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Official: Hospitals software a disaster
By Uriel Avendano
Times Editor
Ongoing frustrations
with the Allscripts
medical software sys-
tem currently in use at
the resident Palo Verde
Hospital (PVH) were
brought to the forefront
of the healthcare district
board of directors at
Blythes hunger
for CHANGE
Homeless Outreach Group moving
forward with goals, objectives
By Uriel Avendano
Times Editor
The City of Blythes
ongoing effort to com-
bine arms with local and
regional agencies to ad-
dress the homelessness
issue in resident neigh-
borhoods is continuing
to move forward, with
their second meeting
tentatively scheduled for
April 25, at 2 p.m., at City
Hall on 235 N. Broadway.
Five Palo Verde Unified School District teachers were named 2018 School Site Teachers of the Year Tuesday at the districts board meeting: (from left to right) Donna too large in elementary
Faubion, Jessica DeShazo, Genevieve Hann, Adelene Iwai and Debra Iriart. For more, see Page B2.
Palo Verde College celebrates National Womens History Month
By Cathyleen Rice
Times Reporter
In 1987, Congress de-
clared March as National
Womens History Month,
as a call on gender par-
ity.
Celebrating this day
in the valley, Palo Verde
College held its first
Womens Day event on
Wednesday, March 22,
to recognize the achieve- Palo Verde College celebrated its first Womens History
ments of local entrepre- program on Wednesday, March 22.
Palo Verde Valley Times
&
Allscripts representatives taken to task by PVH staff, board
their last regular meet-
ing March 22.
At the last board
meeting, we were in-
formed that (there)
were, at the minimum,
$800,000 in lost charges,
noted PVH Healthcare
District Board Director
The Blythe Homeless
Outreach Groups first
meeting, which was held
earlier in March, out-
lined and established
the collectives goals
and objectives, as well as
brainstormed an array
of ideas.
It went very well,
said City of Blythe Coun-
cilmember Dale Reyn-
olds, who has been for- Blythes Homeless Outreach Group is currently making headway into the collectives
mally spearheading the goals, objectives and overall mission in their efforts to end homelessness in the city. Their next
See change/A2 scheduled meeting is currently slated for April 25 at 2 p.m. at City Hall on 235 N. Broadway.
Teachers of the Year
neurs and women lead-
ers of the community.
Catering a formal
lunch of creamy, shrimp
and chicken pasta, side
salad, garlic bread and
cheesecake, women from
all over the community
came out, along with a
few gentlemen, to praise
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Palo Verde
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serving blythe,california
Sandy Hudson. Were
looking at for assistance
from (Allscripts) on that
because this is not time-
ly; its dragged on way
too long and I dont see a
timely resolution to it.
Currently, the respec-
tive lost charges are un-
the success of the fea-
tured powerful women.
Having a diverse panel
of women from different
ethnic, economic, politi-
cal and social walks of
life, each honoree shared
how she made a mark in
her field and gave audi-
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accounted for. Accord-
ing to Allscripts, the
systems technical prob-
lem has lied in the work-
sheet balances not trans-
ferring from the primary
to the secondary due to a
yet determined reason.
PVH Assistant Chief
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Financial Officer Chris-
ta Rohde noted that the
hospital is currently un-
able to collect on billable
funds and that the issue
has been a problem since
the application went live
in May of 2016. Further-
more, Rohde could not
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report a complete finan-
cial balance sheet to the
board due to the issue.
My understanding
was, when this system
was executed, that ev-
erything would be tied
together, said Trina
Sartin, a registered
nurse and PVH Health-
care District Board Pres-
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PVUSD
outlines
goals
at LCAP
meetings
By Cathyleen Rice
Times Reporter
Palo Verde Unified
School District held
three Local Control Ac-
countability Plan meet-
ings on March 20, 22 and
23.
The purpose of the
communitywide meet-
ings opened a portal
for parents,
students
and the
schools
superin-
tendent to
discuss plans
and actions for the next
school year.
Giving an overview of
student achievement or
the lack thereof in previ-
ous years, Lois Shaffer,
Director of Curriculum
and Instruction, along
with Superintendent
Charles Bush created a
cooperative ambience
to compile a mission
and goals list to better
student achievement,
student engagement, pa-
rental involvement and
course access.
As reported by Shaffer
in the schools report,
the district is seeing
chronic problems in sus-
pension, low mathemati-
cal scores, supplemented
by reading levels, lower
than they should be.
Looking at the report,
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