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WEDNESDAY 08.12.2015 journalrecord.com Vol. 120, No. 157 Prescription for change Two sections Single copy $1.00 • • • Deaconess rebrands to AllianceHealth INSIDE BY SARAH TERRY-COBO The Journal Record Dead ball It’s been OKLAHOMA CITY – Dea- 2 more than a year since coness Hospital changed its discussion began re- name to AllianceHealth Okla- garding a possible second pro- homa, the company announced fessional soccer team in the Tuesday. The health care city. Now, that team’s future provider network includes 10 seems dim, according to a hospitals, 70 clinics and six spokesman for the North home-health agencies. American Soccer League. Oklahoma network CEO Jim Kendrick said rebranding • • • its hospital group creates name recognition statewide. Allegiant relaunches Patients are more likely to flights from OKC to Las visit an AllianceHealth facility 7 when traveling across the state Vegas Allegiant Air is once again offering flights to if they can make the connec- Las Vegas out of Will Rogers tion between the local hospital World Airport, company offi- they trust and the company’s cials announced Tuesday. statewide network, Kendrick said. He started with the com- • • • pany Aug. 3. He traveled across Okla- homa to visit all 10 of the com- Increasing capaci- pany’s affiliated hospitals in the 19 ty for care Tulsa Cares, a nonprofit Jim Kendrick is CEO of AllianceHealth Oklahoma. PHOTO BY BRENT FUCHS Turn to PRESCRIPTION » p18 HIV/AIDS services provider, will almost triple its size with a $3 million-plus headquarters con- struction project. • • • State backs off questions about tribes’ electronic games Hobby Lobby, BY DALE DENWALT In June, GCU’s deputy di- a tribe may have indirectly Then, in late July, more 19 Mardel to occupy The Journal Record rector wrote to a federal official amended the compact and than a month after sending the former Kmart in with concerns that some elec- therefore expanded the defini- first letter, Cartmell wrote Tulsa Hobby Lobby Stores in- OKLAHOMA CITY – After tronic games used in casinos tion of Class III electronic again to the U.S. Department of tends to relocate central hearing no response from the were never officially authorized games. Their agreement was re- the Interior. Tulsa’s Hobby Lobby and federal government, Oklahoma’s under the compact that allowed flected in lab reports issued by “Based on the lack of re- Mardel locations into a former Gaming Compliance Unit has gaming in Oklahoma. In that Gaming Labs International, a sponse to my three questions, I Kmart facing Interstate 44. backed off its questions about letter, Jeffery Cartmell wrote firm that tests and certifies assume you do not require whether tribes are using improp- that a decade-old agreement electronic games, according to • • • erly authorized casino machines. between the state treasurer and Cartmell’s letter. Turn to GAMES » p18 Charged by am- 20 bition Dirk Spiers Lawyer: Workers’ comp decision could move cases to district court wants to become to battery services what Ama- BY DALE DENWALT The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals Robinson, did not argue whether the cir- zon.com is to books and iTunes The Journal Record sustained decisions made by the Workers’ cumstances of Robinson’s injury exempted is to music. Compensation Commission and an admin- it from coverage. OKLAHOMA CITY – An appeals court de- istrative law judge that denied workers’ Instead, the three-judge panel said • • • cision could force injured workers who compensation coverage for attorney Bob Burke and Robinson have questioned the le- FOLLOW THE challenge workers’ compensation laws to Burke’s client. gality of the statute and whether it deprived NEWS ALL DAY start their legal journey in district court, an The appeals court said in its Aug. 5 de- journalrecord.com attorney said. cision that Burke and his client, Cynthia Turn to COMP » p18 Around Town . 4A CRUDE OIL NATURAL GAS GASOLINE Around the State . 4A Perspectives . 6A Health Care . 8A 1.88 .002 .0003 Classifieds . 17A Being Well . 1B Public Notices . 2B Close $43.08 Close $2.844 Close $1.6937 2A « Aug. 12, 2015 « THE JOURNAL RECORD « journalrecord.com On the road to Edmond Klemm’s Smoke Haus A barbecue sand- to open first wich from Klemm’s brick-and-mortar restaurant Smoke Haus. BY MOLLY M. FLEMING PHOTO BY BRENT The Journal Record FUCHS EDMOND – A popular German-inspired barbecue food truck will soon open its first brick-and-mortar restaurant. Klemm’s Smoke Haus plans to move into a 2,200-square-foot former Mexican fast-food restaurant on S. Broadway Av- enue. With a lease still pending, event co- ordinator Jan Clem said she didn’t want to give the exact location. The Clem family plans to open the restaurant in November. The Clems have owned and operated a truck for a year-and-a-half, though they started catering three years ago with space. To think of being in a full-size has a long line at the monthly festival. He said he thinks that if a company their family-recipe barbecue. Klemm is kitchen – my heart just pumps.” “All the trucks seem to have their can operate a food truck, the transition the original German spelling of the fam- The family plans to offer the cus- own followers that seem to come from to restaurant is less challenging. ily’s name, and their crest is the logo on tomer favorites from the truck, as well as around city and around the state to eat at “You work with a lot of the same the truck. Joining Jan on the truck new recipes that may not make their way the truck,” she said. “And Klemm’s is no people in regulation as restaurants,” he are her husband, John; her son J.J., busi- onto the trailer because of space or tem- exception. They stay busy. Our food said. “You’re able to build a reputation ness owner; and her daughter, Ashley. perature. The restaurant will offer low- truck environment in Oklahoma is just and build a little bit of a relationship, “We’ve been looking for a site for a point beer at first, and could expand to so wonderful that hardly any trucks which make the transition that much while,” she said. “We knew when the higher point in the future, she said. don’t have a long line.” easier.” time came when it was the perfect sce- Desserts will also be on the menu, H&8th Night Market organizer Brian Clem said the family is looking for- nario it would all work.” which Clem said is a constant request Bergman said the truck not only offers ward to being able to point people to the The building will undergo extensive the family hears on the street. good food, but also has great people op- restaurant when they take the truck out. renovation before it opens. Clem said she Klemm’s Smoke Haus already has a erating it. He said the truck has been at She said they continue to be amazed at is looking forward to the new venture. following in Edmond, because it was one the event only a few times, but it always the constant praise from fans. “The great thing about this – as I’ve of the first participants in the city’s Heard has a good turnout. “It’s one of those things we will never told everybody – is we’ve done all this on Hurd event, organized by Citizens “They have a really good reputation get tired of hearing about,” she said. “It the hard way,” she said. “Running a food Bank of Edmond. Bank President and among the food truck community,” he blesses your heart when they talk about truck is very hard. You’re so limited on CEO Jill Castilla said the truck always said. how good it is.” Dead ball: NASL blows whistle on discussions with Lund’s Oklahoma City FC BY MOLLY M. FLEMING tor of the Broadway Clinic, Mariposa The Journal Record MedSpa and several other health care- related companies. OKLAHOMA CITY – It’s been more Jones said the group has not con- than a year since discussion began re- tacted the NASL in at least four weeks garding a possible second professional because it is working on securing a ma- soccer team in the city. Now, that team’s jority owner. Spain-based Rayo Valle- future seems dim, according to a cano de Madrid is rumored to be spokesman for the North American Oklahoma City FC’s majority owner. Soccer League. Jones said the team will not return to the “As we previously announced, the NASL for approval until the Spanish local group was going through a reor- team signs as the owner, which is ex- ganization process, and that process has pected to happen soon. not advanced to a far enough stage,” “I would think if Bill Peterson were Neal Malone wrote in an email to The asked the same question next week, then Journal Record. “Although we aren’t cur- his answer would change,” Jones said. rently engaged in discussions, we still George Quraishi, lead editor of feel very strongly about the potential of Howler, an intellectual soccer magazine, Oklahoma City being a successful NASL said it’s unusual that a team the size of market. At this time, however, we have Rayo Vallecano would become a major- moved our focus elsewhere until an Yukon High School’s Miller Stadium was expected to be the home of the Oklahoma City ity owner in a U.S. team. He said the ownership group emerges.” FC soccer team. FILE PHOTO BY BRENT FUCHS trend is often seen in larger clubs that The Oklahoma City FC, which is want to develop a fan base outside their managed by Sold Out Strategies, co- “We should have formal structure in The 11-league team will have two playing area.

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