Medical Clinics Kansas City Kansas

June 21 news briefs

Duck Derby benefits children with special health care needs

Thousands of yellow rubber ducks will be racing down Brush Creek again this summer. The Country Club Plaza will be the backdrop for the 2011 Duck Derby from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 26. All proceeds benefit Children’s Therapeutic Learning Center, an accredited preschool serving children with developmental disabilities and special health care needs since 1947. Children’s TLC serves more than 700 students across seven counties in the Kansas City metro area.

The public can adopt ducks for $5 each online at www.kcquacks.org.

Prize packages will be given away on race day to the first 10 ducks that make it to the finish line.

In addition to the race, the Duck Derby will offer entertainment, food, inflatables, games, chalk art, music and more.

ANA commends ‘medical homes’ decision

The American Nurses Association commends the Joint Commission for adopting standards that include nurse-led clinics as “primary care medical homes,” a decision that will provide more choice and access for patients seeking care.

The final ambulatory care guidelines that the Joint Commission will use to accredit primary care medical homes beginning July 1 expand opportunities for advanced practice registered nurses, such as nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives, to provide services to patients under an innovative care delivery model.

Medical homes – centralized health care providers that coordinate a patient’s care across multiple health care settings and practitioners – have been promoted under the Affordable Care Act as a method to provide cost-effective, high-quality, patient-centered care.

Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences appoints academic dean

James A. Hauschildt, Ed.D., MA, BSN, RN, BC, has been appointed academic dean for Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences.

Hauschildt most recently served as director of education and training at Dearborn Advisors, a corporate clinical consulting firm in Illinois.

His extensive background in nursing includes teaching graduate and undergraduate nursing at Allen College in Waterloo, Iowa, and serving as a captain in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps. He received a doctorate of education degree from the University of Northern Iowa.

Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences has graduated more than 3,500 nurses since it was established in 1903. The college offers a bachelor of science in nursing degree, and has a high faculty-to-student ratio with a 97 percent graduation rate. It is affiliated with Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.

Nevada Daily Mail: Local News: Dr. Jones' retirement locks another ...

The circles of life connect more readily and perhaps more pleasantly in small towns.

That's how it has been for Dr. Robert R. "Ron" Jones, who is concluding a 34-year-long pediatrics practice with his Aug. 19 retirement.

Born at Nevada City Hospital, now the NRMC Medical Arts Building across from his Nevada Medical Clinic office at 800 S. Ash St., Jones was able to visit the deathbed of the physician who had delivered him, Dr. William Allen.

His Cherry Street neighbor, optometrist Jeremy Fast, was the one of the first newborns he cared for in 1977, and he was happy to see patients and their parents around town -- a rare happenstance in big cities.

A combination of things drew him toward medicine, especially his childhood physician and two 1960s TV series about doctors.

As a Nevada High School student, he liked "Dr. Kildare" and "Ben Casey," which began each week with a doctor drawing symbols on a blackboard and saying, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity. . ."

"I appreciated the good care I got from the late Dr. Jim Pascoe and that also had something to do with it," said Jones, 65.

Having graduated in NHS' Class of 1963, he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark.

He enrolled at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and did his residency there at Methodist Hospital, studying pediatrics and cardiovascular surgery and participating in Houston's first heart by-passes with Drs. George Morris and George Reul.

That was during the Vietnam War, so Jones joined the United States Air Force under the Berry Plan and completed his medical training at Upper Heyford Air Base north of London, England.

He had married Valo Christensen of Dallas and had twins Sam and Scott in Houston, to whose humidity the family did not return in part "because my wife's hair wouldn't stay curly there," Jones said.

His desire to come home was so strong that he declined an offer to be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel and command Aviano Air Base Hospital in Italy.

The couple's other children are Libby Nuessen of Kansas City and Dan of North Hollywood, Calif. Sam is in Kansas City and Scott in Springdale, Ark. They have two grandchildren. Jones' parents were Ernest, co-owner of Nevada Canvas Co., and Betty, a police dispatcher, office assistant to Dr. Braxton Davis and employee of Mendenhall Shoes and Moore's Department Store.

Of course, a medical practice is not all roses.

The Kansas City medical index-lancet

THE KANSAS CITY MEDICAL INDEX VOL. VII. JANUARY, 1886. NO. 73. ... Gustave Braun tried Tarnier's forceps in his clinic at Vienna on its first appearance and ...

The Kansas City medical record, A monthly journal of medicine and surgery

... for gratis supplied reports on cures effected at the clinics of he Universities of Bonn and Greifswald. ... Address, JE LOCKWOOD, GP & TA, Kansas City. ...

The medical clinics of North America

Kansas University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Kansas ... Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas Medical Clinics of North ...

JAMA., The Journal of the American Medical Association

COLLEGE OP PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS (MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY ) ... medical jurisprudence, mental diseases; surgical and medical clinic on ...

Homelessness, health, and human needs

Pilgrim House (Kansas City): A shelter for homeless families operated as part of the City ... receives health care services from a nearby health clinic. ...