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Pat Miller – wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, assistant professor of range and environmental science – was released Jan. 19 from a rehabilitation hospital in Abilene.

She was the last passenger injured in the Nov. 4 bus accident to return home for continued recovery.

“Continue to pray for and assist our colleagues and students in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences as their healing process continues,” said ACU president Dr. Phil Schubert in a message of gratitude to faculty and staff earlier today. “Thank you for standing by each of them during their challenges the past several months. I am so proud of how our campus community continues to respond to each person’s needs with acts of love and the compassion of Christ.”

Schubert also reported that students Anna Ciufo and Naomi Cruz had improved enough to return for the spring semester.

Naomi Cruz, a freshman from The Woodlands, Texas, was released Dec. 15 from a rehabilitation hospital near her home in Houston.

Pat Miller – wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, assistant professor of range and environmental science – is making good progress in a rehabilitation hospital in Abilene. She is the only passenger injured in the Nov. 4 bus accident who remains hospitalized.

Pat Miller, wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, was transferred today from Hendrick Medical Center to continue her improvement in its rehabilitation hospital in Abilene.

Miller was one of 16 members of the ACU community who were passengers in a Nov. 4 bus accident. She stayed two days in Hendrick’s in-patient hospice care in mid November before beginning a remarkable turnaround.

Naomi Cruz, a freshman from The Woodlands, continues to make progress in a rehabilitation hospital near her hometown.

Twenty-four days after the Nov. 4 bus accident, two of the 16 passengers – Naomi Cruz and Pat Miller – continue to be hospitalized while demonstrating improvement through various forms of rehabilitation therapy. When we receive major news about either, we will share it with you. Some of the students have returned to classes, while others who were injured are healing at home.

All of us in the ACU family appreciate your continued expressions of love and encouragement, and solicit continued prayers on behalf of these students, faculty and friends, and their families.

Pat Miller, the wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, was transferred Saturday from a hospital in San Angelo to Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center, where she began receiving hospice care.

However, she showed enough improvement Sunday to be moved out of hospice care and to another room, and has been responding to family members for the first time since the Nov. 4 bus accident.

Pat Miller, wife of Dr. Emmett Miller, was transferred today from Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo to the in-patient hospice unit at Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center.

She and her husband were injured in the Nov. 4 bus accident, although he was released Nov. 7 to return to their home in Hawley, Texas, near Abilene.

Anna Ciufo, a freshman, was released this morning from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

Three people injured in the Nov. 4 bus accident remain hospitalized in Abilene, San Angelo and Houston.

Tiffany Lutz, a senior, was released this morning from Abilene’s Hendrick Medical Center and transferred to a rehabilitation hospital to continue her improvement.

Four people injured in last Friday’s bus accident remain hospitalized in San Angelo, Dallas and Houston, and are still in critical condition.

Earlier today, two more students were released from hospitals: freshman Allison Dorshorst from San Angelo Community Medical Center and junior Merissa Ford from Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene.