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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Abrazo ‘micro-hospital’ set to open in 2021 BY SARAH DONAHUE Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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Cave Creek to consider water rate changes
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Daisy Mountain saves woman from fire
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Josh Peters grows two opposite music scenes
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ith construction underway, Cave Creek’s first hospital will begin serving the community in the middle of next year. The 35,000-square-foot Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital, which will offer emergency and operating services, is dubbed a “micro-hospital” and will be at 5227 E. Carefree Highway, Cave Creek. “Cave Creek and the area around it continues to grow,” said Keith Jones, spokesman for Abrazo Health. “Even though
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Construction on Cave Creek’s first hospital as of October 27. This will be Abrazo Health’s third and newest micro-hospital and will provide emergency and surgical care 24/7 for patients of all ages. (Photo courtesy Abrazo Health)
Schweikert rebounds in Congress race BY TOM SCANLON Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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n a race closely watched far outside the district, Rep. David Schweikert, a Republican, successfully defended his 6th Congressional District seat—though not without a battle from Democrats eager to “flip” the district. Hiral Tipirneni, a Democrat and Glendale doctor who raised a record $5 million to take on the veteran Schweikert, had a sizable lead when Maricopa County Elections
Department released its first ballot count, hours after polls closed Election Day. The next day, vote counts put Schwiekert in a narrow lead. By the end of the week, Schweikert’s lead grew to 17,000, with the Republican incumbent receiving 52% of the votes at the latest vote count. Schweikert insisted he was never nervous. “Politics is math,” he said with a chuckle. The way things played out, he said, “was pretty close to what we expected. A lot of people are too emotional about politics.”
The 6th Congressional District includes North Phoenix, North Scottsdale, Cave Creek, Carefree and Paradise Valley. “Anyone spending time watching the elections understood the Democrats did an amazing job getting people to vote early,” Schweikert said. “That was a phenomenon all across the country. Democrats had concerns about COVID and didn’t want to vote in person. Republicans wanted to vote at the polls.”
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