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Coming Soon - ONLINE VERSION of the ADVOCATE.
There is lots of local GOOD NEWS to report & it will be up & running soon. Our publisher program has an online version & we are working to convert that to this web page & will post the ADVOCATE here soon. Thanks for your support. And keep those great articles coming to: easterncowleycountyadvocate@yahoo.com
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Featured Article:
Health News
Hospitals need better infection controls, Congress told
By Mike Shields
KHI NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D.C., – Infections acquired at a hospital, clinic or doctor’s office rank among the leading causes of death in the U.S., costing needless suffering, billions of dollars and about 100,000 lives every year.
“It is a largely preventable epidemic but we are not doing nearly enough to prevent it,” said U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
A hearing on the topic of hospital-acquired infections was held Wednesday by Waxman’s committee with the focus on a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
“The costs…are borne not only by the patients who suffer the infections, but also by those who pay for care such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),” said GAO health care expert Cynthia Bascetta.
GAO concluded that the Department of Health and Human Services should do a better job integrating and using the information it collects about hospital-acquired infections and that the agency also should prioritize the 13 guidelines and 1,200 recommended prevention practices provided by the Centers for Disease Control so that it can better promote hospital compliance nationwide.
In October, CMS is scheduled to begin implementing its so-called “no-payment” rules, halting reimbursements for care due to harm caused by a hospital, including infections associated with urinary tract and vascular catheters and mediastinitis, a type of infection from heart bypass surgery.
According to the CDC, “in American hospitals alone, healthcare-associated infections account for an estimated 1.7 million infections,” yearly of which:
· 32 percent are urinary tract infections
· 22 percent are surgical site infections
· 15 percent are pneumonia (lung infections)
· 14 percent are bloodstream infections
Five bills have been introduced in Congress that would establish a national infection reporting law and more aggressive prevention, including some patient screening, according to Consumers Union, which has been campaigning against hospital-acquired infections for about five years. Twenty-two states already require infection reporting. But Kansas is not among them.
“It is not a required reported item. We do not have that in the state, nor do we have that nationally,” said Larry Pitman, president of the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care, a non-profit organization that works with various government agencies, including HHS, to improve the quality of medical care.
Pitman said there was no way to know the rate of infections in Kansas hospitals or how they might compare with those in other states.
Most accredited hospitals will have a nurse or team in charge of quality assurance that tracks patient infections. That information is made available to the medical staff and discussed regularly but rarely made public.
HHS recently announced its new Hospital Compare Web site which provides consumers access to information about most hospitals in every state, including how often the facilities use proven surgical infection prevention techniques. But the site doesn’t offer information about the hospital’s infection rates.
“There has been a consistent lack of strong leadership in the federal government to fight hospital-acquired infections,” said Lisa McGiffert, director of Consumer Union’s anti-infection campaign. “The work that has been done rarely focuses on the public interest or demonstrates sensitivity to the years of horrific and painful recovery an infected patient must endure. Rather, it has focused more on the need of the health care providers than the threat to the public – with voluntary reporting and limited visible enforcement of Medicare’s requirement that hospitals implement infection prevention policies.”
McGiffert said required public reporting was essential to fighting the problem.
“When state legislators began responding to our activists’ requests to take action against hospital-acquired infections, it stimulated a public discourse on the subject throughout the country and put this problem front and center where it should be.”
Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care testified that “the majority of federal research funding supports…efforts to understand disease biology and identify promising new therapies.”
But “for every dollar the federal government spends on traditional biomedical research,” he said, “it spends a penny on research to ensure patients actually receive the interventions identified through biomedical research. Given this imbalance, it is understandable, perhaps predictable, that the U.S. has some of the best basic and clinical science research, yet the worst patient health outcomes in the industrialized world.”
-Mike Shields is a staff writer for KHI News Service, which specializes in coverage of health issues facing Kansans. He can be reached at mshields@khi.org or at 785-233-5443, ext. 123.
The ADVOCATE was born on July 4, 2005 & lived until Jan. 2008. It will remain an online newspaper until it
will return as a REGIONAL KANSAS MAGAZINE.in 2013.
The ADVOCATE will present local news for the next few years online. You may submit your news items to: easterncowleycountyadvocate@yahoo.com
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When the PRINT version of the ADVOCATE returns - the public will vote on the form they prefer. THE ADVOCATE started as a full-size NEWSPAPER & then was transformed into a MAGAZINE format. When it returns in that form, it will include features on local farmers/ranchers & other business persons. It will also include local. HEROS - andyou will decide who those are. THE ADVOCATE will have SPECIAL EDITIONS printed in the next four years. The
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The ADVOCATE converted from a local newspaper to a
REGIONAL MAGAZINE with the May, 2007 issue.
Published locally in Cowley County.
(Due to the ADVOCATE being an all-volunteer
publication - we plan to convert to a quarterly seasonal
magazine. This conversion should take place by the end
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by area agencies such as SRS, Family Life Services, Red Cross,
Eagle Nest, Salvation
Army, Joseph Storehouse, area churches, and other organizations.
(ECCRC Fax: (620) 438-2527). Most of the agencies listed above
have application
forms for any area families wanting to reserve a food box.
Distribution sites in Burden,
Dexter, Winfield, and Ark City.
100% of Advocate proceeds go to ECCRC
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other community service projects in Cowley County.
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being considered for the future. Please watch for updates. Your interesting and
informative local stories are greatly appreciated. The Advocate serves our area
towns of: Atlanta, Burden, Cambridge, Dexter, & Eastern Cowley County which
includes the communities of Otto, Maple City, Tisdale, and others.
We are especially interested in rural articles of human interest. Our rural heritage is
one to be proud of. Nothing is as beautiful and peaceful as the Flint Hills of Kansas
and our rolling hills and plains. We may not have oceans to brag about, but we have
waves of wheat grain and other crops. Their beauty and benefit to our area cannot
be mentioned enough. Our part of the county and the state is a well-kept secret and
there is much hidden beauty to behold. Your stories are welcome.
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OXFORD:
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Thanks......and.....
"Don't Forget to Smile!"
Thanksgiving Food Box Wrap Up
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THANKSGIVING FOOD BOXES:
82 Food Boxes were given away for our Thanksgiving Holiday
Food Distribution Program. Fifteen (and more) VOLUNTEERS
helped box the food & deliver it with a smile! The SEMI truck
DID arrive at ECCRC -- a little late -- but CJ's Pizza pleased
the crowd of volunteers as they waited -- Compliments of
& CJ's Pizza.
THANKS to each & every VOLUNTEER & to all businesses,
churches, & individuals who donated food or funds.
THANK YOU also to those businesses who supported the
ANNUAL BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT held at
Qual Ridge each october. AND especially
THANK YOU to all supporters of the ADVOCATE
through your advertising dollars. You have all helped make
this community
foood box distrubution possible.
Thanks & God bless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Area Church Directory
Church Directory
Directory offered as a public service free of charge to churches.
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Hicks Chapel Church Rural Dexter SS 10:00 Church 11:00 (620) 876-5521 |
Dexter Baptist Church SS 10:00 a.m. Worship – 9:00 Evening – 5:00 p.m. Wed. – 5:00 p.m. |
Cambridge Baptist Church 308 E. Main (620) 467-2942 SS – 9:45 a.m. Worship – 10:45 a.m. Evening – 5:30 p.m. Wed. – 7:00 p.m. |
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Dexter Christian Church 202 S. Maple (620) 876-5683 SS – 10:00 Worship – 11:00 Wed. – 7:00 p.m. |
Grandview Methodist Church 9044 111th Rd. Rural Winfield (620) 221- 1157 |
Presbyterian Church 606 Maple Rd. Cambridge (620) 467-2310 |
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Burden Baptist Church SS – 9:45 a.m. Worship – 10L:55 a.m. Evening – 6:30 p.m. |
Burden Methodist Church SS – 9:30 a.m. Worship – 10:45 a.m. |
Maple City ChurchRural Dexter SS – 9:45 a.m. Worship – 11:00 a.m. Evening – 6:00 p.m. Wed. – 7:00 p.m. (620) 876-5779 |
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Tisdale United Methodist Church 17507 US 160 Rural Winfield (620) 221-2607 |
The Dexter Outreach Center Dexter City Building Bible Study – 5:30 p.m. Worship – 6:30 p.m. |
Please call to update or change your church listing at: (620) 438-3333. Also send in your church calendars and news to: PO Box 195 Burden, KS 67019 Or you may fax in your items: (620) 438-2527. |
Church Directory Sponsored by the following businesses:
ECCRC – Your Non-Profit Community Resource Center (620) 438-3333
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Atlanta Cornerstone Christian Church SS – 9:30 a.m. Worship – 10:30 a.m. |
Atlanta Timber Creek Friends Church SS – 9:30 a.m. Worship – 10:30 a.m. |
Atlanta United Methodist Church Worship – 10:30 a.m. |
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Prairie View United Methodist Church Worship – 10:30 a.m. |
Send in Your Church News! Call: (620) 438-3333 |
Send News items to: ECC Advocate PO Box 195 Burden, KS 67019 easterncowleycountyadvocate@yahoo.com |
