Kansas rating increases for oral health status
The oral health of Kansans improved from a failing grade in 2000 to an average grade in 2001, according to an oral health report card issued by the national advocacy group Oral Health America.
About 60 percent of Kansas consumers get water from systems receiving fluoridated water. Sixty-five percent is needed to bring the state's grade up from a D.
The percentage of children receiving dental sealants in Kansas earned a B.
The state received F's in the oral health status of children and the lack of a dental director.
The only category capturing an A on the 2001 Report Card for Kansas is an oral health coalition. The Hutchinson-based Methodist Health Ministry Fund brought together an advisory committee representing dental professionals, state government, and public health officials to provide leadership for its Healthy Teeth for Kansans campaign launched in 1998.
Indian American program's director retires after 16 years
The creator of a nationwide cooperative that's been placing American-Indian students in professional programs for 16 years has announced her retirement.
Gail Sloan, Lawrence, was honored Tuesday evening at a retirement reception at Haskell Indian Nations University.
Sloan, an employee of the U.S. Forest Service, began the agency's Center for Cooperative Education at Haskell Indian Nations University and for American Indians nationally.
The program hand-picks students, places them at accredited colleges and mentors them. The program also assists them in finding summer jobs.
Arch Wells, former chief forester for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a speaker at Sloan's retirement reception, said Sloan had a vision and made it happen.
"All these students who have done well and graduated and gone on to their profession will carry that vision with them and hopefully will pass it on to other students and their own children," Wells said.
Sloan is the wife of state Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence.
KU officials to present at statewide nurses' event
A Kansas University administrator and a faculty member will be among the presenters at the annual Kansas State Nurses Assn.'s Day at the Legislature.
The event, to be Feb. 7 at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, will include Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for university relations at KU, and Barbara Langner, assistant professor at the KU School of Nursing and project director for the Kansas Health Insurance Study.
The event is a daylong seminar to discuss policy issues that affect the practice of nursing and the delivery and financing of health care.
For registration information, call (785) 233-8638, e-mail troberts@sound.net or visit www.nursingworld.org/snas/ks.
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