AREA Bay the Vv. minute. news VOL. I - NO, 6 “THIS 1s Mae HAPPENED LAST WEEK. AREA V was pleased to host a distinguished | visitor on May 27--Dr. C. Wesley Eisele, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education, Uni- versity of Colorado was here to attend a meeting of the Steering Committee for the conference being planned by the HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. - Dr. Eisele, author of "The Medical Staff in the Modern Hospital" and Director of the: °° very successful Hospital Medical Staff: Conferences held in Estes Park, Colorado, is acting as consultant for the AREA V Conference which is to be presented by the Postgraduate Division of the USC School of Medicine, Conference plans. are to be announced in the near future. Goals, projects and present achievements of health planning for San Fernando Valley was the subject of a meeting held May 19 at the request of the Health Committee of the Welfare Planning Council ~ San Fernando Valley. ..:Im.the interests of greater co- operation, this same group (AREA V and Area IV RMP, Hospital: Council of Southern California, Health Planning Association of Southern California Welfare Information Service, Welfare Planning Council, L. A. County Health Department, et al} plan to meet again in the fall of this year and perhaps twice yearly to review each other's planning and operational activities. Leon C. Hauck represented AREA VY. : Each of the California Areas and Watts~- Willowbrook have been asked to propose nominees for the pool of experts whose names will be drawn by lot to form the Technical Review Panel which will review individual projects. Each nominee has given assurance that he is willing and ‘able to serve in this capacity. AREA V nominees are: Heart ~ Eugene Temkin, M.D. Cancer - J. R. Bateman, M.D. Stroke ~ Harry Fang, M.D. Respiratory Disease - Joseph F. Boyle, M.D. Renal Disease _ « Benjamin Barbour,M.D. Diabetes - Eugene E. Berman, M.D..: Continuing Education~ James V. Dooley, M.D. Community Medicine - Joy Cauffman, Ph.D. John J. Beeston, M.D. Allied Health ‘- Mrs. F. M. Torke, R.N. 1 Those early risers, the AREA V SOCIAL WORKERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, met for break- fast on May 28 and presented their long- awaited Priority Assessment Schemata on Social Disruption to a Reaction Panel com- yosed of staff members, of AREA V. The » Reaction Panel had as many different rec- ommendations as it had members and a very Tivetye meatine enanad. - +. DRMP for. approval and “five.in various. vention of heart disease this ‘coming’ year ‘attack. fohee any “wide development’ of this*pilot project . ‘is being prepared. for the ‘site:visit UN 4 “1859 with one’ project operational, “two before stages of development AREA. V. CARDIAC: : COMMITTEE is giving. top’ priority. to: pre= and, at their May 19 meeting,’ withouc® fur-- ther ado, began to: mobilize. for, this. new. “To, avoid notte oats wae ag oie planning in this same“direction, ‘a report on the latter's projects, has been’ prom-. |: "ised by Mr. Lee Horovitz (Executive Dir-.”. ector of L. A. County Heart ‘Association and special consultant to the AREA V CARDIAC COMMITTEE). The L. A. County. Health Department is being asked. to appoint a representative. to the committee. “Methods of identification, ‘follow-up: and motivation of specific. high-risk groups | are uodex study. Another important activity to be. under- hark, ‘taken by the Cardiac Committee. Ls the ‘exploration of outside sources of