A look at immigrant patients deported by hospitals

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries to avoid paying for long-term care after serious illness or injury.

The Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University has documented "medical repatriation" cases in 15 states involving patients from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Lithuania, Mexico, the Philippines and South Korea.

Here's a look at some of the most dramatic examples from a report issued in December:

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Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was working atop a building at Chicago's Midway Airport in 2010 when he fell, suffering injuries that left him nearly quadriplegic and reliant on a ventilator.

Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for Jimenez for four months, absorbing more than $650,000 in costs, according to a 2011 Chicago Tribune story.

Three days before Christmas that year, the hospital put him aboard a medical flight and sent him to Mexico, even though his family protested. Crying and unable to speak, Jimenez could do nothing to prevent his removal.

The receiving hospital in Mexico lacked rehabilitation services and could not afford new filters for his ventilator. After suffering two heart attacks and a septic infection, Jimenez died on Jan. 2, 2012.

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Luis Alberto Jimenez was working as a landscaper in Florida when the car he was in was struck by a drunk driver in February 2000.

Jimenez, then 35, suffered brain damage and other injuries and was treated at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Fla., until June, when he was transferred to a nursing home.

The following January, he was readmitted to the hospital with an infection that doctors feared could be fatal. He stayed at the hospital for a year because no other long-term care provider would take him.

The hospital eventually filed a lawsuit in state court seeking permission to transport him to a hospital in his native Guatemala. A judge approved the flight in June 2003, and Jimenez was flown to Guatemala before the court could rule on an appeal filed by his legal guardian.

In mid-2004, the Florida District Court of Appeals overturned the lower court's order, declaring that state courts do not have the authority to permit deportations, which are regulated by federal immigration law. But by then Jimenez had been returned home, bedridden and suffering from seizures, to live with his elderly mother in a remote area of Guatemala.

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Barbara Latasiewicz was working as a housekeeper in the Chicago area in 2009 when she had a stroke while scrubbing a bathtub. The Polish woman was paralyzed on her left side and needed around-the-clock care.

Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital tried to find her long-term care, but 30 facilities refused to take her because she was undocumented. Latasiewicz had overstayed a temporary visa after arriving in the U.S. in 1990.

The hospital allowed her to stay without insurance or any other way to pay for 2? years at a cost of more than $1.4 million.

In early 2012, arrangements were made to transfer her to a stroke-specialty unit in Poland. She refused to consent to the transfer, which would permanently separate her from her son and grandchildren. The hospital obtained a judge's order allowing her transfer to Poland.

A March 1 story in the Chicago Tribune says the 60-year-old woman cried while sitting in the airport awaiting a flight out, knowing she would probably never return to the U.S., which had been her home for more than 20 years.

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Engadget Eurocast 024 - 04.24.13

Take a look around you, what do you see? Walls? People? An office? Take it all in, suck it all up. Why? Because today all that changes forever. Jamie's revelation that he's a University Challenge nut flips everything we know on its head. Also, Mat drops "convincement" like it wasn't even a thing. This madness is the Eurocast.

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Battling with bugs to prevent antibiotic resistance

Apr. 23, 2013 ? New scientific research published today in the journal PLoS Biology shows that bacteria can evolve resistance more quickly when stronger antibiotics are used.

Researchers from the University of Exeter and Kiel University in Germany treated E. coli with different combinations of antibiotics in laboratory experiments.

Unexpectedly they found that the rate of evolution of antibiotic resistance speeds up when potent treatments are given because resistant bacterial cells flourish most during the most aggressive therapies.

This happens because too potent a treatment eliminates the non-resistant cells, creating a lack of competition that allows resistant bacteria to multiply quickly. Those cells go on to create copies of resistance genes that help them rapidly reduce the effectiveness of the drugs. In tests this effect could even cause E.coli to grow fastest in the most aggressive antibiotic treatments.

In addition to evolution experiments, the results of this Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) funded research were confirmed using mathematical models and whole-genome sequencing of resistant and non-resistant E. coli.

Professor Robert Beardmore, EPSRC Research Fellow from the University of Exeter said: "We were surprised by how quickly the bacteria evolved resistance. We nearly stopped the experiments because we didn't think some of the treatments should be losing potency that fast, sometimes within a day. But we now know that the bacteria remaining after the initial treatment have duplicated specific areas of their genome containing large numbers of resistance genes. These gene copies appear more quickly when the antibiotics are combined, resulting in the rapid evolution of very resistant bacteria.

"Designing new treatments to prevent antibiotic resistance is not easy, as this research shows, and governments may need to increase their funding for antibiotics research if scientists are to be able to keep pace with the rapid evolution of bacterial pathogens that cause disease."

Dr Rafael Pena-Miller from Biosciences at the University of Exeter said: "The evidence that combining antibiotics to make a more potent therapy can lead to the creation of more copies of the genes the bacteria needs to be resistant is of real concern."

Professor Hinrich Schulenberg from Kiel University in Germany said: "The interesting thing is that the bacteria don't just make copies of the genes they need. Just in case, they copy other genes as well, increasing resistance to antibiotics the cells weren't even treated with."

About 440 000 new cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis emerge annually, causing around 150 000 deaths. Statistics like this recently lead the Department of Health to state that antibiotic resistance poses one of the greatest threats to human health.

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Hunter Hayes, Stevie Wonder Have 'Emotional' Reunion On 'Dancing With The Stars'

Be sure to catch Hunter's live Twitter Q&A with @CMT April 24 at 2 p.m. ET!
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Infinity Cell Lets You Charge Your iPhone Simply By Shaking It

The Infinity Cell is a kinetic charger for the iPhone that uses your body's movement to generate electricity. The current prototype for the Infinity Cell is a crude 3D printed rectangle, roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes, linked up to the iPhone with a cable. The plan is to create a more streamlined version during the product's Kickstarter campaign.

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Playing With My Food!: HealthFare Restaurant Review

Last week I was invited in as a 'food blogger' to do a tour and menu tasting of a new local healthy fast food restaurant, HealthFare. I arrived not knowing what to expect...would they be nice? ?What if they noticed that I didn't have a fancy food blogger camera, business cards for my blog, and an extensive knowledge of...well, food? ?What if I didn't like the food or the restaurant - would I have to fake it? ?Would they be able to tell right away that I've never done this type of thing before? I needn't have worried, because the mother-son owner team of Jenni and Shaun Saini were completely welcoming, the restaurant was beautiful,?my point and shoot camera did the trick,?and most importantly...the food was fan-freaking-tastic!

It's guilt-free eating at its best, and here's why...

HealthFare offers you four things that your regular fast food restaurant never tends to:

1) It's Healthy! ?

Yes, I know, that was kind of an obvious one since the word Health is actually in the name of the restaurant, and the slogan is 'making healthy delicious.' ?But it is?rare to find an entirely healthy menu at a fast food restaurant, so I found this feature to be incredibly impressive. ?Everything is pre-portioned out so that there is precisely (and I do mean precisely) the exact same amount of ingredients going into each and every menu item each and every time. ?The reason that they are so strict on this is because the menu is created by a team of Registered Dieticians, and they never want to stray from having all of the nutritional facts be completely and 100% accurate with every serving. ?The calories are listed right on the menu, and all of the additional nutritional information is readily available.

You know a place is healthy when they don't even offer any Pepsi or Coke products in-store. ?There is actually no pop available at all, and instead they stock beverages like BLK fulvic-enhanced mineral water, coconut water, and Steaz iced tea. ?There's no super-sizing at a place like this, unless you count this gigantic lemon water pitcher. ?

Ok, and guys? ?They have these green smoothies there that have spinach in them, and I drank one, and and I liked it. ?I'm a total first-timer in the green smoothie department, and like seriously, I don't understand how that can even be good, but it was better than good. ?It was delicious in fact, all blended up with tropical fruit other awesome healthy things. I seriously think I drank it in like 28 seconds and didn't pay attention to anything or anyone else while it was happening, because that green smoothie became my world for half a minute. ?Somehow I know that if I tried to make this at home it would be completely awful, but HealthFare made a green smoothie into something that I have been craving since my visit.

2) It's Fresh!

I was taken on a little tour of the restaurant and got to see the back of the house. ?While I was there, one of the cooks was slicing up fresh boneless, skinless chicken breast for later use in a rice bowl.

When was the last time that a fast food restaurant chain used fresh chicken breast in their menu? ?Probably never. ?But this place does. ?In fact, nothing is brought in pre-made. ?Everything, right down to their delicious sauces and salad dressings, is made in-house so that it's as fresh as can be and without any unnecessary preservatives, additional sodium, or other nasty chemicals.
All of the baked goods are made fresh daily too. ?All meals are made to order while you are there, with the average wait time at under five minutes from the time you order to the time that you're chowing down. ?It gives the term 'eat fresh' a whole new fast food meaning.

3) It's Earth-Conscious!

HealthFare is?a bright, beautiful, inviting, 'eco-chic' restaurant. ?Even the furniture is designed with sustainability and environmental responsibility top of mind. ?The chairs are made from BMW-designed recycled materials, the flooring is made from natural and renewable supplies, and the ceiling is made from recycled Japanese kirei board.

They use biodegradable to-go containers rather than styrofoam so that your take-out packaging doesn't end up in a landfill.
They even pour?Kicking Horse Coffee?(reason alone for a few people that I know to become regular patrons), who just like HealthFare are also focussed on environmental sustainability and community.

4) It's suitable for vegans, vegetarians,?glutards...and kids! ?

I have to tell you that since going gluten-free in July 2012, I haven't been eating much fast food. ?It's not that I was ever really one to frequent McDonalds or Taco Bell, but it was nice to have options if I ever was on the road and needed something quickly. ?But since the big diet change in July, I haven't been able to find a fast food restaurant that I can go to with confidence and know that what I am eating is gluten free. ?With HealthFare, a lot of the menu is gluten free, without the requirement for me to have to make modifications to my order. ?They have symbols beside each menu item to indicate if it is vegan, vegetarian, or gluten free, so that you're able to easily identify what items are appropriate for whatever special dietary requirements that you may have. ?I actually had options to choose from on the menu at HealthFare, which is unusual for someone on a gluten free diet. ?It was kind of like a gluten free Disneyland, especially because as I mentioned I got to do a menu tasting, and boy did I ever tuck it back. ?But everything was better than the thing I had just tried, and I just had to keep eating and eating. ?From the savoury rice bowls, to the wholesome salads, to the artisan sandwiches, to the healthy soups, and finally to the frozen yogurt, this place has something for everyone.

My personal favourite is something called The Bakker Bowl, named after HealthFare's creator, Mark Bakker. ?The Bakker is sort of a cross between a rice bowl and a salad, served cold and overflowing with roasted marinated chicken breast, whole-grain brown rice, cherry tomatoes, feta, and ranch dressing.
They even offer a kids menu, with healthy choices under 500 calories like Multigrain Grilled Cheese or Polka Dot Pizza.

I was turned on to something new while I was there, which is the Vega line of vegan protein products. ?Healthfare offers this brand at the suggested market price, rather than marking it up in a crazy way like some retailers do.

HealthFare is totally responsive to the changing needs of their customers as well as new trends. ?For instance, they noticed that customers were coming in and requesting almond milk, but it wasn't something they carried. ?The next week they started stocking it in their fridge. ?They were also noticing that people who eat tofu prefer for it to be certified organic tofu, which the brand that they were carrying was not. ?Shortly thereafter, they made the switch to an organic tofu to please their customers. ?This is a restaurant that is not afraid to try new things and to break the mould to please the ever-changing needs of their more health-conscious customers.

The restaurant concept began in Alberta, where there are currently two locations. ?The new B.C. location that I visited is at 7366 Market Crossing, in Burnaby, which is in the new-ish Market Crossing shopping centre at Byrne Road and Marine Way. ?From the Healthfare Facebook page I've learned that ?there are currently franchise opportunities in Port Coquitlam, downtown Vancouver, and Surrey. ?There are also new stores popping up soon in the lower mainland, with locations being announced imminently.

Hopefully restaurants like Healthfare are the way of the future, as they bridge between food being convenient and quick, while still allowing you to make healthy lifestyle choices. ?I wish them all of the success in their quest to serve healthy, delicious food fast and in a sustainable way, and look forward to seeing more Healthfare locations sprout up in the lower mainland soon.

One word of warning...do not start yourself on eating the house-made seasoned almonds that they sell by the small container-ful, unless you never ever want to stop thinking about them again. ?They are highly addictive in the way that salty-sweet things always are to me. ?I now think about them often and with much fondness.

Thank you for the invitation HealthFare!

You can visit HealthFare online at www.healthfare.ca.
Check out HealthFare's Facebook page by searching HealthFare - Making Healthy Delicious
Follow HealthFare on Twitter at?@HealthFare

Source: http://www.playingwithmyfood.net/2013/04/healthfare-restaurant-review.html

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