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University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1983
Panel says KU should run Med Center
From staff and wire reports
TOPEKA - A legislative committee recommended Friday that the University of Kansas Medical Center continue to be run by the University as long as it showed progress in solving revenue and other problems.
The Legislative Budget Committee has spent the past four months trying to determine whether a private hospital-management firm should be allowed to run Ken. Kan, facility or whether it was essential that the University own and operate it.
AFTER MEETING WITH the Board of Regents in August at the Med Center, many of the committee's members agreed that revenue collections had been under the floor and that the hospital was making progress in keeping bed space filled.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig advised the committee that a new office of health care resources, to be directed by David Waxman, former Med Center vice chancellor, would work aggressively to improve patient referrals to
the hospital and market the hospital's specialty services.
Waxman, who is now a special counselor to the chancellor for the health sciences, said that he had worked with marketing and public relations work.
"I've been making excursions in the state asking doctors what the Med Center can do for them," he said. "They support us, and we should support them."
The panel said in its report, "The committee recognizes that the institution's multiple missions require a careful balance between successful competition with other hospitals and the provision of quality health care education.
"NEVERTHELESS, THE committee encourages the institution to continue its efforts to maintain adequate patient volume and increase private support
At the October Regents meeting, D. Kay Clawson, Med Center executive vice-chancellor, reported that the number of patient days in the hospital
Despite the decrease in patient volume, Clawson reported that Med Center revenues were up from last year.
was down for the month and that patient-days had been steadily declining.
The panel said it appeared that the present hospital management team was starting to solve problems the hospital has suffered for the past few years, including revenue shortfalls, poor billing practices and shoddy housekeeping.
Because of that turn around, the committee rejected alternative management options "at this time."
HOWEVER, the committee recommended that it be allowed to meet with the Board of Regents periodically to discuss any problems in the situation and any problems that arose.
Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, initially asked that the hospital's management operation be studied to determine whether it could be run more efficiently by a professional management firm.
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Wichitan crowned Miss Lawrence
Ragtime music poured out of the grand piano on center stage, transforming the auditorium at a swinging or light for a swinging New Orleans honk-konk.
The intoxicating rhythm of Nancy Lynn Cobb's piano-vocal jazz performance sent feet tapping and hands clapping in the audience.
Cobb, Wich-
its sophomore, seemed to be at ease in front of the audience that had gathered to watch the 1984 Miss Lawrence Scholarship Pageant.
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Cobb, 19, was crowned Miss Lawrence 1984 Saturday evening following talent, evening gown and swimsuit competition. The five judges
This is not the first pageant Cobb has won. Last year she reigned as Miss Wichita and was crowned first pageant in the Miss Kansas pageant.
AS MISS LAWRENCE, Cobb will receive a $1,100 scholarship and more than $800 in merchandise from Lawrence businesses. More than $2,500 in scholarships was awarded during the pageant, which was sponsored by the Delta Chi fraternity for the second year.
Cobb was selected from a field of 15 final contestants, 14 of whom were KU students and a Lawrence High School senior. Thirty-three contestants entered the preliminary competition, which was conducted on Oct. 9.
Amid backstage hugs and desperate attempts to get her crown fastened securely on her head, Cobb said that she was still surprised she had won.
walked away with the show, the judges said.
The panel of judges said that the contest had been particularly difficult to judge. No one contestant
also made their decision based on prepageant interviews.
Christine Adele' Frieswyk, Topека junior, won the talent competition for her vocal solo titled "Superman," by Barbra Streisand.
Frieswyk was named first runner-up in the Lawrence pageant, but she said she was still determined to make the state pageant, which will be in Pratt.
"I'm REALLY SINCERE in the fact that this is an exceptionally talented group," said Rocheen Dursky, member of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Local Pageant Association.
"It might be the next page pageant or in the Topka pageant, but I'll be in Paris."
The second runner-up was Karen Kay Nielsen, Sioux City, Iowa, freshman. Third was Anna Marie Selleck, Lawrence junior. Dorcen Annette Seely, Lawrence sophomore, was fourth.
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