| Daily Planner: Thursday
GOLD NUGGET EVENTS: Scout Troup 770 spaghetti feed 4:30-7:30 p.m. at Paradise Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Road; adults, $7; kids and seniors, $5. Opening ceremonies, whisker championship, queen contest and introduction of grand marshall, 7 p.m. at Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnely Drive. $7. VOLUNTEER TRAIL DAYS: 9 a.m.-noon. Repairs, maintenance on Middle Trail, Bidwell Park. Wear weather-appropriate clothing, sturdy shoes. Minors must have a release form signed by parent or guardian; 13 and younger must be with a parent, guardian or chaperone. Lise Smith-Peters, park volunteer coordiinator, 896-7831; or www.ci.chico.ca.us/parks/Volunteer_Calendar.asp. HEGAN LANE BUSINESS PARK ARTISTIC SIGN UNVEILING: 2 p.m. Corner of Hegan Lane and Huss, Chico. Sculpture designed and created by local artist Glen Cowen.
Frustration, Worries Mount for NOLA Emergency Care Providers
The people who came back are sicker. More of them lack insurance. Once-promising healthcare reform efforts have stalled. Nineteen months after Hurricane Katrina, hospital emergency departments remain overburdened and continue to handle the majority of patients.Welcome to The Big Easy, the city that care forgot.Were seeing an increased volume, both of patients walking in as well as patients arriving (by ambulance). Notably were seeing an increase in psychiatric patients, and those have been our more challenging patients to take care of, said Dr. Erik Sundell of Ochsner Medical Center. Were also seeing a larger percentage of patients without insurance than we had prior to 2005.The increase in patients at Ochsners emergency department shows no signs of slowing, Sundell said. The emergency department treated more people in February than in November and December.Every quarter weve had an increase in volume, Sundell said.Dr.
Attack o' the Morning News
I've gotten really addicted to the blog for the Emerging Media & Communications program at UTD. It's a nice hybrid of sage wisdom from media vet Dan Langendorf and work from his students. And it's nice to see local media folk other than us thinking beyond "Web 0.5b." Today's entry highlights a nice bit of vlogging that also manages to lampoon all those still-in-their-condom newspapers so many of us have laying scattered about these days. Here's the video, by student Jonathan Huffman. It's rough, but that's part of the charm. It starts slow, but hang with it as the absurdity compounds. Good stuff: .
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