HCA affiliated Kingwood Medical Center Chief Executive Officer, Melinda Stephenson, announced Eugene Ogrod, M.D., J.D., MACP, FACPE, CPE has been named Chief Medical Officer of Kingwood Medical Center.

Ogrod comes to KMC from Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio where he served as Chief Medical Officer for the past four years. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine with over fifteen years of experience at the CMO level.

I am looking forward to working with the talented leadership, physicians, and employees at Kingwood Medical Center and ensuring the continuing success in providing quality patient care, as the hospital continues to grow its services in the communities we serve, said Ogrod.

We are delighted to have such an outstanding combination of health policy expertise and management abilities in a physician administrator at Kingwood Medical Center, said Stephenson. Ogrods strong background in medical leadership and his wealth of experience will make an immediate contribution to our continued growth and commitment to delivering high-quality healthcare.

Ogrod received his medical degree from Stanford University Medical School, and his doctor of jurisprudence degree from University of California Davis School of Law. Ogrod is a past president of the California Medical Association, the American Society of Internal Medicine/American College of Physicians, and the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Alumni Association Board. He has served on the Council of Medical Service for the American Medical Association, and has served on the board of trustees for the Internal Medicine Center for Advancement of Research and Education, and the board of the American College of Physician Executives.

He co-founded a large medical group and was appointed to the Joint Commission Professional Technical Advisory Committee for Hospitals.

Ogrod transitioned into his new role Jan. 13 and he relocated to the Lake Houston area with his wife Jean.

Kingwood Medical Center is an acute care facility comprised of 24-hour emergency services, and an on-site minor emergency clinic. It is home to the areas comprehensive cardiac care program and neuroscience program. The hospital is recognized by the state of Texas as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, is Joint Commission Accredited for Disease Specific Certification in Stroke, has an Accredited Sleep Disorder Center, an Accredited Diabetes Center and offers a myriad of services to patients, including: Level II and III neonatal intensive care units, womens services, high risk obstetrics program, breast diagnostic center, designated pediatric unit, surgical services, inpatient rehabilitation, laboratory and diagnostic imaging services on-site and at Atascocita Imaging. In 2012, the hospital expanded services by opening a new Observation Unit, The Center for Wound Care, and a new HealthOne 24 Hour Emergency Care Center in Fall Creek. Kingwood Medical Center: Quality Care, Close to Home. http://www.kingwoodmedical.com

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WAUSAU (WAOW) - The Medical College of Wisconsin has named a 23-memberadvisory board for the new school it intends to open in Wausau in 2016.

Medical Collegeis opening the school because of a shortage of doctors in the area. Northcentral Technical College will hold anatomy and simulation space, while Aspirus Hospital will hold classrooms and administrative offices.

The local advisory board members named Thursday were:

_Iddrisu Adam, associate professor of geography/geology and associate dean, University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County.

_Richard Bailey, MD, president of medical affairs, Riverview Hospital Association.

_Mike Beck, general manager/executive editor, Wausau Daily Herald.

_Steven Bell, chairman and CEO, WoodTrust Bank.

_Steve Bergin, MD, MCW Alumni Association representative, Aspirus Stevens Point Clinic.

_Marita Hattem, senior vice president of organization and service line development, Aspirus, Inc.

_Larry Hegland, MD, chief medical officer, Ministry Saint Clares Hospital and Good Samaritan Health Center, Ministry Health Care.

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Dr. Benjamin P. Owens, 88, the face of Hibbing medicine for half a century and acclaimed as the heart and soul of Minnesota medicine, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, at the Guardian Angels Health and Rehabilitation Center of complications from intestinal cancer.

A lifelong resident and 1942 graduate of Hibbing High School at the age of 16, Ben briefly attended the College of St. Thomas before entering the Great Lakes Naval Academy in hopes of a career as an aviator. A medical aptitude test administered to meet the needs of World War II, identified his potential as a physician, resulting in his being sent to the University of Minnesota medical school from which he graduated at the age of 22 in 1949.

Upon graduation, Ben fulfilled his military commitment with a year internship as a flight surgeon in California, and then volunteered to serve as a physician in the Naval Reserve for 15 months during the Korean Conflict, returning to Hibbing in 1952 to begin his medical practice at the Mesaba Clinic.

There he began a half century medical career marked by a compassion for people, a love of education and a community pride that would endear him to generations of Hibbing residents.

Ben loved his specialty of family practice which enabled him to know members within a family, to know them as friends and fellow humans as much as patients. In his career he made over 9,000 house calls well into the 1980s, delivered 4,358 babies, 358 in one year alone, and once estimated he had made 342,000 patient and hospital visits.

Deeply committed to rural medical practice, Ben instructed local nurses for years and served as a clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Medical School in the early stages of its development. For 19 years, he often could be found, as both host and participant, in the studio of the Duluth Doctors on Call television program, presenting medical advice across the region.

His dedication and sage counsel-always delivered with commanding voice-made him an easily recognized and beloved physician.

His honors and awards bestowed on Ben are legion and give some indication of how well received and respected he was among his fellow Hibbingites and his peers throughout the state.

Locally, Ben was chosen as Grand Marshal of the 2000 Hibbing Jubilee Parade, represented Hibbing as the 2002 Titan of Taconite, and was enshrined in the high school Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009 in recognition of the 40 years he voluntarily spent as team doctor for football and hockey.

Near the start of his career, WCCO Radio awarded Ben its 1961 Good Neighbor Award for his humanitarian work in South America aboard the hospital ship USS Hope in 1960.

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MAYWOOD, Il. Physical activity significantly extends the lives of male cancer survivors, a new study of 1,021 men has found.

During the period while the men were followed, those who expended more than 12,600 calories per week in physical activity were 48 percent less likely to die than those who burned fewer than 2,100 calories per week.

Kathleen Y. Wolin, PhD, of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, is co-author of the study, published in the Journal of Physical Activity & Health, the official journal of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health.

Many cancer survivors are living longer, due to earlier diagnosis and better treatment, and their numbers are increasing rapidly. "Thus physical activity should be actively promoted to such individuals to enhance longevity," researchers concluded.

There has been extensive research showing that among generally healthy, cancer-free populations, physical activity extends longevity. But there has been relatively little such research on physical activity among cancer survivors.

Researchers examined data from the Harvard Alumni Health Study, an ongoing study of men who entered Harvard as undergraduates between 1916 and 1950. Researchers looked at 1,021 men (average age 71) who previously had been diagnosed with cancer. In questionnaires conducted in 1988, men reported their physical activities, including walking, stair-climbing and participation in sports and recreational activities. Their physical activities were updated in 1993, and the men were followed until 2008.

Compared with men who expended fewer than 2,100 calories per week in physical activity, men who expended more than 12,600 calories per week were 48 percent less likely to die of any cause during the follow-up period. This finding was adjusted for age, smoking, body mass index, early parental mortality and dietary variables. (By comparison, a 176-pound man who walks briskly for 30 minutes a day, five days a week burns 4,200 calories.)

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Years of debate on how to assist high schools struggling to fill out their eight-game football schedules will end Thursday.

The Minnesota State High School League's board of directors is scheduled to decide once and for all the best way for schools to find and schedule football games.

The board will adopt a district scheduling concept created by the MSHSL staff ... or do nothing, which would maintain the current format of schools fending for themselves -- and effectively end the debate. Changes would be implemented for the 2015-16 school year and affect regular-season games only.

"This has been a topic of discussion since I started this job seven years ago,'' said Matt Percival, Eastview's activities director.

"It's really hard to say at this point what the board is thinking," said Kevin Merkle, the MSHSL associate director in charge of football. "A lot of our schools, coaches and ADs who haven't been around for a long time, maybe they don't have an appreciation for the history of the problem. They may be thinking: We don't have a problem with scheduling, so why are we changing everything? What we're trying to impress is that this has been a struggle for different schools at different times."

Most of the schools struggling to fill out their eight-game schedule are outside the Twin Cities area, in rural areas. But the five teams in the west-metro Lake Conference -- Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins, Minnetonka and Wayzata -- have problems, too.

With only four conference games, each school has to scramble to find four nonconference opponents every season. Eden Prairie, which won the Lake Conference and the Class 6A state championship in 2013, was able to find only seven regular-season games last fall. In 2010, the team had to travel to Winnipeg for two games to fill out its schedule.

The district scheduling concept, introduced last year, would divide schools into groups of 10 to 16 schools based on location, size and competitive balance, with an emphasis on preserving or renewing natural rivalries.

Such a concept could bring back storied rivalries like Cretin-Derham Hall vs. St. Thomas Academy, assuming those schools are placed in the same district.

"That would really be an interesting possibility," STA acting activities director Jason Sedlak said. "I think our alumni and school community would really enjoy that."

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VOL. 129 | NO. 15 | Thursday, January 23, 2014

The former Motel 6 at 1321 Sycamore View Road in Northeast Memphis has traded hands for $1.4 million.

An entity called P & S Hospitality LLC bought the 27,232-square-foot motel in a Jan. 14 special warranty deed from G6 Hospitality Property LLC, which had bought the property in 2012 for $1.4 million from Motel 6 Operating LP.

Built in 1985, the hotel sits on 2.4 acres on the west side of Sycamore View Road south of its intersection with Macon Road. The Shelby County Assessor of Propertys 2013 appraisal was $1.2 million.

In conjunction with the purchase, P & S Hospitality LLC filed a $1.1 million deed of trust through Argent Bank. Jetal R. Shah signed the deed as managing member of the borrower.

Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports

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Belz Enterprises has established a new venture, Peabody Hotels & Resorts, that moves the company into asset and brand management within the luxury hotel space.

The transition has been in the works for a few years, and through it, the new venture will begin researching and evaluating properties that could become Peabody-branded hotels.

Under the management of Belzs new venture, properties would take the Peabody name and adopt its core standards, values and traditions. And like the flagship Peabody property in Memphis, each hotel would serve as the home for its own group of five North American mallard ducks, continuing the Peabodys 80-year tradition of the March of the Peabody Ducks.

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Yeshiva University lost about $100 million when Bernard Madoff, a trustee, was revealed to be a fraud in December 2008.

While Madoff left the board and is in prison, Yeshiva is still struggling. The school warned that its chronic budget deficits may worsen after failing to produce an annual financial report on time. The move led Moodys Investors Service to cut its rating this month to an unprecedented four levels below investment grade, spurring investors to sell Yeshiva debt.

Its about their management, said Emily Schwarz, an analyst at Moodys in New York who focuses on higher education. I dont see the market being the main concern. They really have a real niche. They are the Jewish university of New York.

Much is at stake for Yeshiva, which was founded more than 100 years ago and is central to the Modern Orthodox community in the U.S., with top-rated medical and law schools as well as a rabbinical school. The university was in the midst of ambitious growth when Madoffs Ponzi scheme unraveled, adding faculty and expanding campuses around New York. It is still seeking to meet fundraising campaign goals.

The university has been unable to control operating costs, particularly at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and it encountered delays deploying a system-wide accounting network common at other nonprofits, Moodys said. Management has sought to cut spending, stirring some faculty discontent by freezing salaries. Yeshiva generated annual deficits of $107.5 million in 2010, $46.7 million in 2011 and $105.9 million in 2012.

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You might be able to get enough donors to write some checks to fix this problem, but people dont like to back institutions that have problems -- they like to back winners, said Howard Cure, municipal research director at Evercore Wealth Management in New York. The company, which oversees about $4.9 billion, liquidated its investments in the schools debt last year. Yeshiva has a lot of problems.

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Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 21, 2014

After providing addiction treatment for countless patients, the Florida House Experience has pledged to publish stories written by alumni who have successfully completed recovery programs at Florida House. The goal is provide hope to others seeking help. Florida House looks forward to finding stories from patients in each of the 50 states in the US. So far, Florida House has helped patients share their stories of rehab success in seventeen states. For instance, Matt, a Florida alumni, has offered his story of substance abuse.

Matts story is both tragic and evidence of the recurring problem in Florida, said Dr. Albert Castellon, M.D., Medical Director at Florida House Experience. Thousands of people die from drug abuse in Florida every year.

According to Matt, he had everything anyone would want in life as a boy: a nice home and neighborhood with loving parents. Unfortunately, he had trouble finding acceptance and fell into substance abuse. With Florida Houses pledge, Matt relates his heart-wrenching story of his substance addiction and the process that started when a community judge ordered him to get substance abuse treatment before he had even finished high school.

Matts story is one of despair because he became an addict at such a young age. After years of unsuccessful drug treatment, Matt finally discovered Florida House Experience. After weeks of intensive treatment, he gained enough of a foothold to pursue a sober living program and finally Matt joined a halfway program.

The Event at the Florida House Experience is a way to share other success stories that resulted from the Florida House Experience approach. Florida House is not like 28-day treatment approaches. Florida House starts with a safe but effective medical detox followed by a gradual transitions to lower levels of care to help the individual ultimately try living sober on their own. The personal story event is important because it focuses on the programs approach and material in achieving success. These stories make Florida House Experience stand out because of its strong record of success with addiction treatment in Florida.

To summarize the programs offered at the Florida House Experience, it helps to look at them. Beginning with drug and alcohol detox, patients join programs like resident rehabilitation, day treatment, outpatient treatment, sober living programs, gender-specific programs, trauma programs and alumni programs. It would be constructive to describe them as individualized, gender-specific programs for the treatment of young adults, professionals, baby-boomers and patients struggling with trauma and substance abuse. Each program is designed to provide comprehensive therapy and involve the family in the patients recovery.

Assets that cause the facility to stand out include many things. Consider their enlightened approach: They understand that the commitment to treatment scares people. What were really proud of is taking the scare factor out of treatment, said Dr. Castellon. We provide a safe and comfortable facility and program regimen.

Patients enjoy upscale living while at Florida House Experience. They advertise the 800-count thread bed sheets and the plush towels in the showers. Each room is equipped with a large flat screen television.

If you want more information about Florida House experience, please call 866-421-6242. Confidential help is available 24/7.

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By MIKE KRAFCIK 6 News Reporter

GREENBACK (WATE) - The new Greenback School is scheduled to open next Tuesday.

The long awaited Pre-K through 12th grade school replaces the old one, originally built in the 1930s.

School officials are asking for volunteers to help move teachers, their supplies and other items needed to prepare the new school. They say the volunteer effort will be greatly needed so the school can open on time.

All week, 650 Greenback students and teachers had a chance to tour and get familiar with the new building before starting class next week.

"When I first walked in here, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't even know what to say, it was huge," said Greenback third grade student Folson Silver.

It's all work and no play, especially for the teachers.

They have to move from the old school to the new one by next Tuesday. There's not much time to finish the job.

"We're not starting the first week of school. We're in the middle of the year, and we need to be ready to go on Tuesday and not waste a teacher day," said third grade teacher Marty Sindlin.

Students were helping teachers on Friday carry their supplies and help unpack their classrooms.

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Four Harrisonville High School graduates will become the tenth class inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame during winter Homecoming activities at the high school Friday, Jan. 24.

William Mills, Victor Blaine, Shaun Holden, and Kelli (Wolf) Moles will be formally inducted during a banquet Jan. 24 and will be introduced to the community prior to the varsity basketball game at approximately 7 p.m. that night.

The Wall of Fame induction is sponsored by the Harrisonville Public School Foundation.

Mills graduated from Harrisonville High School in 1972. He has been a business and civic leader in Harrisonville ever since.

Mills owns and operates Family Center with four locations including Harrisonville, Butler, Paola, Kan., and Winterset, Iowa. He also was the developer for Mill-Walk Mall in Harrisonville.

Mills served as the mayor of Harrisonville from 1993-1995. During his tenure, he started the Mayors Christmas Tree fund to support the Ministerial Alliance. Today, he continues his governmental involvement as chair of the Planning and Zoning Board on which hes served for 20 years. Hes also a director of the TIF Commission for the improvement of 291 Highway.

Within the community, Mills has volunteered and led several organizations. He is the past president of the Harrisonville Public School Foundation and continues to serve on that board. He was a Founding Donor and continues to give to the organization through personally matching the donations made in the Mill Walk Mall Fountain.

He is the past president of the Harrisonville Rotary Club. Through Rotary, Mills participated in an international service project traveling to Ecuador to bring clean water to schoolchildren. Hes also organized the annual Casco picnic and hosted three foreign exchange students.

He is past president of the Harrisonville Area Chamber of Commerce. He was also a founding member of the Chambers Ambassadors program.

Mills also serves on the Harrisonville Schools Financial Advisory Board and has actively supported and served on steering committees for district bond and levy campaigns.

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