Medicare DRG rules cut patient days at Ransom Memorial
At a Ransom Memorial Hospital board meeting officials said April patient census averaged 20.5, down from 25 a year earlier. DRG based payments pushed hospitals to discharge sicker patients sooner, shrinking average stays from 10.32 days in 1982 to 8.38 in 1985, causing revenue losses and prompting calls for federal rule changes to protect access to care.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital Board
House
Senate
Ransom Memorial
A Dose Of Reality In Midwest Farm Economics
The piece notes a 3.6 percent rise in first quarter 1986 productivity and a slight drop in unemployment, signaling possible upturns. It warns that federal data can mislead about farm income as American and Kansas farmers remain efficient, while wheat and farm-product prices tell a harsher reality.
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American
Kansas
Washington
Midwest
Oil Prices Fall To Boost Economy But Raise Uncertainty
Americans used oil products totaling 100 billion dollars last year and are set to spend about 60 billion this year as prices drop by roughly 40 percent. The shift lowers consumer inflation but hurts energy states with higher unemployment and bankruptcies. Projections show a rebound in oil prices within a decade, likely reshaping budgets, employment, and prices nationwide.
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John Cunniff
New York
Merrill Lynch
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Alaska
Wyoming
Department of Energy
United States
Energy Department
Ottawa Hésrald Listings and Evening TV Guide
The Ottawa Hésrald publishes daily except Sunday and holidays with subscription rates for trade area, by carrier, motor routes, or mail. The listing covers TV programs and movies including You Again, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Gunsmoke, That Touch of Mink, and comedy segments.
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S. Cedar
Ottawa
Kansas
Robert B. Wellington
Sanford and Son
HBO
Joey
Neil Barry
James Quinn
Matt
Scarecrow
King Amanda
Lee
Bristol Myers Theatre
Cary Grant
Doris Day
TV Tonight Listings and Movie Highlights for NBC to HBO
A dense TV schedule lists programs across channels with descriptions of films and series. Notable items include Bosom Buddies and Kate & Allie type shows with 1980s star names Pamela Sue Martin and Patrick Duffy, alongside classic movies such as The Last Married Couple in America and The Gambier.
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Pamela Sue Martin
Patrick Duffy
Kate
Allie Allie
Farrel
Valerie Harper
Ed O'Neill
Music City News
Humphrey Bogart
John Derek
Treat Williams
Jerry Orbach
Barbara Feldon
Amanda Plummer
Honolulu
Dennis Weaver
Bernadette Peters
Cagney
Lacey
Tyne Daly
Rainin
South
HBO
America
Natalie Wood
George Segal
Peter Falk
McLaughlin Group
Mary Tyler Moore
Colby
Roll Over Beethoven PBS Brings Us The Blues
PBS presents Rainin' In My Heart a one hour documentary on Silas Hogan Arthur Kelly and Louisiana blues traditions. The piece connects poverty labor and everyday life to the music while showing Tabby's Blues Box Tabby Thomas and Buddy Guy in Chicago. The film features Hogan Kelly Gray Moses Smith and Buddy Guy with interviews by folklorists and ethnomusicologists.
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Silas Hogan
Baton Rouge
PBS
Hogan
Arthur
Kelly
Tabby
Tabby Thomas
Chicago
Thomas
Henry Gray
Moses “Whisperin” Smith
Buddy Guy
Checkerboard Lounge
Guy
Beethoven
Guitar Kelly
Soap Writer Outlasts Content Changes By Jerry Buck
Television writer Frank Salisbury discusses his career on Santa Barbara and other soaps. He notes shifts toward longer formats, frank content, and collaborative writing, with multiple writers per show. He also pursues stage plays and reflects on how the craft has evolved.
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Jerry Buck
Los Angeles
Frank Salisbury
Salisbury
Los Angeles Drama Critics Award
Scotland
Santa Barbara
Hemochromatosis Insights and Related Health Answers
Inherited hemochromatosis affects up to about 3 per 1,000, with iron overload damaging liver pancreas heart and joints. Diagnosis by blood tests, treatment via periodic phlebotomy to remove excess iron, and family testing urged. Also covers false positive syphilis tests, asthma in athletes, and hymen rupture risks from tampon use with variable bleeding.
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Donohue
T.O
Hemochromatosis Research Foundation
Foundation
P.O. Box
Albany
N.Y
DR. Donohue
A.P.C
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Wheel of Fortune
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India
Leroy
TV Tonight
George
Mitch
Barney Miller
National Geographic Explorer
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David Letterman
Richard Lewis
Andy Griffith
Dick van Dyke
Gene Scott
Three Stooges
Alice
the Gambier
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Robert Barr
Associated Press
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Trouble
ABC
L.S
T.R
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