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Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 10:23AM The cause collapse of Plastic Omnium's expansion struction under construction last night is under review. A source speaking on the condition of anonymity to the Anderson Observer, that weather might not have been the chief cause of the almost total collapse of the steel frame of the planned addition to the plant.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 10:12AM When a mentally ill patient arrived at AnMed Health Medical Centers’ emergency room in May, staff at the Anderson, South Carolina, facility scurried to find a hospital with enough room for an admission.
Everywhere was full, including a nearby psychiatric hospital. Unable to find any place that had available beds, the patient spent 13 days languishing in the ER. Such stays are increasingly common at the hospital -- in one case last year a patient was stuck in the ER for 38 days, costing the hospital $56,392 on extra nursing, security and physician care.
“It’s a continuous onslaught,” said David Cothran, director of emergency services at AnMed Health. “Budget cuts for outpatient and inpatient psychiatric care have made the ER the safety net. It’s unreal.”
U.S. hospital emergency rooms are becoming holding pens for psychiatric patients. People are being kept on site for days and sometimes weeks, a symptom of an overtaxed health system grappling with steep cuts to mental-health services. The number of psychiatric beds nationwide has decreased by at least 14 percent since 2005, according to the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit group that focuses on severe mental illness.
At the same time, almost 15 million visits to hospital emergency departments in 2010 involved a mental health or substance abuse diagnosis, according to the Rockville, Maryland-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. That’s up from about 10 million in 2005.
That number will probably soon rise dramatically. The U.S. Affordable Care Act, which begins its main expansion of health insurance Oct. 1, will extend coverage for about 25 million Americans who are now uninsured. Various provisions require benefit packages to include treatment for mental health by fiscal year 2014, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website.
The increase in patients with mental health coverage will likely overwhelm existing community-based treatment programs and providers, which may drive even more psychiatric patients to the ER, Mark Pearlmutter, a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, said in an interview.
“We already have the perfect storm of psychiatric patients in the ER, and until there are more resources, it will worsen,” he said. “Most hospitals are already at capacity and the extra volume and boarding would be extremely challenging.”
Holding the mentally ill endangers other patients because it ties up staff, adds to ER crowding, and leads to longer waits, said Robert Bitterman, president of Harbor Springs, Michigan-based Bitterman Health Law Consulting Group Inc.
Cathy Heinz, 38, a lactation consultant in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has brought her 66-year old mother to the ER about eight times in four years, she said. Her mother has early-stage dementia and schizoaffective disorder, which can lead to abnormal mood and psychosis. In a crisis, she’ll think Satan is after her or that others are trying to kill her, she said.
The situation is often too extreme to first bring her to her doctor, Heinz said.
Every time she heads to the emergency room, Heinz packs a bag of crackers and other snacks because she knows it may be days before her mother gets a bed in a hospital psychiatric clinic. In November 2011, she stayed with her mother in the ER for about three days at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (127917MF) in Norfolk, Virginia, she said. During another three day stay in February, Heinz said nurses asked her to lock herself in a room with her mother because another patient was out of control.
Sentara Hospital declined to comment on Heinz’s experience due to patient confidentiality, Dale Gauding, a spokesman, said in an interview. Sentara Healthcare in December will open a 24-bed inpatient general psychiatric unit that also serves geriatric patients at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital, partly to alleviate boarding in the ER, he said.
Virginia Beach has seen a doubling in psychiatric consults done in the ER over the past five years, Joanne Inman, vice president of operations at the hospital, said in an interview.
Security is often insufficient at some emergency departments and patients have escaped or become violent during their long stays, Heinz said.
“One time, someone broke out and was biting a nurse,” said Heinz. “One time I had to hold my mother back because I thought she was going to attack a doctor.”
Almost 90 percent of emergency department administrators say they’re often or sometimes unable to transfer mental health patients in a timely manner, according to a 2010 study by Lafayette, Louisiana-based Schumacher Group, an ER management company.
More than 70 percent say they board these patients for 24 hours or longer, and 10 percent said they keep them a week or more.
Of the almost 129 million visits to U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 2010, an estimated 14 million involved mental health diagnoses and almost 40 percent of those patients were admitted to the hospital from the emergency room, according to the most recent data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Andre Walker, a 27-year-old schizophrenic who loved writing rap music and lived with his mother, was brought by ambulance to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in April 2011 because he was having a psychiatric emergency.
An ER doctor evaluated him and decided at 6:45 p.m. that he needed to be committed to a mental health facility, according to a lawsuit filed in state court in Fayetteville. Cape Fear last year settled the lawsuit out of court for an undisclosed sum.
At 8 p.m., there were still no available beds at several locations, according to the lawsuit, and Walker became more agitated. Around 9:20 p.m., Walker tried to leave. He was restrained by company police and security officers, according to the lawsuit.
One officer grabbed Walker in a choke hold and pulled him to the floor, according to the lawsuit, and three other officers grabbed other parts of his body. After a few minutes of struggle, Walker became unresponsive and was tied down with leather restraints, according to the lawsuit. Staff tried to resuscitate him and he died, based on the complaint.
The medical examiner concluded Walker died due to suffocation by restraint, the lawsuit states.
“Medical facilities should have someone in the ER that knows how to deal with patients who have a mental disorder,” said Andre’s mother, Valerie Walker, 54. “If they keep them there, if they board them there for hours, they should have a designated area for them and people who are trained deal with them.”
The lawsuit has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of all parties, Lou Patalano, general counsel and senior vice present of legal services at Cape Fear Valley Health System, said in an interview. He declined to comment further.
Keeping mentally ill patients in the ER is expensive. Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, has a locked, psychiatric emergency room on the floor above the main emergency room. It has safety features such as unbreakable glass windows where patients can be triaged quickly by a psychiatrist and a resident.
Oconee Medical Center’s ER in Seneca, South Carolina, has spent $21,060 this year on sitters to monitor psychiatric patients and has a room with cameras for violent patients.
“What do we do if they want to leave? I’m not going to go out in the parking lot and wrestle them,” Edwin Leap, an emergency room doctor, said in an interview.
On a recent spring night at University of California San Diego Health System’s Hillcrest ER, a suicidal patient slumbered in a room with the lights kept off. He wakened to talk to the rushed ER doctor, James Dunford, who is also medical director for the city of San Diego’s emergency medical services system. Dunford assured him the hospital was trying to find an available bed. Until then, he’d have to stay in the ER.
In the doorway, the hospital posted an emergency department technician who makes as much as $25 an hour to keep watch around the clock. The sitter quietly thumbed through a dog-eared novel. Two other psychiatric patients were also being held in the room. At Hillcrest, one technician may watch up to three patients.
There are only 45 beds for the uninsured at the nearby county psychiatric hospital, and when they’re full, patients without coverage wait in the ER while staff calls around trying to find a place to take them. Between 1995 and 2010, the state lost 3,000 beds, almost a 30 percent drop, for psychiatric inpatient care than in 1995, according to the California Hospital Association report.
“It’s a real challenge,” says Dunford. “There are not enough beds, so we have to keep them here. It ties up beds, resources and staff.”
AnMed Health’s Cothran agrees. “You can’t get angry at the patient, they need the help,” he said. “Then when you have someone who acts up, it’s distressing to the little grandmother who is just waiting in the ER for care.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Armour in Washington at sarmour@bloomberg.net
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 2:19PM Two North Charleston (South Carolina) police officers at the center of an innovative program to reform would-be criminals are coming to Anderson July 25, 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Anderson Civic Center. This event is free and open to the public.
The North Charleston officers in charge of the program, narcotics detectives: Charity Prosser, a 39-year-old mother and wife, and her partner, Jamel Foster, a Navy veteran and father of four, were featured last March on National TV news magazine Dateline. The Stop and Take A New Direction (STAND) program ushers young men through a program aimed at getting entry level drug dealers to take jobs rather than continuing to sell narcotics.
“Violence is defined as “physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing,” and sadly, violence is a part of everyday life. It’s in our movies and television shows, and we live in a world where power is often established through violence”, stated Chief Jim Stewart of the City of Anderson Police Department. “Being involved with drugs or violence guarantees you a trip to one of three places: the hospital, prison, or the grave. Ending violence won’t happen unless we go beyond wishful thinking. The world is full of endless opportunities and it’s our responsibility to make it a better place by making ourselves better and that starts with setting that example for our youth. Peacemaking is active work, hard work, and frustrating work. Safety and security in a community comes from a network of cooperation. As a realist I know we will never eliminate violence, but we can lessen it. We are all role models at some capacity but we have a choice on whether or not we want to make a positive or negative impact on the lives of our youth” he stated.
Sponsored by the AnMed Health, the Anderson Police Department and the United Way of Anderson County, this candid conversation with the STAND officers is part of the Upstate Movement…107 Days of Nonviolence sponsored by FM station 107.3 JAMZ. The purpose of the 107 Days Movement is to inspire youth and adults of Upstate South Carolina to collaborate, communicate and facilitate events that encourage nonviolence.
For additional information, contact Lynn Dingle (864) 226-3438.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 11:26AM AnMed Health has been recognized as one of the nation’s Most Wired hospitals and health systems, according to the 2013 Most Wired Survey. The survey results were released in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
“This year’s Most Wired organizations exemplify progress through innovation” says Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association. “The hospital field can learn from these outstanding organizations ways that IT can help to improve efficiency.”
Among the key findings this year, 69 percent of Most Wired hospitals and 60 percent of all surveyed hospitals report that medication orders are entered electronically by physicians. This represents a significant increase from 2004 results when only 27 percent of Most Wired hospitals and 12 percent of all hospitals responded, “Yes.”
At AnMed Health, information technology is an integral part of providing care. Patient medical records have been electronic since 2000, and AnMed Health was the first in the state to implement PACS, a picture archiving and communication system that gives doctors and clinicians instant and remote access to radiology images. AnMed Health has also introduced speech recognition software that transforms dictated reports into electronic text, allowing radiologists to produce more accurate reports quickly and easily. Today, physicians routinely use a computer-based portal to review monitor data, nursing documentation and diagnostic test results.
AnMed Health is in the process of bringing electronic health records to every owned doctor’s office. And in the hospital, handwritten orders are already a thing of the past. Physicians use a computerized physician order entry system (CPOE), which sends doctors’ orders directly to caregivers and departments without handwriting and legibility issues. On nursing units, nurses scan barcodes to ensure patients receive the right medicine in the right dose at the right time, and Horizon Perinatal Care allows caregivers to electronically document and store maternal vital signs and fetal tracings in obstetrical patients.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 11:04AM South Carolina lawmakers had to make hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts following the Great Recession – and it appears to have had an interesting effect on the state’s spending.
In 2007, a year before the Great Recession hit, South Carolina’s reserves equaled 2.56 percent of its spending – good enough for 35th in the country, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research group.
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But in 2013, South Carolina’s reserves equaled 6.04 percent of its spending, giving it the 10th best percentage in the country.
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“Although these rates are a far cry from 18% and fall below even the lower end of the spectrum of expected revenue shortfalls during an economic downturn (13%), they are nevertheless a significant improvement from 6 years ago,” Richard Borean, a spokesman for the Tax Foundation, said in a news release.
Reach Beam at (803) 386-7038.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 10:52AM Cathy Rudisill, center, was recently honored as the National HealthCare Corporation's Dietary Partner of the Year.
Rudisill, center, is shown here at her awards ceremony with NHC South Carolina Regional Vice President Sonny Kinney, left, and Margaret Freeman, a former NHC S.C. Regional Dietician. Rudisill, who has been with NHC for more than 25 years, is also an active in the commmunity with the Special Olypics, where she is a champion swimmer and where she was chosen to participate in the World Special Olypics in Irelanda several years ago. She also participates in aeorbics classes at the YMCA, along with Zumba, kickboxing and sculpting classes.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 9:33AM Verizon Wireless announced today it invested over $27 million in South Carolina during the first half of 2013 to improve and expand its wireless broadband and voice networks. The company's high-speed 4G LTE wireless service is now available to more than 97 percent of all South Carolinians.
Verizon's coverage in South Carolina spans 27,806 square miles of the state.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 8:07AM One of the fastest-grwoing churches in North Carolina has been given approval to expand its facilities to include a new 22-acre site. Elevation Church, the multi-site worship community headed by Pastor Steven Furtick, received unanimous approval by the Charlotte City Council on Monday for a new site. Set to be located in the Ballantyne neighborhood of Charlotte, Elevation Church has major plans for the location, according to local media.
"The church wants to construct a 264,000-square-foot building, which would include a 42,000-square-foot worship center with 1,600 seats," wrote Steve Harrison of the Charlotte Observer. "The church may also build a 22,000 square-foot children's ministry and a 200,000 square-foot office, according to its rezoning application with the city."
The Ballantyne site was one of the three locations that Elevation Church raised $8.2 million to purchase. The other two were Lake Norman and University City.
For the Lake Norman location, Elevation will be using and renovating an old performing arts center known as the Palace Theatre. Cornelius Board of Commissioners granted Elevation Church approval for that site in April.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 8:59PM Anderson County Council unanimously approved Tuesday night a fee-in-lieu of the expansion of a Fraenkische, a worldwide business operation in Anderson County since 2002, which will generate a 20-year community economic impact of more than $64 million to the county. The business, located just off S.C. 81 near I-85, will add an additional 54 jobs with an average salary of $16 per hour. The company, founded in 1906, is an industry leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of technically superior corrugated pipe systems for drainage, electrical, building technology and industrial applications. Fraenkische will also relocate its North American Headquarters to Anderson.
Earlier, Anderson County Council approved a pair of amendments, and rejected a third, before voting 6-1 to approve a revised tethering ordinance which requires a humane tethering system allowing a dog to move freely on a swiveled tether, assuring the dog has free access to water and shelter, and prohibiting the use of pinch collars or choke collars. Also, under the ordinance, dogs cannot be tethered to immovable objects.
County Council Chairman Francis Crowder, proposed an amendment that reflects the city ordinance prohibiting animals from being tethered for more than two hours in any continuous 12-hour period, but the efficacy of the amendment was immediately questioned by other council members.
Councilman Tom Allen said he wanted to make sure council voted for an amendment the county could actually enforce.
“We’ve got to pass something here that is going to be reasonable and enforceable and it’s not going to make everybody happy,” Allen said. “We can always come back and amend it later.”
Councilman Ken Waters agreed with Allen. “The people I know who have hunting dogs love their dogs, too. The hunters I’ve talked with are for being allowed to tether their dogs.
“I cannot support the amendment you proposed,” Councilman Eddie Moore said. “If we do, we are going to have a mass of animals being turned into the animal shelter to be euthanized. There are hundreds of animals our there that need to be tethered. I love Freedom Fences, agree with what they do, but there is no way in the world they can get to everybody.” Moore said the famers and hunters who had called him are 10-1 against the tethering ordinance.
Council voted 6-1 against the amendment.
Councilwoman Gracie Floyd proposed an amendment to require dogs to be taken care of in extreme weather conditions, but Allen said her proposal was covered in other parts of the county’s ordinance. Allen proposed rewording the amendment concerning the 360 degree movement to “the highest degree of movement available.” He also suggested removing wording suggesting that anyone other than animal control officers would be allowed to enforce the ordinance. Both amendments passed unanimously.
“This is the third reading tonight, but that does not mean we cannot come back and amend it,” Allen said. “We are trying to move forward with it, but we have to have a logical, reasonable ordinance we can enforce.”
Crowder, who voted against the ordinance, said he opposed the bill because it still allows tethering 24 hours a day. “It’s not an anti-tethering ordinance,” Crowder said.
The bill was approved after hearing a number of impassioned pleas from Anderson County residents, many of whom are actively involved in animal welfare issues. A few questioned the county’s ability to enforce such an ordinance, before the county approved the ordinance.
Freedom Fences, a volunteer group that builds fences for dogs belonging to families who demonstrate financial hardship, and the spaying and neutering of their pets, said the county ordinance did not go far enough to protect dogs.
Earlier, State Rep. Don Bowen, R-S.C., proposed the creation of a coalition for I-85 improvements, which would make the interstate four-lanes all the way from Georgia to North Carolina and bring improvement to the frontage roads. Bowen said he would ask all Upstate counties to come up with at least $500,000 for an engineering study to prepare for the project. Bowen said it would boost economic development along the interstate corridor in the Upstate, calling the improvements and “economic engine” for the region.
“I would like Anderson County to take the lead in this project,” Bowen said, adding he will also present his proposal to Greenville, Spartanburg and Pickens Counties as well.
He said if the improvements move forward, it will take eight to 10 years to complete, at a total cost of $500-$600 million dollars. Bowen said federal funding matching local dollars five to one if approved.
“The Upstate needs its share of the growth and readiness,” Bowen added, “and the money does not need to be going to Charleston and Myrtle Beach.”
Finally, Floyd, who was promised funding from other council members’ recreation funds after arguing during budget negotiations against cutting funding for Calvary Home for Children in Anderson, brought a list of requests from the ministry to ask her fellow council members to keep their word.
Floyd asked that some of the money in the $1.2 million budget of the Anderson County Animal Shelter be used to help Calvary.
“It’s a day of reckoning,” Floyd said before the meeting. “We’ll see who keeps their word.”
Council members Tommy Dunn, Tom Allen, Ken Waters and Floyd gave funds to the ministry, while Cindy Wilson promised future help for the group. Only Francis Crowder and Eddie Moore did not contribute to the request.
On Tuesday night, council also:
Approved continuation of the rennovation of the Brown road boat ramp to allow greater access for those with disablities.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 8:06PM The Hubble space telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting Neptune, Nasa has confirmed. Designated S/2004 N 1, this is the 14th known moon to circle the giant planet.
It also appears to be the smallest moon in the Neptunian system, measuring just 20 km (12 miles) across,
completing one revolution around Neptune every 23 hours. U.S. astronomer Mark Showalter spotted the tiny dot while studying segments of rings around Neptune. Nasa said the moon was roughly 100 million times dimmer than the faintest star visible to the naked eye.
It is so small that the Voyager spacecraft failed to spot it in 1989 when it passed close by Neptune and surveyed the planet's system of moons and rings. Mr Showalter's method of discovery involved tracking the movement of a white fleck appearing over and over again in more than 150 photographs taken of Neptune by Hubble between 2004 and 2009.
"The moons and arcs orbit very quickly, so we had to devise a way to follow their motion in order to bring out the details of the system," Mr Showalter explained.
"It's the same reason a sports photographer tracks a running athlete - the athlete stays in focus, but the background blurs."
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 7:58PM The latest annual report on how well state highway departments are doing ranks South Carolina's DOT as seventh in overall performance and efficiency. This is the twentieth year the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank and policy group, has published the report.
The rankings are based on 11 areas. South Carolina ranked first in the nation in efficiency for what it spent per mile on new bridges, and first in total spending per mile. The state ranked fourth in the nation for maintenance spending per mile, and fourth for administrative spending per mile.
But South Carolina Trucking Association president Rick Todd says those numbers are skewed.
"Probably half of the roads that are in the state DOT system, roads that they have to maintain, shouldn't really be there, and in most states they're under local control. And typically these are the less expensive roads to maintain. So, on a per-mile basis, our numbers are low because we're maintaining these non-significant local roads," he says.
The state's overall ranking was pulled down by ranking 37th in the percentage of rural interstate miles that are in poor condition, 37th in urban interstate congestion, and 48th in fatality rate.
The state's ranking has also dropped, from 4th overall in 2007 to 6thin 2008 and to 7th in 2009, the numbers used for the latest report.
But overall, Todd says the report shows that the SCDOT is doing a good job with your tax dollars.
"We have a good DOT," he says. "They're very efficient. There is no waste that can be cut, for all practical purposes. You're not going to pave many miles of roadway by eliminating waste at the state DOT."
You can see the entire report here. (http://reason.org/news/show/20th-annual-highway-report)
North Dakota is ranked as the most efficient state. Alaska is the least efficient. Georgia ranks twelfth and North Carolina is nineteenth.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 6:45PM The Palmetto State is getting a few snaps for its nutrition assistance accuracy.
South Carolina will receive a $1.8 million “high performance bonus” from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for having one of the lowest payment error rates in delivering Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
“The governor has always said that government is in the customer service business, that she wants and expects her agencies to be watchdogs of taxpayer money and more efficient in how we provide services to the people of South Carolina,” Doug Mayer, deputy communications director for Gov. Nikki Haley, wrote in an email.
South Carolina’s error rate, 1.59 percent, was in the middle of nine states’ rates that received bonuses. Florida had the best error rate at 0.77 percent, with Louisiana three notches below at 1.45 percent and Alabama as the eighth-place finisher at 1.85 percent.
Both Alabama and Louisiana were also the most improved in their accuracy from 2011.
South Carolina DSS Director Lillian Koller “was very pleased when she heard the news,” said the social services’ department’s public information director Kathleen Goetzman.
The USDA delivers $30 million each year in bonuses to states in the categories of best payment accuracy, best improved payment accuracy, and a new award for best case and procedural error rate.
The amount of the bonus is determined by the number of caseloads in the state.
Last year, South Carolina scored a $2.2 million bonus for most improved payment accuracy, improving from 5.14 percent to 3.14 percent.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 5:33PM Anderson Historian Fred Marshall Whitten, age 94, of Anderson, SC, passed away his residence at Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home on Tuesday.
He was born in Anderson, SC on December 28, 1918 to Miles Norton and Mary Ellen Harbin Whitten. He attended Concord and Hammond schools and graduated from Boys High School in 1935. Fred graduated from Spartanburg Methodist College and also the School of Commerce where he subsequently taught accounting after graduation. He proudly served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was a Radioman 2nd Class. He served as the assistant Treasurer of Anderson County for 30 years and delighted us with many courthouse stories. Fred also faithfully delivered the Anderson Independent for 25 years. He was instrumental in helping his delivery boys attain as much education as they desired. He was a member of Midway Presbyterian Church.
There were two things that Fred dearly loved, playing basketball for various teams in his younger years and establishing the Anderson County Museum. He started the museum with his own artifacts in the basement of the historic courthouse. As it grew, he would manage to find more space there and finally his dream came true, the beautiful new Anderson County Museum on Greenville Street was opened. He also started the Anderson County Historical Society and served many terms as president and treasurer. He served on the Pendleton District Historical
Commission and on the board of directors of the Anderson County Museum. He was privileged to receive the Annie Dove Denmark award from Anderson University for his contributions for local history. He was affectionately known as “Mr. Anderson”, for his vast knowledge of Anderson history. He was often contacted from all over the country with questions about Anderson. He loved to recount stories of our history.
Fred was the last surviving member of his immediate family. He was preceded in death by eleven brothers and sisters and special friends, Wayne and Nadine Broadwell. Left to cherish his memory are several nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews and special helper and caregiver, Bob Green.
The family will receive friends at The McDougald Funeral Home on Thursday, July 18, 2013, from 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM. Services will be held at M.J. “Dolly” Cooper Veterans Cemetery, with military honors by Campbell Patriots, and officiated by Reverend Steve Cannon at 12:00 PM.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Anderson County Museum, 202 East Greenville Street, Anderson, SC 29621 or to Richard Michael Campbell Veterans Nursing Home, 4605 Belton Hwy, Anderson, SC 29621.
A fitting tribute to Fred would be to visit the Anderson County Museum and feel and see his presence there.
The family would like to thank the staff of Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home for the kind and faithful care that he received.
A message of condolence may be sent by visiting www.mcdougaldfuneralhome.com