More than ,
community
members attended the vendor booths to
learn about local health care services and
ways they could manage their own health.
imaging department, to identify people’s risk for bone loss
and possible future bone fractures. Samaritan diabetes
educator Cindy Kersey, RN, CDE, performed diabetes
screening for community members and referred six
of those to their primary care providers for follow-up.
Informational booths were sta ed by the following lo-
cal providers who were answering questions and giving
instruction and information to visitors:
Samaritan Family Medicine—Andrea Carter, MD, and
Kevin Smith, MD.
Samaritan Obstetrics and Gynecology—Brian Truong,
MD, and Flora Ogden, ARNP, CNM.
Samaritan Orthopedics—John Wheaton, MD; Corbin
Moberg, PA-C; and John Loudon, PA-C.
Samaritan Parkview Pediatrics—Jill A. Dudik Bross,
MD, FAAP, and Lisa McCurley, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C.
“Over the past ve years, Samaritan has hosted its
own Community Health Fair, which included a low-cost
blood screening,” says Connie Opheikens, marketing/
community relations director. “Samaritan chose not to
be in competition with the expo this year but instead
to help cosponsor the event. A er numerous calls from
community members requesting the health fair/blood
screening event, I have decided to move the Samaritan
Community Health Fair to the spring of each year. A
date hasn’t been set yet for the event, but it will be well
advertised in the spring.”
If you would like to be put on a list to receive
information about our spring health fair, please
call Connie Opheikens at
-
.
MANAGE YOUR HEALTH:
Cindy Kersey, RN, certified
diabetes educator for
Samaritan, performs a diabe-
tes screening at the expo.
A HUGE SUCCESS
COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO
S
EPT. 28 WAS
an exciting day for the community of
Moses Lake. e rst annual Community Health and
Wellness Expo was held at the ATEC Building at Big Bend
Community College. Cosponsored by the major health
care providers of central Washington (Samaritan Health-
care, Moses Lake Community Health Center, Con uence
Health and Columbia Basin Hospital), and the
Columbia
Basin Herald
and Costco, the expo provided seven hours
of information, screenings and fun.
More than ,
community members attended the
vendor booths to learn about local health care services
and ways they could manage their own health.
Participation at the Samaritan Healthcare booths re-
mained steady all day. At the back and neck screening
booth, Samaritan Physical erapy Director Eric Olson
performed more than
screenings for possible back
and/or neck problems. Bone density screenings were
performed by Tamii Brown-Frost, ARRT, diagnostic
T H E
S A M A R I T A N
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WELCOME TO THE SAMARITAN FAMILY
ANNE NEETHLING, RN, MSN
BORN AND RA I S ED
on
a sheep farm in Namibia
(South West Africa), Anne
Neethling, RN, MSN, met her
future husband and ventured
away from her music studies
to pursue a new calling—in
nursing. A er following her
ancé to the United States,
she restarted her nursing stud-
ies at Pasadena City College
in Pasadena, Calif. She and
her husband were married in
Hollywood years ago and like to say they must have
one of the longest-lasting Hollywood marriages. To-
gether they moved to Germany to complete their stud-
ies at Heidelberg University. A er Germany, Neethling
and her growing family moved to Africa once more, but
because of the political unrest immigrated to the United
States permanently.
Neethling is well-traveled throughout the United States
and has varied experiences in hospitals large and small,
in Indiana, New Mexico and West Texas. Also a teacher,
Neethling has taught at colleges and medical facilities,
specializing in pediatric intensive care and trauma. She
also worked as the pediatric trauma care coordinator for
the University of New Mexico.
Eleven years ago, Neethling and her husband re-
located to the Paci c Northwest to be closer to two of
their daughters. In
, she was asked to manage the
pediatric intensive care unit and the pediatric units at
Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, working in the rst
freestanding emergency department in the northwest.
Once there, she helped plan two more freestanding emer-
gency departments and was involved in the building of the
new Swedish Hospital in Issaquah, where she managed
the award-winning emergency department.
Neethling has taken the position of emergency depart-
ment director at Samaritan Healthcare and began her new
duties on Aug. ,
. Welcome to our family, Anne.
Anne Neethling, RN, MSN
