» AR. E A : ae 2 ot o. 8 THE ‘HOSPITAL MEDICAT. STAFF ‘CONFERENCE a February 255. 1970 suet the brochures for the “above ‘conference go out, it seems appropriate to: introduce the AREA’ V HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS. ADVISORY COMMITTEE, whoge © members initiated the conference: |. HENRY B, DUNLAP > _ GORDON W. GILBERT* = MARVIN I, HOWARD*. W. KEVIN HEGARTY* DAVID ODELL* _ SHERWIN L, MEMEL SISTER M. ANNE STEPHEN LOWELL W, SMITH*. 9° J. E. SMITS* JOHN L, TOWERS WILLIAM A, MARKEY os Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles” * : . Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena mo “Midway Hospital, Los Angeles -- we California.Hospital, Los Angeles Le A. County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles “United Hospital Association — a eos Holy Cross Hospital, Mission Hills © -. Presbyterian-Intercommunity, Hospital; whittier Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Los Angeles. . “San Antonio Community Hospital, Upland ~ pois 5 ve Staff. ee It's ‘of interest to note that the eight | names imarked * are those: of the original menbers of | the committee, which first met in September of. 19676" a ; une Steering committee. ‘for ‘the Hospital Medical ‘Staff conference included: John B, Brewer, . Hospital: Council. of So. Calif.;: 'C. Wesley Eisele, Me De. Assoc. Dean for. ‘Post graduate Medical Education, Univ. of Colorado “School of Medicine; James -E.: Ludlam, ‘Attorney, ‘Calif, ‘Hospital Assn. ® ‘and Hospital . Council of--So.. Calif; Harold Mazur, MD, Assoc. ‘Dean (Clinical Facilities) . -"§C: School of Medicine; Carl Weissburg, United Hospital Assn. ;: Francis M. 2Keever, MD, Past. ‘Chairman | of Medical - ‘Staff,’ Childrens ‘Hospital: of L. Aes and committee chairmen to Learn: the curren ganization,» and - to di other. the purpose of the: ‘con: rence : “is. ‘to , provide hospital medical Charles: Bee _opportunity,: away ‘from interruption of daily | life, - of key problems ™ ‘in' hospital medical Vor-9 potential. solutions Eo. these ‘problems with ach | cau The Community Training Program for . CCU Nursing is being presented by VIVIEN E. WARR, RN, out at Pacoima Lutheran Memorial Hospital during February. Between that course and’ the next one which will be given at - Studebaker Hospital in Downey, dur- extension 247 or 248: — Medical Social Worker: .A Master'r\ degree in social work; at least fous’ - years professional experience in’ ‘ ‘ing March, the multimedia instruc- tional aystem is to be made avail- able to Kaiser Hospital, LA, to be combined with their ongoing program 7 of inservice education. Since the hospital has three full-time in- structors and many resource people . on the staff, RMP personnel will have only minimal involvement, such as pre-testing and post-testing. | Major responsibility of planning and — implementing the program for Kaiser will be in the hands of Mrs. June — Dykes, Director of Inservice: Edu~. cation for Kaiser Hospital. Ac- cording to. GLADYS ANCRUM, DrPH, if this experimerit proves successful, — AREA V will plan for two community programs a month--one for small. hospitals in outlying communities which Miss Warr will conduct, and a second at hospitals with their own educational resource personnel, « First meeting of the Confederation of CCU Directors in AREA V is re-. ported to have been very. success-__ ful and was attended by 35 phy- | siclans,:,A second meeting has - a V CCU program; for 7:30 p.m. of Mar. 17, at So. California Per- manente Medical Group,’ 1505 Edge- - _ mont, L. A. Dr, Charles S. Stein, . Jr. will speak on) "Physiology of... Anti~Arrhythmic Agents: “Some New - Concepts Borrowed From Brian nea ‘Hoffman, MD and Others." cee Ba PROJECT "CHAIRS" _ Joy cauffman, Ph.D. Project Director “! for the Community ‘Health Agency In- - formation Referral System is seek7 ing applicants for the following t | ‘positions on the project. Anyone interested should contact the CHAIRS _ office for an appointment:. 225-1511 social work; special knowledge of health service resources and refer- ral practices in LA County; at. least one year of responsible super- visory experience.’ — Public Health Nurse: A Master's degree in public health nursing; at Least’ 4 years professional exper-— dence in nursing; special -knowledge of health service:résources and re- ‘ferral practices in LA County; at least one year of responsible super~ visory experience. eR - AREA V hospitals have been advised by letter of a recent offer by _> Medical Television Network to. make ‘available a limited number, of “guper 8 mm film cartridge -projec-. “ters and programs for a ‘free 3x) :- “- month trial. | MIN: is an operational projéct of AREA IV. RMP (UCLA). whip ‘ t. ‘produces and distributes. audion. sae aenecuncel by MILFORD c. WiMAN, Yieuel Progress For the Cueionale: MD, Project Director forthe AREA education of -health professionals. “The offer ig made:to.all hospitals: in California and Western RMP's, and MIN will determine which of the )-yequesting “hospitals will receive | : the trial educational "package." i EAST. LOS ANGELES “there! 8 8 recent ly formed organiza: tion called "CHICANO" (Community “ “ealth Issues Council and Non-Pro- - fessional Organization) whose mem- bers-represent the ELA Health Task Force and the LAC-USC Medical Cén- ter. One item of importance to the © ELA community that was discussed at “Sheir last meeting was patient care policy in the jail ward of LAC-USC Medical Center. Testimony regard- ing treatment of inmates in the jail ward was given by members of LUCHA (League of United Chicanos to Help Addicts), MAYO (Mexican -American Youth Organization) and the ELA Health Task Force. Rep- _vesentatives from the Sheriff's Office will be asked to attend the next meeting to discuss this | subject. Considerable disappointment is - being expressed in the ELA commun- — ity at the discovery that the drug abuse clinic which was understood ~~ to have been one of five author- - _ ized by the County Health Dept. © 11, in reality, be only half a - glinic--that is, personnel, sup~.- ‘plies, funds, etc. are to be shared with another | community. The Selection Board has received over 60 applications for the post . _ £ Special Assistant for ‘Mexican * “American Health ‘at HEW. “Inter--_ views are being arranged as fast — ‘as possible, in order to arrive | at the slate of three top “candi- dates by March. 20 al "East Los ‘Angeles’ Health--A come munity: Report" has been. approved © by all: concerned and is now in the hands of the printers. — Copies . should be available in a couple Of a . weeks, ‘according: ‘to. -FRANK- c AGUELERAY its ‘The appointment of Dr. Harold Mazur as Medical Director of Rancho Los Amigos. ‘Hospital, effective March 1, has. been announced by Dean: ‘Franz kK. “Bauer, M.D, Drs Mazur will retain thé. title and functions of Associate Dean ‘of USC ‘School of Medicine. These functions include | liaison | be- tween Rnacho and the Medical School and between Rancho and the main Uni- versity where schools other | than the Medical School are. involved. Dr. Mazur will ‘also be involved with community organizations and in- stitutions as they involve Univer- sity related programs at Rancho and will” ‘continue as Project Director for the Cancer Hospital Planning Grant and with responsibilities in ‘the Dept. of Community Medicine and Pubiie Health. wR RK AREA V. LIBRARY SERVICES commrr TEE. . represented by JOHN: CONNOR, Chairman SZCZEPAN K. ZIMMER, Ph.D. .and JOHN S. LLOYD, Ph.D. report a very satis- factory meet ing in the Antelope Val- - ley Area'on Feb,/17. The 20 people at’ the ‘meeting’ represented ANTELOPE VALLEY . HOSPITAL, MIRA ‘LOMA HOSPITAL, ~ and LANCASTER . COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (all of. Antelope Valley) - and SWAN - HOSPITAL of: ‘Palmdale. The chief need of the area was described as a —24- hour. answering | ‘service that. would aan Ki > receive’ equests- for information : sree ead pete professionals dn! ‘the oe L Deutech, MD, | of. Lancaster was ‘appointed © to act: as’ ‘Liaison in getting information| to the’ Antelope | “Valley area ‘about the AREA vo dite develop AREA V REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS CALENDAR MARCH 1970 Monday, March 2 AREA V Nursing Advisory - 2:00 p.m. Committee RMP Conference Room Wednesday, March 4 AREA V Staff Meeting 9:30 a.m. RMP Conference Room CCRMP CCU Coordinating 2:00 p.m. Committee Los Angeles AREA V | Cancer Planning Meeting postponed to April Thursday, March 5 CCRMP Staff Consultants 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Los Angeles AREA V --. CCU Continuing Education 4:00 to 6:00 p.m - for CCU Nurses Good Samaritan Hosp. Anti-arrhythmic agents Howard Allen, M.D. Friday, March 6 AREA V Committee Chairmen's 11:30 a.m. Meeting _ BMP Conference Room AREA ADVISORY GROUP MEETINGS FOR 1970 - March 17* May 12 - July 14 September 8 November 10 *Please note that the AAG meeting was moved from March 10 to March 17. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN'S MEETINGS FOR MARCH, APRIL, MAY March 20 April 3 April 17 May 1 May 15 STAFF MEETINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGES--CHECK WITH OFFICE FOR LATEST INFORMATION INDIAN HEALTH The plan for an Indian health facility and referral center to Tne all urban’ Indians is going « veward steadily: . A Housing: committee, composed of ™ Mrs. Mary Boles, Alberta Oliva, Bea Avila, Ethel. Bellas and B. Sine will meet with ARFA V staff “A Mr. Kelly Hodel of the Council ‘of Free ‘Cliniés this week to con-- sider a temporary site that has been offered by the Grace Baptist Indian Church in Compton. A discussion of staff for the cen- ter uncovered many good suggestions which are to be followed up to se- curd volunteer help of all kinds. Assistance of the volunteer groups has been promised by KAY D. FULLER, RN, (nursing volunteers, equipment and supplies) DR. GEORGE GRIFFITH (physicians). Mrs. Rose Schlichter of TB and Health Assn. and Mrs. - Barbara Thiess of the Welfare In- formation Service will train vol- unteers for the information and { \€erral service, .Mre. Anona “wernandez has promised to set up a, basic laboratory and train tech-— nician assistante. : 7 If: you 14 like to. help, in any way, a “th this project; we're standing . ‘Jf at: 576~1626,° to. hear fron. you. "Flyers" describing the project have ‘been: developed | ‘for distribu-. ‘tion at the various Indian pow wows which take place. each Saturday and | additional publicity. is hoped for — through the: four-day conference of Indian educators, religious leaders, SOCIAL WORK CONSULTATION IN ECF'S AND OTHER OUT-OF-HOME FACILITIES — was the subject of a forum held Feb. 16 at Hollywood-Wilshire Health Center by .the National Assn. of Social Workers (LA Area, Chapter). The Forum is an effort on the part of the social work profession to - establish basic standards of prac- tice, a code of ethical behavior, definition of roles and responsi- bilities and some provisions for continuing education. DEBORAH PHILIPP, ACSW and CELIA MITTLEMAN , ACSW, members of AREA V SOCIAL WORK- ERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, serve on the Forum's Steering Committee, CLYDE E. MADDEN, ACSW is a member of the Continuing Education and Orientation Subcommittee. A Work- shop open to all levels of persons providing social services to out- of-home facilities is planned for April. The one-day conference “will focua on ways to bring about ‘change in the behavior and activ- -- {ties of social workers-in out- of-home facilities, and will at- -cempt to stimulate interaction and communication between social - workers of wide range and levels “g0F expertise. eR. IMale-Female Issues | in Health ‘Care Service" is ‘the subject of a. course to be. ‘presented Mar. 6-8, +1970 »by Continuing Education in. > Nursing « and-in’ ‘which, jen and women members of. all health professions are invited ‘to participate. | The - location’ is. ‘the’ Santa Ynez Inn, ) Pacific Palisades. -KAY -D. FULLER, oo RAT has additional information. a artiate and students who are meeting Feb. 25- “28 at ‘The Claremont Colleges. 3 @! ak “Elsie MeGulf “AREA OFFICE. “SCHOOL OF MEDICINE “1 West Bay State’ Street. ~ Alhambra,-Callf; 91801°° -- Telephone (213) 576-1626. ° minute wae a < an oo” oe x an = "anal ag ' oo. 7) ead od pas ee oe mee EBS + had x : s. Zz os o Me og oo x Jonald W. Palit, MD. : William A. Markey, MS, Russell D. Tyler M.D. Frank F. Aguilera, MPA Gladys Anetum, Or. PH, Dorothy E. Anderson, M. P, H. Kay 0. Fuller, R. N. Leen C. Hauck,’ M.P.H. Robbie W. Jones John $. Lloyd, Ph.D. Elsie M. McGuff Clyde E. Madden, A. C.S.W. Toni Moors, B.A, Luis A. Pingarron Vivien E. War, R. No. Area V Statt Lae Area Cooidinator BN o Deputy cootinator . ac 0 Operations Division e oon © Community Programs. Z ; Coronary Care Program | O Community Programs . ~ Nursing Health Data” >. Administration - Evaluation - Communications ~ Social Work Community Programs . Fast Los Angeles - Se Care Programs Committee Chatrimen Area bivisay Siow Cancer © Chronic Disease aes ee Cardiac ees ~ Continuing Education : “Chester A. Rode. eo Lewis W. | Guiss, MD. . Tyler, WD. ste : George © C. Griffith, ¥. D. anning, K. D.