. yvole2 no.3t September 9, 1970 copie THE FREE CLINIC LIAISON PROJECT A little over six months ago, because of an appeal for assistance from one of the fret : “'clinies, the AREA V Advisory Group cautiously sanctioned the staff to "look inte th tin, free clinic situation and see ‘what RMP might be able to do to assist." Since that AREA. V staff has been involved in what well might be an endeavor unique among ‘* "RMP 's-=a study of free clinics all the way. from the nitty-gritty experience -of trying to get one started for a particular group (urban American Indians) to the phenomenon of free clinics generally. The Free Clinic Liaison project, one of five special studies recently funded by AREA V, proposes to proyide evaluated data on this subject, based on the experiences of the 20 or more Free-Clinics now organized in the Southem Calif- ornia area. conta nae ae All of the clinics participating in the AREA V project are licensed, non-profit, chari- ‘table organizations offering their programs and services free of charge to anyone re~ questing them, There is no screening, either financial or residential; all ages are _ served; new services are attempted as the needs become apparent. ie | The job of staffing the medical, dental, pha aceutical, laboratory and other facil- ities is done entirely on a volunteer basis. . People concemed with the problems in. their communities are cooperating to help their less fortunate neighbors with a va= riety of services--legal aid, referral, family planning, counseling, day care for.the children of working mothers--even classes in a multitude of subjects. The Boards of _. Directors are composed of representatives from the community the clinic serves, along with representatives from each of the clinic departments. ‘Medical supplies are do- nated by pharmaceutical firms, drug stores, and hospitals. . Cash donations and _ anonymous gifts express the growing sympathy of individuals and groups. The Los Angeles County Health Dept. has been outstanding in its assistance of the free clinics. The Free Clinic Liaison Program includes the Los Angeles Free Clinic (Fairfax Ave.); American Indian (Compton); Long Beach; Foothill (Pasadena); Open Door (Alhambra); East Valley (La Puente); Ex-Helps Center (Santa Monica); South Bay (Hermosa Beach); North Hollywood; Barrio Free Clinic (East Los Angeles); Koinonia (Beverly, Hills); | (eontinued next page) Hollywood-Sunset; Alprentice Bunchy~Carter (Watts); Southside Community (West Jefferson); Orange County (Anaheim); Laguna Beach; Youth Problem (Costa Mesa); Youth Service Center (Riverside); Ventura; Oxnard; and San Diego Crisis Center. ~ - . ~ Leadership of the AREA V project is provided by Mrs. Anne Weatherford, a vivacious brunette who got interested in minority problems at a former job of interviewing for the City Housing Authority; Miss Jennifer lves-Rapp, a friendly, blond 18-year-old who-used to be a secretary for Capitol Records; and Mr. Kelly Hodel, bearded, per~ suasive Community Organizer for the County Health.Department, former Director or the Fairfax Clinic anda recognized leader in the free clinic movement. A Board a Directors for the project is composed of Mike Silver, an employee of the County ‘Administrative Office; Hal Wertzel, formerly with the Attending Staff Association at Harbor General; and Mrs. Toni Moors, AREA V staff, ‘Community Programs. © Thirty representatives were in attendance September I, at a second meeting of the Liaison’Project. The progress outlined to date included the first issue of a newsletter _ that discussed the triumphs and despairs of struggling new clinics, contained a page of advice describing how the élinics might protect themselves from becoming unwit- + tingly responsible for expenses incurred ‘by people who want to put on benefits on their behalf; and told how to get public service announcements broadcast. A direc- tory of the clinics, their location, services, and hours and a needs-and-surplus list for better distribution of supplies amongst the clinics has been published; Many con- tacts have been established with various people in the County health system, with® the Narcotics Prevention Bureau, and other important agencies. An application has ‘been made to get into the State Surplus Program; group rates for malpractice insurance is being investigated; a grant has been written in collaboration with the ELA Mode Cities Program for the establishment of a youth hostel for runaway youths; data col- lection for all the clinics is being standardized.7 =~ Whi le dedicated to assisting established and emerging clinics and encouraging the | development and duplication of effective models, the Liaison Program is expected ~~ = 1) to provide invaluable health data on the large segment of our society that has rer k. py jected or has been rejected, by the dominant culture, or for a variety of reasons,~ is isolated from access to help. . How well the. program succeeds depends in large | ~'measure.on the trust placed in the free clinics by the people who use them. 2)” a a MODEL Cities, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PLANNING, AND RMP RMP Service recently issued a new requirement and process concerning proposed RMP. activities affecting or involving Model Cities neighborhoods: "In order to insure ade- quate participation by the offices of the mayors “of Model Cities and Model City Dem-. onstration Agencies.(CDA) of these cities in the development of appropriate plans.” and activities, and to coordinate all such activity within HEW Regions involved, a: .. certification process has been. ‘developed, and is applicable to all HEW grant assist- “ance programs.’ * The: “fiewly’ éstablished process requires written certification ‘on a spe~. cial form completed by each Director of a Model City Demonstration Agency certlfy=" - ing that each of the proposed activities or projects has involved acceptable citizen’ — participation, is adequately Jinked with the total Model Cities Program, and that the sponsor has consulted on the project with a representative of the city's chief execu- . tive. The HEW Regional Director must also sign the certification document to indi- cate his ‘knowledge and approval of the Setivity <= Berkeley, ‘Gooner Los SO negele Gi Los gee county Pittsburg, San Dies, ro! San Francisco, and San Jose. . : SEES i” Conferees ata recent. Coimpretiencive Health Planning-Model Cities workshop, held August 20-21 in Oakland, were told that California has $65 million forthe first . >: _-.aetion-year (after the one-year planning period) a and that all the funds must be spent _inone year.’ _— creel ty A ‘CCRMP. representative reports of the two-day meeting: What Model Cities can do for’ CHP.and ‘CHP ‘can do-for Model Cities, and where RMP‘fits in, were all subject to polite-but. prolonged: argument, At the end of the two-day meeting, it was ap- " parent.that there is plenty of homework for everybody,. including RMP. It wos also oo very clear: that everyone ‘attending the workshop needed to understand the others ’ -. betters ~~ RMP and Comprehensive’ Health Planning in Cali fornia « are moving ‘foward a ‘strong, om well-coordinated effort between the two programs. A joint RMP=CHP Ad Hoc ‘Com-. mittee has proposed that by December I, 1970, every effort will be:mdde to have ~~ voting representation of CHP on RMP committees and RMP on CHP committees of ~ state, areawide and local levels. . Staff persons from each program will be desig-" nated to work with respective areas and regioiis of the f prograinis so that planning can be reviewed from the inception and planning efforts’ ean be brought before the - Sppropriate bodies, | oS xk kk kk Friday, Sept. ie . ; AREA V ry AREA V — Werdnesday, Septe 16 AREA V aieaw os AREA V Thursday, Sept. 17° AREA V Monday, Sept. a ~ CCRMP CCRMP . Tuesdoy, Sept 22 ee A AREA V en AREA V REGIONAL MEDICAL So : oo : a ‘September, 1970 ee Nets 1 eee ‘. Rusng Abin. o ‘Committee: | soci Wolke Le Advisory. Committee Staff Meeting . Cancer Planning — Committee - "Committee AG Allied Health | Committee | - --. Cancer Categorical a : a a Committes Bo AA LS AREA ADVISORY. GROUP MEETING: Ue COMMITTEE CHALRMEN'S MEETINGS © fig Committee Chimen O23 a Monday, Sept. 14 ee = Patient & Patient. Fami Yo se oo RMP. Conference: Room. - Council of Free Clinics : i Ugo Goths Conference Room La wets BADE nel Bot ‘in noon Rae RMP Conference Robin’ Bam. £9: 30 asim: RMP. Conférence Room a “9 :30 a. m. Conference. Room ° . 12: 15 pm. ° * we ae -.RMP Conference. Room “12 noon - - 2. pam. ae : , “ie ims 7 pemcAttport. _ Marina ‘Hotel,-L.A. Airport /3- 9-psm. Hilton’ Inn’® © San Francisco. Ai ports "9280;0.m. 212 Bem “RMP. Conferénce Room Be “November I oO. (Oct er ‘2 and d October 6 en : Oatcber7 a oe Oct. 28, 29, 30 "CRM Full Con ttee Regional Conference 4 9 a, se 5 pom. “Aiport Marina Hotel, Los.Angeles on Asilomar, C California CANCER ~ A new consulting service to assist in plan- —_ f ning for the regional availability of radi-~ ation therapy facilities for the treatment of cancer patients has been announced by ~ Dr. Robert D. Moreton, Chairman of the Committee on Cancer Managemenr of the American College of Radiology. The new “service, available to hospitals, community ‘. health leaders and planners, is offered by the College as a ‘result of support provided under a contract awarded to it by RMP Ser- vice. The contract provides funds to sup~ port the cost of this new service through _ which qualified radiologists, donating their " of existing radiation therapy resources, and f . time to the College, will be assigned to consul¥ with individuals and institutions calling for their professional opinion and recommendations regarding maximum use the development of new resources where necessary.. Inquiries should be directed fo Committee on Cancer Management, Ameri- can College of Radiology, 20 N. Wacker koe ke Drive, Chicago, illinois 60606, [ NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON RMP... has recommended conditional approval of _two California projects but at lower sup- jort levels than requested, according to : “Paul D. Ward, Executive Director of CCRMP. ° The ‘successful projects are Com- munity Resources and Information Services by Area VIII - Irvine, and Medical Infor- mation Services by Area VI - Loma Linda. Two other proposals submi tted for the June- July Review were returned by Area | - San Francisco and Intergraded Assistants . Program, Area III - Stanford. * & OK -production, and personnel. CCU Milford G. Wyman, MD, Program Dir- ector for AREA V's CCU Program has an- nounced the appointment of Mrs. Marilyn Kemtes, RN, to work on the RMP-Rand CCU Study, effective Sept. 1. Mrs. Kemtes will be calling on the Directors and personnel of established coronary care units throughout AREA V to assist them in collecting the data required to complete the RMP-Rand CCU study. Mrs. Kemtes fs presently Clinical Coor- dinator of Hospi tal of the Good Samari- fan. * * * CARDIAC Newest member to join the Cardiac Co~ -ordinating Committee is Richard Bing, MD, Director of Cardiology .and Intramural Medicine at Huntington Memorial Hos- pital. . * ek x AREA V is an active participant in L. A. _County Heart Assn.'s new program to pro- note widespread professional proficiency in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and will be sharing the costs of training, The program will consist of 8 full-day training sessions including didactic and laboratory prac- tice. Each session will be attended by a maximum of 80: physicians, nurses, and allied health personnel. Upon completion the trainees will be given.a CPR instruc~ tor card and will be expected to teach CPR in their respective agencies for at - least two years.. The courses will be giver “Sept. 30, Oct.:7; Nov. 4, 18 and 25, Jan. 2, 6and{3. Dr. “George | Griffith, Chairman of Area V Cardiac Committee, : Tepresents 4 Areq " ve on the CPR Subcommitte rg ai a yp | aay Stat Donald, Petit, M.D. “Area Coordinator tN oo William A. Markey, MS. ~ Deputy Coordinator, _ ct Russell 0.. Tyler, M.D. ~- Operations Division - Frank F. Aguilera, M.P.A. - Community Programs. Gladys Ancrum, Dr. PH. Coronary Care Progtamn ; ~~ Dotdthy E. Anderson, M.P.H, Coftmunity Progiams <{ Kay D. Fuller, RN. = Nutsing - “Leon C. Hauck, M.P.H, Health Data “John §, Lloyd, Ph.D. Evaluation Elsie M. ic Guff _ Communications 7. Clyde £. Madden, ACSW, Social Work : Toni Moors, B.A. ~-Conmtunity Programs - . Robert E. Randle, M.D. Continuing Education 3 Luis A. Pingarton == «East Los Angeles Vivien E. Wart, R.N. -. ~~ Coronary Care Programs | Committee Canirmen a | a Area Advisory ‘Giup " chester A. Rude vn OE be Caer Lewis W. Guiss, M.D. © / 7 o | ‘Chronic Disease - Russell D. Tylef, M.D. | - = ns & Cardiac. George C. Griffith, M.D. gg 2 o§ oe | Continuing Education Phil R. Manning, M.D. : > Ba ee Sz #g8 = Hospital Administrators Henry | B. ora . oo >a. EE 2 ok 2 ‘Library. services. Lo Sohn My Connor, M.A, | be ns 2 a @ gs & 258 3 cece NuSiNg ~-Fotine O'Connor, RN ee: 2 Be Sci EE stoke Rent H. Paden W.02 Qe rg Peg oe ss He! » 2 - Systenis ‘& Computers ‘Lee D. 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