Midland hospital to deploy MARTTI kiosks for medical interpretation
Medical Center Hospital aims to buy MARTTI video interpreters to assist patients with limited English or ASL. The program, already piloted at Midland Memorial, would be expanded across floors, clinics, and new sites to cut miscommunication and reduce readmissions.
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Family Health
West Odessa
John Ben Shepperd
Elsa Ward
Midland Memorial Hospital
Ator
Medical Center Hospital
Ward
Marcy Madrid
Martti
Language barriers test health reform rollout in California
In Oakland Street Level Health Project serves patients in 22 languages exposing the ACA rollout challenges for non English speakers. California leads minority populations while millions speak languages other than English at home. Many immigrants weigh Medicaid eligibility versus work income and rent costs as exchanges expand coverage.
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Jaden
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Illinois
U.S
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Odessa felony blotter outlines assaults and thefts
A blotter item list reports crimes in Odessa including a felony assault at East Second Street where a 31-year-old man choked a female relative. thefts from a church on North Golder Avenue with a projector and electronics taken. a home invasion on Deering Drive with a phone and cash stolen. debit card abuse on Andrews Highway. and forged signature on North West County Road. Michael Wesley Griffin is held on $25,000 bond.
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Odessa
East Second Street
Michael Wesley Griffin
N. Oliver Ave
Ector County Detention Center
Robbery and theft report in Kilgore and area
A Kilgore woman reported a robbery on Billy Hext Road around noon Thursday, with minor injuries and an unknown cash loss. A theft case involves a known person defrauding via a bad check worth 3401 dollars against OF A VEHICLE. A woman reported a 2008 Ford F 150 stolen from the 900 block of South West County Road with no listed value.
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Kilgore
Billy Hext Road
Odessa
NTS Direct
Dublin Ave
South West County Road
Border agents seize 657 pounds of marijuana at checkpoint
Border Patrol agents at the Sierra Blanca Station found 657 pounds of marijuana hidden behind produce pallets in a tractor trailer at the Interstate 10 checkpoint. The drugs were valued at 526,296 dollars. The truck was bound for Florida from Arizona and a K9 unit alerted officers. The driver, a Miami Gardens, Florida resident, was turned over to Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office for further investigation.
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Border Patrol
Interstate 10
Sierra Blanca
Florida
Arizona
Miami Gardens
Fla
Hudspeth County
BP seeks to block Gulf spill settlement payments
BP asks a New Orleans federal judge to halt payments to Gulf Coast businesses from the multibillion-dollar 2010 oil spill settlement. BP argues the administrator Patrick Juneau is processing claims in violation of the agreement. The company warned the settlement cost will be higher than first expected.
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New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Patrick Juneau
Fire destroys Klinger antiques shop and connected stores
A two alarm blaze in Odessa started in Shantiques an antique shop and spread to Sports Cards and nearby The Trophy Den causing heavy smoke and heat damage. Fire officials say no arson suspected and no injuries. The Klingers planned retirement after seven years in the 3600 block area.
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Shantiques
Odessa
Connected Business
Trophy den
North Dixie Boulevard
Klingers
Detra White
Shaw
Charles
Prisons install cellphone blockers in Texas system
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice begins final testing of a managed access system at the Stiles Unit near Beaumont and the McConnell Unit near Beeville to block unauthorized calls texts and Internet access. The two facilities housing about 5000 inmates have long battled cell phone smuggling and hope to render contraband devices useless.
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Stiles
McConnell
Beeville
Texas
Michael Roesler
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