Category: Business

Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC) will launch a new electronic health record system on Saturday, June 1, 2019. An electronic health record (EHR) is a digital version of a patient’s chart, including the patient’s complete health history. Since 2018, KRMC has been working with Meditech™ – a Boston-based company specializing in hospital and health care information systems – to create a custom EHR for KRMC’s specific needs.  The new EHR system at KRMC is called One Care. “Our system is now equivalent to the technology used by large urban hospitals,” says KRMC Chief Information Officer, Arek Shennar. With One Care, each patient…

Necessary zoning changes are pending for a company planning to develop three travel center and truck stop projects along Interstate 40 outside Kingman. Mohave County Supervisors will take up the requests from Petroleum Wholesale, L.P., of The Woodlands, Texas during their board meeting next Monday. The county planning and zoning commission is recommending approval after considering the requests during its May 22 meeting. Two of the projects are proposed 20 miles east of Kingman at Blake Ranch Road, both north and south of Interstate 40. The ten and eleven acre parcels currently designated as general commercial would be rezoned to…

Kingman voters may get the opportunity to decide whether the city mayor should serve for four years rather than two.  Kingman council members currently serve four-year terms while the mayor only serves two years. City Clerk Sydney Muhle recently told council members that the community may enjoy enhanced political stability and continuity with a four-year term format. She said more candidates might run for mayor if they can lock up a four-year term rather than having to expend the money and energy to run every two years. Muhle said Kingman is one of 42 municipalities in Arizona whose mayors serve two…

The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation and representatives from all seven Colorado River Basin states gathered Monday, May 20, and signed completed drought contingency plans for the Upper and Lower Colorado River basins. These completed plans are designed to reduce risks from ongoing drought and protect the single most important water resource in the western United States.  “This is an historic accomplishment for the Colorado River Basin. Adopting consensus-based drought contingency plans represents the best path toward safeguarding the single most important water resource in the western United States,” said Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman. “These agreements represent tremendous…