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Hospital is given deadline for dialysis
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 29, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG Northside Hospital has until March 13 to fix problems with its dialysis services or lose funding for Medicare patients, federal officials said Thursday. State regulators shut down the hospital's dialysis services last week because of safety problems. The state Agency for Health Administration threatened to suspend the hospital's operating license and said hospital leaders knew about the problems, but did nothing. In a statement Thursday, hospital officials said they have fired the company that was managing its dialysis services and brought in a new firm. The hospital says it already has submitted a plan to state regulators to fix the problems. The state is reviewing the plan. BRADENTON PARC merges with Manasota agency Faced with serious funding cuts that threatened their survival, two area nonprofits serving the developmentally disabled announced a merger on Thursday. The Pinellas Association for Retarded Children, which serves more than 700 clients in Pinellas County, is now a partner with the Manasota ARC, which serves 150 clients in Manatee and Sarasota. "If you compare our organization's strengths and missions, you understand why this union makes perfect sense," said Sue Buchholtz, PARC's president and chief executive officer. Bradenton Herald CLEARWATER Deputy injured in wreck is a candidate A veteran Pinellas County sheriff's sergeant who is running for sheriff and a taxi driver were hospitalized after a two-car crash north of Clearwater late Wednesday. Sgt. John Pikramenos, 53, was heading north on U.S. 19 near Winding Creek Boulevard about 10:30 p.m. when he was struck by taxi driver Lloyd Melvin Younglove, who was turning east from U.S. 19. Authorities said charges are pending against Younglove, 58. Pikramenos was flown to St. Joseph's Hospital. Younglove was taken to Tampa General Hospital. Pikramenos, who has filed as a Democrat to challenge Sheriff Jim Coats in November, was still in intensive care Thursday, having suffered a shattered kneecap and broken femur, said his girlfriend, Erika Parker. She said she did not expect the injuries would derail Pikramenos' bid for office.
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