Guardian Angels
August: Rehabilitation Therapy Team
September: Andrew Pankow, MD
October: Shannon Silverthorne
December: Karl Richey, MD; Tom Day, RN;
Michelle Strasen, MD
February: Kari DeFreest, OT
Ken Tonjes
Chief Administrative Of cer
Mischa Chernick
Marketing and
Communications Manager
Penny Pedersen
Foundation Director
Marty West
Community Relations Specialist
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VISITING CLINICS BRING SPECIALIZED
CARE TO THE COMMUNITY
Intensive Care nurses earn next-level credentials
A
ll the nurses in the PeaceHealth Ketchikan
Intensive Care Unit are now CCRN- or PCCN-
certified. This certification means they are
qualified to perform assessments of critical conditions,
give intensive therapy and intervention, advocate for their
patients, and operate life support systems. Nurse Manager
John McCormick has high praise for their hard work: “To
balance and perform all of these critical tasks, these
nurses are not only very organized, but they have shown
good judgment in making important decisions. We are all
very proud of them.” Additional education, experience, and
testing are required for the CCRN and PCCN designation.
Employees
of the
Month
Kyle Stout, Security
September 2013
January 2014
Zenaida Machado,
Environmental Services
October 2013
Tess Antonio,
Rehabilitation Therapy
August 2013
Shawna Strouth-Shaw, CCRN,
New Beginnings
November 2013
Brian Mills, Materials
February 2014
Virginia Adams, Primary Care
December 2013
Victoria Poblete,
Environmental Services
ONCOLOGY CARE
is now available locally for those
in our community with cancer or blood disorders.
PeaceHealth Medical Group has added an Oncology
Clinic to its list of visiting specialty clinics. e
clinics will be held on-site every two months and via
telemedicine between the on-site visits. A referral
from a primary care physician is necessary to schedule
an appointment.
Jennifer Crews, MD, Director
of the Cancer Center at
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical
Center in Bellingham, Wash.,
provides her patients with more
than years of experience in
oncology in private practice,
hospital-based, and academic
settings. She has a special
interest and background in
breast cancer, as well as in survivorship and nurse
navigator programs for cancer patients.
Dr. Crews was appointed medical director for
Cancer Services at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer
Center and for the PeaceHealth Northwest Network
of Care in
.
Previously she served as the medical director of
the Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center in Washington,
N.C., and held appointments as a consulting associate
in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical
Oncology and Transplantation, at Duke University, and
as an a liate associate professor in e Brady School
of Medicine at East Carolina University.
Dr. Crews received her bachelor of science degree
in biology with highest honors from e University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her medical
degree from Duke University and completed training
in internal medicine and oncology at Duke, where she
served as assistant chief resident. She is a fellow in the
American College of Physicians and is board-certi ed
in internal medicine and medical oncology.
Other PeaceHealth specialty clinics include Sleep/
Pulmonology, Cardiology, and a Gastroenterology
Clinic. Private practitioners o er specialty clinics that
are also listed on the visiting clinic calendar.
A schedule of visiting clinics is available on the
PeaceHealth website at
www.peacehealth.org/
ketchikan/services/visiting-clinics
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To find out more about the Oncology Clinic,
call Stephanie Petersen, Administrative Assistant
for PeaceHealth Medical Group, at
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ext.
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Jennifer Crews,
MD, Oncology
CONGRATULATIONS: From left to right, Kristin Fahey, CCRN; Maia Aspinwall, PCCN; Ellen Armstrong, PCCN;
Kristy Pierce, CCRN; Shawna Strouth-Shaw, CCRN; Wanda Yoder, CCRN; and Sarah Eichman, CCRN; all of
whom are now CCRN- or PCCN-certified.
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