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Sanford deploying mobile clinic in ND oil patch
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Sanford Health is deploying the first of two mobile clinics in the western North Dakota oil patch.
• The Dakotas-based health network will send the first clinic on wheels into the region in June, providing on-site care for oil workers. The 45-foot-long rig will be staffed by a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, a nurse and a driver who also is a medical technician or radiology technician. It will provide services ranging from physicals to X-rays.
• Sanford also is putting a modular clinic in Watford City.
• The health network is investing $2.7 million in the project. Annual operating expenses are estimated at $4.8 million.
• Sanford Health is based in Fargo, North Dakota and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It bills itself as the largest, not-for-profit rural health care system in the nation.
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Bond set at $500,000 for Rapid City murder suspect
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Bond has been set at half a million dollars for a man accused in a Rapid City homicide.
• Twenty-eight-year-old Daryl Espinosa is charged with second-degree murder in the death last Friday of 59-year-old Lars Greeley. Authorities allege that the killing happened after the two men had been drinking with others at an apartment complex.
• Police say a preliminary autopsy listed the cause of death as blunt force trauma.
• The murder charge against Espinosa carries a mandatory life prison sentence. He also faces aggravated assault counts for allegedly threatening two other people with a knife.
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Flandreau officer wins national intelligence award
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- An Army National Guard officer from Flandreau, South Dakota, has received a national award for her role as an intelligence officer in Afghanistan.
• First Lt. Bridget Flannery is the winner of the 2014 Colonel Carl F. Eifler Award.
• Lt. Col. Michael Oster in the same battalion says Flannery displayed outstanding (Continued on page 16)
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