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In an examining room, Cara asks if Jesse is okay. Angie says he's just had a rough couple of days. Cara asks about the night of the delivery again and Angie recalls it taking awhile for Jesse to hand the baby to her after she regained consciousness. Angie wishes Jesse would relax and enjoy what they have. Jake arrives to see Cara holding the baby. Angie leaves to find Jesse, as Cara tells Jake the baby is fine. Jake brings up the time they thought she was pregnant. He hopes she can have a family of her own some day. She doesn't think it's in the cards for her. Amanda walks in, as does Frankie, who holds his baby sister. Frankie leaves with Lucy to find Angie and Jesse. Alone, Amanda tells Jake it's the perfect night for them to make a baby. Jake tells her it's not the best time because they're having some problems. Amanda thinks having another baby will release all the tension between them and help them focus on what is important – their family. Jake says they will have another baby, but not now. He then gets called away.
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Mercy And Judgment by Canon F.W. Farrar
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"The arbitrary will of an Emperor governed by court intrigue brought it about that a great Church-teacher, whose influence had been of no small weight in the development of theological doctrines, should be condemned as a heretic*(1); while the fickle mind of a Roman bishop whose instability of character made him the sport of circumstances, must triumph over the better spirit of the West." — NEANDER, iv. 281.
*(1) I shall give reasons for doubting this assertion.
"Generalia Concilia…quia ex hominibus constant qui non omnes Spiritu et Verbo Dei reguntur, et errare possunt, et interdum errarunt." — Art. xxi.
Another century and a half rolled away, and we are told of another condemnation of Origen — equally vague; even more disputable; absolutely unconnected with the wider hope of God's mercy; beside the mark even as regards Universalism; and proceeding from persons no less disreputable than those whose conduct we have just been passing in review.
It is the condemnation of "Origenism" by the Home Synod at Constantinople , and the asserted condemnation of Origen by the Fifth Oecumenical Council.
The former synods bring us into contact with such persons as Theophilus and Eudoxia; the latter were due to the ecclesiastical jealousies and court intrigues which surrounded the persons of Theodora and Justinian. I will endeavour to narrate these events with the utmost possible brevity.
The Monophysite heresy — which "confounded the substance" of Christ — had been condemned by the Council of Chalcedon. Theodora — whose past infamies should have prevented her, as they ought also to have prevented Eudoxia, from profanely meddling with the Church's theology — was an active intriguer on behalf of the Monophysites. She made a tool of her dull and pedantic husband, whose favourite passion it was to lay down dogmas for the Church's guidance, and to enforce their acceptance by cruelty and persecution when bribes and cajolery had failed. Keen in the detection, and remorseless in the punishment, of what he deemed to be heresy, Justinian ended by inventing a new heresy and died in the attempt to corrupt the doctrines to which, by the practice of the syllogism of violence, it had been his special pride to give an imperial security.
In pursuit of her design Theodora had bribed Vigilius, by the offer of the Bishopric of Rome and a large sum of money, to give a written agreement that he would try to overthrow the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon. Being a man who knew but little of theological questions, and cared less, he secretly declared himself a Monophysite, and pledged himself to anathematize the three great Syrian Fathers, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret, and Ibas of Edessa, whom the Monophysites hated, but of whom the two latter had been declared orthodox by the Council of Chalcedon.
Meanwhile two Monophysites who belonged to the party which was called "Origenist," but which was very unworthy of bearing the great name of Origen, were busy and influential in the palace of Justinian . These were Theodorus Ascidas, Bishop of the Cappadocian Caesarea, and Domitian, Bishop of Ancyra. Jealous of their influence*(1), Peter of Jerusalem engaged a Roman deacon named Pelagius*(2) to draw up an indictment against Origen and his works, and to send it through Mennas, Patriarch of Constantinople, to the Emperor. Justinian was thus furnished with an opportunity in which he specially delighted — that of dictating Church dogmas. He urged Mennas to summon a Home Synod — a synod of bishops — or, as we should rather call them, rectors of large parishes residing at Constantinople . Justinian wrote to Mennas a lengthy epistle still extant —
"Verbosa et grandis epistola venit Ex Capreis" —
in which he entered at great length into the doctrines of Origen, and required the synod to condemn them in nine canons, one of which was, that "If any one says or thinks that the punishment of devils and impious men is temporary, and that it will one day end, or that there will be a restitution and redintegration of devils or of impious men, let him be anathema." Passages from this entirely unauthoritative letter of Justinian are in this controversy often palmed off as a part of the edicts of the Home Synod, or even of the Fifth Oecumenial Council!*(3)
*(1) Liberatus, Breviar. 33.
*(2) Afterwards Pope, successor to Vigilius, A.D. 555.
*(3) As in quite recent works.
This, be it observed, was Justinian's opinion — valeat quantum! — and this was what he required. And of what possible value can the opinion of such a man be in any question as to the orthodoxy of Origen? With such a mind as Origen's, such a mind as Justinian's was wholly incompatible. He had no capacity for understanding him; he had still less power to sympathise with him. "For good or for evil, Justinian was wholly cast in the mould of formulas, he knew nothing higher than an edict"; and though he prided himself on being a defender of the faith, he died not only a heretic, but a heretic who was endeavouring by sheer tyranny to enforce his heresy upon the Church. If Origen was happy in the holiness and greatness of his friends, he was no less happy in the disrepute and incompetence of many of his enemies.
The synod met; they read the garbled, second-hand, and virulently ex parte account of Origen's errors, and proceeded to condemn them in fifteen canons. Most happily for the cause of truth these fifteen canons are still extant. But among these fifteen canons, which any one may read for himself, the canon which Justinian had dictated to the synod does not occur, and the only reference made by the synod to Origen's views as to the future lies in the one single word "restitution". This was in their first canon, which ran as follows: -
"If any one asserts the fabulous prae-existence of souls, and the monstrous restitution which follows from it, let him be anathema."
The Emperor asked them to condemn Origen's Universalism, which included the conversion of devils. They in reply do not say a single definite word about any hope for the future of sinners, or about any probatory fire, or indeed about any single separate problem of eschatology, but, purposely leaving everything as vague as they found it, they combine together "prae-existence and that portentous restitution ( thn teratwdh apokatastasin ) consequent on it," and condemn that in a lump.
Even if they had distinctly condemned Universalism, their decision — having no pretence to Oecumenical authority — would merely show the opinion then prevalent at Constantinople. But in a most marked manner they abstained from doing so. They do not follow the Emperor's guidance in this matter; they do not adopt his suggested canon; they only pronounce their anathema against a very complex system of theological philosophy which comprised prae-existence, cycles of probation, the salvability of devils as well as men, and a multitude of other details which, with very inconvenient comprehensiveness, they describe as "that monstrous restitution consequent on the doctrine of prae-existence." It would have been perfectly open to any of the holy and learned Churchmen who accepted Origen's larger hope to subscribe to this anathema, and to say, I, too, reject (not indeed the Scriptural doctrine of a restitution), but "that portentous restitution." And accordingly this canon, as well as the rest, was subscribed — whether honestly or not — by Theordorus Ascidas and Domitian, avowed Origenists as they both were.
But happily the synod do not leave us in doubt as to what was the sense in which they used the word "restitution". They use the word again in the fourteenth canon, to which I shall call special attention.
"If any one says that there will be a single unity (unam henadem) of all rational beings, their substances and individualities being taken away together with their bodies, and also that there will be an identity of cognition as also of persons, and that in the fabulous restitution they will only be naked even as they had existed in that prae-existence which they insanely introduce, let him be anathema."
What has this to do with the "larger hope"? If any one wishes to see how little a condemnation of "Origenism" necessarily involved any condemnation of Universalism, he has only to read the strange medley of vagaries attributed to Origen in all the fourteen succeeding canons, which touch on questions as dead and as unpractical as it is possible to conceive. Those canons condemn opinions which most persons would now pronounce to be unintelligible nonsense, and which probably represent philosophical speculations refracted and reflected through the hazy brains of those who had not the least conception of what the great Alexandrian thinker had really meant to convey. Of such opinions we shall be quite safe in asserting that they cannot in the least represent Origen's real views; and the wonder is that no one — like Pelagius at Diospolis — asked leave "to condemn any who held them as fools, rather than to anathematize them as heretics."*(1)
*(1) "Solche Ketzereien waren es mit deren Verdammung sich eine Kirchenersammlung beschaftigte grosstentheils Grillen und Traumereien uber ein vergangenes oder noch kunftiges Leben, wovon die eine Parthey so viel verstand als die andere. Bannfluche auf dieselben zu schleudern war daher beinahe lacherlich, wenigstens sehr unnutz; denn die Anhanger derselben wurden dadurch nicht zue Erkenntniss eines Irrthums gefuhrt, sondern mehr darinnen durch eine solche Heftigkeit bestarkt." — SCHROCKH, xviii. 55.
This, then, was "the monstrous restitution" as defined by the synod itself! Will any one say that this is a condemnation of the simple hope that God may reach and save the souls even of all men, much less of the majority, beyond the grave? What living Universalist would scruple to subscribe to such canons as these? And the whole movement caused such a scandal that Theodorus Ascidas afterwards said that "Pelagius, who had caused the condemnation of Origen, and himself, who had caused that of 'the Three Chapters,' deserved to be burnt alive for what they had done."
The trouble excited by the action of Peter of Jerusalem, the Roman Pelagius, and Justinian, did not, however, end with the Home Synod. Theodorus Ascidas and Domitian, wishing to divert attention from Origen altogether, tried to stir up an agitation against the three eminent Syrian teachers, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret, and Ibas of Edessa, who, from their controversial ability, had always been hateful to the Monophysites. Now it is more than probable that all three of these great leaders of the school of Antioch agreed with Origen in is so-called Universalism, although they had written against his allegorical method of exegesis. Nothing, therefore, was farther from the wishes of Theodorus and Domitian than to call in question the Origenistic eschatology, which was held by themselves as well as by the teachers who were condemned in the edict of Justinian (A.D. 544) "on the Three Chapters." The Fifth Oecumenical Council was summoned (A.D. 553) for the express purpose of making every bishop subscribe to the condemnation of these "three Chapters."
Happily I am not here obliged to relate the miserable shiftings and tergiversations of the Pope Vigilius when he found himself in the Emperor's power at Constantinople. The only questions which concern us are I., Did the Fifth Oecumenical Council condemn Origen? And II., Did a dcondemnation of Origen involve a condemnation of his view that all men would be ultimately saved?
I. Did the Fifth Oecumenical Council condemn Origen?
The answer is that, i., Even if it did, it only did so — in spite of all ecclesiastical precedent, - when he was undefended, and without any evidence as to his real views (of which there is not so much as a trace in the Acts of the Council),*(1) by a cursory and grossly unjust mention of his name in the eleventh canon, together with those of "Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinaris, and Eutyches and all other heretics, with their impious writings," in the fourteenth canon.
*(1) See Dupin, v. 189-207; Basnage, Hist. De l' Egl. I. 519-542.
ii. Even if it did, yet I say, with Canon Westcott, that "there is in a life of humble self-sacrifice something too majestic, too divine, to be overthrown by the uncandid sentence of an ecclesiastical synod."
iii. A condemnation of "Origen" means a condemnation of a vast number of opinions*(1), probably misunderstood and misrepresented, which were attributed to him, but which have no connection with a simple hope of man's final restitution.
*(1) Even Doucin admits this. — Hist. De l'Origenisme, p. 388.
iv. But "it is not impossible" as Neander says, "that the name of Origen was but a later insertion."*(1) Neander gives no reasons, but eh following may be offered: -
*(1) Neander, Ch. Hist. iv. 492, E. tr. Gieseler says without hesitation (Eccles. Hist. ii. 102, E. tr.), "No further notice was taken of the Origenists." Cave says, "Nec Origenis, nec Origenistarum, nisi capitulo xi. [where, as I shall show, the name of Origen is of doubtful genuineness] vel levissima mentio; multo minus causae istius plenaria cognitio." — Hist. Literar. P. 558.
a. The Acts of the Council have been accidentally or intentionally mixed up and confused with the Canons of the mere Home Synod of A.D. 541, and with the letters of Justinian to that Synod and to Mennas.*(1) The genuineness of the fifteen canons is far from certain, and passages of Justinian's letter are often ignorantly quoted as though they were part of these canons.
*(1) The confusion partly arose from the fact aht the Second Council of Constantinople, A.D. 553, was the Fifth Oecumenical Council, and the Home Synod, A.D. 541, was the fifth council or synod which met at Constantinople. — See F. N. Oxenham, Letter on Everlasting Punishment, p. 21. The Rev. J. S. Blunt seems to have arrived at the same conclusion, though he strongly opposes any form of Universalism. He says, "When the Fifth General Council met they did not take any notice of these fifteen canons [of the Home Synod] or of the Origenistic opinions which had been condemned, and notwithstanding the agitation raised concerning the three chapters, the only conciliar condemnation of their opinions was in the obscure synod referred to." — Dict. Of Sects, ?. v. Origenists.
b. There was a strong desire, in later times, to be able to say that Origen had been condemned by an Oecumenical synod, so that there was every temptation to insert his name. The same causes produce the same effects, and lead to the scarcely honest assertion so often repeated, that Universalism was condemned by synods and councils which never so much as touched upon the question.
g. It is certain that the writings of Origen were not discussed at this council, but only in the synod, if even there.*(1)
*(1) Even there they seem only to have read the garbled and misunderstood extracts scraped together without possibility of explanation by Pelagius, &c.
d. The other heretics mentioned had all been more or less directly condemned in the first Four Councils, to which this canon expressly refers; Origen alone had not.
e. It is, to say the least, very suspicious that Origen's name, first in order of chronology, should stand last in the list.*(1)
*(1) If it be said that this is because he was last condemned it throws fresh light on the fact that even his opinions on the nature of Christ — which were probably quite misunderstood — had not been condemned by any conciliar decree for the three centuries which had elapsed since his death. Origen died A.D. 253. The Fifth Council was held in A.D. 553.
z. Theodorus Ascidas, as Bishop of Caesarea, took a very leading part in the Fifth Council, and he would certainly have endeavoured to keep out the name of Origen, from whom it had been his express object to divert attention.*(1)
*(1) Liberatus, Brev. 24.
h. His name does not occur in the preamble to the Acts of the Council or in the subscription to it by the Patriarch Eutychius.*(1)
*(1) Harduin III., Collat. viii. p. 193.
q. He is not mentioned by Vigilius, Pelagius II., or Gregory the Great, who mention the Three Chapters.*(1)
*(1) See Schrockh, xviii. 56.
i. It is certain that there has been some confusion. Cyril of Scythopolis, in his life of St. Saba, and Evagrius (H. E. iv. 38) do indeed say that "Origen" was condemned at this Council, but they may very easily have fallen into the confusion which I have mentioned, and it is Gieseler's opinion that they did.
If they made this not unnatural mistake, others would follow him. The later authorities quoted by Dr. Pusey have therefore no independent value, nor can their assertions outweigh the silence of three contemporaries — Facundus of Hermiane; Liberatus in his Breviarum; and Victor of Tununum.*(1) Besides this we have the silence of the Acts of the Council themselves. The error once rooted, it would naturally be perpetuated; and as for Nicephorus, who wrote nine centuries afterwards, the mistake into which he fell is obvious on the face of his own narrative. He as well as others failed to observe that the Fifth Council of Constantinople was a term which applied alike to the Home Synod and to the Fifth Oecumenical Council, which was held at Constantinople.
*(1) Dr. Pusey claims the authority of the latter (p. 137); but Victor does not mention the condemnation of Origen.
k. The silence of the Acts of the Council about Origen ought to weigh far more than the authorities adduced on the other side, for there is not the least probability in the suggestion that they were mutilated. They could not have been mutilated without the connivance of Eutychius the Patriarch, and his character is above all suspicion. He would have no temptation whatever to suppress facts which told against Origen; but there were multitudes who would be very strongly tempted to invent such facts. It is, for instance, all but certain that some of the documents collected against Theodore of Mopsuestia in the proceedings of this Council are later additions.*(1)
*(1) See Gieseler, ii. I; Walch, Ketzerhistorie, viii. 281-291.
But (II.) Even if we grant that "Origen" was condemned, did that involve any condemnation of his "Universalism"?
Most unquestionably not; for these reasons: -
i. The name "Origenist" had many different meanings.*(1)
*(1) Schrockh, xviii. 60.
ii. The leading promoters of the Council held the eschatological opinions of Origen.
iii. The assembled Bishops expressly referred to St. Gregory of Nazianzus, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and to other Fathers who were avowed admirers of Origen, and of whom one at least had repeatedly, and in the most public manner, expressed approval of Universalist hopes. The last circumstance seems to me decisive. If Universalism had been at all in question, would it not have been the most monstrous injustice to quote St. Gregory of Nyssa as a canonized defender of orthodoxy in the same breath in which Origen was condemned as an impious heretic? No honest reader can deny the force of these considerations.
III. But, after all, the authority of the Fifth Council goes for very little.*(1) It was by no means a creditable assembly. No one can entertain much respect for its authority who is adequately acquainted with its history. Its determination are in no sense binding on the English Church. It was born and died in jealousies and counter-jealousies. It was disgraced by the machinations of corrupt courtiers. Intrigue stood by its cradle, and intrigue followed its hearse. It reversed the decision of the Council of Chalcedon, which had listened, without impatience, to the praises of Theodore of Mopsuestia, and had admitted the orthodoxy of Ibas as well as that of Theodoret, after hearing the very letter which the Fifth Council condemned.*(2) It originated in a disingenuous attempt to undermine the authority of the Council of Chalcedon in the interests of the Monophysite heresy; it laid itself open to the just accusation of breaking an understood principle in attacking the honoured dead who could not answer for themselves.*(3) It awoke the indignant protests of Pontianus, Fulgentius Ferrandus, Liberatus, Victor of Tununum, Rusticus, Facundus of Hermiane, and others, against its uncalled-for dogmatism, caused by the zeal of those who wanted to teach what they had never learned. It led to an outburst of cruel and wanton persecution. Its decisions were for a long time rejected by the Churches of North Africa, Spain, and Gaul. It was slightly regarded by Pope Gregory the Great. It displayed nothing so much as the arbitrary will of a meddling and heretical Emperor, and the fickle mind of an ignorant and simoniacal Pope.*(4) It had the directly mischievous effect of stifling free inquiry, checking theological development, and depriving the Church of the writings of some of her greatest and holiest scholars. It was a condemnation of philosophic thinkers by men incapable of philosophic thought.*(5) And, after all, it is doubtful whether its canons are genuine, and whether it condemned Origen at all. Even if it did, that condemnation has no bearing on the simple question, "Will all men ultimately find God's mercy or not?" still less on the only question with which I am personally concerned, "Is there any hope beyond the grave for souls which have died in imperfect penitence?"
*(1) Undoubtedly the Fifth Council did condemn Theodoret for alleged Nestorianism; yet the Jesuit Sirmond, in his Life of Theodoret, did not hesitate to declare that Theodoret was quite innocent of Nestorianism.
*(2) Mansi, vii. 189.
*(3) For this reason several protests were raised against it, e.g. by Fulgentius Ferrandus (Ep. Ad Pelag.). "Ut pro mortuis fratribus non generentur inter vivos scandala." The North African Bishop Pontianus spoke in similar terms. Vigilius, in one of his many wavering moods, urged the same objection. Eutychius got the Patriarchate (from which Justinian subsequently deposed him) for proving that it was quite fair to anathematize the dead, since Josiah had burned the bones of the priests of Bethel! If the great writers whom the Council condemned were by that time in the company of saints and angels, they must, says Gibbon, "have smiled at the idle fury of the theological insects who still crawled on the surface of the earth."
*(4) See Neander, Ch. Hist. iv. 281; Gibbon, iv. 366-388. Justinian before his death in A.D. 564 was endeavouring to force on the Church by persecution the heresy of the Aphthartodocetae, which happily died with him. Baronius "almost pronounces his damnation."
*(5) Let the reader study the perfectly unbiased criticism of Schrockh, xviii. 55, and he will find these views amply supported.
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By: Jessica Layton
A local woman whose cried countless tears and suffered immeasurable pain over the past 22 years says she feels like she is now getting some piece of justice.
The man who brutally murdered her little girl was executed in South Dakota, Tuesday night.
Tina Curl made the trip from Lake Luzerne to Sioux Falls to see it happen.
Becky O'Connell would have been a young woman - possibly married - maybe a mother. But her mother will never know what dreams she could have fulfilled - Becky was kidnapped, raped and murdered when she was nine years old.
"I want to bid him farewell as he rots in hell," says Curl.
Curl will watch as the man who tormented her little girl to death - is put to death. The Warren County woman is in Sioux Falls South Dakota to witness Donald Moeller die by lethal injection. It's the moment of justice she's says she's been hoping for - for 22 years.
It was a story that dominated the headlines in South Dakota in the spring of 1990: the tragedy of a child snatched from a convenience store. A day later, authorities found Becky's lifeless body in a secluded area near a river - her throat slashed, she'd been stabbed several times.
Authorities found Moeller nine months after he took off to Washington State. He was convicted of the rape and murder in 1992. Then his conviction was overturned on a technicality before he was re-tried and re-convicted. Back in July - his execution date was set. The time has come. It may mean some closure for Curl, but there will never be peace.
In an interview with her earlier this month at her Lake Luzerne home, she told NewsChannel 13 that she wrote Moeller a letter, asking for details of how he killed her daughter.
"Just asking if he'd be man enough before he rots in hell to tell me how he got my daughter and if she called for me. But I don't expect an answer," says Curl.
She has been saving money for a while now to make the 14-hundred-mile trip to watch her daughter's killer be put to death.
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The dawn of the internet and the web is shrouded in urban legend, myth, and mystery. Was it created by DARPA so that communications could continue, even during a nuclear war? Did Al Gore really invent the web? Was the internet an American invention, or did the Brits help?
This video, which is a clip from the 1997 BBC show Inside the Internet, answers all of these questions and more. It covers the very first communication, using the "Interface Message Processor" over a newfangled packet switched network — the ARPAnet — in October 1969, through to the invention of Unix by Bell Telephone Laboratories. Unix, the great grand father of Linux, quickly became standard across the government-controlled ARPAnet, but with the introduction of UUCP in 1977 and its ability to create networks with modem-to-modem links, a broader, uncontrollable network was formed. It was called Usenet, but really it was the beginnings of what we now call the internet.
It took a few years for Usenet to grow into the web, though. Bulletin boards and chat rooms ruled for over a decade — until 1989, in fact, when Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit working at CERN in Switzerland, invented the concepts of hypertext, hypertext markup language (HTML), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and uniform resource identifiers (URI). Instead of a network of computers and cables, HTML, HTTP, and URIs turned the internet into a web of data and ideas, with links between them. Berners-Lee, in short, had invented the web.


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For decades, North Carolina's High Country health care was provided by three unique and independent hospitals-Blowing Rock Hospital in Blowing Rock, Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial Hospital in Linville, and Watauga Medical Center in Boone. Over the past five years, the hospitals have joined together not only to expand the services offered, but to enhance the quality of care as well. Today, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System (ARHS) is the premier healthcare system in Northwest North Carolina, serving a population of 85,000. However, the road to becoming a successful health system was filled with revenue cycle potholes.
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Less than one year after the third hospital joined ARHS, accounts receivable (A/R) days were hovering in the high 70s, and more than 90 percent of claims could not pass the first round of edits. ARHS had an overabundance of back-end claim denials, and staff were sorely lacking time for claim clean-up.
From an organizational perspective, each hospital managed its own business office technology, processes, and staff. Health information management (HIM) departments operated in silos, and communication among the revenue cycle stakeholders was minimal. Reporting tools available within the legacy third-party billing systems were obsolete and lacked any type of dashboard capabilities. And finally, only minimal data were available to support managed care contracting. It was time for immediate
Once ARHS's leaders realized the depth of the situation, they immediately set out to assess the problem and develop a recovery strategy. A new corporate director of revenue cycle was hired in early 2008, and three high-level goals were defined: centralize business office (CBO) functions, reduce A/R days, and clean up billing claims.
To achieve these goals, three revenue cycle functions-patient accounting, patient access, and HIM-were brought together under one umbrella. All processes were centralized to the fullest extent possible, and reporting rolled up to the corporate director of revenue cycle, who subsequently reported to the corporate CFO. Once reorganized, the team set out to conduct an in-depth assessment of the situation in three steps.
Step 1: Map every rejection. The first action plan focused on evaluating current systems and identifying where process breakdowns had occurred. A matrix was developed, and every rejected claim from a two-week period was analyzed. For each rejection, the team recorded what went wrong, why the claim did not pass edits, and where in the process the rejection occurred. At this point, the team was not concerned with the reasons for rejection; it simply focused on completing the matrix. All types of claims were reviewed, including series claims.
Step 2: Identify where each hospital information system (HIS) rejection occurred. Once complete, matrix data were analyzed and rejections separated according to where the rejection occurred. HIS rejections were further reviewed, and the specific problem identified. This step disclosed a number of simple corrective action steps within the HIS that were taken to reduce rejections:
With these minor problems easily remedied in the HIS, the team turned its attention to the other leading culprit for rejected claims: the third-party billing system. Here the organization found its greatest challenge-and biggest opportunity for improvement.
Step 3: Identify where each third-party billing rejection occurred. In going through the claims rejected at this level, the team immediately realized that the existing third-party billing system and claims scrubber could not accommodate current-day needs. Updated compliance rules for items such as medical necessity and national coverage determinations (NCDs) were not supported in the legacy system. More than 90 percent of claims were dirty and could not even pass the first round of edits. In addition, the system required extensive maintenance to load updates and keep the database current. At this time, new technology options were explored.
ARHS needed new revenue cycle technology that would include updated third-party billing capabilities and advanced claims scrubbers and would support the upcoming centralized revenue cycle model. However, ARHS also had a corporatewide mandate to reduce capital costs and total cost of ownership for new technology investments. Only systems provided on an application service provider (ASP) basis were included in the evaluation.
Furthermore, because ASP solutions are web-based, all users would have access to a centralized repository of billing and claim information regardless of location. This factor was important, as separate locations could easily be maintained and all have access to the same information until the new CBO was fully operational. Finally, with a web-based system, all system updates are totally automated and available in real-time with little or no staff intervention, thereby reducing revenue cycle dependence on the IT department.
The system chosen met all the above requirements and provided advanced technology in four areas: integrated compliance tools, flexibility to override codes, ease of use, and executive dashboard capabilities.
Integrated compliance rules. Industry-leading editing and compliance software was embedded into the new revenue cycle technology, which provided coders with both outpatient code edits and local medical policy review (now called local coverage determinations [LCDs]) edits. The prior technology system did not provide these edits, so a high volume of claims were being rejected-and denied.
Flexibility to override codes. As good as the new technology is, sometimes coders disagree about a particular edit or code. In these situations, the system gives coders the ability to override and edit claims easily-a capability that in conjunction with the integrated claims scrubber has led to cleaner claims. In the past, 90 percent of ARHS's claims failed edits. Now, more than 90 percent of its claims are completely clean.
Ease of use. Billing staff report the new technology is easy to use. The learning curve was about one month with all staff comfortable within eight to 12 weeks. System navigation is intuitive and walks billing staff through the process step-by-step. The team was able to reallocate 3.5 of the five full-time staff members away from the day-to-day processing of primary and secondary claims; these staff now follow up on delayed payments from payers and handle rejected claims.
Executive dashboard capabilities. The new corporate revenue cycle director uses the executive dashboard daily to monitor activity and weekly to create executive reports. At any time, the director can see how much has been billed, what is on hold, and when payments are expected. The CFO can be informed of dollars expected from each payer on specific dates, a capability that has helped the organization to accurately forecast revenue and predict cash flow. They can also see which claims are being held, for what reason, and the specific dollar amount with drill-down capability to view individual claim detail.
At Watauga Medical Center, A/R days have fallen from the high 70s to the low 40s on average. Unfortunately, the denial rate was not accurately measured before this process began, but team members report a dramatic reduction in back-end denials, such as those associated with failed edits. Furthermore, the new system easily handles the payment differences of ARHS's two critical access hospitals.
In addition, the new revenue cycle system enables many more payers to send remittance advices online. At any time, the revenue team can see the status of Medicare claims, compare payers, and extract real-time data to help with managed care contract negotiations.
In the end, careful analysis of rejections and denials led to improvements in ARHS's financial health. The strategic decision to reorganize and consolidate revenue cycle departments also led to better teamwork, stronger communications, and faster resolution of issues.
The new compliance rules embedded within the revenue cycle system identified potential rejections, but did not highlight these in red for the clinical coders. If not highlighted in red, coders were ignoring the system's suggestions. Unfamiliar with medical necessity, NCD, and LCD rules, coders previously were unaware that they needed to check information the system identified. Now they do. Although it may take coders a few extra minutes to investigate all line items highlighted in the system, they spend dramatically less time cleaning up rejections and denials after they occur.
One thing the new system could do better is to see real-time status of claims for more payers than just Medicare. But this capability will have to wait until more payers open their doors to revenue cycle technology. Unfortunately, payer participation in real-time claims status reporting is beyond the privy of vendors and ARHS-at least for now.
Rayanna Moore is system director, revenue cycle, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Boone, N.C. (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Lori Brocato is RCM product manager, HealthPort, Columbia, S.C., and a member of HFMA's Georgia Chapter (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Long-acting beta 2 -adrenergic agonists may increase the risk of asthma-related death. Data from a large placebo-controlled US study that compared the safety of another long-acting beta 2 -adrenergic agonist (salmeterol) or placebo added to usual asthma therapy showed an increase in asthma-related deaths in patients receiving salmeterol. This finding with salmeterol may apply to arformoterol (a long-acting beta 2 -adrenergic agonist), the active ingredient in BROVANA (see WARNINGS).
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BROVANA (arformoterol tartrate) Inhalation Solution is a sterile, clear, colorless, aqueous solution of the tartrate salt of arformoterol, the (R,R)-enantiomer of formoterol. Arformoterol is a selective beta2-adrenergic bronchodilator.
BROVANA (arformoterol tartrate) Inhalation Solution is indicated for the long term, twice daily (morning and evening) maintenance treatment of bronchoconstriction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. BROVANA is for use by nebulization only.
The safety and efficacy of arformoterol and formoterol in COPD. [2010.02]This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of arformoterol and formoterol over 6-months in subjects with COPD. In a multi-center, 6-month randomized, double-blind, double-dummy trial, subjects with COPD (mean FEV(1) 1.21 L, approximately 41.0% predicted) were randomized to receive either nebulized arformoterol (15 microg BID [n = 149][ARF 15], 25 microg BID [n = 147][ARF 25]), or racemic formoterol (12 microg BID [n = 147][FORM]) delivered by DPI...
Comparison of the efficacy and safety of arformoterol 15 microg twice daily and arformoterol 30 microg once daily in COPD: a single-dose, multicenter, randomized, modified-blind, two-way crossover study. [2009.08]OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of nebulized arformoterol 15 microg/2 mL twice daily (ARF15 BID) and 30 microg/4 mL once daily (ARF30 QD) in subjects with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)... CONCLUSIONS: In these subjects with moderate to severe COPD, single-day administrations of ARF15 BID or ARF30 QD were associated with FEV(1) responses over a period of 24 hours that were considered equivalent per the protocol definition employed in the present study. FEV1 improvement over 12 hours was greater for ARF30 QD after the morning dose and for ARF15 BID after the evening dose. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00571428.
Effects of arformoterol twice daily, tiotropium once daily, and their combination in patients with COPD. [2009.04]PURPOSE: Current guidelines support using in combination more than one class of long-acting bronchodilator for COPD patients whose symptoms are not controlled by mono-therapy. This 2-week, multi-center (34 sites), randomized, modified-blind, parallel group study evaluated the efficacy and safety of concomitant treatment with nebulized arformoterol (the formoterol(R,R)-isomer) BID and tiotropium DPI QD... CONCLUSION: In this study, the combination of nebulized arformoterol 15microg BID plus tiotropium 18microg DPI QD was the most effective in improving pulmonary function and disease symptoms. Mono-therapy improvement with arformoterol or tiotropium was similar. All three treatments were well tolerated.
Arrhythmias in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): occurrence frequency and the effect of treatment with the inhaled long-acting beta2-agonists arformoterol and salmeterol. [2008.11]Beta-adrenergic stimulation may increase heart rate and the potential for cardiac arrhythmias. The effect of inhaled long-acting beta2-agonists (LABAs) on these outcomes was evaluated in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 2 double-blind randomized clinical trials...
Nebulized arformoterol in patients with COPD: A 12-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, placebo- and active-controlled trial. [2007.02]OBJECTIVE:: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and tolerability of nebulized arformoterol tartrate (a selective, long-acting beta(2)-adretlergic agonist that is the [R,R] isomer of formoterol) and salmeterol xinafoate versus placebo in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)... CONCLUSIONS:: In this trial, patients with moderate tosevere COPD administered nebulized arformoterol over 12 weeks were observed to have significant and sustained improvements in airway function and dyspnea compared with placebo. The results also suggest that all doses of arforrnoterol, including the lowest dose (15 mug BID), were effective. Overall, nebulized arformoterol was well tolerated.
Study of Arformoterol Tartrate Inhalation Solution and Racemic Formoterol in Subjects With Mild to Moderate Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) [Completed]
The purpose of this study is to compare the blood levels of arformoterol tartrate inhalation
solution to racemic formoterol in male and female subjects with mild to moderate Chronic
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A Dose Ranging Study of Arformoterol Given Once Daily Compared to Arformoterol Given Twice Daily in Subjects With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) [Completed]
A dose ranging study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of arformoterol (given
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A Pivotal Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of Arformoterol in Subjects With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) [Completed]
A 12 week study to investigate the safety and effectiveness of arformoterol given twice daily
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Determine the Safety and Efficacy of (R,R)-Formoterol in the Treatment of Subjects With COPD [Completed]
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"Family Farming for the Next Generation" Workshop Offered by Kent State TuscarawasPosted Feb. 24, 2014
"Family Farming for the Next Generation" is the focus of a workshop to be held March 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Science and Advanced Technology Center at Kent State University at Tuscarawas in New Philadelphia, Ohio.
The entire process for mapping out a succession plan to transfer the eventual ownership of a family farm from one generation to the next can be an overwhelming task for many families. This workshop will outline the necessary steps to implement, as well as achieve a successful succession plan that will avoid potential misunderstandings between family members.
Program speakers, Professor Ron Hanson from the University of Nebraska and Chris Zoller of the Ohio State Extension office, will present the following topics: An Overview of the Importance of Succession Planning, How to Develop Mission Statements for Family and Business, Specific Questions Each Family Must Consider Related to Succession Planning, So You Thought You Were Buying the Family Farm and Keeping Your Farm in the Family for the Next Generation – Is There a Succession Plan? The program will also include a question and answer session.
Hanson is a professor of agribusiness in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hanson's college teaching and student advising career of 39 years has earned 26 university and national recognitions. He has received the John Deere Agribusiness Teaching Award of Excellence and the University Educator of the Year Award. Hanson is the only Nebraska professor to have received the USDA Excellence in University Teaching, the highest national teaching honor granted to a college professor in the area of agricultural and food sciences. He has counseled with farm families for more than 30 years to help them resolve family conflicts in a more positive manner and to improve family relations through better communications. He was raised on an Illinois family farm. Hanson earned his undergraduate degree from Western Illinois University and his graduate degrees from the University of Illinois.
Zoller is an extension educator for agriculture and natural resources with the Ohio State University Extension in Tuscarawas County. He has been with the Ohio State Extension since 1992. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Business and Management and a Master of Science degree in Agriculture Education, both from Ohio State. Zoller specializes in farm management and his educational programming includes livestock production and management, crop production, farm finances and farm succession planning.
In addition to Kent State Tuscarawas, the program is sponsored by the Commercial and Savings Bank – a Platinum Sponsor, TMK Bakersville and TMK Valley Propane, Kuester Implement Co., Ohio Ag Equipment and Rural King.
The cost of the program is $25 per person, which includes lunch. Pre-registration is required and can be made online at www.tusc.kent.edu/bcs or by calling 330-308-7434.


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A crunchy, spicy salad that's better than a bunny in your living room
When you're having one of those days, you really appreciate something delicious to help realign your universe.
My friend Betsy's mom made baked beans every Saturday. I can still smell them — the molasses, the salt pork — as they cooked all day in the oven.
Although I haven't made them in years, I do love baked beans. My husband and I always buy the small can of B&M — original flavor only, please — and then we're surprised to discover that we've eaten the whole can. Nothing left, not even a scoop or two for a baked bean sandwich (on white bread, yum).
It's got to be the sweetness that attracts me. I have a powerful sweet tooth and as for sweet and savory together, well, I can't resist.
So when a colleague here at The Day told me she'd made something thing called Maple-Bourbon Pork and Beans, my taste buds perked right up. She'd found the original recipe in a Williams-Sonoma catalog, of all places, and had made some modifications before passing it on to me. I've made it several times since and have changed her formula very little.
As with all spirits in cooking, it's important to use good bourbon here. If you wouldn't enjoy drinking it, don't cook with it. Also, the recipe calls for chicken sausage. I think a spicy sausage works best — the heat really complements the sweet. Most recently, I used a jalapeno and mango sausage that I found in the meat case at Stop & Shop, and it was delicious. Stay away from an Italian sausage flavor profile. I think Cajun or even Portuguese would be a better direction, but I also think it would be good with turkey kielbasa.
Another plus: this recipe uses a slow cooker. I love the idea of a slow cooker — throw in all the ingredients, go save the world, then come back later to a dinner that's ready to eat. Unfortunately, it rarely works out that way. I have only half a dozen or so recipes that work well with this piece of equipment. Often, a meal from the slow cooker is a one-note bowl of mush, but in this case, it's a perfect way to cook beans and it does wonders with the pork and sausage, spreading that boozy sweetness throughout.
Before you declare it done though, taste a random sampling of the beans to make sure they're all cooked through. There's nothing worse than a crunchy bean.
We like to eat a big steamy bowl of this with a coleslaw that my husband makes using broccoli slaw, horseradish, not too much mayo and perhaps a hit of Dijon mustard. Delish.
Maple-Bourbon Pork and Beans
2 pounds pork shoulder, cut into 4 chunks
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound chicken sausage, sliced, preferably spicy
3 yellow onions, chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 bay leaf
¼ cup bourbon
1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes
1 pound dried great northern beans, soaked overnight, drained (see note)
¼ cup maple syrup
3 cups vegetable broth (I used chicken last time because the box was already open. Perfectly fine.)
Stir together tomatoes, beans, maple syrup and broth in slow cooker.
Season pork with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat, then brown pork hunks on all sides. This should take 15 or 20 minutes minutes. Leave the hunks undisturbed on one side, about 4 minutes, before turning. You want them good and brown.
Add the browned pork to the slow cooker, nestling it down into the beans.
Next, in the same pan, brown the sausage slices. Add them to the slow cooker.
Finally, reduce the heat under your sauté pan to medium and cook onions and celery for 6 to 8 minutes. Add the garlic, tomato paste, thyme and bay leaf and cook 1 minute. Stir in the bourbon and cook 1 minute more. Add to the beans and pork.
Set the slow cooker to high and cook for 4 hours or until beans are thoroughly cooked and tender. Find the bay leaf and discard it. Remove the pork hunks to a plate and shred, then add the meat back to the slow cooker. Let sit for a few minutes and serve.
Note: I never remember to soak my dried beans overnight, but the quick method works great: Sort and rinse the beans. Put them in a pot with enough water to cover them by about 3 inches. Bring to a good boil. Remove from heat, cover, let stand 1 hour, and they're ready to use.
Original recipe from Williams-Sonoma.
Jill Blanchette works at night at The Day. Share comments or recipes with her at email@example.com.
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Can a plonker should a plonker,
love a San-Goanna stonker,
not unless he's bloody bonkers
coming is de crazy cats in white,
see crazy San-Goannas running,
sucking birds eggs, an out a hunting ,
Kookaburra eating snakes humming,
Ha, ha. ha, ha, sweet delight…
Mr tourist, watchem watchem,
Keep the eyeball sharp insight,
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Piddle from the bloody bladder,
Hysterectomy of fright,
Mr Death do say goodnight…
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STMicroelectronics Kyro II 64MBby Matthew Witheiler on March 13, 2001 3:14 AM EST
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The Drivers
The driver set that came with our Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet 4500 was extremely compact. With settings contained in no more than 2 tabs, with very few sub items, it was easy to find and set any property of the card.
The display tab contained information regarding the current monitor setup, allowed for altering of screen position, and provided a gamma correction slider. Not as fancy as we have seen on some tweaked NVIDIA drivers (ELSA comes to mind), but sufficient for the vast majority of user's needs.
The "advanced" features of the card were accessible via the "3d Optimisation" tab. The above screen shows settings for D3D game play. There are a set of two preset profiles at the top of the D3D screen, one for "Speed" and one for "Quality." The screen above shows what pops up if the "Custom" mode is selected.
The OpenGL settings were very similar to the D3D settings, with presets defined.
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MonkeyPaw - Monday, February 24, 2014 - linkThanks for the stroll down memory lane (by keeping the article up). I had one of these cards back in 2002, and it was one I looked back upon fondly. I can't remember most of the GPUs I owned from yesteryear, save the Voodoo 3 and the crappy S3 Verge. That's fairly elite company, at least in my brain, anyway. :) Reply
xrror - Monday, March 02, 2015 - linkYea, it's sad that there wasn't any further development of the Kyro series in the PC market. If I remember right (probably needs fact checked) Imagination's development resources got sucked into the Sega Dreamcast after this point. Even that wouldn't have been so bad if Sega hadn't just given up on the Dreamcast so early on due to a "poor showing in Japan" (nevermind everyone loved it in the US but we didn't count apparently, also see Genesis/MegaDrive).
I think Imagination or at least their tech lives on in the embedded/mobile space now, but meh - really wanted to see what they could have done with their tech without being shackled to a power budget in 2002-2005 era PC's. Reply


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Bayside High School in Queens is one of two New York City public schools in a pilot program to replace water-wasting toilets with new low-flow flushers.
Bayside High School in Queens is one of two New York City public schools in a pilot program to replace water-wasting toilets with new low-flow flushers.
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Stafford Hospital nurse and whistle-blower awarded OBE
Posted: May 02, 2014|
A FORMER Stafford Hospital nurse who became a whistle-blower highlighting poor care has been appointed an OBE for her services to the NHS.
Helene Donnelly, from Gnosall, was given the honour in recognition of her work to support hospital staff to raise concerns and improve patient care.
Ms Donnelly is now Ambassador for Cultural Change at the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership Trust NHS, and has taken on a new role at the Department of Health to develop whistle-blowing training for all NHS staff.
She will work with Health Education England to introduce greater support for health and care staff to ensure they are fully aware of how to raise the alarm about concerns over patient safety, neglect and high death rates.
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Ms Donnelly was a key witness during the Francis inquiry into reports of poor care and abuse at Stafford Hospital. During her time as an A&E nurse at Stafford, Ms Donnelly raised almost 100 complaints about patient treatment.
She was presented with her OBE from the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.
Ms Donnelly said she felt "hugely privileged" to receive an OBE.
"For me I really think this marks a turning point and I hope I will be the first of many others who come forward to speak out," she said.
"I know from experience how frightening and daunting a task it can feel to raise concerns in the workplace. There are many reasons why people feel that it is just easier to turn a blind eye and not raise your head above the parapet."
But she added: "There has been much talk, but now is the time for action. We must truly empower and support all NHS staff to raise concerns, and part of this is about ensuring they know how to do so and what to do if their concerns are ignored.
"That's why I'm delighted to be working on new mandatory training about whistleblowing, so that all staff will know what to do if they see care slip below the high standards we would all expect."