Wood Islands liquor store opens

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Saturday marked the first day of operation for the new liquor store at the Plough the Waves Centre in Wood Islands.

The P.E.I. government closed the provincially-run liquor store there last year. It was leasing space from the Wood Islands Development Corporation.

Officials with the corporation were concerned about the impact on other private businesses in their building and the loss of jobs.

The corporation applied to the Liquor Control Commission to re-open it as an agency store.

Sylvain DeLafontaine is the administrator of the Wood Islands and Area Development Corporation and now also the operator of the Wood Islands Liquor Store.

We have a visitor information centre here, we have also a little restaurant, a little diner and a candy store,`` he said.

"The liquor store was bringing in people that also would overflow onto these businesses. We wanted to maintain that patronage in order for these businesses to continue thriving.

While the liquor store will have the regular offerings, it will also feature displays on local wines and spirits.

The store will be open three days a week until June 21 and then seven days a week for the rest of the season.

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New health care model centers on the patient

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Lovelace and Atrinea Health have partnered to bring a new model for health care to Rio Rancho.

Thats according to Dr. John Cruickshank, the chief medical officer for Lovelace Health System. The model is called patient-centered medical home.

The Rio Rancho primary care clinic is owned and operated by Atrinea, which employs all the clinics health care providers including four primary care doctors who coordinate patient care and is exclusively for Lovelace Health Plan members.

What is different about the medical home model is that the physicians goal is simply to identify and treat common illnesses before illness can progress and before those illnesses get really, really expensive.

It seems simple enough, but its easier said than done.

The Rio Rancho clinic recently held a ribbon cutting, where Cruickshank and several others who are involved in the clinic spoke about the virtues of the new health care model. Cruickshank said the medical home model isnt really new, but it is new to New Mexico.

There have been many places around the country where this concept has taken hold and physicians and organizations have embraced the model, he said.

To help prevent or limit the severity of illnesses, physicians test for common illnesses according to the patients age, sex, weight and an assortment of other health indicators. Knowing about potential illnesses before they get too severe is key, Cruickshank said. But connecting patients to the appropriate tests and treatments that will keep them healthy takes a lot of work, he said.

As part of the partnership, Lovelace works with clinics like the one in Rio Rancho to keep tabs on patients and make sure they are making their appointments, according to Dr. John Iacuone, chief medical officer for the Lovelace Health Plan.

He said Lovelace has invested significant dollars in software that help the clinic keep track of what patients are billed for and shares that information with the clinic.

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Health care costs decline for retired couples – Sun, 19 May 2013 PST

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After years of increasing health care costs, the outlook is improving for seniors worried about paying their medical bills duringretirement.

For the second time in the last three years, estimated medical expenses for new retirees have fallen, according to a study released Wednesday by Fidelity Investments. A 65-year-old couple retiring this year would need $220,000 on average to cover medical expenses, an 8 percent decrease from last years estimate of $240,000. The study assumes a life expectancy of 85 for women and 82 formen.

Fidelity attributes this years decrease to several factors, including a

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After years of increasing health care costs, the outlook is improving for seniors worried about paying their medical bills duringretirement.

For the second time in the last three years, estimated medical expenses for new retirees have fallen, according to a study released Wednesday by Fidelity Investments. A 65-year-old couple retiring this year would need $220,000 on average to cover medical expenses, an 8 percent decrease from last years estimate of $240,000. The study assumes a life expectancy of 85 for women and 82 formen.

Fidelity attributes this years decrease to several factors, including a slowdown in health care spending that hasnt rebounded with theeconomy.

When times are tough, people tend to cut back on health care expenditures, said Sunil Patel, a senior vice president for benefits consulting at Fidelity. I think what surprised many people is that in recent years, even as the economy recovered, youve still seen a fairly significantslowdown.

Although fewer doctors visits can help seniors save money, Patel stressed that skipping necessary care can lead to more serious health problems and higher expenses down theroad.

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Health care workers sickened by SARS-like virus

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NEW YORK (AP) In a story May 15 about a new SARS-like virus spreading from patients to health care workers in Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the 20 deaths attributed to the virus. There have been no deaths reported in France and Qatar, only in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany and Britain.

The story also said that the spread to health care workers was new. Health workers were previously infected in a cluster in Jordan before the new coronavirus had been identified.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Saudi health workers sickened by SARS-like virus

2 Saudi Arabia health care workers get SARS-like virus; officials consider naming it MERS

By MIKE STOBBE

AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK (AP) A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, health officials said Wednesday.

The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia told world health officials that two health care workers became ill this month after being exposed to patients with the virus. One is critically ill.

Since September 2012, the World Health Organization has been informed of 40 confirmed cases of the virus, and 20 of the patients have died. The deaths occurred in Britain, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.

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