Saint Luke's Hospital Wins Baldrige National Award
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, a 582 bed tertiary care facility, won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for health care in 2003. The award recognizes leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, information and analysis, HR focus, process management, and results. Presidentially presented, the honor was announced to G. Richard Hastings with plans to showcase recipients in spring 2004 in Washington, D.C. The hospital credits its staff and physicians for quality efforts.
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State board aims to cut Sudden Infant Death Syndrome risk
The State Child Death Review Board urges parents and caregivers to follow safe sleep practices. Key points note SIDS is the unexplained death of an infant under one year after thorough investigation, with risk factors including prone sleeping, maternal smoking, prematurity, and crowded or overheated sleeping conditions.
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Diabetes Detection Initiative kickoff in Wichita marked
Diabetes awareness month events featured U S Surgeon General Richard Carmona as keynote at the Mid-America All-Indian Center Wichita one of ten pilot sites to identify undiagnosed diabetes Roderick Bremby Kansas health official spoke in support The program runs through August 2004 with partners including Kansas Department of Health and Environment and HHS Region VII It targets high risk groups and aims to boost blood testing and diagnosis while detailing economic and health impacts of diabetes in Kansas and nationwide
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