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Winter wellness with MCH Nurse Practitioner Ashlie Snowden · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You're listening to the Waking Crew
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  Speaker 1: here on AM fourteen sixty FM ninety five to one
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  Speaker 1: w i X and where you're never more than moments
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  Speaker 1: away from all the local news, sports and entertainment information
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  Speaker 1: along with the hits needed to start your day. Now
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  Speaker 1: we turn our attention to a very special healthline edition
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  Speaker 1: of our talk Line segment where I am joined by
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  Speaker 1: nurse practitioner Ashley Snowden over at the Morrison Community Hospital. Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: how are you this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm very well? Thank you. What's the weather situation out there?
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  Speaker 2: Is?
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  Speaker 1: It's still pretty gloomy?
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 1: It is, absolutely and so I just kind of wanted
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  Speaker 1: to start with having you, you know, introduce yourself and
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  Speaker 1: how long you've been with the hospital and tell us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about your job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So my name is Ashley Snowden. I'm a nurse
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  Speaker 2: practitioner here Morson Community Hospital. I've worked in the family
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  Speaker 2: care clinic for four years and I am a primary
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  Speaker 2: care provider here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and what is that? What does that entail?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So a primary care provider provides everyday health needs
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  Speaker 2: and long term care. So I do things like routine checkups,
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  Speaker 2: managing common illnesses, providing education, preventative care and just ways
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  Speaker 2: to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful And what types of patients are you seeing? Ashley?
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  Speaker 2: So? I can see patients from birth to one hundred
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  Speaker 2: plus years old. Majority of my patients are three years
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  Speaker 2: old and up. I see patients for like their annual
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  Speaker 2: wellness visits, sports, physical school physicals. I do quite a
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  Speaker 2: few Medicare wellness visits on patients sixty five and up.
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  Speaker 2: I see healthy patients and I also see paid since
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  Speaker 2: with chronic illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, COPDS.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and is there is there anything you're seeing this
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  Speaker 1: type of years? Is the flu starting to hit us hard?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't seen it yet. I do help with the
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  Speaker 2: walking clinic at times two as they are shortening me
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  Speaker 2: to fill in. So far we've been good. No really fluing,
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  Speaker 2: COVID good.
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  Speaker 1: We will keep our fingers crossed there. What communities are
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  Speaker 1: you seeing patients from?
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  Speaker 2: So? I see pretty much the entire Sock Valley area
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  Speaker 2: Morson Profitstown to Savannah, Sturley, Mount Carroll. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I see pretty much anywhere within a forty mile radius.
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  Speaker 2: I also have quite a few patients from Clinton's Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, now what do you do if
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  Speaker 1: if you get someone who comes to see you and
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  Speaker 1: after you know, seeing them and doing a big dig,
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  Speaker 1: and you find that that patient needs more extensive care.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so what's great about here at MCCH is if
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  Speaker 2: I am unable to manage a chronic disease or even
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  Speaker 2: if somebody comes in with an acute problem that I
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  Speaker 2: need help with, we have several in house specialists that
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  Speaker 2: I can refer to. So to just name a few,
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  Speaker 2: we have cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, and behavioral health. Also, if
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  Speaker 2: I have a patient, for example, that's having like back
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  Speaker 2: pain or needs muscle strengthening, we have an excellent physical
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  Speaker 2: therapy department as well that I can refer to.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. It sounds like you really have a three
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  Speaker 1: sixty degree view of the patient health spectrum there at
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  Speaker 1: your kind of at your beck and call.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do, that's what we just we keep growing
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  Speaker 2: and it's nice.
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  Speaker 1: I know we've we've all seen the construction that's happened
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  Speaker 1: over at the hospital and all of the new things
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  Speaker 1: that are coming over there. It's such exciting news. Coming
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  Speaker 1: out of the hospital right now for sure? What would
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  Speaker 1: you say is the highlight of working over at Morrison
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  Speaker 1: Community Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: I have a couple of highlights. First would be that
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  Speaker 2: I get to work close to home. Another highlight of
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  Speaker 2: work in here at Morson would be that I get
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  Speaker 2: to care, care for and improve patient's health in my
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  Speaker 2: own community as well as the surrounding communities. I have
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  Speaker 2: a passion for preventative care and developing long term patient relationships,
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  Speaker 2: so being able to do that close to home, I
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  Speaker 2: feel is very special. Like I said, our hospital continues
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  Speaker 2: to grow and it's awesome that we're able to provide
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  Speaker 2: so many services in our rural community.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is just it's good and it's a peace
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  Speaker 1: of mind to know that as the hospital grows that
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  Speaker 1: there are just so many wonderful healthcare providers such as
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  Speaker 1: yourself and the whole team that you had mentioned there.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that people can go there when they
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  Speaker 1: you know, they have questions, they're not feeling well, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're just being proactive, because I don't think enough
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  Speaker 1: folks are proactive about their health these days. Would I
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  Speaker 1: be wrong in assuming that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? And I, like I said, that's one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite things to do is preventative care. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: if somebody hasn't you know, had a provider for a while,
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  Speaker 2: we always encourage coming, you know, and get your preventative
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  Speaker 2: health and to help keep you healthy.
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  Speaker 1: What's the best way of if somebody wants to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and start some services with you, actually, what's the
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  Speaker 1: best way for patients to reach out and do that? Yep?
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  Speaker 2: So if you just give the hospital a call, you'll
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  Speaker 2: go to our receptionist and you know, you just say
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  Speaker 2: you would like to establish care with one of our
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  Speaker 2: primary care providers. I am accepting new patients, so I mean,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll get you set up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you have it, folks, Ashley's accepting new patients.
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  Speaker 1: You know how to get a hold of her. Whether
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  Speaker 1: you've got something going on now or you're looking to
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  Speaker 1: establish yourself. They have you covered over at Morrison Community Hospital. Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything else you wanted to share this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so well.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you so much, not only for coming on
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  Speaker 1: the show and sharing all this important information, but for
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  Speaker 1: all the fine work that you do in healthcare. My
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  Speaker 1: wife is a nurse. I know how difficult you know,
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  Speaker 1: these jobs are in healthcare, so what you folks do
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  Speaker 1: is greatly appreciated. So I thank you very much, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.