Over 300 guests raise more than $125,000 at annual Rogers Memorial fundraiser

Town of Summit, Wis. – Oconomowoc resident Gary Jorgensen, chairman of VJS Construction Services, has received the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s annual Spirit of Giving Award.

“It’s a privilege to work within an organization that offers such support to individuals, families, and the community,” Jorgensen said.

“Gary is humble and kind. He exemplifies all the characteristics of a servant leader,” Foundation Executive Director Marion Heinz said.

More than 300 guests helped raise more than $125,000 at this year’s Celebrate the Light Gala, held by the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation at the Harley-Davidson Museum on November 14. Many guests wore their best leather pants, vests, and jackets in recognition of the venue’s namesake.

The event featured Suzy Favor Hamilton, three-time Olympian, who shared how the effects of depression shattered her Olympic dreams. Today, Suzy has come to terms with her illness and is speaking out in an effort to lessen the stigma of mental illness.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the Celebrate the Light Gala support the patients and programs of Rogers Memorial Hospital.

Oconomowoc’s Gary Jorgensen accepts the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s “Spirit of Giving Award” at the group’s Celebrate the Light Gala held Nov. 14.

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Rogers Memorial is a not-for-profit behavioral health care provider for children, adolescents, adults and older adults. The hospital is nationally recognized for its residential treatment centers including The Eating Disorder Center, The Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Center, The Child Center and The Child and Adolescent Center. Rogers Memorial also provides residential treatment services for chemical dependency at The Herrington Recovery Center. Inpatient and partial hospitalization services are also available.

Rogers Memorial is licensed as a psychiatric hospital by the State of Wisconsin and accredited by The Joint Commission. It offers treatment programs at four Wisconsin locations: Oconomowoc, Milwaukee, Kenosha and Brown Deer. To learn more, call 800-767-4411 or visit www.rogershospital.org.

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If you’d like more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview, contact Gabe Wollenburg at 262-646-1389 or gwollenburg@rogershospital.org.

Dr. Jay Kasner has dedicated the last 15 years of practice exclusively to treating chemical dependency

Town of Summit, Wis. – Addictionologist Jay Kasner has been named the attending physician at Rogers Memorial Hospital’s residential center for the treatment of chemical dependency, the Herrington Recovery Center.
Kasner, of Delafield, is a board-certified addictionologist and has dedicated the last 15 years of his practice exclusively to the treatment of chemical dependency. Kasner has treated more than 6,000 patients in the programs chemical dependency service line, including those in Rogers Memorial’s inpatient detoxification and day-treatment programs. In the past 12 years, the Herrington Recovery Center has been selected as the treatment center for nearly 1,400 residential patients.
“With Dr. Kasner’s commitment to treating chemical dependency, it seemed natural to include his expertise as part of our investment into the Herrington Recovery Center,” said David L. Moulthrop, Rogers Memorial Hospital President and CEO. “With Dr. Kasner as a key part of the treatment team, the top-quality caliber of our care will be matched only by the beauty of our new facility.”
This fall, Rogers Memorial Hospital will open a brand new facility to house the Herrington Recovery Center. Located on the shore of Upper Nashotah lake, the new Herrington Recovery Center is the first construction project in Waukesha County built to LEED certified, “green” standards.
For more information and updates please visit www.rogersrecovery.org.

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Child and Adolescent psychiatrist hired as hospitalist at leading treatment center

Oconomowoc, Wis – Stephanie C. Eken, M.D., a board-certified pediatrician and psychiatrist  will join Rogers Memorial Hospital’s growing staff of child and adolescent psychiatrists.
Eken received the “Catcher in the Rye Award for Advocacy” from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2008, and has received numerous other honors and fellowships. She has both authored and presented to professional and academic audiences.

Eken., a child and adolescent psychiatrist, earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond and her medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 2002.  During her triple board residency training in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Kentucky, she served as chief resident.  Eken held the widely recognized Laughlin Fellowship offered  by the American College of Psychiatrists.

Her clinical interests include depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, psychotic disorders, and emotional problems in chronically medically ill children.  Eken and her family live in Nashotah, Wis.

Rogers Memorial Hospital continues its commitment to providing intensive, highly specialized services for children and adolescents with this addition of this board-certified pediatrician, psychiatrist, and board-eligible child and adolescent psychiatrist. Most managed care companies have contracts with Rogers Memorial Hospital because they trust Rogers Memorial to provide the most comprehensive treatment at the most competitive cost.
The residential child and adolescent programs at Rogers Memorial are innovative treatment centers on a picture-perfect campus designed for children ages 8 to 18. The Child Center and the Child and Adolescent Center provide a dedicated team of experts who are sensitive to the needs of children and their families.

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Nationally known trainer will build on high quality of care offered at Rogers Memorial

Town of Summit – Stacey L. Nye, Ph.D., FAED, a Mequon-based psychologist with over 20 years of treatment, training, writing and and speaking experience in the field of eating disorders has accepted the position of eating disorders staff and program development specialist at Rogers Memorial Hospital.

“We are committed to providing high quality care and Stacey will be an excellent addition to our team as she enhances our staff development program,” explained Paul Mueller, COO of  the non-profit behavioral health care provider. “Every day we are treating on average 80 individuals suffering with an eating disorder; a nationally respected professional like Stacey will bolster Rogers Memorial’s abilities to treat this serious illness across all of our behavioral health treatment programs.”

Rogers Memorial provides specialized, intensive care for a wide range of psychiatric and behavioral health conditions, including chemical dependency and anxiety disorders, in addition to its nationally known eating disorders treatment program, the largest such program in Wisconsin.

Among Nye’s first responsibilities will be to solidify Rogers Memorial Hospital’s eating disorders treatment staff curriculum. “It is an honor to have the opportunity to work with an  internationally respected provider such as Rogers Memorial Hospital.  The staff, who are on the front lines of the program, are critical to helping our patients achieve recovery from this devastating illness,” said Nye.

Nye received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University Medical School in 1991. She currently practices individual and group therapy at her Mequon, Wisc. and Elm Grove, Wisc. practices. She is also a faculty instructor at the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology where she teaches a graduate level course on the diagnoses, etiology and treatment of eating disorders. Her articles have been published in scholarly journals all over the world. She was selected as a Founding Fellow for the Academy for Eating Disorders in 2001.

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Eating disorders platform a natural fit for non-profit behavioral health provider

Town of Summit, Wisc. – Kirsten Haglund, 2008 Miss America, will speak at the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s 2008 Annual Benefit.

During her presentation, Haglund will demonstrate how she has helped raise awareness of the pervasive 

and deadly nature of eating disorders. She will also reflect on her own personal recovery from an eating disorder. 

In the United States, nearly 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting a life and  death battle with an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia. Millions more are struggling with binge eating disorder.

The eating disorders platform correlates with Rogers Memorial’s highly-specialized, intensive eating disorders treatment services. Rogers Memorial offers a full continuum of eating disorders treatment for males, females, adolescents and adults with co-occurring anxiety disorders and employs over 70 eating disorders professionals in its treatment programs.

The Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s 2008 annual benefit will be held on November 8, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Milwaukee. 

The 2008 Annual Benefit will also include a cocktail reception, dinner, silent and live auctions, the presentation of the foundation’s annual “Spirit of Giving” award.  Proceeds from this event will be used to support the patients and programs of Rogers Memorial Hospital. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation at 262-646-1343.

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W. Carl Templer accepts honors for more than 15 years of leadership and service

Town of Summit – The Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) has given a 2008 Trustee Award to W. Carl Templer, Board President of Rogers Memorial Hospital from 1993 to 2008 and current president of the Rogers Behavioral Health System Board.

Templer accepted the award during the Annual WHA Awards Dinner in Green Bay on Sept. 18.

Templer said he was “both humbled and proud” that the WHA selected him as a recipient of the 2008 Trustee Award. “I am humbled because my time with Rogers Memorial has been only a small portion of the institution’s century-long history; I am proud because this recognition shows how far we’ve come.”

The WHA Trustee Award is given to trustees of WHA-member organizations who have made an exemplary commitment to their hospital and to the community they serve.

“Rogers Memorial Hospital’s passions remain intensely focused on bringing the best quality mental health care to most people. Through our partnerships and consulting relationships with several hospital systems, Rogers Memorial Hospital now provides over 45 percent of all of the state’s inpatient mental health care. These partnerships are important keys to the integration of high-quality behavioral treatment into the traditional health care space,” said Templer.

“Carl’s support and passion has clearly been one of the keys to Rogers Memorial Hospital’s growth and development,” said Rogers Memorial President and CEO David L. Moulthrop. “Carl’s support was instrumental in taking us from being that ‘little hospital in the woods’ and helping us become a major player in Wisconsin’s health care community.”

Templer works full-time as the President of Templer Communications & Consulting, Inc., a marketing communications and management company serving business to business and municipal clients, but he’s also a full-time member of Rogers Memorial Hospital’s Governing Board.

“I can count on Carl’s support for just about anything I could ask of him,” said Marion Heinz, the executive director of Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation, the non-profit behavioral health system’s fundraising wing. “He just ‘gets it,’ she said. “His passion is hope, help and healing, and it’s no wonder that those passions are the very passions that drive those of us at Rogers Memorial Hospital,” Heinz said.

“This is more than just business to Carl. This is about saving lives and changing lives.”

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Eating disorders program at Rogers Memorial Hospital expands to include specialized care for children and adolescents

Milwaukee - Tracey Cornella-Carlson, M.D., will lead the development of a new inpatient eating disorders treatment program for children and adolescents that will expand the capacity of Rogers Memorial Hospital’s Eating Disorder Services.

“The average age of those suffering from life-stealing diseases like anorexia is dropping,” said Cornella-Carlson.

The federal Office on Women’s Health recently reported that eating disorders are being diagnosed in girls as young as 9 years old. Rogers Memorial’s own statistics report a similar drop in the average age of those seeking treatment for eating disorders. “The numbers of people suffering from eating disorders are on the rise in the United States, not only among adolescent white women, but among all ethnic groups, boys, and even little girls,” Cornella-Carlson said.

“Fortunately,” she said, “treatment does work, especially when it is administered early and integrated with medical care.”

Cornella-Carlson, a board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Rogers Memorial, the largest non-profit behavioral health treatment provider in Wisconsin,  will be a hands-on leader and clinician in new program scheduled to open this fall at Rogers Memorial – Milwaukee.

Under Cornella-Carlson’s leadership, Rogers Memorial’s inpatient program for children and adolescents will feature nutritional and medical stabilization, a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation for identification and treatment of potential co-occurring illnesses and family-focused therapy. This inpatient hospitalization program will also be the first at Rogers Memorial to feature on-site dietitian-supervised meals.

“While dietitians have always played a strong role in our treatment centers,” said Cornella-Carlson, “this program will be our first to have the dietitian at the table with our patients.”
This keys in with the program’s educational aspect, Cornella-Carlson said. “Our emphasis will be on educating and involving families. Transitioning to other levels of care will also be a priority,” she said.

“At Rogers Memorial Hospital, we are fortunate to be able to offer residential and partial hospitalization care, which could provide a very smooth transition from the inpatient unit,” explained Theodore Weltzin, Director of Eating Disorder Services at Rogers Memorial. “By offering an entire range of treatment options, we’re better able to help patients sustain their recovery.”

As part of the creation of the program, Cornella-Carlson will be given the title Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent, Inpatient and Partial Hospitalization Eating Disorder Programs at Rogers Memorial – Milwaukee.

Cornella-Carlson received her medical degree from the Chicago Medical School in 1992. She also completed a three-year general psychiatry residency and a two-year fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry as Chief Fellow at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. She has done research on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and specializes in eating disorder treatment.

Cornella-Carlson is licensed to practice psychiatry in the state of Wisconsin, and a current member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has seen hundreds of patients with eating disorders during her tenure with Rogers Memorial.

Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation hosts annual Women’s Gathering Event

Oconomowoc, Wisc. - Women from all ages filled the Bluemound Country Club in Suburban Milwaukee County on June 3 as part of The Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation’s fourth Annual Women’s Gathering. Nearly 200 area women shared an afternoon luncheon learning and discussing the impact that eating disorders and eating disorders treatment has on adult women.

“As women we are meant to connect with each other,” said Tracy Cornella-Carlson, a full-time psychiatrist at Rogers Memorial Hospital, southeastern Wisconsin’s largest behavioral health service provider.
“At Rogers, we realize that eating disorders are no longer an adolescent phenomena. We now see and treat an increasing number of midlife women.”

In the United States, as many as 10 million females struggle with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. Because of the secretiveness and shame often associated with eating disorders, many cases are probably not reported.

“Women in midlife may feel that they are ‘too old’ for this problem,” Cornella-Carlson told those at the Women’s Gathering. “Their eating disorder has become part of their life.” Many of these women don’t think that their life can be any different; their eating disorder has become a way of life for them and they don’t know how to change, she said.

“But treatment does work and life can be better,” Cornella-Carlson said.
Treatment may have saved the life of one woman at the gathering; Kathryn Lambrecht, in recovery from her eating disorder since April of 2007, also spoke to the women.

“It is possible to love and accept your body at any age and at any stage,” said Lambrecht. Working with Rogers Memorial, she and her husband Marc learned how to challenge her eating disorder, she said.  After working with Rogers Memorial staff, her own therapists and support groups, she is now sharing the story of her recovery.

“Without the treatment, I most likely would not be here today. The staff helped me to draw my wings, so that I could learn to fly again,” Lambrecht said.

In fact, anorexia, an eating disorder wherein its sufferers typically restrict caloric intake to dangerous levels, has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Approximately one in 10 women with anorexia will die of complications from the disorder.

The women at the gathering stood and applauded Lambrecht for sharing her story.

The event was designed around the idea that as a group, women have a great power. “I believe as women we are meant to connect with each other. to support, encourage and accept. I propose we use the body as a vehicle to connect. and do good things,” Cornella-Carlson said. “The focus should be on what they body can do, not how it looks.”

Put on annually by the Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Woman’s Gathering is part of the foundation’s mission to raise awareness and financial support for the patients and programs of Rogers Memorial. “Our donors are partners with us in this important mission, helping to save lives and change lives through their gifts and giving,” said Foundation Executive Marion Heinz.

Rogers Memorial Hospital offers specialized, intensive eating disorder treatment services for men, women, adolescents, and adults with co-occurring anxiety disorders.

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Keynote Speaker Pam Derosa of the In Formed Foundation holds a sign of hope and awareness during the annual Candle Light Vigil for Eating Disorders Awareness at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc. This is the sixth year that Rogers Memorial has observed the national vigil, in cooperation with the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. More information about the In Formed Foundation can be found at www.informed4u.org. [Download PDF]

Kambiz Pahlavan, (right) Medical Director of Rogers Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee, presents Prakash Masand (left), a consulting professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center, with an award plaque in commemoration of his April 17 and18 visit to Wisconsin. The Rogers Center for Research and Training brought Masand to Milwaukee as part of the organization’s professional development series. Doctors and therapists saw Masand speak at a program held April 17 at Milwaukee’s Mason Street Grill. Download PDF Version

Prakash Masand, consulting professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center, leads a discussion at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee about using evidence-based treatments in the care of those diagnosed with bipolar disorder.Download PDF Version

Prakash Masand, consulting professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center, leads a discussion at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee about using evidence-based treatments in the care of those diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Download PDF Version.