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Alphonsus

/ ælˈfɒnsəs /

noun

  1. a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred

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The first retreat took place at Mount St. Alphonsus, a former seminary in Esopus, N.Y.

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The attack on the corrections officers came just after 2 a.m. on March 20 in the ambulance bay of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.

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Wednesday, when Idaho Department of Correction officers took Skylar Meade, 31, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, to the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, for medical treatment, the Boise Police Department said on Wednesday.

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Meade escaped from the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise after being taken there for "self-injurious" behaviour, Josh Tewalt, director of the state's Department of Correction, said in a news conference on Thursday.

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Among the rural health clinics with the designation are St. Luke’s family medicine clinic in Jerome and Saint Alphonsus Health System’s family medicine clinic in Fruitland.

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