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A N N O U N C E M E N T SGuideStone Representative ScheduleN E W S A N D E V E N T SDates and times are subject to change. Please contact your facility’s humanresources office for information. Baptist colleagues can contact David Proctorat 901-226-3516 or e-mail David.Proctor@GuideStone.org.Feb. 13.................................Baptist Union CountyFeb. 13.........................................Baptist MemphisFeb. 14........................................Baptist DeSotoFeb. 14.......................................Baptist Women’sFeb. 19.........................Baptist Golden TriangleFeb. 20..............................Baptist Golden TriangleFeb. 21..................................................NEA BaptistFeb. 26.....................................Baptist HuntingdonFeb. 26.......................................Baptist BoonevilleFeb. 27.......................................Baptist Union CityOn Saturday, Feb. 16, Baptist College of Health Sciences will host anevent for prospective male students interested in obtaining a bachelor’sdegree in biomedical sciences, diagnostic medicalsonography, health care management, medical laboratory science,medical radiography, nuclear medicine technology, nursing, radiationtherapy or respiratory care.The Open House begins at 9 a.m. at 1003 Monroe Avenue, Memphis,Tenn., 38104. Please RSVP by contacting the office of admissions at901-575-2247.Baptist Women’s Health Center will have its mobile mammographyunit at Greenwood CME Church on March 2. Screening mammogramswill be available. To make an appointment, please call GeorgiaOliver at 901-260-8502.Baptist Union County colleagues Go Red forWomenBaptist Memorial Hospital-Union County colleagues showed their support in thefight against heart disease by celebrating Go Red for Women’s National Wear RedDay on Feb. 1. Heart disease is personal and it is the No. 1 killer of women inAmerica. Know the warning signs and symptoms, reduce or prevent as many riskfactors for heart disease as you can and talk to your health care provider about yourrisks and concerns. Baptist Union County is partnering with the SternCardiovascular Foundation to host a Healthy Heart Luncheon on Feb. 18 at noon atthe Magnolia Civic Center, with Dr. Christopher Ingelmo as the guest speaker.Baptist Women’s Health Center hosts Women Helping Other Women,a breast cancer support group, on the second Tuesday of every month at7 p.m. February’s meeting will be held on Feb. 12 at 50 HumphreysBlvd. Suite 30.Women diagnosed with breast cancer, undergoing breast cancer treatmentor recovering from breast cancer are invited to attend.Research shows that women who participate in a support group following abreast cancer diagnosis report better quality of life and have improvedoutcomes.Show me your heart on Valentines Day! A booth will be set up in theBaptist Memphis cafeteria from 6 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. to sign upcolleagues and visitors to the Organ & Tissue Donor Registry, throughthe Mid-South Transplant Foundation. Heart shaped candy will givento everyone who shows they are registered organ donors (on yourdriver’s license) or signs up that day.Let’s show everyone Baptist Memorial Health Care has heart!Southaven Firefighters donate to the BaptistDeSoto mammography unitThe Southaven Firefighters Association recently donated more than $3,500 to theBaptist Memorial Health Care Foundation for the mammography unit at BaptistMemorial Hospital-DeSoto. The association raised money by selling breast cancerawareness T-shirts. All proceeds were given to the mammography unit to help earlydetection efforts by screening women for breast cancer. Pictured are, left to right, Lt.Sean Lenihan, president of the Southaven Firefighters Association; Gary Hicks, secretaryof the Southaven Firefighters Association; Ronnie Hale, alderman, City ofSouthaven; Melissa Gibbs, mammographer at Baptist DeSoto; Susan King, developmentofficer with the Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation; Robin Simpson,director of Radiology at Baptist DeSoto; and Donna Hoppe, manager of radiology atBaptist DeSoto.Baptist Cancer Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center seminars launchedDr. Raymond Osarogiagbon, Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation physician, speaks atthe first Cancer Awarenesss Seminar presented by Baptist Cancer Center and theVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in the Baptist Memorial Hospital-MemphisEducation Center, Tuesday, Jan. 29. Dr. Osarogiagbon and Dr. Pierre Massion, directorof the Thoracic Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, both spoke aboutsmoking cessation and options for lung cancer screenings.The Baptist Cancer Center is pleased to offer monthly seminarsexploring all areas of cancer care, including ways to proactively livehealthier lives. The next seminar, titled, “The Fight Against Cancer. WhatProgress Has Been Made” will be held on Feb. 26 at 6 p.m.Dr. Donald Gravenor, director of the Baptist Cancer Center ClinicalTrials Core, and Dr. Michael Neuss, chief medical officer at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, will be the featured speakers.Page 2
A R O U N D T H E S Y S T E MNewborns at Baptist Women’s wear red to raise awareness for heart diseaseFriday, Feb. 1 was a national day for awarenessof the leading cause of death for women, heartdisease. Baptist Memorial Hospital for Womenparticipated in National Wear Red Day to raiseawareness of the issue by wearing red and alsoplaced red beanie hats on newborns as a symbolof the new law that took effect in Tennessee onJan. 1, 2013, that requires testing newborns forcongenital heart defects before they aredischarged from the hospital.“The simple, noninvasive pulse-oximeterscreening is used to screen for congenital heartdisease in newborns,” said Carol Thetford, chiefnursing officer at Baptist Women’s. “A sensor isplaced across the foot of an infant, and it readsthe oxygen content in their blood. If it passeswith oxygen-saturation levels between 97-100percent, the baby could be cleared to discharge.If it reads below 90 percent, that is considered afail, and we will test another location. If it failstwice, then we will have the doctor perform acardiology consult.”Congenital heart diseases account for nearly 30 percent of the infantdeaths caused by birth defects, according to the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention. Each year, some 300 infants are sent home fromnewborn nurseries with undetected critical congenital heart defects, theCDC estimates.The hats and lapel pins given to the mothers of the newborns wereAlice Apple, patient care assistant at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women; and Suzette Howe, registerednurse, hold newborns with red beanie hats on Friday, Feb. 1. The American Heart Association donated thehats for every baby born in the month of February to help raise awareness of heart disease in women.provided by the American Heart Association to help raise awareness ofwomen’s heart disease. According to AHA, heart disease kills morewomen than all cancers combined.“At Baptist Women’s Hospital we are very concerned that in the Mid-South, women don’t take heart disease as seriously as they should. Weneed to make sure that everyone is aware,” said Thetford.Service First Award winners use maggot therapy to avoid patient’s foot amputationBaptist physical therapist assistant Jeremy Lindsey and physicaltherapist Jay Schultz were recently recognized as Service FirstChampions at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis for recommendinga specific treatment that saved a diabetic patient in hismid-40s from having his foot amputated.The award is a small reminder of how grateful the pair is tomaggots for saving the patient’s foot.Lindsey began his career at Baptist in 2005, and Schultz joinedBaptist in 2010. They had been working with a patient in outpatienttherapy for a few months when he was admitted to BaptistMemphis.The doctors were planning on amputating this patient’s footbecause of a diabetic wound that was thought to be untreatable.Physical therapist Jay Schultz, left, and Jeremy Lindsey, physical therapist assistant and Epicanalyst, recently earned Service First Awards at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis forrecommending maggot therapy for a diabetic patient to save him from having his foot amputated.The procedure is not used at Baptist and the pair gathered information and presentedtheir request to the physician, risk management and administration. The treatment wasapproved and it successfully healed the patient’s wound.Both therapists knew about the wound care treatment theybelieved would benefit this patient, but the procedure was notused at Baptist.Maggot therapy has been used to treat patients for centuries,but with evolving advancements, it is no longer very common.However, maggot therapy has been gaining more credibility withwound care.Continued on page 5Page 3
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