Show I The Herald Journal LoQan Bridgerland u5T Sunday August 9 1998 Page 3 In brief (Judge Burton Harris retiring from bench Pint District Court lodge fen H Harris is retiring from die bench Harris was appointed to foe 1st Cir-cu- it Court id December 1988 la 1997 Dtehs courts system was reorganized and Harris was made a Judge infoe 1st District Court serving Box Elder Rich and Cache counties i Harris received his law degree 'the University of Utah in 1938 He was Cache County attorney from 1961 to 1978 and Was in private law practice in Logatt before his bench appointment j He also served as a city attorney for j$mithfield and Hyde Park The nominating commission to replace him meets Tuesday Aug 25 at '9:3000 at foelst DistrietCourthou’se 43 N Main St Brigham City 1 The commission will hear public on issues facing Utah's judi-'cisystem The commission will not hear comments on individual appli- - : comments al Pollowing the public hearing the meeting will be closed to allow the commission to begin selecting three camhdates for foe position the names will be forwarded to Gov Mike Leavitt who will make the appointment Per more information Call (801) DAV officer Shard Natter of Logan does puahupo niter officer training Police academy: to be available Monday Maher lohn a tunning exercise at a peace daaa at tho Bridgerland Applied Technology Contor Ever wonder what it takes to be one of Logan’s police officers? Jacob Santfni staff writer classes at the university (USU) and this rates right up thane with them But I enjoy being here a lot more" If foe initial test is passed foe applicant must undergo a physical exam a drug screening and must he fin gerprinted for a background check In all the takes about one month to complete said applies Peterson If everything is in order foe aspiring officer is accepted to one of the five academies in Utah The e only training facility is located in the Salt Lake Valley Then the classes are broken into two blocks with foe first requiring 184 hours of training the second section has 340 hours of course woik The students learn skills and information ranging from crime prevention to liquor control laws to patrol concepts to weaponless defense techniques to vehicle searches and gang By the new Department Service Officer of the Disabled le can Veterans plans to be in Logah on Monday to provide with issues i concerning foe Department of Veterans Affairs He is scheduled to be at the Logan Workforce Services Mice 446 N 100 West from 11 am to noon Ameri-availab- If this were a suicide foe caring would be around hem one Police Academy trainee said as ttaee other began looking under a bed “Hey guys there's a casing here” one of the young men said as he tote from his! '"There's another over here’ a trainee said from across foe room It was an part ofa set-u- p crime scene foal 16 future peace officers searched on Saturday as part of their eight-mon- th training The 15 men and one woman meet fofoe morning to undergo physical training tmdaptac-nc- ai cxpcncpoc oi tnyranginM e minocr book the students were byingto determine who had killed a woman in a hotel room There were clues pointing to 'fotttaifatoWtot to foe hotel room with foe dead ’ Polic bulletin full-tim- : i The Logan City Police Department wants to locate anyone who!has wit- tressed or may have information about these or any other crimes Those with inMmation ate asked to contact Crime-ca-ll The trainees have been in foe program since January and ate coming dote to foek graduation from Bridget land's Police Academy in September the academy has been meeting for 20 hours a week force May in foe Bridgerland Applied Technology Center Prior to font they md far!11 horns each week between lamuty and May But befa foere ambitious men and women had a chaare to sa down to a classroom to leant foe basic ke meat control tactics and introductions to foejus- tree systemthey were tested by Peace Officer Stan-dards and training (POST) in Srt Lake City the entrance exam teats an applicant's knowledge in four areas— mafo reading competency grammar end incident report writing The hopeful applicant must receive 70 percent or better in each part of foe exam 730-719-9 Vehicle burglary A white Dodge Neon was burglarized Monday night at 275 N 800 Bast the vehicle was found at 10:30 foe next --li- - morning with the passenger window i mad me wmasraeia oroKen qql csdouk- - ed damage to foe vehicle is $790 If you witnessed anything ‘ ‘ “ miCMouday night! this Crime-ca-ll with your Information of the entry wound According to officials st POST foe entrance exam is to determine if an applicant has foe basic skills to be peace officer And since foe academies are so rigorous '“Sraiey get a 89 percent in one area hut 97 percent Bicycle theft A Bridgestone MB4 mountain hike ws stolen from foe bike rack at Smith's Pood & Drug Center on Wednesday n hike has black night The end ban and toe dip dark-gree- Witnesses or anyone else with knowledge of this or any other crimes is asked to telephone Diana MuMMmwaM Journal a simulated crime scene Stacee Richardson explain to her toaaamates foal she suspects that What seems tike a suicide might actually he a murder based on the position At Crime-ca- ll Yon may remain anonymous and still he efcgfble for steward hi foe other thee they're out said Bod Peterson training Supervisor to foe academy and a detective for those lacking the drive and discipline would nan rally he weeded out Only about 10 percent of foe aspiring officers fail foe entrance exam hot another 25 percent are dismissed during foe course of foe training said Peterson tt tough" said Olsten “I've taken a couple of LoganPoBce 'The biggest dress factor during foe test is foe time hmh to finish each section said Cody Olsen one of foe 18 who have made ft this far Logan hospital bids farewell to IHC czar ByMtolngrtfttffi Agendas “ i ns neiRiii vuuray MmivivRm mem at am Monday tetMtoiMy COurthdute 86 VVOnakl9l Agenda kerne Mud: Otoueeho foeetoeuie Of a courtly read wtti non Bowman vneeoMng aland dtapdiawffi Ben Hudacn Planning road Sign placement with Hal Keaer Addreeetng Doug tonrey1 request ter a moons noms vsnsnos the Board ed EquMbaMn Meeang wi Bnablne lie tudoet Wewewmg the oomprebenewe pten wtfti rograeametivee from foe Beuttieast Idaho CouncldfQovemmente sppscsowi tfswswfng ms wuw fpmv ns BAidBroAte WRi ispfsssnnnvss Truro Ifoo losno uouvimm k4atA DoundldlDdrommenw 1tevtewtngPreeton‘erequedt1dreStopl(iht vosng tor osfsnss Ruyssoii nmo novranss neeiQnviQ e west pssunsong somsmsm i J a fca station toawnMKamasnuwta MNfrmffling grant wHhMlhi vim nptnnufui invrina Bodily bond foe reception room Seme staffers remained by bedsides sorely But if foere was an occasion for foe lame and hah and infirm to rise rids was ft Scott Paaker retiring chief executive officer of totermoontain Health Care wai to gjive Ms ftreweBaddrete to foe troops Pint there were autograph to Parker grinned and called foe ebrity treatment ’disconcerting hot accepted ft aa part of being a founding father present at foe ore-tk-L Par as long as foere has bee an o a imum n nomst to UB Wastto natal a oabia along south tat M and Onsida wa-gon- ar Bsvtawkig Via wapMt and and gw ptana ena vffnnnHiuDtiraiwiifBw ftovtMtng twWteptepiarolorawWBow fasksuMM 'Mating Um Munn BBre IWmI Mwqri COPY another benefit faker spoke is of cardiologists and surgeons setting an example “And it will spread Ten yean from now foose who come and visit and talk about there things will have hundreds of examples to share and It will become a new legacy Of Intermountain Health Care" He surveyed foe room eyes glistening “And you will all be a part of ft And t only envy you I'd love to Be here Ite halted collecting himself The emotion was rtared at foe end everyone lined of another major development Before clinical integration foere was foe insurance upheaval that created healfo maintenance organizations IHC caught foe wave hospitals clinics healfo plans and berth agendei “The first live yren were spent hit home dispiratehospitahtogefoer in agood organization next five yean were spent devekping internal systems involving data processing and coomuters The foird five yean saw foe ffttrofoictioftcf berth plana indsuc- Or more pedantierty Mhtical integration which faker sees as b foe new stars and Parker took foe opportunity to point them oat values? he “Are we maintaining oar asked hospital workers “Are we concerned about the poor? Are we taking care of everyone who comes to ns regardless of their ability to pay? Are we seeking out those who are disadvantaged? Are we concerned about rural as well as urban? Are we concerned about all ages of life young and old? Are we trying our best to be as comprehensive as we can so when someone comes to ns we can respond without having to say 'Sony we don't do that you have to go out of state'?’ IHC itself has been invited to extend operations not only out of state but around foe planet the attention has been flattering and foe hue powerful hut 'better to be smaller and stronger rather than larger and weak er When in 1975 foe church died its 15 hospitals foe church seemed to say m Parker's words “Validate our decision by making your organization a model healfo system“Paiker is still struck by foe divestiture “No religious organization has just simply turned over vol nutarily as a gilt to foe community their hospital sysI tem and not adeedf something in return monetarily "Without foat sense of mission and gift and Challenge foar went wifo it we oonM not have hecorne whra we 'Our first grouper nroHees were IHC employees" faker recalled To many Of yo remember that? We are today' will were foe there wre a lot of good goinea pigs 'Mow we’ve gone from 100 enroOees to half a million earollees directly and foere are nearly foat many more through other insurance companies foat use our hospitals and doctors" the insurance aspect was a shock After all “who we would ever he involved with would foink foat healfo Insurance? That was foe last thing on our list to worry about But then we saw a seed of an idea in Minneapolis and a seed of an idea in Seattle and in Southinsurance was ern California Suddenly health-carbeing handled in a fashion I couldn't understand Someone said 'It's an HMO I said 'What is an team Not aa competitors not at indrendent adver-sainot as kxndyaffiliteed organizations but Mended totally bomd at foe hxoondmiedd foe heal" He ptve aa an exangde a 'Beam of heart surgeon cardiologist and family physicua ooardinating so foat HMOr Now faker placet a premium on futurists and “patients feel the continuity font comet from all of those disciplines working together rather than being visionaries But in a way foe past has always been Die's future The original principles are IHCs i es Dtaornamg ordlnanoaa ahOtA aooaaaory BuMnga aiis and Mteoardi and airuck man tieKylmta 'MdrasUngf outcome" he said adding that Uptortakehishand Some of foe Staffers may have been in at foe begin- er's reign ever foe empire of ten wnproromaM s Adoplng tha MMVahudgst ter Bin Logan Regional Hospital never lost its lire foe ofoer day hut foe place did pare At noon sicians nine and other disease fighters i mrougn uk gum organism times eno wo He was preaching to the choir as far as one listener Shane Hone was concerned Hone foe Logan hospital's spokesman had just seen his mother go through open-hea- rt surgery with a cardiologist in foe operating loom as well as surgeon and anesthesiologist Hone was happy to have the cardiologist foere “With foe three of them discussing there's always a better ning v Th TV—ton buy Douftdi mats at 4:80 pm Monday at Via dyefRoa 7S W Oneida Bt - hfirtmilfio a malar trait ltfntfttiy Ptatr "They are remdred tb not only have a knowledge about but be able to perform thetnas well" said Peter son To ensure foe trainees understand how to handle a situation they are continuously tested on foe subjects they team about and they are given practical situations like the one on Saturday morning "Its not our goal at foe academy to push as many peace officers out as we can" said Peterson "We don't want to push them real quick We want to give them the education and training they need to he officers" As for foe crime scene Saturday Det TVsvis Dunn said “They might screw up today but this is where we'd like to see them screw up It's a training session — hut if they screw up in real life they could gel sued' Neither oft two groups found both erf foe planted bullets in foe wall But Dunn said foe group had one hour on foe crime scene where in foe real world investigators would take three days to go through foe room In foe end Dunn showed foe students how foe angry wife shot her husband’s mistress Then when her husband came from foe bathroom she shot at him but just grazed his arm The couple then wrote a suicide note and planted foe gun in foe woman's hand The students did anesl foe husband tor obstruction of justice and foe wife was arrested for murder before Durm told them how foe shooting occurred e mm IHC has grown from 13 to 23 hospitals — nine urban and 14 rural — and from zero health plans to six It is one of Utah's largest employers with a payroll Of 22XXXX and embraces 2500 doctors and thousands of revenues last year topped voranteers uross $2 billion $1 billion has ‘ invested in expansion d remodeling over foe years IHCs chief operating officer William Nelson at Parker's ride dining foe farewell will preside over foe hoard of trustees now Before foe pair took off for Itemooton another stop on this farewell tour Parker was presented with ! iT-rtir-u 'Tile a rock Star "said Smith the grandfather was tickled — Tm big r on rock concerts" inimusic but it could be said that he's already edoneiof foe state's more founderon marches conduct-Puti- ns |