Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports a Marceline woman sustained moderate injuries when the sport utility vehicle she drove struck a Freightliner truck in Linn County on Thursday afternoon. An ambulance transported Darien Bloomfield to Pershing Memorial Hospital of Brookfield. Truck driver 73 year old Gary Frenzel of Shubert, Nebraska was reported as not injured. The […]
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Big rig demolished in Highway 36 crash
Views: 0A Linn County crash on Wednesday night one mile east of the Marceline Junction injured a truck driver from Cameron. Sixty six-year-old Robert Ellison received minor injuries and was taken by an ambulance to Pershing Memorial Hospital. Ellison was driving a Freightliner truck eastbound when it traveled off the right side of Highway 36 and […]
Cox family announced as Grand Marshal of Missouri Day Parade
Views: 3Missouri Day organizers say no other family embodies the theme of the 2019 Missouri Day Festival like Dr. Paul and Barbara Cox and Dr. Andy and Holly Cox and their family. “Missouri Day – Embracing the Past, Looking to the Future” is the theme and the Cox family certainly mirrors this theme. Tracing back […]
Former CEO of Putnam County Memorial Hospital to plead guilty to health care fraud
Views: 1Reports indicate the former Chief Executive Officer at Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville, David Byrns has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Charges were filed with the US District Court for Western Missouri, however, it is expected further proceedings will be held in a […]
Kaycee West named Wright Memorial Hospital’s Employee of the Quarter
Views: 0Kaycee West, a patient access representative at Wright Memorial Hospital, was honored as the hospital’s Employee of the Quarter for the third quarter of 2019. Steve Schieber, Chief Executive Officer, presented the award to West at a ceremony held in her honor on September 30. The Employee of the Quarter Award recognizes an employee […]
Three teenagers from Salisbury injured when car crashes into creek
Views: 0The Highway Patrol reports three Salisbury teens sustained minor injuries when a car ran off a bridge and landed in a creek three miles southwest of Marceline early Saturday morning at approximately 1:40 am. The driver 17-year-old Alyssa Johnson and passengers 18-year-old Kassie Johnson and 17-year-old Brittney Tweedy were transported by ambulance to Pershing […]
Woman from Unionville hurt in rollover crash
Views: 0A Sullivan County rollover accident Tuesday night has injured a Unionville resident. Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Robbins was taken by ambulance to Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan with moderate injuries. Robbins failed to halt the car at an intersection of Routes B and N, three miles north of Green City. The southbound car traveled off […]
Big rig overturns on Highway 36 killing driver
Views: 0A man from Avon, Illinois died as the result of a Mack truck overturning one half mile south of Meadville on Friday night. The Patrol reports an ambulance transported 61-year-old William Simmons to Pershing Memorial Hospital of Brookfield where he was pronounced dead approximately one hour after the crash. The big rig traveled east […]
Vehicle leaves the scene of the crash after striking Galt teenager’s vehicle
Views: 0A Galt teenager sustained injuries when the car she drove was reportedly struck by another vehicle two miles west of Galt on Friday morning. The Patrol reports an ambulance transported 18-year-old Danielle Whitcher to Wright Memorial Hospital of Trenton with minor injuries. The car traveled west on Highway 6 before it was allegedly struck […]
Cindy Gilman, Chief Nursing Officer at Carroll County Memorial Hospital, selected as national mentor
Views: 1Stratis Health announced eight critical access hospital (CAH) staff who will serve as national Virtual Quality Improvement Mentors through a new initiative that aims to broadly transfer knowledge from leading CAH quality improvement staff to others across the country. The initiative is organized through Rural Quality Improvement Technical Assistance (RQITA), a program of Stratis […]
Teenager hospitalized after crashing on Highway 11 in Linn County
Views: 0A teenager from Liberty was injured Thursday afternoon when he drove off Highway 11 in Linn County resulting in the vehicle overturning and striking a utility pole six miles north of Saint Catherine. Nineteen-year-old Jacob Kane was taken by emergency medical services to the Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield with moderate injuries. The sports […]
Wright Memorial Hospital to hold Book and Gift Fair
Views: 0A Book and Gift Fair will be held at the Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton on Friday, September 19, 2019, as a fundraiser for the Wright Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. The event will be held in the Hospital Education Center from 8 until 3 o’clock. There will be cookbooks, inspirational, fiction and non-fiction books, items […]
Crash in Ray County injures four, demolishes both cars
Views: 1Four people, including a child, sustained minor injuries Wednesday evening in an accident in rural Ray County. A vehicle driven by 29-year-old Cody Laws of Bucklin crested a hill while another vehicle was attempting to make a U-turn. The collision involved the front of the first vehicle hitting the passenger side of the second […]
Wright Memorial Hospital launches Oncology Nurse Navigator program
Views: 0Wright Memorial Hospital recently launched a new program that will provide an oncology nurse navigator dedicated to easing the physical, spiritual, emotional, and financial hardships of living with and beyond cancer. The program is being funded in part by the Wright Memorial Hospital Foundation. The program will center around an on-staff oncology nurse navigator […]
Milan man injured in Monday crash
Views: 6A Milan man was injured Monday afternoon when according to the Highway Patrol, the vehicle he was driving went off Highway 6, struck a tree, field gate, and an embankment causing the vehicle to become airborne coming to a stop in a ditch. The accident happened one mile west of Green Castle. 23-year-old Drew […]
Trenton woman sent to hospital after striking deer with SUV on Highway 5
Views: 0A Trenton resident was taken to a hospital following an accident in which the sports utility vehicle she was driving struck a deer four miles north of Milan. An ambulance transported 52-year-old Shirley Ragan to the Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan with minor injuries. Ragan was wearing a seat belt and the SUV […]
ATV fails to stop at intersection in Spickard sending two to Wright Memorial Hospital
Views: 0The patrol reports two people were hurt Saturday evening in Spickard when an all-terrain vehicle failed to halt at a stop sign and was hit by a car at an intersection. The operator of the sports track, 19-year old Hunter Krawitz of Spickard, and a passenger on the ATV, 21-year old Heather Ragle of […]
Woman who hit buggy on 9th Street killing Spickard woman pleads guilty
Views: 0A traffic arraignment was held on Tuesday for a Trenton woman involved in a motor vehicle-horse and buggy crash in Trenton that resulted in the death of a Spickard woman. Pursuant to a plea agreement, 50-year-old Christina Diane Airey waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of guilty to misdemeanor operating a motor vehicle […]
Trenton Mayor signs proclamation designating September “Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month”
Views: 0Trenton Mayor Linda Crooks on Tuesday signed a proclamation designating September as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month in the City of Trenton. September is National Suicide Prevention and Awareness month and Wright Memorial Hospital’s Senior Life Solutions program is working to raise awareness. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, an average of […]
Trenton man injured in crash near Galt
Views: 0An accident at 5:15 Monday morning near Galt injured a Trenton resident. Twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Wallace was taken by ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton with moderate injuries Wallace was eastbound when the vehicle was driving crossed the center line of Highway 6, skidded off the north side of the highway where it struck […]