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A state senator is proposing to end the funding mechanism created last year that helps keep New Mexicos smaller hospitals afloat.

Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe is sponsoring SB117, which would end the obligation for counties to contribute to the Safety Net Care Pool at the end of 2018. That fund helps 29 primarily rural hospitals cover the cost of indigent care.

A law passed in 2014 requires all counties to contribute the equivalent of a one-twelfth percent gross-receipts tax, totaling around $24 million, into the care pool fund. Bernalillo and Sandoval counties do not have to contribute because they already have a property tax to support indigent care at University of New Mexico hospitals in their areas.

The mechanism replaced the 20-year-old Sole Community Provider program, which funded the hospitals with supplemental federal Medicaid payments and contributions from counties.

New Mexico Hospital Association President and CEO Jeff Dye said such funds have been a critical component in keeping some smaller hospitals from closing.

Dye said the federal government provides $2.38 for every dollar counties and the state contribute. He is also concerned about the level of state funding. If money isnt forthcoming from within New Mexico, federal dollars would be left on the table.

This is the lifeblood for keeping our hospitals afloat, Dye said.

An additional 185,000 New Mexicans received coverage through a Medicaid expansion in 2014, reducing the amount of uncompensated care, but Dye said its still unclear how that will play out in the long term. He said his organization views the proposed sunset date of 2018 as premature.

The changes in uncompensated care funding are new, Dye said. Were only in the second year of analysis in how this (the Safety Net Care Pool funding mechanism) works.

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Malvern developed massively in the Victorian era around 'taking the waters'. A key date is 1842, when Drs James Wilson and Gully set up their water cure establishments in Belle Vue, at the centre of town. Two famous Victorian era Charles' came to Malvern for the water - both Dickens and Darwin, with their respective wives.

Malvern Water was until recently bottled at Colwall by Schweppes (part of Coca Cola). This plant has closed, but you can still get the water for free from the various springs (take note of any warning signs re quality). The reputation of the water was firmly established by J Schweppe & Co. at the Great Exhibition in 1851. There have been other bottlers, going back to the 17th century and the latest is Holywell, at one of the orignal sites. It is best known for "containing nothing at all" (ie high levels of purity).

Malvern Spa Association has a more comprehensive list of springs etc. plus their location (approx. 70 in the area). Wells of Malvern is a map from Harvey (see Outdoor Links for contact details, or order from Amazon), similar to part of their Hills walking map. Also see under Points of Interest below for our own Google Map/GPX record. Check any notices of water quality if you want to take a drink (and some springs may be 'dry', or at least not running).

Cora Weaver has written a number of related books (which can be obtained via The Spas Research Fellowship): Springs, Spouts, Fountains and Holy Wells of the Malverns; Aquae Malvernensis; A Short Guide to Malvern as a Spa Town; other titles on Malvern history.

Well dressing competition happens the same weekend as the Fringe May Day event (Saturday before 1st May) - see Events. Some pictures of dressed springs (2002, 2003, 2007). Anyone can apply (to Spa Assoc) to dress a site, on a first come first served basis.

Local BBC pages are worth a look.

A review on London Review of Books of Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey through Britain (paperback pub'd 2000, from Amazon) includes the following: "The hydrotherapy in Malvern cured both Florence Nightingale and, in part, Tennyson, 'who came after a nervous breakdown, and declared he was "half-cured, half-destroyed" by the place'. Charles Darwin 'arrived depressed and unable to write, but was so persuaded by the effects of his treatment that he returned three more times'. (Darwin was to have his own douche-bath fed with Malvern water installed at home.)" Educational web site WebQuest has some material 'The Mystery in the Attic' based around the Malvern water cure but extending somewhat beyond it - the Attic extract from The Story of Malvern (1911) is an idiosyncratic take on the ups and downs of local developments.

This well known ridge runs roughly north/south, to the west of Great Malvern, and stretches for 8 miles or more (depending on what you include). William Cobbett, the author of Rural Rides (available at Amazon), described the Malvern Hills as "those curious bubblings up", when staying at Woollas Hall (quote from Mark Horrell's web site). While the ridge itself is open, and often windy, the lower slopes have a range of woodland and scrub, with quarries to explore (not all are recommended as safe).

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Jan. 29, 2015

A worker saws the iconic 300-year-old Presidents Oak, a tree that was located just south of the Observatory Hill Office Building (La Follette School of Public Affairs, not shown) and north of Nancy Nicholas Hall (background) Jan. 14.

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After a tall and green life, Quercus macrocarpa, better known to friends as the Presidents Oak, was taken down on Jan. 14, 2015, following a lengthy illness.

The native bur oak was once a tree without a name. It was born about three centuries ago, at least 100 years before the university, into the open savannah emblematic of Wisconsins pre-settlement landscape. Likely it sprouted naturally from an acorn provided by another centuries-old bur oak nearby.

The Presidents Oak in 2006. Washburn Observatory is in the background.

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It grew on a ridge with a perfect view of Lake Mendota, keeping company with nearby Native American burial mounds and witnessing visits by native people for ceremonial events.

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HALIFAX CO., Va. -

It smells of burning wood, fresh cut pine, fresh air, and dirt on a rare warm day in January.

On thousands of acres of land, one lifelong farmer and nature lover is clearing land by burning brush for a new forest, part of a habitat enhancement project soon to be full of trees and plenty of food for birds and four-legged creatures that will soon call this place home.

"It's really part of who I am," said Ward Burton.

It's not the atmosphere you'd think to find former NASCAR driver Ward Burton, but this peaceful refuge is where he spends all of his time, a far cry from a noisy racetrack.

Burton went pro in the early nineties with five career wins in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. In 2002 he won the sport's premier event, the Daytona 500.

He never backed off the throttle just stepped into a whole different make and model off the beaten path. His vehicle of choice for leisure is now a golf cart.

"Even when I was racing I always longed to be back, back here," Burton said.

Burton grew up in rural Halifax County, near South Boston, and it's a place he never wants to leave.

"Now that we're going to get sunlight to the canopy in there that will start growing up with vegetation for all small game as well as big game. Everything out here has got a plan," Burton said.

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LAND is being cleared to make way for the development of a new shopping centre including Aldi and McDonald's in Urangan.

Urban Planet principal Ward Veitch said the land on Boat Harbour Dr was cleared in preparation for construction.

"Vegetation removal has started," Mr Veitch said.

"We're getting the land ready for development."

Mr Veitch's client Lindsay Kayne has been working on the Urangan project since 2006.

He said he decided against searching for other possible tenants until the land clearing had begun and had hopes to include some medical facilities at the centre.

"We'll start talking with other fast food companies now but when it comes to medical tenants it's a little more complicated," he said.

"We'd like to see a medical centre with up to eight doctors, radiology and pathology."

Although there has been a long wait to erect the new centre, Mr Veitch is expecting the centre to be up and running by 2017.

"We're expecting it all to be done in the next 12 to 18 months," he said.

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