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ALL AROUND WISE, Decatur, Texas, Thursday, October 21, 2010 13
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GREEN STUDENTS — A team of students at Chisholm Trail Middle School in Rhome gather
the school’s recyclable materials every Tuesday and Thursday. All Northwest ISD schools
have implemented the new, single-stream recycling program.
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CTMS recycling program
helps more than the Earth
With the recent implementation of the
orthwest Independent School District’s
ingle-stream recycling program, students
t Chisholm Trail Middle School in Rhome
ccepted the charge to manage their school’s
ecycling bins.
A team of students gather the school’s
ecyclable materials every Tuesday and
hursday.
Students in Kesha Hill’s homeroom math
lass work with students with special needs
n Elyse Pennington’s room on the schoolide
project. In addition to creating a
greener” world, the initiative encourages
social interaction, mutual respect and understanding.
During homeroom, each class places its
recycling bin in the hallway for the team of
students to collect. They work together as
they gather the recyclable items and place
them in a large outdoor container.
All schools in Northwest ISD have been
provided new containers for the implementation
of the new, single-stream recycling
program, meaning that all recyclables, from
cardboard boxes to plastic bottles, can be recycled
in the same container.
Northwest ISD saved nearly $1 million
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Robert Stapp and Dr. Chad Stephens with North Texas Bank’s Andrew Rottner.
North Texas Spine & Sport is at 1851 Medical Center Drive, Decatur.
Managing Pain to Get
“Back in the Game”
“No pain, no gain!”
Every athlete – including Dr. Chad B.
Stephens, D.O. – has heard it repeatedly.
As co-founder and president of North
Texas Spine and Sport in Decatur, he is determined
that his patients learn the meaning
of “No pain. Get active. Again.”
Fit and trim, Dr. Stephens specializes
in “interventional” pain management as it
relates to sports medicine.
“Nobody else in Wise County does quite
what I do,” he said. The treatment he offers
had been available only from doctors hours
away in the Metroplex.
As North Texas Spine and Sport cofounder
Robert E. Stapp explained: “It
didn’t seem right that people in pain should
have to fight traffic to get relief.”
“We know we can offer that same level
of total treatment without the drive,” Dr.
Stephens said. “We do the procedure and
all the follow-through in Decatur, which
helps prevent further problems.”
Diagnosis by “multi-specialty doctors
under one roof” gives patients immediate
access to “treatment of the issue itself instead
of just the symptoms,” Stapp said.
“Real medicine is all about finding the
root-cause of a problem and curing the patient
with as little intrusion on their life as
possible,” he noted.
Board certified in pain management
and sports medicine, Dr. Stephens earned
his bachelor’s degree from Abilene Christian
University. At Des Moines University
in Iowa he was class president all four
years he studied osteopathic medicine.
He has treated athletes at all levels. He
was team physician for two colleges and
a high school, and he helped run regional
SportOne Athletic Training, earning the
title of “Top Doc” for upstate Indiana.
While working in a multi-specialty
practice with 29 other doctors at Fort
Wayne, Dr. Stephens decided how his own
practice – emphasizing care on a more personal
level – would operate.
“Rob (Stapp) fine-tuned my ideas,” he
said. His longtime friend would become
chief executive officer of that practice.
Stapp’s own firm, OP-EX Direct Results
Inc., is known for helping businesses focus
on delivering value-enhanced results.
They researched the best location for
North Texas Spine and Sport for a year.
While completing training in Fort Worth
six years ago, Dr. Stephens had “moonlighted”
at Decatur’s “old” hospital. Even then he
detected a “medical boom” was underway.
He saw sports-minded Wise County
as a great place to practice medicine, raise
his family – and play a little ball himself.
By the time Stephens and Stapp began
searching for the medical support they
would require, Wise Regional Health System
had opened its new facility.
“The hospital seemed much bigger than
what I had seen elsewhere in comparablysized
communities,” Dr. Stephens recalled.
“I saw the potential for growth.
“I decided, ‘Now is the time to do this.’”
With wholehearted support from
North Texas Bank, he opened his practice
in March. It is within jogging distance of
Wise Regional’s Fit-N-Wise rehab center.
“It offers everything you could possibly
want, including a therapeutic pool,” he noted.
“All the package is right here.”
So far, Dr. Stephens has performed 300
procedures at Wise Regional. He performed
the hospital’s first spinal-cord stimulator
implant on a patient who hadn’t responded
to conventional surgery.”
“The hospital has been very responsive
to our needs on short notice,” he said,
“And we appreciate the support of all the
primary-care doctors across Wise County.”
Dr. Stephens considers North Texas
Bank as a part of his carefully-chosen
team. “We include the partners we believe
will help us succeed.
“Before we picked our bank we did
our research. Again and again, we were
told we needed to talk to Andrew Rottner
(president of North Texas Bank).”
Dr. Stephens continued: “Andrew understands
what we are doing and thinks outside
the box. He makes himself available.
He even got our lights turned on!
“Andrew Rottner gives honest advice.”
Dr. Stephens predicts a long relationship
of working together to create a “regional
pain-management and sports-medicine
center of excellence in Wise County.”
Or as results-oriented Rob Stapp sees it:
“I feel confident Wise County residents can
stay close to home for excellent care.”
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