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Ask The Expert: Cancer Genetics and Prevention Ask The Expert

Ask The Expert: Cancer Genetics and Prevention

Testing for your hereditary cancer risk is a powerful tool that can empower you to do early, or more frequent, screenings, and to have the knowledge to motivate lifestyle changes. […]

Closing the Gap Patient Stories

Closing the Gap

The distance between reliable health care and rural patients is growing. When your child suffers from a rare health condition, you do whatever it takes to close that gap. Of […]

Reclaiming Her Life Patient Stories

Reclaiming Her Life

Shedding 175 pounds helped improve Rachelle White’s health — and gave her a new lease on life. According to the CDC, approximately 42% of adults in the U.S. are obese […]

Brady’s Back Patient Stories

Brady’s Back

After a life changing year away, the talkative kid with a love of all things spice is back on the ranch – right where he belongs. In the Summer 2021 […]

From Classroom to Kitchen Caregiver Feature

From Classroom to Kitchen

Alexandra Brown’s passion for teaching has opened new opportunities to bring hand-on nutrition education to community events. Alexandra Brown is extremely busy. As Director of Food and Nutrition at Sturgis […]

Paying it Forward for Peggy Patient Stories

Paying it Forward for Peggy

After the love of his life passed on, Don Behrens paid tribute to her legacy with generous contributions to Monument Health Foundation and the Home+ Hospice Program. Grief is powerful. […]

Hip Hope Patient Stories

Hip Hope

Many young people who suffer from hip pain stop physical activities altogether. The Hip Preservation Institute finds solutions to help patients rediscover pain-free movement. Seventeen-year-old Rayana Shoberg is not the […]

From Heart Surgery to Black Elk Peak Patient Stories

From Heart Surgery to Black Elk Peak

Thanks to heart surgery at Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute, Pennington County Commissioner Ron Rossknecht can reach new heights, literally. After heart surgery, most patients aim to regain their […]

All in the Family Caregiver Feature

All in the Family

Caregivers at Monument Health are woven into the fabric of our communities. They are neighbors, friends and family – sometimes all three. In the Black Hills, nearly everyone knows someone […]

APP Spotlight: Christine A. Duerksen, DNP, FNP-C, ENP-C Caregiver Feature

APP Spotlight: Christine A. Duerksen, DNP, FNP-C, ENP-C

Director of APP Professional Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Certified Family & Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Monument Health Lead-Deadwood Hospital Since starting at Monument Health in November 2022, Christine Duerksen has […]