Melba Moore, the director of the St. Louis city health department, is a finalist for the same position in Cincinnati, according to reports.The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the city's board of health will vote April 24 on whether to hire Moore, the only remaining candidate for the position.A spokeswoman for the Cincinnati health department did not respond to a request for comment.While both cities' populations are around 300,000, the Cincinnati health budget is twice as large as St. Louis' at about $50 million. Unlike St. Louis, which relies on contracts with federally funded and nonprofit clinics to treat low-income residents, the health department in Cincinnati operates more than 20 primary care, dental, vision and school clinics that serve more than 40,000 patients each year. Cincinnati's health department has more than 450 employees, including doctors and nurses, compared to 114 full-time positions in St. Louis.The news of Moore's potential move comes after a string of … [Read more...] about St. Louis health director Melba Moore looking to move to Cincinnati, reports say
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Arts and theater Curtain call: 5 St. Louis actors you should know right now
Introduction St. Louis actors know how fortunate they are, and they believe you are fortunate, too.So do St. Louis’ theater critics, who united in 2013 to honor the performers and productions they most admired in the previous year. Post-Dispatch critic Judith Newmark is one of the group’s founding members.“The St. Louis theater scene has grown and expanded impressively in the last 20 years,” says Mark Bretz, president of the St. Louis Theater Circle, which will hand out its sixth annual awards Monday night. Bretz reviews theater for the Ladue News. “More than three dozen professional companies are now presenting shows throughout the metropolitan area.”The Theater Circle Awards honor work both on the stage and behind the scenes and from theaters large and small.“In the first five years of our awards, there’s actually been pretty much of an even split between awards bestowed on larger companies such as the Muny and the Rep and those going … [Read more...] about Arts and theater Curtain call: 5 St. Louis actors you should know right now
Sister acts: 200 years ago, nuns became St. Louis pioneers
There was the Spirit of St. Louis. But before that, there were the spirits of St. Louis.About 90 years ago, Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly an airplane over the Atlantic. It took 33½ hours, and he landed to cheering crowds in France.Consider, though, the “spirits,” who came from France 200 years ago at the urging of Bishop DuBourg. Five women withstood a long, harrowing ocean voyage to New Orleans. After resting with Ursuline nuns, they boarded a steamboat and traveled for several more weeks up the Mississippi to St. Louis.“Catholic Sisters: The Spirit of St. Louis” coincides with National Catholic Sisters Week, which runs annually from March 8 to 14. Fifteen congregations are featured. Here are their years of arrival and first ministries in the St. Louis Archdiocesan area:Adorers of the Blood of Christ, 1873 •To serve in nursing, education and child care</p> <p><strong>Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, … [Read more...] about Sister acts: 200 years ago, nuns became St. Louis pioneers
House arrest, probation for fake nurse at St. Louis hospital
Updated 3:57 pm, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman who pretended to be a nurse at a St. Louis hospital was sentenced to five years of probation and eight months of house arrest. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 36-year-old Samantha Rivera, who was sentenced Wednesday, also was ordered to repay $21,500 to a staffing agency that placed her in an intensive care unit at St. Alexius Hospital and $28,000 to a New Mexico nursing school where she previously taught. Prosecutors say Rivera used faked experience and credentials to get a job at St. Alexius. Rivera's public defender, Charles Banks, said Rivera suffered trauma in her past that caused her bizarre behavior. Latest Houston & Texas News Now Playing: Now Playing Three Shipley's robberies in Houston captured on video Houston Police Department Texas Power Brokers: Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton San Antonio Express-News Graphic video released in violent home invasion … [Read more...] about House arrest, probation for fake nurse at St. Louis hospital
House arrest, probation for fake nurse who worked in St. Louis hospital
ST. LOUIS • A woman who used faked experience and credentials to get a job as a nurse at a St. Louis hospital was sentenced Wednesday to five years of probation and eight months of house arrest. Samantha Rivera, 36, will also have to repay about $21,500 to the staffing agency that placed her in the intensive care unit at St. Alexius Hospital and $28,000 to the New Mexico nursing school where she taught before that. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey blasted Rivera in court, asking her first, "What the hell were you thinking?" Autrey called her actions reprehensible, saying a patient could have been killed or seriously injured because of Rivera's "muddling about" in the ICU. "You need to do some serious soul searching and think about what you did and what could have happened," Autrey told Rivera. Rivera's public defender, Charles Banks, had asked for house arrest rather than prison time. Banks cited a trauma in Rivera's past that had derailed a promising life and caused … [Read more...] about House arrest, probation for fake nurse who worked in St. Louis hospital
A St. Louis hospital opened in France during World War I
For nearly two years during World War I, a St. Louis hospital set up an outpost near the battlefields in France. Dr. Fred Murphy, head of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, realized the allies needed help when he volunteered at an American hospital in Paris in 1916 before the U.S. entered the war. When he came back to St. Louis, Murphy recruited dozens of doctors, nurses, medical students and other personnel from the university and then-Barnes Hospital to form their own hospital to relieve British and French medical officers. Take a look inside the $30M renovation of Soldiers Memorial, set to reopen by Veterans Day Soon after the U.S. declared war with Germany, the St. Louis medical team shipped out in May 1917, becoming some of the first Americans to reach the European war zone. U.S. Army Base Hospital 21 was assigned to Rouen in the Normandy region of France as one of several hospitals formed by American medical schools to serve sick and injured soldiers and … [Read more...] about A St. Louis hospital opened in France during World War I
St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives
It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they’d been shot. Historians believe that the flu soon reached Camp Funston at Fort Riley, where troops trained to fight World War I. By spring, flu outbreaks hit most of the Army camps across the country. Thousands of troops in effect carried germ warfare in their arsenal to European shores, and the pandemic took hold. The particular strain of influenza was most aggressive in healthy people ages 20 to 40, possibly because their strong immune systems overreacted to the invading virus. The 1918 Spanish flu got its name after King Alfonso of Spain, 32, fell ill that May. “It was working-age adults, people who were young and healthy suddenly getting sick and dying,” said Dr. … [Read more...] about St. Louis saw the deadly 1918 Spanish flu epidemic coming. Shutting down the city saved countless lives
St. Louis shut down and saved lives in 1918 flu pandemic
It started in a dusty and desolate corner of Kansas, as horror stories might. The deadly influenza virus that would be known as the mother of all outbreaks tore through Haskell County in the winter of 1918. The county doctor warned that young, sturdy hog farmers were collapsing in the fields as if they’d been shot. Historians believe that the flu soon reached Camp Funston at Fort Riley, where troops trained to fight World War I. By spring, flu outbreaks hit most of the Army camps across the country. Thousands of troops in effect carried germ warfare in their arsenal to European shores, and the pandemic took hold. The particular strain of influenza was most aggressive in healthy people ages 20 to 40, possibly because their strong immune systems overreacted to the invading virus. The 1918 Spanish flu got its name after King Alfonso of Spain, 32, fell ill that May. “It was working-age adults, people who were young and healthy suddenly getting sick and dying,” said Dr. … [Read more...] about St. Louis shut down and saved lives in 1918 flu pandemic
Goodwill to operate four high schools in Missouri for adults
MERS Goodwill, a nonprofit known for its thrift stores and job training programs, will soon open and operate Missouri’s first free adult high schools. Adults in these schools will receive high school diplomas and will be able to earn industry certifications in areas such as carpentry, nursing, early childhood education and welding. MERS Goodwill says it will connect its high school graduates with area businesses that struggle to find enough skilled workers. “This is not just a social impact program,” said David Kutchback, president and CEO of MERS Goodwill. “It’s also a strong economic program for the state of Missouri.” Two high schools will open in St. Louis and Poplar Bluff, Mo., next year and two more will open in Springfield, Mo., and the Columbia-Jefferson City area the following year. More than 533,000 Missouri adults 18 and older, or 11.4 percent, lack a high school-level credential, according to the 2016 American Communities Survey. Adults … [Read more...] about Goodwill to operate four high schools in Missouri for adults
‘Bucket Joe’ Mossberger, once a fixture on the streets of south St. Louis, dies at 73
Joe “Bucket Joe” Mossberger, a man known to many in south St. Louis as a local character and transient window washer in the ’70s and ’80s, died Saturday (Sept. 2, 2017) at age 73. For some 30 years, Mr. Mossberger was a fixture on Gravois Avenue and Grand Boulevard whom most longtime South Siders seemed to know. Few knew his real name, so he was simply known as “Bucket Man” or “Bucket Joe.” He was homeless, often disheveled, typically drank alcohol out of a milk jug and almost always carried a bucket he’d use to wash windows for local businesses, cars or anywhere that would let him. Over the years, there were two feature stories written about Mr. Mossberger in the St. Louis Suburban Journals, as well as a song written in his honor and — at some point — a Facebook fan page filled with memories of run-ins with “Bucket Joe.” “People still recognize the name he went by — to a degree that would make … [Read more...] about ‘Bucket Joe’ Mossberger, once a fixture on the streets of south St. Louis, dies at 73