Avera Sacred Heart, HyVee and the Yankton School District have partnered to educate 4th graders about eating 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.More >>
Tuesday, July 17 2012 5:03 PM EDT2012-07-17 21:03:06 GMT
omen in the Midwest diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to get a mastectomy than women in other parts of the country, but as Nancy Naeve Brown reports we may be under false pretenses that undergoingMore >>
Dr. Julie Reiland specializes in breast conservation and breast cancer patient Marge Willman is one of her happy patients.More >>
Pancreatic cancer has gained national attention after several prominent figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who was diagnosed in 2003 and died in October. Actor Patrick Swayze died in 2009.More >>
Joyce Marvel from Huron had Whipple surgery in August 2011 followed by an aggressive combination of chemo and radiation in October.More >>
Thursday, June 28 2012 3:43 PM EDT2012-06-28 19:43:14 GMT
If you have bulging, unsightly painful varicose veins, there is a team of experts at Avera Veradia who concentrate solely on treating veins. Nancy Naeve Brown has more on a Sioux Falls women who got treatedMore >>
Interventional Radiologists at the Avera Veradia Vein Center use a radiofrequency ablation device to close off varicose veins.More >>
Tuesday, June 26 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-27 03:15:41 GMT
The Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota just received accreditation on its carotid stenting procedures and protocol. As Nancy Naeve Brown explains, what that means for you is assurance that specialistsMore >>
The Avera Heart Hospital receives Carotid Stenting accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. More >>
Sunday, June 24 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-25 03:15:56 GMT
Avera McKennan now offers eye care. One of the services offered by the team of ophthalmologists is cataract surgery. The lens of our eye is normally clear, when it becomes cloudy, which usually happensMore >>
Avera Ophthalmology Sioux Falls provides a complete range of services. We got to watch a bi-lateral cataract surgery.More >>
Thursday, June 21 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-22 03:15:46 GMT
It's estimated that 37 million Americans are affected by sinus infections every year and spend $6 billion annually battling it. Nancy Naeve Brown met a Mitchell woman who was sick and tired of beingMore >>
Balloon Sinuplasty opens inflamed sinuses the same way cardiologists open up blocked arteries in the heart. Avera Queen of Peace in Mitchell now offers that surgery.More >>
Sunday, June 17 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-18 03:15:31 GMT
70 million father's are celebrating their day today with gifts that probably vary from homemade cards to ties to golf balls, but as Nancy Naeve Brown tells us a dad in Harrisburg got a gift from his daughterMore >>
A Harrisburg woman makes an appointment for her dad to go through Planet Heart at the Avera Heart Hospital.More >>
Friday, June 15 2012 9:52 AM EDT2012-06-15 13:52:47 GMT
For little kids who have hearing loss traditional hearing aids may be too big and bulky for their little ears. Nancy Naeve Brown met a 8 year old Yankton boy who can finally hear things he'd never heardMore >>
Innovative new technology helps a Yankton boy hear better.More >>
Tuesday, June 12 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-13 03:15:39 GMT
If you suffer from clinical depression and aren't finding the relief you want from medication, the Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls now offers a new outpatient treatment. Nancy Naeve BrownMore >>
The Avera Behavioral Health Center in Sioux Falls is now offering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy or TMS for patients with clinical depression.More >>
Sunday, June 10 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-11 03:15:47 GMT
If you are diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and qualify for a lumpectomy, Avera McKennan can now offer something else while you are under the knife and it will shorten your radiation therapy considerably:More >>
IOeRT Technology offered at Avera McKennan provides a precise dose of radiation directly to the tumor bed during breast cancer surgery.More >>
Friday, June 8 2012 10:13 AM EDT2012-06-08 14:13:33 GMT
If you are 40 or older, smoke, have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease you would be wise to make a trip to Planet Heart; a heart screening program offeredMore >>
Shawn Cable has a long history of high cholesterol and decided to get his heart screened at the Avera Heart Hospital.More >>
Tuesday, June 5 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-06 03:15:36 GMT
Schools out for summer, the pools are open and the kids are enjoying being outside. Nancy Naeve Brown has some advice from an Avera Pediatrician in Mitchell to make sure their summer break doesn't includeMore >>
An Avera Pediatrician in Mitchell offers suggestions for parents with young kids to keep them safe this summer.More >>
Sunday, June 3 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-04 03:15:42 GMT
If you choose to have a baby at Avera St. Luke's, the experienced team in the birth place wants you to know they will do everything in their power to help you have the birthing experience of your choosing.More >>
The goal of the BirthPlace at Avera St. Luke's is to deliver babies as safely and naturally as possible according to the parent's birth plan.More >>
Thursday, May 31 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-06-01 03:15:39 GMT
Now that the unofficial start to summer has started, pools and lakes will be filled with the sounds of children laughing, screaming and splashing. Unfortunately, as Nancy Naeve Brown reports, childrenMore >>
Keeping your kids safe when lifeguards aren't on duty.More >>
They say time is money, but time is also muscle. If you have a heart attack and don't call 911 immediately after experience symptoms you could damage your heart muscle significantly. Nancy Naeve BrownMore >>
Men often ignore the symptoms of heart attack. Jerry Miller didn't and it more than likely saved his life.More >>
Sunday, May 27 2012 11:16 PM EDT2012-05-28 03:16:03 GMT
If you are a parent, then you know, without fail, your kids seem to get sick or get hurt after regular business hours or on holiday weekends like this one. Avera Medical Group McGreevy has you coveredMore >>
Urgent Care has moved from the Southeastern Avera McGreevy Clinic location in Sioux Falls to the new Dawley Farm McGreevy Clinic by the eastside Target.More >>
Thursday, May 24 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-25 03:15:38 GMT
Most people don't want to wind-up in the hospital, yet patients who have congestive heart failure, pneumonia, or COPD are more likely to have to go back in to the hospital within a month of being discharged.More >>
Hospital to Home: A Care Transitions Project from Avera Health.More >>
Tuesday, May 22 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-23 03:15:43 GMT
We have a follow up story on a man from Tea who had a life threatening condition with an enflamed and partially destroyed pancreas. Nancy Naeve Brown has more on the minimally invasive procedures he'sMore >>
Harlan Phelps has pancreatitis and needed his gallbladder taken out.More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-21 03:15:53 GMT
Avera Queen of Peace in Mitchell provides professional health care services for patients who need it at home. Nancy Naeve Brown has more on a new family who wouldn't be able to leave their home if it weren'tMore >>
Home Health Care from Avera Queen of Peace Hospital provides professional health care services in people's homes.More >>
Thursday, May 17 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-18 03:15:55 GMT
Vascular disease affects your circulatory system and puts you at risk for stroke, heart disease and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Nancy Naeve Brown met a Yankton woman with PAD who had such bad leg painMore >>
Vascular surgery at Avera Sacred Heart potentially saved the life and leg of a Yankton woman with PAD. More >>
Uninvited bugs can spoil any picnic, but it's the bugs you don't see that will make you sick. Food borne illnesses peak in the summer time. Here are some tips on safe grilling that keep bacteria at bay. RegisteredMore >>
How to avoid food borne illnesses this grilling season.More >>
Monday, May 14 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-15 03:15:30 GMT
In their quest to be the best, Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton earned yet another Top Performing Hospitals Award in the National QUEST Collaborative. Nancy Naeve Brown explains why being a QUESTMore >>
Avera Sacred Heart was recognized as a 2011 Top Performing Hospitals in the nation.More >>
Sunday, May 13 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-14 03:15:33 GMT
If you were having chest pain, hopefully you know by now how crucial it is to get to emergency intervention, but if you were having leg pain when you walk would you see a doctor for it? As Nancy NaeveMore >>
Understanding Peripheral Artery Disease and then modifying your risk factors for it.More >>
Thursday, May 10 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-11 03:15:24 GMT
When an emergency strikes: be prepared. As Nancy Naeve Brown reports the Avera Marshall Emergency Department is and it's thanks in part to thrifty shoppers and hundreds of volunteers. The Avera MarshallMore >>
Technology and equipment purchases made possible by Avera Marshall Auxiliary dollars raised by The Thrift Store and Gift Shop sales.More >>
Tuesday, May 8 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-09 03:15:39 GMT
The brand new Avera St. Luke's Therapy Center in Aberdeen is the result of years of planning and 3 million dollars of work. And with its completion the 14,000 square foot addition for outpatient rehabilitationMore >>
Avera St. Luke's has consolidated all of its outpatient rehabilitation services onto one site in the new Therapy Center. More >>
Sunday, May 6 2012 11:16 PM EDT2012-05-07 03:16:05 GMT
Every Wednesday on KSFY News at 5 we highlight different attractions at the Sioux Falls Washington Pavilion. In this Avera Medical Minute we want to spotlight an exhibit that is shining a light on recoveryMore >>
A new photo exhibit at the Washington Pavilion celebrates life in recovery from addiction.More >>
Thursday, May 3 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-05-04 03:15:40 GMT
Mary Poppins sang that a teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down unfortunately almost 50 years after that movie was made; Americans are eating 30 teaspoons of sugar a day. As Nancy Naeve Brown reports,More >>
Americans are in a sugar coma. We are consuming 5 times more than the recommended amount of added sugar a day.More >>
Few would argue it was a long winter and it's been a wet cold spring so when it finally starts feeling like summer most of us want to take off layers and head outside. One Sioux Falls woman will tell youMore >>
Kristin Aeilts almost waited too long to get an ugly mole checked. It turned out to be melanoma, but Avera doctors caught it before it spread.More >>
Sunday, April 29 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-04-30 03:15:51 GMT
If you needed surgery to survive and you had the option of getting that surgery without any incisions you'd choose that right? Nancy Naeve Brown introduces you to a Tea man who loved being one of the firstMore >>
Harlan Phelps suffers from acute pancreatitis and was treated without getting an incision.More >>
Thursday, April 26 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-04-27 03:15:28 GMT
April is donate life month and the Avera Transplant Institute wants to get the word out about the importance of donors, dead or alive. Nancy Naeve Brown met a Sioux Falls woman who got a kidney transplantMore >>
Beth Ericson got the gift of life when she got a kidney transplant at Avera McKennan Hospital in Feb. 2012.More >>
Tuesday, April 24 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-04-25 03:15:25 GMT
We have a follow-up story on a state legislator from Sioux Falls who wants to put a face on colorectal cancer. Nancy Naeve Brown has more on Manny Steele and his very personal battle with rectal cancer. MannyMore >>
A follow-up on Manny Steele who had surgery to remove cancer in his rectum.More >>
Thursday, April 12 2012 8:56 AM EDT2012-04-12 12:56:56 GMT
Of the 21,000 new cases of a cancer called multiple myeloma diagnosed in the U.S. in 2010, two happened around the end of the year, to South Dakota men with the same last name. More >>
Thursday, April 5 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-04-06 03:15:46 GMT
Avera St. Luke's was the first hospital in the state to implement a computer based program called Interactive Metronome for kids with focus and behavioral issues.More >>
Tuesday, April 3 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-04-04 03:15:25 GMT
Avera Prince of Peace Retirement Community has developed an apartment numbering system so firefighters now how many people live in each apartment.More >>
Wednesday, March 28 2012 9:16 AM EDT2012-03-28 13:16:52 GMT
Joyce Olson's son died at the age of 28 from cancer. The family appreciates Avera Hospice Mitchell for allowing him to spend the last 3 weeks of his life at home. More >>
Tuesday, March 13 2012 11:15 PM EDT2012-03-14 03:15:26 GMT
Skin to Skin contact is the practice of placing a newborn baby on the mother immediately after birth, with no bedding or clothing between them for at least 30 minutes uninterrupted.More >>
Thursday, March 8 2012 11:15 PM EST2012-03-09 04:15:50 GMT
The trainers with Athletic Republic at the Avera Sports Institute are now using exclusive state of the art equipment to train athletes' bodies as well as their minds.More >>
Thursday, March 1 2012 11:15 PM EST2012-03-02 04:15:52 GMT
Troy Magnuson is a Type 2 Diabetic but has learned to control his blood sugar with the help of the diabetes care team at Avera Queen of Peace in Mitchell.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 11:15 PM EST2012-02-22 04:15:41 GMT
Jesse Luce has MS and finds exercising in the warm water therapy pool on the campus of Avera St. Luke's in Aberdeen has helped manage his condition.More >>
Thursday, February 9 2012 11:15 PM EST2012-02-10 04:15:41 GMT
Peggy Friedrich can finally enjoy life without constant pain thanks to the American Pain Relief Institute on the campus of Avera Sacred Heart in Yankton.More >>
Friday, January 13 2012 8:29 AM EST2012-01-13 13:29:06 GMT
Sam and Laura Ellyson from Columbia, SD had trouble getting pregnant with their second child. After a miscarriage they starting meeting with a Fertility Care Practitioner at Avera St. Luke's.More >>
