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Schroeder said. “The birds are easier to see. In summer there are more birds, so sometimes identification is more difficult.” He said the preserve’s dawn-to-dusk hours bring many casual observers who walk the trails, some armed with binoculars. Schroeder advised a standard beginner’s pair with 7-by-35 magnification, but said binoculars aren’t needed to enjoy viewing. Due to an irruptive migration this year, in which birds migrate south due to food shortages, birders at Oak Openings Preserve in Swanton may encounter species not typically seen in the area. Naturalist Karen Menard said the entire state is currently experiencing a winter finch invasion. She said the species does not typically nest in this area, but has arrived in search of pine cone seeds. The finches can be seen in the nearly 5,000-acre Oak Openings Preserve around evergreen and conifer trees. Other varieties to look for include the red crossbill, the white-winged crossbill, the evening grosbeck and the common redpoll. “There’s a good variety. You get the chance to see different types,” Menard said. She has seen winter birders at the preserve on a regular basis, at all times during the 7 a.m. to dark hours. “It’s kind of fun to go to the park and explore. You can go any time of day and have the chance to spot one,” she said. Menard advised birders to wear comfortable, warm footwear, such as hiking boots. She also recommended binoculars or spotting scopes for better views. Oak Openings will host a raptor research project Feb. 16 in an effort to survey hawk and owl nests. Naturalist Steve Lauer will
give a presentation, and volunteers are welcome. Go to metroparkstoledo.com and click on “Programs” for more information. In addition, the Black Swamp Audobon Society based in Defiance conducted its Christmas bird count at the preserve Dec. 15. Volunteers broke into groups to count by walking and by car as many birds as possible within a 15-mile radius. “People often ask how we know that we aren’t counting the same birds more than once. Of course there is no way to be certain that we don’t but the law of averages say we will miss more than we see,” said spokesperson John Diller. The counts were organized as an alternative to bird-hunting on Christmas Day. Further away, in Ottawa County between Toledo and Port Clinton, birders flock to Magee Marsh yearround as well. The 2,000-acre wetland at Lake Erie on West State Route 2 in Oak Harbor offers trails and a visitor’s center. “People are here throughout the year for birding,” naturalist Mary Warren said. Enthusiasts can spot winter-only inhabitants such as the northern shrike, a small black, white and gray predator that scavenges for food. There is also the northern harrier, a hawk that flies low to the ground searching for a meal. Magee Marsh also features shorteared owls and adult bald eagles, which don’t migrate in cold weather.
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BY GARY BROCK gbrock@civitasmedia.com How much is your farm land worth? The answer to that question is usually pretty easy. A farmer can call his County Auditor’s Office and get the latest appraised value of his land, and he can also contact a local realtor to determine his land’s market value, or sale price. A farmer can also calculate his land value based on the state of Ohio’s “CAUV” formula. So an acre of farm land can have several “values” depending on what this value is needed for. In 2012, however, the easiest answer to the question, “How much is your farm land worth?” is this: “It’s worth a whole bushel of money more than it was a year ago!” If fact, it is very possible that Ohio’s agriculture land is worth more today than at any time in history. And that is in real dollars or adjusted for inflation dollars. To many people, that comes as a startling revelation. But to those in the agriculture business, or those who deal with appraising the value of land, it is no surprise at all.
From many angles, it has never been a better time to be a farmer. Now I will tell you that there are a lot of farmers who will scoff at that notion. At least they will scoff at it publicly. But I suspect that deep inside, they probably know that despite things like the 2012 drought, the rash of regulations and laws and government paperwork, the recession and competition overseas, what farmers are earning for what they produce could be at an alltime high. And that is part of what is driving these record agriculture land values. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Land Values 2012 Summary” the value per acre of Ohio’s farm land rose 13.6 percent over 2013, with an average price per acre of about $5,000. That’s back up by county after county where property reappraisals are being done this year. A survey by ACRES of Southwest Ohio found that all the counties doing these reappraisals this year - required of each Ohio county every six years by the county Auditor - were showing significant increases in
Gary Brock agricultural property values. That is even when the value of residential property in those same counties was going down. Of course, for property tax purposes, the appraised value of land and the market price of the land are two different things. But both numbers are trending upward here in Ohio. A third measure is also showing farm land value going up. The CAUV Current Agricultural Use Value - is also way up. In Highland County, for instance, this measure of farm land value jumped more than 40 percent in the last year. CAUV is a real estate tax assessment program which gives owners of farmland the chance to have their parcels taxed
according to their value in agriculture, rather than full market value. It is the result of a referendum passed by Ohio voters in November, 1973.Most farmers take part in this program because it means a savings for them in real estate taxes. But that is the “other side” of all this good news. Ohio State Extension expert Barry Ward, predicted recently that while 2012 was great for Ohio farm land value, 2013 might just be even better. That’s great news — sort of. Because as the value of the land rises, so does the tax obligation, regardless of which measure is used to calculate what the land owner owes. As we start 2013 this month, predictions are very positive about land value, and that is based on what most people expect to be record prices for crops per acre this year. That predicted increase should offset easily any increase in taxes for farmers when they go to pay their tax bills next year. At least, if all goes according to plans... Gary Brock is editor of ACRES of Southwest Ohio.
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and Doc alerted the rest of us. Pop is one of our own, of course. A couple of years ago, he took his coffee black and his philosophy straight at the philosophy counter at the Mule Barn. It was cold, and they found his heavy coat still in his room, so this wasn’t good. The deputies checked out the interstate and volunteers hit the all-night diners to see if he’d checked in there. No luck. The cook at the home was crying, and she said Pop had been talking about going to see his buddy, Jasper, again, and did we
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A small trenching business operated out of a garage office has bloomed into D.K. Precision Trenchers, which now is selling a farmer-friendly machine and accessories throughout the United States and overseas. Dennis Kirian shared his story about how he and his family turned his own machine design for a better way to trench and tile into a growing business as he sat in a large conference room located in a new 90-by-120-foot company headquarters. The building was recently constructed on his property which sits along a narrow country back road in Seneca County. With each staff member now having their own office, it is a far cry from the years he, his wife Carolyn and workers worked on top of each other in the garage office. Six months ago, Kirian only had a plan for his new company building, which was constructed by Anstead Construction of Fremont. His business began somewhat the same way – with a trencher design and plan that took even longer to bring to fruition. Before the new building, Kirian said a lot of his design work was completed in his work garage at the family home on Scipio Township Road 130. “It all started out in a little chair, as I whittled away on pieces and parts and tried them,” he said about putting together his trencher design. That old metal chair - left behind in the old office - he had pulled out of a camper. The Kirian trencher, which comes in two models, has a patent pending and in the past three years the company has sold about 100 of the machines – all 100 percent American made. In fact, the trenchers are fabricated and constructed at a small Attica business, Waldock Equipment, with a gear box built in Bellevue at SCS Gear Box. Both shops are within about a 10- to 15-minute drive from the company office, at 4416 E. TR 130, Tiffin. Kirian said each unit is built one at a time and is a quality piece. “We've got really good people in this whole thing,” he stressed. “It is a unique piece of equipment. There is noth-
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Denny Kirian stands in the lobby of his new building and home to D.K. Precision Trenchers in Seneca County.
ing else out there that goes on a tractor,” the designer said. The piece of equipment is described as a lift and grade apparatus for a tractor trencher, according to Patentbuddy.com, which noted Kirian applied for his patent on Dec. 4, 2009.
Not only does DK Precision Trenchers offer a trenching machine, a caddy for tile was also created so oneman can actually tile land using his own tractor with a trencher on back and tile caddy on front.
“No matter what depth you are digging, it stays that same depth,” Kirian said about his apparatus. One model of the trencher, No. 612, will install a 2- to 8-inch tile, while Model 618 can handle 2- to 15-inch tile. He said his first model came out in 2007, and he made his first sale of the Kirian trencher in September 2008. The most unique aspect of his design, perhaps, is that the trencher costs about a fifth the price of a traditional trencher, and it operates by being connected to the family tractor. The trencher will hook onto the back of a tractor and operates relying on the tractor's variable speed transmission. It also fits onto a 3-inch hitch for portability. The company also sells a tile caddy that hooks to the front of a tractor that reels off the tile to the trencher allowing one-man tile installation. Kirian's trenchers run $105,000 for the large STORY CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE
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The trencher and tile caddy can be used with one tractor. The trencher sinks into the round as it trenches and augers kick out the dirt on each side.
model and $80,000 for the small model with the caddy available for $25,000, he said. “Instead of a $600,000, $700,000 machine, they can spend $105,000,” the company owner said about his product. With a 12-row corn head running in the neighborhood of $300,000 in today's market, the cost of this trencher is not out of line, according to Kirian. He has had his design in mind a long time, but it was not until the variable-speed transmission became more common
on American tractors that his trencher became practical for sale. “They can use their own tractor,” he said about the practicality of the design. Farmers wanting to tile do not need a machine with its own power source. “It's very easy to hook and unhook,” he added. “You can actually do the whole project yourself,” Kirian added, noting the caddy can carry 3,200 feet of tile on the front of the tractor. Many farmers have to contract for tiling work and have to wait on a backlog list for the work
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ness, Kirian has been a long-time tiler himself, owning Kirian Tiling Co. Because the business held an open house on Dec. 8 for customers and friends in the new office and shop building, Kirian had a new trencher on display in the yet spotless work bay. “It has got its own place,” Kirian explained about the need for the trencher. Kirian's wife, Carolyn, explained her husband is a third-generation trencher and has been involved in tiling fields since he was a runt. “I remember helping my dad carry clay tile,” the 58-year-old Kirian said about the old 4-inch tiles. “I could hardly carry them, I was that small.” The company owner learned his business from the ground up and has had his lumps. As a 19year-old he said he designed a product he thought would improved operations. When he took it to fabricator to see if it could be constructed, he was told it could not be done. Kirian said he did not get a patent nor had money to develop that idea on his own. A couple years later, he found his design released by another major implement corporation. In the years since and a family later, he has grown to operate several businesses – Kirian Tiling Company, Inc., his own 600-acre farm, and a few other businesses including woodcutting. Kirian said he farms to relieve the
stress of his other businesses and finds driving the tractor relaxing. His newest venture D.K. Precision Trenchers – has found growth coming from its website www.dktrenchers.com. Carolyn explained it really has opened up their product to the world and about a half dozen trenchers already have been sold overseas. “The web has just changed the world,” she said, noting their product can be seen everywhere. Her husband said another machine will be going to New Zealand in March and they have had a lot of interest and inquiries coming from Iraq. “We've had inquiries everywhere,” he added. In Europe, sales are being handled by Niclas Carlsson in Sweden. The company owner said the units could see a lot of growth overseas as variable-speed transmissions on tractors have been common there far longer than here in the U.S. Kirian and his wife have also entered a multimedia advertising agreement which will result in videos going on YouTube and Bloomberg TV, CNBC, MSNBC and several other networks. A TV crew was at the Tiffin office filming on Dec. 10 and the first video releases should be out in mid-January 2013, the couple reported. “We're still in the stage of people finding out about us,” Kirian said. With the new company office ready and the planned advertising, he is predicting growth. “I think it's coming. I think it's coming fast.”
On Dec. 8, the Seneca County equipment business held an open house in its new office and building located at 4416 E. TR 130, Tiffin, on a one-lane road, on the family farm.
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his Bellevue farm to test the equipment. “It was the biggest farm machine company in the U.S. at that time,� said Harlow L. “He was so busy testing and selling cultivators that McCormick beat him to the patent office.� Harlow L’s father, Harlow M. and his wife, Juanita A., moved back to the farm sometime between 1909 and 1920. They had originally been peach
growers, living in the lighthouse keepers home on Bayshore Road near Marblehead, Ohio. The farm home burned on May 1, 1921. His father, Harlow M. built the present house on the foundation of the old home. The basement still has the original beams with ax hewn marks. This home is larger, with three rooms on the main floor and four bedrooms upstairs. There is a large screened porch by the driveway where
Harlow works on his hobby of broom making. He sells his brooms and demonstrates broom making at Historic Lyme Village nearby and at the Erie County and Huron-Erie Fairs. Harlow L. has lived on the property since he was born, farming with his father who was a dairy farmer. Harlow L. raised hogs. The big barn was built in the 1890s. There are five outbuildings behind the home and the remains STORY CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE
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Harlow did the paperwork to receive certification of a century farm but never installed the sign. “I did it (the cerification) to honor the farm,” he said.
of a stone tenant house next door built in 1865. Stahl recalled that his dad first used mules to do the farming and he still has his dad’s horse drawn cultivator. “Dad did all the thrashing in the area. He also did the butchering,” he said. Stahl recalled the big dinner his mother made for those who came to help thrash. The thrashers tied their horses to a big maple tree which still grows there even though the horses nibbled off the bark, leaving a big hole. He also remembers bums jumping off the trains nearby coming to the door for handouts during the Great Depression. Two of the ponds on the property were filled in, but Stahl remembered his dad cutting ice from a pond with an ice saw. One end of a field must have been used as a dumping ground where Stahl has found coins dating back the 1800s. Harlow L. served with the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957 and then came back to Bellevue to farm. He officially retired from farming in the early 1990s, but still gardens, he said. After retirement he worked for eight years at Carter Lumber in Clyde, retiring 16 years ago. He was also a substitute teacher at Bellevue City Schools, he said. He has a degree in agriculture from Colorado State A & M. The name Stahl is well known in Bellevue. His grandfather, Harlow C. Stahl donated $5,000 worth of books to the Bellevue Public Library when it was built by Andrew Carnegie. The library was known as the Carnegie Stahl Library. Stahl’s father, Harlow M. Stahl, was also a justice of the peace. Carol and Harlow L. plan to keep the farm in the family for future generations to enjoy. They are parents of two sons and a daughter, and have many grandchildren.
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Cherry Ridge: a therapeutic horse farm BY CARLY TAMBORSKI For ACRES Winston Churchill once famously said, “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” And that saying rings true for the staff at Cherry Ridge Farms in Georgetown, who all know the saying by heart. Although the farm does offer regular riding lessons, it’s also a therapeutic riding center for people ages 5 and up with disabilities who say they really receive the emotional, physical, behavioral, and psychological benefits of working with horses. The 138-acre farm was started in 2003 when Sherry and husband Jeff Mitchell purchased their historic farm. Their new property was equipped with an indoor arena and a stable barn, so they offered boarding and lessons. Then, in 2005, the couple’s oldest son, Dan, moved back to Ohio and got the farm involved with Ohio Therapeutic Horsemanship. “Ohio Therapeutic Horsemanship (OTH) is a non-profit therapeutic horsemanship program, which encourages healing through horses and creates a supportive and dynamic environment for the development of chil-
ation or a certain case here that’s being exhibited, if it’s a danger to the child, or if it’s a danger to the horse and how to do an emergency dismount.” To provide additional safety and comfort, a sidewalker stays on each side of the horse while the child rides, and a horse leader walks in front of the horse. The side-walkers stay with the child throughout the whole exercise, even helping them tack up their horse beforehand and undressing the horse at the end.
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dren from all walks of life ages 5-18, living in Brown and the surrounding counties,” Dan said. “Through the use of the horse, physical, psychological, cognitive, behavioral, and communicational goals are achieved and personal strengths are emphasized.” Dan is the stable’s barn manager, lead riding instructor, and former OTH director. Other
devoted employees include Sabrina Mignerey, the volunteer coordinator, instructor-in-training, and new OTH program director; Kelly Watson, the director of education for the Outdoor Classroom Program and a development associate for Ohio Therapeutic Horsemanship; and Kaitlyn Lehman, an instructor for both the Therapeutic Program and
regular riding lessons. “In college I went and combined my love of helping people with horses at the same time,” Mignerey said. “I did my research and I found out about therapeutic riding. I volunteered over at CTRH (Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship) and then I just started networking with different people and then I found Dan. I start-
ed volunteering and he told me about the dream he had, and it took a few years for it to come to fruition, but it did, and now we have two therapeutic riding classes and we’re growing.” Some may wonder what types of qualifications an employee must have to work in this program, and while credentials vary, experts suggest having medical or equine experience. “We go through Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) certification,” Lehman said. “So Dan is PATH certified, I am certified, and Sabrina is going to get PATH certified this winter. They ask when you do the PATH certification that you’re either a medical professional or that you’re a horse professional.” PATH professionals must also complete both coursework and fieldwork. Even the horses have to go through rigorous tests before the staff chooses them for therapeutic programs. Employees are also trained to handle emergencies should the child -or the horse -- start to exhibit behavior that would hurt themselves or the other. “When it comes to safety measures, we do an emergency dismount if the situation gets out of hand, and volunteers are trained in that,” Mignerey said. “We do a volunteer training one month before classes start, that way volunteers are briefed on the kids and they’re briefed on if there’s a certain situ-
PROGRAMS “We have a menu of programs and have different areas around the farm,” Watson said. “In the barn itself we have regular riding lessons, and we have the Therapeutic Horsemanship Program for children with special needs whether physically or emotionally, behaviorally. And then we also we have some programs in the Spring -- and those are separate from riding -that focus more on the natural environment and getting school kids out into it. This Outdoor Classroom Program is ecology-based and takes advantage of the different habitats we have around the farm.” Group classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays: the class on Tuesdays is for children with sensory language delay, ADHD, and different kinds of cognitive issues, while the Thursday class is for children with autism and various sensory disorders. Regular, individual riding lessons are also offered throughout the week. The organization also hope to grow and add classes for children with Downs Syndrome, provide equine assisted therapy for veteran and returning war personnel, as well as add a class involving equine assisted psychotherapy partnered with local mental health professionals. Lehman estimates that about 10-15 riders come to the farm each week. Yearly, the farm conducts three, six-week sessions. They typically begin in April and wrap up in October. The sessions aren’t labeled with different “levels” but the are more of a matter of continuing on. GOOD FOR THE BODY, GOOD FOR THE SOUL Watson has been working with Cherry Ridge for five years, ever since she moved from Maryland and STORY CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE
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Continued: Cherry Ridge needed a place for her horse. She elaborated on the positive effects working with horses can have on those with disabilities or behavioral problems, but recognizes that some of the benefits are harder to put a scientific label on. “Some of the benefits are quantified and some of them are more elusive to put into words,” Watson said, then citing the Winston Churchill quote. The most obvious would be the physical aspects, which in turn relate to cognitive functions. “Riding a horse is a three-dimensional exercise, so for students who have problems with their muscle coordination, horseback riding builds the core muscles, it builds up a lot of strength in those deep muscles that other exercises have trouble reaching,” Watson said. “To compare it, the effects of horseback riding on would be similar to swimming. It works the whole body and those deep muscles.” “Also, horseback riding really improves your coordination, because again you’re using your body equally -- not like on a court or field where you’re using one arm or one leg or your dominant side is being used more,” Watson said. “Horseback riding requires that you use both sides equally, so for people who have physical disabilities, that is very helpful.” Not to mention, the
horse gets physical exercise, too! Emotional benefits are somewhat harder to measure, but definitely exist. “Emotionally -- and this is where you get to the parts of therapy that are harder to quantify -- but, for instance, for a lot of children who have trouble engaging with other people, it’s less threatening to engage with an animal,” Watson said. “And for the autistic children in particular, the riding program builds up on a series of commands and it’s very repetitive and that helps to establish a routine.” Often times, children who exhibit positive emotional changes will also exhibit verbal improvements. Employees have especially noticed the program’s effects on the children who are mainly nonverbal. “A lot of kids come here non-verbal and after they’ve been through the program for several months, they start using words because they’re hearing or saying them over and over again in a very regimented way, like ‘walk on’ or ‘whoa,’” Watson said. “Just making that connection with speaking, this incredible animal, and this action -- they realize they’re controlling this action with the power of words, and it becomes apparent to the child.” Mignerey agreed. “This is my second year teaching and at first we had two children who came who
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again, and she even showed at the fair.” Of course, the benefits don’t just apply to people with disabilities. Next year, the farm is launching its newest program for at-risk teens and troubled youth. “It’s actually Kaitlyn’s brainchild,” Watson said. “She wants to work with atrisk girls who are suffering from stressful situations in their environment. Whether abuse or neglect or addiction, or even a dysfunctional family -- we’re working to develop that program now and get some grants and funding for that.” Lehman explained what inspired her to create the new program, and described how the therapeutic benefits of horseback riding even worked on herself. “It’s very personal to me -- I wasn’t an at-risk youth, but I lost my mom when I was 11, so the horses are what we had together,” Lehman said. “They had allowed me to stay out of trouble when my friends were little trouble-makers, so it really helped me with my life. It was a big part of
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PORK IN THE SPOTLIGHT Continued from Page 9 Antibiotics were, at one time, administered to farm animals only when an animal exhibited signs of infection. Research suggest animals now destined for the dinner table are routinely given a steady supply of antibiotics in feed supplements and in water, regardless of whether there's evidence of any disease. GreenLiving.com says though this "sub-therapeutic" use of antibiotic drugs helps animals grow slightly larger (about two or three percent), and some farmers argue that the constant use of antibiotics also helps to prevent diseases that would otherwise spread quickly in the crowded pens that are
common on factory farms. “The single biggest problem we face in infectious disease today is the rapid growth of resistance to antibiotics,” said Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. “Human use contributes to that, but use in animals clearly has a part, too.” Though the major animal carrier for Y. enterocolitica strains that cause human illness is pigs, other strains are also found in animals including rodents, rabbits, sheep, cattle, horses, dogs, and cats. Pork, however, has always gotten a ‘bad rap’ when it comes to concerns over
undercooking. The United States Department of Agriculture points out that these products are in compliance with national food safety guidelines, and the National Pork Producers Council has questioned the validity of the entire Consumer Reports study. Since the likelihood of pork producers abandoning the practice of regularly using antibiotics is no more likely than beef or poultry producers doing the same, the consumer must bear the responsibility of taking whatever precautions are necessary to reduce the risk of infection. Just as with poultry, raw
cooked to 145 degrees for whole pieces of meat and 160 degrees for ground pork. "The problem is, we don't typically cook our foods to that high of a temperature," said Jeffrey LeJeune, microbiologist with OSU Extension and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. Consumers can also check the meat for a USDA label reading “No antibiotics used.” These meats usually come at a higher cost to consumers, though. Where does this leave
meat should not be cut on the same surface as vegetables, and anyone who has handled raw meat should thoroughly wash his or her hands as soon as possible. Place cutting boards and other utensils used to prepare raw meat directly into the dishwasher or wash thoroughly with soap. Consumer Reports found that ground pork was more likely than pork chops to harbor the bacterium. If you are pressure canning pork at home, 10 pounds of pressure equates to 240 degrees, so canning kills the bacteria. Otherwise, pork should be
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Emergency Department Visits:...........21,921
Mobile Meals:................................... 16,996
Inpatient Admissions: ......................... 2,290
Total Volunteer Hours: ...................... 27,424
Inpatient/Outpatient Visits: .............. 86,486
Total Payroll and Benefits:........$32.5 Million
Surgery Patients: ................................ 2,582
Charity/Uncompensated Care:.... $16.2 Million
Lab Tests: ....................................... 282,212
Capital Investments: ..................$2.7 Million
Physical Therapy Treatments: ..........115,091
Utility Payments: .......................$1.1 Million
Diagnostic Imaging Procedures: ....... 41,828
Dollars Spent Locally: ..............$10.4 Million
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Pain Management Patients:...............12,341 Home Health Visits: ............................ 8,608 Hospice Visits:................................... 12,359 HealthLink Visits: .............................. 11,968
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