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P.O. Box 610 • Tribune, Kansas 67879 • 620-376-4264 —10 Pages— Wednesday, April 15, 2020, Vol. 154. No. 16

Our vision is a vibrant, friendly, innovative, unified community with your family, health and happiness in mind.

Jan & Dan

Lauren Crotinger signed a Letter of Intent to Cheer next year at Bethany College. Seated with Lauren are her parents AJ and Sheryl and standing are her sister Reagan and brother Evan who is currently a sophomore on the Bethany track and cross country squad.

Easter in Tribune

Celebrating Easter in different ways this year were (upper left) Kaylen Dautel, starting an Easter egg hunt by taking his picture with the Easter bunny near the library; (upper right, left to right) Hannah, Lori and Mattie Brandl brought some joy to LTC residents by adding colorful paintings to the LTC windows; and (left) Keiragen and Kohl Daniels painted the door of their home, and dyed Easter eggs as well.

Greeley County Health Services (GCHS) is striving to continue to fully serve patients in Greeley, Wallace and surrounding counties through the Coronavirus pandemic. To do so, GCHS has opened up additional home-appointment options for patients to still receive medical care without traveling into the facility.

“We have opened up new visit options including virtual visits and even home visits to help serve our patients,” Dr. Wendel Ellis, Chief Medical Officer, said, “We are doing everything we can to keep practicing medicine and taking care of people to the best of our ability.”

Greeley County Health Services continues to see patients in all locations for all services including physical therapy, outpatient treatments, infusions, clinic appointments, hospital services, laboratory and radiology, etc. In addition to offering services on-site, GCHS is expanding visit options so that patients can continue to receive medical care from home.

Telemedicine or virtual visits are done on a laptop, phone, or tablet through a secure video chat program that is easy to download. Patients need to have internet access, and then can join the video call and see the provider in-person and have a face-to-face conversation with the use of video technology.

Telemedicine/ virtual visits are ideal for patients that need to have prescriptions refilled;

have chronic, ongoing medical conditions (diabetes, asthma, arthritis, etc.);

have routine follow-up visits every 60 or 90 days;

have minor acute needs such as allergies, sniffles, soar throat, sinus infection, etc.

For patients that are less comfortable navigating technology and video visits, home visits are another option that GCHS providers are offering to patients at this time. Our doctors will travel to the patient’s home to conduct a visit, draw any necessary lab work, etc., and then follow up with the patient with results.

“We are more than happy to see our patients in their home to ease their burden or concern of traveling right now if we can,” Ellis said, “Our priority is to continue to take care of our patients as best we can.”

GCHS is currently offering virtual and home visits to all GCHS patients whose medical needs make them candidates for the services. If you live in Wallace County, Greeley County, Hamilton County or are a patient in a surrounding area, please contact Greeley County Clinic at 620-376-4251 or Wallace County Clinic at 785-852-4230 to see if you are eligible for one of these new in-home visit options.

GCHS announces new in-home visit options

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Tribune...…would we have so many

beautifully painted windows, both downtown and at the LTC! Thanks to those who shared their artistic talent and bright colors!

J — Stay-at-home and Stay Safe orders are still in place.

****J – Our Easter picture

is of granddaughter Jade in Austin, touching a lily on one of her many social-distancing walks around the neighborhood. We hope you all had a nice, although probably different, Easter and we hope we will all have a happy and most-anticipated lovely spring.

J — The Gooch’s Foods ad may look a little different until their distributor begins sending ads again. However, Gooch’s is continuing to offer specials and sales and we will continue to have a list of those on our back page in the “Gooch” spot. How thankful we are to have a wonderful grocery store at this time!

****J — Thanks to Christy

Hopkins for compiling her daily “Things to Know” column, and sharing some of that information with us. We know that facebook reaches some people and the newspaper reaches another group, and we are all trying to cooperate to get information to everyone. The Health Department and Hospital have also been fantastic in getting information out in various media.

****J – Be thinking about

what photos you might take for the “Day in the Life of Greeley County” photo event coming up on May 1st.

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D — Happy Easter! I found it interesting to celebrate as an individual rather than a community. It helps me to add an individual story to the community story. Both have validity.

****D — On the lock down, the information hasn’t always been complete. I like the Mark Twain quote, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”

****D — “It’s a conspiracy theory” is itself a conspiracy theory. I’ve traced it a ways back and the first example I found was from the Greeks. “All Cretins are liars, said the Cretin.” It morphed into “Everything I say is false.” Is that true or false? Science didn’t like the flip in logic so they said “no class can be a member of itself.” But their solution is a class that is a member of itself. It flips.

****D — Public relations, advertisement, propaganda, political double talk, brain washing, and MK ultra are just a few of the areas that use this self-referencing with negation. We need a little truth and affirmation. As individuals, as a community, as a state, as a nation and a world and as a species we are ok. We can take the truth. Lay it on us. But stop the con game. We want freedom rather than a lock down. We want a cure rather than a vaccine.

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