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Jefferson Regional ready to expand; community embraces Highmark union

Marvin Levin, like much of Allegheny County, learned that Jefferson Regional Medical Center was affiliating with insurer Highmark when he read about it in the newspaper.

But as president of the Jefferson Regional Community Health Council, Mr. Levin had a keener interest than most. The council, a group of 19 South Hills residents, is both supporter and monitor of all health care matters in their community, and Jefferson Regional is the leading hospital in their coverage area.

It was council members, he said, who pushed to get a traffic light installed at the busy Clairton Boulevard intersection so people could more safely get to the hospital. And when someone mentioned they'd had an exceptionally long wait in Jefferson's emergency room one time, the council went directly to hospital officials to voice their concern.

Long waits in the Jefferson Regional emergency room should not be an issue at future council meetings.

Pending approval from the state attorney general and Allegheny County Orphans' Court, Highmark has committed $75 million to the Jefferson Regional Medical Center Foundation, with plans to expand the emergency department, add clinical services such as neurosurgery, as well as fund expansion at the Bethel Park campus.

So, after emceeing Jefferson Regional's annual community recognition dinner Wednesday, Mr. Levin of Castle Shannon said he's hearing nothing but favorable comments from fellow South Hills residents about the Highmark-Jefferson affiliation, which will turn control of the hospital board to Highmark but infuse the Jefferson Hills hospital with the money to expand and improve.

"They will have the influx of money to do what they want to do," he said.

Jefferson may be turning over board control to Highmark, but Mr. Levin and others see the transaction as way for their community hospital to keep its identity. "I think what we've done is preserve health care for all of us in this room and the people in this community," Jefferson Regional president and CEO John Dempster told the audience Wednesday night.

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Switched On: The watch and the workhorse

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In mature, competitive markets flooded with products, many brands come and go. Last week, though, two companies came to New York City to celebrate milestone anniversaries of their electronic products. Lenovo celebrated the 20th anniversary of the ThinkPad as Casio marked the 30th anniversary of the G-Shock watch. The notebook PC remains among the most versatile and complex devices consumers use today while the watch is one of the simplest. Yet some commonality between these two products may include lessons for other technology products that wish to remain around for decades.

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McLaren Automotive Plans New Concept Release at Monterey Car ...

Car News, McLaren, Monterey Car Week 2012 ? By MR on August 17, 2012 at 10:21 am ? No Comments

McLaren Automotive is planning a surprise concept release at the 2012 Monterey Car Week today, according to insider information we received last night. What exactly McLaren will showcase was still rather unknown until we received an unconfirmed update from a member of our Facebook page. It seems that the MSO department of McLaren is highly involved in the release, but McLaren has not confirmed this statement yet. You can read more about it below!

The official public debut of the 2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider is part of the Pebble Beach Concours d?Elegance 2012 this weekend. Same goes for the McLaren 12C CAN-AM Edition Racing Concept, which is an one-off design study finished in historic McLaren Orange and satin black. Additionally a rare McLaren F1 GTR Longtail goes up for auction at one of the auctions in Monterey.

McLaren mentioned on Facebook it will have a McLaren on the Pebble Beach Concept Lawn. This could hint at an early sneak preview of the upcoming McLaren P12 supercar as part of the surprise planned for today. It would also confirm earlier rumors and reports that the P12 gets a private viewing for interested US customers this weekend ahead of its official worldwide release at the 2012 Paris Motor Show next month.

Update: A Facebook member shared more insight into today?s Quail Motorsports Gathering on our Facebook page. He said they will show a McLaren MP4-12C Spider done by the McLaren Special Operations group and one other MP4-12C with total custom bodywork done for a certain special customer. This could be the surprise concept we have been hearing about!

This unique car is in no way representative of McLaren?s new supercar, according to the Facebook member. It is a one-off 12C built to suit the tastes and desires of one particular customer. Unlike the MP4-12C HS ? of which 10 have now been built - this car will remain unique. The project behind the car is very similar in concept to what Jim Glickenhaus had Pininfarina do with the Enzo, transforming it into the P4/5.

All the information from the Facebook member is still unconfirmed at this stage. We only know that McLaren will showcase a surprise on the Pebble Beach Concept Lawn over the coming hours. So stay tuned for more!

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CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C - NewsOn6.com ...

By By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA (AP) - All baby boomers should get a one-time blood test to learn if they have the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, U.S. health officials said Thursday.

It can take decades for the blood-borne virus to cause liver damage and symptoms to emerge, so many people don't know they're harboring it. Baby boomers account for about two-thirds of the estimated 3.2 million infected Americans.

More than 15,000 Americans die each year from hepatitis C-related illnesses and the number has been growing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Unless we take action, we project deaths will increase substantially," said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, in a call with reporters.

Hepatitis C virus is most commonly spread today through sharing needles to inject drugs. Before widespread screening of blood donations began in 1992, it was also spread through blood transfusions.

The virus can gradually scar the liver and lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer, and is the leading cause of liver transplant. It can trigger damage in other parts of the body, as well.

It's possible some people were infected in ways other than dirty needles or long-ago blood transfusions. Some experts say tattoos, piercings, shared razor blades and toothbrushes, manicures and sniffed cocaine may have caused the virus to spread in some cases.

However it happened, health officials say baby boomers are five times more likely to be infected than other adults.

Officials said they decided to issue the recommendations after seeing the number of Americans dying from hepatitis C-related diseases nearly double from 1999 to 2007.

Another reason: Two drugs hit the market last year that promise to cure many more people than was previously possible.

Previously, testing was recommended only for people considered at highest risk, like current and former injection drug users.

About 3 percent of baby boomers test positive for the virus, the CDC estimates. Of those, some manage to clear the infection from their bodies without treatment, but still have lingering antibodies that give a positive initial test result. That's why confirmatory tests are needed.

Still, only a quarter of infected people are that lucky. Most have active and dangerous infections, health officials said.

"I have met too many patients who were diagnosed with hepatitis C at the time they developed liver cancer or when they needed a liver transplant," said Dr. Andrew Muir, a Duke University physician who is a leader in an advocacy organization called the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable.

The CDC call for testing is "a bold and important move," Muir said in a statement.

The recommendation applies to people born from 1945 to 1965 who have not already been tested. They should get a blood test at their next visit to the doctor, Frieden said.

The CDC proposed the new guidelines earlier this year and made them final on Thursday.

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Penn State foots ex-officials' legal bills, not McQueary's

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Penn State University assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., to testify against Jerry Sandusky on June 12

By Tom Winter and Hannah RappleyeNBC News

While Penn State continues to pay the legal expenses of former university officials Gary Shultz and Tim Curley, it is not footing the bills for a key witness against Jerry Sandusky at his child sex abuse trial, Mike McQueary, NBC News has learned.

Schultz, a former senior vice president at Penn State, and Curley, the former athletic coordinator, are accused of lying to a grand jury about what they knew of sex abuse allegations against Sandusky. Their case faced its first test in court on Thursday, when defense lawyers?argued?that the charges should be dismissed.

McQueary, a former Penn State assistant coach, testified before a grand jury and at Sandusky?s trial that he saw Sandusky raping a boy as young as 10 in a locker room shower at Penn State in 2001. McQueary testified that he reported the incident to Joe Paterno, Penn State?s legendary former football coach, and later spoke to Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, a meeting that according to McQueary?s testimony took 15 minutes.?

?In my mind when I did speak with Mr. Schultz he was like a district attorney for the university,? McQueary said in court.

But both men told a grand jury investigating the charges against Sandusky that McQueary described witnessing suspicious activity, not an actual sexual assault. Sandusky was convicted in July of 45 charges of child sex abuse.

Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, left, and Gary Schultz, a former senior vice president at the university.

A Penn State spokesman cited university bylaws in explaining why the legal bills of both Curley and Schultz are being covered. ?(Employees)shall be entitled as of right to be indemnified by the University against expenses (including counsel fees) and any liability (including judgments, fines, penalties, excise taxes and amounts paid in settlement),? they read.

But Penn State is not obligated to pay legal fees for McQueary, and has not done so, the spokesman said.?

McQueary has testified that he felt he carried out his obligation to report the crime when he spoke to Paterno, Schultz and Curley shortly after witnessing the 2001 incident.

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McQueary and a former university janitor, Ronald Petrosky, were the only two Penn State University employees to testify against Sandusky during the trial.

Meantime, in the first hearing on the case against Curley and Schultz since December, attorneys for the former Penn State University administrators appeared?in court in Harrisburg, Pa., on Thursday to argue legal points, including a motion to dismiss the charges.?

Dauphin County?Judge Todd Hoover did not immediately indicate when he would rule on the motion.

While Curley still collects a salary from Penn State, and Schultz collects retirement money, paid through a state retirement fund, McQueary?s annual ?season-to-season? contract with Penn State for his assistant coaching duties was allowed to expire at the end of June, according to university President Rodney Erickson. He is now unemployed.

Erickson confirmed that McQueary was no longer an employee of Penn State during a press conference on July 12, when former FBI Director Louis Freeh published a report that found Penn State administrators, including Paterno and former university President Graham Spanier, covered up abuse allegations against Sandusky.

"McQueary was under a fixed contract,? Erickson said at the press conference. ?That contract ended on June 30, 2012. So this contract simply ended at that point.?

No university official had commented on McQueary?s employment status since November, when the university announced that he was ?on leave? from the football program.

McQueary?s attorneys have indicated they will file a lawsuit against the University. Penn State declined to comment when asked if the university was in settlement talks with McQueary. A source familiar with the legal maneuverings of Penn State tells NBC News that McQueary was never offered assistance for his own legal expenses at any time since the allegations became public.

When reached for comment, McQueary declined to offer any statements to NBC News. McQueary remains a resident of State College, unpaid, unemployed, and weighing his legal options against a University he grew up next to, played, and coached for.

In court, prosecutor Joseph McGettigan asked McQueary if he wished to make coaching his career.

McQueary responded, ?Yes, I loved it.?

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Source: http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13315914-penn-state-pays-legal-bills-for-accused-ex-officials-but-not-mcqueary?lite

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