Stay up to date on the latest Horn Memorial Hospital and Horn Physicians Clinic news and information.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Horn Offers Educational Opportunity on the Topic of Vaping
Horn Memorial Hospital invites
you to join us for an informative presentation on Vaping. Learn why it’s such a fast-growing trend, the
chemical make-up, effects on the brain and body, likelihood of addiction,
possible side effects, and current data related to lung injury and death. This
presentation is free and the intended audience is professionals, the general public,
and parents (ages 18 or above). Educate yourself on this dangerous trend
currently affecting the youth in our communities.
When: Monday, December 16th 2019
Place: Horn Memorial Hospital Conference Center
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Presenter: Vicki S. from
Rosecrance Jackson Centers, Sioux City, IA
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Horn Hospice Prepares for the Annual Tree of Lights
The Horn Hospice Tree of
Lights ceremony is set for Sunday, November 24th at 5 p.m. in the
Hospital Conference Center. This is the perfect time to remember a loved
one with a special light on our tree, whether your loss was this past year, a
few years ago, or many years ago. The light will shine in your loved
one’s memory throughout the Christmas season.
Lights
are $5.00 each and tax deductible. For each light purchased, your name
and your loved one’s name will be listed on the memorial board that is
displayed in the Hospital lobby the evening of the tree lighting.
Donations from the annual Tree of Lights help defray expenses for terminally-ill
patients who enter the Horn Hospice program. Contributions with memorial
names can be sent to Horn Memorial Hospital – 701 East Second Street.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Ten People Complete Matter of Balance
Many older adults experience a fear of falling. People
who develop this fear often limit their activities, which can result in
physical weakness, making the risk of falling even greater. A Matter of Balance
is a program designed to reduce the fear of falling and increase
activity levels among older adults.
Ten people recently completed a Matter of Balance program
at Horn Memorial Hospital. Throughout
the eight-class course, participants learned how to view falls and fear of
falling as controllable, set realistic goals for increasing activity, change
their environment to reduce fall risk factors, and to promote exercise and
increase strength and balance. The
classes were conducted by trained Matter of Balance coaches Beth Ortner and
Lori Volkert.
Pictured are: Beth Ortner, MOB coach, Merle Schramm, Dean Miles, Audrey Schramm, Janet Miles, Sally Porter, Susan Miller, Mary Lou Redenius, Karen Broan, Alva Lill, Jimmie Lewis, and Lori Volkert, MOB coach.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Horn Memorial Community Health Offers Flu Clinics
Horn Memorial Community Health Offers Flu Clinics
Now is the time to prepare for the flu season. Horn Memorial
Community Health will be offering flu shot clinics:
Friday,
October 11 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. HMH Community Health Office
Tuesday, October
15 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Battle Creek Community Center
Wednesday, October
16 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Holstein Methodist Church
Tuesday, October
22 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. HMH Community Health Office
A Medicare card or Medicare Advantage Plan card is
required. There will be a charge for private pay. If you are homebound and would like to
receive the flu shot, please call Horn Memorial Community Health at 364-7311.
Getting an annual flu vaccine is the first and best way to
protect yourself and your family from the flu. Flu vaccination can reduce flu
illnesses, doctors’ visits, and missed work and school due to flu, as well as
prevent flu-related hospitalizations.
The flu is different from a cold. Influenza is a contagious respiratory illness
caused by flu viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness and at times can
lead to death. The flu usually comes on
suddenly. People who have the flu often feel some or all of these symptoms:
fever or feeling feverish/chills, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose,
body aches, headaches, fatigue and though more common in children than adults
vomiting and diarrhea.
People with flu can spread it to others up to about six feet
away. Most experts think that flu viruses are spread mainly by droplets made
when people with flu cough, sneeze or talk. These droplets can land in the
mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly inhaled into the lungs.
Less often, a person might also get flu by touching a surface or object that
has flu virus on it and then touching their own mouth or nose. To avoid this, people should stay away from
sick people and stay home if sick.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends annual vaccination for all people ages 6 months
and older who do not have a contraindication to the vaccine. While the flu vaccine is the best defense
against getting influenza, it’s also important to take personal actions to help
prevent the spread of illness. Remember
the 3Cs: Cover your coughs and sneezes; Clean your hands frequently; and
Contain germs by staying home when ill.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Blood Bank Schedule for September 27 at Horn Memorial
Save the Date to Save a Life! Sign Up by calling
Horn Memorial 712.364.3311 and ask for Angie Frank!
Monday, August 26, 2019
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Call Us First
When you're not sure if you should go to the Clinic or the Emergency Department - "Call Us First" and we can help you decide!
Thursday, August 15, 2019
2019 Membership Drive raises over $18,000
Horn Memorial raised over $18,000 from the 2019 Membership
Drive. The community’s generous support helped assist in the purchase of
a GlideScope® Core, an airway visualization system. The GlideScope® is
instrumental in aiding surgical and emergency room staff to safely and
efficiently access the airway in both emergency and surgical procedures.
Pictured with the new GlideScope® Core from left: Kayla Lally, RN; Julie
Andresen, RN, and Charlie Delaney, CRNA representing the Surgery Department at
Horn Memorial Hospital.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
HMH Staff Raise Funds for the Mid Sioux "Kits for Kidz" Program
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019
HMH Auxiliary Awards Scholarships
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
2nd Grade Poster Contest Winners
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Measles Case Identified in Iowa
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Friday, April 12, 2019
Horn Honors Organ Recipient, Katelyn Larson
Horn Memorial had the pleasure of interviewing Wendy
Larson. She is the mother of Katelyn Larson who was the recipient of a new
heart when she was just a baby. Wendy did not hesitate when we reached
out to her to ask if we could interview her to help Horn promote organ
donation. April is Donate Life Month,
and Horn is using this opportunity to share little Katelyn’s story to promote
organ donation.
How did you feel when you got "the call" that there had been a match found?
We found out at 2 a.m. on September 11, 2013 that there was a match for Katelyn, and to be honest, my heart sank. We were praying that she would have enough time to heal and that she would not need a new heart - because we knew that with the heart transplant came a lifetime of medicine and medical care associated with it. In addition, it was very difficult knowing what had to happen in order for her to receive a new heart; how could we rejoice knowing someone was dealing with such loss?
What has been your favorite part of the organ donation journey?
Our favorite part of her transplant journey has been meeting so many amazing people. We have met other kids who have overcome enormous obstacles and continue to thrive. We were able to go to Washington DC and meet families, congressional representatives who share in the vision for supporting kids with chronic health issues.
If you could talk to your donor family what is something you would like them to know?
If we could talk to our donor family we would let them know how absolutely grateful we are to them for making that decision during the darkest hours of their lives. I would share with them that Katelyn is so full of life and vitality and how strong her new heartbeat is! We are forever thankful for their generosity.
What is one thing you would say to people thinking about organ donation?
If I had the chance to talk to someone thinking about organ donation, I would tell them to do it, don't wait or hesitate. Make the decision now so you don't have to later. It is the most generous gift you can give and the number of lives you can save and enhance is worth it all!
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Horn Memorial Promotes Organ Donation by sharing Local Recipient’s Story
April is Organ Donation Awareness
Month, and Horn Memorial Hospital is using this opportunity to share the
importance of organ donation. Statistics
received from the Iowa Donor Network shared that every 10 minutes someone is added
to the transplant wait list and an average of 20 people die each day waiting
for a transplant. In 2018 there was 36,500 people in the U.S. who received the
gift of life through organ donation.
Just one donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and
heal more than 200 lives through tissue donation. If you haven’t shared your wishes with your
family members or checked yes as an “organ donor” when renewing your driver's license, now is the time!
Horn has reached out to
several people from our communities who have been recipients of organ donation
and they were honored to help us spread the importance of this “gift of life”. Jeanette (Paulson) Wulf of Odebolt graciously
shared her organ donation story with us…
“Jeanette, are you ready
for your liver transplant?!” the nurse said on the phone. After a year and a half of waiting on the
transplant list and two false alarms later I received the phone call everyone
waits for. My second chance at
life! When you get the phone call it’s
not really like you’re waiting by the phone for it with your suitcase packed. You are just trying to live your life, with a
failing liver and health hoping that the phone call comes but not knowing when. That is exactly what I was doing when the
phone call came…living and hoping the best I could with failing health.
I had just finished my
freshman year at Wayne State College and turned 21 a few weeks before the
fateful phone call. It was a warm summer
day on June 9th 2001. My
sister Joann and I left Odebolt early that morning to spend a day shopping in
Sioux City to prepare our small wardrobe for the summer quickly
approaching. I was buying trident gum in
Target (back when Target use to be in the mall where JC Penny now resides). The
cashier just slid the gum over the scanner when it happened. I heard the loud beeping
and buzzing of my pager in my purse. Not
sure if it would be a false alarm or the real thing, I called the number that
appeared on my pager using my very first cell phone that I had recently got for
this exact reason. The nurse on the line
was waiting for my call and didn’t even say hello but joyfully asked if I was
ready for a liver transplant! It was not
a false alarm. Caught so off guard and
busy shopping I didn’t know quite how to answer but told her I that I guess I was. We managed to get a plan of action
established over the phone and before I knew it our shopping trip was over and Joann
and I were briskly walking through the mall, our thoughts racing. We were told to go straight to Omaha to the
University of Nebraska Medical Center and check in. There I would wait for 8 additional hours
before my liver arrived at the hospital.
Through the course of events, I did happen to find out that my liver
came from a 22-year-old male. To this day that is all I know of my hero who
saved my life. At 5am on Sunday, June
10, 2001 the nurses came to get me and before I knew it, I was being whisked
away to a major surgery that would completely change my life.
Six years earlier, I was
diagnosed with a rare liver disease called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
(PSC), I was 15 years old. I managed my
care at Horn Memorial Hospital who worked well with my team at the University
of Nebraska Medical Center. For six
years I would have an ERCP about every three months to balloon my bile ducts
open so they could function better and to relieve some of my symptoms. My worse symptoms were chronic fatigue,
constant itching, sores all over my skin, and very irregular and high liver
functions. After each ERCP I would get
pancreatitis and spend a week in the hospital.
I bounced in and out of the hospital in which Horn always played a key
role. The staff at Horn was always so
good with my rare problems and so kind in treating me. I began relationships then that I cherish and
still have to this day with many new ones.
I feel well taken care of there and enjoy familiar faces there who know
me. The night before my transplant was a
restless awful sleep as I did not feel well and remember itching the worst I
had ever itched before. I remember
thinking that it was maybe time for another ERCP since I was feeling so
bad. Little did I know then that would
be the last night before the fateful happenings the next day that changed my
life and another’s. The next morning as
I prepared for a day of shopping, something terrible happened to someone who
would become my hero.
My transplant surgery
lasted eight hours and I received over 22 units of blood through the course of
the tedious surgery. I awoke in the ICU
to a room filled with windows and the warm summer sun shining in on me. Warm thoughts of thankfulness instantly
flooded my thoughts…I made it! Those first
few hours I remained so thankful and drank in the warm rays of sun that I just
knew the Lord shined in for me. It
wasn’t long when the thoughts of guilt and a sadness came. As I was celebrating little things like my
eyes no longer being yellow and the liver spots all over my skin disappearing,
I knew another family was grieving and making preparations for a funeral. It was such a bittersweet time.
I knew I had to thank
this family. Every year at Christmas I
wrote them a letter letting them know how I was and how thankful I was for
their decision. But how do you truly
thank someone who gives you such a gift?
Thanking them in letters was nice but living my life to try to be the
best I can everyday and be a good person was more than saying thank you but
honoring my donor, who is my hero, and their decision. Because of them and their decision to say yes
to organ donation I am alive! I have
been able to live a full wonderful life.
I went on and graduated from Wayne State College in 2003 with honors. I got married shortly after on Valentine’s
Day and we have been happily married for 15 years. We live on a farm and manage a small farming
operation. I got pregnant in 2008 and
had a baby full term which is a big deal for transplant women. He is a healthy 10-year-old now and the
‘SONshine’ of our lives. We live happy,
love each other and love to laugh. We
remain thankful for what we have. There
was a time in my life when all this was very questionable and because of the
decision to say yes to organ donation I have been able to go on and live a
wonderful life!
When I was a kid, I
remember hearing about organ donation.
It sparked an interest in me that they could actually transplant
organs. I came home to ask my mom about
it and that I would like to donate if something would ever happen to me. She said that it was ok with her but I needed
to talk to my Dad. So, when Dad got
home, I came with my exciting news. Only
to have him tell me, “Absolutely not, no one is going to take my little girls’
organs.” I could not convince him and my
hopes were dashed. Who knew that years
later organ donation would in fact end up saving his little girls life? His views on this matter changed immediately
and he is to this day an organ donor.
Sometimes the hard and serious circumstances
in life make you exactly who you are. It
isn’t fun or easy to go through them but it is how you handle them that defines
you. I often think of the jolly nurse that asked me if I was ready for my
transplant all those years ago and the sunshine in my room the day I woke up on
June 10, 2001 to my second chance at life.
If someone asks you to be an
organ donor will you be ready to answer? I encourage you to think about it and to say
yes. Talk to your family about your
wishes and remember my story. I hope it
helps you in your decision. Organ
donation works and saves lives, it saved mine and I will live forever grateful.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Horn Public Health Nurse, Andrews to be Recognized
Patti Andrews, Horn Public Health RN, will be among the 100
honorees that will be recognized Sunday, May 5 at 3 p.m. at the Community
Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines for the 100 Great Iowa
Nurses’ award. This year’s event will
mark the 15th annual celebration of Iowa’s Great Nurses.
The 100 Great Iowa Nurses award recognizes nurses who have
made meaningful, lasting contributions to their patients, colleagues and
nursing profession, and are viewed as mentors to other nursing professionals.
This year’s honorees exemplify all of the principles on
which the 100 Great Iowa Nurses’ Celebration was founded.
Congratulations, Patti, on this well-deserved honor.
Horn Receives Watercolor Painting of Hospital
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Horn Welcomes New General Surgeon
In conjunction with Midlands Clinic, P.C.; Horn Memorial
Hospital would like to welcome General Surgeon, Dr. JD Welander to Ida Grove.
Dr. Welander will be seeing patients every Tuesday at Horn
Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove beginning March 5th. He specializes
in the latest general surgery techniques including, but not limited to, breast
cancer surgery, colorectal surgery, gallbladder and hernia surgeries, and
minimally invasive surgeries.
A native of Pomeroy, Iowa, Dr. Welander graduated from North
Park University in 2004, majoring in Biology. He went on to receive his
Doctorate from Creighton University School of Medicine in 2009 and completed
his residency in Des Moines at Iowa Methodist Hospital in 2014. He joined the Midlands team in 2017 where he
also serves as a member of the Midlands Coordinated Breast Care team.
Dr. Welander commented on his new outreach clinic in Ida
Grove, “I grew up in a small town and I am excited for the opportunity to
partner with Horn Memorial Hospital. There is nothing more fulfilling than
meeting a patient with a problem that I can help resolve, and to perform that
operation in a minimally invasive manner if possible. Offering good outcomes,
state-of-the-art care and a compassionate ear are important qualities to have
as a surgeon. I am excited to offer these services to patients in the Ida Grove
Community.”
Friday, January 18, 2019
Horn Memorial Offers Stop the Bleed Course
Horn Memorial Hospital is offering a “Stop the Bleed” course for the
general public. The purpose of the “Stop
the Bleed” program is to empower individuals on how to make a difference in a
life-threatening emergency. This
one-hour class will teach the basic techniques of how to stop a bleed.
The course is FREE to the public and will be held on Monday, February 18th
from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Horn Memorial Hospital. Pre-Registration is required. Please register by calling Angie Frank, BSN,
RN, Education Nurse at 712-364-7236. The
class size is limited to eight participants with a minimum of three to hold the
class.
Angie Frank, class instructor stated, “The only thing more tragic from a
death from bleeding is a death that could have been prevented. We hope to
receive a lot of interest in this course and to fill the class to capacity.”
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