Pine Ridge Reservation

By: Dan Lundtvedt, RN at Gundersen Health System Day two started with a morning wake up with a small breakfast of brown sugar oatmeal and some good Folgers coffee at the hotel in Martin prior to making the trek to the Department of Justice for another day of physicals.  Each day you never know what … Continue reading Tired, but Thankful

By: Dan Lundtvedt, RN at Gundersen Health System Date Written: September 14, 2021 A team of three veteran Pine Ridge volunteers ventured to the Department of Justice after a year hiatus on a September day with few expectations of what to expect.  We were greeted by Rich with open and welcome arms along with a … Continue reading Full Day at the DOJ

By: David Nash, MD; Ophthalmologist at Gundersen Health System As I sit in my Super 8 hotel room, trying to think of what to write on our last night of the first Global and Community Partners trip back to Pine Ridge in almost two years, I noticed flashes of light through the crack between the … Continue reading Passing Storms

By: David Nash, MD; Ophthalmologist at Gundersen Health System 8/4/2021 Somedays just don’t work out the way you think they will. Sometimes you prepare as much as possible, remembering everything you can think of, check all the boxes, and the world still finds a way to move around you without concern for your plans. On … Continue reading Tallying the Unexpected Wins

By: David Nash, MD; Ophthalmologist at Gundersen Health System 8/3/2021 You’d think after three straight days of long car rides through the South Dakota plains one would get tired of the sunflowers, but no, no. They are just too pleasant to ignore. According to Country Partner’s Coop (https://www.countrypartnerscoop.com/news/sunflower-production-in-south-dakota/) the sunflower seeds in South Dakota average … Continue reading The Medicine Wheel and the Sunflower

By: Kristin Lettner, Global and Community Partners Program Coordinator 8/2/2021 Clinic Day 1 We didn’t really know what to expect.  About what?  A lot of things.  This is Global and Community Partners first trip back to Pine Ridge Reservation in over a year and a half – during a pandemic.  A lot has changed. Generally, … Continue reading Expectations

This week, a team of 4 volunteers are providing athletic physicals for student athletes at Little Wound and Crazy Horse Schools. This is monumental, as it is the first Global and Community Partners team to return to Pine Ridge in 20 months. By: David Nash, MD; Ophthalmologist at Gundersen Health System 8/1/2021 Vast open space … Continue reading Like the Sunflowers

This post was written on Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 as part of the Healthy Athlete Workshop.  Better late than never.:) By: Danielle Graf, yoga instructor We were greeted by a friendly dog outside our door this morning. He was just as fluffy as the pink and golden clouds in the sunrise as we set off … Continue reading Big Hearts

By: Kaitlyn Ganrude, Global Partners Intern and Public Health major at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse I’d like to begin by saying that I am thoroughly exhausted while writing this, so I apologize for grammatical and spelling errors that will occur. I hope everyone is able to follow this post, though, because today was a … Continue reading The Strongest Impact