A *#EOO0GLSS ‘minute news -vol.3 nol ye ee June 23, 1971 WHAT'S AN AHEC? By Donald Ww. Petit, M.D., Area V Coordinator It is entirely possible that Regional Medical Prograns will be designated as an agency through which grants for area health education centers (AHEC's) will be designated, so it is appropriate to look at some of the current concepts. A bill (HR 4170) introduced by Representative Staggers in February, 1971 describes an area health education center as a "hospital, educational facility, or other pub- lic non-profit institution affiliated with an academic health center, for the conduct of or the providing of guidance for education and training programs for health per~ sonnel in association with state, community, or public colleges, other hospitals and hospital facilities, professional health or medical organizations in a particular geo- graphical area...to serve as an instrument of cooperation between an academic health center and its education, research, and health service programs and the framework of health facilities and organizations and activities for the betterment of health in a given area." This Bill was specifically aimed at making RMP an in- ~ strument for area health education centers. ‘In his Health Message delivered in February of this year, President Nixon stated: “MA series of new area health education centers should also be established in places which are medically underserved--as the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education has recommended. These centers would be satellites of existing medical and other ~ health science schools; typically they could be built around a community hospital, a clinic or an HMO which is already in existence. Each would provide a valuable* teaching center for new health professionals, a focal point for the continui ng edu- cation of experienced personnel, and a base for providing sophisticated medical _ services which would not othérwise be available for these areas. | am requesting that up to 40 million dollars be made available for this program in Fiscal Year 1971." nee 2 _ continued on page 2 . “The Carnegie Commission's recommendations, according to their Associate Director, Margaret S. Gordon, in an address to the American Assembly Program on The Health of Americans, recommended the development of 126 AHEC's, suggesting five inL. A. -. County, to work with the two university health science centers that now exist (USC and UCLA)... The following functions were proposed for AHEC's: : C "Tg maintain a community hospital of outstanding quality, many of whose patients would be admitted on a referral basis from smaller communities in the surrounding coe OFEDa “To conduct educational programs under the supervision of the faculty of the Uni- versity health science center with which the AHEC is affiliated. "To have these educational programs include: Residency programs; clinical instruc~ Hons for MD and DDS candidates who would come there from the university health science center on a rotating basis; clinical experience for students in allied health programs; continuing education programs for health manpower in the area conducted in cooperation with local professional associations. "To provide guidance to comprehensive colleges and community colleges in the area in the development of training programs for allied health professions. "To cooperate with:hospitals and community agencies in the planning and develop- _ment of more effective health care delivery systems. oe "To conduct limited research programs concerned primarily with the evaluation of health care delivery systemse8 OES an ( ; : . me Es ‘ . : Bettye 7 : . ; ; L. A. County has at this time two possible models for AHEC's; one is the Charles Drew Postgraduate School and its Divisions of Allied Health which are related to both USC and UCLA; another is the San Fernando Valley Health Consortium which has been supported by both AREA V and Area IV RMP's, Several possible areas for such projects can be suggested--East Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, and Antelope “Malley 0)... hoa wee ogy gees SEE ONE GEES T It: would appear that AHEC’s are an effort to coordinate the total health manpower educational activities in a given area and, more particularly, to stimulate some re~- ~~ lationship between these activities and the health care delivery systems. The fore~ ~~ going concepts fit very closely with priorities developed by the AREA V Task Force | - on Health Manpower last December, poe Ne wots. ls Thursday, June 24 AREA V COMP-LA Tuesday, June 29 AREA V Wednesday, June 30 AREA V Thursday, July | CCRMP Monday, July 5 AREA V Tuesday, July 6 AREA V Wednesday, July 7 AREA V AREA V REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS . CALENDAR June, July 1971 Cancer Chemotherapy Subcommittee © . Emergency Care Subcommittee Stroke Team Staff Meeting Staff Consultants Meeting HOLIDAY Stroke Team Steering Committee on 3rd Annual Conference on Physician & the Hospital - RMP Conference Room 12 noon 6:30 p.m. 621 5. Virgil, b. A. 12 Noon Huntington Memorial Hosp. 9:30 a.m. Conference Room 2-5 p.m, Hilton Inn S. F. Airport RMP Office Closed {2 noon Huntington Memorial Hosp. 12 noon RMP Conference Room . COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MEETINGS JULY, AUGUST July 16 August 13 AREA ADVISORY GROUP MEETINGS 1971 July 13... September 14. - November? = 3 KIDNEY DISEASE PROGRAM ~~ Paul D. Ward, Executive Director, CCRMP, . has announced that CCRMP is now ing position to implement the organizational structure which will commence the forma- tion of the Regional Kidney Disease Pro- gram Committee. This committee will be the overall planning and advisory commif~ tee for CCRMP as to the surveillance and ongoing amendments of the Regional Plan, approval of objectives of the program com~ ponents, establishment of overall program oriorities and recommendations to CCRMP for project funding. CCRMP staff coordination responsibility for the state program has been assigned to Mr, Stanley Fisher, who is active with the renal program at Area VIIl (Irvine) and has also been involved in national studies of renal programs. Dr. Sol Bernstein has been appointed by Dr. Petit to represent AREA V on the Regional Kidney Disease Program Com- mittee. Dr. Bernstein, who is Associate Professor of Medicine with USC School of Medicine represents the University Faculty on the Area V Advisory Board. , koe ek KNX-TV and KNX-AM have indicated gn interest in featuring FREE CLINICS and their services in edi torials and pos~ sibly in full-length documentaries, re- ports Jane Z. Cohen, who represented the So. California Council of Free Clinieés at a recent meeting with the media officials. Representatives from the Fairfax, Hollywood-Sunset, Foot- hill and Barrio Free Clinics also attended. ke ok Ok 4 - this funding must meet current and flexib} i Four Developmental Component Applica- tions are now being prepared by Area V Staff for submission to CCRMP for the first. review cycle. The projects proposed for gm needs on an interim basis, lead to a self~ contained goal within a year, or to devel- opment of a major proposal to address the health problem defined, be in the general areas of health manpower development or ersonal health services, with budgets in the neighborhood of $20,000, Now in process are: Core Curriculum for Health Careers: To de- velop a list of minimum requirements for preparation for health careers, and strategy for acceptance of requirements at high school and college levels, for direct entry ‘ato health careers (vocational or profes- sional), or for further education. . L.A. Community Liaison’Association: Would assist a new corporation whose basic purpose is to improve communication among councils and organizations dealing with | drug related problems in L, A. County. A council of councils would develop a major ~. funding for constituent agencies from var’ a ious public and private sources. re Veterans Drug Treatment Program: To speed and coordinate efforts to get returning Viet- nam veterans to appropriate and acceptable drug treatment and counselling resources’ and to coordinate use of new funds specifi- _ cally for this purpose. Role Model for the Nurse Practitioner, in. General Medicine: to develop role defi- . nition, gain acceptance of nurse practi~. tioner in community based, private group practice of primary care medicine. kt ke & *&. NURSING © A series in administrative practice for nurses, consisting of eight 2-day work~ shops will be présented between Sept. * /7Vand June, 1972 by the USC School of Public Administration in conjunction with the Institute of Continuing Educa- tion for the Nurse Practitioner, Dept. of Nursing, LAC/USC Medical Center. The series is intended to assist nursing personnel who desire to update and in- crease their administrative skills while at the same time receiving both academic and professional credit towards meeting projected new requirements for licens- ing and certification. For a brochure, call (213) 626-8127. Congratulations--and a regretful good~ bye=-to Connie S, Burgess, RN, former Clinical Instructor for the CCU Nurse Training Program in AREA V, On June | Miss Burgess began work with the Staff Development Dept. at Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. ek FO * : william M, Smith, “MD, Acting Re- gional Health Director of Region IX HEW has advised Dr, Petit that three applicants from the Region have been selected for funding during fiscal year 1971 for HMO General Development Grants: Sacramento Foundation for Medical Care; Health Services Alli-.. ance of San Jose, Inc., and Lutheran — Hospital Society of Southern Calif. - (Morningside HMO). | member-of the HEW team which site- visited the Morningside F HMO > ari cation. 3 “of Free Clinics, with Jane. Z. 2 Cohen AREA V ADVISORY GROUP..... is welcoming these new members: To represent COMP- LA--Mr. John Castro, member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of COMP-LA, Mr. Castro is Social Service Assistant with the East L. A, State Service Cen- ter, and is active in the ELA community. The California Assn. of Nursing Homes, Sanitariums, Rest Homes, and Homes for the Aged, Inc. have named as their representative Mr. Earle Gourlay, Ad- ministrator-Owner of Prco~Downey Golden Age Convalescent Hospital i in Downey. Mrs. Opal Gilliam, MPH, has been ap- pointed official representative for L.A. Co. Heart Assn. on the Area V Advisory Group, replacing Dr. Martin Shickman. Mrs. Gilliam is a familiar figure in the health field, most recently in connection with the Area IV RMP Northeast Valley Project. *OoO*.* * ‘Two students from UCLA School of Pub- lic Health will be working with Area V for seven weeks this summer, to gain experience in projects of their choice. Mary Garcia RN, who commences with us on June 29, will be under.the guid-° ance of the Area: V Stroke Team (Robert H, Pudenz, MD, Dorothy E, Anderson, Kay D. Fuller,’ Leon C,-Hauck, John» = S. Lloyd, PhD, Clyde E.“Madden, and oe William A, Markey. “Mary ‘Russell, ‘who - Dr. Petit was a i \ is taking a Master's degree i in Public» Health, has elected to, gain: her exper\s. : ience with the So. California Council ee asher preceptor. | y minute news : _ Published by CALIFORNIA REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS AREAV UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Llece We ~ SCHOOL. OF MEDICINE = AREA OFFICE 1 West Bay State Street Alhambra, Catif, 91801 Telephone (213). 576-1626 : Editor - Elsie McGuff 7 “Area Avior Group . Continuing Education - “Library 8 Services : ‘Nursing eo “Stroke . Ee Be | systems & Computers Social Workers: — ‘Area Vv Staff = ~ Donald W. Petit, M.D. William A. Markey, M.S. "Frank F. Aguilera, MPLA. ~. Dorothy E. Anderson, MPH. Bruce Barnhill, B.A. Marlene Checel, M.P.H. Elias Chico. Jane Z. Cohen, B.A. Kay D. Fuller, R.N. Leon C. Hauck, M.P.H. Joba S. Lloyd, Ph.D. Elsie M. Mc Guff Clyde E. Madden, A.C.S.W. Robert E. Randle, M.D. Gail M. White, M.A. ~ Deputy Coordinator / _ Area Coord inator om - Community Programs “Community Programs | Evaluation . Inter-Agency Activities Community Programs Community Programs Nursing Health Data Evaluation Communications Social Work “Continuing Education - Cancer Planning Committee Chairmen a Cancer 7 Cardiac: Hospital Administer ~ Chester A. Rude ~ Lewis W. Guiss, M.D. George C. Griffith, M.D. os Phil R. Manning, M.D. Henry B. Duntap, M.P.H. | John M, Connor, M.A2 - Fotine O*Connor, RN. = Robert H. Pudenz, M.D. 7 Lee D. Cady, M.D.: | a Or, Barbara Solomon, A.C.S.\