Thursday, September 25, 1975
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Med Center grows, aids Kansas
By GREG HACK
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Progress is being made to meet the health care needs of the people of Kansas, KU Medical Center of Omaha and Kansas City. The first annual Med Center Kansas Day.
The officials said increased enrollment, continued research and an emphasis on providing primary health care in rural areas, helping to give Kansas better health care.
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Cancello Archie R. Dykes said the Med Center's Keyway Daquan acquired Kansasans who had been in the area and staff of the Med Center to hear from people from across the state and provided feedback on their progress.
The day's activities included two panel discussions concerning methods to improve health care, tours of the Med Center and speeches on nursing education, health manpower problems, community action to reduce child mortality and special services offered by the Med Center.
John Conard, executive assistant to Gov. Robert F. Bennett, spoke to the crowd of more than 300 on behalf of the governor. He said Bennett had planned to attend and give the keynote address but was suffering from a respiratory infection.
DYKES SAID TRE Med Center's Kansas Day was part of the University's plan to communicate with Kansans and to provide maximum service to the state.
Conard said it was important to view the Med Center in terms of the services it provided. The hospital is one of the nation's largest.
Gov. Bennett has the highest regard for the Med Center and its efforts," he said. "He assured me that the entire University of Kansas had 100 per cent of his support."
JACK D. WALKER, chairman of the department of family practice, said the
Potter pavilion chosen as site for regalia bash
The pavilion on the west side of Potter Lake was approved yesterday as the site of the senior class regalia party Friday afternoon. Oct. 3.
The University of Kansas Events Committee approved the class request to use the facility, ending a weeklong stay at the university. The entire party scheduled for Sept. 19 in Allen Field House.
The Foster site was chosen primarily to give money, Jack Foster, senior class vice president.
Foster, who is in charge of the party, said that after the Field House became unavailable, the class had looked at several bars, but they were all too expensive.
Because several activities are planned for the rest of the year, he said, the class thought it wise to keep this party as inexpensive as possible.
Other major class expenditures will be the service gift, and plaques and materials for the display.
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Foster said plans were being made to have several "Senior Farewell" parties at different bars in Lawrence. Several kegs of beer were reserved for seniors at these bars, he said.
medical school's class size had increased from 139 in 1970 to 200 this year. The School of Nursing offered the Master's degree.
He said more students were becoming interested in primary care, which he defined as "the health resources that a family uses for most of its continuous, comprehensive care." There have been complaints that too many doctors have gone into specialized fields, thus neglecting primary care, he said.
Walker said the Med Center was expanding its primary care programs, especially for rural areas. The department offered extended care to students and will have 24 next year, he said.
STUDENTS ARE required to spend one month working with a physician away from the Med Center, Walker said, and most students are choosing to work in rural areas.
The Wichita State University branch of the Med Center, begun in 1974, has helped by providing primary care clinical experience at three Wichita hospitals, he said.
The "medical extender" programs, which train paramedics, nurse practitioners and interns, he said, are now available for children in primary care, assist physicians involved in primary care.
Med Center classes to help practicing physicians and surgeons are available in Kingman, Norton, Garden City, Topek, Wichita and the Kansas City area, Walker
Norton Greenberger, chairman of the department of medicine, said the Med Center's Outreach program was giving interns and resident physicians chances to see what it was like to practice in small communities.
“THERE ARE advantages to practice in a small town and the best way to find out what such practice is like is to spend some time in smaller towns,” he said. “Our Outreach program has resulted in some physicians locating in western Kansas.”
He said not enough Kansas medical school graduates were staying in the state, although progress had been made. He said about 40 per cent of this year's Med Center graduates would practice in Kansas, compared to 36 per cent in 1960.
The Med Center is also involved in planning regional health care facilities that will make the best use of available personnel, he said.
"We are working with small communities, private physicians and state officials to establish regional clusters of doctors in the rural areas that can serve rural areas," he said.
GREENBERGER BRIEFLY outlined the Med Center's research activities, which he said were "directly related health care needs."
Medical research has made great strides in reducing deaths caused by heart attacks, respiratory failure, infectious diseases and cancer, he said.
"One can see the value of research by considering that for a couple of million dollars of research money we eliminated polio, a severe crippler," he said.
The mortality rate for heart attack victims has been decreased from 35 to 15 per cent, he said. Up to 40 per cent of cancer patients died in the past year, compared to 26 per a few years ago.
Dykes said the Med Center received about $ million in in隶授 grants and contracts to the
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David W. Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said, "You can't have good teaching without good research. Our research is an integral part of our program and a significant source of revenue."
He said the Med Center budget for fiscal 1977 would be more than $73 million, although only 40 per cent of that would be paid for with state funds.
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