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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Pope Francis’ U.S. Visit
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F R EE- STAN D IN G S ITES
“Let us treat others with the same
passion and compassion with
which we want to be treated.”
ERs
crop
up in
force
But these aren’t
urgent care clinics,
and they cost more.
By David Olinger
The Denver Post
Early one morning last week, a
man in his 60s walked into Parker
Adventist Hospital’s free-standing emergency department at the
Southlands mall in Aurora asking
for a doctor.
The staff saw him immediately
and diagnosed that he was having
a heart attack. They stabilized him
and alerted Parker Adventist that
he was on the way. Within 46 minutes, he had a cardiac catheterization that helped save his life.
Dr. Paul Davidson, medical director at the Southlands emergency room, cites such cases as a reason Colorado hospital chains are
erecting so many stand-alone ERs
in or near suburban shopping
malls. “They’re going closer to patients, where they live and work.
We have a fully equipped emergency department here,” he said.
But the rapid proliferation of
stand-alone ERs — 20 have
opened in Colorado since 2014 —
has raised concerns in the medical
and insurance communities. In
their quest to deliver expensive
services to insured patients, ER
operators have mostly steered
clear of lower-income neighborhoods in Denver and Aurora while
saturating areas such as the southER » 10A
Pope Francis touches the cheek of a young girl as he prepares to depart the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican’s diplomatic
mission in Washington, D.C., on Thursday en route to Andrews Air Force Base. Cliff Owen, The Associated Press
PONTIFF CHALLENGES CONGRESS IN HISTORIC SPEECH
By Marc Fisher, Michelle Boorstein and Steve Hendrix The Washington Post
P
ope Francis, making history’s
first papal address to Congress,
on Thursday implored America’s leaders to accept those born
in other countries as their own
children, urging lawmakers to set aside
political differences and embrace people
who “travel north in search of a better
life.”
The pope wrapped traditional Catholic
teachings into a celebration of American
icons including Abraham Lincoln and
Martin Luther King Jr., drawing lessons
from their work to gently but firmly push
Congress to move beyond the partisan paralysis that has blocked progress on immi-
gration reform, climate change and other
issues.
“Each son or daughter of a given country
has a mission, a personal and social responsibility,” the 78-year-old pontiff said
in heavily accented English. “Your own responsibility as members of Congress is to
enable this country, by your legislative activity, to grow as a nation.”
President Barack Obama watched the
speech on television, according to White
House spokesman Josh Earnest. “Pope
Francis made the appropriate observation
for the United States to live up to the high
standards that we set for ourselves,” Earnest said.
The Capitol Hill call to action kicked off
a second full day of gleeful crowds and
emotional visits to Catholic institutions.
The faithful gathered at the Apostolic
Nunciature, or Vatican embassy, to greet
the pope when he emerged. More lined the
streets as his motorcade traveled to the
Capitol, where thousands waited on the
Mall to watch his speech on giant screens.
After his address to Congress, the pope
went directly from the grandeur of Capitol
Hill to the spare St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church in a neighborhood that has flipped
over the past decade from marginalized to
magnet. He prayed with people who variPOPE » 19A
M EETIN G W ITH P U TIN
Obama will
discuss crises in
Syria, Ukraine
By Juliet Eilperin
The Washington Post
washington» President Barack Obama has not met one on
one with President Vladimir Putin for more than 15 months but
agreed Thursday to sit down with
the Russian leader in New York on
Monday as part of a broader effort
to resolve the conflicts in Syria
and Ukraine.
The session, which will take
place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly
meeting next week, acknowledges
Putin’s considerable influence on
the world stage, despite a lengthy
Incredible journey. Family from Argentina travels 194 days to attend papal event. »19A
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