Word: birmingham
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...because she's exhausted," says Margaret Clausen, president of the California Hospice Foundation. On average, hospice patients receive at least three hours a day more attention than nursing-home patients. And hospice is cheaper than traditional care. For example, at Balm of Gilead Center, a hospice in Birmingham, Ala., the average cost per patient per day is $720, in contrast to $3,180 for ICU patients...
...takes doctors longer to make the right diagnosis. All the while, their heart isn't getting potentially life-saving treatment with clot-busting drugs, beta-blockers or emergency angioplasty. These delays, says Dr. John Canto, the study's lead author and a cardiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, help explain why a heart-attack patient who doesn't experience chest pains is twice as likely to die at the hospital as someone who does. "Time is [heart] muscle," he notes. "And muscle is life...
...appears, pulled up dirt with their roots. Last week it was old mud when Bobby Frank Cherry, 69, and Thomas E. Blanton Jr., 61, both former Ku Klux Klansmen, were indicted by an Alabama grand jury on murder charges stemming from the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four black girls at Sunday school. Both men maintain their innocence. The attack was one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era, but only one suspect in the case, Robert E. Chambliss--who was convicted of murder in 1977 and died in jail...
When I heard about the latest arrests, I was relieved. Relieved for the families, relieved for Birmingham. I think that city has been trying to bring closure for a long time to what happened. I visited the civil rights museum there just about a month ago for the first time when I was there to give a speech. It sits right across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church, and across from Kelly Ingram Park, where the police dogs were. The curator was telling me that corporate contributions had at first come slowly. But soon every major corporation...
Rice, who served as provost of Stanford and is George W. Bush's foreign policy adviser, grew up in Birmingham and was seven at the time of the bombing