LAKE CITY REPORTER LOCAL & STATE SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2010 I faitiAn in II.. Ihwp lIor Ic -. al %ism CITY: Offers input Continued From Page 1A Copyrighted Material Syndicated Content Available from Commercial News Providers ager. Council will then vote to appoint board members. Once the appointments are complete, the board will determine how best to facil- itate the review process, Johnson said. The board will hold open meetings during the charter review, he said. "It's an opportunity to get citizens to input," Johnson said. Other meeting business will include: * Rudolph Davis and James L. Scofield address- ing the council. * An ordinance rezon- ing land owned by H.U.D. Developers on Grandview Avenue from residential, single family-2 to resi- dential, multi-family-2 for the proposed Sugar Mill Apartments Phase II. MAresolutiontoenterinto agreement with Cadenhead En. ironmental Engineering Services for the preparation of the domestic wastewa- ter treatment plant permit renewal and submittal to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. * A resolution to enter into an Accreditation Agreement for the Lake City Police Department with the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation, Inc. OLYMPICS: Gives athletes sense of fulfillment Continued From Page 1A the teams. ThenextSpecial Olympics event is the summer games on March 5 at Columbia County High School, which Special Olympics leaves will include track and field, the athletes with a sense of tennis and bocce. accomplishment, the direc- Participation in the tor said. "It provides them the opportunity to know they are the best," Brown said. MRI: Better for claustrophobic patients Continued From Page 1A Todd estimated the machine will be used to image about 10 patients per day. The unit allows doctors and MRI techni- cians to see patient's soft tissues, ligaments, tendons and nerves. The machine is the first open MRI to be housed at the Lake City VA Medical Center and . first for the North Florida/ South Georgia Veterans Healthcare System. The unit is a Phillips Panorama High Field Open MRI and it's being housed in a new building at the Lake City VA' Medical Center. Construction on the building began in May 2008 and the building was com- pleted in October 2009. The MRI unit was first operated there on Oct. 13, 2009. The unit offers a 360- degree panoramic view and is designed to help patients feel less confined and claus- trophobic. This machine is three times bigger than the traditional MRI. '"This unit is beneficial because we're able scan those patients we weren't able to scan before," Todd said. "We were fee-basing those patients out into their community and the image quality of some of those magnets weren't up to par. With the purchase of this High Field Open MRI, the image quality is compatible to the traditional close mag- net MRI. "This is a wonderful addi- tion for the veterans." BOARD: Land acquisitions began four years ago Continued From Page 1A of property equivalent to several city blocks in the downtown area near the hospital. "The authority started acquiring some property in that area, tearing down old buildings and old houses trying to clean up the drive onto the (hospital) prop- erty," Vann said. "This is maybe the next step to that long-range plan of trying to turn around that whole area. We're now taking the first steps in starting with the improvements rather than tearing down the old stuff. Shands, the hospital group, is a tenant in the Shands Lake Shore Hospital. The Lake Shore Hospital Authority leases the build- ing to the group and the LCPD: Suspect unarmed Continued From Page 1A but did have something to do with the incident, Blanchard said. The affida- vit for charges against the suspect will be reviewed in order for the state to issue a warrant for arrest, which could take up to two weeks. Identification of the sus- pect is withheld pending the arrest. Had the suspect been armed, the arrest would have been pushed through sooner, the public informa- tion officer said. group is in control of man- aging the hospital. The Lake Shore Hospital Authority Board levies taxes that are used to pro- vide health care for indi- gent Columbia County resi- dents who qualify for its programs. 'This is just the next long-range step, in not just providing indigent care, but into improving health care for the community," Vann said. "That's really the mission ... to help with overall health care improve- ments." SHear ye! Hearye "' --, Currents Magazine is now S._. 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