Living Well - Fall 2013 - Beaufort - (Page 3)

INTRODUCTIONS Welcome to Beaufort Memorial New board members and physicians join the hospital family KATHLEEN COOPER, BSN, RN, CNOR, RNFA Kathleen “Kathy” Cooper is a recently elected member of Beaufort Memorial’s Board of Trustees and a certified perioperative nurse. Cooper, who holds a BS in nursing from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., works as both an interim operating room educator for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and a nursing education consultant/nurse planner for the Lowcountry Area Health Education Center (LCAHEC). She and her husband, Mike, live on Spring Island. FAITH L. POLKEY, MD, MPH Recently elected to the BMH Board of Trustees, Dr. Faith Polkey is a board-certified pediatrician and the chief of pediatrics at Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in biology, she earned her MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed a pediatrics residency at Duke University Medical Center and a preventive medicine residency at University of North Carolina. Dr. Polkey and her husband, Raynard, are residents of Beaufort. STEPHEN LARSON, MD Dr. Stephen Larson has joined Beaufort Memorial’s Pratt Emergency Center as medical director. Dr. Larson received his medical degree from Emory University and completed a residency in emergency medicine at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Ca. Before coming to Beaufort, the board-certified emergency medicine physician was medical director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at SSM DePaul Health Center in St. Louis. He and his wife, Debbie, have three sons and look forward to living in the Beaufort area. ROBERT VYGE, MD Beaufort Memorial Physician Partners welcomed Dr. Robert Vyge in July. The board-certified internist, who will join Philip Cusumano, MD, and Randy Dalbow, MD, at Lady’s Island Internal Medicine upon completion of their new offices on Sea Island Parkway, is currently seeing patients at Beaufort Memorial Coastal Care MD on Ribaut Road. Dr. Vyge earned a medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, then completed internships in general medicine, nephrology, urology and otolaryngology at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and a residency in internal medicine at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was chief resident in internal medicine. He and his wife, Pamela, have three daughters and live in Beaufort. FAL L 2013 3

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Living Well - Fall 2013 - Beaufort

Living Well - Fall 2013 - Beaufort
Contents
Opening Thoughts
Introductions
Go With the Flow
Another Year of Life, Lived Better
The Joint Is Jumpin’
Step It Up
Your Mightiest Muscle
Well, Well, Well
Are You Doing More Harm Than Good?
Is Your Shut-Eye Serving You Well?
On the Cover
Anatomy of an ER Visit
Next-Gen Surgery
Attack From Within
Virtual Health
Foundation-Building
Surgical Retreat
Out of the White Coat
Healthy Insights

Living Well - Fall 2013 - Beaufort