My Desultory Blog

RichC | April 6, 2019

View this post on Instagram Pediatrician Katelyn Oostra, MD, talked about the prevention of childhood obesity this past Wednesday night at a presentation for Super Fitness Weight Loss Challenge contestants. Each year the physical fitness center joins together with WTOL, Channel 11, to host a healthy weight loss challenge. This year, physicians from ProMedica participated […]

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Tags: childhood, Health, instagram, katelyn, obesity, pedicatrician, promedica

RichC | June 11, 2018

As usual the spring pine pollen left a mess of the patios and any furniture left outside. The annual chore of power-washing and cleaning our outdoor living space seems to get tougher every year … and the moving of furniture on and off the patio heavier. Nevertheless, I completed the project after a full day […]

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Tags: annalyn, chores, cleaning, drew, family, katelyn, mp4, patio, plumbing, promedica, richc, toledo, zoo

RichC | April 5, 2018

From the inside I have watched the disruption in healthcare for decades now. Early on it was Brenda and our somewhat laughable attempt in thinking we could start an independent mail order pharmacy, this was in the early 1990s. We looked at leasing property and duplicating existing “store” pharmacy components of a drugstore and at […]

Category: Business, Health, Memories, Productivity, TBT, Technology | No Comments »
Tags: $CVS, aetna, brenda, dotcom, hospitals, humana, insurance, promedica, randy oostra, revco, soma, TBT, walmart

RichC | December 28, 2017

My daughter and son-in-law, who moved back to Ohio in 2017, send me occasional updates from my "birth" city and the surrounding area. This past week the Toledo Blade reflected on 2017 in the "glass city" with its Finding Nellie illustration and included the Promedica Promenade Park revitalization … with Drew‘s dad dancing in the […]

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Tags: blade, nellie, newspaper, ohio, oostra, promedica, promenade, toledo

RichC | September 12, 2017

I do my best to keep the goings-on activities of Taylor, Katelyn and Drew up to date, so here’s a promotional update after a move back to Ohio from Minnesota for my daughter Katelyn’s new pediatric practice in Oregon, Ohio. Need a pediatrician? It is a bit weird for having been  born in Toledo where […]

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Tags: annalyn, banana, bananas, drew, family, katelyn, ohio, oregon, pedicatrics, promedica, toledo, youtube

RichC | January 8, 2015

The answer is YES if ProMedica’s President and CEO Randy Oostra has anything to say about it (video below). The company plans to move their corporate headquarters to the abandoned historic Toledo Edison Steam Plant property on the Maumee riverfront in a bold move which will play a significant role in boosting the local Toledo […]

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Tags: ohio, oostra, promedica, toledo