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Governor
appoints three to the Respiratory Care
Council
Julia Downs,
Mavis Glenn and Beverly Urmey have been
appointed to the Respiratory Care Council,
Governor Sebelius announced today.
“Kansans
deserve quality health care,” Sebelius said.
“The Respiratory Care Council has the
experience and knowledge needed to help
achieve that goal.”
Downs,
Overbrook, has worked as a Respiratory Care
Lead Practitioner at Olathe Medical Center
since 2004. She has also worked as a
registered Respiratory Therapist for
Children’s Mercy Hospital and is a member of
the American Association of Respiratory
Care. Downs will serve a three-year term.
Glenn,
Topeka, retired from the American Lung
Association of Kansas in 2004 after 27 years
of service. She worked as an information and
referral coordinator, scheduling statewide
tobacco cessation and prevention programs.
She also received the Congress of Lung
Association Staff Excellence Award for
Administrative Support in 2003. Glenn will
serve a two-year term.
Urmey,
Derby, has worked at the Wesley Medical
Center in Wichita since 1976. She serves on
the Interdisciplinary Electronic
Documentation Team, where she maintains a
role as the respiratory care special
projects coordinator/educator consultant.
Urmey is also a member of the Kansas
Association for Respiratory Care, where she
has served on the Board of Directors since
2003. She will serve a three-year term.
Grace
Marion, Eudora, and William Rea, Pratt were
reappointed to the council. Marion will
serve a two-year term; Rea will serve a
three-year term.
The
Respiratory Care Council conducts
examinations and registrations of applicants
in the field of respiratory therapy.
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