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COMMUNITY PARAMEDICINE To enhance access to local health care services and reduce unnecessary ambulatory services, McCook’s Community Hospital, primary care clinic and fire department jointly launched a Community Paramedicine pro-gram in 2016. Now, that partnership is being presented as a best prac-tice case study to inspire other hospital leaders in rural communities across the U.S. The collaboration that created the McCook Community Paramedicine program is featured in the 2017 Compendium of Best Practices in Rural Health Hospital Community Partnerships, a publication of Bryan Health. It is one of 12 case studies that illustrate what is possi-ble when hospitals and community organizations share resources, skills and services for a greater impact on population health. Funded through a grant from the Community Hospital Health Foundation, Community Paramedicine expands the role of paramedics to provide free health services and safety assessments to recently hospitalized patients after they return home. The goal of the program is to ensure patients receive the most appropriate level of care, and to decrease costs by reducing emergency transports, emergency room visits and hospital readmissions. Julie Wilhelmson, RN, BSN, director of emergency and mother/baby services at Community Hospital, says the program is meeting its goals. “The Community Paramedicine program enables us to maximize our health care resources while working together to provide our patients with the integrated care they need,” she said.

OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE FEEDBACK Hunters, landowners, and the general public have an opportunity to give feedback to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) during upcoming meetings. The main focus is on big game issues. Kit Hams, NGPC Big Game Program manager, says the annual meetings allow anybody to give feedback to staff. “They’ll be able to answer questions and discuss strategy on what we maybe wanting to do in the future,” Hams tells Nebraska Radio Network. “Mostly, our staff want to find out from the public what they would like to see changed or left alone.” He expects topics to range from crop damage issues to the size of deer hunters would like to season dates. “The general public frequently has concerns, if deer numbers are high, about deer-vehicle collisions,” Hams says. All comments will be provided to the Game and Parks Commission members, and will be used to help craft new policies or change existing rules. Imperial is hosting a meeting on January 9th.

TWO BAD CHOICES United States Senator Ben Sasse says Alabama faced two bad choices Tuesday. “I couldn’t have voted for either of these people and if you don’t reject two bad choices, when you have only two bad choices, you won’t get better choices in the future,” Sasse tells Nebraska Radio Net-work. Democrat Doug Jones upset Republican Roy Moore in the special election to fill former Senator turned Attorney General Jeff Session’s seat. Jones took 49.92% of the vote in the unofficial tally with Moore winning 48.38%. Sasse, a Republican, says though he couldn’t support Moore, he didn’t see a good alternative in Jones. “If you’re pro-life as I am, you looked at this race from the end of the primary and you said, every outcome here is going to make December 13th a pretty sad day,” Sasse says. “But, I think one of the things that’s interesting that happened is you saw a lot of voters saying no to both.” The percentage of write-in ballots cast in the election edges close to 2%, greater than Jones’ mar-gin of victory.

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SPORTS The fifth-seeded Nebraska volleyball team will face No. 1 seed Penn State at 6 p.m. (CT) tonight in the first of two NCAA Semifinals at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The match will be televised live by ESPN. The Huskers face both a familiar foe and a familiar path in Kansas City. Nebraska will face fellow Big Ten opponent Penn State (33-1) on Thursday. The Huskers handed the Nittany Lions their only loss this season on Sept. 22 in University Park, and Nebraska also eliminated Penn State from the 2016 NCAA Tourna-ment with a dramatic come-from-behind victory in the regional semifinal. For the second straight season, Nebraska will face a rematch with a semifinal opponent who the Huskers beat during the regular season and eliminated from the previous year’s NCAA Tournament. Last year in Columbus, Nebraska was swept by Texas in its semifinal match after sweeping the Longhorns during the regular season and topping Texas in the 2015 NCAA Final. Scott Frost has his quarterback. Fresno (Calif.) quarterback Adrian Martinez announced his commitment to the Big Red on Wednesday evening. Martinez was the first quarterback target for Frost & Co., receiving an offer from the Big Red on the day that Frost was announced as Nebraska's new head coach. Martinez had been committed to Tennessee, but visited the Huskers last weekend officially. Nebraska went in-home with Martinez and his family on Tuesday night to help complete the flip from the Volunteers. Marti-nez is the No. 8 dual-threat quarterback in the country with an overall rating of 0.9383 according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite rankings. The win is a big one for Nebraska, who gets a quarterback comfortable with Frost's spread offense. Martinez will sign during the early signing period and enroll at Nebraska in January.

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