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CentraCare Health

1986

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Beacon Light: Annual Report 1985-1986, St. Cloud Hospital Dec 1986

Beacon Light: Annual Report 1985-1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Commentary by John Frobenius on the reduction of inpatient use
  • Sister Dolores Super, O.S.B. on the Hospital's centennial
  • Article on the expansion of specialty care
  • Timeline of the Hospital's history (1886-1986)
  • Profile of the Occupational Therapy Department
  • Hospital begins to offer electrophysiologic testing
  • Linear accelerator acquired
  • Home Care helps baby recover at home
  • Start of the acute dialysis program
  • Construction of independent living apartments at Saint Benedict's Center
  • Explanation of the benefits from an association with the Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA)
  • Fiscal overview
  • Continuation of the Hospital's timeline


Beacon Light: October 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Oct 1986

Beacon Light: October 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Introduction of the Volunteer Patient Representative program
  • Discussion of the Hospital's Benedictine values regarding patient care
  • North Central Cancer Treatment Group receives international acclaim
  • Profile on Sue Omann (Oncology Clinician)
  • Patient satisfaction and Guest Relations
  • Information on Patient questioners


Beacon Light: September 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Sep 1986

Beacon Light: September 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Hospital acquires a patient controlled analgesia infuser
  • Acute kidney dialysis added to hospital services
  • Physician's weight loss story
  • Challenges of controlling communicable diseases
  • Sr. Dolores testifies before Senate subcommittee
  • Acute kidney dialysis added to hospital services weight reduction plan which began in
  • Article on the importance of early detection in treating cancer
  • Overview of the hospital accreditation process
  • Rosemary Krauel, on the changes to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit


Beacon Light: August 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Aug 1986

Beacon Light: August 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Second grade students tour the hospital
  • Article on Pre-school examinations/immunizations
  • Methodology for choosing room names in the hospital
  • Hospital hosts a career day for high school students
  • Profile on Alice Rueter teacher-coordinator for youth in the Chemical Dependency Unit
  • Shapedown program for overweight adolescences


Beacon Light: June/July 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Jun 1986

Beacon Light: June/July 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • 25 year anniversary of the Hospital volunteer program
  • Brief history of surgery at the Saint Cloud Hospital
  • Clinician helps patients learn to live with diabetes
  • Carol Mossey (qualified rehabilitation consultant) reflection on her time as a junior volunteer
  • Article on managing Diabetes
  • Various employees honored for their years of employment


Beacon Light: May 1986, St. Cloud Hospital May 1986

Beacon Light: May 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Profile on Wellness programs
  • Everett Schmitz publishes a book on the history of the Hospital's medical staff
  • Article concerning traffic safety
  • Overview of common spring insect pests
  • Various news concerning the Saint Cloud Hospital
  • Hospital Board of Trustees adopt a new values statement


Beacon Light: April 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Apr 1986

Beacon Light: April 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Junior volunteers begin working in Emergency Trauma Unit
  • Profile on Same Day Surgery volunteers.
  • Innovations to the laboratory
  • John Frobenius commentary on potential challenges due to Medicare changes
  • Overview of programs offered by the hospital to the community


Beacon Light: March 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Mar 1986

Beacon Light: March 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Pain Management Program profiled
  • Article on the use of hydrotherapy to manage pain
  • Profile on organ donation
  • Saint Cloud Hospital and St. Gabriel's Hospital collaborate on chemical dependency
  • Expansion of the Saint Benedict's Center announced
  • Kitty Helget (LPN) profiled


Beacon Light: February 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Feb 1986

Beacon Light: February 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Article detailing the daily activities of patients at St. Benedicts center
  • Reflections by S. Giovanni Bieniek for the 100th anniversary of the hospital
  • The affect of the aging population on health care
  • Profile of the "Adult Day Care" program
  • The state of Alzheimer's research as of 1986
  • Lifeline program detailed


Beacon Light: January 1986, St. Cloud Hospital Jan 1986

Beacon Light: January 1986, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

  • Article concerning eating disorders, and the opening of the eating disorders clinic
  • The use of handwashing to prevent colds and the flue
  • Common issues with sinuses
  • Photo contest winners
  • Commemoration of the hospitals 100th anniversary
  • Profile on MEDLARS medical data software
  • John Frobenius on the hospital's goals for 1986