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Southeast Hospital Is Told It Could Lose Accreditation
By Susan Levine
Friday, August 3, 2007Greater Southeast Community Hospital was notified yesterday that its accreditation is in jeopardy because of problems in a host of areas, from providing patient care, treatment and services to leadership and oversight of medical staff.The Joint Commission's announcement was based on the results of an inspection of the 110-bed facility in June. Prompted by a complaint, a team of surveyors spent three days reviewing hospital operations. Commission spokeswoman Elizabeth Zhani said yesterday that she could not discuss specifics but that the hospital was found to be out of compliance with seven of 11 "areas of standards."
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Through Jazz, Reaching StudentsBy Omar Fekeiki
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 12, 2007; Page DZ03Collaboration is the name of the band. The music is jazz.The group's history goes back 30 years, and the members share a passion for music and friendship. They moonlight as a band, and they work as teachers and school administrators in public schools in the Washington area.Ladies and gentlemen, Tracey Cutler on saxophone. He teaches instrumental music at Hyattsville Middle School. Kenneth Dickerson, the assistant principal at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, on drums. Glenn Douglas, who teaches jazz at Wilson, ..boards. On the bass guitar, Yusef Chisholm, the instrumental music teacher at Hardy Middle School. Vocals come courtesy of his wife, Lori Williams-Chisholm, who teaches at Wilson. And on guitars, Leland Edgecombe, a professor of architecture at the University of the District of Columbia and Prince George's Community College.They have been collaborating for most of their lives.
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UPDATE: House Committee Passes Bill to Shorten Congressional Review Period for District Laws
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Monday, August 6, 2007; Page B03Akey House committee has passed a bill that would sharply reduce the amount of time D.C. laws sit in Congress before taking effect.The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved the measure Thursday in a voice vote. After some ambiguities are worked out, the bill can be sent to the House floor, committee staff members said.The passage was a victory for Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who had introduced the measure numerous times. This is the first time in 15 years the House has taken up the issue.Currently, bills passed by the D.C. Council are frozen for congressional review periods of 30 to 60 "legislative" days -- that is, when Congress is in session. That can stretch into three or more months on the calendar. And that forces the city government to delay important programs and to pass emergency acts while waiting for the review period to expire, officials say.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush signed legislation Friday that intensifies the anti-terrorism effort at home, shifting money to high-risk states and cities and expanding scrutiny of air and sea cargo. The bill elevates the importance of risk factors in determining which states and cities get federal security funds. That would mean more money for such cities as New York and Washington. It also puts money into a new program to ensure that security officials at every level can communicate with each other.
It requires screening of all cargo on passenger planes within three years and sets a five-year goal of scanning all container ships for nuclear devices before they leave foreign ports.
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Stealing healthcare from babies
by: Ronald Brownstein
Is the president so antsy for a fight with Democrats that he'd deny coverage to millions of children?
August 1, 2007Does president Bush really believe what he's saying about the effort from congressional Democrats and some leading Senate Republicans to provide health coverage for millions of uninsured children? He's portraying it as the first step on a slippery slope toward "government-run healthcare," as if senior senators in both parties were conspiring with Michael Moore to import Cuban doctors to inoculate and indoctrinate American children.In fact, Congress is moving responsibly to remove a blot on the nation: the 8 million children without health insurance. It is doing so by expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, a state-federal partnership that the Republican Congress and President Clinton created in 1997 to cover kids in working-poor families. Final votes on the House and Senate floors could come this week.ADVERTISEMENT
Bush, seemingly determined to provoke every possible confrontation with congressional Democrats, has pledged to veto the bills. And with the GOP congressional leadership, he is fighting the proposals with a swarm of misleading and hypocritical arguments.Bush complains that expanding the program costs too much. But cost was no object when Bush and congressional Republicans sought to court seniors by creating the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003.Under the bipartisan Senate bill, Washington would spend about $56 billion over the next five years to cover almost half of the nation's uninsured children. Over the same period, the Medicare entitlement that Bush signed (after more than four-fifths of House and Senate Republicans voted for it) will cost nearly $330 billion. Is social spending affordable only when it benefits constituencies Republicans prize in elections?Next, Bush complains that the SCHIP expansion would require "a huge tax increase." Actually, both the House and Senate plans would raise taxes just on tobacco. And the sponsors are increasing taxes only because they have committed to the novel notion of paying for their program. When Bush and the Republican Congress created the expensive Medicare drug benefit, they did not provide any new revenue to fund it. They just billed the cost to the next generation through higher federal deficits. Now Bush is condemning Democrats for displaying more responsibility.Bush also disparages the SCHIP expansion as an attempt "to encourage people to transfer from the private sector to government healthcare plans." But studies have found that three-fourths of children covered under the current program receive their care through private insurance plans that contract with the states, notes Edwin Park of the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In that way, the program is no different than Bush's prescription drug plan: The government pays for services delivered by private insurance companies.Bush's argument that the SCHIP changes will unacceptably "crowd out" private insurance is misleading in another respect. It's true, as Bush charges, that if the program is expanded, some eligible families would shift their children into it from private coverage, hoping to save money or improve care. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that children making such a switch would account for about one-third of the 6 million kids expected to enroll in the expanded SCHIP program under the Senate plan, and hence one-third of the added cost.But as CBO Director Peter Orszag notes, all efforts to expand coverage for the uninsured inevitably spill some benefits on those who already have insurance. And the Senate SCHIP plan, by limiting that spillover to one-third of its cost, is actually more efficient than most alternatives for expanding coverage.Bush, for instance, wants to reduce the number of uninsured by providing new tax incentives for buying coverage. But the Lewin Group, an independent consulting firm, recently calculated that 80% of the benefits from Bush's plan would flow to people who already have insurance. Such numbers help explain why Orszag recently said that, dollar for dollar, expanding SCHIP "is pretty much as efficient as you can possibly get" to insure more kids.Bush's most outrageous argument is that expanding SCHIP "empower[s] bureaucrats." In reality, covering more children would empower parents like Sheila Miguel of Sun Valley, Calif.Miguel used to spend hours in emergency rooms trying to obtain asthma medicine for her daughter, Chelsea, but since enrolling her in a SCHIP-funded program, Miguel can take her to reliably scheduled clinic visits.Bush says he wants "to put more power" over healthcare "in the hands of individuals." By freeing Miguel's family from the worry and drudgery of repeated emergency room visits, that's exactly what SCHIP does.Few of the lower-income working families that rely on this program have the time to follow this week's legislative struggle, much less analyze how it serves the White House's apparent strategy of embroiling congressional Democrats in unrelenting conflicts with Bush that alienate swing voters. In that political skirmishing, these families have been reduced to collateral damage. They deserve something better from a president who once called himself a "compassionate conservative."
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Aesop's Fable - The Fox and the HedgehogA FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time very much bruised, sick, and unable to move. A swarm of hungry blood-sucking flies settled upon him. A Hedgehog, passing by, saw his anguish and inquired if he should drive away the flies that were tormenting him. "By no means," replied the Fox; "pray do not molest them." "How is this?' said the Hedgehog; "do you not want to be rid of them?' "No," returned the Fox, "for these flies which you see are full of blood, and sting me but little, and if you rid me of these which are already satiated, others more hungry will come in their place, and will drink up all the blood I have left."Fable - The Eagle and His CaptorAN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief. Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again. The Eagle took flight, and pouncing upon a hare, brought it at once as an offering to his benefactor. A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, "Do not cultivate the favor of this man, but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive you a second time of your wings."
