{"id":1240178,"date":"2023-06-30T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1240178"},"modified":"2023-07-02T01:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T06:29:36","slug":"kevin-eltife-receives-net-health-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1240178","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Eltife receives Net Health  Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-175x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1240179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-175x117.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c NET Health, the Northeast Texas Public Heath District announced that former Tyler Mayor Kevin Eltife has received the 2023 W.T. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ballard Award. According to our news partner KETK, Eltife is being recognized for service and leadership in the creation of the UT Tyler School of Medicine. He is a former Texas District 1 Senator and is the current chairman of The University of Texas Board of Regents.  Eltife said at the award presentation,  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This community is exceptionally giving, and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDoc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ballard embodied that quality as well. I not only want this medical school to be a vehicle for better health for the community, but I also want to it to provide an amazing educational opportunity for East Texas students.&#8221; The award is named after \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ballard, who was a registered professional engineer at the Texas Department of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c NET Health, the Northeast Texas Public Heath District announced that former Tyler Mayor Kevin Eltife has received the 2023 W.T. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ballard Award. According to our news partner KETK, Eltife is being recognized for service and leadership in the creation of the UT Tyler School of Medicine. He is a former Texas District &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1240178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kevin Eltife receives Net Health  Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1240184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-175x117.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kevin Eltife receives Net Health  Award","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:13:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/15_Eltife_BallardAward_1027281-175x117.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kevin Eltife receives Net Health  Award","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240182,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240178\/revisions\/1240182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}