EVERETT, Wash. – The 18-year-old driver of a car that crashed early Saturday, killing a 15-year-old girl, was not racing but trying to get away from another car that was chasing him, says the driver’s father.
“He just wanted to get away because someone was after him – chasing him,” says Kena Kong, father of 18-year-old Ronnie Kong, after talking with his son in the hospital late Saturday.
Kong remains in critical condition at Harborview Medical Read the rest of this entry »
COLTON–The uninsured are a big concern around the country. But California health officials say its an even bigger issue here in California where six to seven million people are without a health care plan.
Arrowhead Regional Medical Centers Dr. Dev GnanaDev in Colton is the new president of the California Medical Association. He says its a critical time for health care.
Having a health care reform, affordable health insurance and doctor Read the rest of this entry »
In fiscal year 2008, Concord Hospital provided nearly $38 million in community benefit programs and services to address community health needs. A recently completed Capital Region Health Needs Assessment, which is conducted every five years, is utilized to determine upcoming program priorities for addressing identified health needs.
As a not-for-profit charitable organization, Concord Hospital develops and implements a community benefits plan in Read the rest of this entry »
neck again.
A national magazine says we have the ugliest population of any of the top 25 cities in America.
Our top cop goes on national TV and holds us up as the kind of people who stand idly by as a fellow citizen gets brutally beaten with a hammer.
magazine once tagged us as the most out-of-shape major city in America.
So, we’re fat, ugly and, judging by the flood of responses from all over America since Commissioner Charles Ramsey’s appearance Read the rest of this entry »
A Tennessee-based hospital chain has agreed to purchase Rockdale Medical Center for $80 million.
LifePoint Hospitals Inc. also will invest $30 million in new capital in the Conyers hospital over the next six years as part of the agreement.
The 138-bed Rockdale Medical has looked for a buyer since 2006. A deal with another company, Signature Hospital Corp., fell through this summer.
Funds from the sale will help pay off the hospital’s Read the rest of this entry »
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bloodthinner called Effient. The agency usually, but not always follows the advice of its outside panels of experts. If the FDA says yes, the drug would compete with Plavix from
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If you’ve never attended or listened to one of these panel meetings, many of them can be real yawners. It’s not uncommon to spot people in the audience taking a siesta. The committees typically take tremendously deep dives into Read the rest of this entry »
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The big threat to growth in the next decade is not oil or food prices, but the rising cost of health care. The doubling of health insurance premiums since 2000 makes employers choose between cutting benefits and hiring fewer workers.
Rising health costs push total employment costs up and wages and benefits down. The result is lost profits and lost wages, in addition to pointless risk, insecurity and a flood of personal bankruptcies.
Sustained Read the rest of this entry »
Happy New Year to all.
It is time to get a jump on those New Year’s resolutions. I like to start mine early even before Jan. 2.
Most of us have the same old resolutions: tighten our budgets, lose weight and become healthier, be more informed and more organized. If these sound familiar because you haven’t kept the last 10 years’ worth of resolutions, you may need help to keep those promises. Come to the Ouachita Parish Public Library or the Read the rest of this entry »
Jody and Jim Kubiak have taken over operation of the Curves fitness center in the Outpost Circle at Exit 4 on Interstate 94.
The Kubiaks moved to Hudson a year ago to be near their daughter and her family. Jim is a self-employed management consultant.
There has been a Curves at the Outpost Circle business center for the past five years.
The Kubiaks purchased the business from Richard Stehr of Woodbury, Minn., and assumed management of it on Read the rest of this entry »