Sara Lay, DO
Physician
My specialties:
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
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Professional interests:
- cancer rehabilitation
- Lymphedema
- Neuropathies
- Impact of exercise and nutrition on cancer
- Non-cancer edema
Practice philosophy: Everyone deserves to live a fulling life, my goal/ role is to help them understand and decrease medical barriers to live that life.
What are you passionate about and why? Doing things that are meaningful and valuable to individuals, and myself, not simply doing things to do them. Because why do it if it's pointless?
If you weren't a health care provider, what would you be? Systems analyst or data scientist.
Why did you become a provider? When did you know this was the career for you? I became a physician to help others understand what changes had happened and give hope that they could still be who they wanted to be.
What is something you have learned from your patients? "It takes work to take care of me"...but what I can accomplish when I am taken care is unfathomable.
What is your personal health goal? Eat all the different types of good food and still wear a smaller size than I did in high school.
What is the best thing you've done for your health or the best health advice you've received? You're never going to do it perfectly for someone else, but you can to it perfectly for you.
What are you most proud of? I can provide a stable and healthy environment for my children.
What are a few of your personal achievements? Buying a grand piano and going on our first family international vacation.
Credentials
- DO
Board-certified specialties
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Personal interests
- Eating out
- Gardening
- Home renovation projects
Educational institutions
- WesternU University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Memberships
- American Osteopathic Academy
- American Osteopathic College of PMR
- European Society for Medical Oncology
Internships
- Larkin Community Hospital
Residencies
- Larkin Community Hospital
Fellowships
- Kansas University Medical Center
Years of experience
- 7
Hospital affiliations
- Mercy Hospital
- United Hospital
- Abbott Northwestern Hospital
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Major health plans we participate in
- Allina Health | Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
- HealthPartners
- Medica
- PreferredOne*
- SelectCare/LaborCare
- UCare
- UnitedHealthcare
Other health plans we participate in
- Medicaid/Medicare*
- Aetna
- America's PPO
- First Health/Coventry
- CIGNA
- Humana
- Hennepin Health (formerly Metropolitan Health Plan)
- PrimeWest
- South Country Health Alliance
- United Behavioral Health
- Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)