'Yard to table' movement gets pandemic boost
Higher demand for local food products has left some people scrambling to keep up through the summer.
I love talking with people who entrust me with their story. It's an honor to craft it into a tribute to the challenge they've overcome, or the meaning they've added to other people's lives.
A rural elementary schoolteacher who defied death after a brain aneurysm ruptured, then accidentally ran a half-marathon.
A physical therapist for children with cancer who pulled off a final fishing trip for one of his patients, inside the hospital.
Some stories, like some people, tend to be more subtle. But each has a reason to be told. I want to share as many as I can.
I enjoy freelance writing for a website that spotlights business news in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area. I spent more than a year and a half writing stories about patients, leaders, physicians and other employees of Sanford Health, a sizable rural health care system, for the organization's news website. And before that, I had an extensive background in editing, for print and digital, at South Dakota's largest daily newspaper, the Argus Leader.
Now I'm eager to find a new adventure in storytelling.
Higher demand for local food products has left some people scrambling to keep up through the summer.
The rare debilitating disease Friedreich's ataxia can't be stopped yet, but a teen's father and a Sanford researcher have formed a friendship trying.
A downturn in the ag economy and unpredictable weather make a farmer's already uncertain job even harder. Mental health issues may arise because of the difficulties.
The movement takes meaningful, strategic steps to help patients and the health care system shift from taking care of people once they’re sick to helping them practice healthy lifestyles today.
A neonatologist and a scientist took different paths to arrive at Sanford Research, but now they find that their collaboration complements each other's work.
In Ethiopia, Eskedar Yimer built roads and bridges. In Sioux Falls, she followed her heart's desire into medicine.
Ethan Erickson lost his life to Burkitt lymphoma at just a month shy of 13. This story doesn't dwell on sorrow, though. This story talks about an occasion of joy instead.
Drive-thru COVID-19 testing has served Sanford Health and its patients so well, the health system helped expand the idea to Costa Rica, too, with partner Hospital Metropolitano.
For women currently pregnant in the United States, the risk of dying from a cause related to their pregnancy has more than doubled since some of them were born. But Sanford Health doctors have been working on regional projects and hospital practices to help reduce that risk.
Leaving Stanford for Sanford, the South Dakota native and FASD expert helped Sanford in pediatrics, research, Imagenetics and World Clinic.