About 70 Texas Christian University nursing students majoring in public health have seen the fruits of their labor as an initiative between the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, the Mansfield Independent School District and Arlington resulted in $4.6 million being dedicated to road safety improvements.
The students have been working for three semesters to implement the Safe Routes to School initiative, a federal program giving funds to repair infrastructure around schools so children can better walk or bike to school. The students looked at an area containing three schools and sent their survey and research data to a Dallas engineer who will create a formal recommendation and action plan to be sent to SRTS to apply for additional funds. The study the students completed would have cost about $30,000 if a consulting engineer or municipal body performed all the services, said Larry Cervenka, the engineer drafting the plan for SRTS.
The project let students understand how difficult it is to gain support for changes and to change policies, said Sharon Canclini, clinical instructor at TCU and project supervisor.
The proposition for improvements in the three-school area passed, and there is an additional $4.5 million of reprogrammed funding added to the passage of the bond based on the data and testimony given by the students.
Arlington Memorial opens
diabetes center
Arlington Memorial Hospital recently opened a new Center for Diabetes Self-Management Education as a service to those with diabetes and pre-diabetes in the Metroplex.
The hospital saw more than 4,500 patients with diabetes in 2007, and the center will be available to help them by following standards set by the American Diabetes Association. After a patient is referred to the program, he or she will receive an assessment of his or her educational needs. Patients may attend group or individual education sessions lead by nurses or registered dieticians over several weeks and will be presented with information about nutrition, physical activity, disease process, treatment options, medication use, glucose monitoring, complications and lifestyle changes.
Patients with Type 1, Type 2, gestational diabetes and pre-diabetes may participate in the program. For more information on the center, please call 817-960-6025.
Boenker family donates
to women’s center
Gloria Boenker and the Boenker family donated $250,000 to the Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital’s Center for Women and Infant’s Health Center and 250 baby blankets to the neonatal intensive care unit in honor of her first-born son, a 24-week premature baby who died.
The donation was given to Harris in honor of the care Boenker and her family received while at the NICU, and she personally delivered the check and the baby blankets Dec. 9. The Texas Health Resouces endowment fund is matching her donation to make the gift total $500,000.
Baylor announces board members
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine recently announced two additions to its board of trustees.
Jana Waters, owner of Waters Financial Planning in Southlake, and George McCleskey, senior executive vice president of PlainsCapital Corp. and president of PlainsCapital Banks in Dallas, each joined the board.
Waters is a certified financial planner and opened her own firm in 2005. Prior to that, she worked as a staff accountant with Ernst & Young in Dallas and was affiliated with a Grapevine-based wealth management firm. McCleskey previously has served as board chairman for the Texas Department of Health and as general counsel and interim CEO for Methodist Hospital in Lubbock.
Stylemakers offers Hair Audit
Stylemakers Salon, which offers a wide range of salon services including prostheses for cancer patients and others with hair loss, is offering clients a free Stylemakers Hair Audit from Dec. 26 through Jan. 10. The promotion is to raise awareness for the American Cancer Society’s “Look Good ... Feel Better” program in Tarrant County.
Clients are asked to make a voluntary donation to go directly to the local program. The service includes a shampoo and styling session as well as a full evaluation of the client’s hair condition, texture and style and opportunity to discuss hair challenges, likes, dislikes and possible changes. Participants are not obligated to purchase any products or services.
“Look Good ... Feel Better” is a free, product-neutral, non-medical program that teaches beauty techniques to women cancer patients to help them combat the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment and is a partnership with the American Cancer Society, the National Cosmetology Association and the Personal Care Products Council Foundation. source
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