Alumnus receives ACOFP top honor
For his career-long service to patients, the osteopathic profession and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Burt Routman, D.O.’68, received the ACOFP’s highest honor.
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For his career-long service to patients, the osteopathic profession and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Burt Routman, D.O.’68, received the ACOFP’s highest honor.
A 96-year-old error and a feature in the winter 2013 issue of DMU Magazine perpetuated an apparent case of mistaken identity. Alert reader Russell Faria, D.O.’81, helped crack it.
Last summer, DMU osteopathic medical student Bill Bensen found many benefits during a preceptorship at Kossuth Regional Health Center (KRHC) in Algona, IA. The critical care hospital and multi-specialty clinic let him dive into a variety of patient-care cases, working alongside several DMU osteopathic and physician assistant graduates. Everyone bent over backward to make him…
In the same way orchard owners plant trees with a long-term view of the fruits of their labors, some organizations are working to plant interest in health care careers among young students. They include the nation’s Area Health Education Centers, or AHECs, a federally funded program created in 1972 to recruit, train and retain health…
When you ask Greg Paris, M.H.A.’98, what Monroe County Hospital and Clinics (MCHC) were like just over a decade ago, his eyes widen and his smile fades. “We were a remarkably different hospital,” he says. The chief executive officer isn’t exaggerating. In 2001, the Albia, IA, hospital faced 26 percent employee turnover and had just…
If you ask an attorney, says David Kapaska, D.O.’86, the standard of health care is the same at the renowned Mayo Clinic as it is in Bowdle, SD, population 499 (U.S. Census Bureau). “That’s a high bar,” says Kapaska, regional president and chief executive officer of Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center in Sioux…
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