Shortage of nurses triggers bypass at Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick Memorial Hospital uses a bypass policy to send non life threatening cases to other facilities due to a nurse shortage. Over a five day span 11 ambulance patients from Frederick County were diverted to outside hospitals, including Washington County Hospital Shady Grove Adventist Gettysburg Hospital and others. Officials cite nationwide nurse shortages and lower local salaries as factors while stressing life threatening cases are admitted locally. The EMS committee plans December talks with hospital administration to seek solutions.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
FMH
Terry Shook
Washington County Hospital
Hagerstown
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Gatthersburg
Gettysburg Hospital
Gettysburg
Toudoun County Hospital
Leesburg
Jefferson Memorial
Gwen McEntire
Shook
Frederick Memorial
Ms. McEntire
FMA
David Frazier
Emergency Medical Services Committee
James Kluttz
Topper Cramer
Walkersville
Cramer
Reagan defends Iran arms deal amid hostages crisis
Washington AP report portrays President Reagan under sharp scrutiny as he defends secretly selling arms to Iran. He says the risks were worth it if it freed more hostages, while critics allege legal and constitutional violations and seek further clarification from Congress and the Intelligence Committee.
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Washington
Reagan
Iran
White House
Tran
Sam Nuon
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Congress
Senate Intelligence Committee
Mitch McConnell
Richard Lugar
R-Ind
Foreign Relations Committee
Lugar
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomein
United States
America
George Shultz
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Tehran
Muammar Ghadafy
Robert McFarlane
Washington Post
Mikhail Gorbachev
Iceland
Islamic Republic
Lebanon
Medics face unnerving calls and unpaid service
Susan Williams and partners Bev Long and Bill Metcalf of Frederick County's 50 person ALS unit describe the stress and dedication of on scene rescues. Volunteers treat gunfire, labor at fundraisers, and endure nights when calls surge, with a neighbor noting a skilled shooter inside.
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Susan Williams
Bev Long
Bill Metcalf
Ick County
ALS
Williams
Middletown farmer Randy Sowers named outstanding young farmer
Randy Sowers of Middletown was chosen as the outstanding young farmer for 1986 at a banquet co sponsored by the Frederick Jaycees and Farm Credit of Frederick. Finalists included Mark B Buxton and Jet England of Mount Airy Charles Fisher of Middletown and Robert Grossnickle of Johnsville. Sowers runs a Holstein dairy herd on 800 rented acres and uses computer feeders and Bay Harvest store facilities with monthly Dairy Herd Improvement Association testing.
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Maryland
Randy Sowers
Middletown
Frederick Jaycees
Farm Credit of
Frederick
Mark B. Buxton
Jetf England
Mount Airy
Charles Fisher
Robert Grossnickle
Johnsville
Sowers
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Weather shift to windy and cool Friday forecast
The weather will rain tonight then taper after midnight and turn windy with low 32 to 38. Friday will be partly sunny and breezy with highs around 52. Western Maryland weather map on page 1. The Catoctin and Walkersville teams push for playoff momentum as the Cougars meet the Lions at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Booming auto sales and defense spending lift growth for the July-September quarter.
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Maryland
Catoctin
Walkersville
Cougars
Lions
Public Works OKs funds to buy land for Urbana park
The State Board of Public Works approved 126,200 to acquire a 12 acre Urbana site with a 10,000 per acre land cost, plus 23,217 local share for open space, to be financed with state funding. The Kiplinger editors land lies between I 270 and Md 355 and faced prior controversy over valuation. The board also funded a center for abused spouses in Frederick, agricultural cost share grants, and debt forgiveness for Woodsboro Park.
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Annapolis
State Board of Public Works
Urbana
Libertytown
Harry Hughes
Louis Goldstein
William James
Frederick
Wondsboro
Urbana Park
Interstate 270
MD. 355
Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc
Kiplinger
Woodsboro
Heartly House Inc
Human Resources Department
Heartly House
Frederick County
Maryland
Board of Public Works
Lee E Miller
Rogers. Armstrong
Alan D. Warrenfeltz
Richard A. Layman
Betsey J. Forrence
Eugene Clabaugh
Dale Miss
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D Metcalf
C. Kurt
Long
Metcalf
Freder
Susan Gesling
Summers
News-Post
Inside the News
Robert Ingersall
Susan Gosling Summers
Lette
Mavis
Oks
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