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Kaylie Slaughter, APRN Now Providing Care at WR General Surgery Clinic

Fayetteville- Kaylie Slaughter, APRN, is now providing care for patients at the Washington Regional General Surgery Clinic where she works alongside Jeffrey Bell, MD, Jon Berry, MD, Gareth Eck, MD, Brian Pottorf, MD, Stephen Wood, MD, and Brittany Huls, APRN. Slaughter earned a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Walden University. She has more than nine years’ experience as a registered nurse and most recently worked as an RN at the Washington Regional General Surgery Clinic.

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Joint committee seeks understanding of bill rates for travel nurses

The issue of bill rates paid by medical centers to travel nurse companies was a topic of interest when the Arkansas Legislature held a joint committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 3 between the House and Senate committees on public health, welfare, and labor. House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee Chairman Jack Ladyman, R-Jonesboro began the meeting by explaining that he and other legislators had received calls about the state’s traveling nurse programs related to pay and travel. He requested information to assist legislators in understanding the program. Present to explain the traveling nursing program were Trenda Ray, PhD., RN, Chief Nursing Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor at UAMS and Michael Givens, Administrator, St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Jodiane Tritt, executive vice president of the Arkansas Hospital Association was also present. Ray attended via Zoom due to the current Covid-19 surge UAMS is experiencing. She gave an overview of how UAMS had implemented traveling nurses even prior to the pandemic.

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YV Masonic Lodge elects 2022 Officers

Yellville Masonic Lodge #117 new officers for 2022 were installed Monday December 27, 2021. Pictured in front from left to right Treasure Mike Lockhart, Senior Deacon Jayme Jones, Junior Deacon Paul Pollack, Tyler Roy Saunders, Master of Ceremonies Jim Franks, back row Senior Warden Jim Brown, Worshipful Master Garry Ash, Chaplain Frankie DePriest, Secretary Scott Burns, Junior Warden Charles Grinder, Master of Ceremonies Luke Mondy. Yellville Lodge meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.

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Invasive Species

Many things can come to mind when we think of invasive species. It can happen in plant life or animal life. Almost always these are not a good thing and take substantial time and money to control them. Several of these species were imported from other areas because of the benefits they could supply, but later it was found out that those benefits did not outweigh the nuisance they caused or were even a benefit at all. Some things that come to mind are Sericea Lespedeza, Queen Anne’s Lace, and feral hogs. We will discuss some ways to manage these problems.

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Pond Ducks, New Memories

What happened to the ducks this fall? Well, we had far too little water here in the lower Midwest, but the big problem was the lack of water in northern breeding grounds of Canada and the Dakotas. Way less than normal in the spring and summer.

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Cooking with Mumzy!

Hello readers and friends. This week I am going to do some easy breakfast recipes as requested by our editor, Robert. Robert loves breakfast any time of the day. Maybe his favorite dishes at any time. I hope this week finds you all in good health, happiness, and off to a good start to the New Year. We are all doing good and hoping this is going to be the best year yet. Always try to all live each day to the fullest and as usual Remember the Little Things in Life, they seem to bring us the happiest memories.

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