SoutheastHEALTH July Health Briefs
Weight Management First Steps
Join us for this free, informative seminar as we discuss strategies for beginning the process of health improvement and weight management on Monday, July 6, at 6 p.m., and Thursday, July 23, at 2 p.m., at HealthPoint Plaza, 2126 Independence in Cape. Nutrition, physical activity and behavior modification will be discussed and you will receive details about the options HealthPoint Fitness offers to assist with this challenging effort. You will learn how our individualized approach evaluates your current fitness level, personal goals and medical issues before recommending any weight loss or fitness program. The program includes: Starting Point and Biometrics Weight Loss Programs; Nutritional Coaching; Personal Training; and more. Register online at SEhealth.org/classes-events or call 573-986-4440.
Diabetes Self-Management Support Group
Southeast Diabetes Center hosts this free support group facilitated by Southeast’s Diabetes Educators. The programs are geared toward people who are living with diabetes and trying to control blood glucose. Friends and family members are also welcome. This month's meeting will be from 1 to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, at HealthPoint Plaza in Cape. This month’s topic is “Making the Most of Your Healthcare Visits.” Learn tips on how to prepare for visits with your diabetes care team and questions to ask to get the support you need. Register online or call the Southeast Diabetes Center at 339-0121 to take advantage of this free program.
Grief Support Group
The SoutheastHEALTH Grief Support Group will meet from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, at HealthPoint Fitness in Cape. Topic for this month’s meeting, led by Julie Metzger, LCSW, a bereavement counselor with Southeast Hospice, is “Support Circles: Expansion and Contraction.” For more information about this support group, please call Southeast Hospice, 573-335-6208.
Heart Saver CPR Certification Class
This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult and child CPR and AED use, infant CPR, and how to relieve choking in adults, children and infants. It will be held on Thursday, July 16, from 9 to 11 a.m.at HealthPoint Fitness in Cape. This course teaches skills with the American Heart Association’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning skills. The course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card for CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory or other requirements. Cost of the class is $50 and includes a booklet. Participants can reserve a spot by calling or stopping by the front desk of HealthPoint Cape or HealthPoint Jackson. For more information, call 573-755-2301 or 573-986-4400.
A Toast to Healthy Drinking
Important hydration and nutrition can come in liquid form. Curious about healthy smoothies, protein drinks, juicing and infused waters? Join us from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Monday, July 20, to explore delicious ways to drink the good stuff during the summer months and all year round. Healthy Cooking Classes at HealthPoint Fitness-Cape are taught by HealthPoint Nutritional Services Coordinator Raina Childers-Richmond, MS, RD, LD. Cost is $5 for HealthPoint members and non-members. Click on SEhealth.org/Events or call 573-986-4440 to register.
About SoutheastHEALTH
At SoutheastHEALTH, the region's premier healthcare system in southeast Missouri, our patients receive excellent care of the highest clinical quality, close to home. Within our network are more than 50 care locations in 14 communities, including hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics representing over 30 clinical specialties and extending care for patients in a four-state area. Learn more at SEhealth.org.
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has always been a passion for Gabrielle Sierman. Before embarking on a career in nursing, Gabrielle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Management with an emphasis on exercise science. That experience led to her nursing education, culminating with a Master’s Degree in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner.
Gabrielle says Orthopedics is a “rewarding area of healthcare that allows us to provide interventions that help patients get back to their functional daily living and activities that they enjoy. It’s important to listen and understand my patients’ goals and devise a plan together to help them achieve those goals.” Her Orthopedic experience includes nursing on an Orthopedic unit and post-anesthesia care.
A resident of Cape Girardeau since 2008, Gabrielle enjoys Cape’s friendly community atmosphere. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, exercising and spending quality time with her family and dogs.
Services: Orthopedics
Credentials: Education
2019, Southeast Missouri State University, MSN
2015, Southeast Missouri State University, BSN
2014, Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences, RN
2012, Southeast Missouri State University, BS
On May 6, 2020 and May 8, 2020 Joe Craig, founder of the Soulmarks Foundation and Craig Photography in Dexter, Missouri, brought his Hero Project to SoutheastHEALTH in Cape Girardeau. During the two-day photo shoot, Craig captured over 200 portrait sessions with hospital staff.
The Soulmarks Hero Project was initiated to highlight and honor those called to service during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. By capturing the images and stories of healthcare workers, Craig pays homage to the pandemic heroes, saluting their outstanding endeavors and providing them with a unique pictorial record that ensures their story can be handed down and appreciated by future generations of loved ones.
On May 29, Joe Craig and his team will return to the hospital to unveil over 200 portrait prints as gifts to the staff. Each person will receive a Soulmarks gift of legacy art; a boxed art print signed by Joe Craig and a full-sized digital file, which retails for $450 at any of his studios. The overall value of the gift to the hospital staff is over $100,000.
Those photographed have already been sending their appreciation and feelings to Craig ahead of the unveiling:
“For those of you that know me, I love creativity. When an individual envelops their creativity to pay homage to those of us who face “the monster” of COVID-19 on the frontlines, they capture an emotion words can’t describe. I felt UNCERTAINTY to my core and I know many others share/shared this panic right along with me. Thank you Soulmarks Foundation for honoring me and many others as pandemic heroes...this tribute and image is something I will treasure forever. God bless you and your team.” - Janice Quade
“Thank you again for giving us this chance, and honoring us, instead of fearing us. It means more to us than you will ever know.” - Jackie Twidwell
“You will not remember me or my name, that is ok. I was there to hold your hand to make you comfortable, ease your pain and fear. I may not see myself as a Hero, this Is my job and I am happy to do it. ” - Brandy Matlock“They say the hands are a mirror to the soul. Joe Craig has photographed my hands several times in my life-in the many school dances and cheerleading pictures with lifelong friends, my Senior pictures, my wedding day when my parents gave my hands in marriage to my best friend, and now in this tribute to the heroes, during this scary and crazy time in my 32 year career at Southeast Health. I do not see myself as a hero, but as a friend, daughter, wife, sibling, coworker and labor and delivery nurse that will always offer her hands to applaud, squeeze, high five and to hold whenever those true heroes in my life need it. Thank you Joe Craig for the Soulmarks that you have captured in my life.”
Julie Schott
“I don't consider myself on the frontlines of anything, but I'm still there.
I don't think of myself as a hero either, but I'm still there.
I was there for your dad when he desperately needed that cervical spine fusion.
I was there for your grandma when she couldn't wait any longer on that vertebral augmentation for her compression fracture.
I was there for your uncle when he had to have that emergent brain surgery.
I was there….I am still there…For you.” - Tina Ford
Since 1972, Joe Craig has established himself as an internationally-acclaimed photographer. He has spent 40 years perfecting his life’s work, an artistic and soulful approach to portraiture called Soulmarks, and teaching this philosophy to others. Joe’s instinctive talent and magnetic charisma keep him in high demand as portraitist, photographic consultant and lecturer around the globe.
In addition to the Joe Craig Luxury Group (JCLG), a line of portrait studios exclusively available on luxury cruise lines and at destination resorts, he also dedicates time to the Soulmarks Foundation, which works to gift portrait sessions to those who could not otherwise have access to experience the healing power of photography. The Foundation is funded by contributions from the Joe Craig Luxury Group and the generosity of others.
The Soulmarks Foundation gift at SoutheastHEALTH is given in memory of Elmer Seyer and Carolyn Corlew
About SoutheastHEALTH
At SoutheastHEALTH, the region's premier healthcare system in southeast Missouri, our patients receive excellent care of the highest clinical quality, close to home. Within our network are more than 50 care locations in 13 communities, including hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics representing over 30 clinical specialties and extending care for patients in a four-state area. Learn more at SEhealth.org.
SoutheastHEALTH has announced the appointment of Jason Emmenderfer, PT, MBA, CSCS, as Director of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. He will be housed in the Southeast Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinic located at 1723 Broadway.
Emmenderfer joined SoutheastHEALTH in 1997, initially in the inpatient setting before transitioning to outpatient care. In 2004, he was promoted to HealthPoint Rehab manager, and in 2018 he was named Director of Southeast’s Rehabilitation Services at HealthPoint Plaza in Cape Girardeau. Emmenderfer holds a Bachelor of Science, Physical Therapy degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia and a Master of Business Administration degree from William Woods University. He is also certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist.
In his new role, Emmenderfer says Southeast’s orthopedic and sports medicine teams will “focus on high quality, evidence-based care that always puts the patients first.” Already the region’s leader for quality and innovation in orthopedics and sports medicine, Southeast’s healthcare experts “will continue to provide specialized services that help patients and regional athletes achieve an optimal outcome, with access to a full continuum of care, including board certified orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine-trained primary care physicians, experienced athletic trainers, comprehensive rehabilitation and home health,” Emmenderfer added.
About SoutheastHEALTH
At SoutheastHEALTH, the region's premier healthcare system in southeast Missouri, our patients receive excellent care of the highest clinical quality, close to home. Within our network are more than 50 care locations in 13 communities, including hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics representing over 30 clinical specialties and extending care for patients in a four-state area. Learn more at SEhealth.org.
SoutheastHEALTH’s Hospice service has been named a 2020 Hospice Honors Elite recipient by Deyta Analytics, a division of HEALTHCAREfirst, the leading provider of Web-based home health and hospice software, outsourced billing and coding servings and advanced analytics.
Hospice Honors is a highly regarded program that recognizes hospices providing the highest level quality care as measured from the caregiver’s point of view. Southeast Hospice, established in 1986 as the region’s first hospital-based hospice, has offered quality, compassionate care to thousands of families.
There are more than 5,300 hospices that participate in the Medicare program in the U.S. Of those, 350 U.S. hospices earned Honors status, and only 79 received Elite status. Award recipients were identified by evaluating hospices’ performance on a set of 24 quality indicator measures. In order to receive Elite status, a hospice must outscore the national benchmark of all 24 questions asked on the satisfaction survey.
SoutheastHEALTH Home Care Services Administrator Vickie Schnurbusch, MSN, RN, CHPN, said Southeast Hospice defines its mission with “an unwavering commitment to providing the highest quality of care, delivered with expertise and compassion, for both patients and their caregivers. We are honored to be a part of their lives during this difficult time.”
She noted that Southeast Hospice averages 621 visits a month and recorded 7,448 visits in 2019. Southeast Hospice served 599 patients and admitted 202 patients last year.
Southeast Hospice serves patients in the home setting as well as in skilled nursing homes in Cape, Bollinger, Scott, Perry and Stoddard counties and portions of New Madrid and Mississippi counties. The service also has a partnership with Perry County Memorial Hospital.
About Southeast Hospice
Southeast Hospice is a not-for-profit agency that is Medicare certified, Medicaid approved, state certified and accredited by The Joint Commission.
Hospice team members include an RN nursing staff with more than 100 cumulative years of hospice experience and a dedicated medical social worker who provides bereavement services for 13 months after the loss of a loved one. Additional team members include a medical director, nurse practitioner, patient care technicians, social workers, spiritual counselors, administrative assistants, volunteer coordinator and volunteers.
