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Former bus driver admits to charge
The former Amherst school
bus driver who was accused
of blackmailing four girls into
having sex with him changed
his plea last week from not
guilty by reason of insanity
to guilty on 19 counts of
rape and four counts of
extortion.
After Andrew Bishop
changed his plea in April,
1999 to not guilty by reason
of insanity from not guilty,
Lorain County Common Pleas
Judge Mark Betleski found
Bishop not competent to stand
trial and ordered him to
North Coast Behavioral
Healthcare Syslem in Cleveland for treatment.
According to court docu
ments Betleski received a report from the facility in
November that Bishop was
now competent to stand trial
and a pre-trial was set and
Bishop was returned to Lorain
County Correctional Facility
to await trial.
Bishop allegedly blackmailed the girls into having
sex with him after claiming
he had photographs of them
baring their breasts to boys
during a game.
Bishop was set lo face a
jury for the charges against
him on April 29.
Now he faces 210 years in
prison and a sentencing hearing after Betleski has a
chance to review documents
and reports.
Need some R&R
Amherst residents enjoyed last week's taste of summer by trying to relax and have a little fun.
Grace Hospital
is one of town's
hidden secrets
by AMY PERSINGER
News-Times reporter
Something is up at Amherst Hospital and it's been a secret long
enough.
Located on the second floor of
the building is a hospital within a
hospital.
A satellite of Cleveland's Grace
Hospital has been on Amherst Hospital's second floor since 1997. The
hospital is not affiliated with Amherst Hospital but rents space there.
Grace also purchases some services
from Amherst, such as housekeeping, cafeteria and medical services,
including x-ray and pharmacy.
The original Grace Hospital was a
standard acute care hospital on West
14th Street in Cleveland, according
to senior vice president and chief
operating officer Rajive Khanna.
Grace had been at that location
since 1912 providing typical hospital treatment, including emergency
room treatment and obstetrics.
During the 1990s there were
many changes in the way healthcare
was being provided and paid for,
and Khanna said the hospital simply
couldn't compete with other acute
hospitals in the area. In 1993 Grace
Hospital became a long term acute
care hospital.
Then in 1997 Grace opened its
first 20-bed satellite hospital at the
Cleveland Street location.
The hospital provides care to patients who aren't ready to go home
because they need more treatment,
bet aren't at a place in their care to
go to a nursing home or far intensive physical therapy.
The staff at Grace can work with
patients who've had a stroke, for example, at a slower pace and prepare
them for the rigors of regular physical therapy which requires the patient to be able to withstand six
hours of therapy a day.
Grace Hospital offers six prog-
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{later weaning program, they provide
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itation, wound care, for a patient
who isn't healing as they should and
medically complex care for patients
who have a myriad of medical
issues that must be addressed
simultaneously.
When they became affiliated with
Cleveland Clinic Health System
they acquired the left ventricular assist device program. The hospital
cares for patients waiting for a heart
transplant who've had the left ventricular assist device implanted at
the Cleveland Clinic until they can
go home, go to a nursing facility or
have the transplant.
The staff at Grace approach each
patient's care as a team with the
family, the patient, doctors, nurses,
therapists and nutritionists plan the
care and work together. The staff
regularly meets with the patient and
their family to assess the progress of
the patient and discuss any changes
in the care plan that might be
needed, according to vice president
of clinical services, Kathleen Jobe.
Victoria Kayatin, the clinical site
administrator, said the staff works
very hard to lift the spirits of the patients at Grace. They have singers
and musicians come in to entertain
patients and to lure them out of then-
rooms. The staff encourages interaction, as depression can impede recovery. There is even a salt water
fish tank in the hall the sole purpose
of which is to bring patients out of
their rooms and into the bustle at
the hospital hallway. Kayatin said
they chose saltwater fish because of
the bright colon and patients say it
is peaceful.
Kayatin said the hospital has a
collection of books and videos that
the patients are welcome to use, and
when avid readers have read all the
hospital books, staff members go to
Amhem Public Library to get them
more. She said that one patient, a
woman in her eighties, was a big Cm
of Tom Cruise. Since the hotpital
didn't have any movies in their library with him in them, staff soem-
bers checked Cruise movies out of
the library especially for her.
Summer scramble
Employees of the city's utilities department are working hard to     the pool at Maude Neiding Park,
get the city ready for summer. Here they do some repair work at
Scholastic
team tops
in radio
quiz show
On the radio program. The High
School Scholastic Games of Lorain
County, two Conner champion teams
clashed ia a final quarterfinal, res-stag in On team from Steele High
School advancing to semifinal play.
The Steele team bent Elyria,
520-250; it was a close game until
Amherst exploded in the final
rounds.
Scholastic Games is a weekly
quiz props* that feateos academic
teams from area Ugh schools. The
team is in its 12th season on WEOL
AM 930 wi* Monday night broadcasts hestrd between 6-7 pun.
The April 22 program featured
Amherst  teammates  Swapaa
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