• your “Teddy Bear Club” ID card;
• the “Bear Facts” newsletter;
• discount coupons for area merchants;
• the Teddy Bear Club class schedule, and more!

Pre-registering prior to arriving at St. John's will expedite the registration process there.
St. John's is committed to maintaining patients' privacy. St. John's have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and administrative procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect from patients. The information patients transmit in the pre-registration form will be encrypted during transmission to St. John's. St. John's will use the information only to pre-register you for the appropriate service.

Please visit www.stjohns.com/preregistration/ to pre-register.

St. John’s facilities to go tobacco-free by Sept. 1

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is in the process of finalizing a regulation that will make all health care locations tobacco-free. These rules will apply to all patients, family members, and co-workers at all St. John’s Health System locations, including hospitals, clinics and other facilities.
With this regulation, facilities must be completely tobacco-free in order to maintain their licensure. The Missouri Hospital Association has asked all Missouri facilities to enact these rules by Sept. 1.
In an effort to make this transition as easy as possible at St. John’s, a system-wide task force has been formed to plan the implementation. This task force is co-chaired by Rob Brodhead, president, St. John’s Hospital, and J.T. Rogers, M.D., primary care department chair for St. John’s Clinic. Members of the task force include smokers and non-smokers. St John’s Hospital – Berryville’s campus has been tobacco-free since October 2005, when a similar Arkansas law took effect.

Dr. Darren Lehnert elected to prestigious physician organization

St. John’s Clinic OB/GYN Darren Lehnert, M.D., has been elected to the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a nonprofit organization of physicians that encourages and promotes the study of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health Care. Member physicians represent more than 1,000 physicians from 29 states. Each year, the Central Association (CAOG) hosts an annual meeting that updates member physicians about current medical advances. The Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is one of the oldest and most prestigious obstetrics and gynecology associations in the country, and was a founding organization of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1952.

Jim Budzinski named St. John's senior VP/Chief financial officer

A. James (Jim) Budzinski has been named St. John's Health System senior vice president/chief financial officer. He most recently served 11 years as chief financial officer at Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Mich. Sparrow is an integrated system with a 680-bed tertiary teaching hospital, three smaller hospitals, 100 employed physicians, 150 residents and a 90,000-member HMO.
Budzinski holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Ferris State University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He began his career with Arthur Anderson & Co. and ultimately became partner in-charge of its Michigan Healthcare and Insurance practice before joining Sparrow Health System. In 1999, the American Hospital Association recognized Budzinski as an International Emerging Leader in Healthcare.
Budzinski and his wife, Deb, have three children: a son Anthony, a senior in high school, who will attend the University of Michigan in the fall; a daughter, Caitlin, who is a sophomore in high school and a son, Andrew, who is in sixth grade.
St. John's began a nationwide search for a new senior vice president/chief financial officer last fall after Kim Day was promoted to president/CEO. The extensive interview process included leaders of St John's Clinic, Hospital and Health Plans as well as leaders from Sisters of Mercy Health System.