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State Allows Competition to Return in Poplar Bluff Hospital Care

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI’S NEWS-MAGAZINE OF POLITICS AND CULTURE

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Feature: CON Hearing - 4News Briefs - 5

Your Local Expert - 6Working Daze - 6

Opinion: Steve Cookson - 7Letter to the Editor - 7Fashion Column - 11

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It was a good week for the Poplar Bluff health care community. Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center’s new hospital will make for

the largest private investment in lo-cal history. At the same time Poplar Bluff Medical Partners will begin construction on a three-bed hospital, which they plan to one day expand.

It was a good week for Southeast Missouri legis-lators. Rep. BillyPat Wright graced Publisher Scott

Faughn and Editor Tim Krakowiak on their trip to Jefferson City; Sen. Jason Crowell allowed them to crash in his apartment; Rep. Steve Cook-son lent out his iron the following morning; Rep. Todd Richardson introduced the SEMO Times in the House chamber; and Rep. Steve Til-ley allowed the newspapermen to join him at the speaker’s podium. Thumbs believes deep in its heart (or maybe its knuckle), that our area leg-islators appreciate when their con-stituents provide them a break from their city counter-parts.

It was a good w e e k for our

www.semotimes.com and Face-book audience for making Monday our busiest day in history, updat-ing live from the certificate of need hearing whilst tak-ing notes.

It was a good week for the Three R i v e r s

College Board of Trustees for do-ing whatever it did to keep Presi-dent Dr. Devin Stephenson from moving to Florida prior to retirement age.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Next year Poplar Bluff will return to having a two hospital health care system for the first time since the merger of longtime competitors Lucy Lee and Doctor’s Regional Medical Center in 1999.

Certificates of need for both Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center’s 250-bed acute care re-placement hospital off PP Highway and Black River Community Medi-cal Center’s three-bed short-stay monitoring hospital across the road were approved by the Missouri Health Facilities Review Commit-tee Monday in Jefferson City.

PBRMC received a unanimous 7:0 vote with no major detractors during its portion of the hearing, while the 6:2 majority decision for Poplar Bluff Medical Partners was reached after nearly four hours of testimony, mostly attacking PBRMC.

“This is such a political issue for a CON,” commented state Sen. Robin Wright-Jones of the review committee before about 70 in at-tendance, mostly from the Poplar Bluff area. The St. Louis senator reached her verdict from the 3,381 letters that Medical Partners pre-sented with its application.

“It’s the most letters of support for a project by anyone who came before this body,” said Rich Wat-ters, Medical Partners attorney, noting he had involvement with the CON process since 1979.

“Peel away all the levels of poli-tics and look at this project based on merit,” challenged Dr. Michael Caldwell, a member of the found-ing physician group that makes up Medical Partners.

Caldwell was among more than a dozen medical professionals and business leaders who systemati-cally painted a bleak picture that health care in Poplar Bluff had been monopolized, causing prices to skyrocket and quality to dra-

matically decline.

The hor-ror stories quoted in excerpts of letters were enough to cause board members to question whether violations of law were taking place. “Is it on the verge of be-ing closed down?” asked committee member state Rep. Kenny Hubbard of St. Louis.

“Any hospital in the nation could hang a letter up there like this,” defended Marie Burdett, PBRMC chief quality officer.

Asked why such a pervasive at-titude toward PBRMC exists today, Burdett said it goes back 12 years to when Tenet Healthcare initially bought out Poplar Bluff’s remain-ing hospitals. “They cannot let it

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State Allows Competition to Return in Poplar Bluff Hospital Care

SEMO TimesPoplar Bluff citizens traveled to the Capitol

building in Jefferson City Monday for the cer-tificates of Need hearing to learn the outcome

of Poplar Bluff’s respective hospital projects.



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Three Rivers Board to Extend Stephenson’s Contract in Re-

sponse to the President Applying Elsewhere

The Three Rivers College Board of Trustees plans to extend Presi-dent Dr. Devin Stephenson’s con-tract for four more years.

In an executive session held Monday, the board agreed to terms which will extend Stephenson’s contract through 2015. An official vote will be taken during regu-lar session at the board meeting Wednesday.

Richardson Announces Di-saster Declaration for Butler

CountyJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – State

Rep. Todd Richardson, R-Poplar Bluff, announced Tuesday that Gov. Jay Nixon’s request for a ma-jor disaster declaration for Butler County has been granted by the Pres. Barrack Obama.

DNR Issues Temporary Waiver to Aid in Cleanup Following

FloodJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The

Missouri Department of Natural Resources is waiving specific solid waste and air pollution regulations to give residents and communities affected by flooding in 19 Southern Missouri counties additional flex-ibility in cleaning up.

Three Rivers College Teaching Graduate Recognized

The Missouri Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (MACTE) recognizes Amanda Pryor as one of the state’s out-standing beginning teachers. Pryor is a native of Salem, a graduate of Three Rivers College and Hannibal LaGrange, and is currently teach-ing first grade at Lake Road El-ementary in Poplar Bluff.

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go,” she said.“It is going to be a genera-

tional thing we’re going to have to live through,” said Greg Carda, PBRMC chief executive officer. “But time heals all wounds.”

Revealing the mindset of some of the attendees, co-owner of Mid-Continent Nail Dave Libla referred to PBRMC’s parent company, Health Management Associates of Naples, Fla., as “foreigners.” Owner of Poplar Bluff Wellness Clinic Dr. Dorothy Munch simply protested the hospital’s for-profit

nature.Medical Partners CEO Mike Bur-

cham Sr. presented two-year old data from the American Hospital Directory depicting how PBRMC’s profit margin was 28 percent, or $45 million, compared to hospitals in Cape Girardeau and Farming-ton that banked under 5 percent in 2009.

The profits are why PBRMC is willing to establish a $170 million state-of-the-art medical campus, mentioned Mark Johnson, PBRMC chief financial officer.

“That kind of result will get you that facility,” replied Jim Tellatin, review committee chair, previ-ously stating: “You’re making huge money.”

PBRMC’s new hospital would be the single largest corporate invest-ment in the history of Poplar Bluff, Carda pointed out, the second clos-est being the hospital’s current $30 million North campus constructed in 1988. The new facility would pay $1.6 million in property taxes annually, $1.3 million of which would support the Poplar Bluff School District.

When asked if those figures would continue to be honored as fair assessment, Carda responded

“Peel away all the levels of politics and look at this project based on

merit.”

-Dr. Michael caldwell,

Poplar Bluff Medical Partners

SEMO Times: Tell us about your background?

Nicole Conover: I am a buyer with The Gift Connection in Poplar Bluff as well as work in cusotmer service. I work here with my mother Sue Fox and grandmother, and my huband Jer-emy, and I have a 4-year-old daughter Katelin.

ST: Where do you begin in when attempting to find the perfect gift?

Conover: You can start with things like favor-ite colors, do they like things sitting around their home or are they a minimalist? Do they carry a purse or wear jewelry? Really you start with what they like, and go from there.

ST: What is the best story about someone com-ing into the store clueless, and you helping them find the right gift?

Conover: Last week a man came in looking for a mother’s day gift for his mother and wife. We asked him a few questions about them and came up with the right gift. We knew it was the right gift because his wife was in the day after moth-er’s day adding on to the bracelet he bought.

ST: What advice would you give couples when putting together a wedding table?

Conover: The first piece of advice I give is don’t forget about the groom. I think it is also impor-tant to think about things that are practical kitch-en-wise, and coasters and ice buckets always come in handy.

ST: What are some ideas for people who are at-tending baby showers?

Conover: One thing I always encourage people to think about w h e n p u r c h a s -ing baby s h o w e r gifts is buy things that will still be useful six or eight m o n t h s later.

Typical ly you have a ton of new-born gifts, but what can really come in handy are gifts that are useful after the inital newborn gifts are too small. Also, books are a great idea. They have longevity and are a great hobby to get kids into.

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Opinion & Editorial“Honoring Life While Respecting the Dead”To the editor:Like everyone else in our community, I have

been excited by the recent announcements about all of the changes coming to the health care community in Poplar Bluff. However, I think I speak for many people when I say I am worried that the cemetery on the new hospital site will slow down the development.

I respect the dead and those cemeteries. My family has people buried on private land in Qu-lin, and I would not like to see them disturbed. However, our family owns the land and is not interested in selling it. I know very little about this cemetery because I used to live on the same road as it, and think people should keep a couple points in mind.

1. This family sold this land for a profit 40 years ago. The same ancestors were buried there then and they still sold it. In fact, mem-bers of these families who were much closer to their ancestors buried there now sold it, and just returned to Poplar Bluff in recent years.

2. This cemetery had been abandoned. I heard [Butler County Presiding Commis-sioner] Ed Strenfel say he opened the road three years ago. Well, I was on that patch of woods and it was overgrown with brush and had trees falling all over the graves. No one had done anything to clean that cemetery up. I was out there the day before the family came there and there wasn’t even a flower on any grave.

3. I have never heard any members of this family who now seems so adamant about pre-serving it say a word about it until a Fortune 500 company decided to build on it. Further-more, that is prime commercial property,

“Always Coming Back Home to You”

By State Rep. Steve Cookson, 153rd

Special to the SEMO Times

Sometimes I get home-sick for the good folks in the 153rd. I am always pleased to see people from the district such as constitu-ents, the Naylor, Thayer, Alton and Couch school groups, the FFA folks sponsored by the Oregon County Farm Bureau, and Mr. David Crews.

It reminds me why I am here: to try and make their communities a better place to live. Our area is blessed to have hard working people with a lot of good ole common sense… It is always a pleasure to get home to those kinds of folks. City folks don’t seem to get our way of life. They seem to think that we are hicks want-ing to protect things like gun rights, property rights, family and our faith that we hold dear.

I was interviewed by a St. Louis radio sta-tion about gun rights. They asked if I thought it was time to have more gun legislation since St. Louis was recently named as the No. 1 murder capitol in the U.S. I told them that in our area we probably have more guns per capita than the cities, but we don’t have the high murder rates. I tried to explain that it is a cultural thing... not a gun problem. So we will continue to cling to our families, guns and religion... thank you much.

I thought some revisions to prop B were necessary to ensure good breeders were safe and there was no interference with animal ag-riculture. I was assured by St. Louis folks that they and the HSUS will be coming after me. I also will continue to stand up for your property rights and against more government infringe-ments upon those rights.

I get overwhelmed by phone calls and e-mails from the city people. They just don’t under-stand rural issues and call us backward hicks... They are sure I have some sort of arrangement with all the hillbillies of Missouri.

Well just go ahead, I will be glad to walk the capitol halls as a hick. You good folks sent me to represent YOU and your values and I will continue to do that every day that I am here.

As I drive away from the capitol of the state of (confusion) Missouri, Jefferson City, each weekend, I am reminded of the John Denver song... “Ain’t it Good to be back Home Again.”

You can follow Missouri House of Represen-tatives’ legislation and week by week wrap-ups at www.house.mo.gov.

My office phone number is 573-751-1066 or e-mail me at steve.cookson.house.mo.gov.

and you can rest assured that it will be devel-oped – maybe a gas station or a McDonalds or something far less good for the community than a hospital.

I expect that the hospital will do all it legally has to and all it ethically should to move the human remains to an acceptable place. I also expect this family should do the right thing and work with the hospital to reach an acceptable solution without all of the grandstanding.

- R.A. Timbush, Poplar Bluff

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that depreciation was already factored in. Furthermore, he said PBRMC turned down another site under consideration along Oak Grove Road known as Eight Points that would have come with 22-year tax abatement.

“This is a no brainer,” Carda said. “This needs to happen. And we will have it in our lives.”

PBRMC’s CON calls for the 210 licensed beds to be shifted from South campus, now being utilized by nursing students at Three Rivers College, and the remaining beds at North campus would to be used for expanded rehabilitation and psy-chiatric services.

Attorney Harvey Tettlebaum, who represented Medical Proper-ties Trust, the real estate invest-ment firm that leases North campus to PBRMC, threatened that if the lease was not renewed in 2014, a new tenant would be sought.

Five people with ancestors buried in the Shadle Cemetery, which encompasses one acre of the PBRMC’s new 64-acre site, op-posed the location.

“I think it’s ironical that the hospital chose this particular site,” Mary Margaret Bunting said. “A hospital is supposed to respect the dignity of life.”

Edna Talboy, review committee vice chair, said zoning issues were beyond the scope of what the CON committee does, but that she would think PBRMC would want to ad-dress the matter in order to “start fresh.”

Options on the table include re-positioning the hospital, or relocat-ing the human remains to a sister cemetery, Carda said.

‘DAVID VS. GOLIATH’Several opponents of the Medical

Partners argued that the not-for-profit BRCMC lacks equipment

such as a CT scanner and ultra-sound machine to perform basic diagnostic testing.

“I’m here to tell you this is not a hospital,” said Marc Rowland, architect with Thomas Miller & Partners, adding he has over 25 years of experience designing hos-pitals. “This is not a project that the community is led to believe it will have,” added Diane Felix, PBRMC attorney.

Burcham explained that six in-ternal medicine physicians would staff the emergency room, to which

chief operating officer Lavah Lowe suggested would not be enough bodies.

“That’s like David and Goliath. Now I realize David was trium-phant, but still…” Wright-Jones commented. Committee member state Rep. Jerry Nulte of Kansas City added: “I don’t know what kind of sling shots you got.”

The review committee’s legal

counsel explained that upon ap-proval of the CON engineers with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services would review the rendering and revisions could be made.

There are currently three three-bed hospitals in Missouri, and other small ones, according to Watters, who explained laboratory services would be contracted out of the Medical Partners’ adjacent surgery and imaging centers.

“We created the three-bed hos-pital back in the day with Bonne Terre,” said Greg Bratcher, policy analysis director for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. “As far as I know, there have been no complaints.”

State Sen. Mike Parson of Oliver, who voted ‘no,’ said he thinks the precedent with small critical care hospitals “is going to start spread-ing like wildfire.” Hubbard, who added the other negative vote, said she believes a full-fledged hospital would be “more beneficial.”

Burcham noted that his 25 per-cent partner Saint Francis Medical Center of Cape Girardeau owns 21 acres adjacent to the property for

“This is a no brainer. This needs

to happen.”

-Greg carda,Poplar Bluff

Regional Medical center

MikE Burcham Sr.Chief Executive Officer,

Poplar bluff Medical Part-ners

Greg cardaChief Executive Officer,Poplar Bluff Regional

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“On the Wedge of Greatness”I have a lifelong love-hate with shoes. I love

them because there is an endless variety of cool shoes… ranging from flip-flops, loafers, ballet flats and athletic shoes to dress shoes.

I particularly love dress shoes. First, they add height to my frame. At 5’4”, I need the height. The glory of adding height is that it makes one look thinner. At 18, that was not an issue. At... hmm… over 50… it definitely is an issue.

Plus, being taller gives me a feeling of power. Put a four-inch pair of wedges on me, and I feel I could conquer the world. I’m pretty sure I could win the nomination for U.S. president from either political party. Who could not support the first woman president of the U.S. when she has great shoes?

Which brings me to the point where I explain my “hate” towards dress shoes. They feel great for the first 15 minutes. I’m high on the power of being tall. I feel invincible.

And then the pain begins, particularly with spike heels. And no wonder… spike heels are a total failure of shoe engineering. How can you possibly support a whole body’s worth of weight on a skinny little heel that shifts all your body weight forward… to your little toes? So… I’ve found spikes only work in situations where I will be sitting the entire time. And that kind of defeats the purpose of adding height.

So… I have discovered the wedge shoe is the perfect shoe. They’re cool… they’re hip… they come in every color and pattern to match just about any outfit. And I generally walk well in them and can stand around in them all day. They are definitely the shoe for cocktail parties.

Cool! I’m tall… I’m powerful… I am woman, hear me roar!

Until I have to step on uneven pavement… such as a gravel driveway. Then I have to move with the awkward slowness of a disabled turtle to keep from turning an ankle and sustaining a permanent injury that may send me to an embar-

rassing trip to the emergency room.I no longer feel strong and powerful. I no lon-

ger feel presidential.But… I still want a huge Carrie Bradshaw

shoe closet… make that shoe palace. It’s lit like the Sistine Chapel, and yet has a warm and cozy environment for every pair of shoes regardless if they are high end or discount store. It’s a great shoe democracy. Why such a large closet? Be-cause of the other thing I LOVE about shoes!

My foot size, unlike the rest of me, never changes. I still have shoes from the 80s!

And luckily the wedge never seems to go out of style! They just used to call it something else.

I wonder if I still have that purple pair of clogs…

Tammy Hilderbrand is the owner of Hilder-brand Diamond Company in Poplar Bluff. You can reach her by e-mailing [email protected].

The Bread CompanyBy Mark Cozart, SEMO Times

The restaurant concept probably began in Rome when a man armed only with a dream and porridge decided to open up a dining establish-ment. The patrons would talk about serious is-sues of the day such as those pesky Huns and the gall of those Gauls. Or perhaps they talked about attending some wild toga parties with plenty of wine and women. It was a social gathering of the who’s who in the community without the awkwardness and snobbery of the Roman baths. Thousands of years later, present day Poplar Bluff has a very special Thermopolia called the Bread Company run by Gary Featherston.

On any given day, you will see a variety of people and hear various entertaining conversa-tions. My favorite experience at the Bread Co.

was when I eavesdropped on a conversation about the U.S. Civil War. Three elderly men were talking in detail about decisive battles such as the first Battle of Bull Run and Shiloh with great gusto and knowledge on the subject. I hadn’t heard a discussion like that since sharing a college lunch table with history graduates.

Then there are the high school students who frequently visit during school nights to study with friends and fellow classmates. These youths walk in listening to Lady Gaga and Eminem with the volume turned up and end up in lively conservations about science and prom. There never seems to be that awkward barrier between them, and they start expressing their fears about the ACTs and what their major should be in college. One lady told another that they never talked in school and the response was “it is comfortable here.”

I often venture into the Bread Co. to buy a frappe, for my mother has a special needs diet. I order her a nonfat sugar free decaf frappe and take delight that they not only oblige, but the order does not blow their minds. I usually get a large sweet tea with lemon and declare it the best place in Butler County for tea. There are many establishments who share good sweet tea, but not many serve good consistent sweet tea like the Bread Co.

There is a myriad of sandwich, soup and salad selections that will please even the choosiest member in your party. They recently unveiled a new sandwich modeled after the Philadelphia cheesesteak. So now you can experience a part of Philly without the annoying sport fans. Next time you have a hankering for good food and a longing to be in the epicenter of Poplar Bluff, go to the Bread co (don’t forget to pick up a copy of the Times located in the seating area and bev-erage area) and become part of our culture.



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future expansion. While new beds would not be subjected to CON review, any equipment costing more than $1 million would have to come before the committee for approval, Watters said.

“We’re all aware if it gets ap-proved—once you’re in, you’re in—you can do what you want,” Tellatin said. “That’s not a question.”

Steve Halter, president of the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Cham-ber of Commerce, supported both projects, calling Butler County a regional hub. During his opening statement, Burcham, who is also the chair of the chamber board, ex-plained that $86 million in medical outmigration goes to Cape Girardeau each year.

“Our community would certainly benefit from retaining more of those dollars in Poplar Bluff,” state Rep. Todd Richardson of Poplar Bluff said. “It will move health care in our community light years ahead of where it is right now.”

According to a press release put out this week by PBRMC, ground will be broken on the new seven-story medical facility in the ensuing months, with completion slated for the first quarter of 2014. Medical Partners’ press release stated its renovation would begin in June and be ready for inpatients come January 2012.

Tim Krakowiak can be reached by e-mailing [email protected].

“It will move health care in our

community light years ahead of

where it is right now.”

-Todd Richardson,Missouri House of

Representatives



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For: His Inner ChiI met a child at a birthday party who could not stop drawing mythical

creatures. The boy told me that he had tried to stop drawing because of teasing from his classmates. I urged him not to stop doing what makes him happy and he said, “I don’t think I can quit because it likes me too much.” It reminded me of a quote from the late dancer Martha Graham, who was asked how to create art when your artistic abilities are doubted and/or self-doubted.

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is trans-lated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.”

I have had the pleasure of talking to many artists in the 573 area and I have found one constant in their conversations. They do not create art for the money or fame, especially those marketing only in Poplar Bluff. They draw, paint, dance and act because they are drawn by an indescrib-able force and the art would seemingly seep out of their skin if they did not heed the call. There is, after all, a reason why I have several napkins full of phrases and bad poetry. There is not a choice for us to make, for

responding to the energy in our being that beckons us to come forward and create.

Perhaps this energy source is the same force that compels us to explore the universe, the ocean, and ourselves. It would be easier to sit at home and only dream of a new way or a new hope for mankind. It would be less difficult to work for someone else doing mindless work than to start your own business and blaze forth an opportunity. Fortunately, there are those that realize it is none of their business if they have the ability to save the world and kneel to the power within their hearts.

Mark Cozart can be reached by e-mailing [email protected].

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