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DALLAS (AP) — An elderly
woman checked into Gaston Episco
pal Hospital. She wasn’t in need of
medical treatment; she just wanted
to give her family a break.
She was one of the first to partici
pate in the hospital’s Respite Care
program, an idea gaining popularity
as hospitals around the country look
to expand health-care services and
make use of hospital beds that other
wise would remain empty.
“It’s designed to give the caregiv
ers a break from the duties of taking
care of their loved ones,” hospital
administrator Charles Cooper said.
“They need the relief.”
For a fee of $175, the hospital
takes in Respite Care “guests” for
the weekend, from 6 p.m. Friday to
6 p.m. Sunday.
The respite program combines a
hospital’s watchful accommodations
with the schedule of a get-away
weekend. The “guest” — an elderly
or disabled person — gets a private
room with television and individual
bathroom and is cared for by the
nursing staff.
The family members who other
wise must stay home to provide their
relative feeding, bathing anti medi
cal care are f ree to travel away from
the home — or to stay and enjoy it all
to themselves, program organizers
said.
Cooper estimated that 60 percent
of those dependent on others’ care
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caregiver a break from the
duties of taking care of
their loved ones. They
need the relief. ”
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Charles Cook
live in the homes of relatives. Most
common, he said, are elderly parents
staying in the homes of sons and
daughters.
While families most often provide
an elderly or disabled person with
Plastics catch on fire;
10 families evacuated
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the most personal attention,itti Lubl
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members who f eel tied do 20.5 (2
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independent hospital tucktcs
the Baylor University Media. Wit:I
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those who have chronic distil
functional disabilities, hospiuil
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meals, bathing, dressingando
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LEAGUE CITY (AP) — A fire
raged through a League City plastics
warehouse on Wednesday, forcing
the temporary evacuation of about
10 families.
Firefighters contained the fire
early Wednesday at the Reliance In
ternational warehouse but were let
ting the flames burn out, authorities
said.
“It’s under control,” Dickinson
Eire Chief Jasper Liggio said. “But it
will probably be a couple of days be
fore it’s put out. We’re going to let it
burn itself out.”
Two types of non-toxic plastics,
polystyrene and polyethylene,
caught fire at the facility in this Gal
veston County town about 30 miles
southeast of Houston, said a League
City police dispatcher who refused
to give her name.
Louis West, a firefighter from the
Dickinson Fire Department, twisted
an ankle while trying to contain the
fire.
Liggio said there were no other
reports of injuries resulting from the
fire, which was reported at about 5
a.m.
A few nearby residents were evac
uated from their homes as a precau
tion.
They were permitted back into
their homes again several hours af
ter the fire was contained, Liggio
said.
Flames shot up several hundred
feet after a series of small explosions
at the plant, he said.
The fire produced acrid clouds of
black smoke that brisk winds spread
over the area.
The company stores recycled plas
tic pellets used in the manufacture
of various plastic products.
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man accused of causir£| 0 |j ars
month’s downtown natuujbn.”
explosion was being held»i lI |
bond Wednesday after a pr^yj| as ,
tor accused him of threaten? Stau
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Former restaurant ownArovidi
McClelland, 25, threate: : ect on
young woman after learnfeaid. “]
she had talked to federal in'®
gators after the explosion 1 Dr
taut U.S. Attorney Fred %rsity
tman said Tuesday. Xpert
Schattman said federala^ented
ities wanted to protect the'Tuesd;
by keeping McClelland t*Wedm
bars. Hoc
McClelland is on parole 1 [ :
T exas prison for robbery.
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