Tampa Bay briefs

By Times staff reports
© St. Petersburg Times
published February 16, 2002

Utility: Cut water use for four days plant is down

Tampa Bay Water officials are asking Pinellas County residents to cut back on their lawn watering, carwashing and other water use next week while the Cypress Creek water treatment plant is shut down for maintenance for four days.

Starting Tuesday, the utility will shut down the Cypress Creek plant so new treatment facilities can be tied into the system. Until the plant is back in service Friday, the pressure for Pinellas County's 110,000 water customers is likely to be affected, according to Tampa Bay Water spokeswoman Michelle Robinson.

The plant, which is in Land O'Lakes, provides 50-million to 60-million gallons of water a day to 2-million customers in Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Customers in Pasco and Hillsborough counties will not be affected by the shutdown because they do not get as much of their water from Cypress Creek, Robinson said.

St. Anthony's official named CEO and president

ST. PETERSBURG -- Ford Kyes, the chief operating officer of St. Anthony's Hospital, has been named CEO and president of the hospital.

Kyes, 47, has served as chief operating officer since the fall and has worked in local health care for a decade. He becomes the first CEO since St. Anthony's ended a joint operating agreement with Bayfront Medical Center in January 2001.

The two hospitals had shared a president and CEO in Sue Brody, who remained head of Bayfront.

As CEO, Kyes will shepherd a major building boom: St. Anthony's plans to spend more than $30-million on improvements during the next three years, including adding more hospital rooms and physicians' office space.

This fall, the hospital plans to start construction on a 145,000-square-foot outpatient center in the Carillon area.

St. Anthony's was founded in 1931 as a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany. In 1997, it joined the BayCare Health System.

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