- Peetor, NIB. «Political Sclence. | AREA the \- minute news ee 1: - NO. 22. October 1, 1969 TEES Is WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK. « » Ten Mexican American students have been chosen. for the special program offered by Miss Evelyn M. Hamil, RN,. Director of Rursipg Services and Education at LAC- USC Medical Center, as preliminary orfen- tation before entrance to the next semester of the School of Nuraing. The successful ‘“‘eandidates are: Lupe Gloria,’ Anna.Villegas, Lupe: Gallo, Marta Paez, Elizabeth Smith, ~ Sirelda Valenzuela,’ Lupe Silva, Irma Salas, Lydia Ornelas” and Sharon’ Moran. Each of the elght dreas ‘of California and Watts-Willowbrook have been requested to Name a representative to the new Allied Health Subcommittee to Staff Consultants, plus one nominee for the four additional memberships. which will complete the roster of thirteen members. Appointed-as AREA V representative is PRANK F. AGUILERA (whose field is. Public-Administration-Health), MISS DOROTHY. E. ANDERSON, RN, MPH. (Nursing) Aas been nominated: for. member-at-large, th CLYDE E. MADDEN, ACEH as an’ alternate for both. ok ; The staff"at AREA V took full advantage of having an expert on RMP applications avail- able on September 25..and: 26. ..The. visitor, . here by. spectal request, was Mrs. Patricia MeDonald,..who recently joined the staff of CCRMP, ‘to assist.with technical..reviews and to help improve and refine California pro-. posals. Before coning te * Genie, vrs. ‘McDonald was Public’ Health Advisor, Office of. Grants Re~ view, DRMP and: prior to that’ waa” Program Analyst, : Special. Projects Branch, Office of Program Planning, in the Office of the Dir- She. has 'a Master! 8 degree = While in AREA’ V; Mra. McDonald’ reviewed . with the proposers,: staff or with both, four’applicationg, that, are in preparation-~ the ECG proposal, the Library proposal, the Pediatric Pulmonary. proposal and the Field ““viee Dietetic Aide proposal. The Committee Chairmen's meeting on Friday was devoted almost ‘entirely to a presenta~ tion by Mra. McDonald, who described the makeup of the various groups who study each ‘application and the review process of pro- posals after they Leave the Region. The ap- plications are scrutinized. first by DRMP staff for, mechanical details, such as.com- plience with Guidelines, fiscal feasibili- ty, etc. - Arrangements are then made for re- view either by a site team or a technical r~sa) which are "fact. gathering bodies." hue projects are then studied by the Review Committee, composed: of physicians, hospital administrators; experts in education and ad- ministration, ete. (none, of whom are govern- ment employeas}. who look ‘for the "elements" specified in the Guidelines, as well as the scientific and medical: aspecta. (continued next column) The technical panel is a recent creation, Mra. McDonald stated and the reason why Cal- ifornia has had only site visits instead of having applications considered by a panel is the fact that. this Region always has such a volume of proposals. She thought it likely that later on, when all the Regions have accepted responsibility for their ow technical reviews (as California. has begun to-do) the national panel will be discontin-~ ued. Mrs. McDonald predicted that there will be increased insistence on emphasis of educa- tional aspects and community involvement-- “not. involvement for political reasons but because these people can offer a great deal to.the success of the project.” In response to the question, "What kinds of things have been primarily responsible for projects being turned down?" she answered without hesitation--"Not being well planned." Mrs. McDonald pointed out that the Review Committee 1a quick to discern when appropri- ate community resources and allied health professionals have not been involved early in the development of projects which concern those disciplines. She stressed that proj- ect continuation after RMP funding is phased out must be addressed in the proposal and thet planning for this continuation must be feasible and fairly detailed. She pointed out that any project which is center orient- ed and. termed a "demonstration" project must include. details of how the community will be exposed to thie demonstration and -how they will be assisted in implementing. whatever the proposed project intends to demonstrate. In general, the community outreach aspects of.any demonstration project must be well defined and feasible for that particular community. ~oenemanenapenemanananmentt GLADYS ANCRUM, DrPH (ASST COORDINATOR~CCU PROGRAM) spent the week of Sept.15-19 moni- toring AREA V's own CCU nursing course and last week was in San Francisco to partict- pate in a course on Teaching in Coronary Care presented by Area I RMP (UC-San Fran-~ cisco). She reports that it was a good course und would be good to duplicate in AREA V so that a core of trained teaching personnel would be available to continue ongoing coronary care education in communi- ty hospital when the AREA V CCU Program is phased out. F-eL-A+S +H Roger 0. Egeberg, MD, Asst. Secretary for Health & Sefentific Affairs, HEW, will de- liver the keynote address at the second session of the East Los Angeles Community Health Conference, planned for November 22. Dr. Egeberg has been asked to speak on the aubject of “Community Participation in Health Affairs." CALENDAR STAFF MEETINGS ARE SUBJECT TO SUDDEN CHANGES=-PLEASE CRECK WITH OFFICE FOR LATEST INFORMATIi ALL MEETINGS ARE IN CONFERENCE ROOM UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED OCT a feo: 9:00 a.m CCRMP ‘Fiscal Meeting San Francisco to..:5:00 pin. ao 38 "19:00 a.m. | Stroke Liaison Nuree Task Force : ; "2:00 p.m, |. eres : . : 6 2:00 p.m, AREA _V Nursing Advisory Meeting j 7 12:00-a.m. CCU Physician Faculty LAC/USC Medical Center i 8 2:30 a.m. AREA V. Staff Meeting i 16 11:30 a.m, AREA V Committee Chairmen's Meeting “i= COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN'S MEETINGS - October | 24 :/ November 7 December 5 | - Wend - November 21 December 19 | Next Area Advisory Meeting.- November 11 | “= SPECIAL MEETINGS - | ~ bait “ { October. 18 Sympoaium on Early Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease October 25 RMP = East Los Angeles Firat Session Community Health ; 1 November 21 .. Conference on Community Health Resources - Sportman's Lodge | ‘ | THE AREA V SOCIAL WORKERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, after welcoming their new gtaffer-- CLYDE E, MADDEN, ACSW--and voting a letter: of thanks to MRS.. KAY D.. FULLER, RN, for her help in the past 18 months, attacked sizeable agenda. No- table items were: . Representation from. East Los Angeles has. been requested’ by the Social Workers and nominations are being obtained by FRANK. F,. AGUILERA.:..MISS DOROTHY E. ANDERSON, RN, reported for DEBORAH PHILIPP’on the Allied Health .Conference. ~.. The: Health. Transportation Agency. Study is expected to be completed be- tween October 15-31; according to SHIRLEY WALDERS, .and is to be presented before the Committee Chairmen’at their meeting of Novem- ber 7...There was a discussion of- social work services in extended care facilities. If cur- “ rent ‘trends..continue, long-term cere may have to be provided -in public ‘agencies rather than in ECFs. Because of increasing concern about conditions in ECFs;:.the. LA:Chapter, of the Na- tional Association of Social Workers is reviv- ing its committee on out-of-home health care services, and will hold ‘its first meeting on October 20. . A suggestion was made that it tight be a good idea to try to get a variety of contiguous facilities to work together ; this could’ be a demonstration project and/or an attempt to develop.a:workable model for provision of. continuity of ‘care, At a meeting. held Sept...24. by the LA. County Heart: Association,it was revealed:that if all Present plane should develop. to.completion , Southern -California:may. at ‘some future date “have ten. mobile|coronary care units, operating independent ly,..with variations in equipment, mode of operation. or: type of personnel, and nearly all-in. separate .areas, The first energency CCU ambulance went into. service in August of this year in the Inglewood-Centinela Valley Community. AREA V's proposed project which would utilize Pasadena's City ambulance service is awaiting review by DRMP on Oct... 14. In the Santa Monica area, "Community Linked Integrated Coronary Systems" will work out of Santa Monica Hospital and will link police, fire and private ambulance services,