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CMonday, June 17, 2013 www.capjournal.com Volume 132, Issue No. 118  75¢ PLANTING SEEDS RECORD BREAKER Volunteers help plant Pierre native shatters a butterfly garden 34-year-old record at Oahe Downstream A3 in final NDSU race B1 Rapid City hospital CEO denounces unsafe ranking

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Erica Mobley said Rapid City Leapfrog Group and its meth- plete a survey Leapfrog sent Rapid City Regional Hospital’s By the numbers Regional had more incidents odology. He said a number of the hospital. CEO is denouncing a national 2,514 hospitals surveyed by the of foreign objects left inside major health care organiza- “We are sure that hospitals nonprofit’s report that ranked Leapfrog Group patients after surgery than tions are “extremely critical of who do not participate and, the hospital among the least 148 hospitals graded “D” for patient the national average. The the Leapfrog Group.” thereby, fail to support the safe in the nation and the worst safety hospital also had an unusu- “This is illustrated by hospi- business model of Leapfrog, in South Dakota. hospitals in South Dakota ally high number of accidental tals in Missouri and Texas who are scored lower than those The Rapid City Journal 8 cuts and tears from medical have successfully challenged hospitals who do participate reported that in a survey of surveyed by the Leapfrog treatment. The group said the the Leapfrog Group,” Sughrue in the survey,” he said in the 2,514 hospitals, the Washington- Group hospital also had significantly said. “The Leapfrog Group has statement. D.C.-based Leapfrog Group 1 hospital in South Dakota graded fewer physicians working in its been forced to withdraw safety Leapfrog President and gave Rapid City Regional a “D” for patient safety intensive care unit compared grades because of incorrect CEO Leah Binder disputed grade of “D’’ for patient safety. to other hospitals. data, incomplete data and par- Sughrue’s statement, calling it The hospital received the low- Rapid City Regional CEO tial data.” misinformed and inaccurate. est marks of the eight hospitals only 148 in the country that got Tim Sughrue declined to be He said he believed Rapid Binder said her organization the organization surveyed in a “D.” interviewed but released City Regional received a “D’’ South Dakota and was one of Leapfrog spokeswoman a statement that criticized because it chose not to com- See HOSPITAL, A8

BY DAVID ROOKHUYZEN Great faces in great places [email protected]

Cars travel on Dakota Avenue during a snow storm earlier this spring. (Justin Joiner/Capital Journal) Weather- watching network looks for local volunteers

BY ALLISON JARRELL [email protected]

For South Dakotans interested in keep- ing track of highly coveted rainfall, or for those who simply enjoy watching storms pass overhead, the CoCoRaHS net- work of weather “I’ll look at Before the unveiling of three new statues for the Trail of Governors project, former governor , lower left, speaks with former governor watchers could my rain gauge Walter Dale Miller, lower right, while former governor , left, and current Gov. listen in. (David Rookhuyzen/Capital Journal) use your help. when I leave CoCoRaHS – Community my house and Collaborative then enter it Former governors present for unveiling Rain, Hail and when I get to Snow Network of statues of Farrar, Wollman, Janklow – is a group of the o ce. A weather-watching lot of people volunteers across are already the nation that HERE WERE EIGHT uses rain gauges watching the of them gathered to report rain, weather and together, if you count snow and shine to have a rain T bronze stand-ins and an online public duplicates. database. gauge of some Eight men who had shared Laura Edwards, sort, especially South Dakota’s highest office, SDSU extension ranchers and coming together to pay tribute climate field spe- to all who have taken a turn at cialist and a state farmers. So it’s the state’s helm. CoCoRaHS coor- just a di erent Two were there to witness dinator, said the way to keep the unveiling of their sculpted information vol- counterparts, three more to unteers contrib- track of your show their support and one ute is often used rainfall,” making an imposing posthu- for monitoring Laura Edwards, mous appearance. drought condi- SDSU extension Former governors Frank tions, watching for Farrar, Harvey Wollman, potential flooding climate eld Walter Dale Miller and Mike or for observing specialist and a Rounds joined current Gov. The statues of former governors Frank Farrar, right, Harvey Wollman and William snowfall during state CoCoRaHS Dennis Daugaard on Friday in Janklow were unveiled Friday for the Trail of Governors project. (David Rookhuyzen/ Capital Journal) the winter. coordinator the rotunda of the state Capitol “The National for the unveiling of life size stat- Weather Service ues of Farrar, Wollman and the initiative to eventually capture This is the project’s second uses CoCoRaHS quite a bit, as far as late William Jankow. More than the likenesses of all of South round of statues. Sculptures verifying their forecasts,” Edwards said. 300 people also crowded into the Dakota’s governors, and place a of Arthur Mellette, Harlan “They can also, in some instances, issue Capitol’s second floor for the trail of statues leading around Bushfield and Miller were severe thunderstorm watches or warn- occasion. Capital Lake, through down- unveiled last year. The statues ings based on what the observers are The unveiling was part of the town Pierre and ending at the Trail of Governors project, an Missouri River. See TRAIL, A8 See WEATHER, A8

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