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Two Riverside Team Members Celebrate 50 Years with the Health System

Written by Stephanie Heinatz and Natalie Miller Moore
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Surprisingly, Queenie Wellman-Swinton and Pecolia Coppedge don?t know each other.

Not only did they both join the ranks of Riverside Health System within days of each other in 1963, but earlier this summer, both also made health system history, marking a total century of service to the Virginia Peninsula community.?

Wellman-Swinton and Coppedge are the first Riverside team members to work for the company for 50 years.?

Why? Both cited a love for helping people and a passion to serve for keeping them inspired to come in to work each day.?

?Riverside has been extremely fortunate to have Queenie and Pecolia as team members at two of our facilities for 50 years each,? says Sally Hartman, a senior vice president with Riverside. ?They are daily role models of our mission of caring for others as we would care for those we love and an inspiration to all of their fellow team members.?

As soon as she graduated from high school, Queenie Wellman-Swinton came to work for Riverside Health System, then the Patrick Henry Hospital for the Chronically Ill. Over the years she?s worked as an aide?dispensing medicine, admitting people and helping patients.?

Today, she works as a unit secretary overseeing multiple units and making sure they run smoothly. She isn?t directly caring for patients, but she knows she?s taking care of things so that people can be taken care of at The Gardens at Warwick Forest, a continuing care retirement community on the Newport News and York County border.

?My mother told me to treat patients just like they were my family,? Wellman-Swinton says. ?I will never forget one patient I had, who?d had a stroke and was a quadriplegic, and I would go in to bathe her and I would sing. She would have tears running down her face. I just put myself in her place; that could be me or my mother.?

? The biggest change Wellman-Swinton has seen in the last 50 years of health care? While patient care remains essentially the same, technology has changed a lot about her job.?

Where she used to write out medication records for five floors a day, by hand, and delivering medication on trays with cups labeled with the patient?s name, today, the medication process is computerized and identification is done with bar code scanners and wristbands.

?Wellman-Swinton has no immediate plans to retire.?

?I wake up feeling good enough to get up and come help patients. I think about these patients and they need assistance. They need love and care and respect, and they deserve it.?

Pecolia Coppedge came to work at Riverside Hospital in 1963, at the recommendation of a friend. Through the years, she?s moved and worked up and down the different floors of the Riverside Regional Medical Center.?

East. West. Hematology, oncology, intensive care; as a nurse?s aide who enjoys taking care of patients and meeting nice people, Coppedge has always been willing to go where she?s needed.?

Coppedge was 20 when she started and over the years has watched health care change, including the increase in technology and the length of time people stay in the hospital.?

?At night, after visiting hours were over, we would take around the juice cart to offer patients drinks, and offer backrubs to people who were bedridden,? Coppedge says. ?Patients were there longer and so we knew their personalities better. But, one of the reasons they were there longer was that there wasn?t any laser surgery, everyone had incisions that took a while to heal.??

The one thing that has stayed the same, year after year for 50 years, Coppedge says, is that ?taking care of people is at the heart of it. If you aren?t willing to do all of it, to wait on people and to listen to them, this isn?t the career for you.?

Coppedge plans to retire this fall.?

My mother told me to treat patients just like they were my family.

?I hope I made a difference, that I was able to make someone more comfortable, and to help them heal,? Coppedge says. ?And for the ones who didn?t heal, I hope that I was a comfort and a blessing to them.?

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Source: http://www.thehealthjournals.com/2013/08/a-century-of-service/

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4A BASEBALL: Reigning Champs, Ankeny Lose

It?s been the prefix to everything involving Ankeny sports? this year will be the last season as just one school.

Baseball will be its final sport as just the Hawks but would Wednesday be the end of Ankeny sports as we?ve come to know it?

Hawks, the defending champs, took on 7th seed Clinton.

Clinton with a chance to do early damage score 7-runs in the 2^nd after a score in the first. It left the Hawks in big trouble.

It?s the first big upset of the tournament. Clinton win, 10-8.

Source: http://whotv.com/2013/07/31/4a-baseball-reigning-champs-ankeny-lose/

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Washington, Carroll 'thrilled' for 'Raisin' return

NEW YORK (AP) ? Tony Award winners Diahann Carroll and Denzel Washington will play mother and son on Broadway in a spring revival of the classic American play "A Raisin in the Sun," an opportunity that has left him "overjoyed" and her "thrilled."

"I think it's one of our most original plays and I think that's why it keeps coming back," said Carroll by phone from Los Angeles. Washington, en route to a film set in Boston on Thursday afternoon, agreed: "It's one of those classics."

Previews of Lorraine Hansberry's play begin March 8 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with an opening night scheduled for April 3. Kenny Leon, who directed Washington on Broadway to a Tony in "Fences," will helm the production.

Both Carroll and Washington confessed that they were somewhat daunted by the prospects of an eight-show week. For Carroll, it's the first time on Broadway in 30 years but "once you're into the flow of it, it becomes a life style." Washington, speaking on the way to the set of "The Equalizer," said theater and film ? with its 14-hour days ? were both tests of endurance.

"While you're sleeping tonight, I'll be running around on the street of Boston so I don't take that lightly," he said. "I don't think eight-shows-a-week is necessarily harder, but the energy I get from the audiences, you don't get that on a film."

Set in the late 1950s in a rundown South Side Chicago apartment, "A Raisin in the Sun" deals with the hopes and disappointments of a black family trying to find a better life in a white neighborhood. It was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. Hansberry became the youngest American and the first black winner of the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award, in 1959.

Carroll, 78, met Hansberry before the playwright died of cancer at age 34 in 1965. "She was extraordinary and I think that's one of the reasons why it is an honor to be asked to be part of this," said Carroll. "She faced everything with such intelligence and grace. She was dying when we met but you would never have known that."

This will be the second Broadway revival of the play. The original Broadway production in 1959 featured Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil and Diana Sands, all who reunited for a 1961 film adaptation. The last Broadway revival occurred in 2004, starring Diddy, Phylicia Rashad, Sanaa Lathan and Audra McDonald.

The play's central conflict concerns Lena Younger's late husband's insurance money. She wants to use it to move the family out of their cramped tenement apartment and into a house in a white neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. She also wants to pay her daughter's medical school tuition.

But her son, Walter Lee Younger, sees the money as a chance to open a liquor store and be more like the wealthy white men for whom he works as a chauffeur. He wants to make life better for his own son and pregnant wife. "I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, 'Yes, sir; no, sir; very good sir,'" he tells his mother in one scene.

Washington, whose film "2 Guns" opens Friday and was recently a best actor contender at the Academy Awards for playing alcoholic pilot Whip Whitaker in the film "Flight," recalls the film fondly, while Carroll vividly remembers seeing the original cast on Broadway.

"It was like an out-of-body experience watching that group of people make this thing come alive," she said. She had always wished to play the part of Ruth Younger, Dee's part. "Playing the mother is not something I really thought I'd live to be," she said with a laugh.

The new production will also star Academy Award-nominee Sophie Okonedo from "Hotel Rwanda," making her Broadway debut as Ruth Younger, and Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose ("Caroline, or Change") as Beneatha Younger.

The cast also includes Stephen Tyrone Williams, most recently in "Lucky Guy," and Jason Dirden and Tony-nominee Stephen McKinley Henderson, both of whom were in the recent revival of "Fences" with Washington. Influential theater and film creator Scott Rudin is producing.

During her long career, Carroll earned a Tony for the musical "No Strings" and an Oscar nomination for "Claudine." She became the first black woman to star in a non-servant role on TV in "Julia," the groundbreaking situation comedy that aired from 1968 to 1971. This marks her first return to Broadway since she was a replacement in "Agnes of God" in the early 1980s and she's already spent three months working on her character.

"I feel that most of us like to come back to the theater for multiple reasons ? it is a reminder of what we can do, what we cannot do and what it is we need to address in terms of holding on to whatever gifts God was kind enough to give us," Carroll said. "It's a responsibility to that gift. Things like that come with responsibility and I'm not sure that I expected it at this time, but I think Scott Rudin is an extraordinary human being."

Washington, 58, has two Oscars to his name for "Glory" (1989) and "Training Day" (2001). His other nominations came for "City Freedom," ''Malcolm X" and "The Hurricane." He won a best actor Tony in 2010 in August Wilson's "Fences," playing the larger-than-life garbage man whose dashed dreams of baseball glory have given him a rigid, embittered sense of responsibility. He had previously been on Broadway in 2005 in a production of "Julius Caesar."

He and Carroll have met over the years and share a mutual respect. She calls him an "extraordinary talent" and he says simply: "Diahann Carroll. That's all you need to say. What a story. What a life."

"A Raisin in the Sun" is held in special regard by writers and historians. Playwright Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," which imagines what might have happened to the Youngers, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play in 2012. And this year, British actor, director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah unveiled his spin-off play "Beneatha's Place" in Baltimore.

"A Raisin in the Sun" and "Clybourne Park" were among the most produced plays in the nation in the 2012-2013 season, according to the Theatre Communications Group.

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Mark Kennedy can be reached at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/washington-carroll-thrilled-raisin-return-214041235.html

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Will Connect To Whichever LTE Format You're In

For world travelers with a need for LTE speed, Samsung's newest version of the Galaxy S4 might be the answer to your jet-setting prayers. When they arrive, the updated Galaxy S4 and S4 Mini will be the world's first handsets to automatically switch between the two different types of LTE networks used worldwide. While FDD-LTE is the standard in most of the world, TDD-LTE is becoming more popular in countries around the world.

Read more...

Source: http://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-will-connect-to-whichever-lte-format-977095712

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Hillary Clinton group raises $1 million

BOSTON (AP) ? A group working to support Hillary Clinton's prospective presidential bid has raised more than $1 million.

An official with the Ready For Hillary super PAC confirmed Tuesday that the organization hit the million-dollar threshold since beginning to collect donations in earnest this spring. The total will be reported in the group's financial report on Wednesday.

Clinton, who resigned as secretary of state in February, has not announced whether she will seek the presidency in 2016. But the super PAC dedicated to her political future has attracted several prominent donors and campaign operatives in recent months.

Clinton is not formally connected to the group. She has been making public appearances and working on a book since leaving the State Department.

Associated Press

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'Bachelorette' contestant dumps Desiree

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Brooks Forester breaks up with Desiree Hartsock, even though she admitted to being in love with him.

"Bachelorette" contestant Brooks Forester shocked Desiree Hartsock Monday night when he unexpectedly departed the show after admitting that he wasn't in love with her.

Hartsock, who had held a special place in her heart for the Salt Lake City marketing consultant from the very first night, was crushed. Before being dumped, she had admitted that her feelings for Forester were very strong.

"Brooks has always been a frontrunner, from day one," she declared during the episode. "I'm in love with Brooks and I miss him every day I'm not with him."

Forester, one of three remaining men who journeyed to the island of Antigua, told host Chris Harrison that he began to doubt his feelings for Hartsock during the show's hometown date week. And while he wanted to be in love with her, he didn't think he'd ever be at the point where he was ready to propose.

"I really want to be madly in love with you, you know?" he later told a crying Hartsock. "I don't feel it ... I don't feel like the moments apart are hard enough."

During the scene, a tearful Hartsock admitted to Forester that she was in love with him. It marks one of the first times in the show's history that a Bachelorette said "I love you" to a contestant before the final proposal.

The bad news came for Hartsock after she spent a great day (and a sexy night in the Fantasy Suite) in Antigua with each of the other two remaining men: Seattle mortgage broker Chris Siegfried and Drew Kenney, a digital marketing analyst from Scottsdale, Ariz.

?It breaks my heart knowing that I have two amazing, like, unreal guys who do want to love me," she said. "I just can?t love them as much as I know I have to give. ... Honestly, for me, it?s over.?

While both Siegfried and Kenney remain in the competition, previews for next week's finale episode reveal that they, as well as Hartsock, may go home alone.

Will Forester come back? Will Hartsock accept a proposal from one of the other guys, or will she leave brokenhearted? The second part of the season finale airs next Monday, Aug. 5 at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/bachelorette-contestant-dumps-desiree-6C10798146

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Beth Israel to pay $5M in claims flap

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will pay more than $5 million to settle allegations that the teaching hospital made improper Medicare claims.

From mid-2004 to mid-2008, the U.S. Attorney?s Office said, the hospital improperly filed claims for inpatient admissions for patients who stayed overnight with congestive heart failure, chest pain and other ailments. The procedures should have been billed as observational services, which is an outpatient service, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz?s office.

Medicare reimbursements to hospitals are significantly higher for inpatient admissions.

Under the agreement, the hospital does not admit any fault or wrongdoing but will pay $5.315 million to settle the allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.

?When hospitals unnecessarily admit Medicare patients for short inpatient stays when the appropriate treatment would be outpatient or observation care, they improperly boost hospital profits at significant expense to taxpayers and patients,? said Susan J. Waddell, special agent in charge of the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General.

In a statement, the hospital called the distinction ?an extremely technical issue? that challenges hospitals around the country.

The hospital has already taken steps to address the issue, according to the statement, including enhancements to the billing classification system and creating a new position in charge of compliance.

?BIDMC is committed to delivering the appropriate level of care to patients in need and ensuring that the hospital is in full compliance with all applicable rules and regulations,? the statement said.

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