{"id":22119,"date":"2022-11-01T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates-www.mccdn.io\/vitals\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2024-01-19T00:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T00:53:06","slug":"multicare-inw-anniversary-long-time-deaconess-respiratory-therapist-reflects-on-43-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updates-www.mccdn.io\/vitals\/multicare-inw-anniversary-long-time-deaconess-respiratory-therapist-reflects-on-43-year-career\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiCare INW anniversary: Long-time Deaconess respiratory therapist reflects on 43-year career","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: This piece is part of an ongoing series highlighting MultiCare\u2019s impact in the Inland Northwest over the last five years through profiles of our team members, providers, patients and volunteers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many things have changed for Sally Rennebohm-Lutz over the past 43 years at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital.<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital charting didn\u2019t exist those first few decades. Hygiene safety standards have vastly improved. Patients can\u2019t smoke in their rooms anymore. There\u2019s new and innovative equipment, even for the hospital\u2019s tiniest patients in the neonatal intensive care unit. And more often than not, open-heart surgery patients no longer need respiratory therapy.<\/p>\n

As a respiratory therapist for more than four decades, Rennebohm-Lutz says it\u2019s been exciting to see such advancements and learn better ways to care for patients. Because respiratory therapists are tasked with helping patients breathe, they can be called to help anyone in the hospital, no matter their age or health condition \u2014 which means it\u2019s important to always keep learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been here for 42 years, and even after that long, there were still patients who would come in with something new and something different to learn,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s also what she enjoyed most.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved the diversity and working with premature babies all the way up to people over 100 years old,\u201d Rennebohm-Lutz says. \u201cYou work with cardiac, trauma, respiratory diseases, post-surgical and so on. Even though it\u2019s kind of the same thing every day, every patient is different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patient care continued to change, especially when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. At the time she was considering retirement but decided to stay on board to help care for the many patients in need of respiratory care.<\/p>\n

Rennebohm-Lutz \u201chalfway retired\u201d in January 2021 and switched to a part-time role to help fill schedule gaps. She fully retired in May of that year. The Deaconess Volunteer Services team wasted no time scooping her up, though. By June 2021, she was enrolled in volunteer orientation and began working the patient registration desk once a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeaconess took care of me in a sense,\u201d she says. \u201cThey gave me a job. They were always good to me, so I wanted to give something back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside her volunteer shift, Rennebohm-Lutz says she\u2019s still adjusting to retired life.<\/p>\n

She first moved to Spokane in 1976, graduated from Spokane Community College in 1979 and immediately began working for the Deaconess respiratory therapy department. She and her husband raised their family in Spokane, and he retired a few years before she did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith COVID, travel hasn\u2019t been a big thing. Sometimes when I do something just for fun, I feel almost guilty,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m also figuring out a routine with both my husband and I home now. \u2026 We have never been with each other 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the many changes she witnessed over her career, Rennebohm-Lutz says she\u2019s grateful for the positives MultiCare Health System brought to Deaconess over the past five years. She says it\u2019s been fun to see the way MultiCare embeds itself within the community to help grow the Deaconess name, as well as the organization\u2019s commitment to updating equipment, technology and the clinical environment.<\/p>\n

Just as important as the advancements she saw, Rennebohm-Lutz appreciates the lessons she learned from those around her. For example, recent medical school graduates demonstrating new ways to care for patients and learning compassion and empathy from her own patients. The lessons are not just work-related, she says, but also focused on understanding that everyone is going through something different.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack when I was in my 20s I had a procedure in the hospital and seeing the way the care team acted taught me how to better understand what a patient feels in that moment,\u201d she says. \u201cI was always thinking \u2018How would I feel if I were them?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Rennebohm-Lutz jokes she will fully retire once she has learned it all, but that day hasn\u2019t come yet. For now, she\u2019s excited to be the first face to greet patients when they arrive at the Deaconess registration desk, and to continue to care for them just as she has done for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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