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SOUTHERN INDIANA — As the federal Environmental Protection Agency looks to adopt stricter ozone

standards, Indiana state environ-mental officials weighed that existing air-quality monitoring is sufficiently working toward less pollution.

There’s no disputing that air pollutants freely cross the Ohio River between Louisville and sur-rounding counties like Clark and Floyd, though local environmen-tal officials say they haven’t de-tected significantly more ozone from vehicles sitting in traffic for ongoing downtown construction for the Ohio River Bridges Proj-ect.

The Louisville metro area that includes 11 Kentucky counties and six in Southern Indiana re-ceived failing grades from the American Lung Association for both ozone and particle pollu-tion, according to its latest State of the Air report.

“It seems that raising the stan-dards is the only way,” said Judy Martin, president of the Floyd Ac-tion Network, a group of about 200 local environmental activists.

Still, Martin doubts there’s any way to count on consistent improvements no matter what the standards, if the population grows and there’s more demand for consumer goods.

“So many people in the U.S. are saying we have no air-quality problems,” Martin said. “We have to keep reaching above.”

Some business and state lead-ers, however, disagree, strongly opposing further federal ozone limits by the EPA to limit ozone.

The National Association of Manufacturers has called on fed-eral regulators to keep the ozone standard at 75 parts per billion rather than lowering it to 65-70

parts per billion, as proposed in late 2014.

The association commissioned a study done by the New York-based consulting firm National Economical Research Associ-ates, which estimates the EPA’s proposed new ozone standard could cost American manufactur-ers more than $1 trillion from 2017–2040. The study also found the measure would slash the na-tional gross domestic product by $140 billion annually, resulting in the equivalent of 1.4 million jobs being eliminated per year.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and state environmental officials echo the National Association of Manu-facturers’ study, saying the EPA proposal would be a job killer that diminishes the quality of life in the Hoosier state.

The Indianapolis Star reported May 18 that state officials are downplaying what medical re-searchers say is an unacceptable public health risk because the science behind the proposed changes can’t be trusted.

The state’s top air-quality regu-lators also claim lowering ozone levels won’t help people with asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia and those with other conditions made worse by ozone.

Martin said “the bad air isn’t going to stop at the state line so there has to be as many local or-ganizations working together as possible” to improve air quality.

Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control Distict officials work with businesses, Indiana environ-mental officials in Indianapolis and their Kentucky counterparts in Frankfort to help enforce the federal Clean Air Act first enacted in 1963.

Louisville air pollution district spokesman Tom Nord asserts that air quality is gradually improving, as the law originally intended, noting there is some discretion given to local and state agencies.

“The air quality is vastly im-proved from what our fathers and grandfathers breathed,” Nord said.

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A FAILINg grADe

“So many people in the U.S. are saying we have no air-quality problems. We have to keep reaching above.”

— Judy Martinpresident of the Floyd action network, a group of

about 200 local environmental activists.

so YoU KNoWAmerican Lung Association state of the Air 2015 grades:

CLArK CoUNTY• Ozone: F • Particle Pollution 24-hour: B • Particle Pollution Annual: Fail

FLoYD CoUNTY• Ozone: F • Particle Pollution 24-hour: C • Particle Pollution Annual: Pass

For more information about State of the air 2015, visit stateoftheair.org

to read the energy information Administration’s analysis on the Clean Power Plan, visit eia.gov/analysis/requests/powerplants/cleanplan/.

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Nearly everyone has ex-perienced a small flutter, skipped heartbeat or slight quiver in their chest. For some people, the episode would go away within sec-onds. Others may not even know it happened. And still others have a constant bat-tle to keep their heart rate under control. Atrial fibril-lation, or A Fib, is the most common type of irregular heartbeat, and has a wide spectrum of symptoms and severity. It can happen to anyone, but your chance of developing A Fib increases with age.

HoW IT WorKsIn A Fib, the upper

chambers of the heart beat irregularly, which causes the heart to insufficiently pump blood. A normal heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. An irregular rate can be 100 to 175 beats per minute or higher. A Fib can cause blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-re-lated conditions.

About 15 percent of pa-tients have no symptoms before they are diagnosed. When symptoms occur, they could include:

• Irregular pulse• Racing or pounding

heart• Feeling that the heart is

fluttering• Chest pain• Dizziness• Shortness of breath• Weakness and fatigue• Anxiety• FaintingThe most common trig-

gers of A Fib include:• Underlying lung dis-

eases like COPD/emphy-sema

• High blood pressure• Coronary artery disease

and heart attacks• Heart failure• Heart valve problems• Thyroid disorders or

serious infectionsAtrial flutter is another

arrhythmia where an ab-normal electrical conduc-tion circuit allows a very rapid heart rate of 250 to 300 beats per minute. When the heart beats that quickly, the heart, brain and other organs may not get enough blood which can cause them to fail. Conges-tive heart failure, heart at-tack and stroke can all be a result of atrial flutter. A Fib and atrial flutter often alter-nate back and forth.

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If you experience any symptoms of A Fib or atrial flutter, your primary care

physician or cardiologist can make a referral to an electrophysi-ologist (EP), who specializes in de-tecting, diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders. Treating A Fib early gives better results and an im-proved quality of life, and it is less successful after it has been present for many years.

The Floyd Memorial Heart and Vascular Center recently opened a new cath-eterization lab equipped with state-of-the-art elec-trophysiology equipment so patients don’t have to travel across the bridge to receive treatment for heart rhythm disorders. A new

board certified cardiolo-gist specializing in electrophysi-ology, Satya V. Garimella, MD, FACC, has joined Floyd Memorial and practices out of the Floyd Me-morial Medical Group — River Cities Cardiology office at 41 Quar-termaster Court in Jeffersonville.

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Arrhythmias can be un-predictable and intermit-tent, and may not show up on an electrocardiogram (EKG). Sometimes, longer monitoring using wearable holter monitors may not catch the underlying prob-

lem or event either. That is when an electrophysiol-ogy study may be recom-mended. A variety of EP procedures are performed inside the catheterization lab including:

• Diagnostic Electro-physiology (EP) Studies: A minimally invasive proce-dure frequently performed for patients who have been diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia. EP physicians perform sophisticated com-puter mapping techniques to identify the sites of ori-gin of arrhythmias or the location of short circuits. The study can help evaluate the effectiveness of certain medications in controlling the heart arrhythmia; help predict the risk of future cardiac events and assess the need for an implantable

device, such as a pacemak-er or implantable cardiac device (ICD); or to pursue a cardiac ablation to cure the specific arrhythmia.

• Permanent Pacemaker Implants: A pacemaker is a device that sends small electrical impulses to the heart muscle to maintain a suitable heart rate or to stimulate the lower cham-bers of the heart. A pace-maker may also be used to treat fainting spells, con-gestive heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomy-opathy. There are different types of pacemakers, and your doctor will decide what type of pacemaker you need based on your heart condition.

• Catheter Ablations: Catheter-based ablation is a minimally invasive treat-ment that involves identify-ing and eliminating cardiac arrhythmias using radio fre-quency or cryothermal en-ergy sources. A cardiac EP, assisted by specially trained staff, creates barriers in the tissue identified as the source of arrhythmias by burning, or ablating, those spots. The goal is to elimi-nate the source causing ar-rhythmias, so that the heart beats normally again.

— For Southern Indiana patients with

rhythm disorders, treat-ment options are available

at Floyd Memorial. Call (812) 949-7088 for more

information.

When Dr. Chris Rasmussen had an injury to his lower back several decades ago, it left him paralyzed in his right leg. Faced with a decision between surgery and chiropractic treatment, he decided to take the latter route, and the results he saw inspired him to become a chiropractor.

Thirty-seven years later, Rasmussen continues to bring these healing proce-dures to his Southern Indiana patients.

“The whole philosophy of chiroprac-tic is based on natural healing,” he said. “The body is supposed to heal itself. No matter what any doctor does to you, the healing of the body takes place within the body — it does not take place from the doctor.”

Dr. Douglas Breger, a licensed chiro-practor who has also been at the prac-tice since 2002, said in addition to spinal adjustments and massage therapy, they strive to educate patients on how lifestyle changes can affect their overall health.

“Most people come through the door with a pain syndrome,” Breger said. “We’d like to think that our patients, after going through treatment, leave us with an idea of how to take care of ourselves bet-ter and be able to enjoy life as actively as they can.

“The most common thing we get be-sides pain is: ‘Doc I can’t do this any-more,’ so it’s a way for us to help them re-establish some functional capacity maybe beyond what they’ve had in a long time.”

Sherry Rasmussen, office manager and Chris Rasmussen’s wife, said there are many different reasons for people to seek chiropractic care, and many diagnoses it can treat.

“We’ve treated everybody from new-borns to somebody who was 107,” Sherry said. “There is no age limit.”

She said they treated a child who had anger issues, and after being treated with upper cervical adjustments, his mother reported a huge difference in his behav-ior.

“He couldn’t verbalize it,” Sherry said. “This little boy was 3 years old and he couldn’t get people to understand. He thought it was normal to hurt like that.”

She said they have even had parents stop in with newborns on their way home from the hospital.

“The birth process is the most traumat-ic on the body. It’s where most problems originate but gravity takes its toll as we get older, pulling us down, so there’s a lot of different forces in effect,” Sherry said. “People are not easy on their bodies. We don’t wear overcoats made of bubble wrap to keep us from getting banged up and hurt.”

She said the treatment program for each patient will depend on the severity of the problem and the age and overall health of the person.

“As people are getting older and look-ing at alternative medicines versus go-

ing to get a pain pill or a shot or whatever, they’re looking for something that will correct the problem, not patch the prob-lem,” she said.

A consultation at Rasmussen Chiro-practic is free. Based on what the doctors determine, a plan for treatment may be discussed. Rate cards are available to all patients.

Sherry said though insurance com-panies often cover chiropractic care, the current health care climate has left many with high deductibles — and some choose to go the cash route. The practice offers packages of visits for purchase as an option to patients.

She said the website, rasmussenchiro.com, has a coupon, and they also ad-vertise with Valpak and coupons can be found on that website as well.

“We’re honest with everybody, Sherry said. “We’re not after the almighty dollar. We are eking out a living, so to speak. We try to keep our prices fair and we do what we can to help those in need.”

Rasmussen said he believes his busi-ness has seen success over the years in part due to their dedication to personal care and patient communication.

“Our business as a whole, most people comment that it’s a very friendly atmo-sphere and it’s a very fun place to come to,” he said. “Our success rate with our patients is over 92 percent. And prob-ably 85 to 90 percent of our patient flow is from referrals, so it’s the people that come here that basically bring us our new patients on a regular basis.”

Sherry agreed, saying that they feel as though their patients become part of their family.

“We know pretty much everything there is to know about most of the pa-tients that come in here; we know when their children are graduating high school, we know when they’re graduating col-lege, we have a lot of patients who have been with us since we opened,” she said. “Everybody is family.”

Breger said he loves his work and feels very fortunate to be a part of this practice.

“Dr. Chris [Rasmussen] has been in practice for over 20 years and that’s re-ally the foundation for this practice — the good work that he’s done over the past 20 years,” Breger said. “That’s hard to gain. That takes a long time to gain that kind of a trust and his reputation in the com-munity.”

Well known for its prominent green awning, the building housing Green Valley Care Center in New Albany is a Southern Indian landmark that embodies a modern approach to health care. “The building has been part of the community for over 40 years,” said Jesse Ray, Ex-ecutive Director at Green Valley.

Green Valley is a skilled nursing facil-ity where individuals in need of skilled nursing care, medical rehabilitation and secure memory care can find the spe-cialized program they need and quality care they deserve.

The duly licensed 141-bed facility is a Life Care Centers of America building, which is a nationwide health care com-pany with more than 260 skilled nursing rehab facilities and senior living cam-puses in 28 states. Green Valley accepts Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance and private pay.

Green Valley offers premier in-pa-tient and out-patient short-term reha-bilitation, post-acute short-term reha-bilitation and post-operative recovery. Additionally Green Valley provides Al-zheimer’s and Dementia care in their 60 bed secured unit. The professional staff is trained in the latest techniques and

highest levels in standards of care.The facility, which includes 150

full-time and part-time staff recently completed a $1 million state-of-the-art renovation that includes an elegant din-ing room, 35 private rehab suites, new flooring, refurbished offices, entryway and technology upgrades.

With a presence that stretches back decades Green Valley remains a vital part of Southern Indiana, providing hope, encouragement and celebration of life.

“As a Life Care Centers of America facility, we pride ourselves in providing full life care — it’s even in the name. Green Valley Care Center helps indi-viduals meet their care needs regardless of what stage of life they may be in,” Ray said.

Green Valley Care Center a leading health care provider

electrophysiology treatment at FMH’s heart, vascular center

The Floyd Memorial Heart and Vascular Center recently opened a new catheterization lab equipped with state-of-the-art electrophysiology equipment. A new board certified cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology, satya V. garimella, MD, FACC, has also joined Floyd Memorial and practices out of the Floyd Memorial Medical group — river Cities Cardiology office at 41 Quartermaster Court in Jeffersonville.

sATYA V. gArIMeLLA, MD, FACC

Rasmussen Chiropractic gives the right adjustments

green Valley Care Center is located at 3118 green Valley road, New Albany.

For more infoRasmussen Chiropractic, LLC

• ADDRESS: 2652 Charlestown Road, new albany• PHONE: 812-949-2273• ONLINE: rasmussenchiro.com

For more infoGreen Valley Care Center

• ADDRESS: 3118 Green Valley Road, new albany• PHONE: 812-945-2341• ONLINE: greenvalleycarecenter.com

green Valley Care Center is located at 3118 green Valley road, New Albany. The facility, which offers nurs-ing care, medical rehabilitation and secure memory care, underwent a renovation recently, including upgrades to private rehab suites.

For more infoFloyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services

• ADDRESS: 1850 State St., new albany• PHONE: 812-944-7701• WEBSITE: floydmemorial.com

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The tradition continues, as the New Albany-based business provides South-ern Indiana with more than 100 years of combined experience including the de-liveries of more than 16,000 babies.

OB/GYN Associates has a dedicated staff, and the physicians there take pride in providing the best care for their pa-tients. The center offers some of the lat-est treatment options available to wom-en, and OB/GYN Associates continues to provide multiple services including routine and advanced gynecological care and routine and high-risk prenatal care including midwifery.

Surgical services including minimally invasive outpatient surgeries are also of-fered at OB/GYN Associates. The center also evaluates and treats multiple gyne-cological issues including menopausal symptoms, abnormal pap smears, pelvic pain, bleeding problems, female urinary incontinence and prolapse disorders.

It’s all part of OB/GYN Associates’ effort to maintain a one-stop shop for Southern Indiana women to receive care.

The staff realizes how important and memorable welcoming a baby into the family is, and OB/GYN Associates pro-vides calm, nurturing care.

The center features a staff of seven medical doctors, two nurse practitioners and a certified midwife, Carla Layne.

Carla has more than 10 years of mid-wifery experience and spent six years as a labor and delivery nurse prior to be-coming a midwife.

The physicians have enjoyed working with Carla.

The addition of a midwife allows women to have the birth experience that they desire, whether that is with a physi-cian or a midwife. Birth plans can be for a natural birth, or one that utilizes all that modern medicine can provide. For those who can’t wait to see their baby, OB/GYN Associates of Southern Indiana of-fers elective 3D and 4D ultrasounds for its established patients.

OB/GYN Associates continues to look for ways to improve the customer experience, and the center recently in-troduced a patient portal that allows pa-tients access to their health information at anytime.

Patients can receive lab results, view and request appointments and receive

appointment reminders via email or text, request prescription refills, send mes-sages to the office and view and pay their bills through the secure patient portal.

Nontraditional services such as laser hair removal also are available. Some physicians at the center have undergone additional training in order to offer other cosmetic services, such as liposuction, tummy tuck, breast augmentation and facial enhancement services such as Botox and dermal fillers. Cosmetic sur-gery is the most commonly performed surgery in the United States today. It’s no longer a procedure done “just in Hol-lywood.”

By maintaining their board certifica-tion with the American Board of Obste-tricians and Gynecologists through con-tinuing medical education courses and yearly board examinations, the physi-cians stay up to date with the latest med-ical advances. As in any business, tech-nology changes and continued education are critical. As a result, the physicians are able to allow women of Southern Indiana with gynecological problems access to latest advances in treatment options. Two physicians are trained to perform robotic hysterectomies utilizing the DaVinci robot at the University of Louisville. The staff encourages women to have regular checkups to help them stay healthy no matter their age. Such preventative care measures help ensure that tests and immunizations that women need to keep them healthy are kept up to date. Patients are provided complete and updated information allowing active participation in decisions and plans of treatment.

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When Gary Ward’s parents grew older and needed more care, they had to de-cide between a nursing home facility or staying at home.

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In 2003 Ward was searching for a busi-ness to purchase, and when Helen Cul-lum was offering SonBlest Elder Care for sale, it was of course the perfect fit.

“I always had a tendency for all phases of health care, and I was most familiar with care inside the home," Cullum said. “I think the Lord put it in my mind and gave me the strength to do that. Gary has been a lovely person to work with," said Cullum who started the company in 1991, and her mission of bringing excel-lent care in the home continues.

“We’ve been helping people in their home longer than any nonmedical agen-cy in Southern Indiana,” Ward said.

For SonBlest Elder Care, business has been increasing over the last few years, and it may be because of families keep-ing their loved ones at home. However, families may be choosing SonBlest be-cause of the individual care that includes such important, and often overlooked everyday services such as answering the phone or door, caring for household plants or pets, laundry, meal planning, housekeeping and personal care assis-tance.

Perhaps most treasured by the clients is the friendship developed with the caregivers contracted through SonBlest, whether the care is in their home, hospi-tal, retirement or nursing home. A bul-letin board is kept in the office for all the thank you notes the staff have received. SonBlest workers have even been recog-nized several times in client obituaries.

“Sometimes they just want conversa-tion, or help with a crossword puzzle. We’re also there for companionship,” said Ward.

Ward said that he works with about 50 contractors who serve as caregivers for the senior citizen clients, which often leads to a perfect match between client and caregiver.

“We try to match them on personality as well as the schedule and types of ser-vices needed. Maybe they want someone

who likes pets, or an older person who can talk about the old days, or younger to lift them easier. We try to match peo-ple as best we can.

SonBlest specializes in 24/7 care be-cause those rates are much lower than the competition, but they also offer very reasonable rates for hourly visits at a three hour minimum for Clark and Floyd counties and a higher minimum outside those counties. SonBlest offers compan-ionship, so consistency in care is key.

“Most of our clients like to have the same caregivers all of the time,” said Ward. He explained that for the smaller, hourly assignments SonBlest will try to use the same caregiver, and with the larger jobs up to 24/7 they use the same few caregivers as much as possible. If a caregiver can’t work a shift SonBlest tries their best to cover that shift with a caregiver who already works in the home so someone new doesn’t have to be introduced.

In order to work as a caregiver for SonBlest, one must go through a rig-orous screening process that includes local, state, and national background checks. Ward also conducts thorough in-terviews and reference checks, which is all for insuring giving your loved ones the best, and most secure care.

“Our caregivers are professionals. This is what they want to do with their life, as they enjoy taking care of the el-derly and listening to their stories,” said Ward.

Ward explained that many of the care-givers have been caring for senior citi-zens for years, and some even decades. SonBlest contracts with the most experi-enced caregivers because it’s important for one to be aware of the many different types of situations that could arise when caring for someone. A caring heart and patience are also important for caregiv-ers contracted through SonBlest Elder Care.

“We get a lot of referrals from both past and present clients who were very satisfied,” Ward says.

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The bulk of the area’s industrial pol-lution comes from Louisville, where 37 big businesses like Ford, GE and Louis-ville Gas & Electric are regulated under Title V environmental permits regulat-ing emissions.

A handful of Southern Indiana busi-nesses like Jeffboat, Kitchen Kompact and Koetter Woodworking also have similar permits through the Indiana Department of Environmental Manage-ment.

Last summer, Louisville had just three days where it exceeded ozone standard, compared with four times that number during a swelteringly dry summer two years before.

Coal-fired power plants are now used by utility companies like Duke

Energy and LG&E, instead of coal be-ing burned at individual buildings for heat and energy decades ago.

“No one can have a smoke stack belching black smoke anymore,” Nord said.

And further federal restrictions on coal-fired plants may be on the hori-zon, which has drawn the ire of some legislators and business leaders. The US. Energy Information Administration’s Clean Power Plan seeks for states to begin reducing carbon dioxide emis-sions by 2020 to meet standards for them to drop by 30 percent by 2030.

After U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, requested a study of the proposal, the U.S. Energy Administration released a new report Friday that estimates elec-tricity prices will increase 4.9 percent by 2020 due to the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

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Here’s why. An “adenoma detection rate” tells you how thorough we are at detecting and removing polyps — those are the growths in your colon that, if left alone, can become cancerous.

When we do a colonoscopy, our ADR is more than twice the national average — even matching the rate at the Mayo Clinic. That’s just a fact. We find them. We remove them. All at the same time.

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