ST. LUKE'S PHYSICIANS RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE IN DIABETES CARE

St. Luke's Clinic Quality Improvement Committee elected to participate in a Physician Diabetes Program that recognizes physicians who meet the criteria for 10 evidence-based measures. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), in conjunction with the American Diabetes Association reviewed 25 charts for each physician.

Below are the St. Luke's internal medicine and family medicine physicians who met the criteria for those measures and are now listed on the NCQA web page as achieving this recognition. St. Luke's congratulates these physicians for this accomplishment and the great care they give their patients.

St. Luke's Internal Medicine Associates
David Arvold, MD, Timothy Kleinschmidt, MD, Judith Arvold, MD, Jay Knuths, MD, Joleen Finken, MD, David Mast, MD, Mark Goellner, MD, Mark Plachta, MD, Kurt Kamper, MD, Jake Powell, MD, Susan Kamper, MD, Paul Sanford, MD, Gene Karwoski, MD, John Van Etta, MD

St. Luke's Duluth Internal Medicine Associates
David Albright, MD, Kenneth Howard, MD, George Apostolou, MD, Michael Huska, MD, Krisa Christian, MD, David Sproat, MD

St. Luke's Endocrinology Associates
Robert Sjoberg, MD

Hibbing Family Medical Clinic
Mitchell Cardwell, DO, Thomas Loo, MD, Jack Greene, MD, Donald Mersh, MD, Amy Hilde-Philips, MD, David Moyer, MD

Mariner Medical Clinic
David Kirby, MD, Jon Stephenson, MD, Joseph McLean, MD, Sonja Swenson, MD

Mount Royal Medical Clinic
John Ipsen, MD, Kristan Wegerson, MD, Steven Long, MD, Anne Whitworth, MD, Denver Ulland, MD