Focusing on Collaborative Wellness

February 8, 2023

Over the last few months, we’ve been asking health providers in our community for their perspectives on what “Health and Wellness” means to them. It has been a gratifying exercise to help us determine the most effective ways to serve our community.

The collaborative wellness approach we’re working toward is intended to optimize the strengths of partners in our community so we can shift from treating a patient’s acute illness to focusing on proactive wellness. When we allow experts to do what they do best, it’s more efficient in terms of both time and money while also removing unnecessary or redundant roadblocks that patients must navigate.

While we can’t predict every patient’s needs, we can reasonably impact the Huron community by providing key wellness services. I consider this initiative to be one more example of how health care in rural America needs to transform. In Huron, South Dakota, there isn’t one – or even two – organizations who can be all things to all people. Success requires all of us coming together to elevate the care to a level that our community deserves.

Erick Larson
President & CEO