40 Years Of Heart Care At Tradition At Advanced Heart Care, CHRISTUS MFH Health System
By Holly Ragan, Senior Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected]
Sulphur Springs, Texas, October 13, 2020– CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs has ONE mission: To Extend the Health Ministry of Jesus Christ.
Hospital Visitation
For the safety and health of the community and our ministry, CHRISTUS Health is screening all associates and visitors to our hospitals to help lessen the risk of infectious disease transmission among our patients, associates, and guests.
- (1) Entrance to hospital through Emergency Department 24/7
- (1) Visitor per patient
- Visitors must be between the ages of 16 years-old and 65-years old
- All visitors are screened at the door, including a temperature taken
- All associates are screened at each shift, including a temperature taken
- Visiting hours are 7 a.m. to 7p.m. (subject to change)
- ALL hospital visitors are required to wear a mask. Visitors should bring their own mask; homemade cloth masks are acceptable.
Local Services
Dermatology
Dermatology & Skin Cancer Surgery Center is now practicing in Sulphur Springs and accepting patients under the care of Roxanne Swafford, FNP. She is seeing patients at 1228 Church St. Suite D. To schedule your appointment, call 972.390.9002 and select “Option 1”. You may also schedule online at www.mdbarrows.com.
Cardiology
Advanced Heart Care and CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital Health System have delivered heart care in Northeast Texas for over 40 years. Together, we will continue providing leading-edge heart care to the communities in which we serve. Available right here in Sulphur Springs hospital is our team of heart specialists at Advanced Heart Care made up of Cardiologists and Electrophysiologists, our state-of-the-art Cath lab, Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and Heart Attack Care 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. We look forward to helping you take an active role in your heart health with our team approach for your care. For more information on the Cardiology group, and their capabilities to see patients in person or via telemedicine, go to www.advancedheartcare.com.
COVID-19
Experiencing Symptoms? If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, cough, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, chills, muscle pain or headache, or diarrhea, please call your provider for either a face-to-face appointment or a telemedicine consultation. If your provider determines you need to have a COVID-19 test, they will send you to the appropriate outpatient location for testing.
If you are experiencing an emergency, please present to the Emergency Room. At this time, we are preserving our Emergency Room COVID-19 tests for those who are experiencing an emergency. Otherwise, we would ask that you follow the steps above.
If you do not have a healthcare provider, CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic welcomes new patients. Please call 903.885.3181 to talk to one of our associates about setting up an appointment.
Don’t Delay Care: We want to be perfectly clear – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances remains a safe place for all to receive quality care. Go to the Emergency Department or call 9-1-1 if you are urgently ill. While COVID-19 is new, our processes and procedures in place for infection prevention and preventing the spread of illness are not. To learn more about COVID-19, go to ChristusTMF.org or www.cdc.gov.
CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System includes CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospitals – Tyler, South Tyler, Jacksonville, Winnsboro and Sulphur Springs, the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital – Tyler, CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rehabilitation Hospital a partner of Encompass Health, Tyler Continue CARE Hospital at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, a long-term acute care facility, and CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic. CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic is the area’s preferred multi-specialty medical group, with more than 400 Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers representing 36 specialties in 34 locations serving Northeast Texas across 41 counties. For more information on services available through CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, visit christustmf.org
Bed count – 402 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler
Bed count – 8 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – South Tyler
Bed count – 25 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Jacksonville
Bed Count – 96 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs
Bed count – 25 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Winnsboro
Bed count – 94 – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rehabilitation Hospital
Bed count – 96 – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart – Tyler
Bed count – 51 – Tyler Continue CARE Hospital at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital
Wildcats Tennis Team Has Tough Day Against Hallsville in 17-2 Loss Tuesday
The Wildcats have not had a match in two weeks. Entering today’s contest against Hallsville they were 2-2 in district play and 3-2 overall this season.
When the Wildcats won at Pine Tree back on September 29, Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez said the win assured the Wildcats of a playoff spot.
Since that match, the Wildcats canceled non-district matches at Van on October 3 and at Pleasant Grove on October 6.
Today was an opportunity to get back on the flats, but the rust showed as Team Tennis lost to Hallsville, 17-2.
A number of matches were close, with many of them going to 10-point tiebreakers.
It was not without effort, though, for a few matches went to 10-point tiebreakers.
The last game for the Wildcats, a 14-5 win over Pine Tree, had 7 matches go to tiebreakers, with 4 of those going their way.
The story was not the same today, though, as 3 tiebreakers occurred in the loss Tuesday, with only one going the way of the Wildcats.
One of the tiebreakers in question, a doubles win for Kaylle Schumacher and Ella Ray, was won easily in the first set, 6-0, then Hallsville fought back, winning the second set, 4-6. But Schumacher and Ray showed tenacity, by plowing through the third set to take the match point for the Wildcats.
The victory would not last long, though.
By the time Shane Hinton lost in singles, the Hallsville Bobcats had already gained the “10th point,” as the Wildcats Team Tennis coaching staff likes to call it, when a team gets their 10th point of the match, they win the game, so the defeat was already at hand for the Wildcats.
Had it not been for a late victory by Trinity Luckett, a tightly contested match that ended second to last, the Wildcats would have left the Tennis Center at Sulphur Springs High School 18-1.
Instead Luckett pulled through, giving the Wildcats a tough, but perhaps more respectable 17-2 loss to Hallsville.
Next up, the Wildcats Team Tennis (2-2 district, 3-3 overall) will travel to Marshall on Tuesday, Oct. 20 to play the Mavericks in another hotly contested district match-up that will be the final match of the regular season for the Wildcats.
KSST is proud to be the official Wildcat and Lady Cat Station. We broadcast Sulphur Springs ISD games year round live on radio. When allowed, we also broadcast games via our YouTube channel.
Winnsboro Police Department Report For Oct. 5-11, 2020
The Winnsboro Police Department media report for the week of Oct. 5-11, 2020, included the following activity:
Arrests
No arrests
Calls for Service
The Winnsboro Police Department responded to a total of 140 calls for
service during this reporting period.
Citations
The Winnsboro Police Department issued 22 citations and 36 warnings
during this reporting period.
Oct. 13 Hopkins County COVID-19 Update: 28 Recoveries, 9 New Cases
Hopkins County/Sulphur Springs Emergency Management officials reported more Hopkins County people recovered from COVID-19 than the number of people who received positive COVID-19 test results on Tuesday. The 28 recoveries reported Tuesday in the HC/SSEM Oct. 13 Hopkins County COVID-19 Update. was good news, but wasn’t enough to balance or offset the number of new positive cases reported over the last 2 days.
A whooping 32 new cases, the most ever reported at one time by the HC/SSEM, were reported on Monday and 9 nine additional cases were reported Tuesday. The 28 recoveries Tuesday and 2 on Monday, reduced the overall active case count from 119 to 100, according to the Oct. 13 Hopkins County COVID-19 update.
The 41 new cases reported so far this week bring the total number of Hopkins County residents who have tested positive so far this month to 92. That’s more new cases during the first 13 days of October than during the whole month of July, when 89 total cases were reported, and more than August, when 91 people tested positive for COVID-19. That’s about 2.5 times more cases reported Oct. 1-13 than Sept. 1-13.
The 30 recoveries reported this week, combined with those already posted this month amount to 70 recoveries so far. That’s also more than 4 times as many recoveries reported so far this month than during the first 13 days of September.
Cumulatively, there have been 453 Hopkins County residents test positive for COVID-19 since March, including 353 who have recovered from the virus. HC/SSEM reported in the Oct. 13 Hopkins County COVID-19 update.
HC/SSEM in their Oct. 13 Hopkins County COVID-19 update reported 132 were performed at the free testing site on Monday, Oct. 12. That’s 323 tests conducted over the last week at the testing site and a total of 1,078 tests performed since testing was first offered at at 128-A Jefferson St. on Sept. 25.
Free testing for COVID-19 will continue to be offered for anyone. Symptoms are not required. The test is a mouth swab molecular test, according to information provided by Texas Department of Emergency Management and local officials. Register online at GoGetTested.com. Simply log on, scroll down to “Sulphur Springs — Red Cross/Old Fidelity Express — Texas Emergency Management” location, click the green “BOOK NOW” button in the right corner and follow the prompts.
The COVID Unit at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital-Sulphur Springs had 6 patients, one more patient on Tuesday than on Monday, Oct. 12, when the fewest number of patients was reported so far this month. The most patients in the COVID Unit so far in October has been 9, which is still only half of the 3-month high of 17 posted on Sept. 28. In fact, the COVID unit remained in double digits from Sept. 21-30, a time span when 9 Hopkins County residents were reported by the state to have died from COVID-19.
The were no new reports of COVID-19 deaths for Hopkins County on either Oct. 12 or Oct. 13. But, 20 Hopkins County residents have died from COVID-19 over the last 3 1/2 months. Two deaths were reported in July, 6 in August, 9 in September and 3 So far this month, according to Texas Department of State Health Services, which receives notification when COVID-19 is listed as officials cause of death on death certificates.
Texas Health and Human Services’ Oct. 13 report showed no change in nursing home COVID-19 case counts in Hopkins County. There continued to be 27 active resident cases at Carriage House Manor as of Sept. 29, according to HHS. The facility had 16 employees and test positive, but those cases were no longer active on Sept. 29; there had been total of 45 resident cases, including 13 recoveries and 4 deaths as of Sept. 29, according to the HHS report.
There continued to be 1 active COVID-19 case among Wesley House employees on Sept. 29, according to the Oct. 13 HHS assisted living facility report. The facility has had 7 residents test positive for COVID-19, but all 7 had recovered by Sept. 29.
There were no active COVID-19 cases at any of the licensed child care centers, school-age programs or before and after school programs in in Hopkins County on Oct. 12, according to the Oct. 13 HHS report.
Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Bailey Dorner Discusses Three-Win Week on Coach’s Show Saturday
Lady Cats Volleyball Coach Bailey Dorner talked about a big week last week for her team on KSST Radio and Cable Channel 18’s Saturday, Oct. 10, Morning Coach’s Show.
Playing three matches at home, the Lady Cats came from behind to defeat Marshall on Tuesday and then won a pair of matches Friday against Pine Tree and Mount Pleasant. Coach Dorner said the three home wins were especially important after her team’s loss on the road to start district play at Texas High on Oct. 2.
After the Texas High loss, Coach Dorner told her team they had the chance to improve to 3-1 in district play or fall to 0-4. She said they could either lay down or fight. Coach Dorner’s plans seemed to be in trouble Tuesday as the Lady Cats fell behind Marshall 2-0 at home. But, the Lady Cats rallied winning the last three sets to win the match. The 5-set win removed a monkey from the backs of the team and Coach Dorner. The Lady Cats last won a 5-set match early last season.
On the Coach’s Show, Coach Dorner agreed that her team played some of their best volleyball of the season Friday in 3-0 wins against Pine Tree and in the make up match against Mount Pleasant. She said no one on the team had a bad game. Coach Dorner noted that the Lady Cats hardly let the ball hit the floor in their Pine Tree win. She attributed that to fantastic effort to get to balls.
Earlier last week, Coach Dorner and her staff worried about the difficulty of playing back-to-back matches. Fortunately, the Lady Cats took out Pine Tree in three sets. Still Coach Dorner said her team was a little bit tired at the start of the Mount Pleasant match but they were able to overcome that.
KSST is proud to be the official Wildcat and Lady Cat Station. We broadcast Sulphur Springs ISD games year round live on radio. When allowed, we also broadcast games via our YouTube channel.
Game Day: Wildcats Team Tennis Hosts Hallsville, Lady Cats Volleyball Team Gets Night Off
There is Wildcats Team Tennis on this Tuesday, October 13, game day. The Wildcats have a district match with Hallsville at the Wildcat Tennis Complex beginning at 2:30 p.m.
The Wildcats have not had a match for two weeks. They are currently 2-2 in district play and 3-2 overall this season. When the Wildcats won at Pine Tree back on September 29, Wildcats Tennis Coach Tony Martinez said the win assured the Wildcats of a playoff spot. Since that match, the Wildcats canceled non-district matches at Van on October 3 and at Pleasant Grove on October 6.
Today’s match against Hallsville may shape up as a battle for third place in the district. The Wildcats complete district play next Tuesday at Marshall.
Meanwhile the Lady Cats Volleyball Team has in bye in district play on this game day Tuesday.
The Lady Cats are 3-1 in district play and 6-6 for the season. The Lady Cats resume district play on Friday as they play host to Hallsville at the Main Gym at Sulphur Springs High School. The varsity match gets things started Friday at 4:30 p.m.
Yantis ISD Suspending Remote Learning
Yantis ISD is suspending remote learning as of Friday, Oct. 16, according to the superintendent.
All Yantis ISD students, with the exception of students who have tested positive for COVID-19 or have temporarily been place in quarantine, will return to the school campus for face-to-face instruction beginning Tuesday, Oct. 20, Superintendent Tracey Helfferich announced in a letter to Yantis ISD families posted on the district social media accounts Tuesday morning, Oct. 13.
Helfferich said noted that 28 percent of YISD’s online learners were failing at least one class at the end of the first 9-weeks of school. Many remote learners are already beginning to return to campus and with improved performance results.
Remote learning has also been especially challenging and taxing for YISD teachers, who start their days earlier to deal with challengers of COVID-19 and have been required to teach on different platforms to serve students on campus and as well as those who chose remote learning.
“Our staff has performed all of these task while putting in more hours than we should ask of them. We know that this workload along with the stress of keeping up with all of it is not sustainable,” Helfferich wrote in the letter.
Families who do not want their students to return to school may withdraw from YISD to homeschool their children using accredited online learning programs such as K12 Online Schools or TxVSN-The Texas Virutal School Network. enroll in a private school or request a transfer to a district that offers remote learning.
Parents may address questions related to their child’s return to face-to-face learning to the student’s campus principal.
7 Additional Positive COVID-19 Results Reported For Sulphur Springs ISD
Seven additional positive COVID-19 results were reported for Sulphur Springs ISD students and employees on Monday,
On Oct. 12, the district was notified 5 additional students and one additional staff member at high school had received lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 results. One staff member at Douglass Early Childhood Learning Center also received positive coronavirus results on Monday.
That’s 13 high school students and 3 staff at high school who have tested positive over the last week, and 16 students and 5 staff members at high school this month.
Also testing positive over the last week were 4 staff members at Barbara Bush Primary and 1 staff member at middle school. On Oct. 5, 2 middle school staff members also tested positive. That’s a total of 16 students and 13 staff members at SSISD who have received positive COVID-19 results so far in October, according to SSISD reports.
In September, a dozen students and 2 staff members at high school, 3 students and 2 employees at middle school, 3 staff members at Sulphur Springs Elementary, 2 district employees, 1 Douglass ECLC student, 1 Travis Primary student and 2 Bowie Primary students tested positive for COVID-19, according to the school notifications.
Overall, that’s at least 35 students and 23 staff member were on SSISD premises or buses within a the week of receiving the positive test result. That’s not counting any students or staff who tested positive before classes began or who were not on campus prior to receiving a positive COVID-19 test result.
Hopkins County Jury Returned Guilty Findings In Burglary Trial
A Hopkins County jury returned guilty findings in the burglary trial of Cash Allen Price, officials reported just after 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Price, 33, was accused on two counts of burglary of a building, a shop/barn and a storage container, on April 5, 2020.
Jury selection was held Monday. The trial immediately followed Monday and continued Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, at Hopkins County Civic Center to allow for social distancing between jurors as well as among court officials and the public. The jury was given the charge and began deliberating in both burglary cases after 11 a.m. and returned a guilty verdict before 1 p.m. Oct. 13.
Prosecutors closed their case Tuesday morning. The defendant after twice consulting with his attorney, Clay Johnson, Tuesday morning opted not to testify. The defense then also closed, opting not to put on a case. Johnson reminded the jury that the burden of proof was on the state, but that the defense was not required to do so.
Eighth Judicial District Judge Eddie Northcutt denied Johnson’s request to include as an option in the charges the lesser included offense of criminal trespass, citing case law regarding criminal trespassing as a lesser included offense in burglary cases.
Johnson in his closing statements argued that the evidence presented by Assistant District Attorney Zachary Blackmon better fit the definition of criminal trespass then burglary of a building. He argued Blackmon did not present all 5 elements required for a burglary conviction, as outlined in the charge and read by Northcutt.
Northcutt instructed the jury to consider whether the defense proved within a reasonable doubt all 5 elements of each alleged burglary when determining guilt or innocence of Cash Price in the two building burglaries: whether the defendant intentionally, knowingly or reckless less entered each building; that the structure entered was a building; that the building was not open to the public; that the property owner did not grant permission to the defendant to enter the building; the defendant entered the building with the intent to commit a felony theft or assault. He said the defense must have proven each of the five elements of burglary within a reasonable doubt ccording to the legal definitions and parameters of the law.
Blackmon asked the jury to use their common sense to why the shop door was pried open and a 5-gallon bucket filled with tools, saddles moved from their designated spot to by the door, chainsaw stacked on toolboxes and a toolbox placed at the door entrance to be used as a step. He noted the pair arrived in a Budget van rented from Canton, which was involved in a vehicle ramming with the owner’s vehicle, That the owner recognized identified the defendant as the person who stood 10 feet from him him the day he found him and the other man at his storage building. The locks on the storage container were cut as well according to the owner’s testimony, Blackmon said during his closing statements.
Blackmon encouraged the jury to consider all evidence presented, testimony given as well as recordings played during the trial, and to request them for review if needed. Blackmon reminded them of the pieces of recorded phone conversations in which Price denied having anything to do with part of but not all charges against him, and that in Texas slightly guilty is considered guilty.
The property owner, who reported finding Price and another man in his storage building then confronted them, was among those called to testify Monday as did officials. Hunt County Sheriff’s Investigator Kenneth Peters testified Tuesday morning to locating Price April 4 walking in grass. Price was wet and muddy from being in the rainy weather.
Wanda Allen, as assistant jail administrator at Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office and custodian of records for the jail, testified that clips from audio recordings were from Price’s conversations with others using a jail phone; conversations on that phone are recorded. During one call, the list of charges on which Price has remained in Hopkins County jail since his arrest April 4 was stated. included theft of copper, two burglary of building charges, fraudulent use or possession of more than 5 items of identifying information and unlawful use of a criminal instrument. Price denies involvement in 4 of the charges, and maybe barely having anything to do with one charge. In another recorded conversation, he was asked why he ran if he didn’t do anything wrong. In another conversation, breaking and entering was discussed as a misdemeanor charge but copper theft as a felony offense.
Johnson in his closing statements argued the items in disarray in the shop building could have simply been moved by the owner while he worked inside the shop, not as a result of a burglary or intended theft. Johnson contended the evidence failed to place Price at the storage container, and that the door shown in the photos presented by prosecutors wasn’t even open. The defense attorney asked the jury to take into consideration the fact that no DNA evidence nor any fingerprints taken at the scene were presented as evidence tying Price to the alleged offenses.
Blackmon argued that the owner testified to seeing Price at his storage building and that if Price stuck his head in the door to look around or even so much as a fingernail breached the seal of the building, that is considered entry according to the law.
Burglary of a building is a state jail felony offense. State jail offenses are punishable upon conviction of 180 days to 2 years in state jail and a fine of up to $10,000, unless the the individual has previously been finally convicted of any felony. Then, the charge could be enhanced.
According to jail reports, Price has remained in custody since his arrest April 5, 2020; he was served while in custody with a warrant for violation of parole.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16, officials reported.
Ready to Order Your Stew? Here’s Cooks for 96 Pots of Hopkins County’s Finest!
Unless you already have a ticket to the Hopkins County Stew Festival you will have to just Pre Order or Pick up Stew through a Drive through on Saturday, October 28th. Quarts will be $ 10.00 each this year.
This is your chance to choose quarts from your favorite cooks or the ones you’ve been dying to try. We are reserving a limited amount for the drive-thru, and we will not be accepting preorders after October 21st, so you will want to call or stop by the Chamber ASAP!
Want to take care of preordering your quarts of stew before the weekend? We don’t blame you! The sooner, the better… Call the Chamber at (903) 885-6515, and they’ll fill out the form for you! The process is super easy!
Attached is a list of the 2020 stew cooks, in case you want to start planning your order.
T-shirts and hoodies for this year’s Stew are now available. Trust us, you want one! They are in stock in most sizes at the Chamber office, 110 Main Street.
