ENUMCLAW, Wash.

IT'S Monday morning and you are about to go into work.

By TED GRIGGS St. Elizabeth Hospital has purchased Lake Ascension Physicians, an Ascension Parish medical practice with 27 doctors and 200 employees, for an undisclosed sum. "Now that St.

Rapid recoveries following hip and knee replacement operations are gaining pace at a Tyneside hospital, thanks to an initiative by health staff. Medics at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead have developed a pioneering rapid recovery programme, where the patient takes centre stage.

By Anonymous RICHARD NOTHERN 2006 Community Leader of the Year Attorney Richard Northern likes to joke that "I was born at Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital and joined the board right after my mother brought me home." That statement isn't far from the truth. Northern has served Sts.