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Renovations and up-grades continue at SacredHeart Mercy Health CareCenter in Jackson.

Last all, the FourthStreet care center receiveda much-needed pitchedsteel roo. Earlier thisspring, a new heating and

air-conditioning systemwas installed.With these improve-

ments, were striving toget into a position wherewe are able to operatewith as little maintenanceas possible, said SisterMary Raphael Paradis,administrator at SacredHeart Mercy. We want toinvest in things that have along lie.

Next on the list or the65-year-old building? Anautomatic door at the topo the rear handicap-acces-sible ramp.

Renovations, upgrades continue at Sacred Heart MercyThe back door at the top

o the ramp has been dii-cult to maneuver, Paradissaid. The wind can catchit or, when there are pa-tients entering with walk-ers or wheelchairs, it canbe tough to juggle openingthe door with entering thecare center.

Paradis had begun theprocess o seeking bidson a new door and undswith which to pay or itwhen Mary Ruyter, CEO oSanord Jackson MedicalCenter, caught wind o theneed and stepped orwardin a big way.

She realized that theyhad one they were no lon-ger using, Paradis said.So this worked out verywell.

Following installation othe new automatic door atthe back entrance, Paradissaid her attention will turnto the ront entrance. Planscall or a remodeled ront

entryway incorporating astriking stained-glass win-dow rescued rom an oldchurch.

The window bears theimage o the Sacred Hearto Jesus and is just a verybeautiul representation oit, Paradis said. Our or-mer administrator learnedo the window in an oldchurch they were planningto knock down and she justcouldnt stand the thoughto it being destroyed. Itsbeen sitting in a backroomo the clinic just waiting.Its quite beautiul as it is,and I think will be radiantin the light.

A grant earlier this yearrom the Jackson Commu-nity Foundation will unda portion o the project,though Paradis is currentlyseeking additional undingsources.

We do need a new rontdoor badly, she said. In-corporating the window

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into the remodeled entry-way will add unction andbeauty, and the image onthe window is somethingimportant to our identityin terms o our dedicationto the Sacred Heart.

Inside the health carecenter, Paradis said, loor-ing will soon be tackled.

We want very much toput new looring in the lob-by, she said. The carpethas just had it. Weve beenlooking into vinyl tile as aviable option.

New oice looring isalso in the plans.

Improvements neededdown the road include newexamination tables and anupdated lab.

Our physicians andnurses do a marvelous jobwith the space they have,Paradis said. But wed liketo continue to move towarda streamlining o spaceand overall simpliication.Thats the goal.

Trio of transitionsto converge incoming months

by RYAN BRINKS

News Editor

The health insurancelandscape in Jackson

Local health inurance landcape to ee big changeCounty is about to changedrastically rom both theinside and out as a trio omajor transitions convergeon one single day.

Outwardly, Minnesotasversion o the health insur-ance exchange mandatedby the ederal AordableCare Act, commonly re-

erred to as Obamacare, isast approaching its open-ing day, Jan. 1, 2014, andpromises to signiicantlyshrink the ranks o theuninsured and peel backhealth care services ormany rom the emergencyroom to more aordablesettings.

Inwardly, a local push toslash government dupli-cation and streamline thedelivery o health and hu-man services is speedingtoward a merger o threeagencies in two counties,

with a switchover date oJan. 1, 2014.On top o changes to

both the programs and theadministration o govern-ment-run health care, eventhe delivery in between is

changing. Seeking to takeone o the biggest pieces othe health care puzzle outo the hands o big, metroinsurance companies andput it into local hands,Jackson County is one o

12 counties participatingin the start-up SouthernPrairie Community Care.

SPCC is a new healthcare delivery system toserve Medicaid and Min-nesotaCare clients that

will ocus on reducing theragmentation o medicaland other services, includ-ing public health, humanservices and mental health,thus helping consumershave a smoother and morecoordinated transitionrom sickness to health.

Its start date? Jan. 1,2014.

The reach o all thesechanges will not, however,extend to residents whoget their health insurancethrough their employer,and small business owners

have one more year beorechanges arrive or them.Local state air-goers

may have already re-ceived a taste o the com-ing changes, as promotionoMNsure.org, the statesonline health insurancemarketplace, kicked o atthe Minnesota State Fair,and now its call center isopen or questions at (855)3-MNSURE, or (855) 366-7873. Its sta are availableMonday through Fridayrom 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.and Saturdays rom 9 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.

MNsureAter more than a year

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training an initial 50hours per worker thatstarted late last month,Jackson County HumanServices Director CraigMyers and his sta havebegun what he expects willbe a prolonged scramble tokeep up.

On Oct. 1, the local DHSagency will begin takinginitial MNsure enrollmentapplications any way theycan in person, over thephone, on paper or via theInternet.

New ACA income guide-

lines mean more peoplewill qualiy or Medical As-sistance, MinnesotaCare orthe Aordable Care Actsbrand new Advanced Pre-mium Tax Credit to helposet the cost o premi-ums. Preliminary premiumestimates based on house-hold size and income areavailable at

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percent more cases inJackson and Cottonwoodcounties, Myers said, andthe 500,000 total o thosecurrently uninsured acrossthe state is anticipated todrop to 160,000 because o

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MNsure.In Jackson County, an es-

timated 814 people underthe age o 65, or 10 percento the countys under-65population, was uninsuredas o 2011, according tothe U.S. Census BureausSmall Area Health Insur-ance Estimates. That es-timate has a 1.1 percentmargin o error, and 2012

estimates are coming inDecember.

In anticipation o thosenew cases, JCHS eligibilitysupervisor Rose Carstensaid the agency alreadyhired one oice supportspecialist, currently basedin Cottonwood County butsoon to be integrated in themerged agency, becausetheres a six-month learn-ing curve to become amil-iar with all the programs.

Its quite a change orus, with a whole group opeople weve never servedbeore, she said.

And the initial wave onew clients will arrive

beore all the bugs areworked out o the onlineexchange.

Its going to be a lot owork, Myers said. Wellhave one oot in the old sys-tem and one oot in the newsystem literally twoscreens to pull inormationrom. But its a good thingto provide health coverageor those not having healthcoverage now.

The scramble at thestate level is both in train-ings that are booked solid,Carsten said, and in gettingall the technology pieces inplace, Myers added.

Eventually, Myers ex-

pects health care provid-ers to benet rom eweruncompensated medicalservices and uncared-orconditions, leading ulti-mately to a better job ohandling health care. Hisagency, soon to be calledDes Moines Valley Healthand Human Services, alsoanticipates eventual e-ciencies and savings dueto new technologies.

For example, the even-tual MNsure virtual storewill eature electronic veri-cation o an applicantsreported income througha ederal data hub, Carstensaid, liting the burden odetailed paper veriica-

tion currently practiced.Computer sotware will nolonger show case workersthe applicants inancialdetails, Myers noted, justa response whether or notthose details are veried asaccurate compared to led

tax returns.Individuals and amilies

who qualiy or the expand-ed MA and MinnesotaCareservices no longer have anasset limit nor a $10,000annual cap or inpatienthospital services, $1,000maximum co-pay on inpa-tient hospital services orour-month and 18-monthwaiting period to re-enroll,

and MinnesotaCare pre-miums are expected to besignicantly reduced.

Those who choose to re-main uninsured will acegradually escalating penal-ties next year and beyond,rom as little as $95 to asmuch as 2.5 percent o tax-able income or the actualpremium o a MNsure-o-ered plan.

In 2015, employers o 25or ewer employees willbe able to utilize MNsureas well, and those that donot will also ace penalties.

DVHHSIn the midst o the state-

level changes, the mergero Jackson County Hu-man Services, Cotton-wood-Jackson CommunityHealth Service and Cot-tonwood County FamilyServices into Des MoinesValley Health and HumanServices continues to gainspeed.

A phone system will linkall sta in both Jacksonand Windom oces by aquick extension, Myers hasbeen picked to continue tolead the new agency, rec-onciliation o policies is inthe works and employeeinsurance plan decisionsare expected by the end o

this week.DVHHS has an approved$10.5 million preliminarybudget or its debut yearin 2014 and will retain allsta rom current agen-cies, Myers added. Theplan or uture sta reduc-tions ocuses on attrition.

The most visible changesor the public will be thenew name, the changes toprograms oered and thelexibility to visit any othe oces.

The combined organiza-tion anticipates cost sav-ings, better redundancyand support, and a numbero areas o advantage withworking more closely with

public health.

SPCCThe Minnesota Depart-

ment o Human Servicesawarded Southern PrairieCommunity Care the op-portunity to negotiate a

contract or a healthcare delivery systemdemonstration projecton June 26, and SPCCis hoping to nalize thatby mid-October, saidexecutive director MaryFischer.

In the meantime,SPCC has been reach-ing out to hospitals andclinics to explain the

new care model and itsimplementation plan.A series o communitydiscussions and pro-vider meetings is alsooccurring.

SPCC seeks to workwith not only healthcare providers but alsocounty services (broad-ly deined to includepublic health, humanservices, social service,police, courts, treat-ment and housing), in-patient acilities, out-patient acilities, emer-gency rooms and othercommunity organiza-tions.

By better aligningthe services and sup-ports that residents re-ceive rom such sourc-es, SPCC claims to beable to improve citizensquality o lie and de-crease the overall costo services or govern-ment-unded programs,county-provided ser-vices and supports, andindividuals.

Its all ocused on pre-vention and early inter-vention so high-pricedcrisis services are notnecessary.

The three-year DHScontract being negoti-

ated comes with sharedsavings and no risk,Fischer said.

Its a very nice op-portunity or agenciesto begin collaborating ina no-risk environment,she added.

by LAURA DeKOK

Staff Writer

A Windom small busi-ness owner has expandedto downtown Jackson andis eager to see what the lo-

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Silhouette oers twospecialty services, theBiogenie Body Contouringand the Biogenie Facial,Haugen said. Resultsare guaranteed with eachtreatment.

The treatment process,she explained, was startedin France and brought tothe United States in 2002.The body contouring pro-cedure involves the use

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Ater the detox phases,we perorm what we terma remodeling phase, shesaid. The positive andnegative microcurrentsgrab the atty origin atcells, break them up, andthen we move them tonatural lymphatic drainagepoints in the body whereyou will eliminate themthrough sweating and uri-nation.

We guarantee a mini-mum o 3 inches lost pertreatment; however, ouraverage is 4 to 6 inches. Ihave clients who get 8 to

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Eve n be ore D ani -elle Pavelko opened thedoors o Serenity Healthand Healing Massage inLakeeld, she was a rmbeliever in the power oessential oils.

Five or six years priorto my opening my business

here in Lakeeld in 2011,I used essential oils per-sonally in diusers in myhome or aromatherapy,Pavelko said. Since open-ing my massage business,I use them proessionallywith all my clients.

Pavelko noted essentialoils have a history thatdates back even beorethe birth o Jesus whenthe three wise men cameto see the Messiah bearinggits; two o the gits theybore were essential oils rankincense and myrrh.

Today essential oils areused by people all over theworld, Pavelko said. Butessential oils have not beenused as much in the UnitedStates, however are beingused more now.

Pavelko said essentialoils are the oils o plantsthat are either the plantsdeense mechanism or itslieblood.

Plant cells and humancells work pretty much thesame way, Pavelko said.Essential oils can cross

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Danielle Pavelko has long been a believer in the power of essential oils.

the blood brain barrierquickly. That is how theywork. So i a person, orexample, goes to a doctorand they say you have avirus and there is nothingmuch you can do as antibi-otics wont work, essentialoils can get into the cellsand help.

Applied to the skin or in-gested with water, essential

oils enter the bloodstreamand the cells then are car-ried throughout the body inas little as three minutes.

Some people experi-ence immediate improve-ment and most at leastthe same day they applythem, Pavelko said, butI advise my clients to givethem at least a week towork.

And in Pavelkos experi-ence, both personally aswell as with her clientsproessionally, she has wit-nessed improvement.

My own daughter, Ol-ivia, had pneumonia andreoccurring problems withthat, Pavelko said. Sinceusing the essential oils,we have not had to takeher back to the doctor orthat. Ive seen essentialoils successully treat earinections and have usedit or the healing o my cli-ents bruises. The essentialoils are great or tons oskin issues and rashes likeshingles. I had a client thathad shingles, and by us-

ing essential oils, it neverspread, and the oils helpedkeep swelling and itchingdown or them.

And Pavelko has wit-nessed the eects essentialoils have had on peoplesuering rom some majorillnesses too.

I have clients that havesevere lung issues and theessential oils have helped

them breathe better andone o the oils I give themhelps support their im-mune system too, she said.We are in the process oseeing how essential oilswork with my sister. Imworking with her doctor, anoncologist in Sioux Falls,and she is using essen-tials oils or nausea andheadaches as well as all othe symptoms that are theresult o her treatments.I went with her to one othose treatment sessions atthe Prairie Cancer Centerand ound out they use es-sential oils in their treat-ments there too.

Pavelko said the essen-tial oils she uses are allnatural and she believesessential oils were put onearth or people to use tohelp others heal.

When we are in bal-ance when everythingis working right and oursystems are all working asthey should and our organsare healthy we dont getsick. When our bodies get

out o balance, that is whenwe start to experience dis-ease and illness. We werecreated balanced, shesaid. These oils help uscome back in balance sothe body can heal itsel.Our human cells run in apositive clockwise direc-tion. Plants cells run in thesame direction. Manmadesynthetic products andmanmade drugs generallygo in a counterclockwise ordierent direction. Theydont fow with the cells in

our body as was intended.Some can go in random di-rections too.

Pavelko said anyone canapply essential oils to any-where the skin is thin, suchas on the ace, neck andwrists. An exception to thatare the eet.

The reason I recom-mend people put the essen-tial oils on their eet, eventhough the skin o the eetis thick, is that the largestpores in a persons bodyare on the bottoms o theireet, she said. Because othat, when the essential oilsare applied to the bottomso the eet, there is a quick

uptake o the oils withinthe body.

Pavelko recommendsher clients apply the es-sential oils to their bodiesthree times per day i pos-sible starting out morn-ing, aternoon and evening.Ater a couple o weeks, ap-plications may be taperedto just twice daily morn-ing and evening.

As to the amount o theoils used each time Pavelkosaid, One drop o essentialoils is enough or most othe ones I use because theyare highly concentrated,

pure and undiluted oils.There is no dierence re-ally between my applyingthe oils to a person andtheir applying the oils tothemselves. I teach classeson essential oil applicationall the time and how to dothem. But I have schoolingin aromatherapy as well asmassage therapy.

And essential oils canbe used in combinationssaely too.

They all work, shesaid. I chose to layer theessential oils I use withmy clients. I eel it is morebenecial to them.

Essential oils range in

price rom a ew dollars tohundreds.

These essential oilsmay seem expensive, butthey go through a distilla-tion process and are verypure oils, Pavelko said.They are sold in smallquantities because theyare harvested and someare ound in only a veryew places, such as therankincense that comesrom Oman and can onlybe harvested once a yearby order o the king o thatcountry.

To give one an idea o

the concentration o theoils, Pavelko said one dropo peppermint oil is sohighly concentrated, it isthe equivalent o 23 cupso peppermint tea.

For anyone starting touse essential oils, I wouldrecommend they try thesethree: lavender, pepper-mint and lemon, she said.Lavender has a calmingand soothing eect and isgreat or rashes, bruisesand to calm a person down.Lemon is a natural detoxi-cation and can be ingestedby one drop in a glass owater. Peppermint is ananti-infammatory that is

great or muscle pain andheadaches.Pavelko has experienced

her greatest success witha shared client who hadvertigo.

This gal had vertigo sobad she couldnt stand up,Pavelko said. She had toquit her job, couldnt sup-port her children and everytime she stood up she vom-ited. I gave her an essentialoil blend and she is nowback to work ull time andnot experiencing any diz-ziness at all. She had beento doctors or treatmentand even visited the MayoClinic or help. I recentlyheard rom her and shehad just taken her childrento Adventure Land Park inIowa and they rode on thespinning cups and saucers.That was the most pro-ound result I have seenwith the essential oils I usewith my clients.


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Local and area hospitalsand nursing homes havebeen recognized or theireorts to vaccinate healthcare workers against in-fuenza.

In Jackson County, San-ord Jackson Medical Cen-ter in Jackson and Lakeeldand Colonial Manor Nurs-ing Home in Lakeeld eachreceived prestigious blue-ribbon rankings or reach-

ing vaccination levels o90 percent or greater dur-ing the 2012-2013 season.The two were among only55 hospitals and nursinghomes across the entirestate to attain this level oemployee vaccination.

Sa n o rd W o r th i n g -ton Medical Center inWorthington and WindomArea Hospital also earnedblue-ribbon rankings.

The local and area rec-ognitions come as par-ticipation in the statewideFluSae program continuesto grow. In its third year,219 health care acilitiesparticipated during the2012-13 fu season. A totalo 177 acilities achievedvaccination rates o atleast 70 percent. Amongthe 2012-13 acilities, 55reached vaccination levelso 90 percent or greater,earning blue ribbons; 65were in the 80 to 89 percentrange, earning red rib-bons; and 57 reached 70 to79 percent, earning whiteribbons.

All acilities that par-ticipate, even those notreaching 70 percent cov-erage rates, are taking im-portant steps to vaccinatemore health care work-ers, Minnesota Depart-ment o Health ocials say.

Since the beginning o theFluSae program in 2010-11, the number o acilitiesachieving 90 percent cov-erage rates or higher hasdoubled rom 27 that yearto 55 in 2012-2013.

This years ribbon-earn-ing acilities were rec-ognized Aug. 21 during astatewide telephone news

An area doctor who re-cently completed train-ing in a new, minimally

invasive hip replacementprocedure is now oeringthe many beneits o theprocedure to local patients.

Dr. Corey Welchlin othe Fairmont-based Centeror Specialty Care recentlycompleted the AnteriorSupine Intermuscular HipInstructional Course. Whatthis means or local pa-tients is minimally inva-sive hip replacement witha shorter incision at theront o the hip. Welchlin isthen able to reach the hipjoint by going between themuscles and tendons thatsurround the hip joint.

Traditional total hip re-

placement uses an incisionon the side, or toward theback o the hip. This inci-sion requires surgeons tocut through muscles andtendons, which requires alonger time to heal.

By using the ASI mini-mally invasive hip replace-ment procedure, Welchlincan preserve the mus-

conerence rom MDHoces in St. Paul. A mapshowing the location o theribbon-earning acilities

was also on display at theMDH booth in the Educa-tion Building during theMinnesota State Fair.

MDH oicials say un-vaccinated health careworkers can pass highlycontagious inluenza totheir patients, many owhom are at high risk orcomplications rom infu-

See the complete list o

FluSae acilities online at

jacksoncountypilot.comand

lakefeldstandard.com.

FluSafeVaccinating staff, protecting patients

2012-13Results

55 Blue Ribbon Winners

31hospitals

24nursinghomes

65 Red Ribbon Winners

35hospitals

30nursinghomes

57 White Ribbon Winners

30hospitals

27nursinghomes

August 21, 2013

Highlights 219hospitalsandnursinghomesparticipated.

177(80percent)offacilitiesreached70%orgreater.

55(25percent)offacilitiesreachedtheHealthyPeople2020goalof90%orhigher.

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Local, area hopital and nuring home earn top Flusafe ranking

enza. The FluSae programaims to get all health carepersonnel, except thosewith medical exemptions,

at hospitals and nursinghomes in Minnesota vac-cinated against inluenzaeach season.

The U.S. Departmento Health and HumanServices has set a goal ovaccinating 90 percent ohealth care personnel inits Healthy People 2020objectives. National rates

o inluenza vaccinationo health care workers areestimated at 66.7 percent.

While some measures

show that Minnesotasrates are slightly higher, weare still below the nationalgoals. FluSae is one waythat Minnesotas healthcare acilities have steppedup to the plate, said Kris-ten Ehresmann, directoro Inectious Disease Epi-demiology Prevention andControl at MDH.

Ehresmann said she waspleased with the increased

number o participantsin the FluSae programthis past year and the im-provements theyve madein their vaccination rates,particularly among nursinghomes. A total o 113 nurs-ing homes participated inthe program in 2012-13, uprom 98 the previous year.

Considering there aresome 375 nursing homesin the state, where so manyo our most vulnerableresidents live, we haveplenty o room or improve-ment, she said. Therewere 30 acilities new tothe program this year andwere working hard withour partners to get moreacilities to take action andparticipate.

There are 145 hos-pitals in the state, o

which 106 participated.Under the FluSae pro-gram, health care acili-ties receive guidance andaccess to tools and pro-

motional materials romMDH and the U.S. Centersor Disease Control andPrevention to help themincrease their rates. Theacilities record and docu-ment their vaccinationrates through the stateselectronic immunizationinormation system, theMinnesota ImmunizationInormation Connection.

The program bene-its acilities, said pro-gram coordinator JennierHeath. It shows patientsand amilies that the acil-itys employees are com-mitted to patient saety byactively ghting infuenza

inection. Annual vacci-nation keeps workers andtheir amilies healthiertoo.

Area doctor ofering local residents a newand improved hip replacement procedure

cles and tendons and re-duce trauma to tissue sur-rounding the hip joint. This

means patients will be ableto walk sooner hopeullythe day o surgery, haveless postoperative pain and

return to daily activitiesmore quickly.

Questions regarding the

procedure or requests ormore inormation may bedirected to the Center orSpecialty Care.
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