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			<title>Van Diest Medical Center Earns Top 100 CAH Award</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;VDMC is one of 12 Iowa hospitals honored&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<title>VDMC Celebrates Women in Leadership</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Six Leaders Share Their Journeys and Advice&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<title>Van Diest Medical Center Foundation Launches 2025&#8211;2026 Annual Giving Campaign</title>
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			<description>&lt;p data-end=&quot;775&quot; data-start=&quot;534&quot;&gt;The Van Diest Medical Center Foundation&amp;rsquo;s Annual Giving Campaign invites our community to invest in local healthcare. Support for this year&amp;rsquo;s campaign will enhance our new orthopedic service line, launching in January 2026, helping ensure high-quality care close to home. Every gift makes a meaningful difference&amp;mdash;when you give to local healthcare, you give hope a home.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<title>Welcome General Orthopedic Surgeon Sreedhar Somisetty, MD</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;We will be seeing Dr. Somisetty at our hospital over the next two months, as he works with the Surgery Department to prepare to see patients, beginning in January 2026. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<title>Van Diest Medical Center is honored for Digital Excellence as a    2025 Digital Health Most Wired Survey Recipient</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;This marks the second consecutive year the hospital has won the award&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Patients of the Van Diest Family Health Clinic in Fort Dodge are now seeing their care team in a new spacious facility.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The clinic at 2419 Second Ave. N. replaces the one on the city&amp;rsquo;s west side.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new facility was celebrated Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony conducted by the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance Ambassadors.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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