Provider ranks high
Newman Home Health has earned a spot among the top 25 percent of the nation’s Medicare-certified home health-care providers, the 2008 HomeCare Elite.
The ranking is based on an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance, using data compiled from publicly available information.
For information, call 340-6161.
Wins hotel award
A former Emporian this week received the Eagle Award for being rookie of the year in sales nationally for the InterContinental Hotel Group.
Tara Textor, who went to work for the group in the spring of 2008, received the award during a convention this week in Miami.
International Hotel Group operates Holiday Inns and Holiday Express motels, Crowne Plazas, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites.
Textor works at the company’s Crowne Plaza location in Foster City, Calif.
She graduated from Hartford High School then from Kansas State University in Manhattan with a bachelor’s degree in human ecology, with emphasis in hotel and motel management.
She is the daughter of Terry and Karla Textor of rural Emporia and the granddaughter of Gladys Mautz of Neosho Rapids and Mary Jane Schemm of Emporia.
Cutting a ribbon
The Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon cutting at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Granada Coffee Co., 809 Commercial St. The shop, which opened in 2002, is owned by Rocky Slaymaker and managed by Beverly Beers.
On Hetlinger board
Ty Wheeler will serve as president of the Hetlinger Developmental Services board of directors for the coming year. Also elected this month were Jackie Scott, vice president; Karen Pendlay, secretary; and Eunice Grieder, treasurer.
The election followed the annual meeting on Jan. 15, which saw Pendlay and Leonard Dieker re-elected to board positions and Dianne Ihling and Chris Rech elected as first-time board members. Carrie Boettcher and Carolyn Koch completed their board service.
Hospital does well
Morris County Hospital has completed a tri-annual survey and accreditation by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The four-day survey reviewed all clinical areas and the state-mandated risk-management system and is required for participation in Medicare, Medicaid and Kansas programs.
Registered nurse CeCelia Parks, one of the team of surveyors, said the hospital was the first critical access hospital she had surveyed that received no deficiencies in hospital operations or risk-management.