McKee Thanks Video

Banner Health, McKee Medical Center Foundation: McKee Thanks Video - Full Transcription

Audio: Music plays throughout video.

Text:  Banner Health, McKee Medical Center Foundation

Text: McKee Thanks

Text: Honoring Individual and Community Support for McKee Medical Center
 
Text: Patient Care

Image: Mary Griffin, speaks on-camera

Text: Mary Griffin

Audio:  “Approximately three years ago we started a movement around relationship-based care, which was about the relationships of understanding one’s self, understanding how I interact with my colleagues and understanding how those two relationships matter to patients and families. McKee is so unique in that because we practice relationship-based care here the patient and family is at the center of everything that everyone does. The hospital represents sort of the center of health care from wellness and prevention, which I believe are incredibly important. When you’re receiving care close to home it is certainly more convenient for your family. And for all of us, having family close has a lot to do with our healing. And if the family is not cared for, as the patient, you don’t recover very well. So having your family close is really a part of healing. And you can only get that when you are in your own community. My name is Mary Griffin, I am an Oncology nurse at McKee Medical Center. I make a difference in people’s lives every day.”

Text: Compassion

Image: Kristine Pauplis, speaks on-camera

Text: Kristine Pauplis

Audio: “On June tenth of 2008 I entered the hospital for what was supposed to be a simple, mundane operation for a fibroidal tumor in my abdomen and it turned out to be a lot more. It turned out to be what they termed abdominal carcinoma unknown primary. That is a scary experience to be diagnosed with cancer and even in addition to that not knowing how to pay for it was scary as well. But from the day that I was told of my diagnosis, I had social workers, nurses, doctors and an entire hospital staff, I felt, looking out for me, starting with my Oncologist, Dr. Sam Shelanski. He came in after the surgeon had told me that I had six months to live and that I had stage 3B cancer. And he told me that they were going to do everything they could. And if I wanted to fight, they would fight with me. And I had social workers who helped me find a way to pay for these expenses so that I wouldn’t end up destitute and have to lose my house and car and possibly a lot of other things because as you guess, I fought and I won. And six months has come and gone, a year has come and gone and we’re looking forward to getting to two years and passing that milestone, because if you go on the internet, abdominal carcinoma unknown primary has a 100 percent mortality rate within 24 months. And I’m going to beat it. My name is Kristine Pauplis, I am a cancer survivor thanks to McKee Medical Center, Loveland, Colorado.”

Text: Service

Image: Dr. Marsha Tallman, speaks on-camera

Text: Dr. Marsha Tallman

Audio: “Well I think, as physicians in training, our first experiences in medicine have great impact on our career. And I know, for me, one of the most terrifying experiences I had as a medical student was watching my first code. And I walked into a room where a woman, who was pregnant and had pancreatitis, had died. And we were responsible for trying to bring her back. And I had memorized all my advanced cardiac life support protocols and thought I was prepared to walk in that room, but I wasn’t. And all of that knowledge went out of my head and, apparently it did everybody else’s too because, there was mass chaos in the room. And, ultimately, the patient and the baby both died. And I remember leaving that horrific situation thinking there has got to be a better way to provide patient care.”

Audio: “We do a code review session with the residents every four weeks when they start the rotations. And we used to just sit down with books and go over the path of physiology of why we give certain drugs in what situations. And we discovered that really wasn’t preparing them to walk into a patient’s room, who was dying, and bring them back. So when we started using the simulation center, we would have the residents go to the learning center and walk in the room with a mannequin. And the mannequin has independent physiology and you can give it a heart attack and you can make it go into respiratory arrest and they had to deal with those situations with the mannequin and not for the first time on a real person. And they were able to work out the bugs and they walked into their first real code situation feeling much better prepared and much more comfortable with the scenario. So, ultimately, when the residents walked in the room they could do a better job. And I think the codes ran more smoothly and ultimately patients did better and that is what it is about. My name is Dr. Marsha Tallman and I’m a Hospitalist with Banner Health.”

Text: Community

Image: Mary Gullikson, speaks on-camera

Text: Mary Gullikson

Audio: “Patient centered care is, I think, our number one priority here at McKee. Our administrator, Paul Finnman, had a motto and he said the patient is number one. From the very beginning, we have had the reputation of giving tender loving care in a personal way that touches the lives of patients here. It’s really been a privilege I’ve had to work with this hospital for 30 years. We do have something special that other hospitals don’t always have. There is a very certain spirit here of dedication. And I think that there is a lot of loyalty that people express when they make their gift to the hospital. Where you give your money is where you place your values. And we certainly have many people in this community who are dedicated to McKee Medical Center. Every one of us will use a health care facility at some time in our life. It’s important that we have the best facility and the best health care that we can.”

Text: Mission Sponsors

• Advanced Medical Imaging Consultants, P.C.
• Home State Bank
• Media Sponsor
• KUNC

Text: A special thanks to the Table Hosts and the McKee Conference Center.

Congratulations to the 2009 McKee Community Health Award Recipient, Melanie Keech of Home Helpers of Northern Colorado.

Text: The McKee Medical Center Foundation raises funds and friends for the health and wellness of our community, helping to improve lives through excellent patient care.

Banner Health
McKee Medical Center Foundation

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