October 21, 2026-9-10---Working on Wellness Wednesday—Show 53-73

(((From the Blackburn Studios in Downtown Sioux Falls—Welcome to our Working on Wellness Wednesday Show)))

(((MUSIC---THIS OLE HOUSE---YEE HAH)))

  I’m Bill Zortman and Welcome to our Working On Wellness Wednesday Show))))

  We start with Dr. Joseph Kippley---

I can give an overview of the citizen boards that help advise the city's health department:

1. Regional EMS Authority
2. Falls Community Health Board
3. Board of Health

-----------you have talked a few weeks ago about numbers—illness---etc—and we are now in the final weeks of October---

------------Dr. Kippley---------------

---------what do you see for the months of November and December?----

Dr. Joseph Kippley—thanks for all you always do –to keep us as healthy and well informed as possible----

Just ahead----three ladies---with quite the understanding with health care issues------all part of our Working on Wellness Wednesday Show

First—Dr. Tim Ridgway—sent his entry for working on wellness Wednesday information –as simple as Ella Bender—Sanford School of Medicine---University of South Dakota..

9:17/30---KELO Commercials

9:19/00---Wellness Wednesday 2

   As many of you know---Dr. Tim Ridgway who heads the USD School of Medicine---leads off our Wellness Wednesday Shows most week—but this week he was on the road----

  Ella Mae Bender has joined us-----it’s not her first time with the Wellness Show—but it is interesting to follow-along and what Dr. Ridgway wanted us to hear---was how education has evolved since you last speaking experience at the retreat last week---

You spoke at the retreat last week---but with that experience you can tell  us  along with  perhaps a couple of others—

   Ella Mae Bender---talk to us about that speaking experience at the retreat forum last week----what you learned from it---and what you would tell others about where you are ---where you want to go----and just when you’ll be in the field from your education experience as a Coyote ---605-261-2001---

    Thoughts are normal, italicized is what I will talk about. ● Education experience evolving

○ More comprehensive approach with detailed body systems since the spring —> Everything is starting to click and the full picture is finally coming into view

○ Have built up basic knowledge —> We get to meet patients, learn about their condition, and perform physical exams in real time. ○ I was apart of a leadership academy this summer at Sanford — got to see

how insurance, quality assurance, and telehealth affect the health care

system —> will talk a little bit about this showing a different perspective I don’t learn about in the classroom and how it affects patient outcomes

○ Following the specialties i’m learning about during my course

(electrocardiologist in cardiology, sleep medicine with pulmonology in

respiratory, etc.) —> will briefly say a few things about how clinical and

classroom integration is key for complete understanding and long-term

application. Seeing patients with these conditions while I learn about them.           ● Moving to Sioux Falls

○ Excited for future students to have earlier interactions with clinical faculty and the hospital along with mentorship between students of all classes becoming more realistic and accessible. ● Education evolving to an active learning classroom. Some thoughts are below

○ New direction of curriculum is learning about each subject and focuses on application in a clinical setting —> active learning with asking questions and interacting with professors and clinicians in real time. More patient interactions

as well.

    ■ Ex. What happens when a pulmonary embolism is suspected? What would you do next in the emergency room in this situation? —> how to be proactive in these situations

○ Our class gets to experience new methods of learning with anything between giving lectures to case-based learning sessions with basic science and clinicians —> feedback matters and the faculty are building a program to best fit the students at USD.

   ○ I am apart of the first class getting to experience the active learning style, and everyone is doing well so far —> Students are involved and helping shape the new curriculum. Our input is creating real results!

• Strategic planning event

○ Will talk a little bit about the event and how everyone gave helpful input for types of active learning in class along with new programs to help students succeed

-----------thanks for following your path---listening to Dr. Ridgway—and wanting to help people with their health care just as soon as possible---

------when we come back a follow-up to Emily’s Hope and the Fentanyl Awareness Assembly that was in Watertown Tuesday----

9:29/00—KELO Commercials

9:30/00---Fox Business News

9:32/30---Watertown—Emily’s Hope Assembly-Wellness Wednesday 3

   We talked about Emily’s HOPE to Bringing Emily’s Pledge to Watertown on Tuesday----students from area high schools and community members had the chance to learn-----Delana Mach- 605-653-9267

Live follow—or recorded version from Tuesday Show---

----one more medical stop this morning--- Mary Michaels—AARP taping

9:43/00—KELO Commercials

9:44/30---Wellness Wednesday 4

---taping Mary Michaels----at 8:20

9:55/30—KELO Commercials

9:57/00---Wellness Wednesday 5

----a busy morning for our It’s YOUR Agri Business Show-----that begins at 9:06---

---of course agriculture is the #1 industry in South Dakota----and it took us a few years to respond to those in agriculture---and give them what they truly deserved.

   Morning farm numbers-----weather----Mr. Tree-----and you name it---all a part of our It’s YOUR Agri Business Show

----our time is up---thank you for yours