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Kadlec earns
national award
for top
leadership
teams
in health care
Members of Kadlec’s executive team include from left,
Bill Wingo, Chuck Baker, Dave Roach, Lane Savitch,
Ken Lester, Rand Wortman, Julie Meek, Jeff Clark,
Kirk Harper and Larry Christensen.
THE EXECUTIVE TEAM at Kadlec Regional Medical
Center has earned prestigious national recognition by
HealthLeaders Media as one of its Top Leadership Teams
in Healthcare for 2011.
The Top Leadership Teams in Healthcare award
program is designed to celebrate the outstanding teamwork
that occurs in health care organizations each day, to
share what makes top leadership teams successful and to
encourage other health care leaders to learn more from
the best practices of top leadership teams. This year,
HealthLeaders Media recognized three hospitals and one
medical group practice.
“The Top Leadership Teams program was founded
on the premise that the core value for every successful
health care organization must be teamwork—this year’s
winners certainly demonstrate that concept,” said
Gienna Shaw, a senior editor at HealthLeaders Media,
who oversaw this year’s program.
A
AN ESTIMATED 79 million people in the United
States have prediabetes, representing about 30 percent of
the population over the age of 20 and more than twice the
number of people who already have diabetes. If left untreated
prediabetes can eventually progress to Type 2 diabetes.
Fortunately, the progression to Type 2 diabetes is not
inevitable. By making simple lifestyle changes it is possible to
significantly reduce one’s risk.
The Diabetes Learning Center at Kadlec is offering two new
programs to educate individuals with prediabetes on how to
make the changes needed to slow the progression to diabetes.
The first is a two-hour prediabetes information session
offered both as an afternoon and evening class once a month.
The fee is $25 per person and a referral is not required.
In early 2012, a 16-week intensive weight-management
program designed to help people lose 5 percent to 7 percent
of their weight will be offered. Monthly follow-up will
continue for another eight months to help ensure lasting
lifestyle change.
For more information, call the Diabetes Learning Center
at
(509) 942-2620
.
Visit
Pacesetter
online to
learn more about prediabetes.
New
prediabetes
programs
Pacesetter
online!
There is so much happening at Kadlec that we’ve created an
expanded, online version of
Pacesetter
. You can read all these
Pacesetter
articles as well as new articles and additional
information.
This online edition includes:
●
What is prediabetes, and what are the signs?
●
More on our Pediatric Heroes.
●
Additional information on the two Kadlec programs that won
national Planetree awards.
●
Basic tips on soothing a crying baby.
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And much, much more.
Just visit
www.kadlec.org
and click on the “Newsletters”
link.
Look for this logo throughout
Pacesetter
. It
means you can read more information about
this subject in
Pacesetter
online.
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