University Daily Kansan, December 4, 1981
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Med Center offers services for TWA
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
KANAS CITY, Kan.-The University of Kansas Medical Center is flying up, up and away with TWA, the combined state legislative Ways and Means Committees learned at a meeting at the Med Center yesterday.
"They are not working with anybody else," Hartman said. "I'm not even sure there are any medical groups doing this for any other airlines."
Charles Hartman, Med Center vice-chancellor for clinical affairs, announced just signed a contract with Trans World Airlines — retroactive to Nov. 1— to provide medical management for the company's domestic and European flights.
THE MED CENTER'S contract with TWA required Med Center doctors to advise the company on how to deal with passengers with travel sickness; insurance compensation problems; insurance compensation problems; providing second or third medical opinions for company employees; providing expert medical assistance and trials; and counseling employees on alcohol or substance abuse.
It is cheaper for TWA to have the Med Center take over medical management than to pay for a private staff, he said.
Although TWA did have its own medical management, Hartman said, the company had to lay off employees because of the economy. The medical management employees were among the first to go.
tn to pay for a private safety walkway. In Kansas City, Mo., physician's will handle the routine medical complaints, such as headaches and cuts and bruises, because it is close to Kansas City International Airport, Hartman said. But TWA chose the Med Center for its medical management because it has a land and new industrial center that can handle heavy industrial accidents.
ALSO, THE MED CENTER has several doctors licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and there are many doctors in the United States. Hartman said.
But he said he didn't know exactly how many FAA-qualified doctors there were at the Med Center because the Med Center had never actually considered becoming involved in aeronauticalmedicine.
TWA just offered the Med Center the contract because doctors there had done some work for the TWA before,
Hartman said, and TWA officials were impressed with the Med Center.
Because of the new contract, Hartman said, the Med Center may be able to attract a large percentage of the 12,000 TWA employees in the Kansas TWA employees and the many TWA employees who stop over in Kansas City as patients.
New patients are important because State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, is running an Office of Means Committee, has been recently calling for Med Center officials to market their services to attract more patients and bring in more
Hartman had no estimate of how much additional income the TWA contract would bring in.
He said, however, that he hoped this contract would be the start of a long involvement with the aerospace industry.
TWA HAS AN associate airline in Saudi Arabia that has expressed interest in hiring the Med Center for its medical management, too.
Hartman said that because TWA had dropped the idea of aerospacine medicine in the Med Center's lap, the Med Center has been able to serve its services to other major airlines.
In other new business at the Senate Ways and Means Committee meeting yesterday, David Waxman, Med Center executive vice Chancellor for administration, said he had just placed advertisements in his journal to find an assistant vice chancellor for hospital administration.
The position is a newly created one, he said, adding he was looking for someone with skills in marketing who was familiar with the hospital market and could better fulfill Hesla's request that it learn to market its services better.
ALLEN WIECHERT, director of facilities planning, told the committee the Med Center's air conditioning system for the old part of the hospital had died a natural death and would be to be replaced before next summer.
Rodger Oroke, director of support services for facilities operations, said that, although the Med Center had extensive new electronic security equipment, faculty, staff and students were still reporting security problems.
Oroke said he thought the major problem was that the Med Center security force hadn't expanded enough to keep them from being built in 1979 and didn't have enough personnel to adequately patrol the entire 60-building campus.
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union shipped more than 62,000 tons of military equipment to Cuba during the first 11 months of 1981, possibly more in any single year since Fidel Castro's establishment. Officials and intelligence sources say
By United Press International
Soviet arms flow to Cuba tops last year's
The tommage in ships, tanks, planes, surface-to-air missiles and other equipment surpasses the 50,000 tons of equipment sent to Cuba during the 1962 American invasion. By 1963, tons shipped to Cuba during all of 1800, the sources said yesterday.
the sources, who requested anonymity, did not know immediately whether the equipment shipped this year represented more than any single year since Castro's revolutionary takeover in 1969.
But, said one source, "It's probably right to say it is the most ever."
The shipment coincides with a military buildup in Nicaragua that has caused alarm in Washington.
Secretary of state Alexander Haig has warned of possibly using force to stem the arms flow, which has found its way to El Salvador.
The Defense Department has reacted cautiously to Haig's approach, with Pentagon officials saying that the solution can be no defensive military solution to halting the increasing weapons traffic in Latin America except to intercept it at the Salvadoran border.
Honduras, which borders El Salvador on the east, recently captured three caches of weapons, an official said.
Pentagon officials emphasized that the Soviet shipment of arms to Cuba and from Cuba to Nicaragua by ship was legal.
"It certainly appears that the goal the Cubans have right now is to exploit and control the revolution in Nicaragua and to create revolution in El Salvador and Guatemala," an administration official said.
The official, who talked to reporters on the condition he not be identified, said at least three runways in Nicaragua had been extended to accommodate such planes he said there was no evidence such planes had arrived in Nicaragua.
But military sources have said that 17 Soviet-built MIG-21 fighters arrived in Cuba in October.
The official said Nicagara had received 29 to 30 Soviet-built T-44 tanks, tank transporters and mobile bridges, ammunition carriers and other camps and firing ranges for the tanks.
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The number of Cuban military and intelligence advisers in Nicaragua has doubled in the past six months from 750 to 1,500, the official said. He said aid
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Union worker charged in theft
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
said Sgt. Paul Schultz of the KU police department.
Stanley Lord, 22, a part-time Union food service employee from New York City, was charged with stealing money from the business office in the Union.
The amount of money missing was between $600 and $700, said Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union.
A Kansas Union employee, who is also a division of continuing education student, was charged Wednesday with one count of burglary and one count of one kill.
Lord, who posted a $3,000 ball, was released Wednesday night and is scheduled to appear in Douglas County District Court Monday.
The theft occurred about midnight Wednesday. Ferguson said that a thief entered the business office with a key.
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