Mount Sterling, a small town located in western Illinois, is the home of a medium security prison run by the Illinois Department of Corrections. The prison has 1,800 inmates. Due to the budget stalemate in Springfield, the State of Illinois has not paid the city of Mount Sterling $370,000 for water it has provided to […]
Dear Cassandra, Last Tuesday I was driving fast because I was trying to get to work on time. A cop stopped me and gave me a ticket for speeding. He said I was driving twenty miles an hour over the speed limit. When I got to the client’s house, I couldn’t find a place to […]
Do you think it is hot outside when the temperature reaches 95 degrees? That is nothing compared to the record high temperature in Illinois recorded on July 14, 1954. On that day, the temperature reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit in East St. Louis. The National Weather Service in Chicago recorded a record high of 111 degrees […]
Dear Cassandra, Why is American Home Health so hung up on little things like clinical notes? Almost every week someone from the office contacts me about my clinical notes. I go to work and take care of my client. Sometimes I don’t have time to write the nursing notes. Sometimes the supervisor says she can’t […]
Loss prevention is a constant concern in grocery stores and convenience stores. Every year millions of pounds of beef, pork, and veal are stolen from American grocery stores and convenience marts. Now a new method of stealing meat has become common. What is it? Men putting meat down their pants. In their pants? Yes, in […]
Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts 1 package taco seasoning 1 cup salsa 1 can cream of chicken soup 1 cup jalapeño cream cheese Directions: Put chicken in crockpot, sprinkle with taco seasoning, mix soup and salsa together then pour over chicken. Cook on high 4 hours, remove chicken, add cream cheese and stir into sauce in […]
Do you remember coming home from Wisconsin on the toll road after you had spent a weekend at your cabin or a vacation at the Dells? Just as you entered Illinois on the toll road, you came to a bank of toll booths. Each toll booth had a gate which came down in front of […]
Dear Cassandra, Several times a week I call the office, or I receive a call from the office. Sometimes the scheduler is offering a case to me or confirming or canceling a shift. Sometimes I need to speak with the supervisor about a clinical issue. Sometimes I have an HR or payroll question. What can […]