of Health; Dr. Michael Forster, interim dean for the College of Health and professor of social work; Rachel Lowrey, Southern Miss College of Health development officer; and Dr. Pat Joachim, associate provost for Southern Miss Gulf Coast.
New Open Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Alleviates Anxiety & Discomfort For Patients Of All Ages & Body Types, Provides High Quality Diagnostic Tool For Physicians
When Jackson’s Radiological Group, in conjunction with Baptist Health Systems, opened their Madison Campus facility last year, they introduced highly sophisticated, state-of-the-art imaging technology to the area - the Hitachi Altaire Open Magnetic Resonance Imaging System (MRI). One of the most powerful Open MRI systems available in the entire region, the Altaire Open MRI system provides highly accurate digital imaging, quick turn-around time, and unparalleled comfort for the patient during the exam.
The new Altaire Open MRI provides comfort for the patient and improved diagnostic accuracy for the referring physician. Radiologist Dr. Jason R. Hosey and his partners brought the Altaire Open MRI to Madison because of the benefits: the new Altaire system is much more powerful than older Open MRI units; and, much less stressful for patients during scanning when compared to typical “closed” MRI units.
Wesley Medical Center Home Health Recognized By Mississippi IQH
HATTIESBURG — Wesley Medical Center Home Health has been recognized with an Outstanding Quality Award presented by Information & Quality Healthcare (IQH), the state’s quality improvement organization for Medicare.
In presenting the award, IQH President Dr. James S. McIlwain pointed out that the Wesley staff was honored for its commitment to quality reflected by documented improvement in two areas, increasing patients’ ambulation/locomotion and decreasing acute care hospitalization.
Open House Planned For Specialized Wound Healing Center
King’s Daughters Medical Center will open its doors to a new, specialized Wound Healing Center with an Open House and guided tours in early August.
The center, which has been under construction for several months, will treat chronic wounds with state-of-the-art oxygen therapy.
Likely candidates for treatment are those suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections, compromised skin grafts and flaps, and wounds that haven’t healed within 30 days. The center’s two hyperbaric oxygen chambers can also be used to treat patients suffering from such uncommon ailments as cyanide poisoning, gangrene, carbon monoxide poisoning, brown recluse spider bites and the “bends,” or decompression sickness.
One of the highly specialized treatments offered at the center is hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which works by surrounding the patient with 100 percent oxygen at higher than normal atmospheric pressure. This increases the amount of oxygen in the patient’s blood and, in the case of wounds, allows red blood cells to pass more easily through the plasma into the wound to heal it from the inside out. Diabetic foot wounds are an excellent example of wounds that may benefit most from this type of treatment.
In addition to tissue oxygenation, KDMC’s Wound Healing Center also employs the use of vascular studies, tissue culturing and pathology, revascularization, skin grafting, and clinical or surgical debridement.
KDMC physicians already practicing in the community will be treating patients in the center. Those physicians include orthopedic surgeon Dr. Thomas Jeffcoat; Dr. Elaine Reinhard, emergency medicine; Dr. William Meyer, orthopedic surgeon, and Dr. James Stephens, family medicine. Prior to the center’s opening, these physicians received specialized training at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Magnolia Regional Health Center Announces New Residency Program
Magnolia Regional Health Center is pleased to announce the beginning of our Internal Medicine Osteopathic Medical Residency Program Tuesday, July 1, 2008.
The first three residents may be familiar to some in the community as they have been students here for the past two years and we are honored to have them as our first set of Residents. Our first three Resident Physicians are: Aaron Earles, D.O.;Christina Brown, D.O.; Baron Herford, D.O.
Hattiesburg Clinic Physical Therapists Utilize New Form Of Treatment: Wiihabilitation
Eight-year-old Allison Ratliff, like most children her age, enjoys playing sports. Right now, she is very enthusiastic about baseball. “It’s so much fun,” Ratliff says. “It’s really fun to bat.” However, as Ratliff tells about her love for America’s favorite pastime, she’s not sitting in the dugout of a baseball diamond. She’s standing in front of a television set in the physical and occupational therapy department of Hattiesburg Clinic.
Ratliff, who broke her leg earlier this year and is undergoing physical therapy to strengthen her knee, is one of many physical therapy patients who have been participating in a new form of rehabilitation that some users have come to refer to as “Wiihabilitation.” The therapy utilizes the Wii (pronounced we) video game console. Released by Nintendo in late 2006, the console features a wireless remote controller that can detect movement by its user. Instead of sitting in a chair only exercising your thumbs, Wii users actually have to interact with the game. As with Ratliff and her baseball game, in order to hit the ball she has to swing her arms as if she’s swinging a bat. “Playing the Wii helps me with my knee,” Ratliff adds. “After you throw the ball you have to hop two times. I couldn’t do that before and now I can.”
Hattiesburg Clinic purchased the console earlier this year. The Wii comes with a game called Wii Sports that requires users to mimic the motions used in various sports such as bowling, tennis, boxing, baseball, and golf. The console began gaining notoriety shortly after its release when users began reporting sore muscles after playing the games – much like spending a day at the gym. Physical therapists around the country took notice. “Some of our patients were playing with it at home and reporting a lot of positive feedback,” said certified sports specialist Clint Hudson, PT. The Clinic recently added a new program called Wii Fit in June. The program comes with a balance board that allows users to do yoga, play balance games, do strength training, and even aerobics. Army E4 Specialist Willie Lindsey is now in his fifteenth week of therapy at Hattiesburg Clinic after undergoing surgery to replace his ACL. Lindsey recently tried out the new balance board during one of his therapy sessions. The console evaluated his center of gravity as he pretended to snow ski, did lunges, tried out a few yoga poses, and even balanced on a tightrope. “I have really been working to regain my balance since my surgery,” relates Lindsey. “I have done strength training, balance training, and running as part of my therapy. But the Wii has helped me with my balance more than anything.”
Hattiesburg Clinic is not just using the Wii to treat younger patients. “There are a lot of activities that interest different people,” says Maxie Manning, PT. “We can treat a lot of different patients with different conditions.” Joyce Bain is an amputee who has been walking with the use of a prosthetic leg since 2004. “When I got my prosthesis a therapist had to help me learn to walk on it while using crutches and then a cane and then without the help of either one,” explains Bain. “Now that I can do that, I have to work to keep my lower body strength up.
“She loves to come in here and play the games,” Manning adds as she observes Bain playing the bowling game. “It makes her shift her weight and she’s having fun while she’s doing something therapeutic.”
Tommy Speed agrees. Speed sustained knee and shoulder injuries in an automobile accident and has been playing the bowling game to help build muscle strength. “I have really noticed an improvement in my condition,” says Speed. “You don’t think about the pain as much. It’s easier that your mind gets involved in the game. You don’t feel like you are doing therapy.”
August 2008
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