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Delaware State Police investigating fatal car accident in Laurel – 47abc
LAUREL, Del. – A single-vehicle crash that claimed the life of one man Saturday evening is now under investigation.
According to police, at 6:48 p.m., a Chevy Trailblazer was headed westbound on Sharptown Road, traveling at high speed. The vehicle swerved off the north side of the road, striking a drainage ditch and overturning before crashing into a utility pole.
The driver, identified as a 27-year-old man from Bloxom, Virginia, was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld pending notification of his family.
There was also a male passenger in the car who was transported to a local hospital and remains in critical condition. The passenger has still not been identified.
The roadway at the location of the incident on Sharptown Road, west of Mt. Pleasant Road, was closed for roughly four hours while authorities investigated the scene and cleared the roadway.
Delaware State Police Troop 7 Collision Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate the incident. Troopers ask anyone who witnessed this crash to contact Master Corporal K. Argo at 302-703-3264.
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2 killed in separate shootings in Delaware County
Collingdale police said the juvenile shot Friday afternoon in the 100 block of Lafayette Avenue died a short time after the shooting and East Lansdowne police are reporting a gunshot homicide overnight after a fight spilled out of a bar.
In Collingdale, officers located two victims shortly before 4:30 p.m. One juvenile male was suffering from a gunshot wound to the torso. A second juvenile male was suffering from a gunshot wound to a foot.
Both were transported to Crozer Chester Medical Center where the first youth was pronounced dead in the emergency department.
Police said they are not releasing the names of either youth.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Collingdale Police Department Sergeant Patrick Crozier at 610-586-0502 or Delaware County Criminal Investigative Division Detective Michael Jay at 610-891-4161.
In East Lansdowne, police say a man suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the chest Saturday about 2:30 a.m. at Baltimore Avenue and Penn Boulevard after a fight spilled into the street from a corner bar.
Dispatch notes show “an unknown age male not moving.”
Further details were not yet available.
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Delaware State Police Escapes Ex-Officer's Sex Bias Suit – Law360 Employment Authority
By Patrick Hoff · May 17, 2024, 9:15 PM EDT
The Delaware State Police on Friday defeated a former officer’s lawsuit alleging she was constantly bullied by superiors and eventually fired because of her gender, with a federal judge finding she…
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Hospital cost review board passes Delaware Senate
According to a news release from Delaware Health and Social Services earlier this month, health care spending in Delaware increased by 6.3% in 2022, outpacing the 3% growth rate benchmark. The previous year saw an 11% increase as more people resumed health care visits they had put off during the pandemic.
“The 6.3% per capita increase in 2022 is significant, but there was an expectation of some continuing health care spending rebound effect in the post-pandemic period,” the news release said. “Moving forward into 2023 and beyond, DHSS expects Delaware’s health care market to be in a steadier state.”
Carney set a spending benchmark in 2018, which was an aspirational goal for annual per-capita-rate health care spending growth. The 3.8% benchmark took effect in 2019. It’s since fluctuated to various percentages below 4%.
Once up and running, the review board would review each hospital’s budget annually. If a hospital failed to meet spending benchmarks, it would be required to develop a performance improvement plan. Once a hospital met spending targets for three consecutive years, the board would release it from the performance plan oversight. When a hospital successfully meets its budget goals for three consecutive years, it would no longer be required to participate in the budget approval process.
“This legislation is not about punishing hospitals, but rather ensuring our constituents are able to access quality and affordable health care and to put a system into place to slow down the skyrocketing costs that we have experienced in Delaware,” House Speaker Valerie Longhurst said during a debate in the House.
Advocates of the legislation say hospitals are the primary driver of higher costs. However, DHA President and CEO Brian Frazee has argued pharmacy drugs and long-term care are more significant cost drivers than hospitals.
Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown, said he was concerned about an “attack on hospitals” and that the hospitals were forced to come to the table after being backed into a deal.
“It disturbed me greatly when one hospital had told me two days ago that before House Bill 350 was introduced, no one from the General Assembly, not from this chamber, not from the other chamber, picked up the phone and called them to discuss and understand hospital costs,” he said. “Not one. Is this a collaboration? Is this a partnership? Not in any definition that I’m familiar with.”
The bill heads back to the House for approval of the Senate amendment, where it passed 21-16 on a near party-line vote, with three Democrats voting in opposition. If the House signs off and no other changes are made, it will then head to Gov. John Carney’s desk.
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