RACH Ambulance Wrecked By Drunk Driver

An early morning accident with a pickup and an ambulance has caused quite the traffic headache at the intersection of West Gore and North Sheridan Road.

Lawton Police Lt. John Schwenk said the accident occurred shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday when an ambulance traveling south on Sheridan Road was struck by a pickup, which had run the red light at Gore Boulevard.

Google Chrome on iOS 8 beta

So the list of apps that do not work with Apple's iOS 8 will I'm sure grow.  Here is what happens when you try and surf to google.com with Google Chrome.

Fidelity Communications increases speed of Internet

Fidelity Communications customers in Lawton will see increased Internet speeds at no additional charge beginning Monday, the company announced.

SharePoint in the Operating Room

Improving Patient Safety with a Proven Operating Company Model!

Introduction

TeamSTEPPS is a teamwork system designed for health care professionals that make it a powerful solution to improving patient safety and scientifically rooted in more than 20 years of research and lessons from the application of teamwork principles.  MEDCOM continues to roll out TeamSTEPPS Army wide.  SharePoint is an off the shelf collaboration tool that D0D and the Army has used for over 12 years with mixed results.  SharePoint is largely being used as a tool to store documents.  SharePoint has the ability to be used for a much wider variety of ways such as collection of data for quality control and process improvement.  Integrating SharePoint into hospital everyday practices would allow for improved patient safety, fewer delays, and increased utilization all while saving countless tax payer dollars.  Madigan Army Medical Center (MAMC) is using a postoperative team assessment for over five years now. The success of this assessment tool was published in the Journal of Surgical Research on January of 2013.  The article clearly shows success and a clear value of this assessment tool. The tool has been implemented to over 10 military treatment facilities (MTF’s) Army-wide., to include Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston and Tripler Army Medical Center at Honolulu, Hawaii.

Lawton Police, still not fixed and same old problems.

It was nine months ago that my van was stolen, and had to rely solely on the media to force Lawton Police Department into doing their job.  Everyone would agree, a very easy job at that, with video evidence and countless people coming forward to identify the person.  It took LPD over 12 days to get a warrant, and over 25 days to apprehend the suspect. I finally met with Bryan Long, Lawton’s City Manager and Chief Smith of LPD on December 31, 2013 and explained my frustrations and we all agreed that there was some miscommunication and more could have been done. I thought I was done with it, but just last weekend several of my neighbors cars were broken into and items stolen, to include one of my vehicles.  Again I captured video, informed the neighbors, and we all filed police reports.  Over 10 days have gone by with zero contact from the LPD’s Criminal Investigation Department. Refusing to look at possible evidence, whether it's good or not, is completely unacceptable. It would appear that LPD only seems to care about shootings, stabbings, or drugs.  Maybe this is why crime is so high in Lawton.  So with LPD only going after the bigger cases, this leave Lawton at a free for all with other “Smaller” crimes such as burglary, auto theft, and assault. Since January 1^st, there has been over 950 reports for burglary & theft, 65 automobiles stolen, over 420 assaults reported, 194 reports of property crime.  The citizens of Lawton are fed up with the crime and want to see it decrease. Granted, LPD is underfunded and under staffed.  But I have yet to see any request for more money or personnel be brought to the people.  I am willing to bet that if an appropriate tax was brought in front of the people it would pass.  So to Chief Smith and City Manager Long, we are sick and tired of the crime, why aren't you?  Give us something we can vote for to help LPD.