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Shooter left notes Examination of a notebook uncovered potential ‘suicide notes’ BY TIM NOVOTNY The World
Photo courtesy of the Coos County District Attorney
The bullet-riddled rental car in which a Michigan man was killed at Bastendorff Beach early Tuesday.
CHARLESTON — Zachary Brimhall may have left some reasoning behind after all. The man who, authorities say, killed his father and a stranger had a notebook in his vehicle that shed some light on his state of mind. Those notes, however, still do not answer the biggest question. Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier says the one certainty, coming in the aftermath of the
Aug. 18 -19 shootings, is that this was a tragic event that could have been much worse. “Two innocent people lost their lives,” he wrote in a lengthy press release Friday. “Families have been devastated. The ability to determine why this happened disappeared when Zachary Brimhall took his own life. Despite these circumstances, it could have been much worse. “Directly to the east of where this shooting started is the popular Bastendorff Beach County
Campground and Park. There were a lot of people in that campground on the night of Aug. 19. If (he) had started there instead of just down the hill on the beach access road there would have been many more fatalities and injuries.”
Filling in timeline As part of a 35-page press release, that included photographs and charts, Frasier was able to fill in more details of the events that led up SEE NOTES | A8
Burnout is Kool
By Lou Sennick, The World
Andy Woodward, in his 1968 Chevy Camaro, lights up the tires burning out lots of white smoke to the crowd Friday evening at the return of the Burnouts as part of the Kool Coastal Nights in Winchester Bay. Several hundred people gathered at the end of the marina spit to watch seven cars and trucks burn rubber and cheer the smoky results. The event continues today with a Show and Shine featuring 300 cars.
Easier access to medical records BY EMILY THORNTON
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SOUTH COAST — Patients now have more access to their health records at area hospitals. A new online service now allows patients to get their information from any computer by logging on to a website provided by each medical facility. Before, doctors printed out information while the patient was still in the office or they had to visit the records office. Now, patients can view, manage, download and transmit certain medical records, such as lab and radiology results, immunizations and prescribed medications. They first must sign a consent form and receive a username and password. At North Bend Medical Center, the portal, called Follow My Health, went operational last month, said Dr. Kent Sharman,
To access medical records online: Bay Area Hospital: www.mycarecoast.org/BayAreaMed/paLog on.aspx. North Bend Medical Center: www.followmyhealth.com/Login/Home/Index?auth providers=0&returnArea=PatientAccess#/I ndex. Coquille Valley Hospital: www.cvhospital.org. Lower Umpqua Hospital: lowerumpquahospital.intelichart.com/PatientPortal/acco unt/login?ReturnUrl=%2fPatientPortal%2f.
medical director. “It’s all part of driving further into activating patients in their own care,” Sharman said. He said he didn’t know how much the service cost, but the facility had been working on the infrastructure for the past eight years and would be reimbursed by the federal government. It was part
of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, he said, so pre-dated the Affordable Care Act. Sharman said patients don’t need to worry about their information getting into the wrong hands. “It’s identical to the banking industry,” he said. “You get your own username and password.” In the future, facilities likely would be linked together, so a doctor could access a patient’s records from anywhere. He said NBMC and Bay Area Hospital were working on possible breaches in security. The portal service began under different names at BAH and Coquille Valley Hospital. It soon will be in place at Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center. For now, patients must register separately at each location where they receive services, said Barbara Bauder, chief development officer
Bay Area Hospital's main web page has a link on the top for MyCare, an access site for your personal health information. for BAH. The facilities also hoped to include both inpatient and outpatient information, Sharman said, since it was “rolled out exclusively for outpatient.” BAH and NBMC officials reported the service was growing
in popularity with patients. “They’re actively registering and initiating for the service,” Sharman said. Reporter Emily Thornton can be reached at 541-269-1222,ext.249 or at emily.thornton@theworldlink.com or on Twitter: @EmilyK_Thornton.
New science standards on deck for Bay Area students COOS BAY — In the midst of the Common Core hullabaloo, Oregon school districts have another change coming their way: the Next Generation Science Standards. While Common Core implements
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this spring). While school districts can now implement Next Generation anytime they choose, “we generally like to stagger significant changes to standards,” said Oregon Department of Education communications director Crystal Greene. Implementation won’t be required
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