Newsletter for the Allentown and Sacred Heart Hospital Center

Vol. 2 No. 14 July 6, 1979

RUNNING ON EMPTYAs you head down Hamilton Boule-

vard toward Cedar Crest Boulevard,your peripheral vision clicks off carafter car overflowing out from eachgas station.

A quick reassuring glance at yourgas gauge causes your heart to skip abeat - almost below half! Crisis immin-ently approaching, you think. And it'san even day of the week. And I'm odd. Ithink, or am I even? Panic sets in.Should I buy a horse?

Deja Vu. Just like 1973-74. Well,whatever the reasons, and for sure

••here are many, getting gas is going to!aet tough.

The long lines may dwindle oncedeliveries are made at the beginning ofthe month. This assumes that inde-pendents stay open as Washingtonnegotiates their allocation require-ments and profit margins. But, thethreat of an extreme situation (no gasavailable) occurring is by no meansunrealistic.

And, should it happen, everyonesuffers. But, Hospital employees, hereat A&SHHC, at Allentown Hospital,Sacred Heart, Osteopathic and our

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neighbors throughout the Lehigh Val-ley, find themselves in a precarioussetting.

If enough people involved in healthdelivery can't get to work, a seriousthreat to optimum health care of ourpatients exists.

Therefore, to prevent such a scen-ario, a cool head must prevail! Alter-native methods and modes of trans-portation are available and should beutilized:

Walking - If you live within walkingdistance, make the trek. In case youforgot, the weather is warmer, andbesides, it's great exercise.

Bus - people whose home locationand schedule permit use of LANT Abus service are urged to do so. Busschedules are available at the Recep-tion Desk in the main lobby. The sche-dule listed below will get you to theHospital Center. From other routes, atransfer is necessary. For further de-tails, check with LANT A, 435-6771.

Car Pool - "KALAKA" anyone? Thesystem being organized here atA&SHHC is almost ready. You'll beable to find out who lives in your area

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and which shift. While the HospitalCenter can give you this information,you have to make the phone call. Sharea ride.

Bicycle - Some people say it defin-itely beats walking and driving. Andthe exercise is great. If you do ride in,please register your bike with Engin-eering (same as your car) in order thatallocation of parking spaces for themcan be made available and securitycan insure their safety.

Should the situation intensify, acontingency plan has been developedwhich involves a group of independentgas dealers supplying gas for hospitaland municipal (police, fire, ambu-lance) employees.

Authorization letters will be madeavailable to qualifying personnel. Ifyou can walk to work, or ride on aregularly scheduled bus route, thenobviously an authorized letter is un-necessary. See your immediate super-visor for more information.

Authorization letters will permitgasoline to be purchased for one auto-mobile only. This car must be regis-tered with an I.D. (parking) sticker. Ifyour car doesn't have one, better getone. Contact Security, Mondaythrough Friday. One stipulation willapply to personnel receiving author-ization letters - no topping off. Yourtank must be less than half full (morethan half empty!) People abusing thisprivilege will endanger it for all andhave the privilege revoked.

Anyone with any questions con-cerning these suggestions! guidelines,contact your department head.

The CentepWelcomes

To DietaryKendra Weaver

To HousekeepingBarbara AbbottJose CarazoFrancisco Goicuria

To LaboratoryGale Breuer

To Medical TranscriptionMichelle Eberly

To NursingRhonda BurnsLinda LaposSusan VerhauzBarbara Yenser

To RadiologyCindy Duld

To SPDSteve GehmanSonya Staub

UROLOGICAL~TAPES

AVAILABLEThe library has the following "Visits

in Urology" videocassettes availablefor viewing: "Suprapubic VesicaUrethral Suspension for StressIncontinence" and "Prostatic Cancer."Both tapes have been donated byNorwich-Eaton Pharmaceuticals andpresented by Frank Springer,company representative.

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Gale Schmidt - EditorJim Higgins - Associate EditorJanet Dech - Staff AssistantJack Dittbrehner - PhotographyDaria Molnar - PhotographyPete Gallo - Art

RESIDENTS GRADUATEThe combined graduation dinner for the Residency Programs of The Allentown

Hospital, Sacred Heart Hospital, and A&SHHC was held on Friday, June 22, at theHoliday Inn East.

Twenty-four residents graduated from 7 medical programs offered at the 3hospitals.

Graduating from the Residency Program in Medicine were: Dr. Judith McDonald,Dr. Joseph Candia, Dr. William Dewar, III, Dr. E. Joseph Schwitzer, Dr. LarryFeldman, Dr. Ronald Springe!, Dr. Bonnie Camo, and Dr. John Anagnost.

The Flexible Medicine Program graduate was Dr. Kris Sperry.Graduates in the General Surgery Program were: Dr. Lawrence Ciccarelli, ]I

Florence Schenker, Dr. Manish Mehta, Dr. William Peters, and Or. Hong II JunGraduates from the Family Practice Program included: Dr. Michael Buenaflor, Dr.

Jerome Collier, Dr. Donald McAfee, and Dr. Clement McGinley.Graduating in Obstretrics and Gynecology were Dr. Judith Edwards and Dr. Emil

Szabo.Dental Residency graduates included: Dr. Arthur Harris, Dr. Glenn Paskow, and

Dr. John Sheppard.Radiology graduated Dr. Rajesh Mehta.Drs. Judith McDonald and Hong II Jung received certificates for their work as

Chief Medical and Chief Surgical Residents, respectively.Post-graduate residency porgrams included Dr. Victor Celani in Vascular

Surgery; Dr. Julio Rivera in Plastic Surgery; and Dr. Joseph D'Amico and Dr.Richard Alia in Colon and Rectal Surgery.

Also honored at the dinner were "Teachers of the Year," physicians honored asmaking the most outstanding contribution in the residents' medical education.Receiving awards were: Dr. Forrest Moyer in Pediatrics; Dr. Lawrence Levitt,Medicine; Dr. Joseph Prorok, Surgery; Drs. Martha Lusser and Ronald Wasserman,Family Practice; Dr. Stanley Snyder, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dr. Antonius Tan,Radiology; and Drs. Charles Kosteva and Stuart Schwartz, Dentistry.

At left, Dr. Joseph Prorok, "Teacher of theYear in Surgery" shares the happy occasionwith Dr. Hong II Jung, graduate in GeneralSurgery and Chief Surgical Resident; below, Dr.Joseph Candio, new Chief Medical Resident(shared with Dr. Larry Feldman), receives hisgraduation certificate from Dr. Dean Dimick,Chief of Medicine, and Acting Director ofMedical Education.

YNOPSIS: Annual Report~DMINISTRATOR'S REPORTI

HEALTH CAREl\1UST CHANGE

Citing an increasing awareness bytoday's public in staying as healthy aspossible, Administrator Ellwyn D.Spiker presented a glimpse into thefuture of health care in the Adminis-trator's Annual Report on June 28.

According to Spiker, this concernhas caused today's community andregional hospitals, long illness treat-ment oriented facilities, to changetheir identity and mission. In his re-port, presented for the first time onvideotape at a dinner following theannual meeting, Spiker outlined manyof the changes taking place on thenational level as well as here atA&SHHC.

Some nationwide health care chan-ges will include hospitals providingtotal community care as well as acutecare; and the forming of a multi-hospi-tal, multi-provider health care net-work responsible for complete andcoordinated health delivery.

Concerning A&SHHC, Spiker high-lighted sig ificant events of the past

sar, and discussed the many up-coming projects which are examples ofthis new mission of total communitycare, including:

-The Allentown CooperativeHealth Evaluation Study: origin-ally a Pool Trust funded study todetermine the health care status ofthe community; when completed,its members resolved to continueplanning efforts to form a steeringcommittee to develop a consor-tium. This consortium will be an"independent organizationformed by member hospitals toplan and facilitate sharing of ser-vices, consolidation and coordin-ation of clinical medical servicesand the joint planning for futuredevelopment of services - withinthe Allentown area."

-Preventive Health and Wellness -Through a Pool Trust fellowship,Dr. Jeffrey Burtaine, local familypractice physician, will investi-gate and study the concept ofwellness and how to put that con-

Icept into practice. According toDr. Burtaine, it would involveeducating people to realize thatthey have tremendous controlover their own health and are, infact, the most responsible personfor their wellness.

RICHARD FLEMINGPresident of the Board

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

MAKING IT WORKBoard President Richard Fleming called on the members of the hospital

community to "make the current system work better," at the annual meeting of theAllentown and Sacred Heart Hospital Center Corporation, Thursday, June 28,1979.The corporation comprised of the Directors from both Allentown and Sacred HeartHospitals, met in the Center's auditorium between 5 and 6 P.M.

Mr. Fleming reported that it has been a privilege to serve as President of A&SHHCand that he has appreciated having "the chance to work closely with a very capableand hard-working administrative staff," coming "to know many of the leadingmembers of the outstanding medical and nursing staff which serves this insitution,and to personally witness their dedication to professional performance of thehighest quality," being "associated, in some small way, with an institution provid-ing a vital and growing service to the community - at a level of quality which setsan enviable record for any similar institution to match," and having "the opportu-nity it has afforded to be associated with my fellow directors."

Regarding governance and the board structure which depends on A&SHHC's twoparent institutions, Mr. Fleming stated that "we, the people responsible for thegovernance of A&SHHC (the directors)* and its parents, have ourselves lost ourperspective. We have been so frequently reminded of our problems, so often accusedof deficiencies real or imagined, that we have lost our direction, and, in so doing lostour determination to better control events and to solve current problems within ourcurrent structure."

He called on those present to "make our current system work better ... " place a"heavy accent on the positive," to produce "a more satisfactory result." To do this, he'encouraged the reaffirmation of A&SHHC as a joint venture to form a basis 0)1

which the three institutions can come together, sharing mutual problems andopportunities, providing mutual support and better service to the community.

"Under the current structure, properly operated, the parent institutions canmaintain their identity and their special roles, while operating in a cooperativemode that will benefit the community. In fact, the surest way to accomplish this, andthe most cost effective, I believe, is to make the current structure operate towardthis end.*added

YNOPSIS: Annual ReportMEDICAL STAFF REPORT

A BUSY YEARDr. Joseph E. Vincent, President of the Medical Staff, presented an overview of

activities and events that took place in the Medical Departments at A&SHHC duringthe past year.

In the Department of Anesthesia, a 4 point program to assure quality care wasinstituted, consisting of:

1) peer review audits2) Pool Trust consultants to review the activities of the department3) Interdisciplinary meetings to promote an exchange of ideas among

interlocking specialists4) A&SHHC Anesthesiologists were sent to leading Medical Centers on Pool

Trust supported "mini-fellowships" to learn the latest techniques in their sub-specialty

Dr. Vincent reported that the Clinical Laboratories performed over 2.2 millionseparate determinations, an increase of 10% in test volume. Also, 5 separate paperswere published in medical publications, and a study into community-wide sharedlaboratory services for hospitals and other non-profit, community basedorganizations to provide secondary and tertiary laboratory services as well asautomated lab services was begun.

The Department of Medicine now consists of 144 members, according to Dr.Vincent. Ninety-nine are on the active staff, and45 are on the courtesy staff, and 63%of all active members of the Family Practice Division have become certified by theAmerican Board of Family Practice. Changes to the department include Dr. DavidCarney replacing Dr. Charles Gordon as Assistant Chief in July, and Drs. JosephCandio and Larry Feldman taking over as Chief Medical Residents. The MedicalResidency Program has been approved by the Residency Review Commi ttee and theLiaison Committee of Graduate Medical Education.

Highlighjing events within the Radiology Department were '71,309 diagnostic, events performed, an increase of 6% over last year.

Several papers have been published by the department in various medicaljournals, and a paper was presented in cooperation with the Division of VascularSurgery at the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine, Toronto, Canada.Also, members of the department have been lecturing at Jefferson Medical College,Hahnemann Medical College, University of Pennsylvania Medical College, andDownstate Medical Center, Brooklyn.

The Department of Surgery reported 9,704 surgical procedures performed, a 6%increase over last year. Four members of the Department and 2 previous members ofthe General Surgical Program became Board Certified. Nine scientific papers werepresented throughout the country at professional meetings and 7 members of theattending staff contributed to surgical textbooks. The staff now consists of 122surgeons (108 attending, 14 housestaff).

BOARD OFFICERS ELECTEDRichard Fleming, Executive Vice President of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.,

was elected to a second l-year term as President of the A&SHHC Board. Fleming, amember of the Allentown Board of Directors, succeeded Morton Schneider asPresident of the institution last June. Other board members re-elected to officeinclude: James E. McCambridge, Jr., Vice-President, and James C. Lanshe,Secretary.

J. Walton St. Clair, Jr., was newly elected to the position of Treasurer. St. Clair isPresident and Chief Executive Officer of the First National Bank of Allentown. He ison the Board of Trustees at Cedar Crest College, and on the Board of Directors of theIndustrial Development Corporation of Lehigh County. St. Clair is a graduate ofWilliam & Mary, with a B.A. in Economics. He holds a M.B.A. in Finance from theWharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

JOSEPH E. VINCENT, M.D.President. A&SHHC Medical Staff

EARL K. SIPES, M.D.

ALLENTOWN SURGEONHONORED AT DINNER

Earl K. Sipes, M.D., F.A.C.S., waschosen Alumnus of the Year, 1978-79,by the Sacred Heart Hospital, TheAllentown Hospital, and A&SHHC.The award, given each year by the 3hospitals, recognizes an outstandinggraduate of the hospitals' residency

I-rograms. Blr. Sipes, a general surgeonpecializing in head and neck surgery,

completed his internship andresidency in surgery at Sacred HeartHospital from 1946 to 1950. Hereceived his medical degree fromJefferson Medical College, Philadel-phia.

Dr. Sipes is President of the MedicalStaff and Chief of the General SurgicalDivision at Sacred Heart Hospital, andis an active staff member of A&SHHC.He is a member of the Board ofDirectors at Sacred Heart Hospitaland the Hospital Center.

RAY SEIGFRIED

Ray Seigfried, of Glenside, Pennsyl-vania, has begun his responsibilitiesas the new Director of Materials Man-agement, replacing John Reges whoretired last week. Prior to his appoint-ment at the Hospital Center, he washead of the Materials Department atParkview Hospital, Philadelphia.Seigfried has a B.A. from BloomsburgState College, Pennsylvania, and aMasters Degree in Administrationfrom Antioch University. As Director,he will be responsible for the Store-room, Purchasing, SPD, and the Mail-room.

Jack Dittbrenner, Biomedical Photo-grapher, was the featured speaker atthe June meeting of the AllentownOptimist Club, held at the Lehigh Val-ley Club. Jack's topic was "MedicineExposed," a history of biomedical pho-tography along with a look at thelighter side of the duties and changingtrends encountered by a present daybiomedical photographer.

DIETMANIANot only are consumers increasing-

ly aware of family nutrition, but wehave also developed a preoccupationwith dieting. A recent national surveyindicated that 47% of Americans con-sidered themselves overweight.

Everywhere we turn a new fad diet,pills, or diet food appears. In general,fad diets and diet pills are frauds. Theonly way to be a thin person is to de-velop the habits of a thin person. PJdreating habits developed over/ar:,yyears. The only way to permanent safeweight loss is to develop new habits --the habits of a thin person. Habitchanges may take time, but it can workfor you.Follow these "Thinner Tips";

=-Don't skip meals-Choose foods from the 4 Food

Groups-Avoid oils, nuts, gravies- Trim all fat and skin from meat-Store food in non-see-through

containers-Eat slowly-Plan snacks as part of daily in-

take, not extras-Lose 1 to 2 pounds per week for

permanent weight loss-Eat only in 1place-sitting down-Be active-do rather than eat-Don't eat leftovers while cleaning

platesAnd when the munchies hit, try

these low calorie snacks:-Raw green pepper, cauliflower,

broccoli, celery, carrots-Raw fruits-Ice milk-Sugar-free soft drinks-Unbuttered popcorn-Dill pickles

ALCOHOLRemember, alcohol hurts any

weight control program. When takenbefore or during meals, alcohol de-presses your food satisfaction. Theresult is overeating, plus alcohol's cal-ories.

RUNNERS NEEDED!Do you run 15 miles or more per week? if so, you're eligible to participate in a

study underway by Cardiologist James Pantano, M.D., and Robert Oriel, M.D.,Cardiology Fellow.

The study is to determine if any abnormal heart rhythm occurs (and itsfrequency) in runners.

Participants will spend approximately one hour doing a Treadmill (stress) testand have their weekend running recorded on a Holter monitor. The results of thesetwo special tests, along with other data, will be evaluated and compared.

Sixty runners are needed for the free testing, so anyone interested please send anote to Dr. Oriel, Doctors' Lounge.

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The Allentown and Sacred HeartHospital Center Auxiliary held their7th Annual Meeting combined withtheir Spring Luncheon on Wednesday,June 20, at Lehigh Country Club.

There were 150 Auxiliary membersin attendance at the meeting, whichfeatured "A Stroll Down Broadway"musical review by Marie Kollar,soloist, and Mary Emery, accom-panist.

The Auxiliary's annual report, givenby Norma Heller, retiring President,listed a total of 502 members for theyear 1978-1979. During 1978, 191members gave a total of 34,561volunteer hours, staffing the Tree TopShop, the shopping cart, and otherhospital services.

THE JOY OF UNSELFISH GIVING

Time is not measured by the years that you liveBut by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give -And each day as it comes brings a chance to each oneT'O love to the fullest, leaving nothing undoneThat would brighten the life or lighten the loadOf some weary traveler lost on Life's Road -So what does it matter how long we may liveIf as long as we live we unselfishly give.

In its largest year to date, the TreeTop Shop raised $60,000 to be donatedto the Center, according to Jane Mar-tindell, Gift Shop Chairman. TheChristmas Bazaar, held at the hospital.netted $1,126, and the various "Twig"groups contributed $408 throughseveral fund raising efforts. And, forthe first time, May Daze, the Auxil-iary's Spring Lawn Festival. was con-sideraby dampened by heavy rainsand carried over into Sunday.

On the other side of the balancesheet, the Auxiliary donated almost$80,000 to the Hospital in equipment.Purchased this year was OR equip-ment for the 12th operating room, a 3-channel EKG machine, and 3 monitorsfor the new special care unit. This total

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Richard FlemingPresident

James E. McCambridge, Jr.Vice-President

James C. Lanshe, Esq.Secretary

J. Walton St. Clair, Jr.Treasurer

Frank B. AndrewsW. Richard Covert, D.D.S.Henry H. DentMichael J. EganJohn J. McCartneyOrlando R. PozzuoliMsgr. Dennis A. RigneyHon. Henry V. ScheirerAlan H. Schragger, M.D.Morton 1. Silverman, M.D.Earl K. Sipes, M.D.Michael P. Zarella

Ellwyn D. SpikerAdministrator

Helen Steiner Rice

added to donations from previousyears amounts to almost a quarter of amillion dollars given by the Auxiliaryto A&SHHC.

New Auxiliary officers, Helen Hal-lock, President; Petey Shoemaker,First Vice President; and Helen Grif-fith, Corresponding Secretary, electedat the April meeting, were installedand began their two year terms of of-fice.

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