Bulletin Daily Paper 09-22-15

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TUESDAY September22,2015

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he Bend White›

water Park openedtomixed reviews over the week›

end, with some floaters and paddleboarders getting scraped and stuck on the safe pas› sage channel rocks.

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There were others, however, who were

• Report: Patient not hooked upto heart monitor before herdeath

medication, including through the use of cardiac and oxygen

ing agent, and labeled the IV bag as containing fosphenyto›

pleased with the highly

By Tare Bannow

sounded an alarm when the

the treatment of 65-year-old

in, the anti-seizure medication

park and the recre›

The Bulletin

patient’s condition deteriorated,

Loretta Macpherson, of Sis›

monitors. Macpherson went to the hos›

ters. In addition to the obvious error of dispensing the wrong

pital’s emergency room Dec. I with symptoms of anxiety and

medication, the report says the

concern about the medications

hospital violated patient rights and appropriate nursing pro› tocols by failing to supervise the patient after starting an IV

she was taking following brain surgery in Seattle. A pharmacy

Macpherson’s physician had ordered. The drug caused her to stop breathing, leading to cardiac arrest and irreversible brain damage. She was taken off life support Dec. 3 and died shortly thereafter.

provides. Officials involved in the $9.7 million project stressed Monday that they are still experi›

The nurse who oversaw accordingto afederalreport. care for the patient who died The U.S. Centers for Medi› after receiving the wrong med› care &Medicaid Services, ication at St. Charles Bend in which investigates facilities December did not follow a doc› after serious incidents like this tor’s order to hook up a heart

one, identified three violations

monitor, which would have

the hospital committed during

technician inadvertently dis›

pensed rocuronium, a paralyz›

anticipated whitewater ational opportunities it

menting with water levels. After irrigation

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How fires are altering landscapes in the West

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Oregon'sshakyDDefensive questionsabound for the Ducks.C1

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on the river to get stuck. The Bend Park 8t Recreation District be›

gan moving more water intothe safepassage channel Monday to in› crease the depth. "It’s pretty normal

for whitewater parks to see some kind of adjust›

ment after they open," said Jayson Bowerman, a board member of the Bend Paddle Trail

New Yorh Times News Service

Love at work — some

season ends in October, engineers could also change the rock forma› tions that caused some

Alliance.

NEAR COCHITI CAN› The hills YON, N.M. here are beautiful, a roll›

Bowerman said the Paddle Trail Alliance

ing, green landscape of grasses and shrubs under

tinuing to work on the

is committed to con› project with the park district to make sure it

a late-summer sky. But it

is starkly different from what was here before:

accommodates all users.

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vast forests of ponderosa

pine. The repeated blazes that devastated the trees were caused

EDITOR'5CHOICE

Related

In the U.S.,

by simple • Valley t hing s : an Fire now i m properly

Legacyof

California’s extinguished 3rd worst

c a m p fire ln

Soviet rule lives on

of all time, 1996, a tree A4 falhng on a • Fire map, power line in 2011. e1 What hap›

By Celestine Bohlen

ever or, more accurately, what has not happened›

pened after the fire, how›

New York Times News Service

normalcourse ofevents. "We are in the mid› dle of this 30,000-acre,

Asia is a region scattered once-powerful empires, from the ancient Parthi› ans to the modern-day

Geological Survey. If his› torical patterns had held, the remaining pines would by now be preparing seeds to drop and start the cycle of regrowth. But the mother pines are nowhere in sight. Nature’ s

Here in ’Ilirkmeni› stan, little is left of Nisa, a Parthian capital near the border with Iran that dates to the third century B.C. SeeSoviet /A4

by a series of unusually intense, unusually large fires a product of many factors that include gov› ernment firefighting pol› icies, climate change and bad luck. Ryan Brennecke l The Bulletin

Mike Johnson, 55, of Sisters, rides his bike pest e bright section of leaves changing to their fell colors Monday along the McKenzie Pass Highway, which is open for a limited time as the weather turns

colder. Fall officially arrives Wednesday.

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here in California’s Central Valley for five Masses

four of them

in Spanish. Young His› panic families spilled outside onto the steps,

across the street. Across the country in Philadelphia, there is only one weekend Mass now at Our Lady Help of Christians, a

The result is bad news forforestshere, in the

West and around the

church built by and for German immigrants

world.

in 1898.

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INDEX At Home Business Calendar

Sacred Heart Church

of an elevated freeway

See Fires /A4

TODAY’S WEATHER

and the vestibule on a recent weekend at

straining to hear the homily over the roar

script has been disrupted

Correction In a story headlined "Re› hab before release," which appeared Monday,Sept. 21, on PageA1,the species of a bird helped by HighDesert Wildlife Rescueand Re› habilitation was incorrect. Grace, who lives on Lake Aspen in Sunriver, is a trum› peter swan. The Bulletin regrets the error.

parishioners packed the pews, the choir loft

ecologist with the U.S.

Soviets whose rule ended here abruptly less than a quarter-century ago.

By Laurie Goodstein MERCED, Calif. More than 5,000

near-treeless hole," said Craig Allen, a research

with the remnants of

church in upheaval New York Times News Service

was a departurefrom the

ASHGABAT, Turk› menistan Central

pope finds

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