WELCOME DR. AKBAR Rabia Akbar, M.D., fellowship- trained and board-certified pediatrician, has joined the Wilson Health Medical Group and the medical staff of Wilson Health. Prior to joining Wilson Health Medical Group, Dr. Akbar prac- ticed at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where she provided well and sick care for infants, children and adolescents. She has a strong interest in medically challenged children.Dr. Akbar received her medical degree from Hamdard College of Medicine, Karachi, Pakistan followed by a pediatric internship and residency at St. Johns Children’s Hospital - SIU in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Akbar is a mother to three children ages 10, 9 and 3. Being a mother of two premature children with spe-cial needs early in life, she understands what it is like being on the receiving end of medical care.Dr. Akbar is fluent in English, Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, interior design and traveling. Dr. Akbar will join Dr. Karen Smith and Abigail Fischer, CNP. All providers will see and treat patients in their Yager Building office located on the Wilson Health campus. If you would like to become a patient of Dr. Akbar, or for more information, please call the office at (937) 498-5447.

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January/February 2016

DOOLEY ELECTED TO OHA BOARD The Ohio Hospital Association (OHA), representing 220 hospitals and 13 health systems in Ohio, elected new officers and appointed new trustees to its board for 2016. Mark Dooley, president and CEO, Wilson Health, is the newest member elected to the Board for a three-year term as a trustee-at-large. “I am both excited and honored to serve on the OHA Board,” Dooley stated. “As we all know, healthcare changes at a rapid pace. I look forward to working with my colleagues throughout the state in identifying ways we can continue to collaborate to improve the health of all communities, including our very own.”All 2016 Board terms began January 1. The OHA Board of Trustees sets policy and strategic direction for matters affecting hospitals throughout Ohio. The board includes representatives from small and large hospitals, teaching facilities, and health care systems and consists of four officers, the OHA president, and 14 trustees-at-large.For more information, visit www.ohiohospitals.org.

TOWN HALL MEETINGS Wilson Health will be holding Town Hall meetings on February 10 and 11, 2016. All meetings will be held on the Wilson Health campus, in the Professional Building, Conference Room B. Please join Mark Dooley, Wilson Health president and CEO, for an interactive discussion which will include: • Review of 2015 • Strategic Plan for 2016 - 2018 • Your Questions, Opinions and ThoughtsThe February 10 meetings are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Times for the meetings on February 11 are scheduled for 7:45 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

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CNP JOINS WHMG ANNA PRACTICE Dawn Macke, certified nurse practitioner (CNP), has been work- ing in collaborative effort with Dr. Matthew Vasko and the WHMG Anna Practice staff, seeing and treating patients of the practice. As a CNP, Macke is an experienced registered nurse (RN) who has additional education and training in the specialty area of family medicine. Dawn started with Wilson Health in 2005 as a regis-tered nurse. After a few years in Acute Care at the main hospital campus, she joined the Anna Family Practice where she worked as an RN for Elissa Martin. Dawn completed her CNP degree from Maryville University, in St. Louis, Missouri. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call the office at (937) 394-2900.

DAISY AWARD RECIPIENTS Anita Bornhorst, RN, and Jeff Emrick, RN, were selected as the recipients of the fourth quarter 2015 DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day.Anita and Jeff worked together to make contact with a patient who had failed to show at the appointed time in Same Day Surgery. They tried reaching the patient through several outlets because he was diabetic and NPO (nothing by mouth) since the prior evening. Finally, connecting with a son, who lived out of state, he called the squad to check on his father. The son called Wilson Health a half hour later and thanked Anita and Jeff for their efforts in contacting a family member because when the squad arrived his father was found unconscious. The patient returned to the hospital for the initially scheduled procedure 5-weeks later and thanked the two for saving his life that day.

Wilson Health strives to find ways to extend care beyond the walls of the hospital with programs and resources designed to keep you in charge of your health.

Wilson Health Sports Medicine recently held the first annual 21 Day Lean Weight Loss Challenge. Participants included faculty from partnering sports medicine schools. For three weeks, teachers and staff at Anna, Fort Loramie, Fairlawn, Riverside, Minster, New Bremen, Lehman Cath-olic, Botkins, New Knoxville and Jackson Center schools, participated in the weight loss challenge with the winning school receiving a $500 donation to a local food pantry of their choice.This year’s first place winner was Anna High School. The 35 participants lost a total of 222 pounds during the three week challenge. Fort Loramie High School came in a close second with 41 participants with a combined total weight loss of 179.5 pounds. Fairlawn High School came in third place and had 41 participants compete in the challenge and lost a total of 160.6 pounds. Together, all ten participating schools lost a combined total of 856.7 pounds with a total of 196 participants.Paul Miller, athletic trainer, Wilson Health Sports Medi-cine and Anna High School, came up with the idea for the weight loss challenge. “With the average person gaining one to two pounds during the holidays, we wanted to do something to get people in the right mind set as we en-ter into the New Year,” he said. “We also wanted to have some fun with the weight loss challenge by making it a competition. Plus, being able to lose weight for a cause makes it that much more meaningful.”Anna High School donated the $500 to Agape Food Pantry located in Sidney.

OUR PURPOSE: To improve the health of our community so people can spend more time doing what they love with those they love.

The winning team members from Anna High School

To improve the health of our community so people can spend more time doing what they love with those they love.

AREA CARES PARTNERS WITH WHRepresentatives from Area Energy & Electric delivered “Area Cares” plush bears to Dave Buchanan, director of Wilson Health’s Emergency Department. The bears were distributed to pediatric patients that were in need of medical care over the holiday season as a way to brighten their hospital visit.“As a local business, Area wanted to create a program to empower our employees with a sense of char-ity through community involvement,” states Bruce Wilcox, Human Resources Director at Area Energy & Electric. “No one wants to be in the hospital over the holidays, so we thought Wilson would be a great place to kick off the program with our Area Cares bears.”“The mission of Area Cares aligns perfectly with Wilson’s Purpose, so we were thrilled to partner on this program and look forward to more partnership opportunities with Area Cares in the future,” said Mark Dooley, president and CEO of Wilson Health.

CARING AT CHRISTMAS UPDATEThis year the Caring at Christmas project receiveddonations of $24,655 to benefit Wilson Hospice Care. This is the 22nd year for the program and over the years more than $506,000 has been collected.Instead of mailing Christmas cards to friends and relatives, area residents chose to donate the money they would have spent on cards and postage to “Caring at Christmas.” Shortly before Christmas, a “Christmas Greeting,” listing the names of all contrib-utors to this fund, appeared in the Sidney Daily News.

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UPDATE ON 10,000TH BABYOn October 23, 2015, Wilson Health delivered their 10,000th baby at the Copeland-Emerson Family Birth Center. At 7:34 p.m., baby girl Eva Epigmenio, was born into the world to parents, Sierra Hutchins and Jose Epigmenio, of Sidney. Shortly after delivery, baby Eva was transferred to Dayton Children’s Hospital, where she spent the next 8 weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Jana Schnippel, director of the Copeland-Emerson Family Birth Center, kept in contact with Hutchins over the 8 week period and upon hearing of her plans for discharge, Jana quickly began planning behind the scenes to have an “official” celebration for the family.On December 17, 2015, Hutchins and her three daugh-ters, Myliegh (8), Abbiana (6) and eight week old Eva were welcomed back to the birth center to celebrate and recognize baby number 10,000. Lisa Merrit, Emer-son Climate Technologies, joined the celebration and presented Hutchins with a special gift which included a one year supply of diapers.

CHEER YOUR HEART OUT February is National Heart Month and Wilson Health is committed to keeping the community healthy. Wilson Health will be hosting their second annual Cheer Your Heart Out competition. We’ve teamed up with local high school cheerleading squads to help raise awareness of heart disease and stroke. Starting February 1, visit Wilson Health’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/wilsonhospital and click “Like” on your favorite heart healthy school cheer. Voting ends February 10 at noon.

Sierra Hutchins and her three daughters with Emerson’s Lisa Merrit (left) and Wilson’s Linda Maurer and Jana Schnippel.

Luke Schlater (front, center) holds one of the Area Cares bears, which were presented to the Wilson staff

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FEBRUARY 14Annual Wilson Hospice Benefit

Spaghetti Dinner11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Newport Sportsmen Club5801 Rangeline Road, Newport, OH

MARCH 12Annual Wilson Foundation Ball

The Crystal RoomTroy, Ohio

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WH WELCOMES FIRST BABY OF 2016Janell Stang holds her newborn daughter, Janessa Stang, as Janessa’s father Keith Stang, far left, and big brother Jaxon Stang, second from left, 3, all of Houston, watch Janessa. Janessa was the first baby of the year born in Shelby County at 9:03 a.m. Jan, 1 2016 at the Copeland-Emerson Family Birth Center at Wilson Health. Janessa was born weighing 7 pounds 7 oz. To celebrate the birth of the first baby of 2016, Wilson Health presented the baby with numerous gifts including items from the Wilson Health Sweet Beginnings Lactation Boutique and a free photo session with Picture Perfect Studios. A picture of Janessa or other babies born at Wilson Health can be seen at www.wilsonhealth.org.

Photo by Luke Gronneberg, used with permission from Sidney Daily News