“Peninsula Regional Medical Center, its staff, volunteers and physicians are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Jose “Joe” Alvarado, who died earlier today at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Shock Trauma unit in Baltimore from injuries sustained in an automobile accident earlier this week.
Dr. Alvarado was a dedicated physician leader, an outstanding pediatrician and a well loved, admired and respected member of our Medical Staff. Dr. Alvarado, who joined the Peninsula Regional family in 1988, had served as our Chief of Pediatrics since 2006. It was a role in which he excelled, and his knowledge and vision was invaluable in the clinical advancement and growth of our Pediatric Unit during his tenure as its Chief.
We join with the thousands of his current and past patients, friends, loved ones, his wife and children in mourning his passing and celebrating the life of an exceptional physician, friend, husband and father.”
Peggy Naleppa
President
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Saturday, August 08, 2009
Our Deepest Sympathies to the Alvarado Family
It is with deepest regret that we pass this message on. To the family of Dr. Alvarado, we extend our deepest sympathy.
Joe,
I have just learned my dear friend, Dr. Jose Alvarado has passed away. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.
M.J. Caldwell
Joe,
I have just learned my dear friend, Dr. Jose Alvarado has passed away. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.
M.J. Caldwell
A Message Referencing Dr. Jose Alvarado
"I was praying for Dr. Alvarado & his family this morning & I started think what an positive impact this man has had on so many people & the Community.
Then I thought why do we wait to tell the people we love, admire & have a made a difference in our life & we cherish them. Why do we wait until it might be too late? Wouldn't they want to know they made a huge difference in someone's life and that it is a positive one. What a gift to be able to know that.
We never know what the day may bring but I try to always tell those I love and care about that I love them so if I am not blessed with that chance again they will at least know how much I loved them.
Could you please find out an update for Dr. Alvarado."
Folks, I know each and every one of you want to know what's going on with Dr. Alvarado, as do I. However, one Blogger has made it just about impossible to get any updated information and while I refuse to mention their name, I'm sure you can guess who that person might be.
His selfless acts have caused thousands of people to sit on the edge of their seats and while Salisbury News was getting regular updates, the information has come to a complete halt.
I also know there are many rumors as I have been receiving a ton of phone calls, text messages and e-mails asking of what they had heard was true. I'd like to answer these questions for each and every one of you but out of respect for the Family I have refrained from doing so until they give the go ahead.
So rest assure that as soon as we get the word we will inform you immediately. In the mean time, please keep Dr. Alvarado and the entire Family in your thoughts and prayers through this difficult time.
TWO KILLED IN CARROLL COUNTY PLANE CRASH
(Keymar, MD)—The investigation is continuing into this morning’s plane crash in northwestern Carroll County that took the lives of both persons aboard.
The victims are identified as Robert H. Kociemba, 61, of the 700-block of St. George-Barber Road, Davidsonville, Md., who is believed to have been the pilot, and Letty (nmn) Williams, 66, of the 3800-block of Glebe Meadow Way, Edgewater, Md. The two were said to have been friends.
Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene by members of the Taneytown Volunteer Fire Department. A forensic examiner for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner responded to the scene and ordered the bodies of both victims transported to Baltimore for autopsies.
At about 7:30 a.m. today, Maryland state troopers from the Westminster Barracks were dispatched to the area of Sharrett Road, just off Rt. 194 in Keymar, for the report of an aircraft crash. Arriving troopers found the two-seat aircraft crashed in a cornfield, about one-quarter mile from the Keymar Airpark, a privately owned airstrip southwest of Taneytown.
The preliminary investigation indicates the victims had taken off from the airpark just minutes before the crash. Their destination was unknown. Troopers contacted federal aviation officials who responded to the scene and are conducting an investigation into the cause of the crash.
The aircraft is believed to be a Golden Circle Air T-Bird II, classified by the FAA as a light sport aircraft. The engine and propeller in this type of aircraft are located behind the pilot and passenger.
Troopers learned from the owner of the airpark that Kociemba flew from his airstrip two to three times a week and had rented hangar space from him for about four years. Kociemba was said to have been an experienced pilot.
Nine Believed Dead In Hudson River Crash
Mayor Bloomberg calls chopper, plane wreck ‘not survivable’
NEW YORK - A small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter carrying Italian tourists over the Hudson River on Saturday, scattering debris in the water and forcing people on the New Jersey waterfront to scamper for cover. Authorities believe all nine people aboard the two aircraft were killed.
Another helicopter pilot on the ground at the heliport for Liberty Tours, which operated the doomed sightseeing craft, saw the plane approaching the helicopter and tried to radio an alert to the pilots, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The warning wasn't heard or didn't happen in time.
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Health-Care Reform: A Better Plan
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, August 7, 2009
In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system. With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board. Those reductions, combined with the elimination of the enormous inefficiencies and perverse incentives that go into tax sheltering, helped propel a 20-year economic boom.
In overhauling any segment of our economy, the 1986 tax reform should be the model. Yet today's ruling Democrats propose to fix our extremely high-quality (but inefficient and therefore expensive) health-care system with 1,000 pages of additional curlicued complexity -- employer mandates, individual mandates, insurance company mandates, allocation formulas, political payoffs and myriad other conjured regulations and interventions -- with the promise that this massive concoction will lower costs.
This is all quite mad. It creates a Rube Goldberg system that simply multiplies the current inefficiencies and arbitrariness, thus producing staggering deficits with less choice and lower-quality care. That's why the administration can't sell Obamacare.
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Prosecutors: Madoff Deputy Set To Plead Guilty
Letter to judge suggests that DiPascali will be arraigned on Tuesday
NEW YORK - Frank DiPascali, a longtime right-hand man to swindler Bernard Madoff, will plead guilty to criminal charges for his role in the disgraced financier's $65 billion fraud, according to a court document.
DiPascali worked for 33 years in the investment advisory arm of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in New York, many of them as chief financial executive and deputy to Madoff, whose swindled large and small investors worldwide over at least 20 years.
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Send Your Thoughts To The Alvarado Family Here
I am a Nurse that works with Dr. Alvarado. Myself, along with many of my co-workers have made white ribbion pins (white stands for hope). So if you could please pass this along so we all can show our support for Dr. Alvarado. I purchase the supplies from Micheals.I have attached a pic of what they look like. Thank you for your time.
While we received a phone call last night from Dr. Alvarado's Sister in Texas, Family & Friends are coming to Salisbury News to stay updated on his condition.
We have not heard, (as of this time) any news this morning but I can assure you that as soon as something comes in we'll have it posted.
What Salisbury News will deliver is 1st Hand Information! NOT a mother who works with a Doctor who knows a Nurse who knows of another Nurse at Shock Trauma, etc...
So please be patient and continue to pray for a miracle.
We will keep this Post at the top and all other news will fall below this Post.
UPDATE: "No substantial change. He is still fighting. The Son's and Wife appreciate all of the tremendous support." 9:56 AM.
UPDATE #2: "Status still the same." 11:54 AM.
UPDARE #3: "There was some minor improvement this morning. Keep praying."
UPDATE #4: "From Jose E. Alvarado: Thank You for all your prayers and support. It means so much to me to hear all the love in the community for my father. He is currently in critical but stable condition at Shock Trauma in Baltimore. It will be another day or so before we will know of any major changes in his condition. Please continue to pray for my father and my family. Thank You."
UPDATE #5: "Same status." 7:47 AM Friday.
We have not heard, (as of this time) any news this morning but I can assure you that as soon as something comes in we'll have it posted.
What Salisbury News will deliver is 1st Hand Information! NOT a mother who works with a Doctor who knows a Nurse who knows of another Nurse at Shock Trauma, etc...
So please be patient and continue to pray for a miracle.
We will keep this Post at the top and all other news will fall below this Post.
UPDATE: "No substantial change. He is still fighting. The Son's and Wife appreciate all of the tremendous support." 9:56 AM.
UPDATE #2: "Status still the same." 11:54 AM.
UPDARE #3: "There was some minor improvement this morning. Keep praying."
UPDATE #4: "From Jose E. Alvarado: Thank You for all your prayers and support. It means so much to me to hear all the love in the community for my father. He is currently in critical but stable condition at Shock Trauma in Baltimore. It will be another day or so before we will know of any major changes in his condition. Please continue to pray for my father and my family. Thank You."
UPDATE #5: "Same status." 7:47 AM Friday.
It Takes A Group Of Lawyers
The United States Constitution and all 27 amendments, including an index page takes eighteen (18) pages. The Obamacare health proposal consumes one thousand and eighteen pages (1,018). A single amendment to the 'Cap and Tax" bill was three hundred (300) pages long.
We now know the members of congress vote on these laws without ever reading them. It is doubtful that very many of them have found the time to read the Constitution either. I expect the founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
Joel Brandes
We now know the members of congress vote on these laws without ever reading them. It is doubtful that very many of them have found the time to read the Constitution either. I expect the founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
Joel Brandes
Clara Gunby Art Exhibit
Sunday, September 13, 2009, 1-4 PM, The Friends of Poplar Hill Mansion will present an art exhibit featuring the paintings of Clara Gunby. Clara, a local from Fruitland, was imprisoned for treason against the Union, and worked as a spy as a War Between the States. She was a fascinating, feisty of the Civil War era who was willing to suffer for a cause she believed in. After the War, Clara pursued her study of painting and became very well known for her art in Baltimore and New York. Poplar Hill Mansion is proud to house seven of Clara's paintings, the largest private collection of her work. Please join us to view her paintings and celebrate her 170th birthday. Admission is free, RSVP. Please consider bringing a donation of non-perishable goods to our food bank for Joseph House.
The Friends of Poplar Hill Mansion is a 501 (c) (3) dedicated to the preservation of this fine home, the oldest in Salisbury, built in the Federal style. Please consider becoming a Friend of Poplar Hill with membership beginning at the annual giving level of $25.00 which includes many benefits. Call the Curator for event information or visit the website.
Poplar Hill Mansion
117 Elizabeth Street
Salisbury, MD 21801
www.poplarhillmansion.org
410-749-1776
The Friends of Poplar Hill Mansion is a 501 (c) (3) dedicated to the preservation of this fine home, the oldest in Salisbury, built in the Federal style. Please consider becoming a Friend of Poplar Hill with membership beginning at the annual giving level of $25.00 which includes many benefits. Call the Curator for event information or visit the website.
Poplar Hill Mansion
117 Elizabeth Street
Salisbury, MD 21801
www.poplarhillmansion.org
410-749-1776
THE ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE OBAMACARE
Written by Dr. Dave Janda
Thursday, 23 July 2009
As a physician who has authored books on preventative health care, I was given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington last Friday (7/17).
The presentation was entitled Health Care Reform, The Power & Profit of Prevention, and I was gratified that it was well received.
In preparation for the presentation, I read the latest version of "reform" as authored by The Obama Administration and supported by Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Here is the link to the 1,018 page document: http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
Let me summarize just a few salient points of the above plan. First, however, it should be clear that the same warning notice must be placed on The ObamaCare Plan as on a pack of cigarettes: Consuming this product will be hazardous to your health.
The underlying method of cutting costs throughout the plan is based on rationing and denying care. There is no focus on preventing health care need whatever. The plan's method is the most inhumane and unethical approach to cutting costs I can imagine as a physician.
The rationing of care is implemented through The National Health Care Board, according to the plan. This illustrious Board "will approve or reject treatment for patients based on the cost per treatment divided by the number of years the patient will benefit from the treatment."
Translation.....if you are over 65 or have been recently diagnosed as having an advanced form of cardiac disease or aggressive cancer.....dream on if you think you will get treated......pick out your coffin.
Oh, you say this could never happen? Sorry..... this is the same model they use in Britain.
The plan mandates that there will be little or no advanced treatments to be available in the future. It creates The Federal Coordinating Council For Comparative Effectiveness Research, the purpose of which is "to slow the development of new medications and technologies in order to reduce costs." Yes, this is to be the law.
The plan also outlines that doctors and hospitals will be overseen and reviewed by The National Coordinator For Health Information and Technology.
This " coordinator" will "monitor treatments being delivered to make sure doctors and hospitals are strictly following government guidelines that are deemed appropriate." It goes on to say....."Doctors and hospitals not adhering to guidelines will face penalties."
According to those in Congress, penalties could include large six figure financial fines and possible imprisonment.
So according to The ObamaCare Plan....if your doctor saves your life you might have to go to the prison to see your doctor for follow -up appointments. I believe this is the same model Stalin used in the former Soviet Union .
Section 102 has the Orwellian title, "Protecting the Choice to Keep Current Coverage." What this section really mandates is that it is illegal to keep your private insurance if your status changes - e.g., if you lose or change your job, retire from your job and become a senior, graduate from college and get your first job. Yes, illegal.
When Mr. Obama hosted a conference call with bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to pass his health plan as soon as possible, a blogger from Maine referenced an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance.
He asked: "Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?" Mr. Obama replied: "You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about."
Then there is Section 1233 of The ObamaCare Plan, devoted to "Advanced Care Planning." After each American turns 65 years of age they have to go to a mandated counseling program that is designed to end life sooner.
This session is to occur every 5 years unless the person has developed a chronic illness then it must be done every year. The topics in this session will include, "how to decline hydration, nutrition and how to initiate hospice care." It is no wonder The Obama Administration does not like my emphasis on Prevention. For Mr. Obama, prevention is the "enemy" as people would live longer.
I rest my case. The ObamaCare Plan is hazardous to the health of every American.
After I finished my Capitol Hill presentation, I was asked by a Congressman in the question-answer session: "I'll be doing a number of network interviews on the Obama Health Care Plan. If I am asked what is the one word to describe the plan what should I answer."
The answer is simple, honest, direct, analytical, sad but truthful. I told him that one word is FASCIST.
Then I added, "I hope you'll have the courage to use that word, Congressman. No other word is more appropriate."
Dr. Dave Janda, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon, and a world-recognized expert on the prevention of sports injuries, particularly in children. His website is http://www.noinjury.com/.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
As a physician who has authored books on preventative health care, I was given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington last Friday (7/17).
The presentation was entitled Health Care Reform, The Power & Profit of Prevention, and I was gratified that it was well received.
In preparation for the presentation, I read the latest version of "reform" as authored by The Obama Administration and supported by Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Here is the link to the 1,018 page document: http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
Let me summarize just a few salient points of the above plan. First, however, it should be clear that the same warning notice must be placed on The ObamaCare Plan as on a pack of cigarettes: Consuming this product will be hazardous to your health.
The underlying method of cutting costs throughout the plan is based on rationing and denying care. There is no focus on preventing health care need whatever. The plan's method is the most inhumane and unethical approach to cutting costs I can imagine as a physician.
The rationing of care is implemented through The National Health Care Board, according to the plan. This illustrious Board "will approve or reject treatment for patients based on the cost per treatment divided by the number of years the patient will benefit from the treatment."
Translation.....if you are over 65 or have been recently diagnosed as having an advanced form of cardiac disease or aggressive cancer.....dream on if you think you will get treated......pick out your coffin.
Oh, you say this could never happen? Sorry..... this is the same model they use in Britain.
The plan mandates that there will be little or no advanced treatments to be available in the future. It creates The Federal Coordinating Council For Comparative Effectiveness Research, the purpose of which is "to slow the development of new medications and technologies in order to reduce costs." Yes, this is to be the law.
The plan also outlines that doctors and hospitals will be overseen and reviewed by The National Coordinator For Health Information and Technology.
This " coordinator" will "monitor treatments being delivered to make sure doctors and hospitals are strictly following government guidelines that are deemed appropriate." It goes on to say....."Doctors and hospitals not adhering to guidelines will face penalties."
According to those in Congress, penalties could include large six figure financial fines and possible imprisonment.
So according to The ObamaCare Plan....if your doctor saves your life you might have to go to the prison to see your doctor for follow -up appointments. I believe this is the same model Stalin used in the former Soviet Union .
Section 102 has the Orwellian title, "Protecting the Choice to Keep Current Coverage." What this section really mandates is that it is illegal to keep your private insurance if your status changes - e.g., if you lose or change your job, retire from your job and become a senior, graduate from college and get your first job. Yes, illegal.
When Mr. Obama hosted a conference call with bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to pass his health plan as soon as possible, a blogger from Maine referenced an Investors Business Daily article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation would outlaw private insurance.
He asked: "Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?" Mr. Obama replied: "You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about."
Then there is Section 1233 of The ObamaCare Plan, devoted to "Advanced Care Planning." After each American turns 65 years of age they have to go to a mandated counseling program that is designed to end life sooner.
This session is to occur every 5 years unless the person has developed a chronic illness then it must be done every year. The topics in this session will include, "how to decline hydration, nutrition and how to initiate hospice care." It is no wonder The Obama Administration does not like my emphasis on Prevention. For Mr. Obama, prevention is the "enemy" as people would live longer.
I rest my case. The ObamaCare Plan is hazardous to the health of every American.
After I finished my Capitol Hill presentation, I was asked by a Congressman in the question-answer session: "I'll be doing a number of network interviews on the Obama Health Care Plan. If I am asked what is the one word to describe the plan what should I answer."
The answer is simple, honest, direct, analytical, sad but truthful. I told him that one word is FASCIST.
Then I added, "I hope you'll have the courage to use that word, Congressman. No other word is more appropriate."
Dr. Dave Janda, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon, and a world-recognized expert on the prevention of sports injuries, particularly in children. His website is http://www.noinjury.com/.
PETA Unhappy Meals Targeting Kids
The McCruelty Unhappy Meal. Photo: PETAKids hoping to grab a Happy Meal from McDonald's might end up with PETA's Unhappy Meal instead.
The animal rights organization lifted its moratorium on the McCruelty Campaign this year and since June has distributed Chicken McCruelty Unhappy Meals to McDonald's customers outside about a dozen restaurants around the country."
McDonald's markets its food to children by packaging it in brightly colored boxes with toys," Lindsay Rajt, a spokeswoman for PETA, tells Slashfood. "But most kids really love animals, and if they knew that McDonald's suppliers were breaking the wings and legs of gentle animals like chickens, I think that you'd have to drag kids into McDonald's kicking and screaming."
The campaign, though, has parents "hatin' it."
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Former Jack Daniel's Master Distiller Dies At 69
NASHVILLE, Tennessee
Jimmy Bedford, the slender and silver-haired former master distiller of the Jack Daniel's whiskey during a 40-year career with the company, died Friday. He was 69.
His body was found outside a barn at his farm in Lynchburg, apparently the victim of a heart attack, company officials said.
Bedford retired in March 2008 after spending 20 years as the master distiller supervising the entire operation at the 143-year-old distillery in Lynchburg, the oldest registered one in the United States. Among his duties was tasting the whiskey before it was sent to retailers.
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