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LMH makes top 100 hospitals list, again By Giles Bruce Twitter: @GilesBruce
For the second year in a row, Lawrence Memorial Hospital has been named one of the top 100 hospitals in the country by a leading health care information company. When Truven Health Analytics announced its list of the top performing hospitals in America on Monday, LMH officials were excited to find their hospital on it. Meyer “Just as last year, it validates the high standards that we set for ourselves at LMH,” said hospital CEO Gene Meyer. “We were so pleased to receive it in 2013, and the pressure to repeat
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A WORKER REMOVES SNOW, ONE SHOVEL AT A TIME, FROM THE SURFACE OF THE PLANNED Marriott hotel currently under construction at the southeast corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets. Developers are asking city commissioners to restart the approval process for a seven-story apartment building at the northeast corner of the same intersection.
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Soon, tall buildings are going to start growing at Ninth and New Hampshire streets like the grass grows in May. Work on a five-story Marriott hotel under construction on the southeast corner is expected to move into a higher gear in the next month. And leaders of the same development group are asking city commissioners to restart the approval process for a sevenstory apartment building at the northeast corner of the same intersection.
It is a lot smoother sailing once you are above ground.” — Micah Kimball, designer of the Marriott hotel and seven-story apartment building
“You’ll start seeing things move a lot faster down there,” said Micah Kimball, an architect with Lawrence-based Treanor Architects, which is designing both projects. Construction on the 91-room Marriott TownePlace extendedstay hotel recently hit a milestone: It moved above ground. For
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months, crews have been working on the underground parking garage. But when the weather clears, they will pour concrete for the ground-floor lobby, Kimball said. “It is a lot smoother sailing once you are above ground,” Kimball said. Work on the hotel is moving along well enough that the development group, led by Lawrence businessman Doug Compton and architect Mike Treanor, is honing in on a start date for the 114-unit apartment building. Kimball said
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Kids left in cold as fuel ‘gel up’ causes bus delays buses were unable to start in the cold, officials from the district’s transportation Scores of Lawrence service said. school district Jen Biddinger, a spokesstudents were woman in the Cincinnati headleft standing quarters of First Student, said at bus stops eight of the district’s 77 buses in subzero were unable to start Monday temperatures because the cold temperatures Monday morn- SCHOOLS caused diesel fuel to “gel up,” ing because which prevented them from some diesel-powered school starting. By Peter Hancock
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at her bus stop near Corpus Christi Church, 6001 Bob Billings Parkway. The woman, who asked not to be identified, said her daughter usually gets on the bus at 7:30 a.m., but neither the bus company nor the school district contacted parents to let them know the buses were delayed. Please see DELAY, page 2A
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She said the problem affected larger school buses that can carry up to 50 passengers at a time, meaning as many as 400 students may have experienced bus delays. “It was a very unusual situation,” Biddinger said. One parent who contacted the Journal-World said she was frustrated when her daughter was left standing
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hen you hear the sirens today, don’t worry: It’s only a drill. As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, Kansas will hold a tornado safety drill today at 1:30 p.m. and everyone is encouraged to take part. Participation is easy: When you hear the sirens, seek shelter. All but seven counties in Kansas will hear the sirens today, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Johnson, Miami, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Atchison, Denison and Linn counties will hold safety drills on Thursday along with Missouri. March marks the beginning of testing season as well: Warning sirens in Douglas County are tested at noon on the first and third Monday of the month from March through July. The idea is that practice makes perfect, but preparedness helps, too: State emergency planners recommend getting together an emergency kit, having an emergency plan in place and making sure your family knows about it. For more tips, check out ksready.gov.
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