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Elizabeth Wilson, MDBoone OB/GYN

Shauna Tuggle, RNBoone OB Nurse


Dear Neighbor,

Long ago, there was little here but a very steep hill. And up the hill, there was a path for wagons.

It was part of a trail used by early Missouri settlers as they traveled west.

While passage up the hill was always difficult, it became especially complicated during rain or when snow was melting. Wagons would begin to slide and wheels would spin. As they slipped and struggled on the soggy hillside, some travelers became stuck. But before long, locals would arrive and help pull the wagons to the top.

Once out of the mud, and before moving on, the travelers and locals would often stop to rest at the top of the hill.

This story is part of a book we published back in 1996: The History of Boone Hospital Center. That hill where they rested is where Boone Hospital Center sits today. The trail, which was called the Boone’s Lick Trail, is now Broadway.

It’s fascinating to imagine what one of those early travelers might say if they were to see our hill today. Certainly, much has changed. I imagine they would be amazed by the beautiful, brick hospital campus, with our community’s new patient tower rising high against horizon.

The people who rested under the shade trees atop our hill long ago most likely could not envision that such a structure would one day be built here. They would probably also be astounded that the once-remote location is now home to one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals.

However, they would also likely notice that one thing remained the same — this is still a place where people reach out to help others in need, whether they are stuck travelers or patients needing care. The spirit of giving is so ingrained in our culture it is not surprising to learn that it is part of the very ground this hospital was built upon.

This spring, as we prepare to welcome patients to the new tower, we will be writing the next chapter of our history. Building this new tower is a major accomplishment for this community and I hope you will join us to celebrate the occasion.

Serving others is our shared history — and our future.

Daniel J. Rothery

Note From DanOur Past And Our Future – Commitment to Caring Is At The Heart Of Our Mission

Dan RotheryPresident

Boone Hospital Center


We’ve been enjoying the pictures of the Boone Babies on TV.

Our grandson, Danny Brock Basler, was born there October 22, 2009. He is our seventh grandson, born to our youngest son and his wife, Jason and Sonna Basler. He is such a blessing.

Thank you, Boone Hospital doctors and nurses who took care of them on the day of his birth and the days following until they got to go home.

They are all doing extremely well, and he is such a joy to be around.

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My story happened almost a year ago now, but it is something that I will never forget. I was hospitalized at Boone

Hospital Center in April 2010 for a very difficult pregnancy. I remained in the hospital there until May 2010.

When admitted to the hospital, I was very scared. Heavy, constant bleeding throughout pregnancy isn’t something normal. Bed rest was the only way to go. One day into my stay there in the ante-partum ward, my doctor (Dr. Elizabeth Wilson, who is an amazing OB-GYN) decided that I was losing too much blood and that it was time for a blood transfusion.

Needless to say, I was terrified, but with the encouragement of Dr. Wilson and the nurses, I knew it was something that could help my baby and myself. That was blood transfusion No. 1 of the six total that I received during my stay there.

The nurses and techs there are more than amazing, they are true angels! The doctors are top-of-the-line doctors and they really do see to your needs.

Sadly, my daughter Rylee Marie didn’t survive (RIP 5/5/10), but I do wholeheartedly believe that the doctors and nurses there gave their best to keep my daughter and me going.

I owe them my life. They are truly amazing in their craft and are absolutely wonderful people! I can’t say enough good things about them.

Pediatric Nurses Work Wonders With Young PatientBrittany Bailey, Columbia

This is our first stay at Boone. We are staying on the second floor Pediatrics wing.

Jaxan doesn’t feel well and is quite cranky, but nurse Miriam and nurse Karen have been gentle and patient with him.

They have done everything in their power to make Jaxan comfortable, calm, and even happy (as hard as that is right now).

Our experience here has been far better than visits to other hospitals in the past.We will continue to trust Boone with our health care needs from this point on.

Boone’s ‘Angels’ Offer SupportDuring Difficult Pregnancy

Helen Knight, Fultogn

“He Is Such A Joy To Be Around” Louise Basler, Macon


I was admitted to Labor and Delivery on Tuesday March 29, 2011. Later that day, Boone Hospital Center nurses and doctors would help change my life.

I had a Cesarean at 4:10 p.m. that day. At 4:36 p.m., my fourth son Jaxon was born. Jaxon had to be taken to the ICN for respiratory problems. I was told when returning to my recovery room that he would have to be in ICN for a minimum of 24 hours. I was worried!

When I was able to go to my postpartum room, they wheeled me through the ICN so I could see my son and hold him for the first time. I was so scared — he was hooked up to all sorts of machines. I was still groggy from my surgery so wasn’t 100 percent sure what was going on.

Once I was in my room, the nurses and doctors came to explain to me what was going on. They made it very easy to understand what was going on with his

respiratory issues. They said he didn’t have a set date that he would leave, but he would be there for more than 24 hours.

Today is Sunday, April 3, 2011. We are hopefully going home tomorrow.

After spending a week in ICN with my son, I got to meet a variety of nurses and a few doctors. I would like to let everyone know that every single staff member of this hospital will make your stay the best that they can!

I had so many questions to ask regarding my son, and every single question was answered. I have three other sons, born at three other hospitals locally, and by far Boone Hospital has the best staff of nurses, doctors, med techs, and many other employees!

Words cannot express the gratitude I have for this staff. I wish I could tell them how much they mean to my family and the way they took care of my newborn son! They are amazing!

Thank you so much, Boone!

Thankful For Care During Newborn’s ICN TreatmentDierdre Cooney, Hallsville

After having a terrible first pregnancy and a daughter born stillborn at another hospital, I switched to Dr. David Moreton and Boone

Hospital. They were able to diagnose my blood clotting factor and saved both myself and my third child.

Then, when a surprise pregnancy happened again in 2008, Dr. Moreton and the staff at Boone got me through that pregnancy as well. As terribly risky and hard as those pregnancies were, they ended with beautiful, amazing children.

I also have to say the nurses who took care of me for weeks at a time in the hospital were wonderful and everyone working the NICU are amazing and not only took wonderful care of my babies, but helped us as a family learn to take care of our premature babies.

I love Boone Hospital and tell everyone I know!

Through Risky Pregnancies, Mother Delivers Befautiful Children At BooneVanessa Burns

“You Could Not Ever Ask For Better Care And Treatment”Clarissa Woolery, Marshall

I have been a patient at Boone Hospital twice. I want to let everyone know that you could not ever ask for better care and treatment.

My first surgery was in March 2000. It was for familial polyposis. The surgeon I

had was great and did a wonderful job and all involved made sure that my family and I understood everything going on.

My second surgery was in August 2009 for my back. The surgeon and all involved were wonderful with that one also. The

nursing staff and all other areas as well were wonderful.

Thanks for a great job and keep up the good work. Thanks all involved and to the community for helping make the hospital what it is.

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Pacemakers are important devices used to help regulate abnormal heartbeats. MRI scans are critical diagnostic tools for a number of health issues. But

until recently, the two tools didn’t mix. Existing pacemakers are known to

malfunction when in close proximity to powerful magnets, such as an MRI machine. That meant patients with

pacemakers could not have an MRI, even when an MRI would be the best diagnostic tool.

But a new pacemaker device, implanted for the first time in mid-Missouri on February 25, eliminates the conflict between pacemakers and MRI scanners.

Dan Pierce, M.D., a cardiologist with Missouri Heart Center, performed the procedure to install the Medtronic Revo MRI SureScan Pacemaker System into patient David Burle. This new pacemaker system, which was recently approved by the FDA, will make it safe for patients with the new system to receive MRI scans.

While the surgery itself was like any other pacemaker implant procedure, Pierce said the system simply amounts to better service to his patient. “I’m very happy to be able to serve and help this patient,” he said. “Whether I’m the first or the last, this patient needs it.”

Neurologist Justin Malone, M.D., with Neurology Inc., regularly uses MRI scans as a diagnostic tool sand has been limiteds in the past by the pacemaker technology. He said the new technology will be transformational for his patients.

“In regard to neurological issues, where MRI scanning is vastly superior to CT scanning, this is a great advancement,” Malone said.

Boone Hospital NamfedAmong 100 Top Hospitals

For the second consecutive year, Boone Hospital Center has been named among the nation’s top 100 hospitals.

The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals list is an annual study that analyzes and compares hospital performance in areas of patient care, safety and financial strength. Boone Hospital is one of just three Missouri hospitals — two of which are part of BJC HealthCare — to be recognized among the nation’s best.

“This is truly an honor for our outstanding caregivers and staff, our amazing physicians and all of mid-Missouri. In working to give our region one of the best hospitals in the nation, we are blessed with support from our entire community. That support is critical to Boone Hospital’s continued success,” said Daniel Rothery, Boone Hospital president. “As we mark this honor, we are even more excited to show our community the future of care at Boone Hospital when we open our new patient tower in June. This new facility, with 128 private patient rooms, will take our patient care experience to the next level.”

In releasing the list of the top hospitals, Thomson Reuters notes that if all hospitals operated at the same level as the top 100, nearly 116,000 additional patients would survive each year, more than 197,000 patient complications would be avoided annually, the average patient stay would decrease by half a day and expense per adjusted discharge would drop by $462.

The list is broken down by hospital size and focus. Boone Hospital was one of 20 large community hospitals to make the 100 Top Hospitals list. Nearly 3,000 hospitals are reviewed in creating the list. Hospitals do not apply for the award.

Learn more at www.100tophospitals.com.

American Medical Association President Cecil Wilson Welcomed For Tour Of Boone Hospital Center’s New Patient Tower

On March 18, Cecil Wilson, M.D., president of the American Medical Association, visited with staff and physicians at Boone

Hospital Center and toured the new patient tower construction site.

“It looks spectacular,” said Wilson, an internist from Winter Park, Fla. “I am impressed by the focus on patient safety and quality, which go together.”

Setting The Pace – New Technology Changes Life Of Boone Patient Receiving Mid-Missouri’s First MRI-Safe Pacemaker


About 650 community members came out to the 11th annual Boone Hospital Heart Fair on Feb. 17, 2011, to have their numbers checked. The Boone

Hospital Foundation and Boone Hospital staff provided cholesterol screenings and heart-health information for free to visitors to celebrate Heart Month.

“Sometimes people postpone trips to the doctor,” said Barb Danuser, executive director of the Boone Hospital Foundation. “When it’s set up like this, where they can just walk through, they may be more apt to come and get their numbers.”

Staff and volunteers helped visitors determine their body mass index and blood

pressure. The Heart Fair offered complete cholesterol screenings, including triglycerides, LDL, HDL and blood glucose.

The results came out in about seven minutes. In the meantime, participants could wander the booths full of information about heart health. A caregiver from Boone Hospital showed off stents and other tools used in heart surgery as interns played Fiber Tic-Tac-Toe.

Once the results came back, visitors could meet one-on-one with a nurse or dietitian to talk about their results and lifestyle changes to benefit heart health.

Joanie Janes, a nursing student at MU, had never attended the Heart Fair before. She was surprised by how quickly she got in

and out with her numbers and received some advice on eating healthy.

“I need to work harder to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into my diet,” Janes said.

Brenda Wilson, BSN, RN-BC, has been part of the organization of the Heart Fair since the beginning.

“These numbers are important to look at to see your potential risk for cardiovascular disease,” Wilson said. “We take into account your age and lifestyle and interpret those numbers for you.”

Elaine Kent of Centralia explains why she came out to get her numbers, “It’s important. Why not take the opportunity to find out where I am right now?”

By the end of the summer, people in Columbia and surrounding areas will have more opportunities to check their numbers with the new Know Your Numbers Mobile Heath Unit.

“We’re in the process of taking these screenings to a new venue; we’re taking it on the road!” said Jeff Zimmermann, health promotions supervisor at Boone Hospital. “The Boone Hospital Foundation has purchased through community donations a mobile health unit. The van will allow us to take this on the road to the 26 counties surrounding Boone County. We can offer these services to small communities and we are excited about that!”

Good For The Heart – 11th Annual Heart Fair Provides Free Screenings

Hospice Medical Director Named Physician Of The Year By Missouri Alliance For Home Care

Pamela Honeycutt, M.D., has been named the 2011 Physician of the Year by the Missouri Alliance for Home Care. Since 2002, Honeycutt has served as the medical director for the Boone Hospital Home Care Hospice program. As an oncologist, Honeycutt said she

has seen the benefits of Boone’s home hospice program.“With many of my patients, one the most important things I end

up doing is helping them live out their lives as well as possible,” she said. “Palliative care and hospice are incredibly important for that.”

Honeycutt said she was delighted and honored with the award, but passed much of the praise to the nurses, aides and everyone serving patients at Boone Hospital Home Care.

“For these patients, having someone who can hold their hand and help them grow and deal with the problems is incredibly important,” she said.

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Even as a child, James Pitt had a weight problem.

His mom remembers it starting around the time he was 3, after his tonsils were

removed. Growing up as a heavy child, Pitt decided to try dieting at just 10 years old. It was the first of many tries.

“I can tell you, for some of us it doesn’t matter what you do, how much you restrict your diet or how many times you go on a diet,” he said. “I’ve been trying not to eat since I was 10. It’s just a constant struggle of up and down, up and down.”

Pitt remembers being in the best shape of his life as he graduated from high

school. However, at 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds at the time, he was still technically overweight and nearly obese.

In college and later in medical school, Pitt’s weight problem took a turn for the worse as he ballooned to nearly 300 pounds.

Then, after he graduated, he became James Pitt, D.O. — a surgeon.

In the early 2000s, Dr. Pitt started performing gastric banding surgeries to help obese patients. The minimally invasive procedure places a small band around the upper portion of the stomach. The device makes patients feel full and get hungry less often.

During patient checkups following the banding surgery, Pitt saw that the device worked. His patients were slowly losing the weight they had struggled with their entire lives. Patients with serious weight-related health problems such as high blood pressure and diabetes were seeing those problems improve or disappear completely.

In 2006, after helping dozens of patients, Pitt decided to help himself. He had a gastric band placed on his own stomach.

Today, many pounds lighter, Pitt often shares this story with the new patients he meets. It’s a rare type of connection between a doctor and patient.

A Rare ConnectionBoone Surgeon James Pitt Inspires Patients With His Own Weight Loss Story

Dr. James Pitt performs a surgery

at Boone Hospital Center.


“I let them know that it’s not an easy decision and I had to make the same decision they are making,” Pitt said. “That’s why I share it with them. There aren’t a lot of operations where I can say, ‘I know exactly what you mean.’ But this is one where I can.”

•••••••••Pitt grew up in rural Iowa near the

town of Pella. With a nurse for a mother and a nurse’s aide for a father, health care was simply a way of life.

“I grew up around it,” Pitt said. “My future father-in-law was also a small town osteopath in the same area.”

When he went to college at Northeast Missouri State — now called Truman State University — he decided to pursue forestry as a major, but he ended up spending time with a group of friends who were mostly biology pre-med majors. So he changed his path.

“I decided I could do that too,” he said. “And it went from there.”

Another turning point happened when he was a junior in college. At that time, Pitt’s father had become seriously ill from heart disease. He went to Phoenix for cardiac bypass surgery. Pitt spent time with his father after the surgery and saw him recover.

He was amazed at the improvement he saw in his father.

“It was watching the change that happened in him,” Pitt said. “He went into the hospital near death because of his heart disease. But he goes into surgery and then comes out of the hospital much better than he went in. That’s what got me thinking about surgery.”

Pitt later studied medicine and surgery at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.

He was introduced to Columbia Surgical Associates as a resident and joined the practice in 1993. He spent his first seven years as a surgeon serving patients at the Lake of the Ozarks.

He and his family — wife Karen, and children Jason, Jessica and Kelly — moved to Columbia in 2000.

“We have literally the nicest people anywhere,” Pitt said of the mid-Missouri community. He said the laid-back nature here reminds him of the people he knew growing up in Iowa.

Another perk is working at Boone

Hospital Center, which he praised for the hospital’s very high standard of care.

“It is the best hospital between Kansas City and St. Louis — it just is the best,” he said. “They get things done right. They know how to take care of people.”

•••••••••Pitt is kept busy doing anywhere from

12 to 20 surgeries each week. He operates on people with hernias, gallbladder problems, gastric reflux and other health issues. It’s a job with a lot of variety.

But he finds working with obese patients through the gastric banding process to be the most rewarding.

“Most of the things we do in surgery, we can get people back to where they were before the surgery. If somebody has a gallbladder that hurts them, we can get rid of that pain and make them feel better,” he said. “But the change that we can help people achieve with gastric banding is so much more immense than that. Literally, you can give people their lives back.”

Pitt has seen many patients through life transformations. One of his patients is

actually a national model for a new gastric banding advertising campaign.

Five years after his own gastric banding surgery, Pitt said his weight is down to 213 pounds and it’s still dropping.

He said he’s not always his own best patient, and thus he can relate to his patients who sometimes struggle after the

surgery. “It took me a couple years to figure out how to do things right,” he said.

Yet, he is continually making progress toward his goal: getting back to the 180 pounds he was when he graduated from high school.

Pitt said doing surgeries every day can become like any other job.

Yet, there are times when he reflects about the amazing level of trust that his patients have in his abilities.

“This is a privileged job to have people lay down on an operating table,” Pitt said. “A lot of satisfaction comes from that. When you really get down to just the nuts and bolts of what we do as surgeons, I think you can talk to anyone who takes care of patients and they’d say they can’t think of anything they’d rather be doing.”

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When you walk down the hall, past the rooms inside Boone Hospital Center’s new patient tower, one of the first

things that will stand out is how the entryway to each room is slightly angled from the wall.

It’s an unusual sight.In comparison to a traditional hallway,

with the entries flat along the corridor, these doors are gently staggered, angled toward the patient’s bed.

As it turns out, the design choice goes beyond aesthetics. Hospital leaders chose to angle the doors so doctors, nurses and caregivers could see the patient as they pass each room.

That way, a nurse just walking down the hall for another purpose can informally check the status of a dozen patients as he or she passes. More eyes on each patient mean any problems are spotted sooner and care is provided more quickly.

This attention to detail and focus on safety is everywhere inside the new patient tower.

“We’ve really focused on evidence-based practice, and how we can make our patients safer,” said Monica Smith, Boone Hospital director of patient care services. “We have put a lot of thought into working safety into our design.”

For example, when hospital leaders were deciding where to place the restrooms inside each patient room, they looked to the research. They found that most hospital falls happen while patients are using the restroom or moving to and from the restroom. The answer was to move the restrooms closer to the patient beds and ensure they are more accessible from the bed. It’s a simple change but one that will make a meaningful difference in helping reduce dangerous falls.

Every patient room is also structured and organized for same-handedness, meaning all the equipment and supplies are located in the same location in each room.

“If you are a nurse who goes from one floor to another, you will know where everything is,” Smith said. “You don’t have to go hunting for supplies; you are more efficient and it doesn’t take any time away from caring for the patient.”

Another time-saving safety feature is the new tower’s decentralized nursing stations. Traditionally, the caregivers in each hospital unit are based around a central nursing station. This new design places smaller stations nearer to the patient rooms, allowing nurses to be more responsive and pay closer attention to patient needs.

The new rooms were also created with a focus on ensuring patients have a comforting healing environment that goes well beyond the traditional hospital setting.

Each room is set up in invisible “zones” that help establish a natural flow to the room and set aside space for caregivers and patients. The room design also recognizes the importance of family members to the healing process. Each room comes equipped with a pull-out couch for family members. Current research shows that there are better outcomes when patients and their families are active participants in the healing process.

Another easily-overlooked feature of the new rooms are the windows. The large windows and their position in the rooms are designed to maximize natural light inside the rooms. This can help preserve natural day and night body rhythms for patients facing multi-day stays in the hospital.

For Myrl Frevert, Boone Hospital’s director of Support Services, watching the tower project come together from the early plans has been “almost like a dream.”

“At every decision point, we asked, ‘What’s the right thing for the patient?’” Frevert said. “As it’s coming in to reality, I know we’re doing the best thing for our patients. This is a true healing environment for them.”

Healing By DesignSafety Is Built Into Every Aspect Of Boone’s New Patient Tower

Boone Hospital CenterN E W PAT I E N T TOW E R

June 26 - Grand Opening Celebration


Barb Danuser has a vision.

Her vision sits in the open space between Boone Hospital Center’s new patient tower and the existing hospital wing that

houses the Boone Family Birthplace and other services. At the tower’s opening, there will be a simple green lawn and a quiet path in the space. But Barb sees more.

“When I walk past that area, I think of a patient looking out of the window and seeing not just a lawn but beautiful flowers, trees, water — this wonderful natural scene right outside their room,” Danuser said. “I think of the families who need a moment to themselves and who can step outside into this serene environment. Turning this space into a garden would transform the hospital experience.”

Danuser, director of the Boone Hospital Foundation, is working to do just that. She is currently raising money to create a Healing Garden in the open space.

This planned Healing Garden is part of a new trend of adding gardens to hospital campuses. While hospitals are discovering the benefit of gardens, the idea that natural beauty aids healing goes back hundreds of

years. European monasteries built during the Middle Ages included intricate gardens intended to help sick people and distract them from their illnesses. The idea persisted even up through the 1800s when American hospitals as well as those in Europe often included gardens.

But with the medical advances of the 1900s — Boone County Hospital opened in 1921 — the focus in hospital construction turned to infection prevention, efficiency and functionality. Gardens were gradually phased out.

In recent years, hospitals have started to rediscover the garden concept. And new academic research shows that the caregivers hundreds of years ago were right — the gardens have a positive impact on patient outcomes. A number of academic studies conducted during the 1990s show that hospital gardens reduce stress and improve satisfaction among hospital patients. Even more exciting are studies that suggest gardens can actually help lessen pain, shorten hospital stays and decrease post-surgical complications.

“Having a garden is so much more than having a beautiful thing to look at — and

the early hospitals understood that,” Danuser said. “This is something that could really make a difference for our patients as they recover.”

Just as Boone Hospital is itself a community asset, Danuser’s goal is to make the Healing Garden a community project in which anyone can help. She is looking for community members or organizations who can pitch in and make donations toward the things that will make the Healing Garden a place of beauty and serenity.

There are water features, benches, trees and other items to sponsor. Many Boone Hospital employees have already chosen to purchase bricks that will be a part of the garden. The bricks are customizable with special messages for recognizing a coworker, family member or just leaving your mark on this hospital’s long history.

There are still some spaces left for community members who wish to purchase bricks or other items and leave their own messages in the garden.

Anyone who is interested helping make Danuser’s vision a reality may contact her at 573-815-2800 or write to [email protected].

A Vision Of SerenityBoone Hospital Foundation Works To Bring A Healing Garden To Columbia


JoAnn Wilson prefaces her colorectal cancer story with a warning for the squeamish.

“This is going to get gross,” she says. “This is not a pretty cancer;

this is an ugly cancer.”Until recently, Wilson thought she was

immune from cancer. She is a nonsmoker who eats healthily, exercises regularly and teaches aerobics classes.

“I’ve always said that I am impervious to cancer,” said Wilson, of Columbia. “Cancer didn’t even cross my mind.”

But in 2009, she learned her sister had been experiencing rectal bleeding. At first, Wilson’s sister thought the bleeding was caused by an Ironman Triathlon she had recently completed. But just two weeks later, her sister had a colonoscopy and discovered that she had stage 4 colon cancer.

At 61 years old, Wilson herself had never had a colonoscopy. This is despite the fact doctors recommend most people have their first colonoscopy at age 50. People with a family history of colon cancer are often asked to come in earlier.

But even with the discovery of colon cancer in her family, Wilson remained reluctant to have a colonoscopy. Her husband pressed the issue.

“He made the appointment and drug me in there kicking and screaming,” Wilson said.

At Boone Hospital Center, Wilson’s colonoscopy uncovered a large mass on her cecum. It was stage 3 colon cancer and it had spread to her lymph nodes. A week later, Wilson was back in the hospital where doctors removed almost half her colon and her lymph nodes.

After the surgery, she had 10 rounds of chemotherapy treatment. Of the care she received at Boone Hospital, Wilson said, “it was wonderful.”

Today, she can report that she and her sister are doing much better. She’s had two normal CT scans since her cancer scare.

“My prognosis is really good that I

should be in remission for a long, long time,” she said.

Wilson said it was the warning from her sister’s cancer that likely saved her life. She never would have gone in for a colonoscopy without her sister’s illness. And because Wilson’s cancer was in her cecum, she likely would not have experienced any symptoms until it was too late.

“I looked like the picture of health. I was the picture of health,” she said. “There are no symptoms. It’s a silent killer.”

For anyone else who feels impervious to colon cancer, Wilson’s message is: “To anyone who is 50 and hasn’t had a colonoscopy — if it can happen to me, it can happen to you.”

A Necessary Screening“If It Can Happen To Me, It Can Happen To You”

“I looked like the fpicture of health. If was the picture of health.”


Diane Holmes watches as the nurse slowly unwraps the ban-dage on her right leg. As the bandage loosens, a small wound — about the size of a fingernail

— is revealed on her ankle. The wound has healed greatly since

Holmes’s first visit here, to the Boone Hospital Center Wound Healing Center.

“You guys have been so wonderful to me,” said Holmes, 64. “Dr. Jamison, she is wonder-ful and I have the highest praise for all of the staff here.”

The wound happened last May. Holmes was helping remove a large maple tree from her front yard at her home near Paris, Mo. While it was a nice tree, Holmes disliked all the helicopter-like seeds that fell into her flowerbeds each spring.

“I was forever pulling up little maple trees and trying to get them out of there,” she said.

After the tree was cut down, Holmes was helping split the wood. One large log proved too big for the splitter and laid in the yard as they worked. At one point, Holmes went into her house to get a glass of water for the man running the chainsaw.

As she brought the water out, she passed by the large log, which suddenly rolled over and slammed into her right leg, above her ankle.

“It didn’t break the skin, it didn’t scratch, it didn’t bleed, it didn’t anything,” Holmes said. “But it hurt so bad I wanted to cry — but I didn’t cry.”

Over the next week, the spot where the log hit her leg swelled up and bruised. When the swelling went down, the spot ruptured into a wound. As a tough woman with a high toler-ance for pain, Holmes first tried treating the wound herself.

“I was born and raised on a farm,” she said. “When you get an ouchie, you go wash it off, put a bandage on it and you go do what you were supposed to be doing.”

But this wound kept getting worse and bigger — eventually growing to the size of silver dollar.

At the advice of the workers at her local health department, she saw a doctor who referred her to the Boone Hospital Wound

Healing Center. At the center, nurses and Kimberly Jamison, M.D., assessed the wound and put Holmes on a track toward healing. Today, the wound is steadily decreasing in size.

Since 2008, the Wound Healing Center, located in Broadway Medical Plaza III, has earned a reputation for top-notch patient care and cutting-edge treatments. The facility has two hyperbaric oxygen chambers and offers a wide range of wound dressings.

“Depending on the patient and the wound, the plan of action will determine the dressing we are going to use,” said Jamison, a certified wound care physician and the center’s medical director.

The Wound Healing Center also boasts pa-tient success rates well above national standards.

For example, national standards say lead-ing wound healing clinics should be able to heal 80 percent of the wounds they see in 16 weeks or less. Boone Hospital’s Wound Healing Center is able to heal 89 percent of wounds in that time.

Also, leading wound centers aim for an amputation rate of less than three percent. Boone’s amputation rate is .3 percent.

“Amputation is a four-letter word around here,” said Kim Mitchell, the center’s clinical nursing supervisor. “Everything that we do is a best practice. It’s been tried, true and proven.”

Jamison said part of the center’s suc-

cess comes from her ability to consult with a wide variety of doctors at Boone Hospital and provide a multidisciplinary ap-proach to her patients.

“Because we have so many specialties at Boone Hospital, when you have a really tough case, you can talk to other ex-

perts,” she said.Jamison said she feels rewarded in her

work when she is able to heal a wound a per-son has had for months or even years. She also knows the Wound Healing Center is provid-ing outstanding care because sometimes pa-tients simply don’t want to stop coming.

“We have had patients who cry because they are healed up and they say, ‘but I can’t come back and see you,’” she said.

Holmes said she was not familiar with Boone Hospital before her trip, but said she was grateful “to find such wonderful people and such a wonderful hospital — they are so caring.”

She said the staff at the wound center even helped her receive financial assistance for her treatments. In thanks, Holmes spent two months creating a framed tapestry for the wound center. The tapestry, which hangs in the center’s waiting room, depicts Jesus hold-ing a lamb.

“That’s kind of the way I look at them,” Holmes said of her caregivers at the Wound Healing Center. “They are wonderful lambs of God with their care.”

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I’m going to give you a recipe that you’re really going to love.

For breakfast, it’s an ideal compromise of a home cooked, stick-to-your-ribs meal while still fitting into the busiest schedule. Not to mention, it tastes so good you might sneak in an extra scoop for dessert later that night.

But before I give it to you, I’m going to tell you how healthy it is, if for no other reason than to give you loads of information that you can use to educate all your friends and family.

First, although it’s not going to cure you of every ailment, oats can help:

-lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol -lower your blood pressure -keep your blood sugars stable-keep you feeling fuller longer. Introduced early into the diet,

oats may also reduce a child’s risk of developing asthma. They’re also higher in protein than other cereal grains, like wheat. And have I mentioned they’re also a great source of antioxidants?

Not to be limited to breakfast alone, oats can be incorporated into any meal. They can be used instead of bread crumbs as a coating for baked chicken, or as the base of a pilaf and used as a side dish.

Oats also come in a variety of forms. In their fresh-from-the-stalk form we call them groats — the entire oat kernel, unprocessed. From this point you can have steel cut or Irish oats, which are groats that have been cut into two to three pieces by steel blades, making them easier to cook.

If the groats have been stone ground, we call them Scottish oats which produce a more porridge-like hot cereal. If the groats are rolled flat and then steamed (to keep them from going rancid), you have the ever-popular old-fashioned oats,

and from this you get quick oats which are just old fashioned oats steamed for a longer period of time.

As you go from one type of oat to the next, the nutrient content stays the same.

Since oats are a whole grain, and processing does not remove any of their bran layer, they retain all their fiber.

One thing that does change is how quickly your body can digest them. The more processed the oat is, the faster your body can break it down and move it through your body. So if you find breakfast only holds you for one or two hours, you might find your growling

stomach is silenced by the power of steel cut oats — which brings us back to our recipe.

Baked oatmeal is a hearty meal you cook once but enjoy for the entire week.

It also changes with your mood since you can add in whatever fruit you fancy that week. Since it can be eaten hot, straight from the oven, reheated in the microwave or enjoyed cold right out of the fridge, it’s a recipe that adapts to the ever-changing Missouri temperatures.

It’s the only bowl of oatmeal that can satisfy on the most humid of August mornings.

WELLAWARE Health CornerSteel Cut Oats: A Great – And Healthy – Food For Every SeasonBy Kristy Lang, Registered Dietician at Boone Hospital Center.

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With a list of possible suspects in mind, the two doctors begin their investigation — searching for clues.

The victim enjoys backpacking in the woods. The doctors want to know, did the hiker go in any caves recently? Has he purified water out on the trail? Has he been hiking in another country? Does he have a dog? Any recent tick bites?

Each question helps them narrow in on a suspect — an infectious disease that’s left the hiker with flu-like symptoms.

“There is a lot of detective work,” said Brian Johnson, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at Boone Hospital Center. “Sometimes there is a mystery and you have to figure it out. We ask a lot of questions. We want to see who they are,

what they do and what kind of exposures they may have.”

Asking questions helps Johnson and his partner, Carlos Figueroa-Castro, M.D., understand how the disease process has evolved in the patient. They ask, how long has the disease been present? How quickly did it come on? Did it start strong or come on gradually?

Infectious diseases are often tricky. A wide variety of diseases often display the same symptoms — fatigue, fever, chills, muscle aches. In other words, they all feel like the flu.

But Johnson and Figueroa-Castro find the challenge appealing. As a gumshoe physician, there’s always a new puzzle to solve, disease to handcuff and patient to help.

“You don’t get bored doing this, it’s

very exciting,” Figueroa-Castro said. “You see new things and learn new things every day. It’s very cool.”

•••••••••The doctors said their field has seen

progress in recent years and decades — allowing them to help solve disease mysteries like never before.

Just a few years ago, methicillin-resistant infections were a major challenge. But now, doctors are largely on top of it. The same goes for tick-borne illnesses.

“Those were very complicated issues five years ago,” Johnson said. “Now, many doctors are very skilled at diagnosing, treating and asking the right questions about those illnesses.”

Perhaps the greatest advancement has been in the treatment of the HIV infection that can lead to AIDS. HIV

Disease DetectivesDoctors Search For Clues In Fight Against Infectious Disease


can be transmitted by unprotected sex, contaminated blood, blood products or from an infected mother to her child during pregnancy.

Two decades ago, HIV was a grim diagnosis. Yet today, the doctors said a dedicated physician and patient can control HIV for decades. Now, doctors are often more concerned about their HIV patients’ blood pressure, weight, cholesterol and other common health risks.

“It’s becoming like prostate cancer,” said Figueroa-Castro. “People die with HIV, not from that.”

The doctors are also seeing another innovation in infectious disease control with Boone Hospital Center’s new patient tower. Johnson, who advises the hospital’s internal infection control team, had the opportunity to sit down with hospital leaders as they were planning for the new tower.

When asked for his ideas, Johnson replied, “Private rooms with single bathrooms for each patient will go a long way to preventing disease.”

He got his wish. The new tower has 128 private patient rooms with private bathrooms.

•••••••••Coming from separate continents,

the two doctors took very different paths to their shared practice — the Boone Infectious Disease clinic in Broadway Medical Plaza II.

Figueroa-Castro, a native of Colombia, South America, said students in his home country are asked to pick their career paths as they near high school graduation. Growing up, Figueroa-Castro had an interest in science.

“I thought there was a lot of interesting things to learn in medicine, so that’s why I chose it,” he said. “It was for the science.”

In medical school, his research focused on influenza. And when he had a chance to practice medicine in an underserved region in his country, he found that up to 70 percent of his patients were having problems with infectious diseases.

“That made me start to consider what is really important and how I could make a bigger impact,” Figueroa-Castro said.

While Figueroa-Castro chose a medical profession in high school, Johnson didn’t discover his passion for caring for patients until after college.

Johnson majored in forestry at the University of Missouri. But when he couldn’t

find work after graduation, a friend helped him get work collecting urine samples on the night shift at University Hospital.

While he discovered a passion for working with patients, he wanted to do more. First, he trained to be a medical technician. Then he later chose to enter medical school so he could take his service even farther.

“Working with patients seemed so rewarding, so I stayed with that,” he said.

He specialized in infectious disease because it just came naturally to him. He said he was also inspired by Dr. Dale Everett, whom he worked under in medical school at the University of Missouri.

In 2000, Johnson came to Boone as the hospital’s second infectious disease specialist — Dr. Carol Danuser had established the specialty at Boone in 1982.

Johnson and Figueroa-Castro have served together at Boone Infectious Disease since 2008. They are part of the BJC Medical Group.

One of their newer programs is a special travel clinic for patients visiting other countries. The clinic helps educate travelers about potential infectious diseases in the region of the world they are visiting. Travelers

also have the option to be vaccinated for diseases such as yellow fever and typhoid fever. The clinic also offers prescriptions for medications to prevent malaria.

“It’s a relatively new field and it encompasses different ideas from different branches of medicine,” said Figueroa-Castro. “It’s a lot of fun. How

many clinics can say they have a world atlas on their desk?”

In the end, whether traveling or at home, the doctors said it doesn’t take a disease detective to understand the best ways to help prevent infections — get the annual flu vaccine and wash your hands.

Quoting the famous physician William Osler, one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johnson said, “Soap water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”

“You see new things and learn new things every day. It’s very cool.”

Dr. Carlos Figueroa-Castro

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A Staff That CaresWhat Your Neighbors Are Saying About Working At Boone

Mindy Doscher,nurse

Mindy has worked in gGeneral Medicine at Boone Hospital since 2009. She recently gtook on charge nurse duties. “What I like best is everyone who I work with,” she said. “We work really hard and we work really well together.”

Rosie Courtney,patient care tech

In her job as a patigent care tech in Boone Hospital’s neurology unit, Rosie finds satisfactgion in watching

her patients recover.

“It’s seeing a patfient at their worst and getting tfo a point where thefy can go to rehab or a nursing home,” she said. “There’s a certain satisfaction knowing that you helped somebody.”

Bekki Galloway,nurse

Bekki has worked at Boone Hospital since 1987. Today she serves the patients on the Surgigcal Intensive Care Unit. “The physicians are fabulous,” she said. “In SICU fwe all work as a tefam and are proud of the excellent care we deliver.”

Mary Brooks,printing

Hospital staff membegrs rely on Mary to produce and keep gtrack of a wide variety of forms, dgocuments and other printed materials. Mary enjoys this about her job. “It’s the variety,” she said. “You’re not doing the same thing day after day.”

Brian Brown,patient care tech

Brian, who works in Cardiac Surgery, said helping people regcover from potentially serious gconditions is part of what makes his jogb so gratifying.

“You’re helping them to have a life, literally,” Brown said. “You’re not just helping them fix a part of their body; it’s their life we’re talking about. It’s rewarding to have that kind of impact on somebody.”

Cheryl Heuer,nurse

Cheryl, a wound andg skin specialist, said Boone’s reputation in the community is what mgakes her proud to work there. “Most people aroundf here and in surrounding areasf prefer Boone,” shef said. “So that means that we’re dofing excellent caref and that makes me proud.”


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In some respects, it was a forgotten practice.

Decades ago, hospital patients were encouraged to get out of bed each day for a little exercise. Even

some of the sickest patients, on the intensive care units, were walked slowly down the hall or just moved to a chair for a period during the day.

But over the years, many hospitals stopped these daily routines with the intensive care patients and those on ventilators.

As 33-year nursing veteran, intensive care nurse Melissa Clarke remembered the earlier days when it was common for ventilated patients to get out of bed. One day, Clarke wondered why the practice was phased out.

To answer her question, she turned to the academic literature — finding many studies reporting that getting intensive care patients out of bed was once again a preferred practice.

“There is a lot of information out there about how beneficial it is in terms of decreasing the time spent on a ventilator as well as the length of stay in the hospital when you get your patients up,” Clarke said.

With this knowledge, she set out to make a change.

Like Clarke, caregivers all over Boone Hospital Center are encouraged to ask questions and continually refine the hospital’s best care practices.

In 2008, Boone Hospital formalized an Evidence Based Practice program to empower staff members to make research-supported changes to improve patient care.

With the program, a Boone caregiver can bring forward an idea and have a peer mentor help them research the academic literature. If the idea is supported in the research, the caregiver can then create a plan to make the change a reality.

“We’ve been trying to stimulate our nurses to ask the question ‘why?’” said Monica Smith, director of Patient Care Services. “We’ve been doing things a

certain way for 20 years and we have to stop and ask whether there might be a better way to do this.”

Michelle Crumby, a patient safety and clinical quality coordinator, was one of the first evidence based practice mentors at Boone Hospital. In 2009, the Boone Hospital Foundation sent her to a week-

long immersion training session on evidence based practice at Arizona State University.

Crumby said the program empowers caregivers to take even better care of their patients. It also offers an opportunity for personal and professional growth — the experience inspired Crumby to pursue her doctorate.

Textbook CareBoone Nurses Look To Evidence To Enhance Care


“It’s a fantastic program,” Crumby said. “If I wasn’t working at someplace that provided these opportunities and was open to allowing change based on literature, I’d feel stifled.”

In addition to Clarke, a number of Boone Hospital caregivers have already begun using Evidence Based Practice principals to initiate change in their areas.

Last year, the Boone Family Birthplace began using SleepSacks instead of traditional swaddles after a nurse identified research showing that the SleepSacks can help reduce the occurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The Boone Hospital Foundation also began purchasing SleepSacks for every new Boone Baby to use at home after they leave the hospital.

Ongoing projects in the Boone Family Birthplace Intensive Care Nursery are

seeking to improve the way neonatal babies are fed and how often their IVs are changed.

Caregiver-initiated research has also helped improve nurse rounding on Boone’s surgery unit, reduce urine sample contamination and improve surgical site dressings.

“We’ve made a lot of progress in just a few years, but we want to do more,” Smith said.

To get the word out and encourage more projects, the hospital has 45 nurses who have been through special training to be Champions for the Evidence Based Practice program.

“We’ve been trying to establish throughout the hospital that when staff members have that burning question,

there is a process in place to help you answer that question,” Smith said.

As for Clarke, she reports that on a few occasions patients have been helped to their feet for a short walk. It’s progress. Still, she looks forward to the day when the practice is widespread.

As an owner in the care she provides, she continues to work toward that goal. She said she has spent many hours doing research after work and helping to educate her coworkers about the benefits of the practice.

She has also spoken with the doctors in her area about the change. She said it was an easy sell.

“When they see the evidence, they want their patients to do it,” she said.

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a lot of progress in just a few years, but

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Redefining

Snow AngelStory by Jacob Luecke


During the blizzard of February 2011, Boone Hospital Center’s pedestrian bridge over Broadway became a popular spot for

watching the snow come down.From the bridge, passersby watched

as the ground became white in mid-morning. By noon, there were more than seven inches on the ground. Before long it was a foot deep — and that was just the beginning.

By rush hour, the normally busy street under the bridge was essentially silent except for an occasional snowplow. And when the precipitation finally stopped sometime before midnight, 20 inches of snow covered the ground.

Through the evening, Columbia had ground to a halt. But inside the hospital, there was no slowing down.

As the snow fell, Boone Hospital’s ambulance crews responded to emergency calls and brought patients in for care. Dozens of people were treated in the hospital’s emergency department for weather related injuries — mostly slips, falls and fractures.

Eleven new Boone Babies were born during the storm. Doctors performed an emergency operation during the night.

“Our staff ’s effort was simply amazing,” said Dan Rothery, Boone Hospital president. “Outside the hospital, the city was almost at a standstill. The schools and universities had closed along with many of the stores. But inside, we were providing outstanding care just like we do every other day of the year. I can’t thank our staff enough for their sacrifices as we served our patients.”

Among those who made regular trips to watch the snow from the pedestrian bridge was Christa Kuntz, the unit secretary on Boone Hospital’s 2100 floor.

Kuntz was one of about 340 Boone Hospital staff members who stayed overnight at the hospital on Feb. 1. She and some of her coworkers slept inside the hospital’s outpatient medical oncology unit.

“Everyone knew they were going to have to spend the night so we just made the best of it and had a good time,” she said. “We are all pretty close here so we just helped each other out.”

While Kuntz and the rest of the staff were serving patients, some Boone Hospital leaders operated a command center. The command center ensured there were plenty of supplies available and that staff were working where they were needed. They also made sleeping arrangements for those staying overnight.

The hospital’s snow pick up team also played an important role. The team transports essential staff members to work during snow emergencies. The team consists of 12 hospital leaders with four-wheel drive vehicles.

Randy Gay, Boone Hospital’s safety manager, helped found the team with Jon Larson, nutrition and food services director, back in 1978.

When snow hits, Gay is out on the streets in his Jeep Cherokee picking up caregivers. He praised his fellow snow team members.

“They’re not getting a nickel for this,” he said. “These are the true angels of the hospital.”

As caregivers and other staff members

served together, a positive attitude filled the building despite the difficult circumstances.

“When things like this happen, people almost get giddy because they know they’re all here and they’re all stuck,” said Deanna Powers, manager of Women’s and Children’s Health. “They just make the best of it.”

During their down time, some staff members had fun watching movies together and playing games.

Scrub tech Tami Held tried to organize a snowman-building competition, but when the snow wouldn’t stick together, they settled for making snow angels outside the hospital’s Pain Management Clinic entrance.

Hospital patients noticed that their caregivers were putting in an extra effort and showed their appreciation.

“The patients care about the staff too, especially in a situation like this,” Powers said. “They’re really very grateful. The care and concern they show for the staff equals what we show for them.”

‘These are the true angels of the hospital.”


This summer, keep your eyes peeled in Columbia and the surrounding 26 counties for Boone Hospital Center’s new Know Your Numbers mobile

health unit. The brightly painted

orange van will be parked in front of grocery stores, schools and other public venues. Anyone is welcome to duck in for a quick, free WELLAWARE check-up. It will be the most convenient way to learn your cholesterol level, blood sugar level, triglycerides, blood pressure and body mass index.

Barb Danuser, the executive director of the Boone Hospital Foundation, was instrumental in the planning and funding of the Know Your Numbers Unit.

“The purpose is to encourage people to know their numbers and learn about

ways to improve their health,” she said.The interior is customized to meet

the specifications of WELLAWARE, Boone Hospital’s health and wellness program. A staff of five or six nurses, dieticians, nutritionists and other

WELLAWARE staff will travel Mid-Missouri offering the same services on the road.

The Mobile Health Unit is specially designed to be calming and welcoming. Hospital staff that will be working in the van gave input on everything from the colors, to the cabinets, to the skylight. The finishing touches are being added and

the van should be delivered early this summer.

Although it is possible and encouraged to make an appointment, anyone is welcome to stop by for a quick check.

“Some people don’t take the time to schedule an appointment at a

physician’s office,” Danuser said. “This is a quick and convenient option between checkups.”

Everyone should still visit a physician once a year, but learning your numbers between these checkups is a great way to keep tabs on your health. It gives everyone a chance to learn about his or her body and get a head start on making lifestyle changes before seeing a doctor.

Jeff Zimmermann is the supervisor of Health Promotions at Boone Hospital Center. He says the nurses and staff members enjoy seeing people come back carrying a card with last year’s numbers. He sees people who keep up with their numbers stay motivated to stick with healthy choices and make improvements. This relates directly to Boone Hospital’s mission of improving the health of people and communities it serves.

Each year, there is a bigger demand for wellness exams at the hospital as well as on site services. This mobile health unit will help meet the community

“It’s a matter of educating people and

getting them informed and excited about how easy it is.”

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demand, according to Zimmermann. He also believes the state of Missouri

has a need for these services. “Missouri ranks low on the list of the healthiest states,” Zimmermann said. “We’ve got a community that wants to be healthy. It ’s a matter of educating people and getting them informed and excited about how easy it is.”

A campaign by the Boone Hospital Foundation raised $175,000 in 2010 for building the mobile health unit. The Board of Trustees matched these donations and funded the other half of the project. Continuing donations will keep the Know Your Numbers unit stocked and on the road in the future. The donations also make it possible to offer all of the services for free.

“This service is important to the people in our own community,” Zimmermann said. “The community donated the money so the foundation could give back to the community.”


For two years, hundreds of workers gathered int Columbia each day to build the futurte of health care. They poured the concrete, raised the steel beatms, placed the bricks and finished tthe rooms. It was an amazing team effort.

The complexity of the project required precise work and skilled laborers. Being in a hospital setting, the workers were also considerate to patients and their families and attended special training sessions to learn about

their role in infection control.Along the way, these men and

women achieved an outstanding record for safety, earning praise from OSHA. To everyone who helped build this new patient tower, thank you!

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When I envision the Healing Garden beside our new patient tower,

I think of a beautiful girl.She is wearing a sequined gown, and she is putting on her diamonds.

The Healing Garden will be the diamond of our new tower.

In our garden, there will be a soothing water fountain, benches and beautiful flowers. This beauty is important at Boone Hospital. Beauty brings calm to our patients and their families.

This is the most exciting time in my 30 years as a Boone Hospital trustee.

I am Barbara Weaver.

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