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Robert P. Imbelli November 26, 2013 - 7:54am
Pope Francis's "Apostolic Exhortation" on Evangelization has been released. It is a long, rich, and personal document. Here is a thought for the day:
265. Jesus' whole life, his way of dealing with the poor, his actions, his integrity, his simple daily acts of generosity, and finally his complete self-giving, is precious and reveals the mystery of his divine life. Whenever we encounter this anew, we become convinced that it is exactly what others need, even though they may not recognize it: "What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you" (Acts 17:23). Sometimes we lose our enthusiasm for mission because we forget that the Gospel responds to our deepest needs, since we were created for what the Gospel offers us: friendship with Jesus and love of our brothers and sisters. If we succeed in expressing adequately and with beauty the essential content of the Gospel, surely this message will speak to the deepest yearnings of people's hearts. ... Enthusiasm for evangelization is based on this conviction. We have a treasure of life and love which cannot deceive, and a message which cannot mislead or disappoint. It penetrates to the depths of our hearts, sustaining and ennobling us. It is a truth which is never out of date because it reaches that part of us which nothing else can reach. Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.
266. But this conviction has to be sustained by our own constantly renewed experience of savoring Christ's friendship and his message. It is impossible to persevere in a fervent evangelization unless we are convinced from personal experience that it is not the same thing to have known Jesus as not to have known him, not the same thing to walk with him as to walk blindly, not the same thing to hear his word as not to know it, and not the same thing to contemplate him, to worship him, to find our peace in him, as not to. It is not the same thing to try to build the world with his Gospel as to try to do so by our own lights. We know well that with Jesus life becomes richer and that with him it is easier to find meaning in everything. This is why we evangelize. A true missionary, who never ceases to be a disciple, knows that Jesus walks with him, speaks to him, breathes with him, works with him. He senses Jesus alive with him in the midst of the missionary enterprise. Unless we see him present at the heart of our missionary commitment, our enthusiasm soon wanes and we are no longer sure of what it is that we are handing on; we lack vigour and passion. A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.
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What the pope said about marriage and his denigration of "loving sentiment" is the traditional church line as exemplified by Muller's recent article ... http://www.osservatoreromano.va/portal/dt?JSPTabContainer.setSelected=JS... ... Muller says that 'love isn't a feeling' (this comes from Aquinas).
But I think love is exactly a feeling. I think the reason the church tries to teach otherwise is because it distrusts human nature, it doesn't have faith that a feeling can be lasting or be true, so it tries instead to redefine the emotion of love as some kind of duty or decision of the will. And I think the church uses their new definition of love to try to keep people in loveless marraiges (Muller even says women whose husbands beat them still should not get divorced). But marriage is indeed now all about loving sentiment and I think that's the way it should be.
There is a certain amount of talking past each other that I sense going on in terms of sentiment/ephemeral vs. duty/permanence.
For me, love started with a feeling but it certainly required action, choice and steadfastness to develop into something permanent. There were certainly times where my surface feelings were not loving at all, and I had to take action to communicate, to express myself, to hear, to listen, to seek healing; to make choices that prioritized what was good for us over what was good for me, to choose to be happy and grateful for what I have over regretting those sacrifices; and steadfast in not running away, not bailing, not giving up on us.
I think love needs to be different than a feeling and deeper. The feeling of love produces warmth, acceptance, harmony, satisfaction, etc. I am not sure how much this feeling characterizes the experience of most couples as they move through time together, or even our love of children. And there are certain characteristics and things about our loved ones that we do not even like!
Now I am a sentimental guy and can call on that when necessary to produce certain states. Listening to pieces of music, conjuring up memories, visiting places. And I share that with my wife and daughter. But there is no way that, and that alone, could sustain the commitment these last 20 years or so.
And I don't think that I am out of the ordinary when I say that to remain during stretches of time required me to call on a sense of duty and obligation. Ditto for her as I am not the easist person on the planet to live with I am sure.
Further, marriages are littered with affairs produced as a result of loving sentiments with other people outside of the partnership. Just talked with a friend a year ago who was believing this. My advice was to think this through very carefully. Go to a lonely place to really pray about this because loving sentiment, to be is fools gold. True love needs to be tested in fire.
Fr. Imbelli, it seems to me that the wording is an attempt to trivialize the importance of the emotional satisfaction which is an intrinsic aspect of the 'loving sentiment" that leads couples to marry, and which, one hopes, is not "ephemeral". There is nothing "mere" about it. Although some marriages do not endure for a lifetime, the majority that do rely on emotional satisfaction and loving sentiment to sustain the marriage through the inevitable challenges that all married couples face as individuals, as couples, and usually as parents during their lives. The bishops and Francis need to be more clear in distinguishing between the "ephemeral emotional satisfaction and loving sentiments" of romantic infatuation and the loving sentiments and emotional satisfaction that are intrinsic to the love that holds two people together in marriage. Their understanding of these emotions and sentiments seem to be academic rather than experiential. It is likely that at least some of these men experienced romantic infatuations before becoming priests but they seem not understand the difference between those emotions and sentiments and those of married love.
My objection to this language is the focus on "obligation" to society and the trivializing of the emotional sentiments needed to support marriage. This statement - "the indispensable contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple" implies that the individuals who are the married couple are simply cogs in society's machine, cogs whose "feelings and needs" are unimportant and can be ignored. But it is precisely because of the feelings of emotional satisfaction and of loving sentiments that people are willing to fulfill the obligations of marriage - obligations to one another and to any children they may have, not to society or the church. Without the emotional satisfaction of the love relationship, a couple will very likely fail to meet their marital "obligations" at some point and may divorce. Their obligation to their children is not broken by the dissolution of the marriage of course.
The French bishops (and Francis) seem to believe that the main reason for marriage is almost purely utilitarian - to satisfy what they perceive as an "obligation" to society (by those who do not choose a religious vocation) to marry and procreate.. This is an understanding of marriage that is (to me) wrong, although it was dominant for most of history and is still too prominent in the church.
" Muller says that 'love isn't a feeling' (this comes from Aquinas)."
Crystal --
Muller has obviously oversimplified Aquinas. St. T. most certainly does recognize that there are feelings of love (plural) -- more than one kind.
Let's see now -- there's love of gumbo, love of puppies and kittens, love of kids, love of learning, love of music, (it goes on and on), and then there's "true love", which, I'd say, is a thorough appriciation of another person's reality which sometimes even transcends our own proper love of ourselves. (Yes, it's right and good to love oneself.) Marriage, we like to think in this culture, is a matter of true love. (There is also infatuation, the usual preamble to true love, but it doesn't last.)
People are encouraged to wait to find a true love *before* marrying. In other words, we certainly seem to agree that true love can come into being *before* marrigage. My big question is: if you don't need marriage to have a true love, then what is the difference between a simple true-love-relationship and a true-love-marriage? In other words, why get married? Why not just have hooked up single lovers?
My point is that there really does seem to be a lot more to marriage than true love (no matter how important that feeling is). So I ask: what does marriage have that simple true love isn't/ doesn't have? (Yes, I suspect the answer is very complex, and I don't think some people are going to like it. Sigh.)
I don't understand people who say marriage is about duty, obligation, an act of the will, etc. If you love someone, then your good actions will flow from that love - love, the feeling of love, is the engine that drives action. When Jesus helped people, he didn't do it because it was his duty, he did it because he had "feelongs" about them - compassion and love, the Grrek word "splagchnizomai" (Luke 7:13). And as Paul said, you can give all your goods to the poor, but if you don't have love, it profits you nothing.
There's an interesting article on love in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. One of the sections is on love as an emotion and I especially liked the opinions of Rorty ... http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/love/#5.2
From something I wrote to the local diocesan newspaper a couple of years back:
"(Mr. X) argues that the Catholic tradition of not ordaining women is following the practice of Jesus. It can be (and has been) argued that what Jesus did during his lifetime was a far cry from what the church calls ordination today.
However, tradition is not an arbitrary thing; we believe that it is the leading of the Spirit of God to preserve the unity of the church. On what grounds, then, can the church change a tradition? When that tradition begins to compete with the gospel and no longer serves the gospel it must be questioned. The ordination of women is a theoretical possibility within the gospel; there are no instances where the gospels state that women cannot be ordained. It is church tradition, not the gospel, that prohibits the practice. The significant question is whether that tradition still serves the gospel, or has it come to work against the gospel. The tradition of an all‑male clergy has come to compete with the gospel, to be a stumbling block to the gospel, and no longer serves the gospel. There is a need for changing such a tradition and instituting the practice of the ordination of women.
The Spirit can, and often does, make the church do something that it has never done before, as part of the ongoing unfolding of the work and will of God among the people of God. It is not necessary to make ordination a function of the priesthood of all believers in order to argue the case for women's ordination. It is to the greater benefit of the life of the church to understand ordination as the Spirit's bestowal of a unique gift of office apart from the community of the baptized, without needing to exclude women from the giving of this office. "
It's really too bad that the ordination of women and marriage issues are such nevralgic points that almost all the energy goes into discussing those points, even though they are very much side issues of this document, and risk blinding us to everything else.We complain that many in the church hierarchy are obsessed by sexuality and gender and can talk about nothing else, but look at ourselves!
Crystal --
I agree with Rorty that our greatest love is complex -- it involves both the beloved and ourselves. I also think that included among the various kinds of love that are part of this complexity we can distinguish love of the beloved (elicited because the other is intrinsically good) and love of the other because the other makes the lover feels fulfilled by his/her experience of the beloved. The former is selfless, the latter is not, and there is a thierarchy of loves with pure love of the other being greater than pure love of the self. (Don't ask me why, I just think that it is.).
It seems to me that the selfless love of the beloved impels us to do good to and for the beloved mainly for the sake of the beloved. This is something like an obligation because there is a certain necessity about it -- if you *truly* love someone you will necessarily act for his/his benefit.
This shows me is that acting out of a certain necessity is not a bad thing. And so when we act out of the necessity imposed by an obligation, then that too is not to be scorned beneath human dignity. In other words, an obligation is a good thing, and fulfillment of an obligation is also a good thing.
Do you think there are such things as obligations?
Thanks for your rich and deep responses to my Cherubino question. I hope Francis understands all this as well, and sees that same-sex couples often achieve the same marital bonding that is so precious a human experience.
It's really too bad that the ordination of women and marriage issues are such nevralgic points that almost all the energy goes into discussing those points, even though they are very much side issues of this document, and risk blinding us to everything else.We complain that many in the church hierarchy are obsessed by sexuality and gender and can talk about nothing else, but look at ourselves!
Claire, IMHO these issues are the "hot-button" issues that are driving people out of the church in the west, driving them out because the hierarchy has been so focused on them for so long, especially in the west, but also throughout the world. The official church's stance on some gender and sexuality-related issues hits almost everyone at home, where they live out the theoretical in their real lives, including in their marriages. But it also has altered political policy, even international policy (such as distribution of condoms as an HIV-AIDS weapon in Africa). It's not just academic at times, the church's influence has contributed to a great deal of good in the world, but unfortunately also to tangible harm to many, both directly and indirectly. Its denial of a sacrament to women and its myopic and distorted understanding of "complementarity" are not just of interest as an intellectual exercise, but present an unfortunate lesson and example to many. The church's highly visible treatment of women as officially second-class conveys a message to all that it is God's will that women be subject to male dominance. Francis has so far failed to address this reality, and he has also failed to address the issue of accountability for bishops who protect priests who are a danger to the young. Unfortunately, Francis does not seem to truly even understand the implications of the women's ordination issue. He, like his predecessors, is fixated on an understanding of the "feminine" that is very limited, still too influenced by historical patriarchy.
These issues are tied to justice and truth and to love. These are the issues of the early 21st century, and at some point the "official" institution may be forced to listen to the Holy Spirit speaking through the sensus fidelium and then perhaps to develop doctrine in a way that will reflect the truth experienced in the lives of the 99.9% of those who are not clergy but are the church. This would allow the institutional church to move on and change the focus to other isues of justice and truth - economic, war and peace, to any number of grand and overarching issues that are out there. But the institutional church will have to resolve the "hot-button" issues first in a way that is understood by the people in the pews. If it does not come to terms with them, the hemorraging will continue, especially of young adults and their future children.
Studies have documented the dramatic increase in "nones" and SBNR especially during the last decade. They have also documented that in the US, young women are leaving the church at higher rates than young men for the first time since they started keeping track of these things. Marriage and baptism data in the US published by CARA indicate that many of these young women are not returning to marry in the church as was seen in earlier generations, nor are they returning to have their children baptized in the church, a trend that has also become very noticable during the last decade or so. I am not surprised. In the dicussion here it is easy to see just how wide is the divide in understanding of the sacrament of marriage between those who are married and those who aren't. Catholic teaching is developed exclusively by male celibates and their understanding is limited by the lack of lived experience with the intimate matters they are trying to legislate. While baby boomers and Gen X may simply ignore the church's dictums in many areas and continue to go to church and receive communion, increasing numbers of the young adult generation aren't showing up at all, except for a small but very vocal group of neo-traditional young adults.
I am not an academic nor an intellectual, and Commonweal prides itself on targeting that market. The academic discussions here are interesting but often on an intellectual level only. At times the discussions don't seem to get past the theoretical to the level of "the real", because a purely academic and intellectual understanding of some of even the less esoteric topics seemsat times to reflect a failure to see the forest for the trees.
Ann, I do think there are obligations and duties and that it;s good to fulfill them - I think the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy would put this under the heading "moral rsponsibility" - but I just don't want to call those things "love" (though there's probably some overlap). I recycle ... I make a decision, a choice, to do so ... because I feel that as someone who cares about the envuronment, it's my duty, but that's not what I think of as love. They do seem somehow connected, though.
I think the problem is that the churc h considers marriage a duty - a duty to the family, a duty to society, a duty to the church. But this isn't the ancient or medieval past and people don't get married anymore out of duty, but out of love. There is no good reason now, no duty, for someone to stay married to a wife-beater, for instance, but the church still thinks women should do this. There is no duty to stay married "for the sake of the children" because studies show now that such a thing actually damages children, but the church still uses this argument. Socity has changed - no one usually gets married now to make sure they have "legitimate" heirs, or to merge kingdoms, or to make finaincial transactions, or to trade service for protection .... marriage isn't anymore a business contract and people aren't dirty rotten breachers if they change their minds/hearts about it. It's all about love, now, and I think that's partly why the church so hates same-sex marriage- that is based on love
I agree with Anne - this stuff can't be compartmentalized. For the church to say in one breath that it cares about the "little ones" and in the next that women are second class citizens (in however nice language) is to put the lie to the first statement.
Ok, I get it. Now, someone cheer me up.
Anne C. --
Fine post. About Francis and women -- I think that he means well, but simply hasn't known many adult women very well. But he's improving. In the last couple of days he repeated his unfortunate view of women as intuitive, nurturing complements of men, but he also added that women are needed not only in the home but in *business*! I've never seen any man admit that before. As to the ordination of women, I won't hold my breath. But he's a fast learner, and maybe dealing with the CDF will lead him to see the weaknesses of their silly arguments against it.
Crystal --
I agree that in the ages when there really wasn't enough food to go around and when people died so young there was probably an implicit assumption that a person *ought* to marry and marry young to be sure the clan would survive. That's pure Darwin, and Darwin was right about this. But we're also *rational* animals, there is enough food, for Americans anyway, and Americans die relatively old. So it's not surprising that marriage-for-the-sake-of-procreation is no longer the urgent necessity it used to be. The official Church is hundreds of years behind history in coming to that realization.
Still, most people do have children, and people's duties to them have not changed one whit. Children still have a right to both parents if possible, and so divorce is still a dreadful thing in most cases. Unless the studies I've read about are totally wrong, children of one parent simply do not flourish as children of both parents do. (It even seems to be the case that parents who divorce when their children are *grown* still cause great suffering in their kid! That's how primary an intact family is to human flourishing.) So it seems to me that the official Church is mostly right about that. In practice, however, there seem to be terrible problems, not the least of which is that people sometimes seem to marry a genuinely incompatible person. What to do about those failed marriages is a horrendous problem. At least it seems that many of the bishops, including Francis, are starting to realize that.
As I see it, the only solution at this point would be to be sure that those who are granted a license to marry are truly mature psychologically. But how to determine that?* To add to the problem, kids need to be raised to become psychologically independent, but that is happening less and less these days! See the new helicopter mothers. Scary. (Yes, I think the community has a right to protect children, and that includes protecting them from bad parents. But, again, what does that mean in practice????)
*Improving the teaching of the Humanities in the schools might help with that -- the Humanities teach both empathy, one of the great marks of maturity, and also reasoning, another skill needed for satisfactory human relations.
(I'll shut up now.)
So the bad guys have won. The ones who were obsessed with women and marriage issues have been successful at obfuscating the Gospel message so that it becomes inaudible, young people leave the church and older people spend their time fighting over those issues. Regardless of our stand on them, the fact that we spend our time on that means that we acknowledge that it is as important as they claim it is.
I think Francis does believe in and want a Church with more distributed authority, in which everyone has an important role to play, and every part is open to anyone competent to take it on. But he is constrained by the statements of his predecessors, by long tradition in an institution that thinks of itself as timeless, and perhaps by assumptions he absorbed in his youth and has not fully shaken off.
It seems to me that the theological and cultural arguments, that a male priesthood is required by Christ or by nature or by the fitness of things, were never sound and grow weaker by the day. It will be harder and harder to maintain them even for people who have long practice in saying doubtful things with a straight face.
That leaves only competence and faithfulness as qualifications, and women have long since passed those tests in every area of modern life. Besides, the history of male dominance in the world and in the Church is hardly an invincible argument for continuing it.
All of the great nonviolent struggles for equality and justice are won essentially the same way: by showing up every day, doing one's share and more than one's share of the work, speaking out tirelessly and without fear, keeping the pressure on, and never losing hope or good cheer. Eyes on the prize, as they used to say.
young people leave the church and older people spend their time fighting over those issues.
I know a lot of older people, i.e, my age, who have walked away in 1) disgust, 2) anger, and/or 3) boredom later in their lives.
Being hatched and matched doesn't mean by any token that we will stick around to be despatched.
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Alex Pumilia: The senior offensive tackle had a knockdown during Wando's game at Beaufort. Noonan praised his ability to not make mental mistakes.
Tyler's PCA pick
Ryan Roe: The senior finished with a gaudy 13.5 yards per carry average against Williamsburg. He totaled 108 yards, doubling his next closest teammate's rushing total.
PCA coach Jim Daniel's pick
Andrew Johnstone: The senior wide receiver hauled four catches for 147 yards, which was almost three times the amount of his next closest teammate's receiving total.
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The captain of Charleston's fire boat knew he'd struck a harbor buoy while racing to the scene of a Navy boat stuck on the Charleston jetty late Saturday, audio recordings obtained by The Post and Courier of marine radio conversations indicate.
"Dispatch, we're putting out a Mayday at this time," the captain says. "We struck a buoy. We're taking on water on our bow."
After the strike, the unidentified captain later reported the steering "is all over the place. I got no control on it."
The buoy strike caused the damage that put a gash in the side of the $850,000 boat. The slice measured less than three feet in length.
The channel marker was green buoy 25, set in the water between Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter.
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The Vancouver Canucks have assigned defenseman Nolan Baumgartner (BAWM-gahrt-nuhr) to the Chicago Wolves.
BAUMGARTNER has not appeared in any games this season. Last season, he ranked second among Manitoba Moose defensemen with 4 goals, 25 assists and 29 points in 66 American Hockey League contests.
The 35-year-old blueliner has tallied 81 goals, 287 assists, 368 points and 784 penalty minutes in 818 career AHL contests with the Portland Pirates, Norfolk Admirals, Manitoba Moose, Philadelphia Phantoms and Iowa Stars.
The Calgary native has posted 40 assists, 47 points and 67 penalty minutes in 143 career National Hockey League outings with the Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks, Vancouver Canucks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers and Dallas Stars.
BAUMGARTNER will join the Wolves when they take on the Rockford IceHogs in an Illinois Lottery Cup matchup at 7:30 p.m. today at the Allstate Arena. For more information on ticket packages or group outings, visit chicagowolves.comor call 1-800-THE-WOLVES.


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In a previous issue, we showed you how the performance pros at Clay Smith Cams (Buena Park, California), prepped a set of Dart Iron Eagle S/S cast iron heads (and installed Manley valves and Clay Smith springs), which were going on a 283ci Chevy V-8. This month, we visit the shop again to watch Chad Langdon and Evan Speilman install the new heads in the Nova, with some help and sage advice from the cam doctor himself, George "Honker" Striegel, owner of Clay Smith Cams. Also, not ones to leave well enough alone, Dave Lange of Lange Performance then installed a set of Comp Cams Ultra Pro-Magnum roller rockers and their associated pieces.


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Do programming languages, that we are mainly coding in, really change the way we are thinking about problems? Sort of programming kind of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. And if they do, doesn't it really mean, that there are programming languages, which can make us, well, not stupid, but narrow-minded?
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As more than 30 young people and adults gathered in a prayer circle at the First Baptist Church of Aiken on Friday, The Rev. Fred Andrea described them as ambassadors as they prepared to leave for Haiti on Saturday for a weeklong mission.
A group of 20 high school and college students and adults will work with housing efforts in the town of Grand Goâve near Port-au-Prince. Andrea asked in prayer that the Americans and Haitian residents be empowered in collaboration and combined resources.
The mission trip is part of a partnership between the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Conscience International in providing assistance for the earthquake-racked Haiti – more than three years after the devastating event.
"We started planning this a year ago," said The Rev. Mary Carol Anderson, the associate pastor for student ministries. "We love going on international mission trips, and we knew the earthquake hit Grand Goâve in a serious way – that this was the place to go this time."
The First Baptist group will concentrate on rubble housing – building new homes from the damaged materials. Sally Tice, an Aiken High School teacher, has been a First Baptist member since childhood. This is her first mission trip, and her husband Victor has joined her as well. Tice finds the rubble housing effort especially moving.
"We're taking something from a tragedy and turning it into something positive," she said.
Jack Eisenman, a summer intern with student ministries, wrote an essay about the trip and its impact.
According to estimates from the Haitian government, about 30,000 buildings and 250,000 homes were destroyed or damaged.
Eisenman described the technique of using rubble housing – pouring small pieces of rubble into wire mesh columns. That process is intended to improve safety. All the one-room rubble houses are 14 x 20 feet and cost about $3,800 each.
Furman University sophomore Gray Johnson is interested in many aspects of the mission trip. She is majoring in political science with a focus on international relations.
"I'm interested in diplomacy and interactions with other countries," Johnson said, "and the way we respond to situations in those countries – the reasons why or why not. This has all kinds of interest for me and a chance to do work and serve."
The earthquake has resulted in a long-lasting effect, Johnson said. Immediate response is certainly essential, "but continued response is so important, too," she said.
Senior writer Rob Novit is the Aiken Standard's education reporter and has been with the newspaper since September 2001. He is a native of Walterboro and majored in journalism at the University of Georgia.
STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVIT This group from the First Baptist Church of Aiken left on Saturday for a mission trip to Haiti. They will participate in rubble housing, providing safe and inexpensive housing in a community near Port-au-Prince.×
STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVIT Victor and Sally Tice get ready to say goodbye to daughter Maggie, 3, prior to leaving with a First Baptist Church of Aiken group for a mission trip to Haiti. Maggie is spending the week with her grandparents. Also pictured is Gray Johnson, a Furman University sophomore.×
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Kent State junior Laura Martin has come full circle. Martin is currently employed full time at the Fleming House, a family recovery center that provides drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Here, she was first a patient, then an intern and now a full-time residential case manager. While receiving care at the Fleming House, Martin's case manager encouraged her to keep busy.
"She put a spark in me to get an education," Martin said. "Her encouragement helped me stay on the right track and brought me closer to my goals."
Martin's dedication to living a drug and alcohol free life allowed her to attend Kent State University at Salem and receive her associate's degree in Human Services Technology in 2009. Currently, she is enrolled in the bachelor's degree program.
As a full-time employee, student and mother, strict time management is imperative, Martin stated. "It's all about getting in to a routine, and sticking to it."
Attending Kent State was one of the best decisions Martin ever made.
"Kent State Salem was a great fit for me. It's a short drive from my home, and it's affordable," Martin said. "What other university has two campuses practically in your own back yard?" As the first member of her family to earn a college degree Martin is excited that her son is also pursuing an education at the Kent campus.
After completing her bachelor's degree, Martin hopes to continue working full time as a residential case manager at the Fleming House. She would also like to continue her education in a master's program at Kent State.


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Is there any interest in semi parts and mods for the RPD? I have been comparing my kit to my semi and figuring out what is involved. it seems that KMP has a receiver in the process of being approved so it might be a good time to get a start on the rest of the parts.
the conversion will require modifying the bolt, bolt carrier, lower and making the striker and associated parts and the fcg. if there is enough interest I will start making drawings and work out various options and prices.


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A carousel used in a restocking system is comprised of a drive track. A plurality of bins are arranged into rows, with the rows being driven by said drive track. A drive mechanism, e.g. an electric motor, drives the drive track. A sensor is provided to sense the position of the rows of bins. A processor is responsive to the sensor and data representative of a plurality of picks for more than one order for controlling the drive mechanism. By combining picks from different orders into a batch, the time spent driving the rows and time between picks is minimized. The carousel may be divided into a plurality of columns, each with its own drive track, drive mechanism, and sensor, to enable several rows to be brought into a pick position simultaneously.
1. A carousel for use in conjunction with a database, said database providing data indicative of items to be picked from the carousel to fill orders, comprising:
a drive track;
a plurality of bins arranged into rows, said bins being driven by said drive track;
a drive mechanism for driving said drive track;
a sensor for sensing the position of said rows of bins;
a computer responsive to said sensor and data representative of a plurality of items to be picked for more than one order for controlling said drive mechanism; and
a plurality of indicia responsive to said computer, said indicia located adjacent each row as each row is brought into a pick position and wherein said indicia identifies a quantity to be picked.
2. The carousel of
3. The carousel of
4. A system for use in conjunction with a database, said database providing data indicative of items to be picked from a carousel to fill orders, said system comprising:
a carousel comprising a drive track; a plurality of bins arranged into rows, said bins being driven by said drive track; a drive mechanism for driving said drive track; a sensor for sensing the position of said rows of bins; a computer responsive to said sensor and data representative of a plurality of items to be picked to fill orders for controlling said drive mechanism; and a plurality of indicia responsive to said computer, said indicia located adjacent each row as each row is brought into a pick position; and
a plurality of storage locations each having an indicator, said computer controlling said storage location indicators, said indicia identifying a number of items to be picked and said storage location indicators identifying a storage location to which each of the picked items belongs.
5. The system of
6. The system of
7. A system for use in conjunction with a database, said database providing data indicative of items to be picked from a carousel to fill orders, said system comprising:
a carousel comprising a drive track; a plurality of bins arranged into rows, said bins being driven by said drive track; a drive mechanism for driving said drive track; a sensor for sensing the position of said rows of bins; a computer responsive to said sensor and data representative of a plurality of items to be picked for controlling said drive mechanism;
a printer responsive to said computer;
a hand-held device for communicating to said computer when a picking of an item is completed and for displaying another item to be picked, and
a dispensing device; and
a restocking package designed to be filled at said carousel and one of inserted into and connected to said dispensing device.
8. The system of
9. A system for use in conjunction with a database, said database providing data indicative of items to be picked from a carousel to fill orders, said system comprising:
a carousel comprising a drive track; a plurality of bins arranged into rows, said bins being driven by said drive track; a drive mechanism for driving said drive track; a sensor for sensing the position of said rows of bins; a computer responsive to said sensor and data representative of a plurality of items to be picked for controlling said drive mechanism; and a plurality of indicia responsive to said computer, said indicia located adjacent each row as each row is brought into a pick position;
a printer responsive to said computer; and
a hand-held device for communicating to said computer when a picking of an item is completed and for displaying another item to be picked.
10. The system of
11. A system for use in conjunction with a database, said database providing data indicative of items to be picked from a carousel to fill orders, said system comprising:
a carousel comprising a drive track; a plurality of bins being driven by said drive track; a drive mechanism for driving said drive track; a sensor for sensing the position of said rows of bins; and a computer responsive to said sensor and data representative of a plurality of picks for controlling said drive mechanism; and
a transportable restocking package configured to be filled at said carousel, transported to a dispensing device, and attached to the dispensing device.
12. The system of
13. The system of
14. The system of
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a carousel product which can be used in a variety of ways to dispense and improve a restocking process, and can be used for a wide variety of associated tasks, e.g. inventory control, crediting returns, cycle counts, and the like.
2. Description of the Background
Medical facilities, such as hospitals, nursing homes, etc. have a centralized location such as a pharmacy department or materials management department within the facility to coordinate the dispensing of drugs or medical supplies to the patients of the medical facility. The departments utilizing medications and medical supplies in such facilities have long been burdened with the increasingly complex record keeping and inventory management that results from caring for hundreds, if not thousands, of patients every day. Various methods have been employed to assist a centralized pharmacy or other centralized medical supply departments with maintaining accurate records while attempting to reduce the burden of managing all of the information associated with the distribution of medications and medical supplies. The responsibilities of the centralized supply include: filling individual patient prescriptions on a daily basis; administration of drugs using the five rights: right drug, right patient, right dose, right time and right route, dispensing medical supplies to patients; maintaining sufficient inventory of each drug or medical supply so as to have sufficient quantities on hand to administer to patients on a daily basis; tracking of drug interactions to prevent a patient from being given a drug that has adverse affects when combined with other drugs; accounting for the purchase of medications and medical supplies for use in the facility; accounting associated with dispensing of medications and medical supplies to individual patients; tracking of medication expiration dates to rid inventories of expired medications; and tracking of drug lot numbers, for example, in the event of a recall of a particular drug or drug lot number.
Medical facilities will dispense medications in one of three modes: centralized, decentralized, or a hybrid of partial decentralization. In facilities that are partly or fully decentralized, a very important function of the centralized pharmacy or materials management department is to restock various inventory locations, e.g. nurses stations, unit-based cabinets, satellite pharmacies, or off-site facilities in a network, with the quantity and types of medications and medical supplies that must be dispensed by the decentralized locations on a daily basis.
The need for storage locations in medical facilities remote from the centralized storage location stems from the need to be able to quickly and conveniently dispense medications and medical supplies (whether controlled or uncontrolled) to patients. To be able to dispense, there must be adequate supplies of the medications and medical supplies in the remote storage locations. To maintain the proper level of medications and medical supplies, accurate inventory control is necessary. Barring access to controlled substances by unauthorized personnel is also a necessary feature. The contents of these storage locations varies depending upon the medical procedures practiced in the area where the storage location is situated. For example, a storage location near an emergency room will be stocked differently than a storage location next to a surgical suite. Nevertheless, it is important to provide adequate supplies of all the required medications and medical supplies. It is also necessary to ensure that sufficient supplies are maintained at the decentralized and centralized storage locations without overstocking, because overstocking increases the cost of inventory by requiring more items to be maintained in inventory than are actually needed. Overstocking of inventory can also result in waste through spoilage of unused supplies. Excessive restocking of locations is also demanding on the facility's staff who must devote more of their time to monitor the storage locations to ensure that sufficient supplies are available.
A variety of systems have been developed to restock storage locations or to fill patient medication/supply orders. In one such system, referred to as a "cart exchange" system, dispensing carts distributed at dispensing locations in a medical facility are periodically exchanged with filly supplied carts. These carts contain medications which satisfy the patients' current medications orders. The "used" cart is returned to the central supply area where inventory decreases of particular medications or medical supplies are recorded and the cart is restocked to predetermined "par" levels. These par levels are intended to ensure constant availability of required medications or medical supplies.
In a similar system, individual carts are used but are not removed from their dispensing locations in the medical facility. Instead, a larger cart holding a variety of medications and medical supplies is circulated throughout the facility to restock individual carts to their par levels.
Although these systems are generally effective in restocking locations, they suffer from a number of drawbacks. One particular drawback is the potential for stock-outs that can arise if the inventories of the carts are not closely monitored. Adequate inventory monitoring can be problematic due to time limitations on the staff. Depletion of certain items from the carts can pose serious risks to the patients in the medical facility. Another drawback is that restocking storage locations is a very labor-intensive and inefficient process, especially when accurate inventory levels are not maintained in the centralized or decentralized location. Sites with decentralized locations usually have many different locations, each of which is individually restocked.
More recently, storage areas are being provided with dispensing carts or cabinets having computer processors for recording removal of medications or medical supplies from the dispensing cabinets. These carts or cabinets commonly include locked drawers having locked medication receptacles, and include computers. The computers commonly provide for limited access by selected medical personnel to such carts and cabinets and limited access to specific drawers or locations therein in response to entry of information into the computer. The computer creates inventory information for use by medical staff to ensure the continuity of the inventory in the carts or cabinets.
A system for restocking such computer controlled carts and cabinets is entitled Automated Restocking of Distributed Medication Dispensing Cabinets Using An Automated Medication Dispensing System, disclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 09/480,819 and assigned to the same assignee as the present invention. The disclosed system automatically fills restock packages based on inventory information or configuration changes provided by various carts and cabinets located at the decentralized storage locations. The system encodes or otherwise disposes on the restock package an information carrier containing identifying information. To restock a dispensing cart or cabinet, a staff member decodes the information carrier encoded on the restock package. That may be accomplished by scanning a bar code or manually entering information into the cart's or cabinet's computer. Once the cart or cabinet confirms that the restock package is intended for it, the staff member loads the contents of the restock package into the cart or cabinet.
While the system of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/480,819 offers substantial advantages over other systems, some facilities may not have the resources to convert to such an automated system. Further, the facility may have the need to restock items which cannot be easily placed into a restocking package by automated equipment because of their size, weight, or configuration. Still other items may come from their manufacturers in bulk quantities or other types of packaging that make it difficult to automatically load them into a restocking package. Thus, the need exists for a restocking system that is at least in part manual, while taking advantage of the data generated by computer controlled carts and computer controlled cabinets. The need also exits for a restocking system that is at least in part manual, but can work side by side with computer automated restocking systems.
The present invention is directed to a carousel (a type of automation device) used for distributing medications and medical supplies to patients (including, but not limited to, cart fill, first dose, "Stat" doses, and "Now" doses), distributing medications and medical supplies from centralized inventory locations to decentralized inventory locations, restocking of decentralized medication locations (including but not limited to unit-based cabinets, satellite pharmacies, and remote facilities in a network), out of stock processing for medication or supply cabinets, nurse refill requests, and other associated tasks. Additionally, the carousel system may be used for the ordering and receipt of medications and medical supplies from distributors and the tracking of inventory related to those activities.
The carousel is comprised of a drive track. A plurality of bins are arranged into rows, with the rows being driven by said drive track. A drive mechanism, e.g. an electric motor, drives the drive track. A sensor is provided to sense the position of the rows of bins. A processor is responsive to the sensor and data representative of a plurality of "picks" (i.e. removal of items) for more than one order for controlling the drive mechanism. By combining picks from different orders into a batch, the time spent driving the rows and time between picks is minimized. The carousel may be divided into a plurality of columns, each with its own drive track, drive mechanism, and sensor, to enable several rows to be brought into a pick position simultaneously.
The present invention is also directed to a variety of methods. In one method, a bar code on an open shelving unit is scanned with a hand-held device (wireless or connected). The quantity of items requested is input through the hand held device for the scanned bar code. The bar code and quantity information are down loaded from the hand-held device and the information is queued in a restocking device such as the previously described carousel.
In another method, an order to be filled is displayed at a workstation. The order is initiated with a hand-held device (wireless or connected). The order is manually filled. The final step is to indicate through the hand-held device that the order is filled so that another order, if any, can be initiated without traveling to the workstation.
In another method, a restocking package is created from items held in a carousel in a centralized storage location. The restocking package is delivered to a location so that the location may be restocked with items from the restocking package.
In another method, a restocking package is filled with items in a centralized storage location. The restocking package is delivered to another location. The restocking package is either inserted into a specified location in a dispensing device or connected to the dispensing device.
The apparatus and methods of the present invention provide a number of advantages in dispensing items from decentralized storage locations and restocking the decentralized storage locations from a centralized storage location. Those, and other advantages and benefits will become apparent from the Description of the Preferred Embodiments herein below.
For the present invention to be easily understood and readily practiced, the present invention will now be described, for purposes of illustration and not limitation, in conjunction with the following figures, wherein:
The specification includes an appendix which includes eight pages of flow charts illustrating the process flow for various functions of the carousel of the present invention, a one page chart illustrating a patient fill process performed by an automation device such as a robot, and a one page chart illustrating a cabinet fill process performed by an automation device such as a robot. The processes are implemented in the presently preferred embodiment by software, stored in any appropriate memory device, which is executed by a computer.
The administration of medications occurring at step 18 may be carried out through the use of a hand-held device such as an AcuScan-Rx™ device available from McKesson Automation, Inc., 700 Waterfront Drive, Pittsburgh, Pa. Such devices are wireless devices which communicate with a database to verify the administration of medications to patients. Such communications enable the maintenance of a database of inventory levels as shown by step 20. The database and associated computer system for maintaining the database of inventory levels may be located at the centralized storage location 10 or may be located remote therefrom. In either event, the computer system necessary for maintaining the database provides information which enables the centralized storage location 10 to perform step 22 of generating a restocking package. As will be described in greater detail below, the generation of the restocking package may be done completely automatically, manually, or through some combination of manual and automatic processes. The restocking package is used to restock the decentralized storage location 12-1.
Restocking packages may also be generated at centralized location 10 and delivered to the remote facility 14. From facility 14 an item may be transferred as shown by step 24. The transfer may be a dispensing step for a patient or a transfer to another location. Items may also be dispensed directly to the patient from the centralized location 10.
To perform a dispensing operation a user logs onto the control computer 32. Based on the user's information, various drawers 31 in the cabinet 26 and the auxiliary cabinet 28, and various doors 33 on the supply tower 30 are unlocked. Thereafter, patient information and information regarding items to be dispensed is entered. The items to be dispensed may include medications or medical supplies. After the item to be dispensed has been removed, its removal is recorded at the control computer 32. The user may continue to dispense items for the identified patient, or patient information for another patient may be entered. Entry of information, including log-in, can be performed in a variety of ways, e.g., through entry with a keypad, barcode scanning, selecting items from a pick list, RF ID, flash memory, magnetic strips, OCR, etc. Note that computerized medication cabinets like the AcuDose-Rx cabinet can also track medications or supplies that are not stored in the cabinets 26, 28 or tower 30. For example, the control computer 32 can track virtual inventories, i.e., medications stored outside the cabinets 26, 28 or tower 30. Examples include medications stored in a refrigerator whose inventory and transactions are recorded by the control computer 32. The reader will understand that the hardware illustrated in
The hardware illustrated in
Each of the shelving units 34, 36 is comprised of a plurality of bins 42. Each of the bins carries indicia 44 which may be, for example, a barcode and/or a label identifying the contents of the bin. Additionally, items in the bins may have a bar code, label or other indicia directly on them or on their packaging. The bar code could be scanned, or other methods of inputting the data consistent with the type of indicia used, or push buttons or the like actuated, to perform a dispensing or other type of operation. In addition, the handheld device 40 could be used to generate an ad hoc order through its screen entry in the event that an item is not available to be scanned or otherwise have data pertinent thereto input. The number of shelving units 34, 36 and the configuration of the bins 42, depends upon the number and size of the items to be stocked. Because access to the bins 42 is not restricted, the hardware illustrated in
The hand-held device 40 may be a wireless scanning device such as a Symbol 7240 or Welch Allyn 7400. In one mode of operation, the operator may use the hand-held device 40 to scan the barcode indicia 44 for each bin for which a restock is desired. The operator will then input the order quantity on the hand-held device 40. When the hand-held device 40 is docked in its cradle 41, the data will be downloaded. The data will then be queued to be processed to generate a restocking package. Use of the hand-held device 40 eliminates the manual task of ordering items to be restocked, and reduces the potential for errors.
The drive track 52 is driven by, for example, an electric motor 56. The electric motor 56 may drive the drive track through one or more drive gears 58 in the case of a chain type of drive track or through a pulley in the case of a belt type of drive track. In addition to use of an electric motor 56, hydraulics or any other appropriate mechanism for driving the drive track 52 may be used. A sensor 60 may be provided to sense the position of the rows 50 of bins 48. Alternatively, a shaft encoder may be provided for motor 56 for keeping track of the degree of rotation of the motor's 56 shaft and, through knowledge of the gearing and the previous position of the rows 50, the position of the rows can be controlled. Use of the word "sensing" is intended to cover any of the various known method of sensing and/or calculating the position of the rows 50.
The carousel 46 is under the control of a workstation 62, which may be comprised of a personal computer in communication with the database. The workstation 62 receives information from the database regarding items, and quantities for each item, needed to replenish each of the decentralized storage locations 12-1 through 12-n or to fulfill patient dispenses. The workstation 62 processes the information and presents to the user through a screen 64 a series of operations referred to as "picks". The information displayed on the screen may include, for example, an identification of the decentralized storage location, an identification of a cabinet, tower, shelving unit, etc. at the decentralized location, an identification of the patient, the item and quantity to be picked. The workstation 62 also controls a printer 71 which can print barcode labels 72.
A label 72 with a barcode indicating the item (medication, supply, or kit) and the destination (cabinet, patient, etc.) will be printed from the printer 71. the user will scan that barcode with a scanner to activate the carousel picking process. The carousel dynamically evaluates the work queue of requests (patient dispenses, cabinet refills, on demand picks, stat, now, etc.) based on a configured set of priorities, set by the user. These priorities allow a medical facility to configure the order in which the different requests will be processed. Additionally, the facility may set up different priority ordering for different time periods in the day. For example, first doses may be disabled or prioritized lower during the hours of a cart fill. This work queue can also be paused at any time to perform an on-demand pick or restock. That allows user to pick an urgent item that may be in the queue.
To enable a pick to be performed, the workstation 62 activates motor 56 to bring the row 50 having the desired item into a pick position. In
To finish the pick, a hand-held wireless device 68 is used to scan the bin label or item barcode 55. If the quantity that was picked from the device was not the full requested amount (because of an out of stock or expiration condition), the user can adjust the quantity picked and record a reason for the discrepancy before completing the pick. The barcode 72 that is printed at the beginning of the process (which initiates the picking) and the barcode on the bin or item that is scanned to complete the process are different formats to require the user to scan each of these barcodes (if the same information was encoded in each barcode, the user could scan one of the barcodes twice and would lose a critical validation to prevent picking of the incorrect item). An alternative method of indicating the completion of the pick could be to push a button or any other physical manifestation intended to represent the completion of the pick. The user then moves to the workstation 62 and initiates the next pick.
According to the present invention, when a pick is displayed on the workstation 62, the pick can be initiated either on the workstation 62 or via the hand-held device 68. Once the pick is processed, the hand-held device 68 may be used or a barcode on the centralized storage location may be scanned to indicate that the pick is complete and to initiate the next pick without having to travel to the workstation 62. In a large centralized storage location having numerous carousels 46 under the control of a single workstation 62, the ability to complete a pick and initiate the next pick using the hand-held device 68 eliminates travel time to and from the workstation.
To increase picking efficiency, a "place-to-light" system, described below in conjunction with
Another way to increase efficiency is to implement advance queue processing for a medical facility that has multiple carousels. In
One of the features of the present invention is the carousel's 46 ability to be controlled in a manner so that a plurality of picks for more than one order can be processed. Referring to
According to the present invention, the picks for A, B and C may be integrated so as to minimize the time between picks. For example, referring to
If at step 101 the auto mode is on, fill priorities are retrieved at step 106, and the next fill request is retrieved at step 107. A decision step 108 verifies that there are items to access. If there are no items to access, process flow returns to step 100.
If there are items to access, step 109 identifies if any are not in the carousel. Step 110 is a decision step that determines if there are any non-carousel items on the list and, if not, process flow proceeds with step 111 to identify the carousel printer 71. If there are non-carousel items on the list, the non-carousel item printer is identified at step 112, a barcode label is printed at step 113, and a decision step 114 determines if all items are non-carousel. If the answer at decision step 114 is "yes", process flow returns to step 100; if "no" process flow proceeds to step 111.
From step 111, process flow continues with step 115 in which a barcode label is printed. At step 116, the process pauses to wait for a label scan message indicating that the user has scanned the printed barcode label. At step 117 the most efficient path is determined. Process flow continues with step 104.
Carousels which may be modified to provide the functionality of the carousel 46 are available from a number of manufacturers such as White and Remstar. Exemplary hardware specifications are found in Table 1.
As seen from Table 1, carousels may easily be 10 feet or more in width. Because the carousel must be designed based on the heaviest item to be dispensed, the carousel may be considerably over-designed for many of the items to be carried. According to another aspect of the present invention, a carousel 88 may have a "slot-machine" design as shown in FIG. 9. The carousel 88 of
Although the present invention has been described in conjunction with a vertical carousel, the concepts of the present invention could be implemented using a horizontal type of carousel.
Other types of hardware which may be used at the centralized storage location 10 include a system of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,593,267 entitled "Automated System for Selecting and Delivering Packages from a Storage Area," U.S. Pat. No. 5,880,443 entitled "Automated System for Selecting Packages from a Cylindrical Storage Area," and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/480,819 entitled "An Automated Medication Dispensing System," all of which are hereby incorporated by reference. It is anticipated that the centralized location may be comprised of various types of hardware such as carousels illustrated in FIG. 5 and
A computer 90, which may be located at centralized storage location 10 or may be located elsewhere, maintains the database for the system. The computer 90 receives information from the decentralized storage locations 12-1 through 12-n and provides information to the carousel work station 62 and/or the Robot-Rx support station 89 to enable restocking packages 96 to be prepared. Additionally, dispenses to patients, distributions to satellite facilities, and the like may occur from centralized location 10. An interface PC 92 may be provided to enable external systems, such as a PC 94 on which a hospital information system resides, to communicate with the computer 90 on which the database is located. Completing the description of
The carousels 46, 88 of the present invention support cycle counts to verify inventory. The carousel system is semi-manual, so maintaining accurate inventory is very important to the operation of the system. To ensure accurate inventory levels, the carousel system supports various cycle count options which allow a user with the correct security privileges to periodically perform a physical count of the items in a bin. This process allows users to count controlled substances (based on DEA code) or other identified items (for example, high-cost or high-usage items) on one schedule (for example, daily or weekly) and then the remaining items on a different schedule (for example, monthly). In operation, the carousel will automatically move the shelves to the next bin that needs to be counted, the user will count the inventory and input the current inventory count into the workstation, and if a discrepancy exists, it will be logged with the user information and a reason. Once the count is completed, the carousel system will record the bin as counted with the current date and time and move to the next bin to be counted. The next bin will then be moved to and counted. The recently counted bins can be manually counted at any time, but will not show up in the automatic cycle count process until the next scheduled time. Such inventory counts help prevent out of stocks, help identify expirations, and provide better management of inventory
Where centralized storage location 10 is used to restock decentralized locations 12-1 through 12-n having AcuDose-Rx™ cabinets, the restocking process may be initiated in an automated manner. The ability to track inventory levels on the AcuDose-Rx™ cabinets enables the database computer 90 to indicate when par levels are low and will trigger a flag for the restock to occur, as opposed to restock happening at periodic times or other methods not based on actual levels. Furthermore, the loop can be closed on the restocking process for AcuDose-Rx™ cabinets through the verification of the restocked orders at the cabinet. For example the carousel 46, 88 will process the restock orders for the AcuDose-Rx™ cabinet, and after the order is filled and delivered to the cabinet on the floor, the labels will be scanned at the cabinet to verify that the indicated amount on the restock report is actually loaded into the cabinet. This is especially useful for narcotics and other expensive or controlled medications. If the expected quantity to be restocked was not actually restocked at the cabinet, a discrepancy can be created and reported on or a notification can be displayed to the central location.
A system of the type illustrated in
The restocking packages 96 may take a variety of forms. The restocking packages 96 may also be patient specific or room specific. In one embodiment, the user delivers the patient or room specific restocking package to the decentralized storage location 12-1 through 12-n and is directed to load the medications into a patient/room specific area. In other embodiments, the restocking package is inserted into or connected into the unit's hardware. Dispenses are then made under the control of the control computer 32. Advantages of this approach include:
In the various embodiments of the patient specific/room specific process medications are stocked in a robot system or a carousel system. A pharmacy information system (PIS) sends a fill list to the database computer 90, which sends instructions to either the carousel workstation 62 or the robot support station 89; medications are picked from the carousel or picked automatically by the robot, respectively. From that point on, the process is patient or room specific.
In a first embodiment of the patient specific/room specific process:
In a second embodiment of the patient specific/room specific process:
In a third embodiment of the patient specific/room specific process:
While the present invention has been described in connection with exemplary embodiments thereof, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that many modifications and variations are possible. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention is intended to be limited only by the following claims and to any equivalents thereof.
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Stacey Scott Foster, age 89, of Hugh Chatham Nursing Center, Elkin, N.C. formerly of Irma Ave., Lexington, passed away Thursday evening at the nursing center.
A funeral service will be 2:00 P.M. Sunday, in the chapel of Piedmont Funeral Home, conducted by Rev. Dr. Bill Johnson, Rev. Chip Webb and Rev. Jerry Webb. Burial with military honors will follow in Lexington City Cemetery.
Visitation will be 1:00 p.m. to 2:00p.m. Sunday, at Piedmont Funeral Home.
A memorial service will be held 2:30p.m. Monday at Hugh Chatham Nursing Center, 700 Johnson Ridge Road, Elkin, N.C.
Stacey was born in Danville, Va., on December 29, 1922, to Stacie "Bud" Foster and Ethel Lumsden Foster.
He was a member of the Lexington Police Department, a retired truck driver with McLean Trucking Company, retired director of Davidson County Emergency services. He served 22 years as a council member for the City of Lexington, and was a charter member of Second Presbyterian Church. Stacey served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, then served in the U.S. Coast Guard, was a Life Member of VFW Post 3074, and a Life Member of American Legion Post 13. He served twice as post commander of Post 3074 and was a past state commander for the VFW, and was appointed, by Governor Jim Hunt, to the N.C. Division of Veterans Affairs Commission. In 1986, he received the Silver Beaver Award, the highest adult award from the Boy Scouts of America. In addition to his parents, his wife, Betty Ruth Webb Foster, his daughter, Betty Jo Foster Wilson, his brother, William Ralph Foster, killed in action during WWII, and sister, Nellie Perl Foster Glass preceded him in death.
Stacey is survived by his son, William R ( John) Foster and wife Sara of Elkin; grandchildren, Christel Murray and husband Vallie, Cheryl Hanner and husband Vance, and Ben Wilson; great-grandchildren, Jesse Murray, Cooper Murray, Rachel Hanner and Lauren Hanner; and special friend Edith Brawley.
The family would like to thank the staff of Hugh Chatham Nursing Center, for their care during Stacey's time there and to the staff of Mountain Valley Hospice for their extra care.
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