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New ‘Building Report Card’ gives details on schools’ performance By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

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DRESSED AS A KANSAS UNIVERSITY CHEERLEADER, 10-month-old Tinley Schultz gives Big Jay a high five with a little help from her mom, Jessica, both of Tonganoxie, at Hadl Auditorium on the KU campus. Big Jay and Baby Jay were available Sunday for holiday family photographs.

Lawrence hospital agrees to be part of health information network LMH physicians say exchange will improve patient care

By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com

Many Lawrence-area residents may soon be part of a statewide electronic medical record exchange, after Lawrence Memorial Hospital this month signed a preliminary agreement to be part of the Kansas Health Information Network. The exchange allows health care providers to share information about patients in an effort to provide more coordinated care

with less duplication of services. LMH joins roughly 75 other hospitals across the state HEALTH in being part of the network. There’s no word yet on when LMH will begin sharing data. Hospital spokeswoman Janice Early said technical details and patient notification still have to be

worked out. “We’re not going to contribute all of our patients’ data to that until we have tested it and are very secure with it how works,� she said. The hospitals’ physicians, however, have access to patient information already in the exchange. LMH does see the benefits in the system, Early added, as it allows them to learn the medical histories of patients

they don’t normally see. This could come in handy when, say, an out-of-towner shows up in the emergency room with an acute illness. Participation in KHIN among Lawrence-area providers had been relatively low but, with LMH signing up, KHIN has the potential to cover most of the area’s patient population.

Most parents know how to interpret their own child’s school report card. The basic A, B, C, D and F grading system tells them how well students are doing in each of their subjects. But the state of Kansas also issues report cards on the schools themselves, and this year it changed to a new kind of “Building ReSee the reports port Card� that provides much To see the more information report cards, find about how well this story online individual schools, at LJWorld.com districts and the and click on “2013 Kansas education Building Report system as a whole Cards.� are addressing the academic needs of their communities. The new 2013 Building Report Cards were published this past week by the Kansas State Department of Education, this time using a new and, to some people, more complicated format. But state officials say the new reports give a richer and more detailed picture of how well each school is doing. “Beyond simply identifying the child’s performance level, schools, teachers and parents will receive more meaningful data that identifies the rate by which the child is performing among like peers,� KSDE spokeswoman Denise Kahler said. “The needs of every child, not just a range of children,

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County jail program aims to dramatically cut recidivism rate By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com

Eight months ago, the Douglas County Jail started to address head-on the problem that keeps its cells full: criminal thinking. As part of a program aimed at keeping criminals from repeating crimes, the Douglas

County Sheriff’s Office’s re-entry program has begun therapy groups designed to change the way inmates behave and make decisions. Re-entry director Mike Brouwer, who is in charge of working with inmates who are about to be released and re-enter society, has introduced what he calls cognitive

cess,� Brouwer said of the reentry program’s having helped to reduce the jail’s recidivism rate by 44 percent from 2008 to 2011, its first four years of existence. “And we weren’t even targeting criminal thinking yet.� The groups meet twice a week for two to three hours and assign up to three hours

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behavioral therapy groups. He hopes to restructure inmates’ decision-making and actions. Brouwer and others in the reentry program will be closely monitoring the jail’s recidivism rate in 2014 — once the groups have been in place for a little more than a year. “Over a four-year period this program has shown suc-

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of “homework� each week. As part of the groups, inmates are assigned exercises in journal writing that allow them to discuss their thoughts on various reading assignments. “It helps to give them alternatives to criminal thinking,� said Sherry Gill, one of three Please see JAIL, page 2A

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