Governor’s Greetings - Tom Braithwaite 2014 – THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE As we look back to 2013, and consider the many issues that arose within health care, it is difficult to contemplate the possibility that 2014 could be filled with just as many (or more) criAcal issues and changes; however, that is almost a certainty. One doesn’t have to stare into the crystal ball for very long to come up with a host of things our industry, the ACP, and we as pracAAoners will be asked to tackle, manage, or simply absorb. To menAon a few, without being exhausAve: 1. The conAnued evoluAon of the Affordable Care Act/ Obamacare rollout and implementaAon 2. Ongoing debate regionally surrounding Medicaid expansion 3. Changing definiAons and requirements as it relates to Maintenance of CerAficaAon, parAcularly for those previously “grandfathered” 4. Increasing pressures for “efficiency,” despite everexpanding burdensome documentaAon requirements 5. Progressive impact of quality reporAng programs including (but not limited to) ValueBased Purchasing, PQRS, and other payerspecific incenAve contracts 6. ConAnued maturaAon and implementaAon of the electronic health record, and Aed so closely to it, Meaningful Use Stage II 7. Deeper understanding of all of the (hidden) implicaAons of the SGR “fix” 8. And oh, did I menAon ICD10????? As I speak with colleagues about this assortment of challenges, and the growing expectaAons surrounding them, it someAmes seems there is an unseen force acempAng to suck the joy and deep saAsfacAon out of paAent care that all of us as physicians have experienced and savored. It is, indeed, a daunAng list. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Governor’s Greetings Orlando Reception SD Award Recipients Smart Medicine High Value Care SHM Alliance SD Annual Meeting Mastership Awarded to Rodney Parry SOUTH DAKOTA AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS JANUARY 2014 South Dakota
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Governor’s Greetings - Tom Braithwaite
2014 – THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE
As we look back to 2013, and consider the many issues that arose within health care, it is difficult to contemplate the possibility that 2014 could be filled with just as many (or more) criAcal issues and changes; however, that is almost a certainty. One doesn’t have to stare into the crystal ball for very long to come up with a host of things our industry, the ACP, and we as pracAAoners will be asked to tackle, manage, or simply absorb. To menAon a few, without being exhausAve:
1. The conAnued evoluAon of the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare roll-‐out and implementaAon
2. Ongoing debate regionally surrounding Medicaid expansion3. Changing definiAons and requirements as it relates to
Maintenance of CerAficaAon, parAcularly for those previously “grandfathered”
4. Increasing pressures for “efficiency,” despite ever-‐expanding burdensome documentaAon requirements
5. Progressive impact of quality reporAng programs including (but not limited to) Value-‐Based Purchasing, PQRS, and other payer-‐specific incenAve contracts
6. ConAnued maturaAon and implementaAon of the electronic health record, and Aed so closely to it, Meaningful Use Stage II
7. Deeper understanding of all of the (hidden) implicaAons of the SGR “fix”
8. And oh, did I menAon ICD-‐10?????
As I speak with colleagues about this assortment of challenges, and the growing expectaAons surrounding them, it someAmes seems there is an unseen force acempAng to suck the joy and deep saAsfacAon out of paAent care that all of us as physicians have experienced and savored. It is, indeed, a daunAng list.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Governor’s Greetings
Orlando Reception
SD Award Recipients
Smart Medicine
High Value Care
SHM Alliance
SD Annual Meeting
Mastership Awarded to Rodney Parry
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Governor’s Greetings (continued)SOUTH DAKOTA AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS JANUARY 2014
All that said, and not intending to minimize those senAments, or treat them as insignificant, our state ACP chapter offers an anAdote to at least SOME of the associated heartburn. In my own experience of pracAce, now nearly 30 years, two things have remained constant joys, or “buoys” in the turbulent waters of pracAcing medicine. Foremost is unrelated to organized medicine per se, but it is the contemplaAon of the PRIVILEGE we are granted, each day, by paAents and their families, to enter into their lives during the most vulnerable of moments…that is, when they are ill, fearful, and overwhelmed. The opportunity we have at such moments is extraordinary, and the wonder of that precious interacAon has never been lost on me. I’m certain it is much the same for all of you.
The second consistent “life jacket” is the collegiality and support of my peers, and that is where the ACP stands front and center. Our organizaAon, parAcularly here in South Dakota, has been a place where the joys of medicine are celebrated, system affiliaAons and party hats disappear, and we come together to support each other and work to advance the quality of pracAce within our state. I would contend our chapter, and its leadership, has never lost sight of this prime direcAve. I know I speak for myself, Kris, commicee leadership and our Governor’s Advisory Council when I say that we will conAnue to work hard to preserve the value of this organizaAon to each and every one of you. It is, in fact, why serving as your Governor is such a deep privilege for me.
On a more tacAcal and less philosophical note, there is much work going on within the chapter, in between the annual meeAngs, to help us meet our objecAves. Examples include:
• Planning commicee: the work on our Fall meeAng in Pierre is coming along very well, and I’m already confident in saying that a terrific meeAng awaits us. AddiAonally, some very preliminary work has been undertaken to support a regional meeAng Fall 2015 in Omaha, NE. Stay tuned for those early details.
• CooperaAon with the new state chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Please see Jeremy Cauwel’s arAcle on this topic further on within the newslecer.
• Bylaw’s review: not undertaken for several years, our goal is to have revised bylaws ready for membership approval at our Fall meeAng.
• Awards’ Commicee: first meeAngs already scheduled.• Council: review of Spring 2014 resoluAons for naAonal BOG will take place in early March at our Spring
meeAng (please extend your thanks to the Council for commilng to this responsibility)
Thanks to all of you for your membership, and parAcipaAon within the ACP. A state this size demands that we all carry the load, and such sharing of the work is deeply appreciated. Ours is a model of teamwork and cooperaAon, when compared to much larger state organizaAons…something we can all share pride in.
Please protect your calendars for our meeAng in Pierre, September 10-‐12, 2014. I hope to see you all there, if not before.
Best personal and professional regards,
Tom Braithwaite, M.D., FACPGovernor, South Dakota Chapter, ACP
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Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska & South Dakota ACP IM 2014 Reception
Date: Friday, April 11thTime: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Tommy Bahama Restaurant, 9101 International Dr., #1200, Orlando, FL
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The South Dakota American College of Physiciansis pleased to announce its 2013 Award Winners
Early Career Physician of the Year - Michael P. Pietila, MD
Dr. Pietila is a Pulmonologist and Critical Care physician at the Yankton Medical Clinic, P.C. in Yankton, SD. He is a South Dakota native born and raised in Lake Norden. His undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Microbiology are from South Dakota State University and his M.D. degree from the University of South Dakota. Dr. Pietila completed his Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN in 2006. Dr. Pietila is the outgoing Chief of Staff and current Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Directors at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, SD where he directs ICU services. Dr. Pietila is an Assistant Academic Professor of Internal Medicine at the Sanford School of Medicine.
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Early Career Physician of the year - Randall B. Lamfers , MD
Dr. Lamfers is currently a practicing Hospitalist as well as the Medical Director of the Hospitalist Program at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, SD. In addition to his clinical and administrative duties, he also serves as Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Sanford USD School of Medicine. A native of Belmond, IA, Dr Lamfers received his B.A. in Biology at Dordt College and his MD from the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine. Dr Lamfers completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Wisconsin, where he served as Chief Resident in his final year. After residency, Dr Lamfers joined Sanford Health practicing first as a part of the Sanford Adult Medicine Clinic until he joined the Hospitalist program in 2009.
Teacher of the Year - David R. Rossing, MD
Dr. Rossing was born in Detroit, Michigan and is a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, TX. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals in Atlanta, GA and his Pulmonary Fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Rossing then joined the USD School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and the medical staff of McKennan, Sioux Valley and the Royal C. Johnson Veteran’s Administration Hospital in 1980. In addition to his full-time Pulmomary Medicine practice, he served in an administrative capacity at Central Plains Clinic and completed a Master’s in Medical Management from Tulane University. This year, he retired as Vice Chair, Department of Internal Medicine.
Volunteer of the Year, Michael R. McVay, MD
Dr. McVay became a pre-med major at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Upon graduation he returned to the University of South Dakota School of Medicine in 1968. He transferred to Tufts University School of Medicine in 1970 and received his MD degree there in 1972. He then went on to the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, KY for his Internal Medicine residency. While there he met his wife Ellen, and they were married in 1975. They then moved to Gallup, NM where they both worked for the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation, then returned to Yankton where he worked as a general internist for 2 years and then he returned to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for his cardiology fellowship. They ultimately moved back to Yankton in 1981 where he began his cardiology practice at the Yankton Medical Clinic. His practice spanned 28 years until he retired in 2009. In the past decade, much of Dr. McVay’s volunteer activity involved study and teaching in the ethics of medicine. In 2001 he received the Bush Fellowship to study the role of spirituality in medicine. This ultimately helped him create the Avera MindBodySpirit Center where he and other staff taught stress reduction programs to the Yankton community over a period of 6 years. He came to appreciate the unique role of mind-body-spirit integration in health and disease.
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COMING SOON: ACP “SMART MEDICINE”
Tom Braitwaite, M.D., FACP
Responding to requests from large porAons of the ACP membership, ACP resources is adding a point of care tool which will be of significant value to physicians, and will be available to ACP members free of charge. Through collaboraAon with DynaMed this product is viewed as a future rival, or at least a partner, to popular databases such as UpToDate. Official roll-‐out will occur within the first quarter of 2014, and you will all receive mailings with further details, but you can check this out now by visiAng the following link: hcp://www.acponline.org/clinical_informaAon/smart_medicine/.
Having been involved in some of the beta tesAng for this product I believe this holds great promise, although admicedly it will be a resource to you that will likely grow in importance as the database matures further. Already I believe it is vastly superior to the ACPs prior acempts within this arena (PIER). I am very excited about Smart Medicine, and I believe it will become yet one more way that the mission of the ACP to equip its members with the latest informaAon needed for high quality, high value care is successfully met.
One More Benefit of ACP Membership – Free CME and MOC Points – and Learn More About High Value Care
Tom Braithwaite, M.D., FACP
The ACP, as part of its campaign to promote high-‐value care (HVC) has created learning modules surrounding 5 relevant topics:
1. Avoiding unnecessary tesAng
2. Judicious use of emergency services and hospital level care
3. Improving outcomes through health promoAon and disease prevenAon
4. Prescribing medicaAons safely and cost effecAvely
5. Overcoming barriers to high-‐value care
These modules can be done online, and take approximately 30-‐60 minutes per module. It is available to all ACP members, and completed modules provide both CME and ABIM MOC points. And it is free!! Check it out today at hcp://hvc.acponline.org/physres_cases.html.
One of the greatest challenges facing the ACP in the coming years may involve another group of internists…at least mostly internists. The Society of Hospital Medicine has rapidly become a very large and in@luential group on the national internal medicine scene. As a fellow in both organizations I have discovered that the SHM is a group looking for an identity, they are (at least somewhat) about making themselves different than general internists. Rightly or wrongly the SHM is a group that many hospitalists identify with, potentially to the exclusion of the ACP. At our state ACP meetings this has been an area of concern, and all of our Governors that I have gotten the chance to work with have been working hard to include hospitalists like me in the ACP. Knowing this I am happy to inform you that the state of South Dakota has formed its own chapter of SHM, and that we will be working closely together. The inaugural meeting was this winter in Rapid City and of@icers have been elected. Robert Houser of Rapid City was named the president of the new group. I was elected as vice president and our secretary/treasurer is Craig Hart. One of our @irst items of business was to examine our link to the ACP and all agreed that in South Dakota we would like to make the State ACP meeting and the State SHM meeting run concurrently and hopefully in coordination with each other. The hope would be the same place, around the same time, so that people can be active members of both groups. The details are still to be worked out. Overall, as a double agent for the ACP Early Career Physicians and the SHM, I hope to be able to help bring both groups of internists together, especially here in South Dakota. I invite anyone who has ideas, requests, or comments to let me know at any time. You can reach me at: [email protected]
ACP Alliance with SHM - Jeremy Cauwels, MD, FACP
2014 Annual Scientific MeetingRamkota Best Western
It is a great privilege and pleasure to announce to you that Dr. Rod Parry, recently retired Dean of Sanford USD School of Medicine, has been named a Master of the American College of Physicians. The title of MACP is the highest and most distinguished honor our College can bestow, and in the case of Dr. Parry it is so very well deserved. This designation is reserved for an extremely small percentage of the overall membership, and is utilized to honor those individuals whose careers have exemplified the highest levels of achievement in the values that are core to our organization—clinical excellence, education, scholarship, and service. Dr. Parry joins other past Masters from South Dakota including Drs. (Jack) Barker, Humphreys, Nettleman, Talley, and Zawada. You will be seeing press releases announcing this in the very near future, but I wanted our membership to be amongst the first to know. Please join me in extending heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Parry for this significant achievement!