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...problem. Physicians in Wichita have been catching a bug. An entrepreneurial bug. One that compels them to build highly specialized hospitals, diagnostic imaging facilities stocked with next-generation scanners, and same-day surgery centers that have hotel-like touches. Conlin, CEO of the $1.2 billion nonprofit Via Christi Health System in Kansas, complains that these outfits are competing unfairly against St. Francis and St. Joseph, his two general hospitals in Wichita. And he intends to do something about it. Via Christi provided Kansans with some $30 million in charity care and $33 million in unpaid Medicaid services this year...
Wichitans have had front- row seats to the war. In 1997, disgruntled cardiologists led by Dr. Gregory Duick approached Via Christi about establishing a heart hospital. "There was no grand conspiracy to make more dollars for doctors," says Duick. "It was fanned by frustration with the hospitals' inability to get things done and a lack of input from physicians on administration." When Via Christi declined, the doctors tapped local investors, and in 1999 opened the smartly designed, one-story Kansas Heart Hospital in a tony northeastern quadrant of town...
Brandon M. Terry ’05 was a government and African and African American studies concentrator in Lowell House. He was the Michael von Clemm Fellow at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, and is now a Ph.D. candidate in political science and African-American studies at Yale University...
...second, with freshmen Natalia Festa, Sophie Morgan, Vanda Gyuris, and junior Meaghan Colling. From Team ‘A’, both O’Connor and Slaight went on to win a second event. Slaight was able to touch the wall first in the 50-yard freestyle; sophomore Christi Morriessey came in third. O’Connor nabbed first-place points in the 100-yard butterfly with Morgan coming in the third. In diving, junior Samantha Papadakis dominated the two events of the meet, the 1-meter and 3-meter, winning both by easy point margins. Pipitone placed second...
DIED. Freddy Fender, 69, three-time Grammy winner who began his career as "El Bebop Kid," singing Elvis songs in Spanish, and in 1975 topped the pop and country charts with Before the Next Teardrop Falls; of lung cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born Baldemar Huerta to migrant parents in South Texas, he based his stage name on the brand of his guitar and later joined two critically acclaimed Tex-Mex bands, the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven...