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Allen County Gets National Recognition for Efforts to Improve Community Health

  Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, speaks Tuesday in Iola during a ceremony honoring the community's health-improvement efforts. Allen County was one of eight in the nation selected for the honor this year.  (Photo by Jim McLean, Kansas News Service)
Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, speaks Tuesday in Iola during a ceremony honoring the community's health-improvement efforts. Allen County was one of eight in the nation selected for the honor this year. (Photo by Jim McLean, Kansas News Service)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Prize is a big deal. So, when the head of the foundation, Richard Besser, showed up in Iola this week to make the announcement that rural Allen County, Kansas, had won... it was cause for celebration. Jim McLean, of the Kansas News Service, was there and files this report.


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The Kansas News Service produces essential enterprise reporting, diving deep and connecting the dots in tracking the policies, issues and and events that affect the health of Kansans and their communities. The team is based at KCUR and collaborates with public media stations and other news outlets across Kansas. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. The Kansas News Service is made possible by a group of funding organizations, led by the Kansas Health Foundation. Other founders include United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Sunflower Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.