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Occupational health at Conemaugh Nason moved to the outpatient entrance. New outpatient centers will be built in Ebensburg and Somerset.
Hospitals need to make better use of new technology to reduce clinical errors, according to the health watchdog.
HIQA has made a submission to a Department of Health consultation criticising Ireland as one of the last developed countries to harness the technologies available.
They say the health service needs to be future-proofed with a move away from paper-based records.
HIQA have highlighted inconsistencies in recording maternal sepsis, uncovered after the death of Savita Halappanavar, as one of the results of an antiquated paper-based system.
Rachel Flynn, HIQA's Director of Health Information and Standards, said: "For example, the 2013 report of the patient safety investigation into the death of Savita Halappanavar noted that there were significant inconsistencies in the recording and reporting of maternal sepsis.
"Furthermore, one of the eight recommendations made in the 2015 report into the safety of services in Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, focused specifically on deficiencies in health information.
"It is clear that we need to move away from our paper-based system and avail of new technology to improve the quality and reliability of health data, and in doing so, improve our health and social care services. Ireland is one of the last developed countries to harness the technology currently available."
She said that other countries that are investing in eHealth realise that it can "significantly reduce clinical errors, improve patient safety and create efficiencies."
She said: "Ireland needs to move in the same direction, and fast.
"Ireland needs to develop strong health information policies and legislation to advance the eHealth agenda and to support, for example, the introduction of electronic health records.
"Ireland’s health information landscape is currently highly fragmented and legislation is vital to ensure that valuable information is accessed, shared and governed appropriately and that an individual’s personal health information is protected."
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The ‘Fancy Flannel’ event features a mom-made market, supporting local mom entrepreneurs.
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Rochester MN Mom’s Blog has its Fancy Flannel event Tuesday night at the Cambria.
One feature of the event is its ‘mom-made market,’ where seven mom-owned businesses are selling their work at the event.
The moms’ group told KIMT the market’s purpose is to give local entrepreneurs a platform to share their work.
“Rochester MN Moms Blog loves to support local and this extends to moms who are making their way with their businesses and providing full, beautiful, hand-crafted items for the Rochester community,” the group said via Facebook messenger.
Stephanie Kuglian is one of the moms selling her work at the event. She started her pottery business just last fall. She is part of a growing statistic of women starting and owning their own businesses.
Kuglian said starting this business shows her three daughters it’s never too late to start a new dream.
“It doesn't have to be the normal path, it can be the entrepreneurial path,” she said.
She said being a business-owner helps her be more social in the community, and a better mom.
“Being more social helps me refill my tank. And if I can do that I can have more energy and more resources to be a good mom,” she said.
And having other moms in the community support her, means a lot.
“I don't like the idea of competition. It doesn't promote community at all. And once you realize the more you lift each other off, there's more for everyone,” Kuglian said.
To learn more about Tuesday night’s event and its mom-made market click here.
Perched on the table at the front of the room sits a long line of hats, one brighter than the next.
Next to the hats is a bubbly blonde wearing a fashionable scarf with a life story almost more interesting than her creations.
Karyn Ruiz changed her career from a social worker to a hat maker, traditionally known as milliner, after watching a popular movie from the 1980s.
The movie, titled White Nights, starred Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov and was about two tap dancers.
Ruiz decided after being mesmerized by the film that she wanted to learn how to tap dance.
Ruiz looked at the other offerings and settled on a hatmaking class.
Fast forward 30 years later and Ruiz’s business, Lilliput Hats, has grown to include an international list of celebrity clients, including The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie, Jennifer Lopez and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau. Her creations can been found in the pages of fashion magazines such as Elle, Flare and Harpers Bazaar, ...
While her shop is located in Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood, Ruiz has been teaching a hat-making workshop at the Haliburton School of Art + Design for the past 10 years.
“I cannot tell you what it means for me to come here every year, to meet this incredible group of people, be among incredible instructors and just see magic being created,” she said.
She calls her work of traditional millinary “the second oldest profession” as the method of creating a hat has not changed over time.
In 2016 Ruiz was given one of the most amazing experiences of her life, when she created hats for Gord Downie to wear on The Tragically Hip’s final concert tour before he passed.
As she begins to share about the experience, Ruiz fights back tears.
“It began a process that was so gratifying for me,” she said.
The milliner created six pieces for the tour, and more for a solo project Downie did afterwards called the Secret Path tour.
She had song lyrics screened on the inside of the hats.
Describing the singer as a generous soul who was always giving back, Ruiz said at the time she didn’t realize how significant the hats were going to be.
Ruiz has seen her hats travel all over the world and is passionate about the craft that has filled her time for the past three decades.
He hats are made from various materials, including rabbit and beaver furs. The moulds have been acquired over the past 30 years, some from antique markets, some have been given as gifts.
Looking back on her career, Ruiz is incredibly proud of her craft and sharing it with others, even if it wasn’t her first choice for that night class 31 years ago.
“I still never learned how to tap dance,” she laughs.
The history-making election cycle is causing the Louisiana secretary of state to consider recommending changes to the timeline for candidate sign-ups — and is certain to have names on the ballot in the Nov. 4 election of people who were deemed unqualified to run or have dropped out of the race.
When the doors closed on the candidate sign-up period for the fall elections, Secretary of State Tom Schedler said it seemed “crazier” than usual. A few days later, when he received the data, he understood why the three-day qualifying felt so slammed.
Louisiana has more offices up for election and more candidates on the November ballot than for any election over the last 23 years, according to a tally provided by Schedler’s office.
To make it even more complicated, the secretary of state is seeing significantly more objections filed to candidacies winding their way through the courts and more candidates dropping out of races after paying their filing fees.
The history-making election cycle is causing Schedler to consider recommending changes to the timeline for candidate sign-ups — and is certain to have names on the ballot in the Nov. 4 election of people who were deemed unqualified to run or have dropped out of the race.
Voters will be deciding dozens of judgeships, two seats on the state’s utility regulatory agency and 43 district attorney positions. Across the state, people will select mayors, school board members, police chiefs, city councilmen and other local officials.
At the top of the ballot is the U.S. Senate race, with Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu trying to win re-election amid tight competition, and all six U.S. House seats.
Overall, more than 2,400 offices are up for election, with 4,400 candidates signed up.
At least 60 contenders have withdrawn so far. Meanwhile, objections to 53 candidates’ qualifications were filed in court, including allegations that people don’t live where required to run for a specific office or that they have unpaid ethics fines and can’t run again.
“When I talk to people who have been around here 20, 30 years, no one can ever recall 53 challenges,” Schedler said.
The lawsuits seem to be a sign of the times, where opponents seek to have candidates thrown off the ballot as a means of defeating them. The tactic already has proven successful in getting some contenders disqualified.
About 10 weeks separate the close of the election registration period in August and the November election.
Because federal elections are on the ballot, tighter timelines kicked in governing the paper ballots sent to Louisiana voters overseas or members of the military stationed away from home. Schedler said those already went to the printer quickly after qualifying.
More ballots for the voting booth are being printed every day.
Any votes cast for a candidate who has been either disqualified or who formally withdrew from the race will not be tallied, Schedler said, taking away potential votes for other candidates.
Notices will be inserted with paper ballots identifying any candidates who are no longer in the race by Sept. 20, when the ballots are mailed. At polling places, similar notices will be posted near the sample ballot and commissioners should direct voters to a list of candidates who should no longer be considered, said ...
Also, sample ballots online and on the office’s mobile app will be up to date with the current slate of candidates, for those willing to do their research.
But the secretary of state thinks the experience with elections this fall warrants a larger change. He’s planning to ask state lawmakers next year to set the candidate qualifying period two weeks earlier, to give elections officials more time to get caught up with disqualifications and withdrawals, so the ballot can mo...
Pushback is expected from some lawmakers, who likely will view an earlier candidate registration period as creating a longer — and more expensive — campaign period. Schedler acknowledges that as a candidate for re-election next year, he’s not thrilled with the concept.
“This at least needs to be looked at, because our job is to make things easier for the voter, not more complicated,” he said.
THERE are disappointments and then there are tragedies. Sometimes tears cloud eyes, blurring the boundaries. But on this point, St Kilda coach Ross Lyon has a cruel clarity. He knows the heartbreaking difference.
Losing an AFL premiership is a disappointment. Losing two beloved family members within four months is a true tragedy.
''Footy's really, really important to me, but, you know, well, we're still alive, and we get another opportunity,'' he says.
As Lyon knows better than any of his shattered players, some people don't.
Unbeknown to all but close friends, the 44-year-old has been coaching the Saints against a backdrop of family tragedy since his older sister, Julie, died in July.
Julie, who had been battling breast cancer for 18 months, succumbed quite suddenly to an undetectable cancer that had spread to her blood vessels.
Then, just three weeks ago, Lyon's nephew, Kane, the 24-year-old son of his sister, Michele, was killed in a motorcycle accident while on holiday in far north Queensland.
The black humour is just one coping mechanism. Lyon became so practised at handling his grief during the final critical months of the AFL season that he managed to hide his personal turmoil from almost the entire club as it locked on to the task of winning that elusive flag.
The St Kilda coach certainly didn't. Julie passed away late on the Tuesday evening before the Saints' important round-16 clash with Collingwood. Her brother kept a corporate speaking appointment the following day. He continued to work through the week and he addressed his players before they ran out that Saturday after...
''I knew it was a big game, and I didn't want to distract the players,'' he says. A flat-looking St Kilda was well beaten that afternoon. A score of Saints had been ill during the week. But in the post-match analysis, Lyon refused to use excuses for his players, and certainly not for himself. No one could have blamed h...
Julie was talented at sport like him, having represented the state at junior level in squash. Although she had fought a lengthy battle with breast cancer, enduring a mastectomy, her death still came relatively suddenly. Lyon did not have the chance to say goodbye.
''I got a bit crook myself, and run down, and missed a family birthday,'' he recalls. ''All my sisters had been into the hospital to see her, but as much as we knew she was in massive trouble, we thought she had some time left.
''I rang her on my way home from work and left a message saying, 'Sorry I haven't seen you, hope you're going well, give us a call'. I'd been working hard and it was a pretty important game, so I said to [wife] Kirsten I was going into the spare room because I needed a good night's sleep.
That task was made even more poignant by the fact that Kirsten had lost her own mother to breast cancer when she was only 12.
Lyon says he doesn't want his stoicism to be ''seen as some sort of badge of honour'', nor have anyone think his situation is different from anyone else's.
But further tragedy was awaiting Lyon and his three surviving sisters. Choked with emotion, he tries to detail the recent motorcycle death of his nephew, Kane, in Cooktown.
''He'd gone up there with his girl to visit her old man. He came off the bike on a dirt road, his helmet came off, and …'' Lyon's voice trails off.
''I think you find out a fair bit about yourself in these sorts of times,'' he says later. ''Whether you're going to give up or keep working. And I think AFL football prepares you over a long period of time to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
It's also a reminder that ''there's always someone worse off than you,'' he says, talking about young St Kilda supporter Madison Bartlett, who lost her entire family in the St Andrews' bushfires two summers ago.
Closer to home, there's the now widowed husband trying to comfort his motherless nine-year-old daughter, and the grieving mother who has lost a son in the prime of his life.
These are real tragedies - something Lyon knows a St Kilda grand final defeat, however upsetting, will never be.
Liberal Democrats are today set to agree new rules which will guarantee female candidates in their top five target Scottish seats at the next general election.
The move comes amid growing concern about the lack of diversity among the party’s elected representatives.
Given the scale of international challenges, are we better to face these together or alone?
But it means any men hoping to fight key seats which the party does not hold – such as Edinburgh West – will have their ambitions thwarted by all-women shortlists.
The former policeman, who is now doing some consultancy work but has not found a full-time post since his defeat, was tipped to fight any by-election in his old seat if new MP Michelle Thomson decided to stand down over her controversial property deals.
But the likelihood of Ms Thomson resigning now seems to have faded.
The new rules – being debated at the Scottish Lib Dem conference in Edinburgh this morning – will also ensure women fight half of the party’s most winnable Holyrood seats in 2021 and field a female at the top of its list at the European Parliament elections in 2019.
But the special arrangements will only apply for the next round of elections.
The gender balance came to a head after Alison McInnes, the only woman among the five-strong Lib Dem group at Holyrood, was effectively deselected for this year’s elections.
UK Lib Dem leader Tim Farron will tell delegates at the Assembly Rooms in George Street this afternoon that staying in the European Union is a “no-brainer”.
He will say: “The decision to remain or to leave is the biggest in generations for our country.

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