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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. How's the president doing? A new UNH poll looks at how we rate President Bush job performance. The forest industry has been hard hit by local and international events. Is a state government bailout in its future? AND. meet a doctor who's investigated medical mishaps. Not only has it helped insure quality health care BUT it's provided material for his OTHER work - writing medical thrillers. |
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Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. I'm Allison McNair. |
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Religious leaders are responding to last week's announcement by the Manchester diocese that 14 priests were accused of sexually abusing children from 1963 -1987. Rabbi Arthur Starr of Manchester commended Bishop John McCormack’s decision to release the names of the priests to the attorney general and the media. In Boston on Sunday, a group of peaceful protestors gathered outside Cardinal Bernard Law's residence to show suport for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The group also called for church reform. Steven Lynch - who says he was sexually abused by a Salem priest when he was a young boy - spoke of his experience. |
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There's so much confusion. It happened when I was a nine year old boy. I still don't understand my own experience. The priest, who was the protector, who was the father who was more powerful than my parents than my family and everyone was the one perpetrating what he was supposed to be protecting me from. |
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The Boston archdiocese has now identified 80 priests as having abused children over the past 40 years. |
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Who tops your list of greatest presidents? If you said Abraham Lincoln, then you're in agreement with thos who responded to an ABC News President's Day Poll. George W. Bush and John F Kennedy tied for second on the list. Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Franklin Roosevelt share third place. Meanwhile, New Hampshire residents still overwhelmingly support President Bush. That's according to the results of a new survey released Monday by the U-N-H Survey Center. The President has an eighty-seven-percent approval rating among the seven-hundred-and-thirty people polled. That is slightly lower than a similar survey taken in October. But it represents a continued high level of support since September eleventh. I spoke to UNH Political Science Professor Clark Hubbard and UNH Survey Center Director Andy Smith about the high numbers for the President. UNH Survey Center Granite State Poll\Presidential Approval\ October '01 February '02\Approve 92% 87%\Neutral, don't know 2% 4%\Disapprove 6% 9%\Margin of error= =/- 3.6% |
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UNH Survey Center Granite State Poll\Presidential Favorability Rating\ October '01 February '02\Favorable 88% 84%\Neutral, don't know 4% 5%\Unfavorable 8% 11%\Margin of error= +/- 3.6% UNH Survey Center Granite State Poll\Presidential Approval - Economy\ October '01 February '02\Approve 75% 69%\Neutral, don't know 8% 6%\Disapprove 18% 25%\Margin of error= +/- 3.6% UNH Survey Center Granite State Poll\Presidential Approval -Foreign Policy\ October '01 February '02\Approve 88% 86%\Neutral, don't know 4% 4%\Disapprove 7% 10%\Margin of error= +/- 3.6% |
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For more information on this and other political polls visit the UNH website at unh-dot-edu. |
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On a quick note, Wall street was closed Monday in observance of the President's day holiday. |
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One of the hardest-hit parts of the New Hampshire economy right now is the forest products industry. It's the state's third largest industry - but over the past year, a combination of local and international events have led many forest products producers to the edge of financial ruin. As producer Richard Ager reports, some legislators now think a financial bailout is going to be needed to ensure any future for the industry. |
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Soundup: tree getting cut down Track: Ask any woodsman - seldom have New Hampshire's forests been healthier - and seldom has it been harder to make a living from those forests. That's because in the past year, the foundations of our forest economy have collapsed. Soundup: log truck loading big logs Track: It all begins with the fact that until recently, everything that was harvested was used. The high-quality timber went to saw mills for boards and furniture. The low grade became wood chips and was sold for pulp and paper or as fuel for wood-fired electrical generating plants. Bite: Wood Tape 1 01;02:24 The future was looking pretty good there. We were utilizing all the wood. For example, the pile over here - the tops of the trees. That's a low-grade wood and it's being utilized instead of being left in the woods or left standing. Track: Everything changed with the closure of the mills in Berlin and Gorham. Those mills used to absorb nearly half the state's wood chip production. Now loggers are scrambling to find new more distant markets and make ends meet. Bite: Wood Tape 2 02:046 The marketing of the product since about this time last year has gotten continually worse. It's been harder and harder to move the same amount of low grade as we have in the past. And the client's land that we manage here has a lot of low grade wood to remove. And that's our focus, to provide a better future and a return for our investors. About this time last year when the mills started getting in trouble with payments through this period now we have had to reduce our workforce. We're not harvesting as much timber as we did in the past. So we're employing fewer contractors. Bite: Wood Tape 1 01:05:29 No doubt in my mind, there's going to be less people in the forestry industry. Things are tight now, they're very tight. And this is going to take more people out of it. Standup: Loggers don't have the option of simply taking out the most desirable timber. That's because here in the forest, the high-quality trees grown right alongside the low-quality trees. Take out only the most valuable trees like this red oak, and the quality and value of the forest will suffer. Soundup: fire in boiler at wood-fired plant Track: A further cloud on the horizon is the uncertain future of the state's wood-fired electrical generating plants which normally buy up the other half of the state's wood chip production. During the energy crisis of the late 70's, the state legislated electrical rate subsidies for wood-fired plants by guaranteeing PSNH would buy their power. Eight were built. At one time, they supplied 10% of the state's electricity. Now, with six plants left, it's about half that, and with deregulation comes the end of their guaranteed subsidies by 2007. Bite: Wood Tape 3 03:02:01 Well I think with current market conditions, large scale power plants, central generating plants, gas fired, the cost to produce power is lower. I think that our dependence on foreign sources though has not gone away and I think that we should stay a part of the energy mix in NH. Track: Jeb Bradley was the lead legislator in bringing about deregulation. Now he wants a temporary subsidy for the wood-fired plants of $3 million a year. It would be paid from rate-payer charges that usually go to subsidize energy efficiency and low-income users. Bite: Wood Tape 4 00:11:25 I think you have to look at the fact of what's happened in the North Country and the very high, the record unemployment rates up north and the devastation in that industry and quite frankly whether it's state dollars helping people who are unemployed and with other benefits that come from losing their job or whether its trying to find a mechanism to keep people working in the woods, either way there' going to be a cost. Bite: Wood Tape 4 00:02:28 Well the transitional assistance we're talking about goes in the bill, as we're looking about will probably be about three years, two and a half to three years. And then after that, we're looking at long term solutions, things that don't require state subsidy or state action. Things like green power market for those individuals who are interested willing to do a little extra to buy power from a renewable source. Bite: Wood Tape 2 02:26:40 This a fuel source that is what's called carbon neutral. You cut a tree down and you burn it for fuel, another tree grows up and uses CO2 from the atmosphere to grow, so it's carbon neutral, as opposed to fossil fuels. Soundup: chips going up the conveyer belt Track: The bill's sponsors hope the environmental arguments, along with the needs of a troubled industry, will help push the legislation through. They say wait even a year and two more of the plants may close. Bite: Wood Tape 1 01:08:39 I would just say one thing. Take care of your people and your backyard. OR: Bite: Wood Tape 1 01:03:11 We don't know what's going to happen to the energy in the future. And this is here - this stuff is right here. It's here to be used. I think the finncial part needs to be worked out but it's so important - and it's not energy from another part of the world. It's very simple. And we get to use it here - and then good for our economy. It's a good business. Track: For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager. Soundup: Tree cutting - inside the cab or other great shot |
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A legislative hearing into The Forest Products Preservation Act will held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. by the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee. |
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On Tuesday: Video Lottery \SB 198\Senate Finance Comm.\State House Room 103\February 19 at 10:00am The Senate Finance Committee will take up a bill to legalize video lottery and use the proceeds to reduce the state-wide property tax. Prescription Drugs for Seniors \HB 1468\House Health &Human Serv. Cmte.\LOB Room 205\February 19 at 10:00am The House Health and Human Services Committee will hear a proposal to give seniors better access to prescription drugs. Utility restucturing\HB 1349\House Technology Cmte.\LOB Room 304\February 19 at 10:00am The House Technology Committee will examine a bill to accelerate electric deregulation in the Connecticut Valley. Bingo\HB 1450\House Ways and Means Cmte.\LOB Room 202\February 19 at 10:00am The House Ways and Means Committee will hear a bill to allow multi-hall bingo games. Court Security\HB 1411\Senate Finance Cmte.\State House Room 103\February 19 at 11:00am The Senate Finance Committee will debate a House appropriation for district court security. Statewide Property Tax\HB 1462\House Ways and Means Cmte.\LOB Room 202\February 19 at 2:00pm And the House Ways and Means Committee will hear a bill that would eliminate the statewide property tax. On Wednesday: Emergency Preparedness\HB 1478\House Human Services Cmte.\LOB Room 201\February 20 12:30pm The House Human Services Committee will hear a bill aimed at increasing the state's readiness for biological disasters, including bioterrorism. |
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Sunday's storm left behind about 8 inches of snow in Walpole just over 3 inches in Keene - and 5 inches in Weare. Nothing on the seacoast however. And, it looks like we might get some milder temperatures by mid - week. Chris Perruzzi at the Mount Washington Observatory has the forecast and a look at conditions on top of the rock pile. |
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Mt. Washington Observatory\Monday on the Summit\Clear skies\Visibility: 140 miles miles\High: 18\Peak Gust: NE 47 mph Overnight\North\Mostly clear\Lows: 0 to 10\Winds: Light and variable\ Overnight\Central and South\Mostly clear\Lows: Mid teens\Winds: NW 5 to 10 mph\ Tuesday\Statewide\Mostly sunny skies\Highs: Upper 30s to low 40s\Winds: Light and variable\ |
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Ever wonder who makes sure hospitals are doing everything they can to properly care for patients? Recently we had a chance to meet one New Hampshire physician who - for seven years - inspected hospitals around the country as part of a certification process. His name is Jules Seletz and in addition to being a physician he's also a writer of medical mystery thrillers. --- |
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nat of some emergency sirens etc -- track- You're on the way to the hospital. How do you know that you'll get the best available care. That there won't be any mistakes. That you'll get the right medications - or if you need surgery - that those who operate will do so on the right body part.That the anesthesia you're given won't cause an allergic reaction. -- more nat -- track- Meet Dr. Jules Seletz. For seven years he served as physician surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organization. JCAHO is the nationally and internationally accepted accrediting agency for the Healthcare industry. Dr. Seletz inspected hospitals all over the country and here in New Hampshire too. -- 01:12:13 Actually I'm not at liberty to tell you grades or anything. You know that. Twenty six hospitals in new Hampshire. And I think I've done about twenty of the twenty six, some of them repeatedly, because at one point in time I used to do all of new Hampshire in a three month period of time. Without ever leaving the state. Plum assignment, plush. They're good, I don't think that I've surveyed a Health Care organization of any sort in New Hampshire that really got a bad, if you want to call it a grade, we do give a percentage grade on a grid at the and of the survey. Um, that's not true of other states that I've gone into. 1:12:58 -- track - In addition regular inspections of hospitals, JCAHO also investigates hospitals - when there has been a report of what's known as a sentinel event. -- sot 1:10:33 What a sentinel event really is is a mishap, an unexpected, unanticipated death, a mix up of medications, incidentally mix up of medications is the number one sentinel event in the country, wrong dose wrong medicine. 1:10:50 -- track Dr. Seletz served in the U.S. Army for 41 years, becoming a full Colonel.He was a general and peripheral vascular surgeon for 35 years. Dr. Seletz lives in Lincoln New Hampshire with his wife. They have seven children and twelve grandchildren. While surveying hospitals for JCAHO, Dr. Seletz had occasion to investigate Sentinel events. As a matter of fact, he's used real-life sentinel events in five novels he's written. They're medical mystery thrillers. One title is Code Pink - based on an infant abduction. -- sot 1:22:46 It's a disastrous thing to have happen, if you can imagine any young mother, suddenly her baby is gone, nobody knows where her baby is. Infant abductions, it's a real thing, it happens, and it's unfortunate. So, there was a sentinel event alert that came out about two years ago, to all the hospitals, on doing better with the security of our infants. 1:23:13 -- BUTT BITE 1:24:07 I think education has been the real way to get better because if the mother has an explanation that you don't just give this baby up to somebody you've never seen before just because they say they need to see the baby for a lab test or something, and the staff, if you see somebody walking around that you haven't seen on staff before, just because they have a badge doesn't mean anything, they can be counterfeit. And that raises awareness, alertness to it. Now, that's first and foremost, cause to back that up then you do need the alarm systems, the stairways need to be alarmed, video cameras, surveying, now they've gotten to, have you ever taken a dress out of the store without them taking the alarm button off,? Bang bang bang bang, so now they're fitting either bracelets or anklets onto the babies and the sired all the exits from the nursery area to set the alarm off. 01:25:08Out -- 01:25:13one of the things we stressed was test your system, and you could do it any way you wanted to one of the ways to do it is through your overhead announce Code Pink. Code Pink. Code Blue is a cardiac arrest, intensive are unit, crash team comes out. So code pink means, somebody's trying to steal a baby. And uh, then they tested the system. We found out that actually, if the baby gets out of the nursery you have to contain them and keep them from leaving the building, and you don't have enough security normally to check every door, every window, whatever. So the entire staff has to be involved with protecting their exits.1:26:06 -- Anther Seletz Novel - Sentinel Event - deals with an operating death. -- 2:04:46 If you're going in to surgery, the thing you want to be certain of, if there are two sides to be operated on, that the correct side is operated on. And there have been a lot of problems in the past with removing the wrong leg, and removing the non-cancerous kidney, orthoroscoping the wrong knee. You can't take out the wrong gall-bladder, there's only one side. The wrong side of the brain has been opened up, the wrong eye has been operated on. These are over a long period of time but these things have happened so that the organizations these day's are becoming much more alert, as are the patients to this possibility. So, two things have to happen. Number one, everyone on the operating team from the pre-admission people to the admitting nurse, to the operation nurse, the surgeon the anesthesiologist all have to agree that they have talked to the patient and the patient has told them that 'Yes, I am having my left side, left left side operated on' not the right side, the left side. Now patients do get upset with being asked a number of times, 'Do you have any allergies?' But sometimes they forget the first two or three times they're asked someone else asks it and it comes out. So it's off, time out, and let's find out for sure. They've even gotten to where patients themselves have put a piece of adhesive tape on the side not to be operated on and it says 'please do not touch' 02:06:18Out WELL HOW DO YOU REASSURE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE OK, 02:06:29 Well as I said, number one five people have to ask that patient which side are we operating on, the patient has to tell them which side they're operating on. You have to be careful of the older population because they get mirror-image when they're facing you s you have to turn around and be facing the same way they are. Otherwise it's 'time out'. You know, postpone surgery, cancel surgery, let's find out and be certain. Uh, other things have happened, I have to tell you. X rays have been put up backwards, mri s have been put up backwards, cat scans have been put up backwards, so we have to have a better. See it spreads out throughout the whole operation. Radiology has to very careful how they mark their xrays and their cat scans to make sure right left. You can't be too careful. And the same thing for medications. Medication errors are one of our biggest problems. And we're becoming more and more aware of that and thus we're becoming more and more, the organizations themselves as well as the patients. Education is big, I have to keep saying that I know, but the patients are a lot smarter than they were back at the turn of the century about going into hospitals. That's for sure. 02:07:51Out -- |
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And Dr. Seletz both as a surveyer for JCAHO and author has done more than his share of educating those who serve the public in the medical field and those who seek treatment there. If you want to find out more about hospital accreditation or about how the group rates the hospital in your area go to their website www.jcaho.org |
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That's it for this edition of our program. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Thanks to our founding sponsors who have provided major funding for the production of New Hampshire Outlook: New Hampshire Charitable Foundadtion Public Service of New Hampshire Alice J. Reen Charitable Trust Putnam Foundation Stratford Foundation |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. Managing the cost of healthcare on your own. Tonight at 10 on New Hampshire Public Television. |
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+NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:2/18/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 6:44 minutes In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a discussion on a presidential approval poll. NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: |
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+NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:2/18/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 5:31 minutes In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on one of the hardest-hit parts of the New Hampshire economy right now, the forest products industry. It's the state's third largest industry - but over the past year, a combination of local and international events have led many forest products producers to the edge of financial ruin. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager |
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+NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:2/18/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:50 minutes In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included an interview with one New Hampshire physician who - for seven years - inspected hospitals around the country as part of a certification process. His name is Jules Seletz and in addition to being a physician he's also a writer of medical mystery thrillers. PRODUCER / REPORTER: Allison McNair NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Jules Seletz\Author |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. we meet a man who investigates unexplained deaths in hospitals. Sentinel Events.tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - Health Week continues with a look at managing the cost of healthcare on your own and on the job. |
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AP-NH--MtBE Well hrwsmfcon Family struggles with state for safer water -- A Webster couple whose home well water has been contaminated by gasoline additive M-t-B-E wants the state to drill them a new well or pay for a filtering system. But the state, which is supplying John and Nancy Ceriello with bottled drinking water, wants to do further testing on the well water first. Three tests taken in August and September showed levels outside the safety threshold. Three tests since showed them within it. So the state continues testing, aiming to determine whether the problem is serious enough to warrant filtration and further investigation. The Ceriello's well is one of about 100 the state is monitoring for M-t-B-E. A |
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Cut 2:30 VO of United Airlines at Manchester Airport. |