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| Genesys partners with
CaringBridge |
Genesys has partnered with
CaringBridge, a nonprofit Web service that connects families and
friends when someone is facing a serious medical condition,
treatment or in recovery. A CaringBridge website provides a place for
users to post journal entries and photos, and receive messages of
hope and encouragement in a guestbook.
“This partnership
enhances our patient and family support system,” says Karen VanCura,
patient experience coordinator at Genesys. “Having a CaringBridge
website to post updates, instead of fielding numerous phone calls
and e-mails, allows families to focus their time and energy on the
person who requires healing.”
The free service is funded by
individual donations and hospital and collaborative partnerships.
Creating a CaringBridge website is easy, log onto www.genesys.org to get started.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
| Genesys mobile ICU team saves heart attack
victim |
 “I went in for an oil change and
came out with a new engine!”
Expecting to go
home after a four day stay following double knee replacement surgery
at Genesys, 65-year-old Swartz Creek resident and retired school
teacher Al Powell was taking “my last walk down the hall
with a therapist in the Genesys joint camp. My wife was on her way to
pick me up. Suddenly, I was noticeably short of breath and felt
heavy pressure in my chest. At first, I didn’t say anything
because I was going home. But, on second thought, I decided I
should. That’s when the Genesys SWAT nurses descended on me like
a swarm of bees!” he remembers. “And my family doctor
(Larry Kage, DO, family practitioner at Genesys) was on the unit
so he jumped in to help.”
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| Genesys stroke team responds rapidly to save
teacher |
 Grand Blanc High School English teacher
Diane Hall was looking forward to retirement in 2009, but
didn’t expect she’d be counting the days from a hospital bed
at Genesys.
“Out of the clear blue I had a
stroke,” she says. “I don’t remember any of
it.”
About three weeks before the end of the school year
and the beginning of Diane’s retirement, her friend Pat
routinely arrived to pick up Diane who was recovering from Achilles
tendon surgery. When Diane wasn’t waiting at her usual spot,
Pat went to Diane’s classroom.
“Are you
just about ready?” she asked Diane. “She had no response.
I called her name a couple of times, and she still didn’t
respond. I knew she was having a stroke.”
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| Genesys is extreme athlete’s
hospital of choice |
 You name the sport and
Randy Bedford’s done it – with extreme intensity.
That’s why his knees finally wore out, and he’s heading back
to Genesys this month for a left knee replacement.
“I started looking back over my life and began writing down my
sports history … Now I know why my knees went bad,”
he smiles, reviewing his extensive list that includes football,
baseball, diving, track, skateboarding, surfing, scuba diving,
motocross racing, competitive water skiing, snow skiing, mountain
biking, tennis, racquetball, spear fishing and weightlifting.
“I reached a point where I couldn’t do
anything,” Randy reflects. “In fact, I didn’t want to move,
and it showed. I put on 40 pounds.
“There’s more stuff to do in my life and I want the next 20 years to be
quality ones,” he adds. “My wife Mary and I own a local
muffler shop, and we’re raising our 10-year-old grandson. I
need to keep up with him.”
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| After hip replaced, woman recovers at
Joint Camp II |
 After hip replacement surgery
in February, 78-year-old Flint resident Mary Wisniewski assumed she
would be back home in a few days, recovering in the comfort of
her own surroundings. She hadn’t thought about how her stroke
two years earlier would impact her progress. Mary’s balance
has been shaky since her stroke.
Fortunately, her
daughter Tammy, who served as Mary’s coach during joint camp at
Genesys, knew home was not the place for her mom. Under protest,
Mary followed her daughter’s orders and agreed to additional
rehabilitation through Joint Camp II at Genesys Convalescent
Center.
“I was so annoyed at first,” she
admits, “because I didn’t realize how much therapy I
needed.”
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| Genesys detects, removes rare cancerous tumor |
 “Genesys is a wonderful hospital! I thank the Lord for
Genesys!” Jessie Rubin speaks with passion when describing her
laparoscopic wedge resection surgery at Genesys.
Jessie
was taking a shower when she felt some soreness below her rib cage.
After about three or four days when the area was still sore, she
went to see her family doctor of 20 years (Jon Schriner, DO, family
practitioner at Genesys). He ordered an ultrasound, which
revealed a tumor about the size of a quarter. Further diagnostic studies
showed the tumor in her stomach was malignant.
“I told Dr. Schriner I wanted it out, and I wanted it out
now,” Jessie announces with determination. “I didn’t want
that tumor growing inside me.”.
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| Holly man thanks Genesys for its
lifesaving action |
 “I was almost given up for
dead,” Terry Stein begins his story as he relaxes in an
easy chair in his living room. “Genesys saved my life.”
The Holly resident and retired police officer remembers
slipping on his very steep and icy driveway last Christmas day,
but not much more after that. “I walked down to grab the
newspaper from our mailbox, fell backwards, and hit my head. I felt
fine,” so Terry continued with the family’s festivities.
But his wife Barb new something was wrong.
“Terry just wasn’t himself. After some time, he left the room
and didn’t come back. We found him on the bathroom floor
having a seizure.”
Within minutes of calling 911,
paramedics arrived and took Terry to Genesys. “Terry and I had
only been married about three years and I didn’t know where
they would be taking him,” Barb admits. “They told me
Genesys because it was the closest trauma center.
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