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St. Peter’s Health’s DePaso and Vogley-Turner Receive DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nurses

St. Peter’s Health Registered Nurses Rick DePaso and Jannine Vogley-Turner received DAISY Foundation Awards for Extraordinary Nurses. DAISY awardees are selected quarterly from nominations submitted by St. Peter’s patients and their family members. DePaso has been with St. Peter’s since 2015, most recently caring for patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In DePaso’s nomination, a patient relayed a number ...

St. Peter’s Health Nicotine Cessation Program Helps Smoker of 50 Years Quit for Good

Nicotine Cessation Program is evidence-based and effective St. Peter’s Health offers the Greater Helena community clinical and evidence-based programs to help nicotine users quit for good. In partnership with the Montana Quit Line and the American Lung Association’s Freedom from Smoking program, the St. Peter’s Health Nicotine Cessation program is a seven-week program that combines the use of medication and ...

St. Peter's Health Medical Group Welcomes Gastroenterologist Dr. Lauren Shea and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Julie Christensen

Gastroenterologist Dr. Lauren Shea earned her Doctorate of Medicine at the Mercer University School of Medicine and her Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Georgia. She completed both her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the Emory University School of Medicine and is board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine ...

Food is Care: Increasing access to healthy food

An important kind of care goes into filling the boxes of food that Helena resident Sharon Tatum receives every other week. Sharon manages several health conditions, including celiac disease, diabetes and heart disease. The new Food is Care pilot program run in partnership by St. Peter’s and Helena Food Share helps people like Sharon with challenging, diet-sensitive health conditions get ...

Caring during COVID: 'What they do means something'

There were hugs all around when Shawn and Lori Schroeder made a quick stop to see staff outside the St. Peter’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Oct. 1. The happy reunion came on the day Shawn, 51, was finally going home after a long and difficult battle against COVID-19. Shawn spent 40 days in the St. Peter’s ICU. He then ...

Keep hearts beating by knowing CPR & how to use an AED

I worked as a dispatcher for the Montana Highway Patrol for 14 years before starting at St. Peter's Health as the American Heart Association (AHA) trainer last year. Sometimes, when people learn that I was a dispatcher, they ask: "is there a certain call that you will remember forever?" I have responded to all types of emergencies, but I do ...

St. Peter’s Wound Care Center Celebrates First Birthday among the Nation’s Top Third for Wound Healing

Today, dedicated, outpatient and expanded St. Peter’s Health Wound Care program celebrates one year in operation. The specialty clinic brought the best-in-class outpatient wound care treatment and technology to the greater Helena area. The program operates in partnership with Healogics, Inc. the nation’s leading provider of advanced wound care services. The multidisciplinary team is dedicated to healing chronic wounds that ...

St. Peter’s Caldwell and Ferber receive BEE Awards

St. Peter’s Health presented BEE Awards to Finance Supervisor Vickie Caldwell, CPA and Speech-Language Pathologist Tim Ferber, MA CCC-SLP. A companion to the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, the BEE Award is given to any exceptional general or professional St. Peter’s staff member nominated by patients, family members and/or colleagues. Caldwell was nominated for the BEE Award by a colleague ...