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won the Oregon Music Edu-
cators Association award for
Oregon’s Outstanding Music
Educator of the Year.
Huskey hinted that Steigh-
ner could still be involved in
directing music in the com-
munity in the future. “We’re
still going to call on you,”
said Huskey.
The music selected for
Monday’s ceremony ranged
from stoic and proper to live-
ly and uplifting. In a ringing
tenor, Andy Streich sang the
hymn “T he Old Rug g ed
Cross” and Leonard Cohen’s
“Halleluah,” giving atten-
dants a dose of contempo-
rary gospel music.
After the ceremony, guests
got a chance to see 18 new
flags dotted across the south
side of the cemetery.
Leonard explained that the
star spangled display was an
Eagle Scout project by Lucas
Gilbert of Boy Scout Troop
282.
Gilbert, 16, said he came
up with the idea last April.
The project took 11 months
of planning, and the efforts
of 11 scouts and four adults.
This spring, his team dug
holes eight inches wide in di-
ameter and 30 inches deep,
then poured concrete to
house the flags.
“The goal was to honor
veterans on Memorial Day
(with) a new spot for flags in
the cemetery,” said Gilbert.
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ving, and was lodged in
Northern Oregon Regional
Correctional Facility.
The cause of the fall is
“undeter mined” and is
under investigation, said the
Hood River County Sheriff ’s
Office.
“As the vehicle was mov-
ing, Ram had fallen out of
the car in some manner,”
said Hood River County
Sheriff Matt English in a
written release.
Sherif f ’s de puties re-
sponded calls from witnesses
and found Ram lying face
down in a ditch off Highway
281 near Airport Road. Ram
had suffered major injuries
to his head. He was trans-
ported by ambulance to
Providence Hood River Hos-
pital, and then to Legacy
Emanuel Hospital in Port-
land, where he remained in
critical condition as of Sun-
day night.
Aside from the vehicle-on-
house crash in Cascade
Locks Saturday and the seri-
ous fall from a vehicle south
of Hood River Sunday, police
reported an ordinary Memo-
rial Day Weekend.
Hood
River
Police
Sergeant Don Cheli charac-
terized the weekend as “ex-
tremely busy traffic-wise”
but not as busy as last year.
“It was a little quieter,
(but) it was still a little busy,”
said Cheli.
City police reported 88
traffic stops this year as op-
posed to 136 last Memorial
Day weekend and one DUII
arrest as opposed to three
CUB SCOUTS and Boy Scouts from local troops process at the grand entrance of the Memorial Day
ceremony Monday at Idlewild Cemetery. At left, a wreath by Peggy Ross.
Photos by Patrick Mulvihill.
SUNLIGHT GLEAMS off the slide of Alden Gendreau’s trombone, as the Hood River Valley High School band marches in the Memorial Day ceremony.
last year.
The Hood River County
Sheriff ’s Office reported
three DUII arrests, including
the two respective incidents
in Cascade Locks and Hood
River.
The Sheriff ’s Office in-
creased its patrols over the
weekend.
Cheli said the city police
department didn’t raise pa-
trols for the weekend, except
to include some overtime
hours for one patrol officer.
However, he said the depart-
ment received grant funding
from Oregon Department of
Transportation to focus on
seatbelt and cell phone viola-
tions.
“We’re taking a stronger
enforcement stance,” said
Cheli, regarding cell phones.
He said the minimum fine
for failing to wear a seatbelt
is $110 and the fine for using
a cell phone while driving is
$160.
Health group launches ‘Hospital Guide’
The Oregon Association of
Hospitals and Health Sys-
tems (OAHHS) announced
Tuesday that it launched
Ore gon Hospital Guide
(www.OrHospitalGuide.org),
according to a press release.
The new website displays
hospital data on a user-
friendly platform. This is the
first phase of a larger hospi-
tal transparency ef for t,
OAHHS officials said
OrHospitalGuide.org is
the new home of data that
tracks the quality of care in
Oregon’s hospitals — which
patients can use to learn
about their local community
hospital. The site is designed
to make complex informa-
tion understandable and ac-
cessible to all Oregonians.
The current quality of
care information on OrHos-
pitalGuide.org is gathered
from the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Ser-
vices (CMS) and will be up-
dated quarterly. Notably, in
the category of Patient Expe-
rience, OrHospitalGuide.org
will display a rating of
“poor” to “superior” for hos-
pitals across the state. Based
on a new star ratings system
by CMS for quality measures
on its Hospital Compare web-
site, this is the first of many
ratings coming in future
months that will further sim-
plify information for Orego-
nians.
“We strongly believe that
patients should be able to ac-
cess hospital data and under-
stand what it means,” said
Diane Waldo, associate vice
president of quality and clin-
ical programs for OAHHS.
“To that end, we have spent
the last few months design-
ing this site to focus on ease-
of-use, understandability,
and value to the visitor. We
are pleased to unveil OrHos-
pitalGuide.org because of
the value it brings to Orego-
nians.”
Site features include:
■ Presenting existing
quality of care information
in an accessible, understand-
able way using simple navi-
gation
■ Enabling users to com-
pare hospitals’ on several
quality of care measures
■ Explaining the meaning
and importance of the differ-
ent quality of care measures
in plain language
■ Providing searchable ge-
ographic and contact infor-
mation with links to all hos-
pitals
The website will grow over
time. Future plans for the
site include posting patient
utilization and hospital fi-
nancial data, such as inpa-
tient visits, emergency room
visits, operating margins
and gross patient revenue.
This expanded data is ex-
pected to come online in the
first quarter of 2016.
To lear n more, visit
www.OrHospitalGuide.org.
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