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Show Thursday, July 10, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 13 Salute the flag by treating it better Daniel B. Kline Dressed in an Evel Knievel-style American flag jumpsuit with my face painted red, white and blue, I planned to spend Fourth of July driving around in old Ford pickup truck blaring blar-ing "Proud to Be an American" from my stereo. ste-reo. Starting at 6 a.m., I hoped to speed around my neighborhood honking honk-ing my horn and looking for foreigners so I could chant "USA, USA" at them. Once I had established estab-lished our nation's global dominance through repetitive re-petitive chanting and occasionally making the number one sign, I planned to head home for an old-fashioned American Ameri-can barbecue featuring Budwesier in those really large bottles. Of course, since I'm not a jingoist, don't look particularly par-ticularly good in a jumpsuit jump-suit with a cape and tire of chanting really fast, I actually did none of these things. Instead, I spent the day at work, barbecuing barbe-cuing for my hard-working staff forced to open the store on a holiday and the few customers nice enough to leave their homes to come see us. Though I chose to not brazenly display my affection af-fection for the United States by wearing a costume, cos-tume, many other people did. The worst offenders seemed to congregate at the supermarket where I picked up the groceries for my barbecue. In the grocery store I saw flag bandannas, flag t-shirts, a truly horrifying set of MC Hammer-style flag pants and an unfor Three Utah County hospitals in top six A recent report by an independent quality-improvement organization ranked all three of Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Healthcare's Utah County hospitals in Utah's top six for performance perfor-mance on 24 core quality measures, with Orem Community Com-munity Hospital ranked No. 1. Healthlnsight used publicly-reported data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that rated more than 4,200 hospitals hos-pitals on research-based quality of care for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia pneu-monia and surgical infection infec-tion prevention. In addition to Orem Community's No. 1 ranking, American Fork Hospital ranked No. 5 in the state, and Utah Valley Regional ranked No. 6. "This report assures patients pa-tients that our hospitals give the most up-to-date care to help them get well more quickly and enjoy a better quality of life," said David Clark, regional vice president and CEO for Intermpuntain. "Using research-based practices means fewer complications, complica-tions, less time spent in the hospital, and lower costs for patients." Clark credited a terrific ter-rific partnership between community physicians and hospital staff for the hospitals' high quality of care. "Our nursing staff, administrators and other IMUKAMCMACI1EMC home auto life business Waste ff m mmMm tunate flag bikini top that really should have been accompanied by a flag sweater. I'm sure there was flag underwear I couldn't see and more than a few people with flag tattoos thankfully out of my visual range. Wearing the American Ameri-can flag on a bikini or a t-shirt seems like an odd way to show patriotism. Wearing a flag bikini is sort of like showing your favorite actor how much you love him by following follow-ing him around 24 hours a day chanting his name. While the sentiment might be well-intended, the gesture itself shows disrespect for the object you are seeking to honor. In some ways, turning the flag into clothing or a beach towel makes about as much sense as showing your wife you think she's pretty by secretly taking naked photos of her and showing all your friends. That action might honestly honest-ly reflect your true pride in her appearance, but in most cases picking that particular way to show her will likely end with all of your stuff being thrown on the lawn. Americans tend to find rather questionable ways of honoring the people, places and things we love. In addition to turning the flag into everything from bed sheets to oven mitts, we seem overly willing to use the tattoo as our method of showing what we like or care about. Admittedly, getting a tattoo requires commitment. commit-ment. Getting one hurts and removing them requires re-quires an enormous amount of money and clinical professionals work with physicians to identify iden-tify treatments proven to consistently help patients; then work to ensure that all patients receive these treatments as appropriate," appropri-ate," said Clark. For Maria Black, nursing nurs-ing administrator for Heart Services, teamwork between physicians and staff nurses has been the key to improving patients' recovery from heart attack at-tack and preventing future episodes. "We review patients' pa-tients' charts while they're in the hospital to ensure every patient gets the best treatment, then we review patient data every month to look for ways we can improve our process," said Black. The Cardiovascular team recently made changes to help patients experiencing experienc-ing a heart attack get to the Heart Catheterization Laboratory more quickly for life-saving treatment. The team changed the paging system to activate staff more quickly when the emergency physician calls. They also began sending one staff member directly to the Emergency Department to prepare the patient for the procedure during transfer time, while the rest of the staff prepared pre-pared Cath Lab equipment for the patient's arrival. In May, the changes helped four heart-attack patients MsM 4 www.footeinsurance.com 305 N. FREEDOM BLVD. PROVO ability to withstand pain. Unfortunately, while having a loved one or favorite fa-vorite thing's name tattooed tat-tooed on yourself comes fraught with peril. Forget the obvious idea that relationships may not always last forever. Johnny Depp no longer dates Winona Ryder, Tom Arnold and Rose-anne Rose-anne broke up and that just might happen to you. Tattooing a favorite thing on yourself involves even more risk. For example, had I been allowed to tattoo tat-too my favorite group on my arm when I was 14, 1 would now sport America's Ameri-ca's only Huey Lewis and The News tattoo. Of course, the American Ameri-can flag never goes out of style, but I hardly think tattoos, bikinis, bandannas bandan-nas and the like actually show respect for what the flag stands for. If you respect the flag as a symbol sym-bol representative of all that we love about America, Amer-ica, than fly it properly, salute it when you walk by and think regularly of the men and women who died for your freedom. I suppose that freedom includes the right to wear the "Stars and Stripes" on a pair of spandex pants, I just imagine they would prefer that you didn't. Daniel B. Kline's work appears in over 100 papers pa-pers each week. When he is not writing, he is general manager of Time Machine Hobby, New England's largest hobby and toy store, www.time-machinehobby.com. www.time-machinehobby.com. He can be reached at dan notastep.com. receive treatment in less than 90 minutes from their arrival in the Emergency Department. ., Marcy Bailey, RN, sf team leader in Orem Community's Com-munity's top-ranked Surgical Surgi-cal Services Department, says the team's success in providing research-based care reflects their commitment commit-ment to the best surgical care. "We're your advocate," advo-cate," she says to her patients. pa-tients. "We're studying the research literature and working to improve your care every day." To prevent post-surgical infections, nurses in Bailey's Bai-ley's department recently helped surgeons include preferred antibiotics on their standing orders for specific patient categories catego-ries so antibiotics can be administered before the surgeon's arrival. And, they've added a check for antibiotics to their pre-sur-gical time outs. Bailey also set a personal goal this year to research previous studies' recohi-mendations recohi-mendations for preventing post-surgical infections in diabetes patients, and worked with Dr. Curtis Johnson, an orthopedic surgeon, on the project. Although Al-though they didn't turn up any research, Dr. Johnson and two of his colleagues ultimately decided to start using pre-surgical antibiotics antibi-otics to help their diabetic patients avoid infections. chard Foote Ross Schofield I r mm I w J W Vi I Are there too many people in that apartment Does it seem that your neighbor has too many people living in their single f amily home in Springville? If so, there may be a remedy rem-edy to your frustrations. The Springville City Code addresses who may live in, a residential dwelling dwell-ing unit by (1) defining "family," and (2) limiting the lopations of where accessory ac-cessory apartments are allowed. In all residential zones, only one family may occupy a dwelling unit. A "family" means one individual, or two or more persons related "by blood, marriage, or adoption, living liv-ing together in a single Utah adopts second hike in federal minimum wage law The Utah Labor Commission Commis-sion announced its intentions inten-tions to adopt the new federal fed-eral minimum wage law. The federal and Utah minimum mini-mum wage rate was also increased last year for the first time in 10 years. In July of 2007, the rate went from $5.15 an hour to the current rate of $5.85. On July 24, 2008, the second sec-ond of three 70 cent hikes will become effective raising rais-ing Utah's minimum wage from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour. "Utah statute requires the Labor Commission to review the state rninimum wage law whenever a change occurs in the federal fed-eral minimum wage law", said Commissioner Sherrie Hayashi. "Because of this mandate and the federal minimum wage law, the Commission promulgated changes to the Utah minimum mini-mum wage rules through the state administrative rule-making process in 2007. Utah will continue following the pay scale set forth by the federal legislation." legisla-tion." . The new federal and Utah minimum wage laws leave unaffected the cash wage obligation of $2.13 an hour that is owed to tipped employees and the training train-ing wage rate of $4.25 an hour for minor employees during their first 90 days of employment with a single sin-gle employer. A "tipped employee" is one who customarily cus-tomarily and regularly receives re-ceives tips, who is, not a chef, janitor or dishwasher, and who receives at least $30.00 a month in tips. The new Utah minimum wage rates will apply to a tipped, employee's wages where the employer is permitted to credit the employee's tips toward the effective minimum wage rate after paying, the employee em-ployee the cash wage obli-. gation of $2.13 an hour. If the cash, wage obligation, plus tips, falls short of the minimum wage level over a,pay period, the employer must pay the difference. Employers may choose to pay more than $4 .25 an hour to minor. employ ees.during their first 90 days of em 1790 S. State Springville (801) 491-6882 Brand New Clean Facility Brightly Lit Aisles Security Cameras Alarms on every Unit Computerized Access Control Sizes from 10' x 10' to 10' x dwelling unit and maintaining main-taining a common household." house-hold." A "family" may also include "two non-related persons living with the residing family." Accordingly, Accord-ingly, a family may consist of anyone legally related, plus two extra individuals. In addition to controlling occupancy of a dwelling unit by defining "family," the City Code also limits lim-its the location of accessory acces-sory apartments, such as basement apartments and other apartments incorporated incorpo-rated into a single-family residence. Under the current City Code, such apartments are ployment, but after the 90 days, minor employees are entitled to be paid wages at the new minimum wage rates. The minimum wage rate changes are summarized in this as follows MINIMUM WAGE RATE INCREASES First Federal then Utah along with the date of the increase. $5.85 Hour July 24, 2007 $5.85 Hour Sept. 8, 2007 $6.55 Hour July 24, 2008 $6.55 Hour July 24, 2008 $7.25 Hour July 24, 2009 $7.25 Hour July 24, 2009. Custom, Monuments ':. Large Selection ' . 725 JOirth 900 374 - eesley Monuments Don't miss out on this GREAT RATE. For a limited time only, State Farm Bank is offering the following promotional term Q) rate. Call me today for more information. flFBTTFTflATF. 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