“Health care company refuses to insure large baby - KSDK” plus 4 more

Health care company refuses to insure large baby - KSDK
Tenn. baby-kidnapping suspect led many lives - USA Today
Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati to Webcast '2009 Advances in Fetology ... - DVD Creation
Domestic Violence Shelter seeking list of donations - Escanaba Daily Press
Woman And Baby Flee Burning Lebanon Home - WCPO

Health care company refuses to insure large baby - KSDK

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 07:33 AM PDT

NBC -- A Colorado baby has been denied health insurance because he's too big.

3-month-old Alex Lange's height and weight put him in the 99th percentile for size according to CDC guidelines.

His mother, Kelli Lange, says that's why he was turned down for health coverage.

Insurance standards say if a baby's above the 95 percentile, he's uninsurable.

Lange says Alex has no pre-existing conditions and she's frustrated by the decision.

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Tenn. baby-kidnapping suspect led many lives - USA Today

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:29 AM PDT

A stack of mail has piled up with letters for Tammy Silas, Tammy Hernandez and Tammy Gonzalez.

She also could be Tammy Thomas or Tammy Gwyn, and her aliases have been associated with nearly 30 addresses in Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio and a half-dozen other states. While little is known about Silas' childhood or family ties, her criminal record as well as friends and neighbors describe a diligent, friendly woman who couldn't have children but carried a troubled past, with arrests for forgery and connections to an unsolved Nashville homicide case.

Silas, 39, faces life in federal prison on charges she kidnapped newborn Yahir Anthony Carrillo and took him to her home in Ardmore, Ala., to raise as her own. Police believe she stabbed the baby's mother, Maria Gurrola, nine times with a knife before taking the child, though she has not yet been charged in the attack. Gurrola is recovering and has been reunited with her baby.

When Silas got to Alabama, she renamed the baby Martin, said Silas' boyfriend, Martin Rodriguez Guerrero. Baby clothes are still piled high in their Alabama dining room, ready to be donated to family and friends. The bassinet in the master bedroom remains there, until her boyfriend finds a family member who needs it.

Friends and acquaintances say Silas told them she couldn't have children. The reason, her live-in boyfriend says, was a failed pregnancy when she was young.

"I think it was one of those things that she had hope or some illusion about having one," Guerrero said in Spanish. "I do remember when she told me about her pregnancy problem."

Bankruptcy, bad checks

Creditors in a 1990 bankruptcy case support Guerrero's story. Silas, then 20, listed most of her creditors as medical centers, including an obstetrician's office.

Trouble followed Silas after that. In 2002, she was arrested in two Ohio counties on charges of forgery and possessing criminal tools. The forgery charges led to her being sentenced to five years' probation for passing bad checks in Montgomery County, Ohio.

But when she was arrested and charged with possessing criminal tools in Greene County, Ohio, she never reported the arrest to her probation officer or showed up in court. A warrant for her arrest didn't catch up with her until she was questioned in Nashville in 2004 about a homicide.

Ramon Hernandez-Trejo, 27, had been shot in the head and dumped on a dead-end road in South Nashville. Silas told police she was his wife, although they never saw documentation to prove it. She had been using his last name.

"They both lived in Nashville, although they were separated at the time," said Metro detective Mike Roland, who questioned Silas. "They had separate addresses."

Silas was living in South Nashville, about three miles from the home where baby Yahir Carrillo would be stolen nearly five years later. Police never developed any solid leads in the shooting death of Hernandez-Trejo, although they considered the possibility that the motive could be drugs or related somehow to the Mexican Mafia.

"We never could substantiate anything," Roland said.

Asked if Silas had been a suspect, Roland said there was never a solid suspect in the still-open case. "When I investigate a homicide, everybody is a suspect till we figure out who did it," Roland said.

When police finished questioning Silas, she was charged with being a fugitive from justice because of the pending warrant in Ohio. The fugitive charge was dropped when she was extradited back to Ohio, and she served several months in jail before she was returned to probation, court records show.

Guerrero said he knew about Silas' past, and that made him skeptical the adoption she was trying to arrange in late September would work out.

Silas told friends and acquaintances she was heading to Texas to adopt or have the court grant custody of a relative's newborn. The relative, she told them, was a woman involved in drugs.

"I know that in the United States and in Mexico there is this same law that you can't adopt if you've been to jail," he said. "I told her she was just wasting her time and our money."

Five days before the abduction of baby Yahir, Tammy Silas drove to Nashville from Alabama, telling Guerrero she was flying to Texas. A baggage claim sticker on her luggage at her house shows that Silas took an American Airlines flight from Texas to Nashville in the late evening on Sept. 28, the day before the baby's abduction.

Guerrero believed Silas had relatives in Texas because she grew up in Mesquite, the daughter of a Mexican-American father and an American mother. She has two older siblings, a brother and a sister, but the boyfriend never met her family, and Guerrero said Silas told him her parents died years ago.

'You could count on her'

Guerrero says he first met Silas when she was married to a man named Jose Gonzalez. The couple ran A-1 Framing & Remodeling & Roofing in Ardmore.

They subcontracted with several local businesses and lived with their work crew. They rented a home in Madison County, Ala., and split the cost with the six people in the work crew, including Guerrero. "She was strict if nothing else," Guerrero said.

Guerrero said he got personally involved with Silas after Gonzalez left for Mexico more than two years ago.

Local merchants, customers and contractors who complimented Silas' work ethic and drive don't believe Silas was capable of hurting Maria Gurrola.

"We were as surprised as anyone, but we think there's more to that story," said Ray Lewis, of Alabama. He became friends with Silas and Guerrero after they framed two houses for him.

"She would not charge me for everything," he said. "You could always count on her to be here with her crew."

Neighbor Jean Colston also finds it hard to believe Silas is charged with kidnapping a baby. "She is the nicest person," Colston said. "She said she couldn't have children but didn't say anything about wanting a child so badly."

Market owner Larry Satterfield remembers seeing Silas and Guerrero with a baby just days after Nashville police launched a search for baby Yahir on Sept. 29.

The couple would drop in to their neighborhood market twice a day in Ardmore — in the morning to get a breakfast biscuit and in the evening for sandwiches. Guerrero went inside the store as Silas waited in the truck with Yahir in a carrier. Guerrero looked a bit sleep deprived, Satterfield said, but seemed happy.

"There are people who need to have a baby, people who deserve to have one and people who don't," said Charlotte Satterfield, the store owner's wife. "She needed one. She would take care of a baby very well. It's sad."

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Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati to Webcast '2009 Advances in Fetology ... - DVD Creation

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 10:11 AM PDT

Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati to Webcast '2009 Advances in Fetology' Conference on October 16th and 17th Using TalkPoint Technology (October 12, 2009)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 10/12/09 -- The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati, which provides fetal health services for high-risk pregnancy patients, and TalkPoint, the leading provider of Webcasting and Internet Broadcasting, today announced that the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati will webcast the 2009 Advances in Fetology Conference using TalkPoint's interactive audio solution.

Held annually, the Advances in Fetology conference provides continuing medical education for physicians, nurses, genetic counselors, and sonographers. The physical event will take place at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where international experts will present novel diagnostic approaches and interventions for fetal conditions such as Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation / Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation (CCAM / CPAM), and Bladder Outlet Obstruction (BOO). For those not in attendance, a live internet Webcast is available. The activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, and all live and Webcast attendees are eligible to receive this credit.

"The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati serves all families by providing vital information to professionals about the latest treatment approaches for fetal conditions," said Nicholas Balletta, CEO of TalkPoint. "We are proud that they have chosen TalkPoint to help deliver this important content."

To learn more about this Webcast presentation and to register, click here.

About the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati

The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati brings together renowned fetal surgeons, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, leading technologies and a full range of integrated support services from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The University Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital to care for high-risk pregnancies. This innovative collaboration makes the Fetal Care Center one of the only comprehensive fetal care programs in the world affiliated with a top pediatric hospital, two Level III maternity hospitals and three Level III newborn intensive care units. The Fetal Care Center is committed to improving outcomes for high-risk pregnancies and enhancing quality of life for every baby treated. For more information on the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati, go to www.fetalcarecenter.org.

About TalkPoint

TalkPoint provides Web-based audio and video Webcasting solutions that enable companies and organizations to communicate more effectively. TalkPoint's easy-to-use applications incorporate audio, video, slides, and other interactive elements to deliver high-impact presentations cost effectively. TalkPoint offers both self-service and full-service solutions.

For more information on TalkPoint, go to www.talkpoint.com.

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Domestic Violence Shelter seeking list of donations - Escanaba Daily Press

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 06:50 AM PDT

ESCANABA - The Alliance Against Violence and Abuse is in need of many basic-needs items for the Domestic Violence Shelter.

The shelter provides an important, sometimes lifesaving, service to women and their children who are in need of a safe place to escape from domestic abuse.

Anyone able to make a donation, no matter how large or small, is asked to purchase any of the items listed below and bring them to the AAVA Office, 905 1st Ave. S., Escanaba, or call 789-9207.

l Paper Products - toilet paper, paper towels, tissues, paper plates, napkins, freezer storage bags (quart and gallon size), sandwich bags, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, coffee filters, heavy duty black garbage bags, tall kitchen garbage bags and small office garbage can bags.

l Household maintenance supplies: Laundry soap, dryer sheets, bleach, sanitizing liquid hand soap, dish soap, dishwasher detergent, all cleaning supplies and laundry baskets, 40 and 60 watt light bulbs, AA, AAA and 9 volt batteries, furniture polish, oven cleaner, flashlights, alarm clocks, old cell phones and sidewalk de-icing salt.

l Towels - hand towels, bath towels, wash cloths, dish towels, dish cloths

l Full and twin size bedding - sheets, blankets and comforters

l Personal Supplies - shampoo, conditioner, sanitary napkins, tampons, razors, shaving creme, Q-tips, hairdryers, curling irons, personal soap containers, combs, brushes, tooth brushes, tooth paste.

l Baby care items - shampoo, baby wash, diaper rash ointment, baby lotion, baby powder, baby wipes and diapers.

l Food items - canned ham, Beefaroni, Spaghettio's, mushrooms, salt, pepper, ketchup, mayonnaise, all canned soups and vegetables, peanut butter, boxed mixes (Hamburger Helper, etc.), coffee, tea, creamer, juices, etc.

l Office Supplies - copier paper, manila file folders, colored file folders, pens, pencils, sticky note pads and Scotch tape (for dispenser).

l Monetary Donations

l Phone cards

l Gift cards for Wal-Mart, Staples, Menards, Shopko, Kmart

l Gift cards/certificates for Elmer's County Market, Super One Foods

l Taxi coupons

l Teen activity Items - games (Uno, Phase 10, etc.), word searches, puzzles, teen magazines, People magazine, teen books, craft and scrapbook items, teen DVDs or VCR tapes. Containers for above items.

For more information about the Domestic Violence Shelter or to learn more about how to offer assistance, contact the Alliance Against Violence and Abuse office by calling 789-9207.

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