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Fraternity honored for park cleanup RYAN REVOCK Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity members renewed their commitment to cleanup of a Tucson park and were honored in a ceremony Wednesday afternoon where members were presented with a certificate of park adoption. The fraternity has logged more than 1800 hours of cleanup for Himmel Park since March 2012, according to Jean Hickman, the Adopt-a-Park public areas coordinator for Tucson Clean and Beautiful. The fraternity has been cleaning the park at least one Sunday a month for years, said fraternity president Hartley Wasko, a business sophomore. Tucson’s Ward 6 council member Steve Kozachik was in attendance to show his support for the fraternity’s effort in cleaning up Himmel Park. “This is an example of student groups we have and other non-profit groups all over the city who are saving the taxpayers money by stepping up to the plate and engaging in community service,” Kozachik said. The cleanup effort stems from a partnership between the fraternity, Tucson Clean and Beautiful and the City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
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Regents gave final project approval for $100 million cancer center in December, expected date of completion in early 2015 WHITNEY BURGOYNE Arizona Daily Wildcat
Construction is underway for a new UA cancer treatment center located in downtown Phoenix. The Arizona Board of Regents gave final project approval for the $100 million center in December and the first phase of construction began Tuesday. “From the development of new cancer treatments to economic development for our state, the establishment of the UACCPhoenix is a milestone event for the landscape of health care in Arizona,” ABOR director of public affairs Sarah Harper said in an email. Harper added that the project will create advantages like research programs, education for an increasing number of students in the health field, an enhanced downtown Phoenix area, new jobs and important research
expenditures. The new cancer treatment center will offer the highest standard of care for cancer patients and translational research programs, according to Dr. Thomas Brown, chief operating officer and professor of medicine at the UA Cancer Center. The research will be conducted in labs within the Cancer Center, he added. Brown has been overseeing the cancer center project for about three years now. Brown said he anticipates that in about 10 years the center will be caring for and treating at least 10 percent of cancer patients in the population of Phoenix. Although the UA has a National Cancer Institute-recognized center, it is the only one in the state, according to Milton Castillo, senior vice president and chief financial officer of business affairs at the UA. Phoenix is the largest city in the nation that does not have a NCI-designated center and the UA always
knew it was going to build one, he added. Castillo said the process began by finding someone to partner with that could provide a good deal. In the end, the UA partnered with St. Joseph’s Hospital to create a 20-year affiliation agreement where St. Joseph’s leases the newly constructed facility to the university. St. Joseph’s Hospital will manage the outpatient cancer-treatment center. The final documents have yet to be signed but they should be finalized within the next couple of weeks, Castillo said. “One of the advantages is that I think it’s going to vastly improve clinical care and cancer research in the state of Arizona,” Castillo said. The center will be six stories tall, located on almost 2 acres of land in downtown Phoenix on Fillmore and 7th streets. The center is anticipated to open in early 2015.
AZ helps with brain injuries ALISON DORF
Arizona Daily Wildcat
A statewide collaboration is furthering the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in Arizona. The National Institutes of Health chose Arizona as “the only state to evaluate the national standards for pre-hospital emergency care of traumatic brain injury,” according to an Arizona Department of Health Services news release. Some attribute this success in treating severe brain injuries to the Excellence in Pre-hospital Injury Care, or EPIC, program. The UA College of Medicine is currently involved with EPIC, which is the only project of its kind in the country. It is a major collaboration between the Arizona Department of Health Services, the UA, Arizona Fire Departments and EMS agencies. Through EPIC, it is possible to track how its guidelines are helping patients by collecting data from paramedics and EMTs and linking it to the Arizona State Trauma Registry. It is then possible to determine different scenarios for patients, including survival, length of stay in the
hospital and cost, according to Dr. Ben Bobrow, medical director at the Bureau of EMS and Trauma System and a professor of emergency medicine at the UA College of Medicine on the Phoenix Campus. As a result of EPIC, Arizona is the only state where pre-hospital guidelines have been established statewide. Currently, EPIC has trained about 85 percent of the entire state’s EMS systems, Bobrow said. As research continues to develop, EPIC members plan to continue training and implementing guidelines for these systems. The new guidelines help prevent three major problems in traumatic brain injury treatment: low blood pressure, not maintaining good oxygenation and prophylactic hyperventilation, which is breathing too fast or with too much volume of oxygen. In the past, hospital providers believed that hyperventilating a patient was a positive thing. If a patient was unconscious, JOHN ROUTH/DAILY WILDCAT providers used a mask or tracheal intubation, which MIKE HEINZ, A PARAMEDIC for the involves putting a tube in the throat of a patient to Tucson Fire Department, discusses treat-
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