News Progress

•May 4, 2016• By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service If you need a risky, complicated surgery, would you go to a hospital or surgeon who had performed the procedure only a time or two before? Most people would say no, but the evidence indicates otherwise. Patients do go to doctors and hospitals that have seldom performed the procedures they need. Yet, for almost 40 years, study after study has shown that patients’ death rates were significantly lower for surgeries done at hospitals that were experienced in the procedure. The same is true for physicians. In March, for example, a … Read More

•May 4, 2016• Arthur Lovington Atwood Hammond third quarter honor roll includes high honors; honors, and honorable mention students listed by grade: Ninth- Freshmen High Honors: Hunter Day, Shelby Frederick, Katie Gingerich, Damien Green, Makenna Green, Marissa Herschberger, Marcy Petersheim, Meredith Schrock, Kara Yoder. Honors: Nisa Asghar, Paul Brodnansky, Kyle Carnahan, Riley Cochran, Adam Day, Ciara Emrick, Maria Garza, Emma Harris, Taylor Nichols, Taylor Powell, Daniel Reedy, Griffin Rose, Andie Witbeck. Honorable mention: Isaac Ashenfelter, Alexis Burnett, Molly Fort, Gabriel Hallford, Kierra Herschberger, Adam Hingson, Lucy Likens, Lance Merce, Reagan Miller, Megan Osborne, Lexie Stanley, Koby Stutzman, Madison Thompson, Tyra … Read More

•May 4, 2016• Earning straight As at Lovington Grade School in the third quarter are Natalie Lambdin, Kenli Nettles and Aaron Schmitt eighth grade; Max Allen, Quentin Day, Reggie Edmonds, Brady Foster, Delaney Gillis, Josh Gingerich, Gavin Mechling, Michaela Powell and Kaitlyn Zander, sixth grade and Connor Edmonds, Emma Edwards, Chloe Franklin, Josie Hale and Wyatt Hilligoss, fifth grade. … Read More