Hospitals' Surpluses Dip Under One Percent
Two Cedar Rapids hospitals report five year surplus averages near 0.9 percent as staff and wage costs rise. At St Luke’s budget 25.8 million with 56 percent on wages, extra raises total 885 thousand, while Mercy’s 21 million budget allocates 52 percent to wages. Occupancy and patient volumes rise alongside efforts to curb costs via centralized purchasing and audits.
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St. Luke's
Curtis
Mercy
Lawrence
St. Luke’s
Bek
Mercy Coordinating Center
Chicago
Sisters of Mercy
Pulik Triumph at Cedar Rapids Kennel Club Show
The best of show at Kirkwood College Saturday went to Champion Peli-Volggi Fifi a black Pulik shown by Mrs. Bill Rummel of Whitewater Wisconsin. The dog imported from Hungary is said to be the first Pulik to win three shows in the United States.
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Cedar Rapids
Eight charged with drunk driving in weekend incidents
Eight individuals were charged with drunk driving over Friday night and Saturday. Names and ages include Kevin B. Sippy 21 and Rafael A. Martinez 21, among others, with arrests reported across multiple streets and roads in Marion and surrounding areas.
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Kevin B. Sippy
Norway
Jeffrey G. Anderson
Sixth Street
Fourteenth Street
Rafael A. Martinez
Sixth Avenue SE
Country Club Parkway
James L. Henderson
Thirty-fifth Street
Marion
Clothes worth 1500 reported stolen in apartment break in
Police received a complaint from Kathy LeMatty at 417 Seventeenth street NE about a break in that same Friday. The thief took clothing valued at 1500 but did not steal cash or other items visible in plain sight. authorities note a possible prank angle.
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Kathy LeMatty
Seventeenth Street NE
Firehouse Burns During 15th Anniversary Ceremony
In Buelah, Florida, the suburb celebrated the Beulah volunteer fire department for 15 years of service under clear skies. While volunteers cleaned the firehouse for the ceremony, a fire started by a faulty light fixture gutted the building and destroyed three fire trucks.
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Pensacola, Fla
Buelah
Four Hurt in City Traffic Accidents Including Teens
David G Falkner 23 was transferred from St Luke s to University of Iowa hospitals in fair condition after his motorcycle hit Larry Anderson 16 who was turning from F avenue onto Eighteenth street NW Diane Marie Cole 17 was listed in fair condition at St Luke s after a Johnson avenue crash with a tree She faced a charge of failure to control Two other children Shawn Jones 7 and Darren Matthes 4 were treated for injuries after being struck by moving vehicles in unrelated incidents Both drivers faced no tickets per Cedar Rapids and Marion police reports
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David G. Falkner
F Avenue NW
University of Iowa
St. Luke's Hospital
Falkner
Larry Anderson
Fourth Street
Anderson
F Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Diane Marie Cole
Fourth Avenue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Johnson Avenue
Hinkley Avenue
Cole Auto
St. Luke's
Mercy Hospital
Shawn Jones
Sixth Street
William Lenway
Nineteenth Street
Thirty-second Street
Darren Matthes
Tenth Avenue
Marion
Jane DeWeerdt
Nineteenth Avenue
Matthes
Cedar Rapids
Questions Answers On Hospital Rates
The hospital does not pay doctors a fixed salary. Doctors set their own fees under contract, billed through the hospital. About 12 percent of doctors' receipts are returned to the hospital for administration and bad debt costs.
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Albert Curtis
St. Luke’s
Curtis
Mercy Hospital
Zarub Brothers to Receive 50Year Pins at Knights of Pythias
Brothers D. E. Zarub and Lincoln A. Zarub of NE receive 50year certificates and pins at a Star of the West lodge meeting in Pythian hall. Their father Louis A. Zarub proposed their membership in 1927.
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D. E. Zarub
Wildwood Drive
Lincoln A. Zarub
Daniels Street
Star of the West Lodge
The
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Hall
Louis A. Zarub
Job Corps Pluses and Minuses
Gazette staffer Mary Burke examines what the Job Corps program offered a Cedar Rapids girl who left high school. She discusses perceived advantages and shortcomings of the training experience and its impact on her life.
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Gazette
Mary Burke
Cedar Rapids
Carter Plans Arms Sales To Israel
President Carter prepares a formal request to Congress for a 115 million weapons package to Israel. The proposal includes 200 wire guided antitank missiles 700 M 13 armored personnel carriers and 15 M 728 tank bulldozers as part of U S arms support amid ongoing Israel peace talks and ahead of Prime Minister Begin’s upcoming Washington visit.
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Washington
Carter
Israel
UPI
Congress
Mondale
Tel Aviv
U.S
Menahem Begin
United States
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C.R. Hospitals
Grabek
Gra
Medicare
Iowa
Tennessee
Nually
Seventh Avenue
Tenth Street
David G. Dotson
Second Avenue SE
Edgewood Road
Michael J. Saba
C Avenue NE
Eighth Avenue SE
Warren C. Mundy
Lester L. Bell
N Street
Fifteenth Street
First Avenue
Family Health
Hall
Mt. Mercy College
Kirkwood Community College
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