Fewer COVID-19 admissions at Gila Regional Medical Center have meant a drop in average length of stay, hospital CEO Kathleen Cahill told the Grant County Board of Commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday morning. “What we’re seeing is that although we are seeing a lot of high-acuity patients, those high acuity patients are not COVID patients,” she said. “The COVID patients that are coming in the last 30 days have …
In an effort to equip both staff and students in the event of an active shooter incident, Silver Schools is in the process of updating their method of response and district officials detailed their plans in an online town hall Friday evening. While the district previously relied on utilizing traditional lockdown procedures, staff was recently trained using ALICE Training safety protocol. ALICE, a research-based protocol authored in 2000, is …
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office discovered the body of 58-year-old Diana Montes early Friday morning, according to a press release issued Friday afternoon by the department. Investigators have subsequently determined that the Bayard woman was killed, according to Sheriff Frank Gomez. “We’re not releasing details about this criminal investigation,” the sheriff said Monday. “At approximately 1:53 a.m., Grant County sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Georgetown in unincorporated Grant …
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of 58-year-old Diana Montes, according to a Friday press release. “At approximately 1:53 a.m. Grant County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the area of Georgetown in unincorporated Grant County in regards to information received about a missing person which had been reported to the Bayard Police Department the previous day,” Lt. Michael Burns said in the release. “Multiple deputies responded and began …