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Tuesday, September 29, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Facility to provide health for the aging
New building at Med Center first of its kind in Midwest
By Chad Bettes
Kansan staff writer
Former U.S. Sen, Nancy Kassebaum Baker (left), and Stephanie Studenski attend the ground breaking at the University of Kansas Medical Center's Health in Aging Facility. Contributed photo
A new $8 million Health in Aging Facility that will improve geriatric health care and student learning opportunities at the University of Kansas Medical Center will be built starting in November.
The Health in Aging Facility, which will focus on the total health of older adults, is a division of the Med Center's Center on Aging. It will integrate clinical and educational services for patients, as well as provide a place for students to learn and research principles of geriatric health.
The center and new facility will be headed by Stephanie Studenski, who helped the University obtain funding for the project. The facility is scheduled to open in February 2000.
Studenski said the facility would be more accessible and less confusing to the elderly because it would provide a large number of services.
Chancellor Robert Roberts boost the University's already ton-not rep
utation for research and care of older adults.
"Under the direction and guidance of Dr. Stephanie Studenski, we really
The federal government provided $4 million for the center, while the state provided $4 million through the Med Center.
At the groundbreaking for the facility earlier this month, Studenski and Hemenway were joined by Gov. Bill Graves and former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, R-Kan.
Studenski said the time and place was right for Kansas to be opening a the facility. She said the Kansas
Studenski credited Kassebaum Baker for her support because of Kassebaum Baker's ethical reputation and strong interest in the project were helpful in organizing the project.
"The need in Kansas is clear." Dr. Stephanie Studenski Head of aging facility
o have the opportunity to be No. 1 in this area." Hemenway said.
population had the 11th highest percentage of people 65 years of age or older and ranked 5th of those 65
He said the facility demonstrated that the University cared about aging citizens in Kansas by providing them a first-class facility for their care. He said the facility also was a healthy partnership among the University, state government and federal government.
years of age or older.
"The need in Kansas is clear," Studenski said.
The facility will be the only one of its kind in the Midwest, measuring 52,280 square feet. It will house a wide range of services from a gymnasium to telecommunication and televideo equipment for remote location medical assessment.
University of Kansas Medical Center campus To i-35 and i-70
Kristi Elliott / KANSAN
Jozef Zelenak, a geriatric medicine fellow, said he was interested in working at the new facility.
"With the new facility, our center on aging is going to be one of the prominent facilities in the country," he said.
The facility funding follows a number of other grants secured by Studenski and the Center on Aging. Another notable grant received was the $7.6 million Pepper Center Grant from the National Institutes of Health, Studenski said that grant put the University in the same class as Yale and Harvard.
"We have established oursels as leaders and innovators in aging. A lot of people didn't think Kansas could do this," Studenski said.
Hurricane weakens as storm hits Gulf Coast
The Associated Press
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Hurricane Georges plowed into the Gulf Coast yesterday and then parked there, pouring rain at an inch-an-hour pace before weakening to a tropical storm that could have a long and ruinous stay.
Winds dropped to 45 mph last night, 30 mph below hurricane strength and down from a high of 110. New Orleans was spared the catastrophic direct hit that many in the Big Easy had feared.
But that was little comfort to the thousands who huddled in shelters from Florida to Louisiana and were expected to remain there for days. Outside, trees ripped from the ground, windows sucked from their frames, floods roaring down roads.
"In some areas, there's water to rooftops and 4 to 5 feet of water in many other homes. I've never seen anything like it in more than 50 years," said Jackson County administrator George Touart, after a tour of Pascagoula.
Forecasters said up to 30 inches could fall by the time the storm clears out sometime in the middle of the week. Flash flood watches were issued for much of Mississippi and Alabama through today. Parts of Florida also under flood watches.
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in Mobile, Ala., in a 24-hour period ending yesterday evening. Since Saturday, Munson, Fla., was deluged with 25 inches of rain; Bay Minette, Ala., 14.5 inches and Leakesville, Miss., 8.3 inches.
In the Florida Panhandle, Guardsmen had to rescue about 200 people from their flooded homes.
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