The Week in Business
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HEALTH CARE Via Christi makes medical staff, foundation appointments
Dr. Hewitt Goodpasture is president-elect of the Via Christi medical staff for 2002. Dr. Michael P. Brown MD will assume the presidency at the medical staff's annual meeting, tentatively scheduled for late January. Along with Goodpasture and Brown, other officers are: Family and Maternal/Child: Chair, Dr. Philip Cherven; vice chair, Dr. Teresa Craddock. Medicine: Chair, Dr. Roger Evans; vice chair, Dr. Don Brada. Surgery: Chair, Dr. Michael Porter; vice chair, Dr. A.J. Farha. New officers for the Via Christi Foundation are J.V. Johnston, chair; Kathy Coleman, vice chair; Rob Wilkins, treasurer; Chris Shank, secretary; Ivonne Goldstein, events chair; Josephine Cornejo, nominations chair; and Dr. Tom Estep, physician relations chair.
Prairie View Consultation Services gets new name
Prairie View Consultation Services in Newton has been renamed Process Solutions Group. Concurrent with the new identity is an expansion of services offered to businesses and organizations, according to Process Solutions Group director Dr. John Simmering.
Process Solutions Group offers seven distinct programs focused on building success by enhancing individual and organizational performance. The group also offers hands-on learning with a safety-inspected outdoor adventure course designed to build trust, cooperation and communication among participants. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.processsolutionsgroup.org.
EDUCATION K-State To Host Farm Bill Seminars
With the Farm Bill of 1996 set to expire at the end of September, 2002, Kansas State University's Department of Agricultural Economics will host Farm Bill seminars in various locations around the state.
The meetings, designed to examine the next farm bill and what it means for farmers, agribusinesses, conservation groups and rural communities, will be held in January and February.
The 1996 Farm Bill, dubbed Freedom to Farm by some groups, was a distinct departure from previous farm bills in that payments were decoupled from prices and production, said K-State Research and Extension state leader Barry Flinch-baugh.
"It provided farmers with the flexibility to respond to the marketplace, rather than following the dictates of the farm program," Flinchbaugh said.
Dates, locations and contact telephone numbers for each of the meetings are:
• Jan. 22 - Hays - (785) 628-9430
• Jan. 23 - Salina - (785) 826-6645
• Jan. 24 - Hutchinson - (620) 662-2371
• Jan. 25 - Manhattan - (785) 537-6350
• Jan. 28 - Nortonville - ( 913) 833-5450
• Feb. 11 - Colby - (785) 462-4582
• Feb. 12 - Dodge City - (620) 227-4542
• Feb. 13 - Hugoton - (620) 544-4359
• Feb. 14 - Scott City - (620) 872-2930
• Feb. 21 - Garnett - (785) 448-6826
• Feb. 22 - Independence - (620) 331-2690
AWARDS Prairie View honored with Larksfield Treasure Award
Prairie View was recently honored by Larksfield Place Retirement Community with the Larksfield Treasure Award.
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