University Daily Kansan, September 25, 1981
Page 7
Med Center denies renovation funding to rehabilitation unit
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By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas Medical Center needs to rehabilitate its rehabilitation department.
So far, Redford said, the Med Center has given him only enough money to buy his own car.
"I think our biggest drawback is inferior facilities," John Redford, rehabilitation department chairman, last week said. "Most other rehabilitation units have new buildings and new facilities. We've been trying to get this place renovated since I came here 20 years ago."
DIRTY RED AND blue-painted trim in the hallway does not brighten up the dingy gray walls. Moreover, the floors are old institutional linoleum.
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The department is located in the basement of the Med Center. There are no windows to let in light or to let patients look out.
Med Center officials told him that his department is a top priority on the renovation list.
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Although the Kansas Legislature budgeted $700,000 for Med Center renovation last spring, the
rehabilitation department has not received a cent yet, he said.
REFDEN BROUGHT the tightly-rolled blueprints down from storage on top of the file cabinet and spread them on his desk.
As he did this, he commented that the Med Center had been losing rehabilitation patients to more modern rehabilitation units in Missouri and to the only other rehabilitation unit in Kansas, which is in Wichita.
At the Med Center, there are only 14 beds in the rehabilitation unit and fewer than 14 outpatients in the clinic each day.
In contrast, the ophthalmology department at the Med Center sees about 60 patients each day.
Renovation, Redford said, would double the rehabilitation department's bed space and enable it to care for more handicapped outpatients.
THOSE EXTRA BEDS would be important because the Med Center not only has one of two such units in Kansas, but the only treatment center dystrophy patients in the Kansas city metropolitan area, Redford said.
Other patients that the Med Center treats include people who have been
disabled in accidents and patients who have been handicapped by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Unfortunately for those people, Redford said, federal funds for his department were being cut back. The department has lost an engineer, who designed braces for the handicapped, and a part-time nscchologist.
"Rehabilitation programs should have a psychologist, and we have to figure out ways to have some support," Redford said.
For now, psychologists from the Med Center's psychiatry department are helping the handicapped patients. However, Redford said he would rather treat the mentally disabled and treated rehabilitation patients, because those patients have special needs.
Although rehabilitation department employees usually work to help handicapped people deal with their needs, they would prefer to prevent handicaps.
"Everybody knows that the biggest preventable disease we have is alcohol.
"DEALING WITH A HANDICAP is
"the real issue," said
"There a period of no believing."
and we bring it on our serves, he said.
Automobile accidents, including
accidents caused by drunk drivers, send the largest group of patients to the Med Center rehabilitation unit, he said.
But he found that life is so hard in the third-world countries that people don't make special allowances for the handicapped.
WHILE ON A TOUR of third-world countries in Southeast Asia last winter, Redford said he found that 85 percent of accidents there were automobile accidents.
He didn't know what the statistics were for the United States.
"All of the technology of the West is moving over there," he said, "and the people aren't trained to handle it."
THE UNITED NATIONS declared 1981 the Year of the Disabled.
Redford's trip was sponsored by the World Health Organization of the United Nations. He was sent to teach village leaders in poor rural areas how to recognize and treat handicapped people and how to prevent disabilities.
"In Nepal, they don't even have a word for 'retarded'," he said. "Try explaining how to treat retarded people when there isn't even a word for it."
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A lecture by Dr. Muzafar Bartuma, Former President of the MSA of the United States & Canada
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Friday, September 25
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The University of Kansas Chamber Music Series opens its 1981-82 season with
The Arn
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String
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Arnold Steinhardt, violin
John Dalley, violin
Michael Tree, viola
David Sayer, cello
Sunday, September 27 3:30 p.m.
University Theatre
Program:
Quartet in E flat Major, K. 160
Quartet in F Major
Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 Beethoven
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