2020 Year in Review: Great River Health sees a hopeful end to a tumultuous year
The Hawk Eye
WEST BURLINGTON Great River Health started 2020 positioned to reduce by $10 million the $26 million operating loss it had accrued over the past several years, but a virus lurking in China s Wuhan Province would rattle the Southeast Iowa health system onto another course entirely.
Great River Health had launched it s Project Synergy cost-saving initiative after the 2018 merger of Great River Medical Center and Fort Madison Community Hospital in an effort to make up for money lost in part from Iowa s privatization of Medicaid.
Through that initiative, Matt Wenzel, president and CEO of Great River Health, had anticipated ending the fiscal year with a loss of between $10 to $16 million, the end goal being to eventually reach an operating margin of between 3% and 4%, as opposed to the negative 8%, or $26 million loss, that Wenzel had announced in 2019.
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By Julia Bertino
Dec 24, 2020
(LEE County, Iowa) A Lee County Jail inmate died the same day she turned herself in.
The Lee County Sheriff s Office says on Tuesday, members of the Lee County Jail found an unresponsive woman while performing jail checks. The Sheriff’s office says she was the only inmate inside the cell.
Staff performed CPR on her and administered AED. An ambulance transported her to the Fort Madison Community Hospital emergency room where she was later pronounced dead.
The sheriff’s office identified the woman as 50 year old Stacy Lynn Heston, who had turned herself into the jail earlier the same day. She was there to begin a jail sentence of 59 days.
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From staff reports
FORT MADISON A Fort Madison man is charged with attempted murder after police say he stabbed and beat another man.
Fort Madison Police arrested Isaac Patino, 41, for a domestic assault incident that happened Saturday morning at a residence in the 3600 block of Avenue L, according to a media release from FMPD Chief Mark A. Rohloff.
Officers, along with the Fort Madison Fire Department and Lee County EMS, responded to a call from a 71-year-old male victim, who reported he d been stabbed and beaten.
The victim and suspect were among three adults who occupy the residence. The suspect and victim reportedly were drinking alcohol, when Patino became enraged and stabbed the victim in the chest with a pair of scissors, the report says.