Cutbacks in health services force wife to assume care role
Connie Meade voices frustration over a federal policy ending most in home health visits for Medicare patients. Her husband George, bedridden since a brain stem stroke on Feb 19 1996, faces hospital trips after services were cut. She recalls therapy and at home care that are no longer provided, noting the high cost and complexity of hospital transport and care.
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Connie Meade
Meade
George
Beckleghem Regional Hospital
George Meade
Meades
Bearded Beckley Shoe Shop owner mourns closing after 75 years
Sam Rascona, longtime owner of People's Shoe Shop in Beckley, Virginia? West Virginia, laments closing a 75 year family business. He started as an apprentice, learned dyeing and stitching, served in World War II, then opened a shop in Beaver before the Korean War call.
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Beckley
Sam Rascona
West Raleigh
Rascona
Maryland
Bethlehem Steel
Sam
South Pacific
Beaver
People’s Shoe Shop
Sam Rasecona
DEP board rules HAM landfill permit violated due process
The Environmental Quality Board ruled that DEP Director Michael Miano violated public comment due process by granting an after the fact permit to HAM Sanitary Landfill in Peterstown. The panel vacated the permit after noting the evidentiary hearing was unnecessary and cited a consent order that fined HAM $12,500 and barred use of the new cell.
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Charleston
State Environmental Quality Board
State Division of Environmental Protection
Michael Miano
Monroe County
Ham
Peterstown
DEP
Armando Benincasa
Salmonella outbreak linked to Aldi cereal in several states
Health officials tie an unusual salmonella outbreak to Millville Toasted Oats cereal sold at Aldi stores. CDC says consumption likely caused illnesses across 11 states with nearly 200 cases and 40 hospitalizations. no deaths reported. Investigations by CDC FDA and state health departments continue.
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Aldi
West Virginia
U.S
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
The
Food and Drug Administration
Tom Skinner
Kanawha
Ann Garcelon
State Department of Health and Human Resources
Centers For Disease Control
Atlanta
Garcelon
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Ohio
Missouri
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Iowa
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