University of Tulsa - Kendallabrum (Tulsa, OK)

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FU W IUI ll'lll'f AIUFIH BY JIM HUNSTEIN AND DOUG CRAIN The Alexander Health Center went through some very positive changes this year. The first development, which was responsible for all the others, was the hiring of Mrs. Joanne Lilly as director. Mrs. Lilly, a registered nurse, came to TU from Doctors Hospital where she was head of the ln-Service Training Program for Nurses. Before that, she was on the nursing faculty for Hillcrest Medical Center in a program designed to train nurses. James Vander Lind, Dean of Students, believes she is very capable of handling the job as director. He said, Mrs. Lilly is a very thorough person, a very conscien- tious person, and a creative and assertive administra- tor. Some of the changes that Mrs. Lilly brought with her include better documentation of records, more contact with Dean Vander Lind, and more health education pro- grams for students. Through the better documentation of the records, the health center staff kept track of students better. Those students who needed to come in on a regular basis for such things as allergy shots, diabetes tests, and blood pressure tests, were reminded that they needed to be checked. Mrs. Lilly talked to Dean Vander Lind usually twice a day regarding different aspects of the center. Many times she had questions about state laws and how to deal with certain illnesses and what the university policies are con- cerning these areas. These are the kinds of questions that any newcomer would need to ask. But she also talked about new programs and new equipment that she thought were needed. Mrs. Lilly had several ideas for new health education programs for the students because, as she put it, stu- dents don't think about health until they're sick. So she set up clinics to help students before they got sick. That way, the staff could discover the problem and give the appropriate medical advice. There were screenings set up to check students' blood pressure and monitor other vital signs and to give sugar diabetes tests. Weight-loss and stop-smoking clinics were also set up. The Alexander Health Center is not a complete medical center, nor is it intended to be. lt is designed to take care of the routine illnesses that a student body is likely to have.

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