Searchable History Archives of Greenville Hospital System

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100-year scrapbook
Searchable History Archives of Greenville Hospital System
University Medical Center 1912-2012
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Scrapbook: 1970
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THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
January
1, 1970
Hospital Has Decade Of Crisis, Progress
In
May of" _ .that
;
, , , year, the
Ti. i
new vocational rehabilitation
unit was completed and
dedicated. A cardio-vascular
unit broadened the scope of
Later that same month, on' diagnostic services.
Sept. 21, then Vice President
Other special medical and
Hubert H. Humphrey came nursing
completed and
to Greenville to speak at opened units
in 1968 included:
ground breaking ceremonies construction
and enlargement
for the new community mental
of an limbed intensive care
health center, the first struc- unit,
replacing former six-bed
ture planned for construction
constructing and equipon the Greenville Hospital unit;
ping a Cobalt. Therapy unit;
System's new Grove Road
a new coronary care unit;
campus. Costs of this new
a new spinal cord unit and
facility, which would be the
a special procedures unit in
sixth hospital division of the the
of radiology.
Hospital System upon com- Totaldepartment
costs for these im-.
pletion, totaled $2,250,000.
provements to update medical:
A report • on a comIn November of that year, facilities were placed a t
prehensive feasibility study by plans
were
announced
for
a
$1,000,000.
a national consultant recomrehabilitation facilimended a two-year medical vocational
GreenviHe. COM
ty
at
Graenville
General
school in the Greenville area, Hospital, with an addition over reached top priority' in 1968
which
"would have a
existing emergency room to" receive H i l l - B u r t o n
penetrating impact in medical, the
to
provide
badly needed space (federal) hospital construction
hospital and educational fields for enlarged
diagnostic and funds, allocated to South
here," as well as "be a boon treatment faciUties
to meet Carolina, toward development
The two new h o s p i t a l to all concerned in 'the Pied- urgent pressing needs. The of hospital facilities to meet
divisions, Roger Huntington mont area."
project cost $496,687, and the 'urgent community needs. The
Acquisition of a 128-acre site areas developed expecialiy af- Board of Trustees decided
Nursing Center, with an 80-bed
capacity, at Greer, a n d on Grove Road by Greenville fected the departments of upon a hospital bond referendum to help finance the longHillcrest Hospital, with 40 Hospital System was an-., laboratories and radiology.
beds, at Simpsonville, were nounced in. 1966 by the-he^- An in - depth study of new ,t ange program of new hospital
completed and opened in of trustees. Purchase f
methods of preparing foods facilities.
the land to be develo
1963.
for
patients more efficiently
the new community hoSfSKB' at less
That November, Greenvillf.
A comprehensive study of
expense was uncenter
was
$715,443.
over-all medical and hospital
dertaken in 1968. Assisting the- County voters r e s p o n d e d
The Greenville C o u n t y three hospitals in t h e favorably, and the referendum
needs in Greenville County
and area for the next 20 years Legislative Delegation deeded area—Greenville G e n e r a l , ! was passed.
In December, 1968, the
was initiated in.. 1.964. This in- the maternity shelter facility Spartanburg General and 1
depth study Sj>kined eight and property on Pendleton Anderson Memorial—with the board of trustees named the
months anti was'conducted by Street to Greenville Hospital study was the Duke Endow- new mental health center on
a nationally r e c o g n i z e d System for development of a, ment. Findings resulted in Grove Road, then nearly comfifth hospital division.
hospital consultant.
development of new AGS pleted, the Marshall I. Pickens
The Medicare program im-, Packaging and Processing Hospital in honor of the ViceIn 1965, Greenville Hospital
System sought to m e e t posed increased pressures on Food System, which has at- chairman of The Duke Endow': tracted national interest and ment, which has assisted
provisions of civil rights laws hospitals and facilities.
On Sept. 8, 1967, the new attention.
various health and hospital
pertaining to hospital and
programs in the area for over
nursing care by providing and William G. Sirrine Hospital,
Grants
were
r
e
c
e
i
v
e
d
making available equal health planned and designed for the toward construction of cobalt 40 years.
On March 8, 1969, the new
facilities and services to all care of chronic and con- therapy and coronary care
patients, w a s
MarshaU I Pickens Hospital
patients without discrimina- valescent
dedicated and opened. Con- units.
By MIRIAM• GOODSPEED
The dawn of the 1960s
brought Greenville Hospital
System into its years of crisis
as the population and inhere
dustrial explosion
brought increased hospital
needs.
Plans made a n d construction begun in the decade
just past should alleviate the
growth problems of the 1970s,
hospital authorities believe.
In 1960, new facilities for
clinics at Greenville General
Hospital were completed and
occupied.
Construction began in 1961
for enlarging emergency room
facilities to meet growing
community requirements.
By 1962, this work was completed, and construction was
begun on a new $822,000
hospital at Simpsonville and
an $800,000 nursing center at
Greer.
-. —i
.
_ its
. ' master
It
also completed
development plan for phased
, expansion and improvement of
i hospital facilities to meet the
' pressing community needs.
The plan was approved by
the board of trustees, and an
exhaustive search was begun
! for a site to accommodate
major new h o s p i t a l construction.
The Greenville H o s p i t a l
System also initiated action
1
to enlarge the 51-bed Allen
Bennett Memorial Hospital at
:
Greer, by that time operating
at 112 per cent capacity, to
63-beds. i
j struction and renovation cosfsl
amounted to approximately
$350,000.
70-1
iwas
compieteo and receivea
iir-ac nnm^tpTort a.nrl rAPCIVKV
its first patients.
| Planning continued for a
.new hospital facility in north
Greenville County to serve
residents of that area, and
for enlarging H i l l c r e s t
Hospital at Simpsonville and,
Allen Bennett M e m o r i a l
Hospital at Greer.
The Appalachian Regional
Planning and Development
Commission awarded a grant
of $1,800,000 to Greenville
Hospital System toward a new
rehabilitative
me d i c i n e
hospital to- -serve regional
needs.
The Peace Fund of GreenviUe made a contribution o
$300,000 to help finance the
new hospital facility, and
Greenville Hospital System
Board of Trustees announced
tit would be named the Roger
C. Peace Institute f o r
Rehabilitative Medicine i n
honor of the late Greenville
publisher.
On Nov. 14, Gov. Robert
E. McNair and Dr. Billy
Graham joined community,
hospital and national officials
in breaking ground for four
new hospital projects on
Grove Road site, which, when
completed and fully equipped,
will cost a total of
$21,000,000.
These facilities, expected to
be completed by Spring, 1972,
include: a 308-bed medicalsurgical hospital; the 50-bed
Roger C. Peace Institute for
Rehabilitative Medicine; a
diagnostic and t r e a t m e n t
center, which will furnish
services to outpatients as well
as for those who a r e
hospitalized; and, a service
area for heating and air-conditioning equipment
I
THE GREENVILLE
January
GREENVILLE
NEWS
January
7, 1970
THERAPY IN COLOR - Mrs. Richard V. Slaker, vice
president of the Auxiliary to Greenville General Hospital,
and Mrs. Frank Vaughan, right, auxiliary treasurer, present a color television to the Marshal] I. Pickens Hospital
in behalf of the auxiliary. Mrs. David Roper, left, is
nursing director at the hospital, and1 Thomas F . Hall II
is administrator. Hospital officials feel the television will
be of therapeutic value for in-patients as a supplemental
activity to recreational and occupational therapy. Crescent Community Club has begun a library for patients.
(Greenville News photo by Bennie J. Granger)
PIEDMONT
2, 1970
First 1970 Arrival
Little Nancy Tammette Seagraves was the first
baby born in Greenville County ln 1970. The first
child of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Seagraves, Rt. 1,
Liberty, she was born at 12:24 a.m. on Jan. 1 at
Greenville General Hospital. Nancy weighed in at 8
pounds, 9 1-2 ounces, and was 21 inches long. She
was the first of six children born at the hospital on
New Year's Day. Hospital authorities reported that
the sexes were evenly divided, three boys and
three girls. Nancy is pictured with her mother, Mrs.
Seagraves. (Piedmont photo by James G. Wilson)
imiiiiiiiii^________________________________________________________________________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H
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THE
GREENVILLE
January
9,
NEWS
1970
THE
GREENVILLE
January
13,
Hospital
Receives
Fellowships
Greenville General Hospital is
one of two South Carolina institutions named to receive
training fellowships from the
South Carolina division of the
American Cancer S o c i e t y
professional educational committee.
Three physicians from South
Carolina were also presented
ACS clinical fellowships.
Greenville General was approved for a surgical fellowship
for 1970-71. The fellowships
carry stipends of $3,60P.
ELECTED — Dr. Robert E.
T o o m e y , director of the
Greenville General Hospital
System, will take office as
president of the South Carolina Hospital Association at
the organization's a n n u a l
meeting in Columbia Jan. 23.
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
January
11,
NEWS
1970
The Medical University of
South Carolina at Charleston
received f e l l o w s h i p s in!
pathology and surgery.
Physicians awarded clinical
fellowships in pathology and
surgery were Jane K. Upshur
of Winston Salem, N. C, and
H. Cooper Black Jr. of
Orangeburg, both resident MD's
at the Medical University.
The third year advanced clinical fellowship was awarded to
Fletcher M. Derrick Jr. at the
Medical University where he is
specializing in urology.
1970
Volunteers For Work At Mental
Hospital Asked; Training Set
Community
r e s i d e n t s Subject will be the importance
interested in doing volunteer of ' ' C o n fidentiality and
work at the Marshall I. Individualty." The last of the
Pickens Hospital, the mental three will be held Friday from
health unit of the Greenville 2:304:30 p.m. with its subject
Hospital System, are invited as "The Community Mental
to participate in a series of Health Center and You."
j orientation sessions t h i s Administrator Thomas F.
week.
Hall II says that the program
will be conducted by Members
The sessions are scheduled of the nursing staff. He
Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. -couraged interested persons
when the topic will be "An willing to do volunteer duty
Overview of the Concept, of to attend the sessions.
Mental Health and Mental The hospital, which opened
Illness." The second session
Thursday from 6-3 p.m. the
in March, is the only one
of its kind in South Carolina
for the care of patients with
emotional and
mental
illnesses, and its n e w
programs are a t t r a c t i n g
national attention.
Dr. Roy Ellison is medical
director, and Mrs. David
Roper is director of nursing.
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THE
GREENVILLE
January
NEWS
THE
GREENVILLE
January 22, 1970
1 4 , 1 970
of detailed plamSng ana progranwning for the construction
Thomas F. Hall
of the mental health hospital.
He later was appointed the hospital's first administrator.
The Marshall I. Pickens Hospital, one of five of its kind in
the nation designed especially
for the care of patients with
emotional and mental illnesses,
was opened in March 1969.
Thomas F. Hall II, administrator of the Marshall I. Pick- Because his interest in mental
ens Hospital, has resigned to health increased during his asaccept a position with the South sociation with the planning for
Carolina Department of Mental the mental health hospital in
Health in Columbia as program Greenville, Hall said he decided
analyst, Director Robert E. he wanted to make the field of
Toomey of the Greenville Hos- ! mental health care his particupital System said Tuesday. His lar concern and career in the
resignation becomes effective future. His father, a New York
physician, was a psychiatrist.
Jan. 31.
As program analyst for the
Designated as project man- State Department of Mental
ager for the first hospital facil- Health Services, Hall will be inity on the new Grove Road volved with programs throughhealth campus, Hall was respon- out South Carolina.
sible forjioordinating all phases
Pinckney
Heads New
Hospital
Executive
Of Hospital
Resigns Post
THE
GREENVILLE
January
22,
PIEDMONT
:
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
Frank D. Pinckney has taken
lover the role of administrator of
Marshall I. Pickens Hospital on
Grove Road. He previously was
administer of William G. Sirrine
Hospital, 1200 Pendleton St.
director Robert E. Toomey announced the appointment of
Pinckney to succeed Thomas F.
Hall n at the new hospital on
Grove Road. Hall recently
resigned to become program
analyst with the South Carolina
Department of Mental Health.
Pinckney, son of the Rt. Rev
John A. Pinckney, Episcopal
Bishop of the Upper Diocese of
South and Mrs. P i n c k n e y ,
graduated from G r e e n v i l l e
Senior High School. He received
his undergraduate degree in
Business Administration fromi
the Citadel in 1961.
He did post graduate studies
at the University of Alabama
Mediaal Center School for Continuing Education in Hospital
Administration in Birmingham,!
Ala., where he was the first
recipient of the award for excellence presented by t h e
school.
Pinckney joined Greenville
General Hospital in 1963, where
he served in several administrative capacities before
being n a m e d administrative
assistant at Greenville General.
He was project manager for the
Greenville Hospital System's
new chronic and convalescent
center on Pendleton Street.
When it opened in September,
1967, he was appointed administrator of the William G.
Sirrine Hospital.
NEWS
1970
He is a member of the
American College of Hospital
Administrators, The American
Hospital Association, and the
South Carolina Hospital Association. Active in community and
civic affairs, he is a member of
the Greenville Lions Club and
closely associated with the eye
conservation program.
He is married to the former
Carole Friend of Columbia, who
is a graduate of the Greenville
General Hospital School of Nursing,
,
GIFT TO CHILDREN — The children's re-education center at Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital receives a camera from.
Greenville Junior Woman's Club. Mrs.
E. Wayne Hunter makes the gift to Tom
Kirby, principal at the center. The
camera was purchased with proceeds
from a club bazaar. (Greenville News
photo by James G. Wilson)
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GREENVILLE
NEWS
January
1970
GREENVILLE
r _r
NEWS
J a n u a r y
2
3 , 1970
Pinckney Is Appointed
Hospital Administrator
Frank D. Pinckney is the new
administrator of Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital.
He succeeds Thomas F. Hall
33, who resigned recently to
become program analyst with
the South Carolina Department
of Mental Health. Pinckney's appointment was announced by
Robert E. Toomey, director of
the Greenville Hospital System.
He was administrator of William
G. Sirrine Hospital on Pendleton
Street before being named to
head the Grove Road facility.
Pinckney is a son of the Rt.
Rev. John A. P i n c k n e y ,
DR. E. ARTHUR DRESKIN DR. WILLIAM R. DELOACHE
New Medical Staff
Officers Take Over
Dr. E. Arthur Dreskin has Certified by the American
assumed his responsibilities as Board of Pathology, Dr. Dreskin
president of the medical staff of is engaged in the practice of
the Greenville Hospital System, pathology in Greenville. In adalong with other officers elected dition to his work at Greenville
for the year. He succeeds Dr. General, he is also consultant
pathologist to St. F r a n c i s
Lawson W. Stoneburner.
Shriners' Hospital, and
Dr. William R. DeLoaehe was Hospital,
Easley Baptist Hospital. He
elected vice president a n d the
a Fellow of the American
president-elect, the offices which is
of Clinical Pathologists,
Dr. Dreskin held last year, and Society
he is serving as a
Dr. Thomas Kenneth Howard is with which
er
of
the,
leg§l committee
j the new secretary, succeeding
*} committee, on
Dr. Thomas Robert Wynne.
| In addition to his position as Jth manpower >ttis' vaear. He
director of laboratories a t a member of the'lBtftrtiatiorflfl
Greenville General Hospital, Dr. cademy of Pathology.
I Dreskin is identified with many Dr. DeLoaehe, a native of
J medical and e d u c a t i o n a l Camden, did his undergraduate
work at Furman and Vanderbilt
programs.
He heads the school of Universities, and he received
medical technology at Greenville his medical degree from the
General Hospital as director, Vanderbilt University Medical
and he is also director of the School. S p e c i a l i z i n g «i
school of certified laboratory pediatrics, he served his "inassistants, which is sponsored ternship at Vanderbilt and his
by Greenville General and the residency in pediatrics a t
Greenville Technical Education Bowman-Gray.
Dr. Howard, a native of
Center.
Dr. Dreskin is professorial Greer, received his medical
lecturer at Clemson University degree at the Medical College of
and he is clinical associate South Carolina and interned at
professor of pathology at the Greenville General Hospital. He
in
Medical University of South served his residency
A n e s t h e s i o l o g y at Duke
Carolina at Charleston.
He formerly was with the University. Dr. Howard had
University of Illinois College of earlier been engaged in private
Medicine as instructor i n practice in general medicine in
pathology and was a Fellow in Woodruff for seven years. He is
Oncology, Cancer C l i n i c , now associated with the Greenville Anesthesia Professional
there.
Association.
70-5
Episcopal bishop of the Upper
Diocese of South Carolina, and
Mrs. Pinckney.
He is a graduate of Greenville
High School and The Citadel,
and he did post graduate studies;
at the University of Alabama
Medical Center School for Continuing Education in Hospital
Administration.
Pickney j o i n e d Greenville
General Hospital in 1963. He has
been administrative assistant at
Greenville General and project
manager for the s y s t e m ' s
chronic and convalescent center
on Pendleton Street. He was appointed administrator at William
G. Sirrine Hospital in September
1967.
He is a member of the
American College of Hospital
Administrators, The American
Hospital Association, the South
Carolina Hospital Association
and the Greenville Lions Club.
His wife, the former Carole
Friend of Columbia, is a
graduate of the Greenville
General Hospital School of Nursing.
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
J»nu«ry 25. 1970
THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sun., January 25, 1970 SSO
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2. PROVIDES sound education including classroom and clinical
instruction at minimum cost in a modern, large, progressive
hospital.
3. ENCOURAGES development of a well-rounded citizen and
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Incorporating complete medical specialties and services.
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OUR GRADUATES ARE IN DEMAND
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Room; Mother and Infant Care, and Psychiatric Nursing.
• Third year includes further medical-surgical nursing, Pediatrics and Advanced Nursing Care.
Admission Requirements:
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• Courses must include Chemistry, Biology, two years of Mathematics, and four years of general English.
• Applicants must be g r a d u a t e s in upper half of their high
school class.
• Satisfactory Scholastic Aptitude Test score.
• Personal interview.
For further details and information, write:
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Registrar
SCHOOL OF NURSING
GREENVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL
100 M a l l a r d Street
Greenville, South Carolina 29601
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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
Sun.. January 25, W 8
WESTERN PIEDMONT
GreenviUe Hospital Head
Says Health Field Growing
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
Hospitals and the health
fields are confronted with
urgent and continuing manpower needs, emphasizes Director Robert E. Toomey of
the progressive and expanding
Greenville Hospital System in
Greenville, S. C , as he
encourages young people in
communities throughout the
Carolinas to pursue their
education to become physicians, health professionals,
and nurses to meet present
and future challenges.
Dr. Toomey, who was installed as president of the
South Carolina Hospital Association on Friday, noted that
over 17,000 employes work in
hospitals in the slate, serving
the needs of patients.
Of this number, there are
1,800 employes in the Greenville Hospital System, which
has six hospital divisions
serving Greenville County
and the Piedmont Region. of
Upper South Carolina.
An additional 400 young
people arc engaged in various
educational programs associated with the hospital system.
There are 2S5 physicians on
the medical staff and 60
dentists on the dental staff in
this growing medical center,
which has received national
attention for its innovations,
in-depth planning, and comprehensive health care programming.
Dr. "J*oomey said manpower
requirements in the health
field can be expected to
i n c r e a s e substantially in
Greenville County, in keeping
with t h e "population exhospital expansion program
planned or now under way.
Four new hospital units — a
308-bed general medical-surgical hospital, a 50-bed rehabilitative hospital, a major diagnostic and treatment center,
and a service unit — are
being
constructed on the
new G r o v e Road health
campus, covering 128 acres.
Upon completion and being
fully equipped, these new
facilities will cost a total of
$21 million. The mental health
center, one of five of its kind
in the nation designed especially for patients wilh
emotional or mental illnesses,
was named the Marshall I.
Morganton, North Carolina
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T h e h e a r t o f a n y h o s p i t a l is f o u n d i n
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Photographer Leon Carnes snapped this unposed
photograph of Student Nurse V i c k i W a l l of
G r e e r , S. C , a s t u d e n t i n t h e G r e e n v i U e G e n e r a l H o s p i t a l S c h o o l o f N u r s i n g , as she gave
compassionate tenderness and w a r m t h t o a
young pediatric patient.
Dr. Toomey also anticipates
the n e e d s for medically
trained technical personnel to
average about 900 by 1975.
Critical shortages of these
one and two year educated
and trained technicians will
Pickens Hospital, in honor of
the vice chairman of The
Duke Endowment.
It w a s completed and
opened in March. 1969. This
hespifal was constructed and
ss«iKS&.-aUf _ft_.,.,k .at
cilities of the hospital system,
located in Greenville. Greer
and Simpsonville, are being
enlarged and improved.
Shortages which exist now
in personnel will become inlesfified, Dr. Toomey said.
NEED
In Greenville County alone,
the anticipated needs through
1975 are for some 300 professionals: physicians, dentists,
ADA dietitians, medical technologists, pharmacists, physical therapists, recreational
therapists, occupational therapists, medical and psychiatric social workers, and
rehabilitative counselors, as
well as those in the broad
field of professional nursing.
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unless today s youth becomes
aware of the increased demands and programs available to them, he said.
Seventy-two seniors graduated in. the September class,
which was the second largest
group ever to receive diplomas. By the end of December, 1.373 had graduated from
the Greenville General Hospital School of Nursing.
Associate in A p p l i e d Science Degree i n : .
Accounting
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70-7
THE
GREENVILLE
February
1,
NEWS
1970
'Smile Power' Is The Goal
Kids Need Brownie Decay Bug Shovel
By GRETCHEN ROBINSON
News Staff Writer
Three year olds who can't
identify a brownie decay bug
shovel could be in big trouble
later on, a local pedodontist
said.
Or their teeth are apt to
be.
Pedodontist—that's a dentist
specializing in treatment of
teeth of youngsters from birth
to 19 years of age.
It's not the generation gap
or the credibility gap that
concerns dentists, but the
youngsters who are apt to
become members of the
toothless generation.
Dr. J. Thomas Atkinson, a
Greenville pedodontist and
chairman of
National
Children's Dental H e a l t h
Week, said the observance
Feb. 1-7 is to encourage
regular dental health habits
in children and adults.
Decay is more prevalent in
those three to 14 years old,
with the worst case showing
up in the teenage bracket,
Atkinson said. It's
the
preoccupation during the teens
and the "junk" eating that
causes more decay in this
age group, he said.
Tooth straightening a n d
decay control at this stage
and in early childhood can
prevent gum problems and
possible loss of teeth later, he
said.
It's been a l o n g - h e l d
misconception that old age
means loss of teeth.
"Today's
dentists
are.
concerned w i t h preventive
dentistry," Atkinson s a i d ,
Joyce Marie Johnson, 5, finds out dental work is not
so bad after, all as she is treated at the Greenville General Hospital dental clinic by Dr. P. L. Bauknight Jr.,
with the help of Mrs. Buena M. Graves, LPN. At right,
an 18-vcar-old cerebral palsy victim makes a dental visit
"and to me dentures are the
worst restorative thing we
have in dentistry and are
more often worn in the back
pocket than they are in the
mouth. There Is no reason
for anyone losing all his teeth
unless by some b i z a r r e
disease."
In fact, most teeth can be
saved with modern treatment,
the dentist said.
He pointed out that a tooth
kept moist after b e i n g
knocked out by accident can
be replanted as long as three
days later.
The "smile power" urged
by the American D e n t a l
Association during d e n t a l
week is not just a front.
Atkinson contends that the
frightful experience associated
with visits to the dentist office
is not true. Dentists are no
longer the "tooth drawers"
of years ago as t o o t h
extraction today is considered
a last resort by most.
A look into a dentist's office
today reveals a reclining chair
designed to fit the patient's
height; modern high speed
streamlined equipment for
removal of decay, x - r a y
equipment for detection of
abnormalities unseen by the
dentist and a choice of pain
killers.
Use of audio visual aids
assists dentists with child and
parent orientation to e a r l y
oral hygienic t r a i n i n g .
Childhood introduction to the
dentist office includes a get
acquainted session
with
equipment where he learns
in a hospital operating room for such special patient
cases. Dr. J. Thomas Atkinson, pedodonist, usually completes these fillings and crowns in his office for regular
patients. (Greenville News photos by James G. Wilson)
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about the brownie decay bug
shovel—a drill.
Dental research in recent
years has produced plastic
coating to prevent tooth decay
in children, an adhesive spray
to stabilize transplanted oral
soft tissue grafts as well as
adhesives for d e n t u r e s ,
enzymes that retard formation
of tartar and mouth protectors
for athletes.
Though there is a shortage
of dentists and even fewer
specialists, Atkinson said, the
national average is about 4,000 patients to each dentist.
However, one dentist can treat
2,000 patients, he added.
Teeth were intended to last
a lifetime, Atkinson said, and
withstand as much as 300
pounds of pressure from jaws
while chewing a carrot or
apple.
While soft foods and too
many sweets, e s p e c i a l l y
c a r b o h ydrates, are the
primary causes of t o o t h
decay, he said most decay
can be prevented by brushing,
using dental floss, stimulating
gums and visiting the dentist
regularly.
Dr. Richard L. Alpert,
president of the Greenville
Dental S o c i e t y comprising
more than 70 dentists, called
the classic concept of two
visits per year a n o t h e r
misconception.
"Some people need more
than that while others wait
until they feel pain which is
a sign of an advanced case,"
he said.
"The
future
lies
in
preventive means at our
disposal to control tooth decay
and gum periodontal disease.
The major cause of tooth loss
is pyorrhea but dental help in
early life can eliminate prob-
lems later.
And what cannot be done
in routine chair care by the
p e d o d ontist, periodontist,
orthodontist, oral surgeon or
endodontist
can
be
accomplished while the patien 1
is asleep.
Special oral surgery often
is prescribed for mentally or
physically handicapped patients in a hospital operating
room, but even these patients
are assured a safe and unfrightful dental visit, said Atkinson, who performs an average of two such operations per
month.
"Most pedodontists feel that
gas use in the office is not
the safest for the child
because of the impossibility
of making all n e c e s s a r ; :
checks while operating," the
dentist said.
The dentist uses a unit of
portable equipment for denta i
service in a hospital operating
room.
The same service i s
available at the dental health
clime at Greenville General
Hospital where children and
adults of low income families
receive dental care for a small
fee.
The clinic open four days
each week is sponsored by
the Greenville Sertoma Club
and has been in operation
since May 1959. The club
purchased equipment and the
hospital p r o v i d e s supplies.
Area d e n t i s t s
donate
approximately 200 hours per
year to the clinic and are
on night call.
The clinic recorded 677
visits in the pedodontic clinic
from
October
1968
to
November 1969. During the
same period there were 529
visits in the adult dental
clinic.
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
BRAVES CARAVAN HERE—The annual Atlanta Braves Caravan visited hospitals and facilities here Thursday concluding their good-will trips to 25 towns
and cities before spring training opens.
They are from left to right: relief specialist Hoyt Wilhelm, pitcher Ron Reed,
February
6,
1970
utility outfielder M i k e Lum, shortstop
Sonny Jackson and San Francisco Giants'
catcher Dick Dietz. Chief Nok-A-Homa,
the Braves' mascot, is in the foreground.
(Greenville News p h o t o by Bennie J.
Granger)
Braves Caravan
Comes To City
"I came to Atlanta around Series. Cleveland had set the
By DAVID HOWELL
September 7th or 8th," he record for most wins in a season
News Sports Writer
recalled, "after having been
His Atlanta Braves team- with the California Angels. When and we weren't even supposed
mates call him, "The Kaiser," I came to Atlanta, only two to be on the same field with
but relief specialist H o y t games separated the first five them. But we won the Series!
Wilhelm refers to .his fellow!jar six teams in the division . . . everything we did was
players as "kids" and _ keeps jgjjjj yj e B r a v e s w e r e a g a m e right."
Wilhelm, who's been pitching
throwing those d i f f l c u l t | out of first place.
18 years, gave his views on
knuckleballs.
"I had only been with the the„ .Braves' chances t h i s
Wilhelm, the 4 6 - y e a r - o I d Braves a month when we played season.
pitcher who grew up in Hun- the Mets for the pennant. When "I'd say first that the Braves
tersville, N.C, and now makes you've got to face Seaver were one of five teams with
his home in Columbus, Ga., was (Tom), Koosman, (Jerry) Gen- a chance to win everything with
in the Braves Caravan, which try (Gary) that's quite a pitch- two games to go last year,"
toured hospitals and facilities ng rotation. But I figured if we he added. "I think the Braves
here Thursday.
had scored the runs off them have an excellent chance to win
Also in the caravan were
0631611
^ M e t S ; l t this year. They certainly fi^
shortstop Sonny Jackson, utility for t h f p e i t
tojmgtewrd
outfielder Mike Lum, 18-game "It L T l e the Mets M i to' x1J ^K ^m Um b e
" " " ^ good
winning pitcher Ron Reed, their one of those years," related I x m
mascot, Chief Nok-A-Homa, and Wilhelm of the eventual World
^
radio Braves' announcer Milo Champions. "They had a good
club, great pitching and went
Hamilton.
In last season's drive for the on to beat BaltimOTe four games
National League p e n n a n t , out of five in the World Series.
Wilhelm's experience was one "I remember one of those
of the factors which enabled kinds of Series, too. I was with
the Braves to win the Western the Giants (New York) and we
played Cleveland in the '54
Division.
70-9
".This division alignment they
set up last year was one of
Ihe best things in baseball. Except for Baltimore and Minnesota in the American League
there was exciting baseball and
we clinched our division with
one game to go. The fans liked
it."
Wilhelm was asked who made
a relief pitcher out of him and
he answered, "It was Leo
Durocher. With the success I've
had, I can't say that I knock
it."
Then Wilhelm, one of the few
masters of the knucklelball, talked of the complicated pitch.
"A lot of guys ask me about
it," he disclosed. "And as soon
as I show them how to hold
the ball correctly they say,
'well, that's not for me.' The
major league scouts nowadays
are looking for boys who can
throw hard or can't.
"They can teach them the
change, curve, slider. But with
the knuckleball, you have to
have the knack. Just everybody
can't throw it.
"That's probably the reason
there aren't more players using
it. First you have to have the
knack and you start from
there."
Wilhelm, who says "you're not
as old as you feel these days,"
watches his physical condition
and plans to keep pitching as
long as he can.
Already a member of the
North Carolina Hall of Fame,
he chuckles, "Yes, I've seen
a lot of players come and go,
but I keep hanging in there."
Wilhelm has pitched in more
games than any other major
leaguer. He broke Cy Young's
record and has hurled 989 games
and needs 11 to break the 1,000
mark.
"The Kaiser," was born to
play baseball.
THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
February
6
1970
It Was Fun Day, J
Yet Misty-Eye
By BOB UNGERICHT
It was supposed to be a fun-fifled afternoon—and it was—
but there were a few misty eyes as members of the Atlanta
Braves Caravan toured local hospitals and plants yesterday
afternoon.
One of the biggest attractions of such tours are local hospitals where the baseball stars and club officials meet and talk
with avid baseball fans, mostly youngsters who are unable to
get out of their beds.
\ were much impressed with the
Such was the case both at i facilities and work being done
Shriner's Hospital and Green- and remarked later how much
ville General Hospital where the hope they held for the speedy
players spent most of their sign- recovery for each of tbe pai
ing autographs and trying to tients,
cheer up the youngsters with Next stop was a tour of Union
Bleachery where the players]
baseball talk.
were given a personally con-i
ONE OF THE biggest hits ducted tour by Bill Horton of
of the tour was the Braves the company's personnel departmascot, Chief Nok-A-Homa, who ment.
prior to each game does a vic- During the hour-long tour the
tory dance on the mound as Braves met and shook hands
he leads the Braves from the with many of the workers, sign
dugout, then departs for his tee- ed autographed p i c t u r e s ,
pee where every Atlanta home baseball gloves and baseballs |
rum brings him out for another for plant personnel.
Another big greeting was
victory dance.
The chief took a lot of kidding received at Greenville General
on the tour from Milo Hamilton, Hospital where Elliott Taylor
radio and television voice of had everything set. A reception
the Braves, in regani to me was held in the cafeteria for
and younger patients who
day last year when things got wadult
so hot the Chief's tee-pee went; ^ e a b l e t o a t t e n d
Here, again, Hamilton inup in Smoke
troduced
players and had
Described by Braves officials the Chief the
do
his
victory dance
as one of the most successful for the youngsters.
Following
of their 25 tours this season the reception the players
the Greenville trip started with taken to the children's were
a luncheon at Wade Hampton where they visited those wing!
who
High School cafeteria followed
by an assembly program that were unable to get out of bed.
drew some 800 students.
A PRESS CONFERENCE and
Under
the
e x c e l l e n t dinner at Ye Olde Fireplace
supervision of Athletic Director closed out the day's program
and Football Coach Bill Phillips, where again H a m i l t o n inand basketball coach Johnny troduced the players.
Ross, the Wade Hampton part It was here where he told
of the tour was a real highlight a little of his own personal
of the day.
background and remarked about
During the short program doing "remote" broadcasts from
Hamilton described a little of Iowa some 22 years ago with
the Braves dash for the Western Charlie Spivak.
Division championship last year, During their nine-hour visit
hurriedly and humorously pass- here the Braves met, talked
ed over their defeat by the with, and signed autographs for
New York Mets in the playoffs, over 2.000 baseball fans. They
the told about the Braves hopes were very well r e c e i v e d
for 1970.
wherever they went which
He introduced each member prompted club officials to say,
on the tour and told a little "This was one of the best tours
of each players background and we've had this season."
the duties of club personnel.
It was the final tour during
FROM WADE HAMPTON the a month of hectic visits to some
tour progressed to Shriners 25 cities in the Southeast and
Hospital where the players met now gives them a short rest1
and talked with just about every period before they head for West
youngster jn the building. All Palm Beach, Fla., and spring
training late this month.
CHIEF NOK-A-HOMA chats with youngster at
Shriners Hospital during the Atlanta Braves Caravan tour of Greenville here yesterday. (Piedmont
' sports photo by James G. Wilson)
GREENVILLE'S Dickie Dietz, left, catcher for
the San Francisco Giants, and Ron Reed,. pitcher
for the Atlanta Braves, get together for a "serious
chat" during visit by the Braves Caravan to Greenville yesterday. Last season Dietz hit a line drive
off the knee of Reed which put the Atlanta player
out of action for a couple of weeks and Reed made
Dietz promise he wouldn't do it again. (Piedmont
sports photo by Bennie J. Granger)
70-10
MEMBERS OF THE Atlanta. Braves Caravan
(talked to, signer-autographs, and passed out-pic*_ures to oyjMI
ifdseball fans during their. »inp^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • " l e ' y e s t e r d a y . At left
____________________________¥ ,-.um a n d Kilo* Hatfri
...• i '- '
lea'chery. m &$
on
Reftti
and
Lum
cheer
up a sick ypi
1
'i?•' Geueiate^psprt-al, -.
HSmflton and Hoyt W
' 7T
girl
at
the
local
hospiUif
(Pied.'
u
" Bennie J. Granger)**
mu
70-11
Variety Adds Spice To Student Nurses' Training
It all begins In the classroom. This Is where
the facts are learned for almost Immediate practical
application. These junior student nurses (Just by
coincidence all married) at GreenvUle ' General
Hospital School of Nursing are being taught
Miss Ginny Bagwell of Clinton, a
senior student nurse, assists Mrs. Ora
Dyer Shultz of Greenville with the lift
she uses because of a fractured leg.
The three months studrnt nurses spend In
the maternity ward are possibly the highlight of
the three-year training for those at GreenvUle
General Hospital. When working with the mothers
and babies, the students wear sterilized white gowns
recovery room procedure by Mrs. Carl Stanley,
recovery room Instructor. Students are, left lo right,
Mrs. Bob (Diane) Golns, Mrs. Don (Pat) Tiliotson,
Mrs. Ben (Suzanne) Compton and Mrs. Joe
(Frances) Garrett.
Students work with every age In their
process of becoming a graduate registered nurse.
instead of their smart navy blue uniforms. Here.
Miss Cynthia Good, a Greenville junior, places
David Anthony Baker in the arms ot his mother,
Mrs. Joseph E. Baker of 17 Argonne Drive. The
baby was born Jan. 31.
King student nurses always enjoy their lime
spent on the pediatrics ward. Here, they work
with parents and patients in seeing lhat the small
ones are happy and comfortable. Miss Caroline
Boggs of Greenville, a senior, enjoys playing with
Kimberly Kay Wilson. 3-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Wilson of 37 N. Estate Drive.
Kim Is being treated for asthma and looks forward
to the times she Is out of the croupette.
By MARIE M. PEDES
Piedmont Women's Pages
Most students have to wait until their education
is completed to put to use the knowledge they
Bain from books in the classroom.
Bill student nurses at GreenviUe General
Hospital School of Nursing begin practicing nursing
arts during the first year of the three-year training
period (for which they will receive a diploma.
The local school is the only nationally accredited
hospital diploma school of nursing in South
Carolina).
A« well as the variety ln learning through
studying and practicing, the students have changes
of scenes for their education experience.
During the first year, the students go to the
Furman University campus by bus to study the
science courses and do their lab work.
Tbe second year sees them off to Columbia
to the State Hospital where they receive psychiatric
clinical experience for 12 weeks.
Students also go to the Veterans Administration
Hospital in Oteen. N.C, for four weeks of learning
to care for patients suffering from tuberculosis
and/or long term illness.
There Is much satisfaction to be hod by
choosing nursing as a career. Anyone with a love
for people finds pleasure In being able to relieve
pain and make the ill more com rortable. It Is
also rewarding financially.
Entrance requirements are: high school
diploma with credits in chemistry, biology, general
English (4 years) and mathematics (2 years):
students must be graduates In the upper half
of their high school class, possess satisfactory
scholastic aptitude test scores and have a personal
Interview before matriculating.
There is a residence for the students with
large living room on the first floor and recreation
facilities ln the basement.
The students have
a say in their regulations and policies as the
student body Is guided by a student government
association and faculty advisors.
The nurses-to-be participate In the cultural
activities of the area through tickets available
for the Little Theater, Bob Jones University and
Furman University programs, t h e Greenvilla
Symphony, and other activities.
In addition to the Inside recreational room,
there ls a tennis o. basketball court adjoining tbe residence and swimming privileges are given
students at the Marshall I. Pickens Hospital.
There are counselors for personal, social or
educational problems and good health Is promoted
by the health nurse through programs worked out
for the Individual girl and the hospital provides
hospitalization insurance for each student.
There are six holidays each year, a six weeks
vacation during the first year and four weeks
each for the next two years of training.
Yes, there are many advantages to spending
three years where a sound, well rounded education,
including classroom and clinical Instruction, can
be bad at a minimum cost (the three years cost
about the same for tuition and board as one year
at most colleges).
There are scholarships available and loans
through the federal government for up to $1,000
annually, with only half the amount being repaid
if the student stays In nursing for five years.
There are the Army and Navy programs for
senior students with the stipulation that the
student agrees to serve two years as an officer
ln the desired branch.
Many of the local graduates have used this
latter program and have even made the mUltary
a career, with one becoming a lieutenant colonel
in the army and another a chief nurse ln the
Air Corps ln earlier days.
Others are getting or already have their Ph.D.
degrees with university teaching as the goalGraduates from General have no problem
finding positions. There ls need now for more
nurses here and will be a greater need when
the hospital complex ls completed.
For further Information write the Registrar,
School of Nursing. GreenvUle General Hospital,
GreenviUe, S.C. 29601.
All work and no play—and there certainly seem
to be no dull girls among the busy student nurses
at General Hospital. There Is a large recreation
room and some TV rooms for the use of the
students. Here, four of them enjoy a game of
bridge. Left to right are Miss Tara Eaton of
Augusta, Miss Jenny Scarborough of Timmonsviltc.
Miss Delores Able of Union and Miss Linda Fanning
of Neeses.
Photos by James G. Wilson
70-12
THE
G R E E N V I L L E NEWS
F e b r u a r y 6, 1970
THE
Coronary Care Unit Saves
Many Lives, Doctor Says
The four beds in Greenville the nurse if the heartbeat inGeneral Hospital's c o r o n a r y creases or decreases beyond a
care unit cost approximately predetermined level, and also
defibrillator.
$10,000 each to equip but they a The
recorder also has a
save the lives of many ex- memory loop which allows the
periencing cardiac arrest, Dr. nurse to stop the unit and imA. G. Meaking, specialist in in- mediately play back the record
ternal medicine and cardiology, of the patient's heart beats during the preceeding 20-second
said Thursday.
He was addressing t h e period; extremely important
Pleasantburg Rotary Club to sometimes in determining what
call attention to National Heart treatment should be administered, he said.
Month during February.
Meakin said the man on the He said that during the past
street with simple training can, six month period only 11 of
save by prompt action the lives 168 patients have died in the
of about five per cent of the GCU and estimated that as
individuals suffering cardiac ar- many as 50 per cent might
rest, that trained personnel can have died if one was not
save about 15 per cent without available.
special equipment and -that 38 Following his talk h e
per cent of the pateints can answered several questions.
be saved if they have the attack He said that in his opinion,
while in the coronary care because smoking causes a constriction of blood vessels and
unit.
The unit is particularly ef- lowers the temperature of bodily
fective in the many cases where extrerneties, and causes the
only one chamber of the heart heart to have to work harder,
is activated or where the entire it should be avoided by those
heart fitatflates of quivers with a heart condition.
because electrical signals which Those suffering from angina
ususally activate all h e a r t (pain of the heart muscles) may
chambers aren't being transmit- have the pain brought on by
ted by the body through normal watching an exciting ball game;
arguing or by exercising, he
channels, he explained. •
He said that speed of treat- said, stressing that any one of
ment is essential in most cases these things can bring on an
if the life of the patient is attack if one uses up his reserve
of physical energy.
to be saved.
"In the coronary care unit, Commenting on the need for
the nurse must have the authori- rest when heart muscles have
ty to administer a shock to been damaged he said:
the patient which will restart "K you could put the heart
the heart; by the time she called muscle in a cast like you can
the doctor it would usually be a broken arm you could cure
it verv well."
too late," he stressed.
He said equipment in the unit
includes an oscilloscope, a
tacometer, an automatic rate
recorder^ which is set to signal
GREENVILLE PIEDMONT
F e b r u a r y 1Z, 1970
Letter To The Piedmont
Need For Nurses
Mrs. Marie Peden, The Piedmont
The article about our students and the
program was very well expressed.
We do thank you for presenting the need
for more nurses to the public and showing
students' activities in the actual hospital area.
We believe this will call attention to our
school.
t
MISS MARIE A. WARNCKE
Director of Education
THE
GREENVILLE
February
1970
Duke Endowment
$61,221 To Be Paid
To 9 County Centers
Duke E n d o w m e n t ap- and as reimbursement for
propriations amounting
to participation in H o s p i t a l
$61,221.13 will be paid to five Administrative Services (HAS)
hospitals and four child-care of Chicago, III, and Professional
Institutions in Greenville County, Activity Study (PAS) of the
it was announced Wednesday by ^Commission on Professional and
James R. Felts Jr., executive Hospital Activities of Ann Arbor,
director of the Hospital and -Mich.
Child Care sections of the en- • Since 1966, these services,
dowment.
which compile and distribute
The. hospitals will receive comparative financial a n d
checks based on $1 a day for statistical information on a cureach day of free care in the rent monthly basis, have been
fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1969, made available to hospitals
assisted by the Endowment,
which reimburses them for
entire cost uMil September o:
this year when it will beg:
to withdraw at the rate of li
per cent a year until the co;
is shared equally by the endowment and the hospitals.
' Hospitals in Greenville County
being paid include Greenville
THE GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
General Hospital, $ 2 3 , 7 8 2 ;
Marshall 1. Pickens Hospital
$78; Stroud Memorial Hospital,
F e b r u a r y 19, 1970
Marietta, $365; Allen Bennett
Memorial, Greer, $1,12 6;
Hillcrest Hospital, Simpsonville,
$40.
The four child care institutions
$23,782; Marshall I. Pickens Service of 1 Greenville County,
being paid were S h r i n e r s '
Hospital, $78; Stroud Memorial $6j$95; and Boys Home of the
Hospital for Crippled Children
Hospital, Marietta, $365; Allen Sotith, $3,95,8.
$19,290; Church of God Home
Bennett Memorial!, G r e e r ,
for Children, Mauldin, $5,586
$1,126;
Hillcrest
Hospital,
Family and Children Service
Simpsonville, $40.
Greenville County, $6,995.68; an
Boys Home of the SoutI
The four child care institutions
$3,958.45.
receiving appropriations a r e
Shriners' Hospital for Crippled
Children, $19,290; Church of God
Home for Children, Mauldin,
$5,586; Family and Children 70-13
Greenville Centers Get Duke Grants
Five hospitals and four child
care institutions in Greenville
County will receive D u k e
E n d o w m e n t appropriations
amounting to $61,221, James R.
Felts, Jr., executive director of
the hospital and child care sections of the endowment announced Wednesday.
Hospitals in Greenville County
given appropriations i n c l u d e
Greenville General Hospital,
19,
NEWS
THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
February
2 1 , 1970
Student Nurses Tape
Public Service Spots
"Nursing is where the action
Is" a young voice assures its
radio listener.
This is one case where the announcer should know.
She really is a student nurse,
and she's speaking from first
hand experience.
A group of student nurses
from the Greenville General
Hospital School of Nursing have
made radio public service spot
announcements aimed at their
contemporaries on t h e advantages and challenges offered
in the field of nursing.
The girls wrote and taped
the spots in a contest conducted
by the School of.(Nursing and
the hospital's Office of Public
Affairs.
An impartial par/el of judges
declared the students' spots
"original, refreshing, appealing
and, in many c a s e s , "excellent."
'ule Cleveland Ferguson,
office manager for WFBC and
Jeff Fields, staff announcer and
free lance writer praised the
students' efforts and declared
"all of the entries were good."
It was difficult to single out
three for prizes, they reported.
Miss Nancy Chase won first
prize, Miss Brenda McCall, second, and Miss Judy Osborne,
third.
Other entrants were Miss Linda Weist, Miss Gail Moore, Miss
Jan Hopkins, Miss J a n i c e
Hawkins, Miss Rebecca Steele,
Miss Teresa Orr, Miss Malinda
M u r p h r e e , Miss LeJune
Dunaway, and Miss S u s a n
Rickenbaker.
All applicants were invited to
take part in a taping session
by Billy Powell, program director for WFBC radio. The tapes
are being sent to .selected radio
stations in the Carolinas for
airing as public service announcements.
Public Service Spot Winners
Student nurses recently competed
in a special radio public service spot
contest which was conducted by the
Greenville General Hospital School of
Nursing and Office of Public Affairs.
Among the winners who recorded their
entries at WFBC studios were, stand-
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ing, left to1 right, Brenda McCall, second prize and Judy Osborne, third
prize. First prize winners, Nancy Chase
is shown seated with Billy Powell,
WFBC program director, who helped
the girls with their recordings. (Piedmont Photo)
THE
GREENVILLE
February
23,
NEWS
1970
BLOOD DONORS—PFC. James Terry Tranham was one of more than 30
Marines from the local Detachment Ammunition Company who gave blood Sunday at Greenville General Hospital's
blood bank laboratory, for use in the
Shriners' Hospital program. Mrs. Anthony L. Neves, donor room supervisor,
took the blood as (left to right) C. W.
Stepp, Lt. of the hospital activities unit
of the Hejaz Temple; 1st. Sgt. L. B.
Hyatt and Capt. V. C. Bryan looked on.
irby Tells Club Of Hospital
Thomas Kirby, principal of
Children's R e - e d u c a t i o n
Center of the Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital, was guest
speaker for the Greenville
Junior Woman's Club at the
February meeting on the new
Mental Health Center.
Mr. Kirby thanked the club
for the camera presented the
chiidrens division and talked
about the emotionally disturbed children's program, saying:
the program is'for children
who can profit from a short
term e d u c a t i o n a l re-adjustment; the average stay
for a child at the school is
6 to 7 months, with a formal
follow-up for a one year period
on the individual, the family,
and his readjustment to community schools; and the object
of the program is to return
the person to a normal and
productive life,
Mrs. T. D. Clemehi
president, welcomed $frs. F .
G. Blair and Mrs.-Jaiaes M.
Huffman as guests.
The fine arts department
'announced that entries for the
Hallmark Art Contest are on
display at the Pleasantburg
branch of Peoples National
Bank.
Mrs. C l e m e n t announced
thai Mrs._ Clark E. Westbury
will serve as home l i f e WiUiam S. Jackson.
The bridge benefit will take
chairman. The club won the
National Foundation March of place March 4 at F i r s t
Dimes award for outstanding Federal on Wade Hampton.
volunteer service during the Reservations may be made
by contacting Mrs. WiUiam
recent Mothers March.
Mrs. John A. Carson Jr., -S. Jackson at 244-2583.
Greenville County March of
Dimes chairman, presented a
plaque to the club from the
national f o u n d a t i o n for
outstanding service and also
certificates to each member.
Mrs. W. Lynn Smith, public
THE GREENVILLE
affairs chairman, t h a n k e d
members for participating in
F e b r u a r y 2 3 , 1970
the recent eye s c r e e n i n g
classes. The club >&)ted to contribute $100 to "ttf-«Greenville
Association for - p c t a.r d e d
Children from the-forthcoming
bridge benefit. This will be
•reative equipment for the
Day Care Center. The elub
will also provide t h r e e
c a m p e r s h i p s to Camp
Spearhead.
'ihe following were named
to the nominating committee:
Peter D. B y 1 e n d a .
rman, Mrs. Carson, Mrs.
Ray C. Ballew, Mrs. James
L. Townsend Jr. and Mrs.
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PIEDMONT
GREENVILLE
February
Candy Stripers at Greenville General Hospital will have a talent show
Saturday at 8 p.m. a t GreenvUle High
School. One of the acts will be by the
i'Tdget Midgets." shown _above. left_to
GREENVILLE
February
28,
GREENVILLE
March
PIEDMONT
1,
NEWS
1970
Influenza
1970
Hospital
Visiting
Discouraged
Architects Here
Receive Awards
Two Greenville architectural
firms, J. E. Sirrine Co., and
J. Harold Mack Architectural
Firm, received awards at the
annual Winter Awards Banquet
of the S. C. Chapter of the
American Institute of Architecture in Clemson Friday night.
Sirrine Co. was awarded for
the design of the Greenville
News-Piedmont Building and the
Clemson University Coliseum.
The design of the Marshall
Pickens Mental Health Center
on Grove Road in Greenville
produced an award for the J.
Harold M a c k Architectural
Firm.
The awards were sponsored
by the American Institute of
Architects, which selected 32
South Carolina designs from the
33 state entries.
1970
right, Donna Stepp, Jane Godfrey,
Vickie Young and Debbie ©rambles,
who will do a comedy dance routine.
(Piedmont photo)
THE
THE
26,
PIEDMONT
70-16
officials again have urged a
curtailment of visitation at the
hospital this Sunday.
A spokesman for the hospital
said that numerous cases of
influenza have occurred among
patients being treated for other
ailments. He said that the influenza has not reached an
epidemic proportion but is worse
at this time of the year.
The official said thfit the
thousands of visitors at the
hospital under the present conditions would only expose patients to other illnesses, and
he urged that visitors refrain
where circumstances permit.
THE
GREENVILLE NEWS
March
1,
1970
TEC Health Division
Offers New Courses
Dietary
Technician
and
Inhalation Therapy, two new
two-year courses, will be offered
in September in the Health
Career Division at Greenville
Technical Education Center.
The dietary t e c h n i c i a n
students will receive training
in a program of basic sciences
and didactic portions including
actual food preparation, nutrition and menu p 1 a n n i n g s ,
purchasing, dining room operation, supervision and training
techniques and catering.
The curriculum will b e
supervised by the D i e t a r y
Technology Advisory Committee
at TEC. Members include W.
W. Crittenden, administrator at
Oakmont Nursing Center; Sister
Catherine E h i e n , registered
dietitian at St. Francis Hospital;
Mrs. Virginia Fowler, registered
dietitian at Greenville General
Hospital; Miss Mattie Reavis,
registered dietitian at Anderson
Memorial Hospital;
Mrs.
Marcelle S c o g i n , registered
dietitian at Greenville General
Hospital; and Mrs. Dorothy C.
Swift, registered dietitian at
Greenville County H e a l t h
Department.
Students in inhalation therapy
will be instructed in clinical
THE
practice, utilization of apparatus
and techniques with emphasis
on the
anatomical
and
physiological aspects of various
procedures, airway managements, resuscitation and spirometry, clinical application, continuation of disease management and understanding of
disease processes related to
surgical procedures and longstanding disease.
The Inhalation T h e r a p y
Advisory Committee at TEC are
Dr. William' Pryor, Dr. John
D. Ashmore, Dr. William E.
Bomar, Dr. Eugene Cornett,
Miss Joyce Crowe and Benny
Waters.
GREENVILLE
March
The dietary technician and the
inhalation therapy courses were
added based on surveys on the
six Appalachian counties in
South Carolina to determine
needs in these areas. There are
no programs in the state for
dietiry technicians and the inhalation course is being offered
at Columbia at Richland TEC.
Applications are now being
taken for the courses. Further
information may be obtained by
contacting Mrs. Doris Kunz,
counselor, Health Career Center
at TEC.
PIEDMONT
4,
1970
Drilling Rigs Make Interesting Picture
This is not a double exposure nor two separate
photographic frames. The unusual effect is the r e sult of t h e fact t h a t two drilling rigs were in operation a t the same time on the site of Greenville
Medical Center on Grove Road. Piedmont photo-
grapher Fletcher W. Ross photographed the rigs
from t h e vantage point of t h e brick-colonhaded
walkway a t Marshall I. Pickens Hospital, and this
interesting picture was the result.
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THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
March
o c a I II/urde n o m i n a t e d ^ r o r
4,
1970 :
I l a t i o n a l ^ r r tonoi
A Greenville nurse, con- ! If selected as the national
cerned with improving the •winner among the 39 state
;finalists, she will be eligible
quality of life in South for a $2,000 award from ScherCarolina, has been honored ing Corp., a pharmaceutical
by the American Nurses' company. Half of this award
Association for making an would be contributed by her
outstanding contribution to the jto a Greenville community
project in which she is incommunity.
volved.
Mrs. Thurston H. Nicholson
of Paris Mountain has been
selected to represent South
Carolina as one of the finalists
from 39 states in a nationwide
"Be-Involved Nurse Search."
Honors went to registered
nurses who have been actively
participating in raising the
level of social or health
services in t h e i r communities.
Mrs. Nicholson, a charge instructor in maternal and infant care at G r e e n v i l l e
, General Hospital School of
Nursing, has been president
of the Community Council and
PTA. In addition, she has been
| a board member of the Greeniville Women's Club, Girl
Scouts, Boy Scouts, Family
I Service Association, Cancer
Society, Heart Association and
Phyllis Wheatley Association.
Mrs. N i c h o l s o n was
nominated by the S o u t h
Carolina State
Nurses
Association in Columbia.
She has worked to develop
educational programs on the
importance of prenatal care,
aided the poor,helped to raise
funds for the United Fund
and YMCA, spoken about
community affairs and health
subjects at club meetings, and
THE
Health Care
Meeting Set
In Greenville
Health care providers and
planners will meet in Greenville
Wednesday for a d a y - l o n g
seminar on the state of health
care planning in S o u t h
Carolina.
The meeting at the Holiday
Inn on Mauldin Road a t
Interstate 85, is sponsored by
the State Board of Health, the
S. C. Appalachian Region Health
Policy and Planning Council and
Blue Cross-Blue Shield, and is
the first of three such seminars
scheduled across the state.
Mrs. Nicholson, who serves
as chairman of the Greenville
County Health Planning Council, also has an interest in
establishing a t w o - p a r t y
[political systeiri hi South
Carolina."She Was a candidate
for the House of Representatives in 1967 on t h e
Republican ticket.
I A motion picture documentary on ANA's national winner
and.five finalist^ is being
produced by 'Sobering. -'Roth
the cash award, and the,film
will be presented >at the ANA's
biennial convention at Miami
Beach in May 1970.
MRS. NICHOLSON
directed a polio immunization
program in the county.
GREENVILLE
March
4,
All registered n u r s e s ,
including the 207,000 members
of the ANA, were eligible for
nomination in the search for
exceptional p e r f o r m a n c e
either on-the-job or after
work.t The winner will be
selected by ANA's Honorary
Committee headed by John
D. Rockefeller, IV, West
Virginia's Secretary of State;
and Margaret B. Dolan of
North Carolina, president of
the National Health Council
I an_d former ANA president.
NEWS
1970
Presiding will be Dr. E. Kenneth Aycock, state health officer.
Among those appearing on the
program will be Joe Napolitano
of the Appalachia Regional
Commission in Washington; Dr.
the Greenville Hospital System;
Alexander H. Williams, director
of the division of planning of
ithe American Hospital Association in Chicago; William San-
dow, president of Blue Cross
of South Carolina; Robert H.
Johnson, executive director of
the S. C. Appalachian health
planning agency; and Dr. Leslie
C. Meyer, a member of the
board of the S. C. Appalachian
health planning group.
Featured speaker at the dinner Wednesday night will be
Dr. W. H. Hale Jr. of the
University of Georgia.
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THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
March 4, 1970
Officialsjiuggest: Do Hospitalized
Friend Favor, Don't Visit
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
"IF SOMEONE wants to a hospital attendant.
Hospital authorities a l s o
The normal impulse, upon visit a patient, he should wait "Often, when the stretcher pointed
out that parking is
hearing of a friend sick in until that patient goes home. does get on the elevator, at a premium around the
the hospital, is to visit him Then the patient is well visitors already on board hospital, and traffic in peak
but do him a favor, don't enough to want visitors," the express displeasure at the hours makes it difficult for
doctor added.
!go.
crowding."
ambulances bearing accident
"When someone * is sick All personnel agreed that
victims to get through to the
the
hospital
is
c
u
r
r
e
n
t
l
y
THE ONES WHO suffer the emergency clinic on Mallard
enough to be hospitalized, he
neither needs nor w a n t s strained beyond its capacity most from the c u r r e n t Street.
visitors,"
cautioned Dr. for space with 1,200 employes conditions are the patients, "The same visitor problem
George M. G r i m b a l l caring for 630 (maximum) agreed hospital authorities.
exists in all area hospitals,"
According to Mrs. Doris hospital authorities summed
chairman of the operating- patients.
„
;„ Visitocs,l . who
sat mC u l b e r t s o n , nursing up, "and if a friend really
room.commit.ee at. GreenvUle
^ B 0once
w a i t i n g
W - a i t in
supervisor, the nurses find wants to help, he will either
General Hospital.
T h e wa _tin£:?P»s, that having so many peo]
wait until the patient is wellj
G r i m b a l l '-' and otherpj^ fyjye been converted into'
% enough to go home, or if he
members of the hospital staff hospital rooms, as have the \\\\\\\\\\\m^'°mk patmust visit, he should stay a
! tires ttwpatients tpj
very short time."
_
._
and ad m i n i s t r a t o n are rear ends of corridors and
a lot of visitors. They don't
. ,
• • former stretcher areas,
well that night either,
becoming increasingly worried .< F a m i l i e s t a k e a d v a n t age of rest
and
many
tell us they don't
about the amount, of visitors , f n
which allows
really
care
for
visitors.
at the hospital.
t h e m t /,& s i t a n y time> »
Not only can visitors infect observed a n o t h e r hospital "Last Sunday, for example,
we had an estimated 4,500
the sick with flu, virus spokesman,
come to see their
and other epidemic diseases,! "Then; d u r i n g afternoon people
but they can catch contagious] visiting hours, a d d i t i o n a l hospitalized friends.
illnesses as well in the current people flood the hospital, "That's far too many for
crowded c o n d i t i o n s at many visiting out of a sense this hospital to entertain
comfortably," she said.
Greenville General, explained of obligation.
Grimball.
"We have had patients "They crowd into t h e Patients are allowed a
admitted for X-rays or surgery elevators, which never stop, maximum of three visitors at
pick up diseases here which and if a stretcher is waiting a time under the current card
necessitates cancelling their with a patient, it waits andsystem, which meant that
waits, sometimes as long as Sunday the average visitorplanned treatment.
15 minutes at a time," added jjatient ratio was7_toJ..
GREENVILLE
March
NEWS
5, 1970,
Doctor Prefers
'No Visitors' •
People sick enough to be in
the hospital seldom need or
want visitors, Dr. George M
Grimball, chairman of the operating room committee at
said Wednesday.
He said patients on stretchers
sometimes have to wait for elevators and too many visitors
also are causing a traffic prob
lem at peak hours, he said.
70-19
Napolitano said that t h e
program lagged in ttte beginning
wasted
and IT)at mucB^Htf
and projects
quired a year of planning following government approval. The
commission's current concern,
he said, is evaluation of accomplishments which can only
be measured through attitude
and improvement.
Robert A. Johnson, executive
director, Appalachian Region
Health Policy and Planning
Council, said the commission
had used $5,656,000 in 12
categories during the last 18
months and that $6.9 million
will be used in 1970 projects
including numerous paramedical
programs at G r e e n v i l l e
Technical Education Center and
expansion of manpower personnel.
Johnson said that Greenville
TEC's graduates in paramedical
areas will be accepted at
Limestone College for a degree
program. He also said TEC's
manpower program would be
HEALTH PLANNERS — Officials indent, Blue Cross; Joe Napalitano of the
developed and funds would be
volved in planning and providing health
Appalachian Region Commission; Dr. E.
used in development of the Rogservices for South Carolina Wednesday
Kenneth Aycock, state health officer; and
er C. Peace Institute for Rehabdiscussed programs and needs at a
S. J. Ulmer Jr., director, office of Comilitative Medicine.
seminar for comprehensive health proprehensive Health Planning. (Greenville
President of Blue Cross of
viders and planners. Participating speakNews photo by James G. Wilson)
South Carolina, William Sandow,
said that problems resulting in
ers are from left, William Sandow, presisaid that specializing graduates higher medical costs should not
create a "medical overkill."
be ignored and that the current
"They can do the miraculous health care delivery system
but they can't take care of would have to be reorganized
the lesser things like colds and to accommodate financing of the
faii
in
medical
school
and
why;
flu. We match their knowledge national health i n s u r a n c e
and,
secondly,
to
find
ways
to
News Staff Writer
with facilities, mostly expensive programs,
The manpower s h o r t a g e , recover "dropouts" from the and related to diseases only Alexander H. Williams, direcmedical
fields.
public education and need for
found in medical schools, which tor, division of p l a n n i n g ,
health insurance revision were He said the greatest shortage neglect the ordinary family American Hospital Association,
cited Wednesday as major is that of medical doctors and services and illnesses," he said that the health system is
issues facing planners of South while the manpower task force said.
inadequate and that planners
Carolina's health programs at is currently studying ways and Two Spartanburg physicians have the best opportunity to
a one-day seminar for medical means to encourage m o r e responding to the task force improve and that "Includes givtraining of subprofessionals, the
personnel.
doctors who have drop- panel recommended assistance ing up cherished beliefs and
Some 150 physicians, hospital trained
ped
out
have "used $100,000 in for the middle class families cooperating with the consuming
administrators and
o t h e r tax funds
in their years of "who can't afford to b e public."
selected health professionals and education. They
hospitalized;"
inclusion
of; Dr. Leslie C. Meyer, a board
consumers of health services to the bargain." should live up medical doctors and physicians; member of the Appalachian
from 12 counties attended the
in the planning program; in-Region Health Policy and Planmeeting sponsored by the Office Finlayson recommended day itiatioij of more preventive prac- ning
Council,
said
the
of Comprehensive Health Plan- care programs for hospital pa- ticea for illnesses rather than "vanishing American" — the
iring, South Carolina State Board } i w t s w h o £° no f ne?<? n i 8 h t treatment; and quality medical general practitioner — is a must
_f Health
u__i._ and
_,„.. Blue
R W rvrwc
nf' time care when p a t I e n t s
of
Cross of
for the future and that the planreceive virtually nothing" at a care to reduce cost of ning
South Carolina.
group must work to
hospitalization and education of
:.
Kenneth
Aycock
said
hospital
and
education
programs
Dr.
the public to get p e o p l e preserve the doctor patient relaI
to
make
sure
every
person
the seminar was designed to
interested in a better standard tionship.
bring all the elements involved knows what health services are of health.
Dr. W. H. Hale Jr., of the
available.
In comprehensive health planOne physician said that the University of Georgia Center for
Robert
E.
Toomey,
director
ning — private medicine, operastate's mortality rate, which is Continuing Education, told the
tion of health facilities and in- of the GreenvIIIe~H6 s p i t a I higher than any state in the group that communication is imsurance — together
f o r System, reacting to the presen- nation is caused by the greatest possible unless people want to
discussion. Other s i m i l a r tations, urged the planning of- illiteracy in the nation.
listen and that those who don't
meetings will be held in Colum-1 ficials to be concerned in the "The problem is indifferent, want to listen are those who
areas of licensing and liability, ignorant and apathetic people have made up their minds.
bia and Pee Dee area
Representatives of the S.C promotion of employes, curing who believe they are healthy The Greenville native in his
Office of C o m p r e h e n s i v e of common ills and insurance if they have no fever and have "cigar box impressions" said
Heaalth Planning presented task I based on the level of care.
enough to eat and that their people "are talking ,more and
force reports on h e a l t h Toomey said the medical field teeth stay in until they drop more and listening less and less,
have lost their direction and
manpower, facilities services, should look among its own ranks out," he said.
resources and e d u c a t i o n ifor promotions and stop the Joe Napolitano of the Ap- have floubled their speed to get
programs.
i"dead endedness" of some jobs, palachian Region Commission, there," and that youngsters are
W. B. Finlayson, superin-lHe commended the medical col- Washington, D.C., reported that "enduring educational activity
tendent, Conway M e m o r i a Lieges for being concerned with the legislation which started the but missing out on learning."
Hospital, said the greatest in-study of disease and eliminating commission in t « 9 wovtM expire He said that t h e comterest of his committee is to barriers to knowledge which has m 1971 " a n d I don't know of munication problem can be solvU
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with
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of
the
determine how
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students
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to
transplants
but[
a n y move to extend i t " he
past, present and future and
said
where your dignity is."
70-20i -
S. C. Health Programs Discussed
At Seminar For Medical Personnel
trained
here
are
learning
about, it now, though, and wo
THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
Mal-cli
5,
1970
Two CF CHILDREN
Easley Family's Medical
Bills More Than Income
How can a family exist
whose yearly income totals
a little over $9,000 but whose
annual medical expenses come
to over $10,000?
"It's not easy," Mrs. Paul
Rutterbush, of Easley, admits.
A special congressional subcommittee i n Washington
recently heard Mrs. Rutterbush tell of her family's
15 year struggle with cystic
fibrosis. Two of the Rutterbush's three children were
born with the inherited lung
disease.
The Anti-trust and Monopoly
Subcommittee of the Judiciary
Committee listened as Mrs.
Rutterbush and Dr. Paul Pattersonôf the General Medical
THE
and. Scientific Council of the
National Cystic Foundation,
told of the tragedy of the
monumental medical cost incurred by families suffering
from genetic or hereditary
diseases.
Patterson is a professor of
pediatrics at Albany Medical
College, U n i o n University
Albany, N. Y. and is a practicing pediatrician.
Mrs. Rutterbush discussed
the family's daily efforts and
battle with mounting medical
costs to maintain the lives
of Mike, who will be nine
on March 15, and Herbie, who
was 15 in February.
GREENVILLE
March
8,
Mike has undergone extensive hospitalization. He was
confined in December 1968;
February, March,
May,
December 1969, and again this
past January.
"The doctors prognosis for
Mike is, frankly, not good.
He coughs 24 hours a day,
and is too ill to attend school,"
Mrs. Rutterbush said.
Mrs. Rutterbush was unable
to work in 1969 because she
remained at the hospital to
care for her youngest son.
"Cystic fibrosis is such a
newly discovered disease, and
the treatment so intense and
unusual, that the nurses, until
recently, had no training dealing with it.
"The new nurses being
mothers are helping by showing them the procedures when
our children are hospitalized."
She has high praises for
the nursing staff at Greenville
General Hospital.
"There are 16 children in
Pickens alone with t h e
disease," Mrs. Rutterbush
said, "and many of the
families are in w o r s e
economic shape than we are.
"Sometimes we are told we
should find a health agency
or group to finance us, but
who could afford us?" asked
the mother. She said that
hospital stays for CF children
run from $35 to $240 a day.
"The strain of it all is more
than many of us can bear,"
she said. "A survey shows
that 80 per cent of parents
with CF children separate or
divorce.
"Many parents c o m m i t
suicide."
A cure for cystic fibrosis
lies from five to ten years
away, according to most
medical experts.
The Palmetto Chapter of
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is
currently trying to raise
enough money to open a CF
clinic at Greenville General
Hospital.
NEWS
1970
Greenville General Hospital System
Increases Room Rates At All Units
GreenviUe Hospital System
reported a net profit of $59,691
for the year ending last Oct.
5, despite a loss on patient
services of $381,334, and announced simultaneously Saturday increases in room rates,
effective Monday, except at
Roger Huntington N u r s i n g
Center at Greer.
rates will advance $2 daily Monday.
So will those at Roger Huntington Nursing Center at Greer,
effective April 1.
Rates at other units in the
system — Allen B e n n e t t
Memorial Hospital at Greer,
Hillcrest Hospital in t h e
Simpsonville-Fountain Inn area,
William G. Sirrine and Marshall
I. Pickens Hospitals in Greenville — will rise by $3 to $4
per day.
Trustees approved the increases in rates "to offset increased operational,
costs
General Hospital to $37-$42 per
day for private rooms, and to
resulting from necessary payroll!
$32-$35 per day for semi-private
adjustments, mainly, and in-]
rooms.
flation," W. W. McEachern.
However, donations and other
Roger Huntington rates will
chairman of the Board of the non-patient revenue of $341,025]
become $17 daily for private
system, said.
offset patient services deficit
and $16 daily for semiMcEachern said the audit and gave the system its $59,691 rooms,
private
rooms.
report submitted by Winn, net profit. Donations from the 1 AUen Bennett rates wUl inWright and Potter showed gross ;, Duke Endowment, Greenville crease to $30 daily for private
patient revenue of $15,918,532] I County Medical Society, the
and $26 daUy for semi\ throughout the six hospital j federal government and other rooms,
private rooms, each up $3.
iyisions for fiscal 1969. Net: agencies totaled $182,887, and
Hillcrest rates will become $28
•venue of, $1J
other non-patient r e v e n u e daily, up $3. There are no semited after
amounted to $158,138 to account private rooms.
| for the $341,025 in gifts and
WilUam G. Sirrine rates wiU
ictural allowances,
grants.
increase by $4 to $31 daUy for
fad uricollecta
Hospital authorities reported private rooms, and by $3 to
counts which tot
that 59 per cent of hospital $27 daily for s e m i - p r i v a t e
$2,625,438.
to meet payroll ex- j rooms.
Director Robert E. Toomey i i costs went
and the remaining 41 I MarshaU I Pickens private
said cost of patient care penses
per cent for all other , ex- room rates will increase by $4
amounted to $13,574,528, leaving ipenditures.
to $43 daily with semi-private
the loss from patient services
New rates will push costs at room rates rising by $3 to $36.
j at $281,334.
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THE
March
GREENVILLE
NEWS
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
March 9, 1970
8,-1970
THE
GREENVILLE
March
9,
Hospital
Rates Rise
NEWS
1970
j
Rates went up at all local
hospitals of the Greenville
Hospital System today excepl
Roger Huntington N u r s i n
Center, Greer, which is to ri<
CAIN
by $2 daily on April 1.
TO BEGIN LAW PRACTICE
rates were raised $2 daily. Rates
William C. Cain has resigned
A panel discussion o n
at Allen Bennett Memorial
Mrs. Fred A. Bettis, district
his position as a s s i s t a n t
Hospital, Greer, H i l l c r e s t
administrator for i n t e r n a l "Medicine and Rsligion: A vice president and program
Design For Health For The chairman for the Woman's
Hospital, Simpsonville-Fountain
operations at Greenville General
Whole Man," is planned for Society of Christian Service,
Inn area, William G. Sirrine
Hospital to open his private law
[the dinner meeting of the arranged the program. She
and Marshall I. P i c k e n s
practice.
Cain will open his office- Senior Wesleyan Service Guild will serve on the pariel with I Hospitals, Greenville, will all
March 16 at 411 Pettigru St., Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. at Robert Newton, administrator ' rise by $3 to $4 per day.
Trustees approved the inwhere he intends to engage in Buncombe Street U n i t e d of SI. Francis Community
Hospital; Mrs. Charles P. creases in rates to offset ing e n e r a l l a w p r a c t i c e , Methodist Church.
Moran of Greenville General
creased operational
costs
concentrating in hospital law
Hospital and the Rev. James resulting from necessary payroll
and
medico - legal
Hunter, assistant minister of
adjustments and inflation, said
jurisprudence.
the B u n c o m b e
Street
W. W. McEachern, chairman
Church.
of the system's Board.
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
'Health Of Whole Man'
Guild Topic Tuesday
March
10,
1970
Chaplain Says
Rights Of Individual,
Society Face Hospital
A hospital chaplain told man- When does death occur? What
a cement representatives Mon- coimmitments are made to re-!
day that the biggest issue facing cipients of organ transplants?
' ispital management today is Who gets the organ? he asked!
. e concept of individual rights as other examples.
vs. the rights of society.
Smith told the management
The Rev. John Smith, chaplain organization that management
for the Greenville Hospital Sys- problems in the health care
m, speaking to members of field, or any other field, affect
1 he Society for the Advancement the entire community.
of Management, said that the "There is no rigid rule to govall-holy approach of individual ern any," the chaplain said,
i ights" is not the answer to is- "except for situation ethics.
There are no hard, fast rules,
sues of modern medicine.
but interdisciplinary discussion
The chaplain, describing him- in each case will serve the overself as a "devil's advocate," or all purpose of the law and bring
<.ne who raises questions on both about the effects in the indivitides, cited issues facing hos- dual and society as a whole."
pital management for which no
•noral or ethical solutions have Action based on the basic unbeen decided: abortion, steriliza- selfish love for betterment of
;ion, contraception, alcohol and all humanity will best serve the
drugs, organ transplants, indivi- individual desires and needs of
dual right to die or the right to society, he said.
He raised questions about
medical care.
management's responsibility to
He cited a problem case in employes and said, "There is
Greenville where 21 illegitimate need for a real concern for the
children lived in one house and person. There needs to be someate peanut butter from a news- one to look at this to see what
paper on the floor.
is going on and be sensitive to
"Let's do it (sterilize)," he the problem areas without besaid. "But who's to decide?" traying confidences."
THE
GREENVILLE
March
CHIP
10,
NEWS
1970
:i
Greenville
Hospitals
Join Project
Robert E. Toomey, director
of GreenviUe Hospital System,
said Monday ithe system is
participating in the Carolinas'
Hospital Improvement Program.
It is a joint multi-hospital
management engineering project organized through the North
and South Carolina Hospital
Associations and North Carolina
State University. The program
began ' with 23 m e m b e r
hospitals.
Bill D. Garrett wil be Greenville Hospital
System's
coordinator, Toomey said
An initial grant from -the Duke
Endowment helped d e f r a y
organization costs for CHIP.
The CHIP project has a threephase approach to improving
hospital effectiveness and reducing costs, Toomey said.
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THE
M a r c h 10, 1970
air For Students Set Thursday
from Anderson. This is expectBy LUCILLE B. GREEN
ed to give an hourly traffic flow
News Staff Writer
The 1970 Job Fair, to be held of more than 800 students.
"< hursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. High school juniors, interested
at Textile Hall, will not only parents and others are urged to
provide potential career infor- take advantage of the late afmation through 33 booths spon- ternoon hours. All booths will be
. ->red by the professions, busi- staffed throughout the day.
r 3ss and industry for more than Miss Margaret Keith, director
"300 high school seniors, but of guidance for the school disi will give every visitor a better trict, said Monday:
(imprehension of the communi- "It is a unique method of
i. s resources.
bringing vocational guidance to
students at a time when it is
The
Greenville
County
School
T
istrict will bus its 3,200 seniors most meaningful. Our Job Fair,
t-> the exhibition hall between co-sponsored by the Greater
<J a.m. and 2 p.m., with another Greenville Chamber of Com120 seniors making the^ trip merce and Textile Hall Corpora-
THE
GREENVILLE
March
12,
NEWS
1970
Sans Souci Club Tours
New Hospital Facility
Thomas F. Kirby, principal
of the children's re-education
center at the Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital, conducted a
tour for the Sans Souci Study
Club recently.
C h i l d e r s ; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. S h i e l d s
Walker; treasurer, Mrs. Dick
Mauldin, and p u b l i c i t y
chairman, Mrs. L e o n a r d
England.
Before the tour Mr. Kirby
told of facilities and the treatment available at the hospital.
He gave five services of a
comprehensive c o m m u n i t y ,
mental health center. In-patient care, out-patient care,
partial-hospitalization, education and consultation, and
emergency service.
A b a n q u e t honoring
husbands and new members
was announced for April 11
at the Colonial Court. New
members are Mrs. Tommy
Thompson and Mrs. W. W.
Rodgers.
The club has contributed $10
toward the Margaret Mahon
children's book room at the
county library.
Mrs. John A. Carson Jr.,
incoming northwestern district
director of the South Carolina
Federation Of Women's Clubs,
installed officers. They are,
president, Mrs. James E.
Shedd; vice president, Mrs.
Walter Dean; r e c o r d i n g
secretary,
Mrs.
Clyde
tion, is unique in the Southeast struction Company, W. R. Grace
— the only such program of this Co. Cryovac Division, Women in
Construction, the U. S. Army,
type," Miss Keith said.
Dr. M. T. Anderson, superin- LTV Electro Systems, Inc.,
tendent, said M o n d a y night, Southern Weaving, Printing In"The school district is indeed dustry of the Carolinas, Belkfortunate to be able to share in Simpson, the Federal Bureau of
the 1970 Job Fair. The Job Fairs Investigation, Meyers - Arnold
of the past two years have prov- and Ivey's, the Young Lawyers
ed to be invaluable experiences Club, Her Majesty, W u n d a
to the students who have par- Weve, F. W. Poe, General Electicipated and we sincerely hope tric Company, Greenville City
that all juniors and seniors in Fire and Police Departments
high schools will take advantage and the Greenville Association
of this time to become better of Insurance Women.
acquainted with the local world
of work."
Two of the booths, that sponsored by the Youth Opportunity
Center and that by the S. C.
Association of Personnel Services, will give students advice
on how to apply for jobs.
Other booth sponsors include
the Vocational Rehabilitation
Center, the Greenville General
Hospital System, Liberty Life
Insurance Company, The Peoples National Bank, the U. S.
Air Force, J. P. Stevens & Co.
Inc., Daniel Construction Company, the U. S. Marine Corps,
the United Merchants and Manufacturers, Greenville TEC, the
Fouke Company, Homelite Division of Textron Inc., Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
Also, Duke Power Company,
Union Carbide, Yeargin Con-
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THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
March
12, 1970
Job Fair Helps Seniors Make Up Mind:
Which Vocation To Choose
By STUART CAMPBELL
More than 3,500 Greenville
area high school s e n i o r s
participated in the Greater
Greenville Chamber of Commerce's third annual job fair
which opened at Textile Hall
this morning.
Booths telling of employment
- irtunities greeted the young
Greenvillians as they arrived
at the fair at 9:30 a.m.
"We have tried to have a
balance of opportunities for both
sexes, but it is a fact that
more girls will not go on to
college," said David Merritt, job
fair committee chairman.
"We are not just looking at
ie 40 per cent who will not
go on to higher education," he school graduates in Greenville
continued. "There is equal in- County will be working six
terest in those who wUl be at- months after graduation, actending vocational schools for cording to Tom Stapleton of
two years and college for four the chamber. Of that number
years before they enter the about 95 per cent will seek
business world. This is a long-i employment in the county.
range program which is looking;| A majority of tbe -simd
beyond June of this year."
toekrtsdvantage of the
Statistics show that 900 high ask questions and see
lossible. Few, h
ided on a caree . ..
ft is harder today to recruit
[young people than it was five
years ago," said Tony Moody,
assistant personnel director for
Liberty Life Insurance Co.
Moody headed the firm's
ith which .was on display, for
third year at theJofJ'fair, •
} ttieMijhost,
ijob fairs. Many hired three,
years ago are still on the job,
s business can be lun, and vice versa, s
| area hign acuool seniors discovered today at the
. 1970 Job Fair sponsored by the Greatgr Greenville
Chamber of Commerce. The displays in Textile Hall
are the, greatest
ad diversification in
tbe histc^.«^tfee^ne-taa_^ Jvent, irrjtftgufatea. three
years' ago. Sateh exhibit .was designed to teach
seniors, something "about respective vocations, suck
as','left to/tight, telephone company employment,
More Than 3,500 Students
U. S. Air Fo^ce service and health careers: (PiedView Displays At 1970 Job Fair monj.
photos byTlWls M. Burress) '__ ^
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THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
March
12, 1970
Shearers Thrilled By Air Force One
Trip, Nixon Stationery^SS Man
Good Afternoon
This Is Gil Rowland
EDWARD K. SHEARER of 190 Keith Drive, radiological
technician at Greenville General Hospital, tells this story
of a thrilling flight and an unusual letter:
He is a retired military man who came back to Greenville
because he was at Donaldson Air Force Base three years.
Last December he and his wife, the former Jackie
Tripp of Greenville, applied for the usual
retired persons' space-available transportation
from Charleston to Puerto Rico.
After a vacation they were informed at
Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico that the regular
Air Force flight back to Charleston would
be delayed several days.
An official at the base said a flight was
leaving right away for Washington and he
would allow them to board it if they wished.
The Shearers were surprised to find that
it was Air Force One, President Nixon's 707.
They boarded along with a captain and
his wife and a private on emergency leave.
"They treated us like kings," Shearer recalls.
Edward K. Shearer and hte son, Mike, 190 Keith
Drive, have the place mat as a reminder of a memorable flight on Air Force One. (Piedr
Leon E. Carnes)
Except for the crew in the front end, the only other
persons aboard were five stewards who hovered over the
five passengers with drinks, food and lots of personal
attention.
As the plane bounced through rough weather on the
way to the nation's capital, Shearer admired the place
mat ("Welcome Aboard Air Force One") at dinner. He
asked a steward if he might have it.
The wonderfully kind steward suggested that Shearer
take a clean one instead, and he soon returned and handed
Shearer a large manila envelope. It contained a place
mat and a large amount of stationery — very special
White House stationery containing the President's seal.
THE MEMORABLE TRIP ended and the Shearers picked
up their car in Charleston and returned to Greenville,
where he went back to his job taking X-rays.
Recently during the school integration discussions,
Shearer decided to write a letter and express his opinion
about the situation.
Why not write President Nixon about it? he asked
himself.
And why not write it on White House stationery with
no return address outside so it might go to the President
instead of ending up with some secretary? he also asked
himself.
v
Four days after mailing it, Shearer drove up to his
home to find a nicely-dressed man waiting there. He identified
himself as a member of the U. S. Secret Service and
said he would like to talk to Shearer.
As Shearer's head whirled with theories about what
it meant, the agent told Shearer the President had received
his letter.
He quoted the President as saying it was "nice letter"
and added that the President wanted to know where he
got the stationery.
The visitors explained that the stationery was used
only by the President and his personal secretaries, and
that it was kept locked in a special room in Washington.
Reference was made to the "leak" that let it get out.
The Secret Service man asked detailed questions about
the flight and the way the stationery was secured.
MIKE SHEARER, 12, was intrigued that a genuine
Secret Service man was sitting in their living room, and
the agent pleasantly showed the boy his credentials.
Mike took no part in the discussion until the agent
asked how much stationery was received, and then before
his father could answer he piped up loud and clear:
"We've got a lot of that stuff."
The agent took all but two sheets and one envelope,
with the understanding that what was left would not be
used.
Shearer saw several generals at Ramey on the day
of the flight, and he speculates that Air Force One may
have brought them and was returning to Washington empty.
He also points out that Air Force One crews sometimes
take practice flights when no regular flights are scheduled.
He said it is interesting to note that Mrs. Nixon
is also a radiological technician. #»
Shearer is listed with we American Registry of
Radiological Technicians, and as such he signs his letters
with the initials, "R.T.," after his name. As an "R.T."
Ihe not only makes X-rays, but assists the radiologist who
has them made.
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GREENVILLE
NEWS 1 M a r c h
TAKE STATE HONORS — Student nurses at Greenville General Hospital were elected to high offices at the
state convention of student nurses in Columbia. They
are, from left, Miss Elaine Palmer, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Palmer of Bamberg, recording secretary;
Miss Susan Bellwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O.
THE
13, 1970
Bellwood of 8 Auburn St. in GreenviUe, member of the
committee on nominations; Miss Bevery Perry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Perry of Dechard, Tenn.,
president; and Miss Lill Sue Porter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Garvin E. Porter of Pickens, second vice president.
(Greenville News photos by Louis M. Burress)
GREENVILLE
March
14,
PIEDMONT
1970
Physicians Seminar
Opens Here March 24
Dr. Charles Moore, professor
of medicine, Tulane University,
and chief of cardiology, Oschner
Clinic, New Orleans, La.
Dr. James Harkess, professor
of orthopedics, University of
Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Walter Newman, associate
professor o f pharmacology,
Medical University of South
Carolina, Charleston.
Dr. Harris D. Riley Jr.,
professor of p e d i a t r i c s ,
Hull also will be speaker at University of South Carolina
the opening banquet at the Medical Center.
Dr. Vince Moseley,
Greenville Country Club.
coordinator of the S o u t h
Other seminar speakers will Carolina Regional M e d i c a l
include:
Program, Charleston.
• Dr. Kenneth Walton, profess •
The annual seminar is designchairman of the departaMH ed to keep the general pracrology, Emory University i'ioner updated on medical
nta, Ga.
fl,knowledge and is accepted by
'r. John J. Canary, professor*]G tne
American Academy of
of medicine, and director 0 f j 21e n e r a l Practice as credit, for
the division of endocrinology uI s u a lhours'
__sl_i_h___ The seminar
ly
Georgetown University Medical
attracts physicians from
Center, Washington. D.C.
throughout the Up-state, other
areas of the state and parts
General
practitioners
of
medicine will be briefed bv a
cross-section of
medical
specialists at the 14th Post
Graduate Seminar March 24-26
at G r e e n v i l l e
General
Hospital.
- '
Dr. Edgar Hull, dean of the
Louisiana State U n i v e r s i t y
Medical Center, Shreveport, La.,
will be lead-off speaker March
24 at 8:30
At the state convention Miss
Gail Moore, daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. Jack Moore of
Greer, w a s named "Miss
Who's Who" for Greenville
General Hospital, where she is
student government president of the school of nursing.
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of other states
•
GREENVILLE
NEWS
March
15, 1970
GREENVILLE
March
Greenville Medical
Seminar To Be Held
The 14th annual Greenville
Post Graduate Seminar for
medical specialists will be held
at Greenville General Hospital
March 24-26.
The three-day p r o g r a m
designed to update medical
knowledge for the general practitioner is expected to attract
300 physicians from eight states.
The seminar is accepted by the
American Academy of General
Practice .for 21 hours credit.
Dr. M. Gordon Howie, president GPGS, said the program
will feature discussion o f
problems faced by physicians
everyday. In addition, more
than 30 representatives of laboratories and pharmaceutical
companies will be exhibitors.
Dr. Edgar Hull, professor of
medicine and dean at Louisiana
State University Medical Center,
will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday
with a p r e s e n t a t i o n on
"Pericarditis 1970." Wednesday
at 8 p.m. Hull wil speak on
"Thoughts on Change a n d
Progress and Everyday Crises."
At a luncheon Thursday, Hull
will speak on "Relative Roles
of History, P h y s i c a l Examination and Laboratory in
Clinical Diagnosis Yesterday,
Today, Tomorrow."
Other speakers will include
Dr. John J. Canary, professor
of medicine and d i r e c t o r ,
d i v i s i o n of endocrinology,
Georgetown University Medical
Center; Mr. Kenneth Walton,
professor and chairman, department of urology, E m o r y
University; Dr. Charles B.
Moore, professor of medicine,
Tulane University, and chief
cardiology, Oschner Clinic in
New Orleans, La.; Dr. Harris
D. Riley Jr., professor of
pediatrics, U n i v e r s i t y of
GREENVILLE
March
15,
PIEDMONT
16,
1970
Post Graduate
Seminar Set
The 14th annual Greenville
post graduate seminar for
medical specialists will be held
]! March 24-26.
It is designed to update
medical knowledge for the
general practitioner and is accepted for 21 hours credit by
the American Academy of
General Practice.
The seminar is sponsored by
the Greenville General Hospital,
Greenville County M e d i c a l
Society and General Practice
Division of GGH.
Oklahoma Medical Center.
Also Dr. Vince Moseley,
coordinator of the S o u t h
Carolina Regional M e d i c a l
Program, Charleston;
DrJ
Walter Newman, a s s o c i a t e
professor of phamaeology; and
Dr. Claude Frazier, Allergist',
editor, Asheville, N. C.
Guests expected to attend the
seminar include Dr. William M.
McCord, president, M e d i c a l
University of South Carolina at
Charleston; Dr. William L. Perry, president, South Carolina
Medical A s s o c i a t i o n of
Chesterfield; and Dr. Harrison
L. Peeples, president, South
Carolina Academy of General
Practice of Estill.
the Greenville General Hospital,
Greenville County M e d i c a l
Society and General Practice,
Division of GGH.
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
NEWS
1970
Area Dietitians
To Meet Tuesday
Dietitians and food service
supervisors of the Piedmont
District Dietetic Association will
meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the
Brookhaven Nursing Home in
Gaffney.
Ezran Ferris, director of food
service at Greenville General
Hospital, will speak on "Convenience Foods."
Architect Design Award
Marshall I. Pickens Hospital's
unusual design won its architect, J.
Harold Mack & Associates, Inc., an
award of merit from the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mack recently pre-
70-27
sented the plaque to Robert E. Toomey, director of the Greenville Hospital System, who will hang it on public view in the hospital. (Piedmont
photo by Bennie Granger)
'
*£-ik
—
GREENVILLE
NEWS
March
19,
1970
GREENVILLE
Two Greenville Groups
Co-Sponsor Child Forum
The Greenville Community
Council and the Junior League
of Greenville, Inc., co-sponsored
an all-day child study forum
at Marshall I. Pickens Hospital
Wednesday with Dr. Gerda
McCahan, p r o f e s s o r
of
psychology at Furman University, as moderator.
The session sought to provide
an opportunity to exchange upto-date information on services
offered and on unmet needs;
to provide an opportunity to
pool ideas, interests; to explore
ways agencies can support each
other; to recognize common
goals; and to coordinate planning.
Services discussed were those
which benefit the normal, the
disadvantaged and the exceptional child.
Participants included those
professionally involved in serving children in the fields of
education, recreation, cultural
enrichment, welfare, h e a l t h ,
law, volunteer services, public
information, referral and community planning.
THE
March
24,
20,
1970
S.C Nurses Group
Honors Greenvillian
COLUMBIA - The S . C .
Nurses' Association has named
Mrs. Ruth Alexander Nicholson
of Greenville as South Carolina's
most involved nurse.
The action is part of a nationwide effort by state nurses
associations to stimulate more
nurses to be involved in their
communities, to demonstrate
the association's commitment to
meaningful activities, to find
nurses in every state whose activities exemplify this ideal and
to encourage more nurses to
be involved in their professional
association.
Mrs. Nicholson now becomes
ije state's nominee for the na-
NEWS
1970
At General Hospital
Seminar Will Begin
Today In Greenville
Physicians from a 10-state the South Carolina Regional
area will meet here Tuesday Medical Program, Charleston.
for the 14th annual Greenville Other speakers will include
Post Graduate Seminar at Dr. Kenneth Walton, professor
Greenville General Hospital.
and chairman of the department
Dr. Edgar Hull, professor of of urology, Emory University;
medicine and dean, Louisiana Dr. Charles B. Moore, professor
State University Medical School, of medicine, Tulane University,
I will open the three day program and chief cardiology, Oschner
with a session on "Pericarditis Clinic, New Orleans; Dr. Harris
1970" at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Dr. John J. Canary, professor pediatrics, U n i v e r s i t y of
of medicine and d i r e c t o r , Oklahoma Medical Center; Dr.
d i v i s i o n of endocrinology, Walter Newman, a s s o c i a t e
Georgetown University Medical professor o f pharmacology,
Center, will speak on "The Medical University of South
Treatment of E n d o c r i n e Carolina; and Dr. C l a u d e
Emergencies" at the 1:10 p.m. Frazier, Allergist, editor.
The subject will speak on daily
luncheon.
problems dealt with by pracDr. Hull will speak on ticing physicians regardless of
"Thoughts on Change a n d their specialty interest.
Progress and Everyday Crises"
at the 8 p.m. banquet Wednesday. "The Liver and the Last
Five Years" will be the Wednesday luncheon subject of Dr.
Vince Moseley, coordinator of
March
Mrs. Ruth A. Nicholso n
They were asked to submit
critiques of the session which
will be compiled and made
available to the 1970 Greenville
County White House Committee
on Children and Youth, to forum
participants and to other interested persons.
GREENVILLE
NEWS
THE
tion's most involved nurse, to
be named at the 1970 convention
of the American N u r s e s '
Association in Miami Beach,
Fla., May 3-8.
Always active in community
affairs, Mrs. Nicholson's involvement has been directed
toward p r o g r a m s concerned
with human growth and development of lower socio-economic
people as well as education and
cultural activities.
She is immediate
past
chairman of the Greenville
County Foundation, which she
helped to found to provide for
the health and welfare of future
generations in this county.
She is currently president of
District Six, South Carolina
Nursing Association; a member
of SCNA board of directors;
nursing representative on the
Professional Advisory Council;
a member of the Inactive Health
Personnel Project sponsored by
the S.C. Hospital Association;
a member of the Health
Facilities Task Force of the
Health Forum, Comprehensive
Health Care Planning.
She is a member of the advisory board of the Florence
Crittendon Home, Charleston;
chairman of the Greenville
County Health Planning Council
and serves as a full time faculty
member of the G r e e n v i l l e
GREENVILLE
March
24,
NEWS
1970
Clinics Closed
Rest Of Week
All clinics for out-patients
have been cancelled the remainder of this week and will
reopen next Monday, a
hospital official said Monday
night.
Reason for the cancellation
is the 14th annual Greenville
Post Graduate Seminar to be
held in the clinic auditorium.
Arrangements for emergency
clinic cases will be made
elsewhere, the official said.
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GREENVILLE
NEWS
March
2 5 , 1970
Doctor Says
Endocrine Crises
'Are Still With Us'
ofessor of
medicine and, dean of the,
Louisiana State - U n i v e r s i t y
Medical School at New Orleans
and Shreveport, will speak at
ihe banquet Wednesday night.
His topic will be 'Thoughts on
Change and Progress a n d
Everyday Crises."
Other speakers participating
in the three-day meeting include
Dr. Kenneth Walton, professor
and chairman of the department
of urology at Emory University,
Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. Charles B.
Moore, professor of medicine
at Tulane University and chief
of cardiology at Oschner Clinic,
New Orleans, La.; Dr. Harris)
pediatrics at the University of
Oklahoma Medical C e n t e r ,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Also, Dr. James Harkness,!
professor of orthopiedics at the
University of L o u i s v i l l e ,
Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Walter
Newman, associate professor of
pharmacology at the Medical
University of South Carolina,
Charleston; and Dr. Claude
Frazier, allergist and editor
Asheville, N. C.
About 250 doctors are expected to register for the
seminar. About 100 attended the
r "The ability to handle
opening session Tuesday.
emergencies then permits
patient to be treated," he said. Greenville General Hospital, its1
In the past many patients could general practice division and the
County M e d i c a li
not be treated for endocrine Greenville
Societ
y- ,
_____
disorders because they could not
survive the emergencies, he
said.
Canary spoke about emergencies including the crises of
hyperthyroidism, the coma of
hypothroidism (myxedema), the
recognition and treatment of
severe
hypocalcemia
and
diabetes insipidus, 'water diabetes).
He will speak Wednesday
about medical management of
kidney stones and Thursday
about excess blood calcium
leavels.
Dr. Vince M o s e l e y , of
Charleston, coordinator of thr
South Carol
.Program,
Liver
I at Wi
"The collaboration of clinical
medicine and basic and clinical
research is epitomized in the
recognition and treatment of endocrine disorders," Dr. John J.
Canary said here Tuesday.
Canary, professor of medicinp
and director of the division of
endocrinology at Georgetown
University Medical Center, at
Washington, D. C, spoke on
"The Treatment of Endocrine
Emergencies" at the 14th annual
Greenville Post G r a d u a t e
Seminar at Greenville General
Hospital.
He told physicians attending
the opening-day luncheon that
endocrine emergencies "are still
with us," but "the emergencies
which in the past had very
high mortality rates can now
be handled much more effectively."
This improvement in the treat.
ment of such emergencies is
"largely dual to the observations
made many years ago by many
good doctors and the application
of those observations coupled
with the better understanding
of the mechanisms of Ihe
production of .the symptom,
basic and clinical r
afforded us," Canary
'GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
March
26,
1970
Doctor: Medical Research
Lacking Support
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
He added that the secret to
"Past public support o f this type of treatment is to
medical research enabled scien- have the leg semi-flexed and
tists to make revolutionary in a meticulously applied tight
breakthroughs in treatments and cast. After six weeks, the full
diagnoses of many diseases over cast is removed and a half cast
the past 10 years, but that sup- put on.
port is lacking today," Dr. John "Our shortest healing rate
J. Canary said this morning.
with this method has been 8
"This country has, in the past weeks, the longest 28 weeks,
five years, established different as versus the pin method compriorities from those earlier monly used which has 12 weeks
ones by which doctors learned as the least time and 37 weeks
so much about disease and by maximum."
which we are profiting today," Vaccines were discussed by
said the doctor, who is director Dr. Harris D. Riley J r . ,
of the Division of Endocrinology professor of pediatrics at the1
at Georgetown U n i v e r s i t y Oklahoma Medical C e n t e r
Medical Center, Washington, D. Oklahoma City, Okla.
C.
"German measles vaccine is
Canary spoke at the 14th an- safe and effective for use in
nual Greenville Post-Graduate children, but in adults it can
1
Seminar which concluded at cause a mild form of arthritis,"
Greenville General Hospital to- Riley warned.
day.
He said that no vaccine is
He discussed "The Mechanism effective if the individual has
and
Management
of already been exposed to the
Hypercalcemia," which is the disease.
scientific term for those who | Asked about the threatened
have too much calcium in their
German measles e p i d e m i c ,
blood.
Other morning speakers told Riley said, "We have already
of a new method of treating seen small outbreaks of this
leg fractures and advances in disease, but we really aren't
worried because now we have
immunization shots.
Canary, said infants sometime the means to prevent it.
come down with the calcium
blood disorder because some "Women of child bearing age
!mothers, in their zeal for caring should have a blood test to
for their baby's health, give find out whether or not they
have had rubella. I they haven't,
them too many vitamins.
"These babies get an overdose they can take the vaccine if
of Vitamin D because it is found they want to run the risk of
in both food and formula sup- a mild arthritic attack.
;p!ementaries as well as in their "The best approach is to prevent the spread of the disease
usual form of vitamins>
"The mother who thinks that among children."
There are vaccines for rubeola
if two drops of a Vitamin are
! good for a baby then ten drops or regular measles as well as
'are even better, can make her mumps, he said, adding that
infant very sick," he cau- 'the rubeola vaccine is now effective and increased use of
tioned.
Dr. James Harkess, professor it was advised.
of orthopedics at the University
of Louisville, Ky., told of a
-new way of treating leg fractures in his lecture, "Conservajtive Treatment of Fractures of
|the Tibia."
"We apply a full cast, and,
as soon as the cast is solid,
the patient is told to stomp
on it and start walking.
"For about the first three
jweeks, he walks with crutches,
then without. There should be
no pain, but if there is,
something is wrong and the cast
should be taken off and a new
one applied," he said.
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GREENVILLE
NEWS
March
27,
1970
GREENVILLE
=g'
One sales representative noted
that laboratories and salesmen
are required to keep records
on the number and recipient
of all drugs now on the "drug
29,
1970
A major grant from the Ap- Statistics for the system's
palachian Comission and a do- five units for 1969 — Greenville
nation of the Peace Fund of General, Hillcrest H o s p i t a l ,
Greenville and awarding of the William G. Sirrine Hospital,
contract for the four new hos- _ "arshall I. Pickens Hospital and
pital projects on Grove Road Roger Huntington N u r s i n g
site are listed as highlights of Center — show a total of 35,101
the 1969 annual report of the patients discharged, 4 7,168,
Greenville Hospital System.
emergency room visits, 75,067
"Vilson C. Wearn, retiring X-ray examinations, 5 9 9 , 4 3 7
chairman, board of trustees, laboratory tests, 13,517 operacredited the Appalachian grant tions, 3,430,842 pounds of linen
of $1,800,000 and the $300,000 laundered.
donation of the Roger C.:MPeace
Fund with making posr e the Gross patient revenue of
realization of the
planned $15,918,632 minus charities andl1
medical facilities on the Grove uncollectables of $2,625,438 made
Foad property earlier than ex- net revenue of $13,293,194. Cost:
of patient care $13,574,528 for
erted.
the year ending Oct. 5, 1969,
The prajecls include a S
created a loss from patient
"neral Medical S u r .
services of $281,334 which was
osmiaTf 5j)-bed Roger C.
offset by donations and non-pasttute f o r
Rehabilil
tient revenue of $341,025 for a
Medicine; the Diagn- .tic
net gain .__• the year of
Treatment Center f o r
$59,691.
patients and an air conditioning
and heating plant. Contract has Sixty five per cent of the
been awarded to Algernon-Blair hospital income is paid out in
salaries and benefits to hospital
of Montgomery, Ala.
Wearn
and
James H . to the 1,750 employes and the
remaining 35 per cent goes for
Woodside vacancies on the providing
services,
board have been filled by equipment, facilities,
medicines and supThomas K. Johnstone Jr.
plies for patients.
William H. Orders. N e wand
ly
elected officers are W. W. Special units of the hospital
McEachern; chairman; David — emergency room, radiology,
E. Cromwell, vice-chairman; cobalt, intensive care and
physical therapy — reported
and Hary Daniel, secretary.
Robert E. Toomey, director, progress and increases in visita,ville Hospital S y s t e m tion. Emergency room visits
were nearly 10,000 more than
•his admirristrat.
five years ago.
e number of ei
increased fi
The physical therapy unit
ago to S.O for
recorded 32,334 visits in 1969
compared to 24,424 in 1964.
The administrator listed
1 Tiese facilities are used by
growing problem of financing graduates of Duke University,
as one of the major threats University of North Carolina and
to voluntary hospitals which he the University of Florida for
and p r a c t i c a l exsaid is caused by additional clinical
perience.
loads on facilities by necessary
Dr. Raymond C. Ramage was
federal health programs for the appointed director of medical
aged and indigent.
education for the hospital's acOther areas deserving con- tive program for interns and
tinued attention include preven-, residents. L. W. Stoneburner is
tive medicine, federal Medicare; president of the medical staff
and Medicaid programs, public and Dr. E. Arthur Dreskin is
education, training young people, president-elect.
for careers in health care,
developing economic measures
and providing health c a r e
programs for the community
ffiK-«-fi£^.^»!l
pharmaceutical companies have intauiuig narcotics and
been trying to keep up with ratiquilizers and pep.-pills a
are oh the list.
physicians.
The 1 a b
representatives Sessions on hypercalcemia,
brought with them some new new treatment of leg fractures
pills as well as old established and immunizations closed out
remedies to display for physi- the final day of the seminar.
cians, who in spite of their Dr. John J. Canary, director,
extensive education, have to run division of endoctriniology at
to keep up with the ad- Georgetown University Medical
Center, warned that mothers
vancements in medicine.
who give infants too many
Dr. Vincent Moseley, a prac- vitamins can make a child very
ticing physician turned ad- ill. He said an overdose of
ministrator, cited t h e im- calcium or Vitamin D often
portance of e d u c a t i o n a l causes the calcium b l o o d
seminars to practicing physi- disorder, hypercalcemia.
cians.
A full cast applied meticulousMoseley, coordinator of the ly with the leg semi-flexed
South Carolina Regional Medical allows the shortest healing rate
Program, said that during his of fractures of the tibia, Dr.
practicing years one-fourth of James Harkness, professor of
his time was spent
in orthopedics at the University
research.
of Louisville.
"Medical education is not He said the new tight cast
static," he said. "Physicians allows the patient to walk with
have got to read and learn and crutches for three weeks and
talk with colleagues. One thing at the end of six weeks a half
opens the door to something cast is applied. Healing time
else."
with this method ranges from
Moseley said physicians must eight weeks to 28 weeks whereas
read current journals, attend the pin method commonly used
medical meetings and spend a ranges from 12 weeks to 36
minimum of 50 hours in lectures weeks healing time.
and formal class work per year Dr. Harris D. Riley Jr.,
"to barely keep up. Reading professor of pediatrics at the
•and listening is the only way Oklahoma Medical Center, said
for a physician to maintain that the German measles vaccine is effective for use in
some balance."
He said that before the children but can cause a mild
restrictions on releases of new form of arthritis in adults.
medicine, his patients would He said that the German
come in and tell him of some measles epidemic does not pose
any great problem because the
new drug they had read about
"But I used to try to keep vaccine is available.
up with them," he said, "by Vaccines for regular measles
reading all those magazines. If and mumps are also available,
I hadn't read about it, I would he said.
always check "
The medical advancements
are much faster than the treatment discoveries, Moseley con
"It's like this," he said, "We
know the building is on fire
when flames shoot out of the
roof even though we see the
flames down inside. But we
ususally don't have the fire
hydrant or the hose to train
on that particular spot."
The lab men talk much like
the physicians and are apt to
prescribe their own pills or
suggest one of their competitor's
for treatment.
March
Grqntf Donation,
Adjects listed In
Systems Annual Report
New, Old Medicines
Displayed At Seminar
News Staff Writer
This week at -the 14th annual
Greenville Post G r a d u a t e
Seminar, representatives o f
NEWS
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statistics for the year
1969
ANNUAL
Patients Discharged
Clinic Visits
Emergency Boom Visits
Births
X-ray Examinations
Laboratory Tests
Operations
Physical Therapy Visits
Electrocardiograms
Blood Transfusions
Meals Served
Linen Laundered (Pounds)
Patient Days (Adult)
Number of Employees per
In-Patient
' (Fb/tytar comparisons)
Greenville
Hospital
System
32.727
32,213
37,690
4.212
60,782
311,090
11.722
24,424
6.793
6,146
1,031,475
2,862.818
248,829
35,101
31,644
47,168
3,988
75,067
599,437
13.517
32,334
10,688
5,780
1,103,459
3,430,842
284,228
1.7
2.0
the breakdown
of expenditures
payroll
59%
financial data
YEAR ENDED OCTOBER 5,1969
2,625,438
13,293,194
13.574,528
(281,334)
341,025*
Loss from Patient Services
Donations and Other Non-patient Revenue
Net Gain for lhe Year
other
41%
$ 15,918,632
Gross Palient Revenue
Deduct Contractual Allowances,
Charily Services and Uncollectible
Accounts
Net Patient Revenue
Cost of Patient Care
S
59.691
'Constat* d donations a n d grants tor t j w c i f i e purpose* from Tha [Xjko Endowment.
Gwonvllta County Medical Society. Tha Fod«ral Government a n d others amounting
t o $182,687 and other non-patiom revenue amounting to S188.13S.
board of trustees
ROBERT E. TOOMEY
Our six hospital divisions and our medical and
hospital staffs throughout tbe Greenville Hospital System responded valiantly during 1969 to
care for more patients than ever before. We
recorded a total of 28-1.22S patient days (adult),
which can be interpreted by the layman to mean
that our patient load was extremely heavy and
bed space in nursing areas was at a premium.
Patients' and tlieir families became personally
aware of the situation. The problem of patients
securing the type of room accommodations they
desire upon admission to the hospitals will continue to exist until the completion of our new
hospital construction on the Grove Road property and the enlargement and improvement programs at our hospital divisions in Greer and
Simpsonville and in the North GreenviUe County
area, when more beds will be available.
Our average citizen may not be y t f aware of
t h e fact that health care is ranked as the third
largest industry in the United States today. Our
hospitals have become more complex and more
sopmstreated (o meet tne increasing ana varying
demands for health services, and they must
function with the precision of an assembly line.
At tbe same time, considerate and personalized
One of tlie major threats to our voluntary
attention must I « given each patient as an indihospitals is the growing problem of financing
vidual to serve his particular needs.
health care. The federal health programs for the
Changes in many areas and many forms are aged and the indigent — necessary and-desirable"
constantly thrust upon u., but our basic objec- as they are for the comprehensive health care
tives of the Greenville Hospilal System of pro- needs of all our people — have placed additional
viding health facilities arid quality medical and loads on hospital facilities. Problems offinandnft
both for tbe patient and the hospital, are of connursing care for our people remai
siderable concern to all of us. We r
to seek and develop responsible methods for
financing health care, possibly through thirdparty health insurance programs. Hospitals cannot operate at a loss and must b e able to pay
the rising Jnflatiomiy costs, over which we have
little control, for tlie necessary staffing, equipment and supplies to provide medical and nursing
care. It is important that people in the community remember that the hospital's major source
of income is through payment for services rendered* to our patients.
Because of tbe broad spectrum of illnesses;
such as acute, chronic, mental, long-term, shortterm, elc., we are planning .and attempting to
provide comprehensive institutional health care
to provide different kinds of services for patients
with different lands of medical and nursing
7Uj-e~u.
T"~
edical staff
Residents: After months of searching by the Education Committee of the Medical "Staff, Dr.
Raymond C. Ramago accepted the appointment
as Director of Medical Education, and it is already apparent that interest by medical students
in our Hospital System for further training is
on the upswing.
Utilization review and rece rtifications of Medicare and Medicaid patients continue to be the
number one "bugaboo" to the Medical Staff. For
the most part, the Staff has done an excellent
job in bringing these up to an acceptable level.
Recent guidelines outlined and enunciated by
the Federal government have been established
by the carriers of Medicare, defining limitations
of coverage in tlie hospital and extended care
facilities. These have plaoed-the physician in a
rather embarrassing spot, relative to the families
of these patients, who have not been adequately
informed as to what will or will not be covered in
the federal medical care'programs. An attempt
is being made through the local news media to
educate the public to these facts.
Important advances in medical care for the
community occurred in 1989, all culminating
from a long and active period of planning by
dte Medical Staff and a very cooperative and
! helpful Administration and Board' of Trustees of
the Greenville Hospital System. •
These' have allowed our crowded hospital to
keep pace with, and in fact, lead others in the
area as an ultra-modern diagnostic and ^treatment center.
Tbe pew medical center on Grove Road has.
Greenville Ceneral Hospital continues to be
active as an education center for Interns sad been started, and upon completion in two years,
it will be a great asset to our community and
physicians. Much thought and study will be required' to correlate the new hospital complex
facilities with our present facilities, so that
nothing will undermine the fine harmony among
our physicians, which we have always enjoyed.
Seventeen new physicians have come to our
community to practice medicine, and a high percentage of these began their careers as interns
in our hospital Most of these are specialists and
will .further enhance Greenville as a medical
center. We long for the return of more general
practitioners to this area. We have lost some to
specialty, fields and industrial medicine, and the
problem of available medical care to the people
of Greenville County remains a number one
priority in our community.
WILSON C. WEARN
JAMES H. WOOOSIDE
HARRY [.AMi-L
The paramount issue for-thought end attention by the Board of Trustees of the Greenville
Hospital System for a number of years has been
the gnawing realization that our health care
facilities we're becoming rapidly and dangerously
overtaxed. A vigorous and constant effort has
been rewarded with progress and achievements,
closely related with the sequence of our work
and pi.i m ling, to provide for badly needed buildings and services.
We have continued to give penetrating attention to the rising costs, caused by our econontiy
and national inflation, in "providing hospital
services to our patients. And while our charges
and costs have been kept well below "other
hospitals of comparable size* in the area a n d
state, and considerably less than those on a
national level, we cannot but face the realization
that inflation and patients' needs will cause
health costs to continue to increase.
Two major grants during 1969 offered us great
encouragement The Appalachian Regional
Commission allocated a grant of $1,800,000 toward construction of a new rehabilitative hospital
to serve regional needs. Shortly thereafter, The
Peace Fund of Greenville announced a donation
of $300,000 to the Greenville Hospital System,
in honor of the late Roger C. Peace, publisher
and community and national leader, to assist
with the financing of this new hospital. Tito
Board initiated action to name this new structhe Roger C Peace Institute for Rehabilitative
Medicine. These grants will make possible the
realization of one of our planned medical facilities on the Grove Road property much earlier
than we had anticipated.
We have been most pleased with the substantial progress made during 1969. The myriad
elements involved in a comprehensive health
care program have been combined and nurtured
to benefit all of our citizens for the years to c o m a
Wo reached the point in October in our planning' and programming when we received bids
for the construction of four new hospital projects
on Crave Road. These will be the 308-bed
Ceneral Medical-Surgical Hospital; tbe 50-bed
Roger C. Peace Institute for Rehabilitative Medicine; the Diagnostic and Treatment Center,
which wil! furnish services to outpatients as well
as to those who are hospitalized, and a licating
and air conditioning plant. The contract for these
four projects was awarded Algcfnon-Blair of
Montgomery, Alabama. When completed and
fully equipped, tbe costs will total $21,000,000.
Of this amount, $6,000,000 is from the following
sources: Hill-Burton, the Appalachian Regional
Commission, The Peace Fund of Greenville, The
Duke Endowment, and existing hospital funds.
The remaining $15,000,000 will be from the sale
of some of the hospital bonds authorized by our
Greenville County voters last November.
GREENVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL
f$£z~ e.#L«
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM
Mr. Herman N. Hipp
PiVSiaont. Liberty Lite Insurance Company
executive Vica-Piesttteni,liberty Corporation
MARSHALL I. PICKENS HOSPITAL
GREENVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA
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GREENVILLE
M a r c h SO,
NEWS
1970
GREENVILLE
Greer Unit
Of Hospital
Gives Report
March
1970
Directors Elected
For Urban League
A 33-member board of directors was elected Monday to
complete formation of a local
chapter to the national Urban
League.
The Rev. Ed Dixon was
elected temporary chairman to
convene the board Feb. 11, at
the Birnie Street YWCA at 8
p.m.
The board members were
elected from a slate presented
by the nine-member nominating
[committee headed by Robert
Anderson.
Members represented youth,
legal services, organizations,
ieducation, business and community.
Elected were Horace Butler,
Mrs. Mary Thompson, the Rev.
David Hellams, the Rev. D. C.
Francis, Dr. W. S. Gandy and
Sam Zimmerman, community;
Theo Mitchell and Sol Abrams,
legal services; S h e r w o o d
T h o m p s o n and P e t e r
Hungerford, youth; Mrs. Alberta
Crimes, A. M. Anderson and Dr.
Ernest E. Harrill, education.
Organizations representatives
ire
Mrs. E. Calhoun Haskell,
r
unior League; Mrs. John Piper,
The Allen-Bennett Memorial
Hospital at Greer, one of the six
hospitals of the Greenville
Hospital System, recorded a
total of 4,076 discharges for
fiscal year 1969, in its 1969 annual report.
Robert L. S m i t h , administrator, reported a total of
5,470 emergency room visits, 705
births, 5,372 X - r a y s examinations, 39,404 laboratory
tests and a total of 50,576 adult
patient days.
Smith reported that community pressures are great on
diognostic and t r e a t m e n t
facilities at the hospital which
has 63 beds and serves a thriving community with an area
population of about 4 5,00 0
persons.
Allen-Bennett was the first
hospital division opened of the
hospital system in 1953.
The adjoining unit, the Roger
Huntington Nursing C e n t e r ,
which was opened in April, 1963,
has a waiting list of patients
sseeking care.
THE
NEWS
GREENVILLE
NEWS
SERVICE AWARDS — W. W. McEachern,
left, chairman of the Greenville Hospital
System board of trustees, presents a plaque
to Mrs. Wilson C. Wearn for her husband,
retiring board chairman, and Robert E.
Toomey, director of the hospital system, right,
April
League of Women Voters; Mrs.
Helen Anderson, Links, Inc.; the
Rev. N. J. Brockman, Christian
Ministers A s s o c i a t i o n ; a
representative of the National
Alliance of Business Men; Mrs.
Alice Weber, mental health; Dr.
W. F. Loggins, Office of
Economic Opportunity; Robert
E. Toomey, Greenville Hospital
System; Al Motley, labor; and a
representative of the Greenville
Housing Foundation.
B u s i n e s s representatives:
Harrison Reardon, Bill Woodson,
Mell Doolittle, Tom Carey, Eddie Garrett, W. D. Searles, Joe
Allman and representatives of
Burlington Industries, Daniel
Construction Co. and Yeargin
Construction Co.
1970
presents a plaque to James H. Woodside, retiring board member. The awards for community service were made Monday night at
the annual trustee banquet. (Greenville
News photo by Bennie J. Granger)
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THE
GREENVILLE
April
7, 1970
GREENVILLE
April
NEWS
NEWS
9, 1970
Radiologic
Meeting
Set Today
DR. RIVES CHALMERS
Ministers
To Hear
Psychiatrist
Dr. Rives Chalmers, Atlanta
psychiatrist, will be featured
participant in the second annual
Pastoral Care Institute scheduled April 13-14 at Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital on Grove
Road.
"Ministering to the Total
Person" will be the theme of
the institute sponsored by tha
chaplain's department of Greenville General Hospital.
Chalmers, native of Virginia,
received his medical degree
from the University of Virginia
Medical School and began practice in Atlanta following service
with the U.S. Navy Medical
Corps.
He is an active member of
the Fulton County Medical
Society, American M e d i c a l
Association and
Atlanta
Psychiatric
Clinic
and
a
member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association
for Pastoral Care. He is a fellow
of the American Psychiatric
Association, chairman of the
Professional A d v i s o r y Committee of the Atlanta Mental
Health Association and coc h a i r m a n of the Northside
Branch of the Georgia Council
on Human Relations. Chaplain
John Smith of G r e e n v i l l e
General Hospital said Chalmers
will speak at the morning and
afternoon sessions and will be
speaker at the banquet Monday
at 7:30 p.m.
Registration for the Pastoral
Care Institute, expected to attract ministers within a 50 mile
radius of Greenville, begins
Tuesday. Reservations are requested by April 8.
i
The 24th annual convention
of the South Carolina Society
of Radiologic Technologists will
open Thursday at the Poinsett
Hotel.
The state organization is affiliated with the American
Society
of
Radiologic
j Technologists. Membership includes x - r a y technologists,
radiation therapy technologists
and
nuclear
medicine
technologists.
The three-day convention Will
include presentation of scientific
papers, exhibits, r e f r e s h e r
courses and guest lecturers as
well as tours of area radiologic
facilities.
The program faculty includes
Dr. Mark Brown, University of
Georgia Medical School; Robert
L. Coyle, R. T., College of
DuPage; James C. Ohnysty, R.
,T., Greenville TEC; Richard A.
Olden, R. T., Johns Hopkins
Hospital; and Dr. James B.
Pressley, Greenville General
Hospital.
Joyce B. Clarkson, R. T.,
Greenville General Hospital, is
chairman of the a n n u a l
meeting.
A p r i l 10, 1970
Sir, Your New 'Son9
Is Your Daughter...
By LUCILLE B. GREEN
News Staff Writer
A Greenville County couple are the somewhat
confused parents of a little girl, born Tuesday
a t Greenville General Hospital.
But from Tuesday until Thursday afternoon
they were under the Impression t h a t they were
proud parents of a little son, their first-born.
Thursday night a hospital spokesman said t h a t
"without a shadow of a doubt, backed up by blood
and laboratory tests, we are certain t h a t the
couple's baby is a girl."
And the spokesman added, "We know h u m a n
errors do occur, even in a hospital and in a delivery
room."
Tuesday night when the attending physician
officiating at the delivery slapped the little baby
into life he clearly announced t h a t lt was a little
girl.
But, as events have been reconstructed a t the
hospital, a nursing aide in the delivery room reached into the drawer where the beaded bracelets
denoting sex are kept and attached a boy's bracelet
on the wrist of the little girl. And a similar a n d
matching band was placed on t h e mother's wrist.
Then a nursing aide carried the infant to
the nursery and stopped at the Stork Club (the
waiting room for expectant fathers) t o tell the
father t h a t he had a son. Her cue was the boy's
bracelet and she had no reason to doubt it.
Two hours later the mother saw the baby
— with the little boy's bracelet of identification.
Wednesday, the infant was brought to the mother
again, still with the boy's identification bracelet.
Thursday, in the nursery, somebody discovered
t h a t the boy's bracelet did not m a t c h the child's
physical characteristics.
The mother was notified t h a t her "son" was
a daughter a n d she apparently accepted the explanation without becoming upset.
Then the father was notified by telephone
t h a t his "son" is a daughter.
The hospital spokesman Thursday night stressed t h a t the child h a d been identified a t birth
by the delivering physician as a girl; t h a t t h e
child's blood a n d t h a t of t h e mother were a perfect
m a t c h ; t h a t further tests Thursday i n , the
laboratory indicate t h a t the blood of the mother
and child are identical "thus providing conclusive
proof t h a t the right child is ,with the right
mother."
In addition every child a n d every mother are
given matching numbers and "all the babies'
numbers match those- of the mothers, so there
isn't a shadow of a doubt t h a t all the babies
are with the right mothers."
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THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
April
10, 1970
Hospital Administrator Cuts Down
Waiting Time For Patients In Clinic
By JACK NORRIS
option of coming in one day
News Staff Writer
for tests and returning the next
New schedules, more intake for a talk with the doctor, but
windows, and b e t t e r com- many have a serious transportamunication between the patient, tion problem and find it easier
the referral agency and hospital to wait than to return a second
staff should cut down clinic time, Goff said.
waiting and frustration time, He said the diabetic patient
David W. Goff, assistant ad- is asked not to eat breakfast
ministrator of
i n t e r n a l until blood and urine samples
operations for G r e e n v i l l e are taken, but that most who
General Hospital, said Thurs- come for the day do bring a
sandwich from home or change
day.
"We were in error having pa- with which to buy a snack from
tients check in at the clinic the vending machine.
at 8 a.m.; the new registration Patients do sometimes stand
time is 9 a.m. or 10 a.m.," in line to see the doctor but
each is given a number as soon
he said.
Goff explained that doctors as he is registered for the day
who man most of the clinics and those who stand rather than
make hospital calls early in the sit are usually ones "that just
morning and usually are not don't trust anybody," he said.
able to get to clinics before He said that the clinic intake
10 to 10:30 a.m., but that considerable preliminary w o r k
often is required before the patient is ready to see the doctor.
In the past, most of those
who came early in the morning
and were not seen until afternoon were w i t h o u t appointments and had to be
"worked in" between previously
scheduled patients, Goff said.
He said that of 120 patients
seen in a day at the clinic
as many as 50 may have walked
in without an appointment.
Another problem area has
been the diabetic clinic where
the patient often stays most
of the day, but the diabetic
has to have blood and urine
samples taken and subjected to
laboratory tests before he is
seen by the doctor.
Patients are being given an
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and payment windows will soon
be increased from two to four
and that this also will reduce
standing in line.
"We've had meetings with
O.E.O. officials and w i t h
Welfare Department staff within
the past few weeks, and
number of their complaints
show up as communications
problems," he said.
Plans are far along for a
clinic brochure which will be
distributed to all welfare agencies and the hospital is investigating the possibility of
furnishing clinic patients with
an information receptionist who
can help direct them and answer
questions, Goff said.
Goff said that there is a basic
charge of $2 for a clinic visit
and that 95 per cent of those
who come pay this, although
no one is refused service
because of lack of funds.
He said fees are charged also
for ancilary services such as
x-rays, and blood tests, but that
the amount charged is only a
percentage of the r e g u l a r
price.
He said about half the patients
served by one or more of the
hospital's 31 clinics last year
were sponsored by some agency,
but that it cost the hospital
$150,000 to serve the others.
Looking to the future, Goff
said the hospital is considering
setting up an afternoon schedule
for the general clinic but that
a staffing problem must
resolved.
He said also that, when and
if, proposed n e i g h b o r h o o d
medical clinics become reality,
patient waiting will be reduced
still more.
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
SCSRT OFFICERS — Officers elected and
installed at the 24th annual convention of the
S. C. Society of Radiologic Technologists
here Saturday are from left: Peggy Bradley,
R. T., treasurer; Jennifer Matthews, R. T.,
April
12, 1970
secretary; Shirley McDaniel, R. T., presidentelect; L. F. Pearson, R. T., vice-president;
and Tom Griggs, R. T., president. (Greenville News photo by Cecil Hare)
Radiologic Technology Educator
Cautions Against Low Standards
An educational director in a spector of radiology schools,
school of radiologic technology said the lowering of training
cautioned professionals in the standards for leveling off
field against the current desire salaries will depend on pressure
of introducing training levels from the Department of Health,
below standard requirements to Education and Welfare t o
meet t h e
"unsubstantiated recognize the legality of pracshortage" of radiologists.
titioners with less than the twoRobert Coyle, r a d i o l o g i c year requirements for radiologic
technologist at the College of technologists, and the quality
DuPage, Chicago, El., and mem- of training programs introduced
ber of the board of directors by the two-year colleges and
of the American Society of vocational education centers.
Radiologic Technologists, ad- He said the trend is an
dressed the final session of the "unrealistic approach" w i t h
24th annual convention of the wastage that will override any
S. C. Society of Radiologic savings primarily because the
Technologists.
"great Shortage" has never been
Coyle said the trend toward proven.
creating lower levels of educa- The South Carolina schools,
tion for assistants and aids to he said, are capable of producprofessionals would lead only ing enough technologists for the
to a similar situation that oc- state and that the R. T. is
curied before 1960 in which low not yet willing to accept the
salaries attracted many un- idea that a shortage exists
qualified persons rather than the here.
professionals.
According to surveys, he said,
He said the trend is based shortages vary in all health ocon the desire to stablize salaries cupations with each state but
but the outcome could result causes for the shortages have
in a tremendous rise in cost not been determined.
in patient care with waste and To stablize the corps of health
inefficiencies not just to the occupation professionals, he said
radiology departments.
the salaries must be made atTh& radiologic technologists tractive to men to encourage
are the management of tnat them at staff levels. He said
field and should be the ones 86 per cent of all management
to determine which is the most and instructors in the field are
expedient type of training re- men but few remain at staff
quired for best delivery of pa- levels.
tient care, he said.
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Coyle, an accreditation in-
Speaking of South Carolina's
radiology schools, Coyle said the
state's training centers for
radiologic technologists have
"quality and enthusiastic staffs"
at the technical e d u c a t i o n
centers and schools "to provide
the brand of patient care for
South Carolina."
Whether or not the community
college will 'become the mode
in heal* occupation training, he
said, has not been determined
though their training programs
for the two-year professionals
are increasing.
The Saturday banquet concluded the three-day convention
at the Poinsett Hotel. Sessions
were also conducted at Greenville Technical Education Center
Health Careers Center. Joyce
Clarkson, R. T., Greenville
General Hospital, was annual
meeting chairman.
Officers installed at the banquet were L. F. Pearson, R.
T., vice president; Tom Griggs,
R. T., president; S h i r l e y
McDaniel R. T., president elect;
Jennifer Matthews, R. T . ,
secretary; and Peggy Bradley,
R. T., treasurer.
THE
GREENVILLE
April
PIEDMONT
Psychiatrist
To Address
Institute
PIEDMONT
14, 1970
Deal With 'Whole Person,'
Pastors Told At Institute
By GIL ROWLAND
counselling and treating a
Ministers and psychiatrists man and wife or members
should deal more with the of a whole family together.
total person in t r e a t i n g
Dr. Chalmers d i s c u s s e d
specific problems, an Atlanta more effective use of marpsychiatrist told 80 persons riage, family, church, comat Monday night's opening munity, school and business
session of the annual Pastoral in helping the individual to
Care Institute.
function
'better in
the
Dr. Rives Chalmers said the system.
concept of the total person
In responding to the talk,
aids understanding and makes Rev. James M. Pitts, assistant
the use of kiiowledge more Furman University chaplain,
emphasized the importance of
effective.
O v e r - specialization in doctors, ministers and others
medicine can cause the doctor concerned with people to
to lose sight of the human "know, accept and trust each
other."
being involved, he said.
He said we need "a bridge
The speaker suggested more
emphasis on health a n d over the troubled water" to
strength and less on pathology make life better in "a
in helping another person fragmented, dehu m a n i z e d
overcome a problem o r world filled with alienation
and 'lostness' ".
disease.
Dr. Roy J. Ellison, chief
Advantages were cited in
GREENVILLE
April 13, 1970
April 13, 1970
THE GREENVILLE
THE
NEWS
of
the
department
of
psychiatry and medical director at Marshall P i c k e n s
Hospital, emphasized t h e ;
challenge made by D r .
Chalmers.
Group leaders for today's
session at the hospital are
Rev. Verlin E. B a r n e t t ,
chaplain of the South Carolina
Baptist Hospital; Rev. Will
Manley, c o o r d i n a t o r of
pastoral services for the Area
Mental Health C e n t e r ;
Thomas Kirby, principal of
the Marshall I. P i c k e n s
C h i l d r e n ' s Re-Education
Center; Charles Hart, Marshall Pickens director of social,
service; Rev John M. Smith.;
Greenville General Hospital j
chaplain.
The institute is sponsored
by the chaplain's department
of Greenville
General
Hospital.
1
Dr. Rives Chalmers, an Atlanta psychiatrist, will address
physicians and ministers at a
banquet Monday p r e c e d i n g
opening of the second annual
Pastoral Care Institute at the
Marshall I. Pickens Hospital
Tuesday.
Dr. Chalmers will speak on
"Our Concern for the Total
Person" and response will be
given by Dr. Roy J. Ellison,
chief, department of psychiatry,
Greenville Hospital System and
Rev. James M. Pitts, assistant
chaplain, Furman University.
Some 80 physicians a n d
ministers are expected to attend
the two day institute sponsored
by the chaplain's department
at Greenville General Hospital.
John M. Smith is chaplain.
Theme for the institute will
be "Ministering to the Total
Person". All sessions will be
held at the Marshall I. Pickens
Hospital on Grove Road.
Registration will begin Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
Chalmers will speak on "The
Minister as a Total Person"
at the morning session and
"How the Concept of the Total
Person Affects One's Approach
to Ministry" following lunch.
Discussion group leaders will
be the Rev. Verlin E. Barnett,
chaplain, Baptist Hospital, Columbia; the Rev. W i l f o r d
Manley, coordinator of pastoral
services, Greenville Area Mental Health Center; Thomas
Kirby. principal, Children's ReEducation Center, Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital; Charles Hart,
director of social s e r v i c e ,
Marshall Pickens Hospital; and
Chaplain Smith.
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Tours Hospital
Dr. Swie Hing Go, right, a physician from
Djakarta, Indonesia, talks with Dr. Robert E. T o o m ey, director of the Greenville Hospital System,
this morning as she begins an inspection tour of
Greenville General Hospital. Dr. Go is in the United
States on a twa-year grant from the National I n s t i tute of Mental.Health at Rockland State Hospital
in Orangeburg, N. Y. She is with the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Indonesia. While i n
Greenville, Dr. Go is the house guest of Mr. a n d M r s .
J o h n Cosby. (Piedmont Photo by Fletcher
W.
iRoss)
THE
GREENVILLE PIEDMONT
A p r i l 14, 1970
INSTITUTE CONCLUDED
Psychological Counselors Run
Risk Of Personal Involvement
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED [Center and to the Division of in the world around us.
(Earlier Story on Page 14) j Vocational Rehabilitafion in "Our aggression can be a lovGa., where he also is ing constructive force, or it can
One of the greatest dangers Atlanta,
in
private
The former be a destructive one," the doctor
in psychological counseling is vestryman practice.
of
St.
Luke's
getting too personally involved
Church, he is the reci- explained, adding that to be
with the patient, Dr. Rives Episcopal
of the Aven Award for effective one had to seek mobiliChalmers warned ministers at- pient
Citizenship,
tending an annual pastoral care Society, 1956.Fulton M e d i c a l ty and learn to control his aginstitute at Marshall I. Pickens The psychiatrist pointed out gression.
Dr. Chalmers said people need
Hospital this morning.
that it is quite usual for
"There are important moral hysterically oriented persons to relationships to sustain and
limits which must be observed become keenly aware of the provide the framework of life!
in the relationship between needs of others with whom they and that the concept of sexuality
counselors and patients," he told relate, especially those acting is probably the most readily
the group attending the institute, in a counselor capacity, and apparent one in recognition of
"Ministering To the T o t a l that it is important to have self. In this way one develops!
Person," which opened last limits beyond which one does sexual identity and comes to
understand one's own life and
night. The seminar ended this not move.
afternoon after an a 11 - d a y He said that to become an those about him.
session at the hospital. It was effective counselor one must He pointed out that sick people
sponsored by the Chaplain's realize and recognize one's own are very vulnerable a n d
dependent, and that "they focu.s
Department of G r e e n v i l l e personal needs and feelings.
on us to satisfy needs we don't
General Hospital.'
"Humans are active, agDr. Chalmers is a psychiatric gressive beings with forces in- always understand . . . they
consultant to the Children's side which establish meaning see us as they want us to be.
not as we are."
How does the counselor keep
himself from fragmenting if he
cannot avoid becoming involved?
THE GREENVILLE NEWS
"If one becomes aware his
integrity is being threatened, he
A p r i l 15, 1970
should get out and let another
counselor take over," Dr.
Chalmers told his audience.
Individual group discussions
concluded
the
morning
session.
Minister-Psychiatrist
Discusses Pastoral Care
"Becoming aware of ourselves
as total persons unfortunately
doesn't mean we have gotten rid
of all our hangups," a minister
attending a session of the annual
l1 Pastoral Care Institute, said
here Tuesday.
The session at Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital was directed
by Dr. Rives Chalmers, a
psychiatrist from Atlanta, Ga.,
who is a frequent speaker at
minister's workshops due to his
interest in the problems of
ministers.
The institute is sponsored by
the Chaplain's Department of
Chalmers stressed that the
pastoral counselor should be
'aware of his own fears and
needs so that, although he
becomes involved in the counseling he does not go past the
point where he loses control
of himself or of the counseling
situation.
"Nothing is more destroying
to the individual than to feel
the compelling determination of
the counselor to get the patient
well." he said.
"We are there to be what
we are, to render all the service
we know how, but we must
also be prepared to fai " he
said.
The individual coming to the
counselor for aid may be smiling
outwardly, but often is inwardly
in great anguish, he said.
Because of this, "he does not
see us as the person we are
but as the person that he wants
us to be," Chalmers said. He
urged pastors, at the same time,
not to make matters worse
by satisfying their own needs
to play a "motherly or supportive role" to the extent that
they make the insecure individual afraid to give up his
symptoms for fear of losing
the counselor's support.
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THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
April
15, 1970
A p r i l 16, 1970
Nursing
School Sets
Graduation
RECLINING COMFORT—Patients at the
Roger Huntington Nursing Center at Greer
will he able to convalesce comfortably using
this recliner donated to the center by the
Junior Volunteers, headed by Miss Debra
Wbittington, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse E. Whittington. Mrs. Stanley S. Addy
man, direcor of nursing at the center, and
Robert L. Smith, administrator of the center
and Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital, accept
the gift. (Greenville News photo by Fletcher
W. Ross)
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The Greenville County School
of Practical Nursing will have
commencement exercises Friday at 8 p.m. in Greenville
High School with Dr. Frank F.
Espey, local neurosurgeon, as
guest speaker. Dr. M. T.
Anderson, superintendent, will
also participate on the program
Vocal music will be given by
Mrs. June Rives. Class officiers
are Miss Judy Clark, president;
Mrs. Helen Stewart, vice president; Mrs. Shirley Harmon,
secretary; Mrs. Linda Godfrey,
treasurer; Mrs. Helen Payne,
chaplain; and Mrs. Gwendolyn
Tyler, social chairman.
Graduates include: Mrs. Linda
Bishop, Miss Marcelle Blassingame, Mrs. Sue Chemell, Miss
Clark, Miss Cynthis Gary, Mrs.
Linda Godfrey, Mrs. Joanna
Hand, Mrs. Harmon, Mrs.
Audrey Henderson, Mrs. Payne,
Mrs. Annie Richards, Mrs. Betty
Strange, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Doris
Winchester, all of Greenville;
Mrs. Ca/lon Hawkins, Travelers
Rest; Miss Mary Langston,
Mountain Rest; Mrs. Juanita
Ramos, Greer; Alan Riedel,
Piedmont; Mrs. S t e w a r t ,
Taylors; and Miss J a n e
Williams, Easley.
THE
GREENVILLE
April
2 8 , 1970
THE
PIEDMONT
April
GHS Comes Under Scrutiny .
Of English, Aussie Officials
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED new hospital, and the way we
The Greenville H o s p i t a l are operating today," Ferris
System is falling under the added.
scrutiny of both Australian and Armstrong was on a sixBritish hospital officials this month leave with pay from his
position.
week.
W. Maurice Naylor, secretary Australian law directs that
to the Sheffield R e g i o n a l every citizen there receives
Hospital Board in Sheffield such a leave after 20 years on
England will visit officials and a job, Ferris reported.
facilities here on Wednesday and "He is making a round-theThursday.
world tour of hospital systems,
F. C. Armstrong, c h i e f and seemed very impressed with
architect for the Hospitals and ours," the food service director
Charities Commission of the said.
state of Victoria, Melbourne, Naylor is making a special
Australia, visited here Sunday study of the problems of local
and Monday.
organization of a unified health
"Armstrong was primarily in- service. On a 12-month leave
terested in our Anderson-Green- of absence to make the study,
ville-Spartanburg Food System his main interests are in the
(AGS)," explained Ezra Ferris, organization and management of
director of food services at the health service, the training
of hospital staffs and use of
GHS.
"He also expressed interest management techniques and
in other organizational opera- systems in hospital organizations, construction plans for the tion.
THE
GREENVILLE
April
Radiologic
Winners
Announced
Two Greenville students and
an instructor in m e d i c a l
programs have been announced
as winners in c o m p e t i t i o n
sponsored by the S. C. Society
of Radiologic Technologists.
Miss M a r g a r e t
Anne
McCarthy, radiologic technology
instructor at G r e e n v i l l e
Technical Education C e n t e r
received a second place trophy
for her staff paper "The
Naylor is secretary, which is
the chief administrative officer,
to one of 14 boards in England
responsible to the secretary of
state for social services for the
administration of the hospitals
in its region.
While here, the Englishman
will speak to members of the
Greenville Hospital System Internal Advisory Board on the
programs, f a c i l i t i e s and
management by objectives as
he operates them in nis country.
NEWS
29,
1970
GREENVILLE
NEWS
16, 1970
Counseling By Pastors
Improved, Doctor Says
Ministers today are better true meaning of being alive,
able to counsel parishoners in and can also support the doctrouble than ever before, Dr. tor's therapy by bringing «>i_t
Rives Chalmers, psychiatrist, into the open an individual's
fears of living or of death, he
said here Tuesday.
Chalmers, psychiatric consul- said.
tant to the Children's Center "The minister can make peoand to the Division of Vocational ple see how their sickness can
Rehabilitation in Atlanta, was be a time for taking stock;
in Greenville addressing those he can also help an individual
attending the annual Pastoral learn to take time off — in
see that he has the
Care Institute sponsored by the sfbort
of ordering his life
Chaplain's Department o f responsibility
if he is to maintain his health,"
he said.
Today p r a c t i c a l l y all The minister can also promote
theological s e in ina r i e s en- communication
with the sick or
courage young ministers to help dying person, who often is reacin hospitals, he said
ting to his illness as though
"Because of the practice of he were isolated and alone.
clinical training for seminary "He can open healthy comstudents most ministers today munication between members of
are sensitive to the experience families at times of birth,
of health, sickness and death sickness or death, and mainin a way that ties the minister's taining comimunication at such
role into the healing process, times is particularly important
he said.
to the family, he said.
"Doctors will tell you that The older adult l a y m a n ,
the person who has a feeling sometimes accepts the need tot
of value for life is much more hypocrisy in meeting economic,
likely to get well than one who social or personal problems,
which can create ministers
has lost it," he said.
Today the minister may work which are arch hypocrites, be I
j
to help the individual find the said.
Challenge of Mammography" on
radiographic examination of the
breasts. She also received a
second place trophy for the exhibit "Hints for Mammograghy" which she exhibited
at the 24th annual convention
of SCRT.
Paiila Cuthbertson, senior student, Greenville G e n e r a l
Hospital, received third place
student trophy for the paper,
"Orbital Fractures."
Tonya Boulware junior student, GGH, received third place
student trophy for her exhibit
"The Psychedelic Knee".
GREENVILLE
April
PIEDMONT
30, 1970
Keeping Informed
r
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Mrs. Miriam Goodspeed
May I sincerely express my appreciation
for your coverage of the Pastoral Care
Institute, held on April 14th.
Without the help of persons like yourself
it would be impossible for us to keep the
community informed of the various activities
and programs provided in our community.
JOHN M. SMITH
Chaplain
GreenviUe General Hospital
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
A p r i l 23, 1970
League Studies Health, Religion
Health
resources
and
religious
opportunities
in
Greenville were outlined for
provisional members of the
Junior League of Greenville,
Inc., Monday at the Marshall
I. Pickens Hospital by Dr.
R. W. Penick, director of the
Greenville C o u n t y Health
Department; Dr. Robert E.
Toomey, d i r e c t o r of the
System; the Rev. Charles
Blanck, assistant to the rector
of Christ Church, and Frank
Pinckney, administrator of the
Marshall I. Pickens facility.
Hospital
once
was
an
autonomous unit providing
care for only the acutely ill,
it is now concerned with all
the sick people in the community and is providing a
variety of facilities through
a decentralized
multi-unit
system, he said.
Dr. Penick said many Greenvillians are not aware of the
services a v a i l a b l e at the
County Health Department.
Close checks are kept on reported cases of communicable
diseases
through
the
Epidemiology Department to
prevent epidemics he said.
Two nurses work with the
turbeculosis program, following up all X-rays ai.' skin
tests made by the county, he
explained. A control register
of all previous cases is also
maintained.
He offered as an example,
the patient with a broken hip
who does not need extensive
treatment. He now can be
hospitalized^ at much lower
cost. Greensville G e n e r a l
Hospital employs 2,000 people
and offers many s p e c i a l
medical services, Dr. Toomey
said.
transplants,'" he observed.
The Rev. Mr. B l a n c k
presented ..a outline o f
religious sects from earliest
Christianity up to the 20th
century. Many denominations
we have today are the result
of "who has the authority,
not the doctrine," he said.
receive
Communion
regardless of religious sect in
all churches universal."
Toomey believes an inHi emphasized that all
tegrated hospital system I ased on the degree of illness Christian churches hold the
of the patient will allow the same basic belief: "Christ
system to relate the cost of was the Savior of the world
and the Son of God."
services to the charges.
Greenville has more than
400 churches representing 28
faiths, he said. Southern Baptists constitute the largest
group with 82 churches. According to Blanck, the complexity of religious viewpoints
are many, but the important
part is "you; what you think,
what you feel, and how you
relate God's love in this world
today."
Blanck said he felt "the
day of denominations is coming to an end and one will
Pinckney concluded t h e
program with a tour of the
v
Marshall Pickens hospital.
"We are able to provide
any medical service except
The Department of Vital
Records, he said, keeps files
of all births and deaths in
the county. The health department also has an extensive
immunization program and
participates in a maternal and
infant care program, with help
in family planning offered.
"The function of the health
department is to regard the
community as a patient," the
doctor said.
Dr. Toomey spoke on the
six units of the Greenville
General Hospital S y s t e m
where more than 50 per cent
of Greenville County's population will receive service this
year.
While
Greenville
General
HEALTH IS ISSUE — Junior League Provisionals, from
left, Mrs. Henry O. Robertson, Mrs. E. Darrell Jervey,
Mrs. James Earle Huffman, Miss Patricia Conway and Mrs.
George R. Cousar hear Dr. Robert Toomey, director of the •
Greenville General Hospital System, explain health services
the system provides. The group met at the new Marshall "1.
by Cecil Hare)
Pickens Hospital. (Greenville News photo to
7(M0
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
May
1, 1970
May 2, 1970
Nursing
Classes
To Begin
MENTAL HEALTH MONTH BEGINS —
Members of the Greenville County Mental
Health Association, from left, J. D. Henry,
mental health membership chairman; Mrs.
Betty K. Sullivan, city membership chairman; and David A. Merline, president-elect,
meet Thursday with Mrs. Joan Roper, director
of psychiatric nursing at Marshal I. Pickens
Hospital, to call attention to services available at the hospital and at the Greenville
Mental Health Center and to National Mental Health Month which begins Friday.
(Greenville News p h o t o by Bennie J.
Granger)
Mental 'Health Month Chairman
Explains Treatment Facilities
There is hope, "real hope" to- tor deal with the symptoms of volunteeers will seek n e w i
day for millions of Americans nervous disorders are resulting members for the local organizasuffering from disabling mental in far fewer persons having to tion, Merline said.
disorders, David A. Merline, be sent away for extended
Greenville Mental Health Month periods to state
mental
Chairman, said Thursday.
hospitals," he said. "Although
Greenville is e s p e c i a l l y pressures of living today seem
fortunate, Merline said, in hav- to create much e m o t i o n a l
ing excellent treatment facilities distress, many can get the
for both youth and adults suf- therapy and attention they need
al a local facility such as our
fering from such disorders.
own Greenville Mental Health
"Most persons think first of Center," he said.
adults when they consider mental illness, but mental illness af- Merline said the Greenville
fects many children, too," he Mental Health Association also
is sponsoring special events to
pointed out.
highlights N a t i o n a l Mental
He said there are hundreds of Health Month which is the
ithousands of young children and month of May.
adolescents suffering from men- One is a perforanee of "The
tal disorders and that about Concept," tentatively scheduled
55,000 are admitted to mental here May 7. The play is
hospitals each year with very performed by a group of youths
serious mental illness.
who are fighting drug addiction
Meriine said an important with apparent success.
function of the Greenville Coun- There will aiso be a panel
ty Mental Health Association is discussion of county mental
to make people aware of the health resources here May 19; a
treatment facilities available at bus trip to Columbia May 22 to
the Marshall I. Pickens Hospital attend a coffee at the governor's
facility for all age groups and manion where mental heall i
for those who may require in-pa- problems will be discussed, anc
tient and outpatient services.
to visit 'the S. C. Merita1
"Improved therapy and newly Hospital; and May 24, National
developed drugs to help .the doc- Mental Health Sunday, local
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The Greenville County School
of Practical Nursing will begin
its next class June 15, Mrs.
HuKate Elwood, director, said
Friday.
Tests for admittance to the
course will be given May 5
and 19 at the school at 205
Anderson St. Tests will begin
at 7:45 a.m. and continue until
about 3 p.m., Mrs. Elwood said.
Persons interested in attending the course may take
the tests on either date. There
will be no other testing dates,
Mrs. Elwood said.
Anyone between the ages of
17 and 45 who has completed
at least two years of high school
is eligible.
THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
May
2, 1970
British Health Official Visits
Here; English Costs Explained
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED .
For only $32 each a yeltr
on an average, E n g 1 i s4icitizens are c o m p l e t e l y
covered in their health needs,
including all hospitalization
costs.
How do they do it? They
pay for it through general'
taxation, e x p l a i n e d W.•_
Maurice Naylor, secretary to
the Sheffield Regional Hospital.
Board in Sheffield, England. A
Naylor visited the Greenville
Hospital System Wednesday
and Thursday to study the
problems of local organization
of a unified health service.
He is on a 12-month leave;
of absence to make the study*
on organization and management of health s e r v i c e s ;
training of hospital staffs and
use of management techniques
and systems in h o s p i t a l
organization.
"When I began making inquiries about coming to the
United States on this study,
a number of people advised
me to come to Greenville to
visit your facility here," be.;
"YOU HAVE the reputation; \
of having a very comprehensive hospital system as
well as a very full range of
hospital services in an integrated sort of way.
"I found my visit here very
profitable a n d interesting,
especially the spirit of close
cooperation between hospital
authorities and town doctors,"
he added.
Naylor said that problems
faced by the medical community are very much the
same in both England and
America — need for more
nurses and p h y s i c i a n s ,
especially in the field of
general practice.
As in America, he said,
most young internists are
going into s p e c i a l i z e d
medicine rather than into
practice as family doctors.
In England, one pays fairly
high taxes, the administrative
officer explained, but more
is provided the average citizen
by the government there than
in the United States.
-issigned to them under conWhen an; Englishman,
"THE AVERAGE wage in make
tract from their offices.
an
office
visit,
he
oi
England is about $48 per weedy has to wairtive to 10 minul
-Naylor said that many of
but the cost of living is- mucn^
j them in groups of up to 10
see his doctor.
lower there than here," he to"Our
doctors work on an are practicing together. They
explained.
I
appointment
basis," Naylor ; jr^fer patients to specialists
A member of the pro- • explained.
'«wnen hospitalization is needfessional c l a s s m a k i n g
ed,
"One
of
our
main
problems
$12,000 per year, with two in England is the need for - "GP's make on an average
children, can expect to pay more home services, because : af. $13,000 yearly, w h i l e
$2,400 in taxes, he said. Not too many are admitted to ^Hospital specialists bejse pay,
only is there government tax,
much the same. The
but there are also property hospitals who don't need to rjsi'<pretty
er, however, can get merit
taxes used for local needs be there," he said.
irds and also some priv
and a purchase or sales tax
:ctice,
alI~oT wbi HEALTH
SERVICE
costs
on all goods.
eases their average to
are
increasing
more
rapidly
r "With our plan of socialized, 'than any other service, the. -•$30,000 per year," he said.
medicine, our people pay for British g o v e r n m e n t :
Naylor left Greenville for
health services when they are discovering, and there iiis_jg| a short trip through the Blue
well, not when they are sick," ^'shortage of trained perso:
. Jtidge Mountains to Nashville.
Naylor said. He added thatj with too much emphasis
He plans to continue his
about 99 per cent of the ! .hospital care rather than com
s t u d i e s in C h i c a g o ,
population of 4 8 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . munity or home nursing csfe Washington and Albany. Mrs.
persons finance their health.' he said.
Naylor will meet him in
services in such a manner.
^ ^ K g t o n , and the couple
General
practitioners
do
noi
"While there is about 1 per I practice in hospitals
f~ planning a vacation later
cent who still prefer 'to con- England,
mmer in British Columbut
they
ps
tract privately for health I medical services to pa
services,' they still have to
pay the taxes,"' he added.
•He said that every patient
has his own family doctor
and that it is quite usual for
the physician there to visit
a patient in his home.
m
Discussing similar health needs of
England and the United States are,
Jack A. Skarupa, left, director of operations of the Greenville Hospital
System; Maurice Naylor, hospital ad-
ministrator of Sheffield, England; and
Dr. Raymond C. Ramage, director of
medical education for GHS. (Piedmont photo by Bennie Granger)
70-42
THE
Kidd Steers Beginning
GREENVILLE
May
NEWS
3 , 1970
Services To Alcoholics Come Slowly
By JACK NORRIS
News Staff Writer
Keenly aware of the plight
of alcoholics and of their cost
to society, B. R. Kidd, semiretired and a non-alcoholic
member of the board of the
Greenville Information Center
on Alcoholism, began thinking
of coordination of efforts
within the community.
This could result,
he
thought, in medical service
for the acutely d r u n k ,
r e h a b i l i t a t i o n for the
detoxified
alcoholic,
and
additional supportive services
to help him re-establish himself in society.
As a member of the White,
Blue and Red Corp., (AA
groups are not allowed by
charter to own any property
and even a meeting facility
which such a group owns must
THE
May
belong to a separate corporate
entity) Kidd knew
the
strengths and weaknesses of
local AA groups, and that AA,
although the best answer to
date for those with a serious
drinking problem, finds itself
unable to reach
many
persons.
At his own expense, he
began to visit communities in
other states where specialized
or coordinated a g e n c i e s
dealing with the problem were
getting
c o n s i d e rable
publicity. >i
He visited, the alcoholic
rehabilitation and research
center in Mfemphis, Tenn.;
spent time studying t h e
"Halfway House" program in
Atlanta, Ga.; and went to St.
Louis, Mo., the first large city
in the nation where police took
drunks to a detoxification unit
GREENVILLE
3,
In a local hospital instead of
to jail.
"I found no place that had
all the answers and none
which had a strong program
in all three areas of need
— detoxification, rehabilitation, and a halfway house
facility," Kidd said.
With unflagging zeal and
determination, Kidd pursued
the problem of providing with
tax funds a rehabilitation
facility here with which to
attack the disease classified
by the national health service
as the fourth most deadly in
the nation.
He learned about t h e
Holmesview Detention Center
for Juvenile O f f e n d e r s ,
recently phased out by the
Greenville County Legislative
Delegation, and enlisted aid
from the South C a r o l i n a
Commission on Alcoholism
and from the South Carolina
Department of Rehabilitation,
as well as from Greenville
groups.
In Kidd's favor was a recent
court decision which seemed
to indicate that . soon law
officers could not commit an
individual to jail s i m p l y
because he is inebriated and
state agencies gave a n
attentive ear to his proposals.
His efforts, coupled with
support from others, resulted
in establishment of t h e
G r e e n v i 1 le Rehabilitation
Center for Alcoholism at the
Holmesview facility and a
state-administered f e d e r a l
grant of more than $100,000
to staff and operate it the
first year.
A five-member Greenville
County C o m m i s s i o n on
Alcoholism was f o r m e d ,
groups and for those who may r e quire in-patient and out-patieht
services. The hospital and the.
Greenville Mental Health Center
are symbols of the new era of
enlightenment ln treating mentalillness.
NEWS
1970
Celebrating Mental Health
David A. Merline
GreenviUe
South Carolina has made gre^t
strides in providing facilities fidIMental' Hearth Month c h a i n
t r e a t its citizens suffering fromiIwas right when he said t h a t t h i
disabling mental disorders. The area is especially fortunate in h a v month of May has been designated ing excellent t r e a t m e n t facilities
as a time to review the progress for- both youth a n d adults with
ln mental health, and to focus', niental disorders. The availability
locally of such facilities cannot
on the needs of the future.
be stressed enough.
The Marshall I. Pickens Hospital
provides t r e a t m e n t for all age
New J o r m s of t r e a t m e n t ,
indern'cfrugs to help doctors tn
lervous disorders are resultlni
iwer persons having to b e j
Fay for extended periods T ^
ihental hospitals. The state's H
panding network of mental health
centers h a s done much to n f l
^treatment easier and more fea:
for many people who need
but in no sense need to be
away."
charged with the responsibility
The c o m m i s s i o n has
of dealing with problems of persisted in its e f f o r t s
alcohol abuse and control.
however, and within the past
The commission worked to month, Greenville General
create m o r e coordination Hospital, despite c h r o n i c
among programs already in overcrowding, has made a
operation and to find some small five-bed ward available
way
of
establishing
a with staff to operate it. Here,
detoxification unit w h i c h those anxious to really kick
might be used to "dry out" alcoholic addiction can get
the highly i n e b r i a t e d their foot on the first rung
individual not able financially of the ladder.
to pay his way to a private
sanitarium.
Because the ward is
In general, neither medical small, members of
the
practitioners, psychiatrists, or commission are seeking a way
nurses, enjoy working with to evaluate the alcoholic's
drunks.
chances f o r rehabilitation
Drunks are apt to be" before assigning him to one
d e m a n d i n g , rude, and of the few beds available.
intractable and, with all three
"With scores of individuals
medical groups able to stay constantly in need of a place
busy working with more for detoxification and only five
amenable patients, it is human beds available the question of
nature to resist involvement priorities is most important,"
with the inebriated.
Kidd stressed.
. We have come a long way, and
there is good cause for some
celebration during Mental Health
Month. But there ls much still
to be done.
" More people need t o be made
aware of the t r e a t m e n t available
right a t their backdoor. This ls
one of the big jobs of the Greenville Mental Health Association,
a n d it ls one of the most Important
jobs involved ln helping citizens
crippled by mental disabilities.
"_" During May the association ls
nsoring
special
events
to
lghlight local mental health a c 'jtrities. These events d e s e r v e
lie support because mental
lth Involves us all.
70-43
THE GREENVILLE
NEWS
GREENVILLE
May 7, 1970
NEWS May 10, 1970
Letters To The Editor
Trip Through City
A Sad Experience
I would like to thank the personnel
at Greenville General Hospital for their
thoughtful consideration and sympathy
during the time we spent there at the
death of my father, however, their
kindness cannot make up for t h e
heartache, fear and confusion we endured
trying to find a hospital in a town
we were unfamiliar with.
We were traveling down Road 123
about five miles out of Greenville on
March 15 coming home to Gastonia when
my father suffered a fatal heart attack.
We had traveled only a mile or so
after he was taken ill when we saw
a highway patrolman stationed on the
side of the road with a whammie. We
were so relieved because we thought
we had found some help.
We stopped and asked the patrolman
to escort us to the hospital or call
an ambulance. He refused, saying he
would call a city policeman to lead
us, for us to get back in the car and
go straight ahead, and we would meet
the policeman. But we never met any
policeman at all. He pulled in behind
us at the hospital and we had to get
directions from people on the sidewalk.
We explained to the highway patrolman
that we thought it was a heart attack
I and we feared he was dying, and that
I we were unfamiliar with the town.
He should have realized the danger
iwe and other people would be in with
our driving fast, running red lights and
looking for a sign to the hospital which
he said we would see. But there wasn't
lone. We mentioned this to a nurse at
the hospital and she told us there wasn't
one bjut that they really needed one.
• d on arYival £nd
. maybe the highway patrolman cofildn't
have saved his life. But-we sure would
feel a lot safer the next time we take
a trip if we had some cooperation from
him. We always thought it was the
duty of policemen to assist in such
emergencies.
DOYLE TALLENT
Gastonia, N. C.
HOSPITAL SUPPORT — Robert E. Toomey, director,
Greenville Hospital System and president of the S. C. Hospital Association, accepts a statement commemorating
observance of National Hospital Week May 10-16 from Gov.
Robert E. McNair.
National Hospital Week
S.C Citizens Urged
To Join Obs§ryance
Gov. Robert E. McNair pledg- " "Today every hospital is faced
ed his support for South with greater demands for high
Carolina Hospitals and urged quality health care for more
other South Carolinians to join people than ever," McNair said.
the observance of National "The key word in this year's
Hospital Week beginning Sufi- theme is 'cares.' This word
focuses attention on the main
day.
that hospitals do indeed
In a statement on the wefiS message
care,
that
are ready_ to,
long observance, M c N a i r meet today'sthey
needs
for-heal
recognized the efforts hospitals care and are preparing
to
are making to preserve then the increasing., demands
humanitarian tradition while k_- •**fli«rrow."
c o r p o r a t i n g the latest
developments in health care, fl Robert E. Toomey, Greenville
Hospital System director, is
Theme for the observance «S president of the South Carolina
"Your Hospital Cares." Tt Hospital Association.
focuses attention on w o r k
hospitals are doing to meet increasing demands for health
care in an era of spiraling costs
and general inflation.
The annual observance is
sponsored by the American
Hospital Association to give people an opportunity to learn more
about the hospitals in their community.
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THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
HONORED TODAY - Mrs. Frederick Gibson James,
Mrs. Edward Westmoreland Bailey and Mrs. John Louis
Hunnicutt are being served refreshments by Mrs. James E.
May
10,
1970
Fowler in the garden of Roger Huntington Nursing Center.
(Greenville News photo by James G. Wilson)
Nursing Center Honors Three
GREER — Three guests at
ithe Roger Huntington Nursing
Center who are approaching
their 97th, 98th and 99th
birthdays will be singled out
for special honors during the
observance of Mother's Day.
The residents will b e
recognized as the o l d e s t
mothers at the R o g e r
Huntington Nursing Center
and will receive corsages.
They
are Mrs. Kathryn
Gainsey Bailey, 99, whose
husband was the late Edward
Westmoreland Bailey; Mrs.
Susan Felicia Hunnicutt, 98,
whose husband was the late
John Louis Hunnicutt; and
Mrs. Mamie Kendrick James,
who will be 97 June 25, whose
husband was the late Dr.
Frederick Gibson James.
70-45
All are citizens of Greer.
"Open House" will b e
observed at the center Sunday,
in connection with National
Hospital Week, from 2 to 4
p.m., with a reception in the
dining room in honor of all
of the guests of the nursing
center.
GREENVILLE
The Byrd B. Holmes chapter
of the Guild of St. Barnabas
se_i held its anr
Flo^jffif. jNjghiingale'
at Christ
SriscopHBratMfth.
A religious, cultural and
social o r g a n i z a t i o n for
registered nurses, licensed
practical nurses and those
interested in the medical
p r o f e s s i o n , the guild
recognized 19 new members
at the ritual.
Among them are Mrs. Laura
NEWS_ . May
10, 1970
St. Barnabas Guild
Accepts New Members
Booth McCollum, a licensed
practical nurse; and student
nurses Mrs. John Dod, Miss
Cindy Hill, Miss S u s a n
Marlowe, Miss
Shelby
Anderson, Miss Ellen Meador,
Miss Cathy Sutcliffe, Miss
Janet Gold, Miss Cynthia
Good, Miss Vivian Lyons, Miss
Janice Hawkins and Miss
Kathleen Doyle. Also, Miss
Valrie Farnell, Miss Lynda
Dubose, Miss M a l i n d a
RECEIVE PINS — Eighteen student nurses and a licensed practical nurse received the St. Barnabas Guild pin
during services at Christ Episcopal Church. The pin js a
Murphree, Miss Sherry Duff,
Miss Sue Hymes, Miss Faye
Hodge, and Miss R e n a e
Ruff.
The service commemorated
the founding of m o d e r n
nursing and observed Florence
Nightingale's birthday. She
was born May 12, 1820 and
died August 13, 1910.
guild includes
sponsoring a student nurse
scholarship, maintaining a
clothes closet for indigent
mothers to take infants home
from the hospital, aiding
cerebral palsy victims and
furnishing the chaplin's office
and chapel at the Marshall
I. Pickens Hospital.
Mrs. Milford A. Forrester
of Greenville is national vice
president.
facsimile of the one given Florence Nightingale by Queen
Victoria. (Greenville News photo by Fletcher W. Ross)
70-46
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
LEG INJURY — Ambulance attendants watch Dr. J. M.
Holloway apply a traction splint on Mike Gregory during a
May
10,
1970
training session for emergency medical personnel at Greenville TEC. (Greenville News photo Jby Leon E. Carnes)
First Aid Reviewed
In Training Ses$im$
bessinger said that legislation,
of drivers others
(training
and a coordinated comTechnical
Education
Cfa&a_f
"Ttltr^
fa
f
aid
course
or
requii
s
Area emergency v e h i c l w >.- ^____E______________________________________________
'Standard equipment in emergen- munications system between
cy 'vehicles, Bessinger said. ambulances a n d emergency
other
other emergency medical at; States must conform to the stan- room staffs and
I measures and new emergency
11
six dards for emergency health emergency vehicles will be
t
r
a
n
s
D
o
r
a
t
i
o
s
H
^
'
personnel
in
the
medical
Services under the act to be necessary if emergency needs
developments "in an° d & H K ^ Appalachian area.
for highway sa_etjfi|"of' tb> county and state are
training session to prepare tos? B r . • D - B e s s u ) g e r Jr., eligible
^ ^ ^ B j l met.
funds.
the demands of- the
sum
•
^^^^^^-al
surgeon,
course instruction introduced ful
spite of the inadequacies
-Coordinator.
Other was
instructors
season.
e system, those involved
Is and prospects
included Dr. J. M. Holloway,
Eighteen drivers and «§J senior orthopedic president; Dr.
^ ^ i e r e s t e d in upgrading and
gency rescue in Si
tendants from Greenville, Foun- Paul
lina which
i n c l u d e improving, Bessinger said.
Meunier,
chief
orthopedic
tain Inn" and Cherokee County resident; Dr. David Smith,
bpters for medical evacuat , He expressed hope that adreviewed basic skills of splinting obstetrics and gynecology r,
training p r o g r a m 4 \ ttjonal coordinated activities
fractures, cardio - pulmonary dent; Dr. E. A. Weathers,
n the medical a n d
rgency medical technicians]
resuscitation, bleeding control
xgency personnel would in
an i n t e g r a t e d coirifr;
surgical
resident;
and
Dr.
D
and child birth during the 20e similar training sessions
ications system for hospital!
| hour course dealing mainly with E. Wallar, chief emergi
and
that a curriculum for
mobile
emergency
unity
the major types of • injury ett< mom physician, all of Greeny;
program is pending legisla emergency medical attendants
countered in ambulance workiS C&pral Hospital; and Henr$.
ttpld be developed by TEC
based on ' ' M o dj
manager, C a r o 1 i
ters and two-year colleges^
The self-improvement coi^H
fiance Ordinance
ance Inc. of Columbia,
was coordinated with the
HRher legal and administri
to the 1966
palachian Health Policy
^ B c t s of ambulance oper,
wav Safety Act, ther*
Planning Council and the He
[JIB also covered.
maWto?*Mt&L\
Careers Division of Greeny!
70-47
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
FLOWERS FOR NEW MOTHER — Mrs.
Kilby Smith Page. Ill receives a traditional
Mother's Day corsage at Greenville General
Hospital. Giving it to her is Mrs. Eugene W.
Stuart, "pink lady" volunteer, and with them
May
10, 1970
is Miss Myrtle Long, R.N., area superviser
of Obstetrics and pediatrics. The baby, Stacy.
Alden Page, was born Monday to Mr. and
Mrs. Page, who live at 8 Stonewall Lane.
70-48
THE GREENVILLE
NEWS
May 11, 1970
Emphasizing Hospital Care
"Hospital care" ls generally
regarded as routine for most people
ln cases of illness these days, a
big switch from the era when only
the d e s p e r a t e l y
ill were
hospitalized.
Hospital care has taken over
much of the service formerly
rendered the sick ln their homes.
Social, medical and economic
changes, the advent of health
insurance and the development of
the welfare state have made
hospitalization the standard way
to treat people whenever they are
more than slightly ill.
All phases of hospitalization,
especially the Soaring costs of
b u i l d i n g , e q u i p p i n g and
maintaining the Institutions have
been receiving much attention in
recent years as "hospital care" has
come to be regarded as an
inalienable right in the United
States.
It takes only a look at the facilities
tn being and those u n d e r
construction to show what is being
done.
But lt also is important to
remember that lt takes people —
highly skilled, dedicated people —
to run hospitals and to meet the
needs of the sick. The Greenville
General Hospital System alone has
a staff of about 1,750 employes.
In 1969 there were two employes
for every patient in the hospital
system each day.
Hospital Week 1970 affords an
opportunity to take a look at
facilities and services provided
here and elsewhere. By comparison
Greenville and the entire Piedmont
region are fortunate. A recent
television study of h o s p i t a l
services ln the nation showed
conditions In many
areas,
including big cities, far worse than
anything in this region.
As hospitals get bigger and more
crowded and as equipment and
techniques
become
more
sophisticated, there is a growing
feeling that hospitals are being
dehumanized, with the Individual
patients lost in a maze of charts
and machines and
highly
specialized staff members.
This area is blessed in several
ways. There has been sound,
farsighted planning for hospital
facilities. The public has responded
by supporting both public a n d
private institutions. In Greenville,
the General Hospital System and
St. Francis Community Hospital
are expanding and modernizing to
keep pace with needs.
The reverse is true. The patient
actually gets more real individual
attention than formerly, although
often the sick person isn't aware
of the care being received. He
doesn't see all the work done in
laboratories on his individual
case.
Secondly, facilities to train
hospital technicians are available.
These are vital to maintaining
good hospital services in the
region.
It is fitting, therefore, that the
hospitals are emphasizing t h e
"caring" part of "hospital care"
as they observe National Hospital
Week this week.
In recent years hereabouts it has
been necessary to concentrate on
the bricks and
mortar
considerations involved to provide
adequate hospital care for the
growing population of Greenville
County and the Piedmont region.
The hospitals and the public have
worked diligently and successfully
to plan and finance the hospital
care institutions this area needs.
Finally, a great many people,
especially young people, in this
area are interested in hospital care
careers and are taking advantage
of facilities offered. There are not
yet enough to fill all demands,
but neither does this region have
a severe shortage of trained
personnel.
Hospital Week Is a good time
for people in thi$-*rea to look
at their hospitals and see what
they are doing. It's also a good
time for young people seeking
worthwhile careers to consider the
almost u n l i m i t e d opportunities
available in the hospitals of this
immediate area.
70-49
GHS' Growth Over 30 Years
Recalled By Longtime Workers
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
phenomenal growth over the
last 30 years has been viewed
with wonder by its longtime
employes.
Many remember when the
system was just "Greenville
Hospital."
"When I came to work here
80 years ago, the hospital consisted just of 'the Corbett •wing,
Simms Memorial and a
number of solariums," recalled GHS uniform manager,
Mrs. Grace Townsend.
"There wasn't even a lobby."
Mrs. Townsend was executive housekeeper at the
hospital for 15 years, until
"I decided the time had to
come to take a less strenuous
position.'
Today she and her staff care
for clothing for the hospital's
doctors, interrs and residents.
She also sells uniforms to
employes and orders caps for
the Greenville h o s p i t al' s
School of Nursing.
'
"I SEND the hats to our
raduates all over the world,"
______$&, adding that one
Army Nurse Corps in Viet- operators during the busiest
nam. A nurse wears her nurs- shift, 9 a.m to 5:30 p.m.,
and the staff totals 11
ing school's cap wherever she operators," she said.
works.
"I also worked in the ad"I have built my life around mitting office for* a short time
the hospital,' Mrs. Townsend in those early days," she
said, "and its highlight to nie recalled, "We had a staff of
is the many lovely friends two who worked 12 hours a
I have made here over the day."
years."
The worst tragedy to strike
Mrs. Townsend,
M r s . Greenville in her memory was
Frances Herbert and Broadus the Ideal Laundry explosion
Miller were among those in the 1940s.
honored with longevity pins
"Everything was topsy-turvy,
during National Hospital Week people were standing in the
ceremonies this week.
streets around the hospital
Mrs.
H e r b e rt,
com- trying to find out news, and
munications supervisor, has the switchboard stayed lit up
also been with Greenville like a Christmas tree," she
recalled.
General Hospital 30 years.
"I've seen our morning mail
Broadus Miller, c h i e f
grow from a 100-pound bag engineer of the hospital, has
to 500 to 700 pounds daily," been there 20 years and he,
she said.
too, has seen n u m e r o u s
"And I have seen the doc- changes.
"When I came here we had
tors staff grew from 100 to
five people in the maintenance
332 currently."
department — and I was one
SHE BEGAN employment of ithe five.
as a switchboard operator at
a time when only one operator
"TODAY I have a staff of
per shift was needed, or a 50, including two assistants
total of four,.operators in- and a secretary,'' he said.
cluding a relief operator, for
Miller is :n charge of. all
a six-day i
"Today
Among those receiving longevity pins and corsages from Greenville Hospital System director
Robert E. Toomey (shown left) this week were,
left to right, Mrs. Frances Herbert, communications,
L Mrsj. Grace Townsend, uniforms, and Mrs._Beulah
grounds, security and the fire
safety program
"We also maintain a prevention program in which we keep
a continuous check on equipment so that we can catch
problems before they happen," he said
"We have one of the best
departments in any hospital
in the Unitei States with a
good w r i t t e n maintenance
program," he claimed, adding
that the hospital often got
requests for information on
its maintenance program.
"Where a hospital engineer
used to be i handyman, now
he must be able to handle
many technical problems," he
said, "so my men and I constantly go back to school to
take new courses."
All take classes at Greenville Technical E d u c a t i o i
Center.
In the next 20 years, Miller
foresees much more complicated electronic equipment,
and his type of job becoming
increasingly more difficult.
"But you have to be ready
to change with the times, and
I am very fortunate in having
a good crew of men
wry pro]
•
Brown, dietary staff member. Mrs. Herbert and Mrs.
Townsend received their 30 year pins, and Mrs.
Brown her 25 year pin. (Piedmont photo by Ja
G. Wilson)
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GREENVILLE
May
13,
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
May
1970
14,
NEWS
1970
G. M. Harper
Dies At 48
George Mack Harper Jr., 48,
of 17 Alpine Way, director of
personnel at Greenville General
Hospital, died Wednesday.
Born at Woodleaf, N. C, he
formerly lived at Salisbury, N.
C, before moving to Greenville.
His parents were the late
George Mack and Zelma Watson
Harper. He was elected president of the newly organized
South Carolina Hospital Society
of Personnel Directors last year.
He was a member of the local
and national chapters of the
American Society for Personnel
Administrators, a member of
the South' Carolina
and
American Hospital Associations,
and was area representative for
the American Society f o r
Hospital Personnel Directors.
He had been director of personnel at Greenville G e n e r a l
Hospital for 17 years.
A graduate of C a t a w b a
College in Salisbury, he held
a master's degree in personnel
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n from the
University of North Carolina.
He was a World War II Air
Force veteran. He was a
member of Buncombe Street
United Methodist Church, and
the North Greenville Rotary
Club.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Louise Eddinger Harper; two
daughters, Miss Janice Harper
and Miss Sharon Harper of
Greenville; and two sisters,
Mrs. George Kyles of Cleveland,
IN. C, and Miss Lillian Harper
of Concord, N. C.
Funeral services will be at
; Thomas McAfee Funeral Home
Friday at .11 a.m. Following
services here, the body will be
taken to Summersett Funeral
Home, Salisbury. Burial will be
in Rowan Memorial Park.
The family requests that
; flowers be omitted and any
memorials may be made to
The body is at the funeral
home, where the family will
! receive friends from 7:30 to
8:30 p.m Thursday.
GEORGE M. HARPER JR.
G. M. Harper
Of
GGH Dies
George M. Harper Jr., of 17
Alpine Way, director of personnel at Greenville G e n e r a l
Hospital, died today at 8:50
a.m.
He was elected president of
the newly organized South
Carolina Hospital Society of
Personnel Directors last year.
He was also a member of
the local and national chapters
of the American Society for
Personnel Administrators. He
had been director of personnel
at Greenville General 17
years.
A graduate of Catawba College in Salisbury, N. C, Mr.
Harper held a master's degree
in p e r s o n n e l administration
from the University of North
Carolina.
He was a member of the
South Carolina Hospital Association and also of the American
Hospital Association. A member
of the American Society for
Hospital Personnel Directors, he
' served as area representative
[in the national organization.
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GREENVILLE
May
PIEDMONT
14, 1970
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Dedication Culminates Greenville TEC Dream
Greenville TEC's $2 million Health Career Center was dedicated Thursday, culminating six years
of planning for a training facility to meet critical
manpower shortages in health career fields. Ten
programs are presently offered in the center (top
photo). Platform guests and the audience for the
dedication ceremony are shown in the bottom photo. (Piedmont photos by Fletcher ROBS)
Nation's First Health Career Center Dedicated
By THOM\S W. MOSELEY
Wilson said 16 other persons
Education Editor
are needed today for every
A six-year dream w a s physician, and "this type «E
realized at G r e e n v i l l e ' s person will be trained in
Technical Education Center facilities like the one you have
Thursday with dedication of here. During the past 15 years,
the facility's Health Career the country's population has
Center, "the first program of increased 17 per cent, while
physician directed services
its type in the nation."
Several hundred attended have increased 81 per cent.
"This manpower shortage is
the colorful ceremonies, braving the hot sun to hear staff related to the time needed
members and guests describe to train personnel," he said.
"We need to cut down on
the $2 million center.
Dr. David B. Wilson, direc- the time needed for training
waste
that
tor of the University of and n o t
Mississippi Hospital and guest training."
Wilson said ithe center was
speaker for the dedication
ceremonies, called Greenville a new idea, an innovation.
"And you at Greenville TEC
TEC a leader in its field.
"You axe leading the way have a challenge to be a
for what needs to be done leader in this field, because
throughout the country," he you have the first program
said. "This is something of this type in the nation."
John W. Manley, dean of
greatly needed in the health
TEC's Health c a r e e r
services field."
division, said the building and
equipment were impressive,
"but the 'thing of beauty will
be the quality of program we
hope to have here."
At present, there are 10
allied health programs being
offered. By September, three
programs will be added to
the curricula.
Thomas E. Barton, TEC
director, said the program
came into existence because
of a critical shortage of welltrained peopi'' in allied health
areas. He called the facility
a product of Greenville.
Participating guests during
the dedication were Robert
T. Ashmore, chairman of the
South Carolina Appalachian
Development Commission; U.
S. Rep. James R. Mann; and i
Dr. Robert Toomey, director,
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Open house will be held at
the center between 2 and $
p.m. Sunday.
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
DEDICATING CENTER — The Greenville Technical Education Center Health Careers Center was dedicated Thursday in a
ceremony on the grounds. Platform guests
May
15, 19701
included city, county, regional and state officials. Under construction in the background
is a new classroom building. (Greenville
News photo by Fletcher W. Ross)
$2-Million Health Career Center
Dedicated At Greenville TEC
City, county, regional and The challenge in this country, CVssf. James R. Mann also
etate officials and s e v e r a l he said, is to use our assets spoke briefly.
hundred visitors were present wisely especially our trained John W. Manly, dean, Health
Careers Center, attributed the
at Greenville T e c h n i c a l manpower.
Education Center Thursday to Wilson said the shortage of center's existence to community
dedicate a $2 million center for personnel in the health fields support, advisory committees,
training t e c h n i c i a n s and exists because of the greatly determination of students and
assistants in health fields.
increased demands for health dedication of staff.
The Health Careers Center is services. He suggested ways Be Robert T. Ashmore, chairman,
tbe only facility of its kind in sought to greatly extend the S. C. Appalachian Regional
tbe nation sepcifically designed hands of the dentist and Planning a n d Development
for training of paramedical physician through t r a i n e d Commission, said 40 per cent
personnel in dentistry, biology, assistants and that educational of the cost and 100 per cent
laboratory technology, mental requirements for m e d i c a l l y of the operating and equipment
came
from
the
health technology, p h y s i c a l trained personnel be reviewed f u n d s
therapy, radiologic technology, in an effort to cut down on Appalachian Commission.
surgical technology and medical time for education required for P l a q u e s
a c knowledging
records. Additional programs professionals, technicians and support were presented to Dr.
assistants and techniques.
will be added in September.
Thomas A. Collins of Anderson,
David B. Wilson, director, The importance of this facility chairman, and Robert A.
University Hospital in Jackson, is thab it will make use of Johnson of the Appalachian
technician
and
t h e Regional Planning and Health
Miss., and past president of the the
Robert
A.
American Hospital Association, techniques by those who can Commission;
6aid the Health Careers Center perform them where they can Ashmore and Don H i n s o n ,
Appalachian Planning
and
is a demonstration of what best be used, he said.
needs to be done in the nation Tbe center was designed by Development Commission.
in the health care field.
J. E. Sirrine Co. and built by The Parker High School Band
Wilson, in the dedicatory Yeargin Construction Co. Open directed by James B. Senn, the
address, said the center would house will be held Sunday from Chorus of the Greenville General
Hospital School of Nursing and
integrate and correlate health 2-6 p.m.
workers in all types o f Thomas E. Barton J r,. the U S. Marine Corps color
technology which is essential to director, Greenville TEC, and guard participated in t h e
Louis Williams, c h a i r m a n , ceremony.
effective team work.
The multi-level approach to Greenville Area Commission for
patient care Involves health T e c h n i c a l E d u c a t i o n ,
workers at all levels providing acknowledged support which
service, which he said, currently made the center p o s s i b l e .
overlap resulting in wasted Robert E. Toomey, director,
Greenville Hospital System, and
training.
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THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
Four of those honored for service at
Monday's "Volunteer Recognition Night,"
at the new Red Cross Chapter House are,
from left, Miss Charlotte Hand, who has
served 11 years at Greenville General Hospital; Debra Whittington, 15, who gave 500
hours in six months at Roger Huntington
Nursing Center; Mrs. Marchant Davis, who
has worked as a volunteer for five years at
1970
Allen Bennett Hospital in Greer and Mrs.
Mabel Parker who has been an active volunteer for four years in the school health room
program. Mrs. Alex Meyers, not shown, is
chairman of the office of volunteers, of the
Greenville County Red Cross chapter which
is a United Fund agency. (Greenville News
photo by Cecil Hare)
Nancy Thurmond Thanks
Volunteers Of Red Cross
I
By JACK NORRIS
News Staff Writer
Mrs. Nancy Thurmond, a
regular volunteer worker in the
Ladies of the Senate Red Cross,
thanked Greenville County Red
Cross volunteers here Monday
night for their services to the
community.
Greenville County can be
particularly proud of 400 trained
Red Cross volunteers who gave
29,000 hours of their time last
year to help others, she said.
Mrs. Thurmond, dressed in
her Red Cross uniform and accompanied by her husband,
said:
"This is the first time Strom
has heard me speak. I don't
know who is more nervous."
She is the wife of Sen. Strom
Thurmond, R-S.C.
Mrs. Thurmond, who is in
the Red Cross chapter made
up of senators' wives with Mrs.
Spiro Agnew as c h a p t e r
chairman, said the group meets
once a week and is not
political.
"We have Mrs. Fulbright and
Mrs. Goldwater and so you know
we don't discuss politics," she
said.
She said the chapter wraps
90,000 bandages monthly for
Vietnam, and for the use of
accident and riot victims in
Washington, D. C, Maryland,
and Virginia.
She also does volunteer Red
Cross work at Walter Reed
Army Hospital where there are
47 wards with 40 to 100 patients
to each ward, she said.
Many are Vietnam veterans,
seh said, and must have a
wonderfully courageous outlook
although few will ever recover
completely.
"Recently I wrote a letter
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for a young man who had no
arms. I dialed a telephone for
a young veteran who had no
sight and I fed a patient a
complete meal who was paralyzed for life," she said, her voice
breaking with emotion.
She said Greenville Red Cross
volunteers do work which is
challenging and rewarding as
they serve in hospitals, schools,
the Cerebral Palsy Center, and
other humanitarian programs.
Nearly 150 persons attended
the volunteer recognition night
at which more than 100 Greenvillians were recognized for
volunteer services contributed
through Greenville Red Cross
projects.
Dr. Robert DuBose, pastor of
Buncombe Street
United
Methodist Church, said "it is
good to come together with so
many persons who "see beyond
their own lives and own needs,
and are willing and able to
help others."
Mrs. Morris A. K e n i g
presented awards to volunteers
with assistance from Mrs. Iliurmond.
THE
GREENVILLE
May
15, 1970
NEWS
GREENVILLE
Ad Club To Hear
Hospital Director
Dr. Robert E. T o o m e y ,
director of tbe G r e e n v i l l e
Hospital System, will speak at
the Greenville Advertising Club
meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m.
at Holiday Inn No. 2.
A native of Boston, Mass.,
Toomey came to Greenville in
1953 and has since served as
director of the h o s p i t
system.
NEWS
M a y
17j
7970
Mental Health
Panel Will Review
County Resourc
years local menta]
resources,' particulai __^^^^^
health facilities, were well below
area need. Now, Merline said,
the' major problem area is
becoming "lack of awareness
of,what is available and of what
can be done to aid ithe many
individuals — one in every 10
T- who live marginal lives due
emotional problems and
This is a Mental Health Month to
disorders
can be
event in a week that will also .relieved." t h a t
include the 8:30 p.m. Thursday Marshall I. Pickens Hospital
telecast of "Bell of Hope,"
is a short-term treatment center
documentary on the S.C. Mental -that
patients to receive
Health Association to be carried early enables
care
ard,
in most cases,
on ETV channel 29 and a Friday return to the;r families
bus -trip to Columbia for a tour] extended hospital stayswithout
at a
of the S.C. State Hospital. The distance, he ?aid. It is located
program parallels one presented on Grove Road near K-Mart
earlier 'this year for t h e [J>laza.
members of the w o m a n ' s •Plaza.
auxiliary to the Greenville
County Medical Society.
Mrs. Clarence A. Weber,
Members of the panel wifl. iMental
Health A s s o c i a t i o n
be Dr. Earl M c F a d d e n , president
and co-chairman with
psychiatrist; Mrs. Joan Roper, Merline for
t_ie Tuesday panel
director of psychiatric nursing program, said
it is hopea that
at Marshall I. Pickens Hospital; r e p r e s s ntatives
of many
Thomas Kirby, principal of the ^different
clubs
and
organizations
Marshall I. Pickens Children's will be present and that they
•Education Center; and th£
p i l Manley, M e n t a l M ggT P a s s information obtained!
But" mental health resources'.
chaplain,
| f ] oh'to their members.
discission
erated by Mrs. Williaj
j^he stressed the need for
itmen Jr., outgoing pr<
any more volunteers than
of the mediea* society auxfl
ve thus far stepped forward
who has recently been nafi
^join
in the countywide effort
mental health chairman for the |
take
mental h e a l t h
woman's auxiliary to the S:
formation to individual homes
Medical Association.
aday, May 24. Those who feel
David A. Merline, Greenville f_y could assist, either in their
County Mental Health Month mediate neighborhood or as
chairman and president-elect of
area chairman, are asked
the SJC. Mental H e a l t h ] to call
232-5382, or to make
Association, said that for many] their interest
known a t
Tuesday's
meeting,
she said
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The mental health resou:
of Greenville County will^
reviewed by a panel .of
professionals in that f i e l.d
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at ait
open meeting at 'Marshall 1.
iPickens Hospital sponsored by
the Greenville County Mental
Health Association.
THE GREENVILLE
NEWS May
17, 1970
Specialists Will Be Recognized
During Hospital Week
News Staff Writer
Hospital specialists
and
technicians battle disease and
infection, participate in life-ordeath drama and get involved
in traffic jams at shift change
in a routine hospital day.
During the local observance
of National Hospital Week which
ends Saturday, some of the
specialists will be recognized for
their services.
There are 1,750 employes in
the Greenville Hospital System's
six units averaging about two
employes for each of the 935
beds around the clock. Six
hundred and 60 of t h o s e
employes comprise the nursing
staff at Greenville General. Two
of them are men.
But much of the patients'
world from the sheets on the
bed to the garbage can to the
function of a resusitator is
contributed by employes the
patient never sees.
Greenville General is the hub
for the county's six units —
Allen Bennett Memorial, Roger
Huntington Nursing C e n t e r ,
Hillcrest Hospital, Winiam G.
Sirrine Hospital and Marshall
I. Pickens Mental Hospital.
For its satelites, GGH
provides centralized services as
an economy measure i n
purchasing, e n g i n e e r i n g ,
administrative, pharmacy and
laundry.
Purchasing prepares t h e
shopping lists for all the units
which includes everything from
test tubes to bed sheets and
the detergents.
Just how much laundry can
six hospitals pile up?
The GGH laundry with 33
employes working around the
clock washed 3,430,842 pounds
of uniforms and bedding last
year. Uniform manager Mrs.
Grace Townsend, a 30 year
employe, said, "I don't know
much about laundry at home,"
but the hospital laundry is
organized with color and every
uniform has an owner. Repairs
are made free.
The 77 housekeeping employes
work between visiting rush
hours to clean rooms and
hallways and a staff of 19
maintains cleanliness d u t i e s
through the night.
The 31 clinics served by inters
providing medical care to the
community treated 31,644 clinic
visitors last year.
Pharmacy
service
is
centralized also and sells to
clinic patients only at or below
cost. The 18 staffers f i l l
prescriptions from 8 a.m. to
10 p.m. daily with a pharmacist
on call during the night.
"Fourteen years ago, there
were five employes in that
department," Tom C o l l i e r ,
director, said, and "most of
the drugs being used now were
developed in the past 10 to 15
years, too," he said.
The hospital print s h o p
probably originated with a
mimeograph machine but is now
in operation fulltime with high
speed duplicating and printing
equipment.
Mrs. Frances Herbert, a 30
year e m p l o y e
and
a
communications staffer, said
some 700 pounds of mail comes
into the hospital each morning
as compared to 100 pounds yeajs
ago. Mail being sent out today
is 10 times greater than two
years ago, she said.
She recalled that 30 years
ago, there were only three
bosses in the entire hospital.
She worked 12 hours a day,
six days a week. "And if you
couldn't find someone to releave
you on Sunday, you worked that
day too."
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THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
May
19,
1970
Hospitafcpirector Cites Responsibility
Rv
n n ! . . designed
/.ncirfnn-. to
tn treat
tr-o-.ficnl.Anls
p a . l i p r . tn
By r.AT.F.
DALE PF!RRV
PERRY V_HU ______•!
p l l i ti.^
e units
i schools Hv
by truinincr
training tteachers
to
News Staff Writer
various illnesses.
help handle the e m o t i o n a l
If the nation's hospitals do Toomey, who said that one behavior of children who cannot
not assume a b r o a d e r out of eight persons visits sonjj^corae to the hospiUi
ital ic
responsibility in meeting the hospital during the course
iospn
health-care needs of the public, a year, explained that
they will fail to justify their economical uses could be
kof expense.
basic concern for existing, Dr. of hospital systems than
director said t h a t
Robert E. Toomey, director of the present operations of a I
Greenville Hospital System, said percentage of hospitals focusing, Itoonse from parents who have
Monday.
their attention on the aeifljH H i children treated at the child<Sare unit at Marshall Pickens
Speaking at a meeting of the ill.
Greenville Advertising Club, "While this is certainly^B hp.s been tremendous, quoting
Toomey, who has directed the important part of the hospij^H Mp parent as saying, "You have
Greenville system into a na- functions," Toomey said, ' 1 _ \ \ Bpe wonders with my child."
tionally-known program, said acutely ill are a small por]
tie of the greatest difficulties
that dramatic changes will take of patients."
a hospital, Toomey said,
place in health care since the Briefly explaining the
changing behavior patterns
Iconcern for public health has system, which is visited
d environments, especially for
become a "political, economic hospital
officials
jldren.
and public interest."
throughout the nation, To<
We have had children who
Reiterating several times that said that Greenville Genisfc Hye come to us for treatment
the main function of a hospital Hospital acts as a centerl
" rat bites, and it's frustrating
is upgrading the health of the providng health-care needs*,
'treat the problem tem[entire community, Toomey, a small outlying general hos]
arily, knowing the child is
graduate of Harvard University. designed to care for pat
__ ihg to be returned to the
envisioned the 95 per cent of with specific illnesses. •
same environment," Toomey
the nation's hospitals still main- Several of the programs
said.
ly existing to "treat the acutely Marshall I. Pickens Hospital. "This is where public healthill" becoming h e a l t h - c a r e Toomey said, are coordinated care becomes a problem for
centers surrounded by several through tJia use of county the whole community,," he added, emphasizing the importance
of providing adequate public
health-care facilities, w h i l e
training children the need for
good personal hygiene.
GREENVILLE NEWS
M a y 20, 1970
y
Drugs Have Almost Eliminated
Padded Ce|ls^Psyehiqjfet^Qys
average is seven
^nly the largest
hospitals" and rently tl
By JACK NORRIS
granities7 had* psyefoiatriej ingotis, h& said- The average
News Staff Writer
ItflFbsed to be two years
Buildings and facilities get lo.fclW6 services
referred
with
of attention but community5 padded cells are no longer Children
avior disorders are much
health centers would not be abj& necessary - we can operate
fe apt to be boys than girls
an open door facility," he said
to function without psychi,
s. Joan Roper, director of
and frequently,
drugs which have almost
jatric nursing at Marsh
overly aggressive,
pletely eliminated the pai
ickens Hospital, spoke
cell in controlling the ment'i
behind 'in t__e_a»eja>.
ill while they are being treat!
necessity for specializi
.though of, J f s e r a g i :
Dr. Earl McFadden, Greeir
draining for the psychiatric;
ice.
'R
psychiatrist, said here Tue&-jmiEse, and the services to the
Rev. Will Manley, direcday.
3 ^ n ? n t and to the community
pastoral services at the
McFadden was a member ,<_f ;Wiich she can perform
Renville Mental Health Cena panel of four who discusseSJifte
stressed , that 1 h e
aid the word "commupresent trends in mental healthjBfltehiatric nurse must be abl
'should be stressed in discare.
to project her personality into
ig new trends in mental
The program was planned aiKNE work,
j therapy.
presented by the Greenville plfcomas Kirby, principal of
County Mental Health Associa- l%& Children's Re-education
tion to make, the public more Center at the hospital, said at
aware of increased l o c a l present the center has a capacfacilities and programs i f ity for 10 youngsters age 6-2, in
treating mental illness SiJO. a ifesidential program. The stay
bringing about community men- from Sunday night until Friday
tal health. It was presented,ill hopn. Another 10 are served
the meeting room of the IVfl^gm' a daytime progrm. They
shall I. Pickens Hospital.
8 a.m. and leave at
Psychiatric drugs which reljsr
the patient have made it P°&&|RMe said that under the present
ble to bring the practice oiferogram the center is atpsychiatry into the commun^liApting to rehabilitate each
and back into medicine, he safj.Khiw in the residential program 70-57
noting that until very recently fin a period of six months. Cur-
THE GREER
May 20, 1970
CITIZEN
Ten-Year Service Pins Presented At Hospital
Awards Presented
Employees Durin<
Recognition Day
A number of employees of
Bennett Memorial Hospital
Roger Huntington Nursing Ce
were honored last Thursday du
Employees Recognition Day on
grounds between the two in
tions.
Receiving 10-year
service
were Ruth Talley and Harr
Jroodrr.an.
Five-year service pins were a
warded to Arlere Watson, RHNC.
Daisy Murph, ABMH, Joyce Belcher, RHNC, Myrtle Lindsey, RHNC
and Pat Wood, RHNC.
A picnic was served employees,
doctors and specially invited guests
under the trees on the spacious ]
lawn between the two health institutions.
Presenting the awards were Robert Smith, local administrator ol
the two
institutions
and Burt
Moore, chief administrator of Su-!
burban Units of General Hospital
System.
A D M I N I S T R A T O R Robert S m i t h , left, assisted by B u r t Moore, chief a d m i n i s t r a t o r , Suburb r Units, presents ten-year service pins to Har-
riette Goodman and Ruth Talley d u r i n g Employees Recognition Day last Thursday at the hospital.
(Photo By R. S. Marvin)
Hospital Employees Awarded Five-Year Pins
E I G H T E M P L O Y E E S of A l l e n Bennett Hosp i t a l and Roger H u n t i n g t o n Nursing Center were
presented five-year service pins d u r i n g Employees
Recognition Day last Thursday on the hosiptal
grounds. A d m i n i s t r a t o r
Robert Smith presents
pins to six of the eight: D. M u r p h , A . Watson, J .
Belcher, P. W o o d , L. W a l d r o p and M. Sm-ith. Abs nt were M y r t l e Lindsey and Elizabeth A u s t i n .
(Photo E y R. S. M a r v i n )
70-58
THE GREENVILLE
THE GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
May 23, 1970
May 27, 1970
State Hospital Budget Cuts
Jeopardize Accreditation
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
Piedmont Staff Writer
COLUMBIA - The South
Carolina State Hospital is
bleeding internally
from
slashes cut in its budget for
the past two years in a row,
according to Ted Shelton,
director of public relations for
the S.C. Department of Mental
Health.
"We have had to cut back
in every area except in
services to the patient," he
explained.
Among items postponed by
the budget cuts have been
equipment needs which will
later incur a heavy replacement cost as present equipment wears out, he said.
"We recently completed a
long-term care unit — for
those patients in need of skilled nursing care but who are
not overly psychotic," Shelton
said, "but, with the budget
cut, we can't afford to hire
anybody to run it."
South Carolina is the first
Southeastern state and only
one of three in the nation
to be fully accredited. The
budget cut which is resulting
in a new patient-doctor ratio
of more patients per doctor
may cause the state to lose
its a c c r e d i t a t i o n , said
Shelton.
"We asked for only a
reasonable 12 per cent increase, but the state wasn't
able to increase the monies
to that extent," he claimed.
According to Shelton, the
department
requested
$20,058,913, but the Ways and
Means legislation appropriated
only $17,773,035.
PIEDMONT
"Most of this (increase of
$1,500,000 over 1969) had
already been committed to
salary increases scheduled by
the state," he said, "After
all, the 6 per cent general
cost of living rise last year
hit us as hard as everyone
else."
The State Hospital currently
has a ratio of approximately
3,000 employes to 5,784 patients. , T h e doctor-patients
ratio depends on the building
area. In the admittance section, it's-1-35, but in the long
term patient wards it's more
like 1-200, according
to
Shelton. The first 30 days of
a patient's stay is a crucial
one.
"If we can give a newly
arrived patient i n t e n s i v e
treatment for 30 days, and
the patient is not too ill, he
can return to society quite
rapidly," explained the mental
health spokesman.
"In the long-term patient
wards, the prognosis for immediate improvement is not
good," he added.
Currently State H o s p i t a l
facilities include the original
300 acre hospital grounds; The
Crafts-Farrow State Hospital,
equally large, for people 55
and over; and the William
S. Hall Psychiatric Institute,
a
training
center
fo r
psychiatrists,
psychologists,nurses and graduates seeking
masters degrees in social
work.
A Community Mental Health
Services division oversees the
operation of 14 centers and
clinics all over the state.
There is also the newly completed but not yet opened long
term care 150-bed unit and
in the planning stages is a
new alcoholic and drug addiction center due to open
in two years. The center will
be operated with funds accumulated from a recently
voted 35 cent additional tax
on hard liquor.
"This center is increasingly
needed, as in 1969 we treated
50 cases of drug addiction
and 614 cases of alcoholism
and its effects," S h e l t o n
said.
"Treatment for alcoholics is
almost like intensive care, as
many who come to us haven't
had a normal meal in several
months.
"When they stop drinking,
they suffer w i t h d r a w a l
symptoms."
He said what was needed
was a three-pronged alcoholic
treatment program w h i c h
would involve rehabilitation,
prevention and education.
"Even more necessary than
this center, however, is the
development
of a comprehensive statewide program
in which the local hospitals
would be called upon to do
its part in the treatment of
the alcoholic," Shelton said.
He commended Greenville
General Hospital
which
recently opened an alcoholic
treatment center.
"The most important items
of all are programs and local
facilities to ensure early identification and treatment of
mental health problems so a
patient may avoid that often
dreaded 'trip to Columbia. "
Dr. M. Nachman, 63,
Dies A t Hospital
Dr. Mordecai Nasclftftan 63,
urologist of 18 E.
Hil'crest Drive, died early today
at a local hospital after a period
of declining health.
He was born in Lake City, a
son of the late Henry and Annie
M. Rephan Nachman. He lived
in Lake City prior to coming to
Greenville 37 years ago.
IDr. Nachman was a member
of the Temple of Israel.
He was a pre-med student at
the College of Charleston from
1922 to 1924 and graduated from
the Medical College of S. C. in
1930. His internships were at
St. Francis Xavier Hospital in
Charleston and G r e e n v i l l e
General Hospital. He did post
graduate work at Polyclinic
Hospital New York City.
Dr. Nachman was consultant
in urology at Greenville Hospital
and St. Francis Hospital.
He was director of Southe-.n
Bank and Trust Co.
Memberships
include:
diplomate, American Board of
Urology; fellow, A m e r i c a n
College of Surgeons; American
Urological
Association,
Southeastern Section;
past
president of the Greenville
County Medical Society; S.C.
Medical A s s o c i a t i o n ; the
American Medical Association;
and the Southeastern Surgeon's
Congress.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Frances Brown Nachman; three
daughters, Mrs. William A.
Wentworth of Atlanta, Mrs.
Robert B. Jones of Plantation,
Fla., and Miss Betty Sue
Nachman of the home; one
sister, Miss Rachael Nachman
of Washington, D.C.; one half
sister, Mrs. Sye Wolfe of
Charlotte, N.C; and f o u r '
grandchildren.
The body is at The Mackey'
Mortuary. Memorials may be
made to the Heart Associa-;
tion.
Therapists
Are Elected
James I. McKee and Mrs.
Doris C. Nichols have been reelected as officers of the South
Carolina chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Both are Greenvillians. McKee, is a partner in the private physical therapy practice
of McKee, Vaughn, and Seward, and was re-elected association president; and Mrs.
Nichols, assistant chief physical
therapist at Greenville General
Hospital, was re-elected secre-!
tary.
Each will serve two years.
The officers were elected a t
the association's annual business meeting at Myrtle Beach.
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GREENVILLE
NEWS
May 26, 1970
THE
GREENVILLE
THE G R E E N V I L L E NEWS
May 3 1 , 1970
NEWS
May 28, 1970
o The Editor
In Appreciation Of
Hospital Services
I have read your editorial of May
11, "Emphasizing Hospital Care" and
would like to express my gratitude for
the excellent care that I received at
My fifty-one days there brought me
in contact with many people, and I
received the best care anyone could
expect to receive.
A book could be written about the
many dedicated people who served so
well. There were those who would ask
if there was anything they could get
for me and didn't seem to mind doing
those little extra things. Just to mention
•one, the night supervisor came by my
room every night to see if I needed
anything.
I appreciated too the way my case
was discussed. When one questioned a
decision that was made, she was told
that they were doing what they thought
was best for the patient.
Yes, I think we are fortunate in the
Greenville area to have the hospital
services that are available. I have high
praise for the Greenville - General
Hospital. I think too that we have some
of the best doctors that you will find
I anywhere.
j
MARGIE WATSON
j Mauldin
GGH STUDENTS — Practicing in the special procedures
laboratory at Greenville General Hospital, radiologic
technology students wind up their two-year program. They
are from left, Pam Stamey of Greenville, Lance Dunn of
Conway and John Fulmer Of Greenwood. (Greenville News
photo by Leon E. Carnes)
14 Complete Training
In Radiologic Course
School of Radiologic Technology
will graduate its last class, 14
students, June 28. Dr. James B.
Pressly, director of the school,
announced.
The radiologic technology
program wil be headquartered
at Greenville Technical Education Center with classes beginning in July. The practicum
will be conducted at Greenville
General Hospital.
Students completing the two
year program are required to
take the national examination
to become eligible for the Ameri-
70-60
can Registry of Radiologic Technologists.
Students completing
the
course and passing the examinations are: Pam Stamey and
Diane Woods of Greenville
Lynn Altman and Paul Cut!
bertson of Newberry; Donn
Fricks Bowen of Taylors; Jei
DeFanti of Camden; Lan<
Dunn of Conway; John Fulm
of Greenwood; Sylvia Nalley
Rock Hill; Debby Redman of
Greer; Deborah Reynolds
Sumter; Rebecca Ross of
shopville; Phyllis Shealy
Salisbury, N. C.
Seeking A Career? Inhalation Technicians Scarce
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
"With only a handful of
trained inhalation t h e r a p y
registered technicians in the
state, graduates in this field
find unlimited possibilities."
said Mrs. Barbara Carter,
chief inhalation therapist at
Training courses in the field
of inhalation therapy are
offered at G r e e n v i l l e
Technical Education Center.
"Those coming out of such
training will be registered
technicians, rather
than
therapists," Mrs. C a r t e r
emphasized.
"Currently there are no
more than five or six such
technicians in the whole state,
and none at G r e e n v i l l e
General H o s p i t a l , ' ' she
revealed.
The chief therapist recently
returned from Palm Springs,
Calif, where she underwent
a two-week training program
with the Bird respirator,
named after its inventor,
Forrest Bird. Mrs. Carter is
a registered nurse with a
background in therapy.
"These new respirators have
taken the place of the now
obsolete iron lungs," she
explained.
"Where the old iron lung
was big, cumbersome and
restricted as to area, the new
type units are more effective
and much smaller, so they
are far more portable."
Whereas the iron lung cost,
on the average, $20,000 apiece,
the modern respirator can be
bought at a top price of about
$600.
"One can buy a good home
unit for a little over $300,"
she noted.
Respirators are used for any
patient
needing
aid
in
establishing
adequate
ventilation, often
postoperatively
to avoid
respiratory complications in
surgical cases. They are also
used for all forms of chronic
lung d i s e a s e ,
from
emphysema
to
cystic
fibrosis.
Other uses include acute
respiratory infections a n d
controlled respiration when a
patient is no longer capable
of breathing independently.
The machine can administer
either oxygen or compressed
air.
With a staff of 12, Mrs.
Carter said that during the
high peak of the respiratory
season her d e p a r t m e n t
administers to as many as
50 patients daily. The high
period of r e s p i r a t o r y
infections occurs in January,
February and March.
"All our treatment is given
by prescription, and we are
at all times under t h e
guidance and advice of the
Greenville Hospital medical
staff, who are specialists in
this field," emphasized the
nurse.
Graduates o f Greenville
TEC's inhalation t h e r a p y
program can expect to find
starting salaries ranging from
$6,000 to $8,000 annually. Chief
and t e a c h i n g
supervisors can earn $10,500
or more annually.
To register for the program,
one should have a high school
diploma or its equivalent, with
a strong background in the
sciences, math, and English..
An associate of a p p l i e d
science degree will b e
awarded s t u d e n t s who
complete the t w o - y e a r
program.
Following graduation, the
technicians will work under
the supervision of a doctor
in hospitals, nursing home and
other
health
care
institutions.
The ideal technician is a
young man or woman wh-j
enjoys working with people
and with complex, space-ag-e
equipment, and who has a
good head for details and a
keen sense of responsibility,
according to Greenville TEC
authorities.
Many More Like Her Needed
Miss Vera Smith, inhalation therapist, gives "breathing machine" treatment to a patient. Youths who wish
to follow. H i s ; Smith's example may
become registered
technicians
by
completing the inhalation therapy
couse at Greenville TEC.
THE GREENVILLE
May 29, 1970
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PIEDMONT
GREENVILLE
June
THE GREENVILLE
NEWS
PIEDMONT
June
4, 1970
4, 1970
~ Greenville
$350,000
Is Pledged
To Hospital
Robert E. Toomey, director,
Greenville Hospital System, has
been informed that the trustees
of the Duke Endowment have
pledged to contribute a total
of $350,000 over the next five
years toward expanding and
improving the hospital's medical education program.
An appropriation of $90,000
was voted by The Duke Endowment for the first year of a five
year period with additional appropriations for medical education scheduled for the remaining four years depending on
availability of funds.
The Duke contribution of
$350,000 will be enhanced by the
medical education program
costs of $315,000 by the hospital
system.
Dr. Raymond C. Ramage, director of medical education,
said the medical education program will be expanded and improved by employing full time
department heads for major
medical services, developing a
residency in family medicine
and enlarging affiliations with
medical ..universities.
Resident Doctor's Paper Best In State
Dr. Raymond C. Ramage, right, director of medical education for the
Greenville Hospital System, congratulates Dr. Jon M. Owings, second-year
resident in general surgery, on the
occasion of Owings' winning firstplace honors in statewide competition
for original research papers. The competition was sponsored by the South
Carolina chapter, American College of
Surgeons. Owings' prizes included a
GREENVILLE
June
6,
gold medal, $100 cash award and the
opportunity to have his paper appear
in a leading medical publication. The
Tennessee native received his medical
degree at the University of Tennessee,
Memphis, and interned at Floyd Hospital, Rome, Ga. Title of his winning
paper was "Definitive Management of
Burns Without General Anesthesia."
(Piedmont photo by James G. Wilson)
PIEDMONT
1970
Respiratory Disease
Seminar Scheduled
A seminar on ''Nursing in
Respiratory Diseases" will be
sponsored here June 10 by the
Board River TB-RD Association,
Piedmont TB-RD Association,
TB and Health Association of
Area 6, the South Carolina TBRD Association, South Carolina
Nurses Association and South
Carolina League for Nursing.
The seminar, to be held at the
Greenville County H e a l t h
Department, will feature a
display of inhalation therapy
equipment, as well as instruction in the use of the equipment in the treatment of
respiratory diseases.
Faculty members will be Dr.
John Scott Miller, Dr. James R.
Wilson, both of Greenville;
William F. Crisp Jr., director of
inhalation t h e r a p y , Self
Memorial Hospital, Greenwood;
Mrs. Deloris Zeigler, R. N.,
South Carolina State Board of
Health; Mrs. June Campbell, R.
N., and Mrs. Ella Garrison, R.
N., Greenville
General
Hospital.
Registration may be made by
contacting Broad River TB-RD
Association, P. O. Box 4156,
Spartanburg, or Piedmont TBRD Association, P. O. Box 5149,
Greenville.
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THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
June
10, 1970
Local Seminar Speaker Predicts
Worldwide TB Epidemic By 1990
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
and CHERYL MANNING
A possible w o r l d w i d e
tuberculosis epidemic within the
next 20 years was prophesied
today by Dr. John Scott Miller
of Anderson at a seminar here
on "Nursing in Respiratory
Diseases."
Approximately 125 medical
people attended the seminar
sponsored by the Broad River
and Piedmont TB-RD Associations and the TB & Health
Association of Area Six. All the
groups serve 16 counties in the
Piedmont region, in cooperation
with the S. C. Nurses Association and S. C. League for Nursing.
The group also heard Dr.
James R. Wilson of Greenville
explain that lung cancer is
possibly due to a chronic infection.
Miller told the group he
believes that "in the next 20
years we'll have our sanitariums
full and we'll hayean epidemic
of TB like we've never seen."
He said that strict and enforced
laws are an answer to the
problem of the spreading of
TB.
Both North and South Carolina
have laws which require persons
with tuberculosis to be in a
hospital or sanitarium for treatment. Miller said, "All patients
with TB should be in a
hospital."
"Miller's topic
was
"Tuberculosis Today: A ReEmerging Problem." He talked
about the historical background
of the disease, diagnostic and
treatment methods and the people it affects. _ •
He said that the tuberculin
skin test is the most effective
way of diagnosing tuberculosis.
"It ought to be done on
everybody," he said. A vaccination against the disease is
used in some countries, Miller
said. However, doctors in the
United States are reluctant to
use it because it keeps the skin
test from being an effective
method of diagnosis, he noted.
Age, sex and race are important factors in cases of
tuberculosis, he said. The rate
for nonwhite persons is higher
at all ages than for white
persons. After the age of 25
the rate is higher for males
of all races than for females.
"TB is a disease of poverty,"
Miller said.
There are more cases of the
disease reported in N o r t h
Carolina than in South Carolina,
he said, because North Carolina
has more c i t i e s .
"In
overcrowding, undernutrition is
common and rapid transmission
is possible."
Miller said that according to
World H e a l t h Organization
figures there were 15 million
active cases in the world, excluding China, in 1965.
"From my research and
studies, I believe cancer of the
lung quite possibly results from
some sort of c h r o n i c inflammation," Dr. W i l s o n ,
Greenville t h o r a c i c and
cardiovascular surgeon, told the
seminar.
"We don't yet know the cause
of lung carcinoma or cancer,
Various respiratory diseases were
and, although we don't know discussed in full a t today's seminar on
that cigarette smoking causes Nursing in Respiratory Diseases sponit, we do know that it is a
major contributing factor," the sored by three area TB-RD associations in cooperation with the S. C.
doctor added.
"The person who smokes only Nurses Association and South Carolina
one pack a day has 20 times League for Nursing. Among the speakmore of a chance to develop ers were, left to right, Dr. James R.
lung cancer than the person Wilson of Greenville and Dr. J o h n
Scott Miller of Anderson, examining
who abstains.
"The heavier one smokes, the an X-ray of a chest disease victim.
higher his chance of developing Mrs. Ella Garrison, right, an R. N. and
a malignant tumor," he said.
director of nursing systems at Green"I think, from my own ville General Hospital, was program
research, that all cancers are moderator. (Piedmont photo by Bena result of some sort of in- nie J. Granger)
fection, and the overall thrust
of my surveys indicate a virus
infection," Wilson explained.
' He said that the symptoms
of lung cancer were a chronic If the cancer hasn't gone too
cough; a pain in the chest, far, and if the operation is sue-,
shoulder or between t h e cessful, the patient, has three
shoulder blades; fever; weight tbnes the chance of living.five
loss; shortness of b r e a t h ; $$3rs or more than if h§-%
weakness; fatigue; and recur- not operated upon, the surgeon
rent pneumonia.
said.
"The most important factor Other speakers today were
in all cancer is the resistance William F. Crisp Jr., who told
of the host body, because often of inhalation therapy equipment
something in the p a t i e n t ' s and its uses; Mrs. June M.
system can fight off the disease' Campbell, R.N., who spoke on
or even bring it to a standstill. the pre and post operative nursing care; Mrs. Deloris Zeigler,
"There have even been cases R.N., discussing home care; and
when this still undiagnosed Mrs. Ella Garrison, R.N., on
'something' in the patient can nursing i m p l i c a t i o n s in
cause the cancer to stop and
go away, but this is very rare," respiratoryjliseases.
he added..
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70-63
THE
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
June
10, 1970
All Greenville General, Anderson Memorial
Students Successful In ARRT Examination
Twenty students from Green- Anderson Memorial Hospital for week.
science degree program will
The students at Greenville commence at Greenville TEC.
ville General Hospital and the difficult examination.
Anderson Memorial Hospital With the teaching facilities not General Hospital will receive All of the equipment and
completely installed at Green- their registration certificates teaching materials are in the
were successful in the recent ville TEC, the instructors com- and hospital diplomas along with final stages of installation and
National (ARRT) Registration muted to the hospitals to present their associate of a p p l i e d the facilities will be ready for
Examination.
the didactical portion of the science degree on June 28, at full operation by July 6.
the graduation exercise at Processing of applicants for
In November, 1969, the respec- program to the students.
May 1, 20 students wrote Greenville General Hospital.
the new program is nearing
tive hospitals terminated the theOnARRT
Registry Examination On July 6 the newly revised completion, and new applicants
didactical portion of training and received the results last 27-month associate of applied are still being accepted.
and instructors at Greenville
TEC were given the responsibility to prepare the students
for the National Registry Examination.
James Ohnysty, R. T., (AR
T H E G R E E N V I L L E NEWS June
1970
RT), at Greenville T E C
instituted a d e t a i l e d in.
structional agenda and review
sessions to prepare the 14
students from G r e e n v i l l e
General and the 6 students from
20 Hospital Students
To Receive Diplomas
Twenty radiologic technology ence degrees in a June 28 gradstudents from Greenville will uation exercise at Greenville
receive registration certificates General Hospital.
and hospital diplomas along
with associate of applied sci- The students completed the
National Registration examina_ !
.
tion upon completion of courses
at Greenville General and Anderson Memorial Hospital.
In November 1969, the hospitals terminated the didactic
portion of the training and
Greenville TEC instructors assumed the instructional agenda.
Teaching facilities were not
complete at TEC and instructors commuted to the hospitals
to present that portion of the
progrpm.
The revised 27-month associate of applied science degree
program will begin at TEC
July 6. All equipment and,
teaching materials are expected to be installed by that date
for operation of the new TEC
! program. Applicants are now
70-64
being accepted.
THE GREENVILLE NEWS
A Difficult J
June
12,
1970
essqry
ef! That difficulty obviously .
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...
. ,
The ultimate goal of a'
1
compoundto#beh'
.non-medical
^
reading
of
the
proposed
plan,
&
dedicated physicians is to preve
fealties, such as social servitfaj* 1 ?* 1 h " ? e . e " described m news
as well as cure the bodily disorders
that afflict mankind—and that is" >come involved In health care. ^fj^ries, definitely shows the need
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or 1a comprehensive
program. The
the aim of what is known as
also
, contains t h o u gh t comprehensive
health
c a r ^ . | 'Then too there are all sorts ox* * ,
issues like the doctor- ptor,
or ske riall
n g ideas on team
levelsdelivery
and
Although it is elusive, the goal,; knotty
v c e s economic
bureaucracy
and the overwhell
patient relationship,
governamt *dfcrfnprehensive
! - prepayment,
coverage
health
care
for
must be pursued diligently.
demand for services in rela
ote areas.
supply of skilled practitl*
Great need exists for improvj
physician worth his sal
J Withdrawal of the p l a n ,
delivery of health care services
e ep»cerriefl,-.,about, an.
erefore, should be retarded by
people in some areas and so:
tthat would teiid.tQ,. interfere
11 concerned as only temporary.
economic brackets in the growJI
H^very effort must be made to come
ing Greenville - Pickens metropol*jj jfcjbe/ freedom
*ttip with a new plan which will
tan area. This is in no way a rl?. ^ K f ice his pri'
;tjjnieet the health care needs of the
flection on the medical profession^
: is but a sketchy outline two counties in a m a n n e r
or the existing hospital and othefe"
acceptable to a l l
health facilities in the two countiros K h e enormous difficulty involvedfcsonably
• s e t t i n g up a comprehensivafe roduce rs of health care services.
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The fact is that populat^B ihealth services project for aft
growth, the medical manpowAL feltropolitan area like G r e e n v i l l f c » n e development ln Greenville
shortage, rapid advancement aff •tokens. The difficulties are res2|R. a s t r o n &' Progressive, dedicated
health care knowledge
arif' > i t e the obvious need for new5"»d skilled corps of doctors and
bewildering changes in economic" •fcays
to deliver health care, ft"! growth of hospital care
and social conditions make J.t
preventive care, to ali^cilities are solid evidence that
mandatory for all growirFg especially
Ifeients
of
the population.
'tne medical profession and others
metropolitan areas to seek new and;
•nn . and
will
make
the
b e t t e r w a y s of m a k i hjjf
[;lt
is,
therefore,
understandable
'comprehensive
health
services
a
comprehensive health care services
1
readily available to all residents. * $ p # t the medical profession wishe**^' ^ in this metropolitan area,,
; be involved fully in any plan
•
Although many people, including-' •feuch a program. This Is the
Ration
regarding for
withdrawal
of
grant application
a proposed
quite a few directly involved, do
not yet realize or accept it, another' Jpnville-Pickens comprehensive
services project under the
fact is that health care and what
chia program. The doctors
is known as welfare rapidly afe
oth counties—many of them
becoming almost one and twe
HB—find certain parts of the
same.
^ _ A plan objectionable and
Njjteable.
Still another fact ls that healtjk
care and welfare have come lip
Hfe sense it is a shame the
be regarded as American rights.
| | t l o n for a grant had to be
Those rights are being spelled out
wn, because it is important
in clear legal detail by the courts
rove and widen health care
of the land.
at the earliest possible
But it also is wise to delay
Obviously these facts pose many
iject until it can be modified
difficult problems for the people
legitimate requirements of
and institutions charged with the
edical profession. It is
delivery task. The problems ar<&
tic that no health care
especially tough for the medical'
t|ram can work without the
people, involving matters of vital
professional, ethical find practical' pport of the doctors.
concern to every doctor.
,y.,The Greenville County Medical
For instance It is not easy for §|ltety, which opposed the two
many doctors who take
ake seriously ictjtqity Plan as impractical, has
ha
__\h clear its willingness to
their obligations to p r a c t i c e
erate on a new plan for
medicine to embrace a teatrt,
ission to the South Carolina
concept in which non-medical
lachian Health Policy and
specialists are involved in the overall care of individuals and groupA jjpflpning Council. A committee to
It often is difficult enough f6f ,work with all medical and health
medical specialists, to arrive a t ™ | ^ B p s was suggested.
specific - line of treatment in a
complicated case in which one
_~ ^ _
tends tp__ conflict with/,
/U-03
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
June
18, 1970
Accidents That Ruin Vacations Can BeNo operation
Prevented
yet devised can
most fun-and-relaxation episodes a group of his "friends" and
By JACK NORRIS
News Staff Writer
from ending in tragedy," a that these accidents do tend replace a section of damaged
to happen to those who have spinal column in such a way
Each summer many Green- hospital spokesman said.
villians start out for a week More people driving, more demonstrated a considerable that the spinal nerve will function below the point of damage.
or a day of fun — and the teenagers with an I-don't-care lack of self discipline.
outing ends in suffering and attitudes; more drinking and 'But there was this one time No artificial limb is even a
tragedy, sometimes for a drug taking are causing the they didn't get away with it," reasonably satisfactory match
lifetime.
for the capabilities of a living
doors of hospital she said.
Week-in-week-out, throughout swinging
emergency
rooms to open more Yet, on the other hand, some one; yet prayer cannot restore
the year, small children are frequently than
ever before; the who have been extremely depen- a severed one — doctors irnow
rushed to Greenville General
that, for the present at least
of boating accidents inHospital because they found number
— the only way to alleviate
crease
as
the
affluence
of
candy-flavored pills w h i l e Americans increases; but docmuch human suffering is to premother wasn't looking; or a tors point to the dramatic reducvent accidents which seriously
pop bottle of kerosene behind tion in the ratio of drowning
damage the human body.
the stove on the floor, or in deaths to total population as
Reducing the number of acthe garage on a ledge between proof that training in safety
cidents is a goal that is attain-'
the wall studs.
methods will reduce accidents.
able, and will sometimes repay
Preventing accidents c a n
the individual immeasurably
eliminate some of l i f e ' s The physical therapist at the
for his efforts, doctors and
with
tragedies, but being careful is hospital, ' w b r k i n g
nurses say.
not so much the answer, hospital youngsters and ' others in the
personnel believe, as recognizing prime of life, who must go
They point out that, unwhere danger lurks and making through half a century of it
fortunately, unless such a
maimed or crippled because
a positive move to sidestep it.
tragedy strikes close to home,
Generally speaking, nobody somebody decided to take a life
many persons refuse to believe
in^his
hands,
can
help
put
the
takes a dare except in peerthey might be such a victim.
"accident"
in
perspective.
group company but if you dive
"Working
with
a
virile
young
off a bridge and split your head
G R E E N V I L L E P I E D M O N T J u n e 17, 1970
on a rock, not your peers, and man scarcely 20, paralyzed from
the
neck
down
and
going
to
reprobably not even doctors, will
be able to save you, nurses ex- main that way the rest of his
life is a very depressing experplain.
The family car is becoming ience for the therapist—and is dable and level-headed have
a more deadly place statistically infinitely more depressing for dreadful accidents, too, she said,
than the home and speed, driv- the victim, who often will live pointing to a young victim who,
ing while drinking or with over and over again the moment although he admittedly was exA group
d y n a m i c s terested and involved in
somebody else who is, and going he realizes was the supreme tremely tired, decided to drive
workshop, scheduled for June various aspects of group
home from college after his final
to sleep at the wheel are things stupidity of his life, she said
24-27
at
Marshall
I. Pickens work.
to be avoided if one cares about Actually, another tragedy is examination.
Hospital, will be the first ever
A limit of 75 has been set
himself, his family, or his that the individual who has such He went to sleep, his car
held in the Piedmont region.
on the number participating
a shattering p h y s i c a l ex- turned over and he ruptured
human brothers, they stress.
The Greenville Area Mental in the full workshop, but
'ilf you're going to rob a perience, must go through a his spinal cord and is paralyzed
Health Center and t h e others may attend a 1 p.m.
bank or a store you shouldn't period of depression or the from the waist down, she said.
Marshall I. Pickens Hospital, lecture each day. Miss Suzbe surprised if you pay the therapist knows he's not facing Doctors and nurses who are
which is a division of the anne Lego, visiting clinical
hospital emergency room a visit reality and, therefore, will be assigned to the h o s p i t a l
Greenville Hospital System, specialist for the workshop,
shortly — you may pass quickly unable to find even such emergency room, work franwill sponsor the workshop, will give the 1 p.m. lectures.
on to the undertaker — but rehabilitation as his broken body tically to save life and to patch
whose purpose will be "to She is a Ph. D. candidate
maimed, bleeding bodies, but
reasonable amounts of self- will allow.
provide intensive theoretical at New York University.
discipline, restraint and knowing She said most such accidents they know there are many
and clinical knowledge in the
things medicine cannot do.
Also on the staff for the
what you're doing will prevent happen when the
dynamics of groups."
workshop are Dr. Roy J.
Ellison Jr., medical director
The workshop will be open at Marshall I. P i c k e n s
to nursing education person- Hospital, and Dr. Ingebord
nel, medical p e r s o n n e l , Fleur Kruer, medical director
ministers, special educators at the Greenville Area Men-tal
and others particularly in- Health Center.
Group Dynamics
Session Planned
70-66
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
June
19,
1970
Kerosene, MedicineShould BeKeptOutOf Toddlers/ Reach
'When the barefoot season "Everything possible should
By JACK NORRIS
Children's aspirin today taste ties
we always see a great be done to keep potential
News Staff Writer
las good as candy, which is A house doctor assigned to starts,
m the
number of kids who hazards out of the way of small
No month passes but 30 or fine if the child is sick, but the emergency room, said that h™*
av
e feet cut by broken bottles children. They should b e
more toddlers ages three to is an extra hazard when the ipecac, sold at drug stores
sis are rushed to the emergency child is just prowling around without a prescription, is a good wand jagged cans. As the summer supervised in their play and
on, most of these things when the family goes on vacaroom of Greenville General for fun things to do, a nurse thing to have around the house k lears
d
which has small children.
s are going to cut themselves tion parents should pay special
explained.
Hospital.
..., , ,
, ,
on seem to get picked up, attention to what new hazards
Some have helped themselves "Ideally, I suppose, a 11 . ,
B
are there," the doctor said.
to aspirin, others to mother's medicine should be kept under The child who has taken any t h e
sai(J
He said older children should
or daddy's tranquilizers, and lock and key, but I don't know liquid or compound which may B
ex
t sunb
are
be reminded frequently that
others have drunk kerosene.
anybody who has a lock on be damaging - even kerosene
p r e v alent among children they have a responsibility to
The emergency room staff the medicine chest. So it's - should be induced to vomit
n wirfter t h a n s u m ^ e r
Hot
look after themselves and one
reports that most mothers who doubly important to put candy- if possible and a tablespoonfui igrease
burns can be especially another if vacations are to be
bring children to the hospital flavored medicines somewhere of ipecac, followed by at least
after they have taken aspirin the child simply can't reach two cupfuls of tap water, usually painful and dangerous because happy occasions.
will cause the child to vomit the grease retains its heat more
say they have kept the aspirin them," she said.
within 15 or 20 minutes, the and adults should be conscious
OB a high shelf in the medicine
at all times of where children
chest, but the baby climbed up Kerosene is hazardous to kids doctor said.
on a chair and got it while under six the year around The child who has swallowed are flaying in the kitchen when
they were on the telephone or because most adults don't think poison or any other toxic scalding grease is on the stove,
busy in the kitchen or the laun- about it as especially dangerous. substance — and this covers the nurse pointed out.
Fathers and mothers will pour medicines taken in excess — Perhaps because of its locadry room.
it in a soft drink bottle and should be rushed to the hospital tion away from beaches and
leave it in easy reach of as quickly as possible or at nearby mountain resorts, the
youngsters, hospital s t a f f least the situation should be Greenville General Hospital sees
discussed immediately with the few accidents which directly inmembers say.
'When kids come here having family physician, the house doc- volve family camping.
drunk kerosene it's always a tor stressed.
150 to one chance they drank Summer brings on an extra
it out of a pop bottle — which large number of bicycle acthey commonly associate with cidents. Last week t h r e e
1. Keep all medicines—especially good tasting medicines
treats, of course — yet many youngsters were in the hospital
—out of the reach of children.
mothers have said to me, 'I after bike accidents, none of
don't know why that child drank which involved an automobile,
%. Don't leave kerosene, gasoline or cleaning fluids in
kerosene. I had it in a bottle the nurse said,
soft drink bottles where a small child may find them.
behind the stove'."
A physical therapist spoke
3. Impress upon your child that medicines are to be used
There are child fatalities here about mini-bikes,
only when one is really sick and that they should be taken
every year caused by eating "These mini-bikes are small
then only in the presence of an adult.
candy-flavored aspirin, drinking r_~t • _ , _ * _
J
4. Be sure that a pre-school age child knows not to go
kerosene, or eating the tran b " 1 k m d °f f a s t a ? d ™tonsts
out into the street before you leave him in an unfenced yard
quilizers mother keeps in her o f t e n *>nt see them - we
unattended.
pocketbook
see a lot of young kids 8 to
5. Don't let your child ride his bicycle alone until he
Scores more are saved, but J* w he ° ' v e b e e n n " r t ° n t h e m has learned that the faster the ride, the more damaging a
spend days or weeks in the ™fs
things can t be
dangerous
k l d y o u not
h e tnera
fall may be. Teach him that bicycle-auto collisions are often
hospital
*
Pist
fatal to the bicyclist.
Fortunately, the area nurse s a 3 ,
,
.
..,,
,
supervisor said, adults seem to Many less serious children
fi. Don't let a small child push a rotary lawn mower and
put solutions like lye and drain accidents particularly prevalent
don't let anybody operate one unless he's wearing hard
n the ear
cleaners out of the reach of l , f
' y summer involve
shoes. Many toes and some feet are lost that way.
(Second of a series on acci- children, but many still drink f e e t c u t w l t h g l a s s <>r t m c a n s 7. Clean up your yard before the "barefoot" season bedent prevention during the va- bottles of detergent solution,
gins. It will prevent many painful and potentially dangerous
cation season.)
again usually stored in pop botcuts and will reduce the likelihood of snakebite.
8. Whenever you're taking young ^children to a new
place, be sure you are familiar with conditions which may
be especially hazardous to them and take steps to keep the
children safe.
Safety Precautions Outlined
70-67
THE
GREENVILLE PIEDMONT
J u n e 19, 1970
June
18,
NEWS
1970
Workshop
To Be Held
June 24-27
The newly appointed director
of personnel for the Greenville
Hospital System is Cmdr. John
Robert Reed of Bethesda, Md.
Robert E. Toomey, director,
announced Thursday that Reed
will assume duties Sept. 10. He
is currently personnel department chairman at the National
Naval Medical Center and will
retire from active military duty
Aug. 1.
,,
GREENVILLE
GREENVILLE
\Group Dynamics
Hospital System
Appoints Reed
THE
THE
Miss Suzanne Lego, visiting,
al specialist, will deliver,
p.m. lectures daily. Otherj
will be Dr. Roy J. Ellisonj
The Piedmont's first gfi
medical director a tj
dynamics workshop will be
shall I. Pickens Hospital,
June 24-27 at Marshall;
Dr. Ingebord Fleur Kruer,;
Pickens Hospital.
d i c a 1 director, Greenville
The workshop sponsored
Afga
Mental Health Center.
the hospital, a division of
1
Greenville Hospital System, d' Applicants will be limited to
the Greenville Area Mental*® persons in fields of nursing
Health Center, is designed fogigtK.at.on, medicine, ministers,
provide intensive theoretical ai#|l*fcial educators and others inclinical knowledge in thîfcSested or involved in various
dynamics of groups.
aspects of group wont.
NEWS
June
19.
1970
Reed To Direct Hospital Personnel
CMDR. JOHN REED
Cmdr. John Robert Reed of
Bethesda, Md., has been appointed director of personnel for
the Greenville Hospital System,
Robert E. Toomey, director, announced Thursday.
Reed will assume duties Sept.
10.
He is currently personnel
department chairman at the National Naval Medical Center in
Bethesda and will retire from
active military duty Aug. 1.
Reed will hold a position in
the corporate structure in the
hospital system and will be
responsible for directing and
coordinating various aspects of
employe programs in personnel
administration for the s i x
divisions. The system employes
1,750 people.
As head of the medical center
in Maryland, he has been
responsible for all personnel
functions for 3,300 civilian and
military personnel for five
years.
Previous assignments included
the Naval Hospital in Memphis,
Tenn., and Naval Medical Unit
at Tripler Army Hospital in
Honolulu, Hawaii. He also was
associated w i t h educational
programs at the Naval School
of Hospital Administration and
was a member of the faculty
of the School of Government
and Business Administration at
George Washington Universi-
70-68
ty.
Reed also was a member of
the Naval Examining Board for
procurement of Medical Service
Corps officers for the Department of the Navy and designed
and administered an educational
counseling service for members
of the Medical Department for
the U. S. Navy.
He is a native of Hazard,
Ky., and studied at the University of Hawaii and the University
of Tennessee and received an
M.A. degree from G e o r g e
Washington University.
THE GREENVILLE
June 25, 1970
NEWS
Group Dynamics Workshop
Begins With Demonstration
By JACK NORRIS
News Staff Writer
The first sessions of a
workshop on group dynamics
got under way here Wednesday
with approximately 5 0 individuals from the fields of
medicine, education, s o c i a l
welfare service and the ministry
attending. The w o r k s h o p ,
designed to teach those who
lead groups how the group
leader's behavior affects the
behavior of the group, will continue through Saturday.
Wednesday morning one completely unstructured group of
eight individuals was brought
DISCUSS GROUP DYNAMICS — Miss Juanita Woods,
at left, clinical specialist at the Greenville Area Mental
Health center, joins in a discussion of the interaction of
persons within a group with Miss Suzanne Lego, clinical
specialist at the North Esses Child Guidance Center at Belleview, N. J. Both are participating in a four-day workshop on
group dynamics being conducted at Marshall I. Pickens
Hospital. (Greenville Newi photo by Leon E. Carnes)
together from those attending Finally the developing leader
the workshop, and the rfr", becomes a stimulator, who
mainder of the a 11 e n d a n t|f Educates, facilities production
watched the group function f<jf and communication, balances
group forces and
shares
a 90-minute period.
At the end of the period both leadership, and as the group
the display group and the" generates ideas and sets limits
watchers discussed what had all members are productive and
devejop in non-limiting fashion,
taken place.
Earlier in the morning a workshop members were told.
similar number of those who Then the group's productivity
are at the mental health center- expands and its range can be
for therapy were b r o u g h t ' expected to go beyond leader's
together as a group and the capacity to member's maximum
potentials.
meeting was videotaped.
In the afternoon the workshop' Thursday and F tr i d a y's
group watched the videotape but sessions will follow the same
technical difficulties delayed a general format, Miss Woods
discussion of similarities of the said, with a lecture scheduled
dynamic g r o u p functioning at '1 p.m. daily which is open
process which, supposedly 4*tl "to the public.
e workshop is sponsored by
least, were common to e.adlf
Marshall I. Pickens Hospital
group
Miss Juanita Wood, clinical and the Greenville Area Mental
specialist with the Greenville Health Center.
It was planned and is being
Mental Health Center,
directed by Miss Suzanne Lego,
research shows that ce:
clinical specialist at the North
things happen in all
regardless of their s t a t e 1 Essex Child Guidance Center,
Belleview, N. J.
purpose.
One of the basic purposes of
the workshop, she stressed, is
to show the relationship between
leadership of the group and the
group's development.
When the group is first forming the leader acts as a boss
— plans, controls, directs and
decides autocratically—and the
group submits, conforms, is told
what to do, and has little influence on things, with little
range of productivity, workshop
members were told.
Later the leader becomes a
guide — plans, controls a n d
steers, usually subtly and indirectly — and the group moves
from registering differences and
initiating c o m p l a i n t s to
participation in thinking and
forming opinions. Here the
group has some active influence
but the range is limited to the
leader's capacity, w o r k s h o p
members were told.
70-69
Doctors Discuss Clinic
Dr. Delilah Turpin, who will head
the cystic fibrosis clinic to be established at Greenville General Hospital,
discusses plans with Dr. Paul Patter-
son, who is associated with the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation. (Piedmont Photo by Ken
Shoffner)
Plans For Local CF Clinic
Waiting For State Approval
THE CLINIC will serve a
•13-county area. It will receive
•support from the Crippled
Cfiildren's Division of the
State Board of Health and
from the local P a l m e t t o ,
chapter of the National <
Fibrosis R*e s t* a _i* c h'
m
stfifttftosis is medic^lly«daTtion
By CHERYL MANNING ' : * _ & _ . * d S? c «* •*? -1*
great
mimid_er,:..j,Pa& _ Jackson said the? i
Plans for a cystic
t ^ % t f £ ^ ^ * T _
m said. "It is generally- will be to operate the clinic
clinic at Greenville General disease, ways of educating-thediagnosed until the Child /|>nce a month as a service
Hospital are awaiting approval public about it and recent
M the Greenville Hospital
had it several ye;
from the Crippled Children's research advances w e r e
disease resembles otner .System. "We have a comhospital that's trying
division of the State Board q discussed.
itfory disease*- stfch a s n' unity
ia 4>rQMfeItisR£ r e n d e r com mumty services
of Health, according to Dr,
Harold P. Jackson of thei" DR. DELILAH T u r p i ^ f
% hey've been most helpful."
i»arly emphysemas in
. clinic will be a matter
Christie Pediatric Group.
former head of the CF clinic
en.'
^'bringing together a l the
"We hope to begin the clinic at ' Emory University, will') ciii
clinic proposed ftr
who can help these
in the next few weeks," direct the clinic here. She. is * reenville will p r o v i «f|j jjple
gdren," Jackson said,
associated
with
Dr.
Bill
Jackson said. He and foufc?
primarily a diagnostic service,
lere is no cure for cystic
other local doctors met MonJ .
Jackson said. The salt
>sis. Patterson said the onday with Dr. Paul Patterson, Patterson said CF is th$ Which is the best way to di
jope
of a cure is to. learn
most
serious
genetic
disorde^
professor of pediatrics at th#
CF, will be given at the clii
Modify
genes.
childhood
and
the
most
Albany (New York) Medican
who have CF ha
m is impprtant that the
us lung disease - u Children
College and c h a i r m a n
extremely salty sweat. Alsqj
en. There are 40 known: offered at the clinic will, he- public be educated about CF,
emeritus of the G e n e r a l
hj» said. "We have found that
s
i
n
the
G
r
e
e
n
v
i
l
l
e
Medical and Scientific Councjl'
d^# t a r y , l a b o r a t o r e in 50 per cent of newly
^jjltens
county
area,
and
doc-t
of the National Cystic Fibrosis
medical §|iagnosed cases if not treated,
tors' say that for each diagnos**- services
Pelotherapy
Research Foundation.
to children already 50 per cent are dead by 4
'ed case, there are three
.: undei treatment.
.. or 5 years."
; diagnosed.
70-70
THE
G R E E N V I L L E PIEDMONT
June 26, 1970
Specialist S a p People Un jer I^<ppy
More ConifonaDie If Participating In A Group
By CHERYL MANNING
A workshop on g r o u p
dynamics which will continue
through Saturday at Marshall
I. Pickens Hospital here is
intended "for people who are;
working with groups to learn
more about the g r o u pi
process."
Miss Juanita Woods, clinical
specialist in psychiatric nursing with the Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital, said this is
the first endeavor of this size
that the Marshall Pickens
Hospital and the Greenville
Area Mental Health Center
have sponsored iointly.
Miss Woods and Miss Suzanne Lego, visiting clinical
specialist at the workshop,
agreed that the workshop has
had an "enthusiastic reaction
from the approximately 50
guidance ' counselors, ministers, nursing educators.
psychiatrists, social workers
psychologists and correction;!
institute officials who are af
tending,
"Group dynamics is one of
the p r e s e n t bandwag<
Miss .Lego saad. "The.ius* of
groups has reached the inl of many people -w
country.'f she c6irrmerai(l.
''People tend to be able to
look at themselves more comfortably in a group than alone
or with one..other person,"
Miss Lego sak
man\*'
'•^themselves., irom ' the oth
people in th'e group."
She stressed that the ideal
group leader is one who,
stimulates and does not boss
or guide the group,
leader who acts
prûclive' than
who «timulata<=
There is also a tendency
! among the members of groups
to compete for attention from
the leader, she noted.
A clinical specialist at the
North Essex Child Guidance
Center, Belleview, N. J., Miss
Lego said she has done similar
workshops in other areas. She
has noticed no difference in
the participants in Greenville
and in other places. "People
tend to be the s a m e
everywhere," she observed.
The workshop's final session
will be Saturday. ' ' A n y
iprofessionals who are interested in working with
groups may come to the 1
p. m. lecture," Miss Woods
what' the group cai
itself. The leader, in turn,
is stimulated by what's going
.— _________
certain phenomena common to
all" groups, whether it "be a
group of prisoners or a
classroom situation. "In early
they tend to look to
With Group Dynamics Workshop
Working with the group dynamics workshop at Marshall I. Pickens
Hospital are, left to right, Miss
J u a n i t a Woods; Miss Suzanne Lego,
Dr. Rov J. Ellison. medica_Ldir____J_Q___at_
the hospital and Dr. Ingebord Fleur
Kruer, medical director at the Greenville Area Mental Health Center.
(Piedmont photo by B e n n i e
J.
Granger)
'
70-71
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
t
oiifcl Affect 19 S.C. Medical Projects
June
26,
1970
Coney believes it was thei back in line with what he had la great extent on Hill-Burton,"
By DOUGLAS MAULDIN
News Columbia Bureau
President's intention not to can- requested."
he said, "We're not wealthy
COLUMBIA — Possible cut- eel out Hill-Burton "but to get I "South Carolina depends to I l i k e a M o f o t h e r s t a t e s w h i c h
backs in federal funds for
can fund their own projects
medical facilities would affect
without federal help."
__
19 projects in South Carolina
including two major hospials in
Greenville, an official of the
State Health Department said
Thursday.
The official said the projects
J u n e 2 6 , 1970
threatened include St. Francis
Hospital and Greenville General
Hospital.
No exact figures
were
available on what funds would
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
be lost in any cutback pending
congressional action, but the
J u l y 2, 1970
state official said "several
millions" would be involved in
both Greenville projects.
Plans for a cystic fibrosis
The House voted Thursday to
diagnostic clinic to be operated
override President Nixon's veto
of the $- "5 billion grant and
for a 13-county area are
loan authorization bill f o r
awaiting approval from the
continued hospital construction.
Crippled Children's division of
The bill still faces Senate action,
Newly appointed p r o g r a m liaison with the Greenville Area
the State Board of Health, Dr.
but final enactment is expected
coordinator for the Marshall I. Mental Health Center and servHarold P. Jackson of the
next week.
Pickens Hospital is Mrs. Joan ing as nurse for the Children's
Christie Pediatric Group, said
Roper, former director of nurs- Re-Education Center.
Thursday.
Richard Coney, director of the
ing service.
Acting as director of nursing
Dr. Delilah Turpin, former
Division of Health facilities of
Frank D. Pinckney,
hospital services pntil a new one is nam
head of the CF clinic at Emory
the State Health Department,
1
administrator, said a tremen- ed will be Mrs. Barbara Newby,
said S.C. projects bound to sufUniversity, will direct t h e
dous amount of planning and head nurse.
fer for certain from any cutclinic.
work is necessary to provide Mrs. Roper assumed her new
backs are the two in Greenville
The proposed clinic w i l l
new and expanded services at duties June 12. She is a native
plus hospitals planned
i n [provide primarily a diagnostic
the hospital.
of Greenville and a graduate
Edgefield and Dillon.
t service Jackson s a i d , adMrs. Roper's new duties will of Greenville General Hospital
ministering tests and assisting
"About 19 projects in all would
include coordinating the day School of Nursing. She has been
in dietary,
laboratory
be affected," Coney said, cutting
treatment program; p a t i e n t on the faculty of the School
across the whole medical spec- physiotherapy and m e d i c a l
program scheduling of treat- of Nursing here and was area
trum. Besides hospitals, these services for children already
ment modalities;
s p e c i a l supervisor for the psychiatric
would include health centers,
being treated.
services including volunteers, floor at Greenville General
nursing homes and diagnostic
Support for the clinic will
tours, meeetings; day treatment Hospital.
treatment and rehabilitation
come from the C r i p p l e d
facilities.
Children's division of the State
Under its 1970 Hill Burton Board of Health and from the
allotment, South C a r o l i n a local Palmetto chapter of the
received $3.4 million as com- National Cystic F i b r o s i s
pared to $5.4 million in 1996.
Research Foundation. The clinic
He suggested the President, will be operated once a month.
in vetoing the medical facilities
Jackson said cystic fibrosis,
bill earlier this week, may be a respiratory disease which efangling to get Congress to fects children, is fatal in 50
return to 1970 funding levels.
per cent of the newly diagnosed
Those Congress approved almost
cases where there has been no
unanimously were more near
treatment. He said, that there
the 1969 levels, Coney noted.
are 40 known cases in the
In any return to 1970 levels,
Greenville-Pickens county areas
Coney said, "We're talking
but for every diagnosed case,
about three fifths of the money.
there are three undiagnosed.
We could do only thre fifths
of what we could normally
do."
If cutbacks are in store, he
said, the federal funds in mos*
cases would not go far dowr
the priority list of projects and
some may have to be eliminated
this year.
The official noted, however
that state officials could apply
percentages of available money
to priority projects.
70-72
Proposed
Clinic
Awaits Okay
Hospital Coordinator
Mrs. Roper Named
THE GREENVILLE
NEWS
PHYSICIANS BEGIN INTERNSHIP Seven new young physicians began their year
of internship Monday under the medical
education program of Greenville General
Hospital. Left to right, first row, are Dr.
James L. Smith, Medical College of Georgia;
Dr. John W. Davis Jr., Bowman Gray School
of Medicine, and Dr. John W. Greene, Medi-
THE
GREENVILLE
July
3,
July 2, 1970
cal College of Georgia. Second row, Dr. W.
Kenneth Easley Jr., Louisiana State University; Dr. Joseph L. Jackson, Medical College
of Georgia, and Dr. Roger E. Nunn, Medical
College of Georgia. Not present for the
photograph was Dr. Joseph T. Turnbull, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine.
NEWS
1970
70-73
Mrs. Joan Roper
Has Hospital Post
Mrs. Joan Roper, former
director of nursing service, has
been appointed p r o g r a m
coordinator for the Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital, Frank D.
Pinckney, h o s p i t a l
administrator, announced.
Mrs. Roper, a Greenville
native, was graduated from the
Greenville General H o s p i t a l
School of Nursing and has been
a member of the faculty. She
also was area supervisor for
the psychiatric floor at Greenville General Hospital.
Mrs. Barbara Newby, head
nurse, will be director of nursing
until a new one is named,
Pinckney said.
tmlm Volunteers i ^ ecewe
ea
^
"hospital
volunteers
have con_
_
tinued their education and interest in the health field to
have been presented red and become professional nurses
white striped caps as candy and medical and radiologic
stripers.
technologists.
Mrs. Jack H a r r i s , administrator of n u r s i n g
services who made the presentation of the school of nursing,
told the audience of candy
stripers, tbeir p a r e n t s ,
hospital officials and representatives of the auxiliary, which
is sponsor of the teen-age auxiliary, that "Volunteer service
is a two-way street."
The capping c e r e m o n y
sympbolizes that the high
school students have met the
r e q u i r e m e n t s for full
membership in the teen-age
auxiliary.
To qualify as candy stripers
the members attend orientation and nursing instruction I
classes and serve an apprenticeship under the "big
"You probably know what sister" concept with an active
these young volunteers do in member of the teen-age auxserving the community and iliary.
the hospital," Mrs. Harris
Candy stripers must serve
said, ''and their contributions eight
hours per month to
are noteworthy. They work maintain.,
as active
in many departments and members., status
are serving
perform many services, by in various They
departments and
which our patients benefit."
areas, including the admitting
office, escorting patients to
"As parents of c a n d y hospital rooms in njirsinj
stripers you should also apdistribqljpg mail;
preciate that volunteer service ngeasnoh-nursing
needs %_ tl 5
is helpful to these young girls nursirtg'.areas
hospital;
in thieir own development," Xray and pofh the
a
r
macy?
Mrs. Harris continued. "Their departments, as well
• as
experiences will be helpful to assignments on the hospitality
them. They will learn to work cart, gift shop and television
together in group work. They
will learn to hold confidences. rental service.
They will give dedicated
Each year, with income
service in helping others, from bake sales and other
thereby making a positive con- fund-raising activities, candy
tribution to the good of the stripers donate equipment to
community. They will grow the hospital or p r o v i d e !
in knowledge and in poise. funds.
All of these, in great measure,
contribute toward
good
Attending the ceremonies
citizenship."
were Mrs. Richard V. Slaker,
vice president of the adult
L. Stanton - T u t t l e , ad- auxiliary, and Mrs. T. W.
ministrator of internal opera- Williams, adult chairman for
tions at the hospital, con- the teen-age auxiliary.
gratulated the group. He
emphasized the important role
Candy striper officers are
which volunteers serve in Miss D e n i s e Petropoulos,
hospital service. Tuttle pointed president; Miss Debbie Dill,
out that a number of candy vice president; Miss Ann
stripers who have b e e n Montgomery, secretary, and
Miss Carol T h o m p s o n ,
treasurer.
c
apd
By home towns, the new candy stripers are: E a s l e y ,
Theresa Crooks and Donna
Watson; T a y l o r s , Jill
Halstead; Honea Path, Susan
McCullough and Jane Southern; Piedmont, Debbie Casey,
Becky S e y m o r e , Karen
Smith, Ramona Williams and
Cynthia Wilson; Travelers
Rest, Joyce Stepp.
Also, Greenville, Frankie
Baldwin, Diane Boyd, Diane
Chapman, Kelle Cox, Sandra
Duncan, Debbie Eskew, Terry
Fennell, Sandy Forest, Susan
Hazelwood, Judy H e s t e r ,
Cheryl Jamison, Pat Johnson,
Edith King, Brenda Law, Dale
Long, Jill McLane, Debbie
Mullinax, Merri P a i n t e r ,
Diane Sammons, True Scott,
Debra Sosebee, D e b o r a h ,
Spearman, Mary Stall, Kathy
Standridge, Teresa Stepp and
Gloria Thompson.
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liHi:
CANDY STRIPERS—Among 37 new candy stripers at
Greenville General Hospital are these at the ceremony in
which Mrs. Jack Harris, administrator'of nursing services,
presented caps. From left are Mrs. Harris, Miss Becky Seymore of Piedmont, Miss Teresa Crooks of Easley and Miss
Terry Fennell. This brings the teen-age auxiliary membership
at the hospital to 236. (Greenville News photo by LeoE E .
Carnes)
THE GREENVILLE
July 3, 1970
70-74
NEWS
THE GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
July 6, 1970
Hospital System
$12 Million Bonds By April
By JOAN MCKINNEY
Governmental Affairs Editor
By April 1971, the Greenville
Hospital System (GHS) plans
to sell an additional $12 million
in general obligation bonds to
construct its new Grove Road
facilities.
The sales — to be made
in issuances of $6 million each
— would require a 12-mill tax
levy to service the bonds. The
1969 levy for the hospital
district was 4.5 mills.
Hospital officials will appear
Tuesday b e f o r e Greenville
County Council to s e e k
authorization for the first sale,
proposed for August.
Councilman (Robert Vaughn
said today a letter from
hospital officials says the sale
is needed to pay the contractor in September. The letter further states the sale
would carry construction costs
through March, 1971, Vaughn
12-mill figure for anticipated jected finance needs which were
revenue needs is included in to come from local sources.
the letter, Jones said.
Vaughn said he conferred
Councilmen Vaughn a n d with hospital officials on the
William Kay Jr. today studied apparent speedup and was
the pending request and noted given four reasons for the
that the first sale, which coun- changes:
cil will consider Tuesday,
First, a lack of federal
would put the hospital system funds. The system h a d
some $7 millipn ahead of pro- originally expected $5 million
jected bond sales.
in Hill-Burton funds to assist
The system has already sold in the project, only a portion
$3.5 million in bonds for the of which were received.
new facilities.
Secondly, a sudden change
Vaughn said a t a b l e in the bonding market which
publicized at the time of the has increased the interest rate
referendum in which the from 4.5 to about 6.5 per
building program was ap- cent.
proved included the following
Third, opinion of bonding
estimates:
authorities that bonds should
In 1970, $2.4 million in funds be retired in 15 years instead
needed, with an added 1.1 of in 20 years as originally
mills taxation; in 1971, $3.6 planned.
million needed, with a millage
Fourth, a decision to build
increase of 1.7 for a total 300 instead of 200 beds at
increase of 2.8 mills; by 1974,
millage to increase to a total
of 11.2 mills on a total building
expenditure of approximately
$248 million.
COUNTY Treasurer Willie
Jones said today that he has
THE TABLE — compared
a copy of correspondence from
hospital officials on the up- with tne pending requests —
coming August sale and on means the district in early
a second $6 million sale 1971 would be more than $9 milproposed for April, 1971. The lion ahead of its originally pro-
the general and surgical
hospital part of the project.
Hospital officials believe it
will be less expensive to
provide the beds now than
to make additions l a t e r ,
Vaughn explained.
BOTH VAUGHN and Kay
noted what they said has
become a council dilemma:
The body must give technical
approval to the bond sale —
thus creating the appearance
of raising taxes — when, in
effect, the sale has already
been approved, in referendum.
Vaughn pointed out that 1969
General Assembly a c t i o n
provided that bonds sold for
the hospital building program
would not be charged against
the county's bonding ability.
The same act allows the
70-75
hospital system to sell bonds
up to 25 per cent of the county's assessed valuation, he
said.
The councilman said that,
based on a current assessment
of $127 million, the system
could sell more than $31
million in bonds.
Discussing the h o s p i t a l
system's Tuesday appearance
at council, Robert Toomey,
system director said the request for bond issuance is
"in accordance wilh t h e
referendum passed by voters
in 1968."
"A contract for construction
was signed last fall," Toomey
said. "As the p r o g r a m
progresses, funds must be
available to meet
the
payments to t h e
contractor."
Toomey restated most of the
reasons offered by Vaughn for
the speedup in bond sales.
"Economic conditions have
changed," Toomey noted, adding 'that "interest rates are
approximately three per cent
greater than those which
prevailed two years ago and
amortization of bonds over a
15-year period are m o r e
saleable than the 20 to 25
year bonds on which we had
predicated our projections."
Acceleration of the construction program will "more
adequately meet the pressing
needs which now exist," the
director said.
"However, in the long run,
allowing for inflation, the total
millage for the entire project
is no greater than originallj
planned and projected," he
said.
THE
GREENVILLE
NEWS
July
7, 1970
For Hospital Expansion
County Council To Hear Request
For $8.5-Million Bonds Issuance
County Council will hear a projected finance needs which surgical hospital. Vaughn said
request Tuesday by Greenville were to come from local hospital officials believe it will
be less expensive to provide
Hospital System officials to sources.
authorize sale of $8.5 million Vaughan said after conferring the beds now than to make
in general obligation bonds with hospital officials that the additions later.
which will require a 7.5 mill apparent speedup could be at- Robert E. Toomey, system
tributed to e c o n o m i c con- director, said the total millage
tax levy.
for the entire project is no
The request for a second ditions.
greater than was originally
The
system
had
originally
anissuance of bonds is in ac- ticipated $4 million in Hill- planned and projected.
cordance with the referendum Burton funds and received $1.3 He cited inclusion of the Roger
passed by voters in 1968 to million though an additional C. Peace I n s t i t u t e for
allow for the expansion of million may be expected during Rehabilitative Medicine which
hospital facilities in Greenville the projects next 18 months, was not included in the current
County.
construction planning in 1968.
he said.
The 1969 levy for the hospital The bonding market has in- "The Appalachia p r o g r a m ,
district was 4.5 mills which creased the interest rate from however, p l e d g e d $1,800,000
provided for the sale of $3.5 4.5 to about 7 per cent, Vaughn toward construction of the
million in bonds for the new said and bonding authorities' Roger C. Peace Institute, and
Grove Road facilities.
opinion that bonds should "be this grant enabled the hospital
Councilman Robert Vaughn retired in 15 years instead of system to accelerate the consaid the request would put GHS in 20 years as originally plan struction of this facility and
make it available sooner than
well ahead of projected bond ned.
sales and the district in early A fourth reason included the expected," Toomey said.
1971 would be more than $9 decision to build a 300 instead The 7.5 mill request is a part
million ahead of its originally of 200 beds at the general and of the total program presented
in 1968 which will require an
increase of 12.8 mills on a total
building expenditure of approximately $28 million through
1974. The estimate two years
ago was 11.2 mills for $24.8
million expenditure by 1974.
An ordinance for amendments
to the zoning map will be up
for first reading at the meeting.
Also scheduled for discussion
is the ordinance allowing sale
of industrial bonds' for construction of an A m e r i c a n
H a r d w a r e Supply Co.
70-76
Good Afternoon
This Is Gil Rowland
DR. H.C.H. SOYSA of Colombo, Ceylon, who visited
in Greenville this week, is a tea planter.
He showed movies and slides about production of leaves
for the beverage we drink so regularly and know so
little about.
Constant spraying to fight fungus and other dangers
and regular picking of buds and tender leaves
are keys to successful tea growing.
The 270 by 140-mile island south of India
produces 500 million pounds of tea annually.
Dr. and Mrs. Soysa told a small gathering
here about the interesting island, which has
a population of 13 million.
Although elephants are declining in number
because more of their jungle territory is
being cultivated, Ceylon still has elephant
round-ups. A kraal, or pen, is built in a
remote area and hundreds of. persons whoop
ROWLAND and holler to drive the herd, towards the
gorge that leads into the kraal.'
Dr. Soysa participated in the round-up of 42 elephants.
He said a good mahout can train a wild elephant
in three months.
Dr. Soysa, a retired medical doctor, said Ceylon has
virtually eliminated the scourge of malaria in the past
decade or two.
The island was settled about 500 B.C. by the Sinhalese
who came down from the valley of the Ganges. The
Portuguese occupied part of it in 1505, and the Dutch
occupied part in 1658. Britain annexed the island in 1796,
and it became a crown colony in 1802.
A British-type constitution was adopted in 1946, and
the island became a member of the Commonwealth in
1948.
The Soysas were guests of the Robert W. Joergers,
205 W. Prentiss Ave., as part of a bus tour of the
United States.
Family From Ceylon Visits Here
Dr. D. E. Wallar, left, chief of the Emergency
Room Physicians' Service at Greenville General
Hospital shows equipment to Dr. and Mrs. H.C.H.
Sojtea of Colombo, Ceylon. (Piedmont photo by
James G. Wilson)
"Mountain people are less outgoing — or, as they
would put it, more reserved. They sit on front porches
of lofty mountain cottages overhanging the abyss, and
fold their hands and gaze mystically at the little clouds
proceeding across the heavens and thank God they are
here instead of down below. They represent the contemplative,
not the active; they had rather philosophize than persuade.
They are poor golfers, better tennis players and excellent
chess players. Professionally, they teach, preach or
philosophize.
"The beach or mountain itself is not essential: it
does not determine the temperament, it is but the outward
manifestation. Many plainsmen, for example, are beach
people at heart. They're outgoing, they're energetic, they'd
rather close a deal or be elected than read a book.
"The division between beach and mountain people, after
all, is only spiritual. Everyone throughout history has been
one or the other. Pericles, Alexander the Great, Caesar,
Charlemagne, William the Conquerer, El Cid, Charles the
Bald, Dale Carnegie and Lyndon are undoubtedly beach
THE WINSTON-SALEM Journal said it:
people; Plato, Sophocles, Hamlet, John Milton, Dostoevsky,
"There are two kinds of people in America, and the Leon
division is riot between North and South, rural and urban, people."Blum and Eugene McCarthy, clearly mountain
black and white. The real division is between people who
like to vacation in the mountains and those who like
to go to the beach. All Americans, at heart, are either
GREENVILLE
PIEDMONT
beach people or mountain people.
"One must generalize, of course, but beach people
J u l y 9, 1970
are more open, more outgoing, and at first sight, more
friendly. They like the heat, the excitement, the informality
of the beach. They like people and, professionally, they
usually deal with people. Their ranks include most lawyers,
salesmen, merchants, realtors, druggists, restaurateurs and 7 0 - 7 7
undertakers.
.
.
I
THE
GREENVILLE
By JIM TURNER
Governmental Affairs Staff
Taxes for 1970 increased 12
mills throughout most of Greenville Cjmnty, with increases
high as 42.5 mills in
districts.
The figures are from the 1970
tax millage schedule released
today by County A u d <
Elizabeth Riddle. H o s p i t a l ,
library, school and recreation
ages account for the general
:rease.
Last year's G r e e n v i l l e ^
Hospital System levy was 4.5
i mills. The levy is 12 mills for
11970. The 7.5-mill increase is
due to the hospital systems'
planned sale of $12 million in
bonds to pay for building the
new Grove Road facilities. The1
'new facilities were approved by
referendum in 1968.
The county library tax is 6.
mills, up two from 1&9. The,
2-mill increase in the library
levy is to cover costs of expansion and operation of the
new College Street facilities.
PIEDMONT
July
15, 1970
[gst Of Greenville Co
Fay 12 Additional
The county recreation levy is
up from 1.5 to 2.5 mills. The
commission's budget required
the millage hike to hire needed
\ personnel and carry out existing
• recreation projects.
Special school levies increased!
98 to 99.5 mills to pay
a general obligation bono*
issue of $5.15 million, approved
by county referendum in 1968,
and to fund the school system's
building and r e n o v a t i o n ;
program.
The 1970 county g e n e r a l
operating millage remains at
14.25 mills. General bounty[bonds at 4.5 mills, board of
êducation at .75 mill, reforestaat' .25 mill, charitable;
[hospitalization at 6 mills ^ M
the County Art Museum aP??S
' mill also reflect no change from;
the 1969 figures. '
I
; In 1969, the S. C. General
Assembly enlarged the Greenville Memorial A u d i t o r i u m
district from the old Greater
Greenville Sanitation district to
include all {li§tri<;ts under the
Greenville 'County S e w e r
Authority, except those in
.Laurens and Anderson counties.
As a result, 69 new districts!
have been added to the 1
auditorium levy, paying .5-mill|
each for maintenance of the
facility.
The maintenance levy for the
19 original districts decreased
to ,5-mill. Since the bond retirement levy also decreased by j
.5-mill, the levy for those)
districts fell from 4 to 3 mills.
The county's highest millagej
increase was 42.5 mills for both)
Mission and Merrifield districts,]
h have new roads going'
1
Merrifield is getting increased
water and sewer service, and
Mission has a new fire department.
Lowest increase was 9.5 mills
for Greenville City (500 and
519), Greenville Area 3 (599),
and Parker (302).
Using the millage chart, taxpayers can compute the increase
in their property taxes, with
1 mill equalling $1 per $100
âssessed property value. The
ijjfssessed value of real estate,
ior tax purposes, is 5 per cent
of its true value.
The county has four more
districts than in 1969. Five new
districts were created, and
Greenville City, district 518 was;
merged with 519.
The new districts are Taylors
Fire (278), Piedmont Park Fire:
(279), Greer-Taylors Fire (288),
and two new Parker districts
(311 and 312).
J
Greenville Taxpayer's Liability Upped By 12 Mills
Most Greenville C o u n t y tax bills in Mission and Merproperty owners will face a 1970 rifield districts.
tax increase of at least 12 mills, The 12-mill increase going into
according to figures released effect in most districts reflects
Wednesday by Elizabeth Riddle, increased levies for the Greencounty auditor.
ville Hospital System, t h e
Increases range from 9.5 mills recreation commission, library
in several districts, including and school system.
the City of Greenville, to 42.5 The general county millage
mills, which will be added to levies were not increased. The
THE GREENVILLE
July
16, 1970
NEWS
millage remains at 4.5 for reduced .5 mill.
general county bonds, 14.25 for An increase of 7.5 mills in
the county budget, .75 for the the levy for the hospital system
county Board of Education, .25 is due to planned sale of $12
for reforestation, six for charity million in bonds for new
hospitalization and .75 for the facilities on Grove Road. The
art museum.
total hospital system levy is
Enlargement of the Green- 12 mills.
ville Memorial A u d i t o r i u m The levy for the Greenville
district to include all districts County Library incresed from
under the Greenville County four to six mills to pay for
Sewer Authority added 6 9 expansion and operation of the
districts. A .5-mill tax will be new College Street facilities.
levied in the new districts for Special school levies increased
auditorium maintenance, while from 98 to 99.5 mills to pay
in the 19 original districts the for a general obligation bond
levy for operational purposes issue of $5.3 million approved
is to be reduced .5 mill and in a 1968 referendum.
the levy for debt- retirement The largest increases, 42.5
70-78
mills in districts 200 and 201,
will affect property owners in
Merrifield, where increased
water and sewer service is to
be provided, and Mission, where
there is a new fire department.
New roads also are being constructed in the two areas.
The highest tax rate, 229 mills,
will be levied in Paris Mountain
district 274. The lowest millage
levy applies in C o l u m b i a
districts 25 and 26, at the
southern tip of the county,
where the 1970 total taxes are
132.5 and 142.5 mills.
The assessed value of the real
estate, for tax purposes, is five
per cent of its true value.
.
Nursing Profession, Like Others, Is Now Specialized
B> MARIE M l-l DI \
Piedmont Women's Editor
Almost all little Rir.s play the game of nursing
sick dolls.
Many grown-up girls actually become nurses
to help restore health :o the 111.
However, with the rapid growth In, the field
of health and patient care, a nurse today not
only knows how to handle emergencies of every
kind, but often socialises In .a field in which
she may be personally lntere>'i'dU •. „
This is evidenced by ".:.<• growing number of
special unit centers at the GrcennUf Gfnml
Hospital — spinal cord
coronary car*, intensive care n n
— where patient* with i
concentrated care.
Nurses in these units beconj
with tbe particular problems inroU
Nurses in tbe spinal cord u n f t ^ B ^ K e l v e d
medical supervision and directions
physicians, physical therapists and other members
of the hospital team.
The first Intensive care unit, six beds
established In 1984, nas been Increased to the
present ll-bed unit. Nursing seminars are held
twice monthly for nursing personnel assigned to
this unit.
One of the most fascinating special areas is
the coronary unit, where nursing personnel read
cardiac monitors (TV-type screen) and have
learned to recognize symptoms ot pending
difficulties. They also have bad special training
with heart specialists and nursing-ln-servicc
Instructors and many have attended workshops
In this sepclalty area.
The Intensive care nursery tor Infants is a
real comfort to parents of very 111 babies. The
premature ones can be constantly observed and
any difficulties noted immediately. New, special
equipment, such as the navel feeding method, has
proved Tery beneficial in the care of infants. Nurses
here have received special teaching and Instructions
and all have attended workshops dealing with the
care of critically 111 babies
Anyone who has undergone surgery In recent
years has been in lb** recovery room. Here, a
patient Is carried Immediately following surgery
and remains until his condition ls considered stable.
With a staff of trained nurses here, the floor
nurses are relieved of tbe constant supervision
a palient needs following surgery, freeing them
for the routine care of other patients. The personnel
has developed special skill., ln the use of emergency
equipment and In recognizing the symptoms of
patients who need Immediate attention.
While the nurses, stationed on a regular basis
ln the special units are highly trained for that
particular area, nursing personnel assigned to other
areas Of the hospital are just as qualified and
well prepared to meet any situation which may
develop In serving their patients.
There ls a great need for more nurses ln the
Greenville Hospital System and ln most other
hospitals. More and more people are receiving
professional hospital care and this requires more
trained personnel to staff the hospitals.
Nursing has gained full status as a profession,
and skills must be acquired and developed tbrougb
education and clinical experience.
There are three types of nursing education
programs for the registered nurse! three-year
hospital diploma programs as represented at General
Hospilal School of Nursing. two?jfeax associate
degree and four-year baccalaureate- degree program
at the university level. There a n three of the
latter in the state. Clemson University. University
of South Carolina and Medical university of South
Carolina.
Nursing ls a very satisfying and rewarding
profession for both men and women. And with
the wide variations ln the types of nursing to
be done today, a person can just about decide
what area of health care is best suited to his
or her own qualifications.
(PHOTOS BY JAMS G. ffTJLSON)
When anyone undergoes raretry at General
Hospital, he is wheeled directly from the operating
room to the recovery room, where team* of nurses
carefully watch over him. This photo was made
Ju*t after a patient wai broucht in. Left to right,
Dr. Lamar Leahman, anestheiLU; Mrs. Ethan Allen,
R. N-; and student nunc U n Carolyn Hollowell...
In tbe cardiac unit at Greenville General
Hospital can keep watch on the heartbeats of
patients with tbe monitor, television-type
at tbe nursing center which registers from tbe
patients' beds. Mrs. William R. Jones watches one
here.
Receiving treatment on the surgical floor Is
Mrs. Annie James, wbo serves as secretary at one
of the nursing stations at the hospital. Mre. C.
M. Andrews Jr., R. N.. rich!, adjusts the nose
tube as student nurse, Mrs. Mike McCollum,
watches.
The Bird respirator In the Intensive care unit
»t General assists patients with breathing
difficulties. The Instrument Is used extensively in
this department, but Is also available for use in
other parts ot the hospital. Mrs. W. J. Greene,
a Greenville General graduate, uses the respirator
here on a patient.
Among the new equipment at the hospital
are the navel feeders for premature babies. The
tube ls Inserted In the open navel and the nurses
press an air tube to assist tbe babies In breathing
as they are fed. Here, Mrs. H. R. Seifried, left.
head nurse and Lancaster, Pa., General Hospital
graduate; and Mrs. N. D. Chassie, a Vanderbilt
graduate and Boston University clinical specialist,
feed two premature babies in the incubators.
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GREENVILLE PIEDMONT
July 28, 1970
THE GREENVILLE
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Hospital Bonds Sold
At Low Interest
By JOAN McKINNEY
Governmental Affairs Editor
County and G r e e n v i l l e
General Hospital System officials were pleased today with
the opening of bids on a $6
million bond sale for construction of new hospital
facilities on Grove Road. Interest rates were well below
what officials
had
anticipated.
Apparent low bidder was
Solomon Brothers of New
York at an average interest
rate of 5.6554, or in dollar
values, $3.18 million.
When presenting the request
for authorization for bond sale
to Greenville County Council,
hospital officials said they
feared interest rates could rise
to 7 per cent. Today Robert
Toomey, executive director of
the system, said the 7 per
cent figure was based on information the system received
from bond attorneys during
a meeting in the last week
of May.
Interest rate was 7.12 at
that time, he said.
Toomey said he was "extremely gratified" at the
results of today's opening.
"We want what we're doing
to be accomplished at the
least possible cost to the taxpayers," he said.
Other bidders on the sale
were Chase Manhattan Bank,
5.7139, average interest rate
or $3.22 million; Lehman
Brothers a n d Associates,
5.7778 or $3.25 million; Halsey,
Stuart & Co., Inc., and
Associates, 5.7460 or $3.24
million; First National Cil$/
Bank, of New York, 5.7858
or $3.26 million; Wachovia National Bank and Trust Co.
of North Carolina, 5.7967 or
$3.26 million.
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BOND BIDS OPENED — Greenville Hospital System and county officials look over
bids for $6 million in bonds for hospital construction at the bid opening Tuesday. Seated,
from left, Robert E. Toomey, director of the
system; Willie Jones, county treasurer; Har-
ry Daniel of Greer, secretary of the hospital
system's board of trustees; and, standing,
Ralph Blakely, chairman of Greenville County Council. (Greenville News photo by Bennie J. Granger)
$6-Mi.lion Hospital Bond Issue Sold
A $6 million,county bond issue
for hospital construction has
been sold to Solomon Brothers of
New York.
The company's low bid of
5.655409 average interest rate
for a cost of $3,189,650.50 on the
15-year bonds was accepted
after nine bids for the bonds
were opened Tuesday.
the Greenville Hospital System, Co., Inc., and A s s o c i a t e s ,
said he was ' ' e x t r e m e l y 5.746070.
gratified" by the results of the Also, First National City Bank
bidding. GHS officials had anticipated interest rates might be of New York, 5.7858; Wachovia!
National Bank and Trust Co. of
as high as seven per cent.
Other bidders and the average North Carolina, 5.7967; Morgan
interest bid included Chase Guaranty Trust Co., 5.79913;
Manhattan .Bank, 5 . 7 1 3 9 ; Trust Company of Georgia,
Lehman Brothers and Associat- 5,845478; and Phelps, Fenn &
es, 5.777869; Halsey, Stuart & Co., 5,82185.
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DLg HOME WEEK — It was time for
ivmimsilngt^-hen the Alumnae Association of
Green.*iHe ^feneral Hospital School of Nursing
had its annual meeting and reunion. From
left at the nurses' residence are Mrs. Susan
Jones, member of the hospital staff who is
outgoing president of the alumnae associa-
Emergency Room
Has No Normal Day
"An average day seldom
occurs" in the emergency room
at Greenville General Hospital,
hospital officials say.
Many factors influence the
workload each day in the
emergency room. These include
the day of the week, the hour,
the weather, whether it is
raining, sun shining or sleeting,
whether it is a holiday or not,
and whether children are in
school or out.
Each month, 3,475 patients
come to the emergency room.
Hospital officials said that in
the past year there have been
41,907 visits to the emergency
room, with 6,311 of these
resulting in admissions to the
hospital. The average period of
four weeks s h o w s
485
admissions, or 17.3 admissions
per day.
These statistics compare with
30,500 emergency room patients
In 1960 and 36,000 in 1965.
The lowest number o f
admissions occurred during the
period with the highest number
of visits. This was during the
middle of the summer while
tion; Mrs. John W. Callaham „of
^children were out of school, and
member of the Class of 1911, vend.,Miss Gail there were more accidents, but
Moore of Greer, student body president who of. a less serious nature.
The highest number o f
will be graduated from the school of nursing
Sept. 11. (Greenville News photo by Bennie
J. Granger)
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admissons occurred during the
period with the next lowest
number of visits. The time was
during the winter, and the
accidents were due to ice on
sidewalks and streets, and
illnesses due to cold weather.
Thus, fewer accidents, but more
serious in nature.
Holidays or holiday weekend
have a definite impact on the
emergency room.
Any hour of any day can
be a peak time in the emergency
room on a holiday weekend.
The emergency room becomes
busy at approximately 7 p.m.
the day before the holiday and
stays busy until about 2 a.m.
Tuesday morning.
The most critical hours in
the emergency room
at
Greenville General are from 6
p. m. to 2 a. m., w h e n great
pressures are placed
on
physicians and staff to handle
the patient load.
An attempt was made to
determine what an average day
in the emergency room is. There
is no such day. Seasons of the
year, especially^pinter and
inclement weathM^ affect the
situation, and one" important
factor for consideration i s
whether children are in school
or not.
The daily report during a
given f o u r - w ee k period
represents 131 emergency room
visits. Of these, 19 of the
emergency room patients were
admitted.
Of these, 84 persons live in
the city of Greenville; 34 are
residents of Greenville County;
13 were from outside Greenville
County, aifinhree were out-ofstaters, passing through the
environs of Greenville.
In a day's time, 93 entered
the emergency room
as
"walking cases;" 12 young
children were carried in the
arms of parents or friends; îne
arrived in wheel chairs, and
17 by ambulance.
Emergency room p a t i e n t s
generally can be categorized in
two divisions — a c c i d e n t
victims, and n o n - a c c i d e n t
patients. During the period of
a day, 63 patients
are
"accident" victims, and 68 are
non-accident.
Attention given by physicians
to meet individual requirements
of patients include medical, 84
leases; surgical, 27 cases, and
orthopedic patients, 20 cases.
j While hosiital staff members
:ln the emergency room agree
<an "average day" n e v e r
jhappens, they report that each
I day will involve the following,
| among all other types of
emergency room patients: one
dog bite; one possible rape;
one assault and beating; one
child (under seven years of
age), with accidental poisoning;
two adults suffering f r o m
overdose of drugs; six to receive
injections, after doctors' office
hours; one gunshot victim; one
alcoholic patient; seven on-thejob injuries, some of serious
nature; four or five coronary
cases; 10 to 15 automobile
accident victims; and at least
one dead on arrival.
Members of the Emergency
Room Physicians' service, with
Dr. D. E. "Andy" Wallar as
chief, are on fulltime duty in
the emergency room. They
serve 10 and 14-hour shifts,
scheduled on a rotating basis,
and on one day each week,
the Emergency Room Service
I physician works a stretch of
118 hours.
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The G r e e r Citizen
A u g u s t 19, 1970
Expansion Program For Hospital Is Announced
Work l a y Begin
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Preliminary architectural drawings for the $2,546,000
expansion program at Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital at
Greer have been completed and received by the Greenville
Hospital System, Chairman W. W. McEachern of the Board
of Trustees announced.
•Architect's Drawing Of Expansion Program'
At Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital
PICTURED IS THE ARCHITECT'S rendering for the S2,546,000
expansion program at Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital in Greer,
with anticipated construction work on the first phase of the project
scheduled to begin in December of this year.
Local Hospital
Plans Expansion
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Hospital, Bethlehem, Pa., and serpital.
Careful attention has been given ved his surgical residency at Docto expansion requirements ior the tor's Hospital in Washington and St.
Luke's in Bethlehem. Pa. He served
future, it was noted.
William H. Botts, director of in the United States Navy from 19planning and development for the 42 to December 3, 1944, when he
Greenville Hospital System, said was killed in action at Ormoc Bay,
chat the preliminary architectural L*yte, in the Philippine Islands.
The Allen Bennett Memorial Hosdrawings are now being studied and
work should be started soon on the pital was completed and occupied
in 1953. with 27 beds. It was later
working drawings.
enlarged during two construction
On. Ten Acre Tract
The Allen Bennett Memorial Hos- programs to increase its capacity
to
63 beds. Diagnostic and treat
pital and Roger Huntington Nurs
ing Center are situated on a ten- nent facilities have never been en
ure tract donated for hospital pur- larged, although the hospital selposes by Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Bennett, ves an area with an estimated popu
in honor of their son. Lieutenan, lation of 43,000 persons.
The Roger Huntington Nursinj
Selton Allen Bennett, Jr., Medical
Center, with SO beds, named in hon
Corps, USNR.
The young physician, a surgeon. Dr of the late Roger S. Huntington
was a graduate of Virginia Military who served ior more than 20 year
Institute and received his medical as Chairman of the Board of Green
iegree from the University of Vir- ville General Hospital and was th<
ginia Medical School. He took his first chairman of the Board of Trus
master's degree in science at the tees of the Greenville Hospital Sys
University of Pennsylvania. He ser- tern, was opened in April, 1963.
Working drawings will be started
soon, and it is anticipated construction work on the Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital project can begin
in late December, he said.
Director Robert E. Toomey pointed out that the Greer construction
program will provide expanded ancilliary services, such as X-ray and
Laboratories, which have been badly needed ior many years, as well
as increased space for delivery
rooms, operating rooms, emergency
room, physical therapy and oxygen
therapy and nursing areas.
The present bed capacity to Allen
Bennett Memorial Hospital will be
increased to 100 beds.
The new hospital will be topped
by a floor for nursing areas. The
structure has been planned and programmed for adding five more
floors later, giving the hospital an
eight-storied facility. These additional floors at a later date will
give Allen Bennett Hospital a capacity of 300 beds.
Extensive Planning
Mr. Toomey said extensive and
comprehensive planning for enlarging the Allen Bennett Memorial
Hospital has taken the better part
of a year. The new structure will be
located immediately behind the existing hospital facility, adjoining it
and the Roger Huntington Nursing
Center.
Designed by J. Harold Mack Associates, Architects, the new structure will harmonize with the existing facilities, and will give the
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Greenville News
Greenville News
S e p t e m b e r 1, 1970
Greenville's Health
Welfare Needs Outlined
The growing community needs 'I think the third basic
to plan more health and welfare problem is the polarization of
|Services — but, more than this, attitudes and ideas t h a t
it needs to implement programs permeates every strata of our
already developed, William C. social, political and religious inRipley Jr., executive director stitutions and I'm afraid that
of the Greenville County Com- no specific social service can
munity Council, said Monday. be set up to combat this,"
"Our entire board has been Ripley said.
engaged in reshaping and re- He said it's good for Greenstructuring attitudes, particular- ville to plan physical needs it
ly as this relates to implemen- will have in 15 or 20 years
tation of the study and planning but that clearly defined social
planning is equally important.
process," Ripley said.
"I don't think Greenville is "Urban renewal and highway
unique in this — I don't think building both cause people to
any social planning body has move and to relocate which fredevoted enough of its time to quently creates new social
the implementation process," problems, he said.
He said that because the
he said.
Social planning involves three present system of i n c o m e
ibasic components: identification maintenance for the poor is inadequate, it is being challengof the problem, devising a plan ed.
to solve the problem, and, most
"That's something we can't
HOSPITAL PROJECT — An artist's con- a nursing floor expected to begin in Decem- 'important, implementation of be particularly proud of but its
the
first
two
steps,
Ripley
true — the government had to
ception shows how the Allen Bennett Memorial
ber. The structure will face Wade Hampton said.
tell the social workers, that the
Hospital in Greer will look with the additional
Boulevard and1 will adjoin the present Roger Commenting on local situa- present system w a s intions
for
which
help
is
needed,
nursing floors on top of construction of two
adequate," he said.
Huntington Nursing Center.
he said "drug abuse is a matter He said he feels that the way
levels of diagnostic and treatment areas and
of great concern and interest the food stamp program is being
to thousands of Greenvillians. utilized here is evidence that
.Coordination of community ef- many Greenvillians were not
forts is necessary if the problem getting enough food before the
is to be met head-on, he said.
program was introduced.
Another serious local prob- Ripley said that without doubt
lem is the polarization of in the past three years, greatly
problem is the need for more increased amounts of federal
practical means of transporta- money are coming into the comoperating rooms, emergency
tion for the poor and the aging, munity to provide food, health
room, physical therapy and oxas pointed up in a recent study services, and training programs
ygen therapy and n u r s i n g
made here by The Greenville for the unemployed liiicT the
areas.
County Council for Community underemployed.
Robert E. Toomey, director
Actions, he said.
of the hospital system, said the
He said the entire welfare
expansion has been badly needprogram is being operated on
ed for many years. The bed
a more: adequate level than ever
capacity will be increased to
before, but conceded "that it
100 beds.
would benefit from much closer
Future expansion will include
coordination.
an additional floor for nursing
Working draw
areas, and five floors which will
to be comple|
give the new hospital a 300
The consto
bed capacity.
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The new stru%xe
will be
located immediate!!- behind the
existing hospital facility and will
adjoin Roger Huntington Nurs-'
ing Center.
Allen Bennett Memorial Hospilal
To Begin New Expansion Program
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THE G R E E N V I L L E NEWS
S e p t e m b e r 2 , 1970
Greenville Hospital Divisions
Are-Given Full Accreditation
All hospital divisions of the and the Marshall I. Pickens Hospital and Roger ppqjjpgton
Nursing Center, and James, i1
Greenville Hospital System Hospital on Grove Road.
have been approved for accre- L. Stanton Tuttle, administra- Binder is admin sifcty/ 0 Billditation by the Joint Commis- tor of internal operations, and crest Hospital at'^rmBsoWille.
sion on Accreditation of Hospi- Mrs. Marie R. Harris, adminis- The more recenuy opened ditals, Chairman W. W. McEach- trator of nursing operations, a-e visions of the Greenvifle Hospern of the board of trustees was in administrative charge of ital System divisions are administered by M chael, M
informed Tuesday.
The accreditation and approv- Robert L. Smith is adminis- at William G. SirMfe Bhilai,
al is for two years, or until a trator of the two Greer divi- and by Frank D. Pindcney at
subsequent survey is conducted, sions, Alien Bennett Memorial Marshall I. Pickens Hospital.
Dr. John D. Porterfield, director of the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals, Chicago, said.
Dr. Robert E. Toomey, director of the Greenville system
and Dr. E. Arthur Dreskin,
president of the medical staff,
were cited for their close coopA community information and and r e 1 _ p V i i s opportunities,
eration and efforts in conductreferral service, A. 1. D., for health ana social welfare, and
ing the surveys.
individuals with almost any business in the greater Greenproblem or need, is expected ville area," Mrs. O'Neill said.
The Greenville Hospital Systo be in full operations here The A. I. D. phone is 268-1722
tem was commended for mainearly in October.
and speakers, a film, and a
taining standards deserving of
It is sponsored by the Junior brochure d e s c r i b i n g the
accreditation and for constant
League of Greenville Inc., the program's work are available,
efforts to improve the quality of
Liberty Corporation and the she said.
patient care"
She said A. I. D. is a two-way
The evaluation for the six
Mrs. Nancy S. O ' N e i l l , street.
hospital divisions results, from a
associated with the hospital
survey conducted in July by
are providihg a service
system since 1958, will serve for"We
field representatives,
the community — especially
as
executive
director.
were Greenvil^p'
to newcomers, but we are also
Trained volunteers
w i l l providing a service for the agenital fn. Mallaird
answer
telephoned
questions
Bennett Memorial _.
cies and institutions of the
concerning Greenville organiza- area," she said.
•Roger Huntington Nursing Cenanclservices,
Mrs.
O'Neill
ter at Greer; Hillcrest Hospital,
The program has been under
Simpsonville; William G. Sirdevelopment since J a n u a r y
"''A.
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will
serve
as
a
rine Hospital, Pendleton Street,
central clearing house of in- when the Greenville Hospital
formation about cultural, civic System assigned Mrs. O'Neill
the task of developing an information service for health
agencies, William C. Ripley, executive director of the Greenville County Community Council,
explained.
Ripley said the service is not
a "common intake" for health
and welfare agencies, but that
it has "follow-up" built into it.
"I think it represents a big
step1 forward for the community," he said.
A. I. D. is under the
supervision of an executive
board made up of Mrs. Richard
W. Riley and Mrs. John E.
Johnston Jr., representing the
Junior League; Mrs. O'Neill,
Bill Barrett and. Chaplain John
M. Smith representing the
Greenville' Hospital S \
William E, Lav Jr. and Leonard
A. MaxwBM
nting The
Community Service
ization
Liberty
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Phillips
Hungerfor^H
CommuniM^H
Ripley f^M
as an ex
officio board • member.
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PIEDMONT
S e p t e m b e r 2,
1970
Of Hospitfd
System fjfoayed
Accreditation-for all hospital .
divisions of the G r e e n v i l l e
Hospital System was recently
approved by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals, board of trustees
chairman W. W. McEachern
said Tuesday.
The accreditation and approval is for two years or until
a subsequen|ksurvey is conducted. acctordfl!|^|p a notice
sent the mat& by Dr. John
D. Porterfield of Chicago, director of the joint-dommission.
The survey was Conducted by
field representatives here in July.
MRS. O'NEILL
THE GREENVILLE
Information
Service
Initiated
September
3,
NEWS
1970
Hospitals
Program
Funded
Mrs. Nancy S. O'Neill, a
•member of the administrative
staff of the Greenville Hospital
System since 1958, has been
appointed executive director of
Assistance Information Direc
tion, (AID), greater Greenville's
new information and referral
service.
Mrs. O'Neill will supervise the
work of trained volunteers who
will provide answers to callers'
questions concerning cultural,
civic and religious opportunities,
health and social welfare agen
cies and business in the Greenville area.
A native of Atlanta, Mrs.
O'Neill is a graduate of Columbia University and the Atlanta Law School. She worked as
a staff member at the Doctors
AID is a joint project of The Hospital of New York before
(Liberty Corporation, the Junior joining the Greenville hospital
League of Greenville, Inc., and administration.
She has served as director
Greenville Hospital S y s t e m .
Mrs. O'Neill will continue as of community relations and has
an employe of the hospital worked on s p e e i a i
system, while Liberty will ministrative assignments for
furnish office space and equip- Greenville Hospital S y s t e m
ment and Junior League will since 1958.
AID will begin operation in
provide a fulltime secretary and
October.
volunteer help.
The Appalachian R e g i o n a l
Commission has approved a
grant of $141,439 for the staffing
and operation of a family practice residency program at
U. S. James R. Mann reported
Wednesday.
The project will recruit at
least six family p r a c t i c e
residents
each
year
to
participate in a t r a i n i n g
program designed to alleviate
the critical shortage of primary
patient care physicians in the
South C a r o l i n a Appalachian
region.
The project is further designed to provide the resident with
I broad experience in the various
i medical and surgical fields with
emphasis on p r e v e n t i v e
medicine, iBob Johnson, executive director of the S.C. Appalachian Regional H e a l t h
Policy and Planning Council,
said.
Total costaf the project will
be $141,804, lipth the commission
-., pep cent and the
Greenville Hospital*System the
remainder.
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T h e G r e e r C i t i z e n - S e p t e m b e r 2,
All Greenville Hospital
System Divisions Given
Accreditation Approval
All hospital divisions of the
Greenville Hospital Systems have
been approved for accreditation by
the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Chairman W. W.
McEachern of the Board of Trustees was informed yesterday.
The accreditation and approval is
for a period of two years, or until a
subsequent survey is conducted, Dr.
John D. Porterfield, director of the
Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Hospitals, Chicago said.
Dr. Robert E. Toomey, director of
the Hospital System and Dr. E. Arthur Dreskin, president of the Medical Staff, were cited for their close
cooperation and efforts in conducting the surveys.
The Greenville Hospital System
was commended for maintaining
standards deserving of accreditation and for constant efforts to im-
prove the quality of patient care.
The evaluation for the six hospital divisions results from a survey
conducted in July by field representatives. Surveyed were Greenville General Hospital on Mallard
Street, Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital and Roger Huntington Nursing Center at Greer; Hillcrest Hospital, Simpsonville; William G. Sirrine Hospital, Pendleton Street, and
the Marshall I. Pickens Hospital at
the New Grove Road site.
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals is sponsored by the four member organizations: American College of Physicians, American College of Surgeons, American Hospital Association and American Medical Association.
Certificates of Accreditation will
be received by each hopsital division.
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Greer Girls Will
Graduate From
Nursing School
1970
Hospital Systems
Are Accredited
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game", Coach Few reports.
Greer's probable starting lineup
on offense will feature Robert MilIn administrative charge of
Greenville General Hospital are L.
Stanton Tuttle. administrator of internal operations, and Mrs. Marie
R. Harris, administrator of nursing
operations.
Robert L. Snt&JHs administrator
of the two Gre^^Klivisions, Allen
Bennett Mepiorial Hospital and
Roger Huntington Nursing Center,
and James R. Binder is administrator of Hillcrest Hospital at Simpsonville.
The more reecntly opened divisions of the Greenville Hospital
System divisions are administered
by Michael Masseur at William G.
Sirrine Hospital, and by Frank D.
Pinckney at Marshall I. Pickens
Hospital on Grow Road.
The Greer Citizen-September
Among 77 seniors graduating
from the Greenville General Hospital School of Nursing on September 11 are two students from Greer.
They are: Sarah Neal McCraw
Johnson, 104 Pinewood Drive, and
Barbara Gail Moore, Route One.
Speaker for the commencement
exercises for this largest class in
the School of Nursing's 58-year history is Congressman James R.
Mann. With this class, the Greenville General Hospital School of
Nursing will have educated 1,453
young women for the nursing profession.
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• Greenville Piedmont-September 10,1970
Local Hospitals Tighten
Regulations On A bortions
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED and open heart surgery, but GGH is also requiring that
Stringent new Greenville not abortions, thank you," the the three medical doctors who
Hospital System policies on official, who asked to remain must perform the examinations
and certify the operation must
abortion include $300 deposit, unidentified, declared.
upon admittance and scounty "It's against our policy," was be members of the Greenville
residency of 90 days rather than the only official explanation Hospital System medical staff,
a requirement not spelled out
state residency as required given.
under the law.
A
medical
staff
meeting
is
under the abortion law, passed
by the State Legislature last scheduled tonight to discuss the Another added legal clause in
the case of married women over
January
new policies which are apAbortion Interest Movement Parently stricter than the law 21, not living with her husband,
president, Mrs. Larry Ballew requires. The new policies, is a written affidavit to the
pointed out today that an ^mw e f Y^, apparently
are already effect that a third party is the
ud in
f r o m a c a H husband of her child and that
uneducated, poor woman a p - £*«*> J § g
has been no cohabitation
plying through the hospital clinic m aTh£ e today 1 -ler +„,„„l,ni,0/, «, a there
between
husband and wife. If
has ''little chance of unscrambl-. % ™} . .telephoned the there is any
possibility the child
ng the many legal forms, l e t hospital
admi_»ion office asking could be the
separated
what
e would n e e d t ( b e ad
alone coming up with $300 dolla?
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mitted for a proposed abor-"husband's, his signature is rers.
tion.
quired.
A reliable hospital source in- "You will need to bring $300, In cases of divorce, there
dicated the usual deposit for an affidavit proving you have must be an affidavit that the
surgical procedures is only lived in one county, either child was conceived subse$200.
Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, quently to her separation from
Many health insurance policies Spartanburg or Laurens, con- her husband and that a third
will cover part or all of antinuously for 90 days, and you party is the father of her
abortion, however. E. H. E.must have all affidavits and child.
Cass, manager of health informs filled out," she was Dr. Robert E. Toomey, in
surance claims for Liberty Life told.
defending the hospital's aborInsurance Co., said today, "Our The state law, as written, re- tion policies said,
group and individual policies quires only that a womon have "The hospital system feels it
generally provide benefits for been a resident of South has several dimensions in such
maternity expenses.
Carolina for 90 days before the cases.
"If the waiting periods and operation is performed.
"First is the medical viewinsuring provisions are complied The policy change points out point, second is its legality
with, the claim is payable, and that no private physician or no under the law.
the manner in which pregnancy private or non-governmental "Our hospital system, in its
is terminated would have nohospital, hospital directors or administration policy decisions,
bearing on whether or not the governing board shall be re-must make sure both medical
claim is payable."
quired to permit human abor- and legal aspects are completely
He explained that Liberty Life tions under the law as passed satisfied.
policies have no clauses ex-in January. Although GGH uses "Our attorneys give us the
cluding payment of benefits in public funds, it does fall under advice to conform to the letter
abortion cases. While the claim the non-governmental hospital of the law, the patient can have
will be paid, however, the criteria.
her own legal advice, and any
benefits allotted under the in- The Greenville H o s p i t a l difference can be discussed in
dividual's policy determines the System thus reserves the right the courts.
amount paid, he explained.
to determine when an abortion "We want to be certain, for
The hospital will not take a will be performed in any of the protection of our patients,
promissory note for an abortion, its units.
thot everything is legal and in
according to an admissions oftheir best image.
ficial.
"Not only must we be con"We'll take promissory notes,
cerned about our patients, but
if you have good financial stanwe also have our public image
ding, for appendicitis operations
to maintain in t h e community."
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Greenville News-
JARRELL
NEWTON
S e p t e m b e r 1Z, 1970
McSWAIN
M. FRIDDY
B. FRIDDY
Mann Urges Nursing Graduates
To Help Stop War, Inhumanity
U.S. Rep. James R. M a m i 0| T ^ ^ ^ ^ r e presented The Greenville General Hostold Greenville General Hospitalfe"
^ 00r ^ yf f J l ^ , ? ^ pital Scholarship awards of
rt K
nursing school graduates Friday *
S ™ ' - ^ o • _1 ! * * $750 was presented to Miss Teto help find alternatives for war G r ^ n v d l e ^ m
^ g A w^ afr d s ' «1 reasa Mae Grist, daughter of
and man's inhumanity to man. t h bedside
^
*
' H * Mr. and Mrs. James L. Grist
f
The world is in dêp trouble, °? e who have most consist- Jr. of Toccoa, Ga., on the bashe said, because of failure to " ^ Prefaced good
bedside is of being the most outstandentir
make progress in human and n ur r s inn S wdeun™g
***
f
P™" ing in theory, practice and
t
personal qualifications.
social sciences used in working 8 _?
»
to
_
five
_
graduates
with man. And the problem, They were Miss Mary Janice A second scholarship of $250
Mann said, is not technology Hopkins, daughter of Mr. and was awarded to Miss Cathy AnMrs. Walter L. Hopkins, Green- nette McSwain, daughter of J.
or science, but man.
Speaking at commencement ville; Miss Brenda Kay McCall, D. McSwain, of Spartanburg.
exercises for the 77 nursing daughter of Mr. and Mrs.The scholarships are intended
school seniors, Mann said that George V. McCall, Rt. 5, Eas- to further the education of the
parents and grandparents of to- ley; Miss Valerie Sue Farnell, nurses.
day made the "most remark- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed- Miss Martha Hellen Fridy
able progress of any genera- win A. Farnell, Limerick, Ire- was named recipient of the
tion" in technology and expand- !and; Missr ixmme Ellen Fish- Alumnae Association Award
ed wealth but not wisdom, com- er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs presented to the student who
passion, brotherhood and under- Carl D. Fisher, Greenville; and has been outstanding in meetMrs. Linda Jean Rogers Newstanding of self.
ing the objectives of the school,
Nurses of the future will be ton, of Greenville.
exemplified loyalty to t h e
designers and leaders of a team, The Holmes Trophy Award, school, profession and communiMann said, because medicine given annually by Mrs. John M.
demands a sensitivity to and Holmes a former hospital super- tyintendent, was presented to Miss f, ^r
P" blic ,. Relations Award
interaction with society.
promotion of
"Ideals are desirable but new Barbara Gail Moore, daughter i n°t e r eoutstanding
s t i n t h e S C S t a t e Stu
ideas are absolutely necessary of
™ the
«u* Rev. and Mre. Jack L. , e tn tNurse >„ - c i v"i c
to man's survival," he said.
i Moore of Rt. 1, Greer. The °
_ * "d * * ? * h r ^ 3 L ™
He reminded graduates that;trophy is awarded by the fac- *6 * £ » « JMiss
* t 'Barbara
S S S *Allen
* ^
to
happiness is not a ^destination j ulty on the basis of scholarship, Fridy,
twin sister of, Miss
but a journey.
I outstanding nursing ability and Martha aFridy.
cl,aracler
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Gjreenville N e w s - S e p t e m b e r 12, 1970
Cify Hospitals Developing
Policy For Legal Abortiotis
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*^
• •
Greenville Hospital System is Hospital officials said it is threaten the life or gravely imdeveloping a policy on legal important that all legal aspects pair the mental or physical
abortions.
required by the state statute health of the woman" or "there
The system is seeking to on abortions are met. Legal is substantial risk that the child
assure that admissions for abor- documents required by the would be • born with grave
tions will conform with South hospital before admission for physical or mental defect."
Carolina statutes and that the an abortion are consistent with Abortion also is allowed when
health care, jpf. the community state law, according to the pregnancy reacted , from an
alleged rape or thcestubus relaat large is-protected, officials system's legal counsel.
said.
*
They said the system has at- tionship, provided the offense
The hospital medical staff torneys to insure that the is reported witi_rih a specified
discussed at a Thursday night hospital conforms to the law. period and other conditions are
meeting recommendations con- No private physician, private met.
cerning the admission of pa- o r non-govemment hospital,
tients for legal abortions. The hospital directors or governing
staff requested a committee of body can be required to permit
physicians to make a further abortions, according to state
study of the recommendations. law. The statute also says that
The system administration no civil liability or other
has recommended that abortions disciplinary or recriminatry acperformed in Greenville County tion can be brought because
hospitals be limited to residents of a refusal to 'permit aborof Greenville, P i c k e n s , tion.
Anderson, Spartanburg a n d The state law allows abortion
Laurens counties. The proposal in cases where "there is a
has been submitted to a medical substantial risk that continstaff committee for study and uance of pregnancy would
recommendations. The board of
trustees will take final action.
Pressures are being placed
on the facilities and staffs of
the Greenville Hospital System
to perform abortions on
individuals who are from distant
communities and areas, a
hospital spokesman said.
The recommendation in the
proposed abortion policies that
abortions be performed only on
residents of Greenville County
and the four surrounding counties is based on crowded conditions in all divisions of the
system and pressures f o r
available p a t i e n t s '
accommodations and operating
rooms.
Officials said it is necessary
for the hospital system to enforce a financial policy requiring out-of-county residents seeking admission for legal abortions
or other elective m e d i c a l1
procedures, to make an advance
deposit or to provide adequate
insurance coverage. On severali
occasions, patients seeking abortions have given the hospjfal
fictitious names and addresses,;
making it impossible for the
hospital to be reimbursed for
medical and hospital services,
officials said.
Greenville County residents
seeking admission for abortions
with inadequate insurance coverage also will be asked to
make an advance deposit. If
the deposit cannot be made,
other financial arrangements
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will be made^
. G r e e n v i l l e N e w s - S e p t e m b e r 13, 1970
2w,ertnination
By GARNETTE BANE
Mrs. Earlene Scott is a shining example of her own
philosphy. "You can do
anything you really want to
do," she says, "you can find
the time if you put forth the
effort."
The attractive mother and
housewife who has more initative than an army of
women, returned recently to
after a two-year leave of
absence to study nursing.
She was first employed by
Mass Myrtle Long at the
hospital Aug. 23, 1960, as a
nurses aide in the newborn
nursery. With the encouragement of Miss Long,
supervisor of nursing in the
delivery room, Mrs. Scott left
the hospital to get her high
school diploma and study
practical nursing. She came
back to work in 1964 as a
LPN and worked until September 1968 when she entered
the University of S o u t h
Carolina in Spartanburg to
study nursing.
"I had always dreamed
about being a teacher," she
says, "but after working as
an aide, I knew nursing was
what I really wanted to do."
Everyone, from family to
hospital staff, encouaged her.
"I just kept nagging her,"
says Miss Long, "it was easier
r
Lâmd W o m a n t/urde'd L a
for her to go on to school
than to listen to me nag. I
had confidence in her. I saw
her potential."
According to Mrs. Scott, the
roles at home changed when
she started college. "The
children would tell me not
to worry and to keep my chin
up when 1 was bogged down
— the same things I had often
told them."
She says her husband,
Harold, and their five children
sacrificed a lot so she could
pursue her career. "Each
child was responsible for his
own chores. The washing,
ironing and cleaning kept
them interested," she says,
"and my husband worked two
jobs. He's worked two jobs
ever since we've been married."
Mrs. Scott feels that her
two years on campus has
helped her understand her own
teenagers better.
"The
students in my class were
the same age as my oldest,"
she says. "After they found
out I was as old as their
parents, they'd come to me
with their problems relating
to the generation gap and I'd
talk things over with them."
to get her diploma. "I had
a rating of 11.9 out of the
required 12 grade standing,
so I really didn't have too
much work to do." In three
weeks, she received her high
school certificate.
She enrolled in the LPN
course at Sterling High School
while doing clinical work at
the hospital. Miss Long was
so impressed with Mrs. Scott's
ability when she returned to
work as an LPN that she
continued to nudge her on.
"In fact," says Mrs. Scott,
"Mrs. Jane Jones, the head
nurse in obstetrics, also began
to encourage me by continually picking my brain."
With the backing of the
hospital's education program
to aid personnel financially,
she commuted 60 miles a day
to Spartanburg where she was
named the most versatile student in her class. "I'm an
organizer," she says, as she
tells of her extracurricular activities. She was a member
of the student government, a
local and state representative
for the International Relations
Club, a S.C. counselor for The
School of Student Nurses and
a member of the Photography
Club.
While in college, she did
her clinical work at Spartanburg General Hospital and
was graduated with a B
average. "My children were
the reason behind the good
grades. I just couldn't come
home and tell them their
mother had flunked out."
Going to college w a s
something she had thought o:
doing for a long time
however, she wanted to se<
that her children went first
After realizing that in a feu
years there would be at leas
three in college, she decidec
to go on then. During hei
last year, Harold Jr., 19, wa:
a student at Morris College
This year, he and Marilyn
18, both are students there
"We had to put very littli
money with what he had earn
ed to go to school on," sh<
says. Other Scott children an
Angela, 16, Gerald, 15, an<
Kenneth, 12.
She passed the state board
nursing exam with n o
Although she loves her worl
problems. "I was so excited
I kept telling everyone that in the delivery room, Mrs
I had passed and all they Scott is not content. "I wan
would say was, 'I knew you to get my B.S. in nursing
now," she says. "I'll take ;
would.'
few academic courses in th<
"If I gave a little piece summer so I can narrow i
of my certificate to everyone down to just nursing subjects
who helped me, I'd only have It may take anywhere fron
a tiny portion left," she adds, two to five years, but I'n
smiling.
When Mrs. Scott decided to
become a practical nurse, she
took the high school equivalency exam to determine how
much study she would need
PRAISE MOM — Mrs. Earlene Scott's, ploma from the University of South Carolina's Spartanburg Regional Campus. Anchildren, from left, Kenneth, Angela, Gerald
and Harold Jr., admire their mother's di- other daughter, Marilyn, is away at college.
GOOD LUNGS — A newborn baby at
Greenville General Hospital gives out a yell j
as Dr. James Puckett hands it to nurse Earlene Scott.
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Greenville Piedmont
S e p t e m b e r 15, 1970
Hospital
Director
Honored
HOUSTON, Tex. - Robert E*
Toomey, director Greenville
(S.C.) Hospital System, accepting a 50-year membership
plaque from the American Hospital Association said hospitals
should not fear government control.
Toomey, in remaks to the
AHA convention, said the voluntary system will continue and
that during 200 years of existence, "our government has
never socialized any industry, i
"Our task is to move ahead1
as a private industry which will
control those segments of the
industry which may be tempted
to exploit the individual citizen
and to continue to operate onj
a humanitarian basis."
Toomey m a d e acceptance
remarks in behalf of all 43
hospitals receiving the award.
GreenviUe General H o s p i t a l
joined AHA in its second year
and was the only hospital in
the South to receive t h e
G r e e n v i l l e P i e d m o n t - S e p t e m b e r 16,1970
Funds Go For Isolette
GREER — Alien Bennett
Memorsil Hospital will receive
a new isolette within the next
few weeks as a result of the
1969 caroling p r o g r a m
sponsored annually, by the
Auxiliary to G r e e n v i l l e
General Hospital.
Robert Smith, hospital administrator, said the new unit
will include the latest devices
and will cost approximately
$1,125.
Auxiliary workers noted that
the isolette will exhaust the
1969 caroling funds collection.
It was explained that all funds
collected are to be' used with
no surplus, therefore timing
the last purchase seemed to
coincide with plans for the
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new caroling project.
Preliminary plans are being
made for the 1970 project,
during which children sing and
collect funds for children patients of any of the Units in
the Greenville H o s p i t a l
System.
The Greenville News
S e p t e m b e r 2 6 , 1970
Dr. 1£pg
|
Dies At 45
Dr. Sam'* Morgan King, 45,
of 6 Marshall Court, died Saturday.
Born in Vero Beach, Fla., he
was a son of George W. King
of Vero Beach and the late
Mable Clark King. He had serv- |
ed as chairman of the depart- |
ment of obstetrics
and
gynecology at G r e e n v i l l e
General and St. F r a n c i s
hospitals and was in private
practice at the time of his
death.
He was a member of the
Greenville County, S.C. State
and American Medical associations and was a founding fellow
of the S.C. Obstetrical and
Gynecologial Association. He
was a fellow of the American
j College of Obstetrics a n d
Gynecology and the South Atlantic Association of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists and was a
diplomate of the American
Board of Obstetrics a n d
Gynecology..
He received his premedical
education at the University of
Miami, Fla., and his Doctor
of Medicine degree from the
Medical College of S o u t h
Carolina. He did intern work
practiced in Simpsonville and
served a tour of duty in the
Air Force before returning to
Greenville General to complete
a three-year residency i n
obstetrics and gynecology. He
was a member of First Baptist
Church.
Surviving also are his wife,
Mrs. Janet Phillips King; two
sons, Clark Phillips and Sam
Morgan King Jr. of the home;
a brother, Lloyd King of
Melbourne, Fla.; and t w o
sisters, Mrs. Howard Hines of
Golden Meadows, La., and Mrs.
Edgar Cooper of Jacksonville,
Fla.
Funeral services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at First Baptist
Church. Burial will • be in
Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family requests that
flowers be omitted and any
memorials be' made to the
building fund of First Baptist
Church.
The body is at The Mackey
Mortuary and will be placed
in the church at 10 a.m. Monday.
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Greenville Piedmont
O c t o b e r 1, 1970s
RETIREES HONORED — Robert E.
Toomey, director, Greenville Hospital System,
congratulates six Greenville General Hospital
employes at a special reception Wednesday
in honor of their retirement. From left are
Toomey, Moses Wheeler with 44 years of
service; Miss Claire Richbourg, 36 years;
Mrs. Mary Brock, 33 years; Mrs. Grace
Townsend, 30 years; Mrs. Rosa Garlington,
23 years; and Willie Hunt, 17 years. (Greenvile News photo by Leon E. Carnes)
Six Retiring Hospital Employes
Honored For 183 Years7 Service
Greenville General Hospital cluding 'the Business a n d Toomey said, for 12 years giving
honored six retiring employes Professional Women's C l u b , close attention to innumerable
Order of the Eastern Star and details until promoted to
with a reception Wednesday.
Daughters of the Nile having manager of the uniform departExperience on the job of the served as an officer at local, ment.
six employes, all 70 years old, state, regional levels.
Mrs. Rosa Broadnax GarlMrs. Mary Brock will retire ington, R.N., a member of the
totals 183 years.
Moses Wheeler, with 44 years from her duties on the dietary nursing staff for 23 years, also
will retire Oct. 1. ju>
of service, established a record staff with 33 years of service.
of longevity in employment at She came to GGH from a She was graduaetd flpm
Greenville General having serv- training school in 1937 and began Benedict College in 1921 and
ed the hospital longer than any to make her culinary abilities was employed on the hospital
other employe.
known by her salads and baking, nursing staff at v a r i o u s
Known to most as "Moses", Toomey said. She advanced periods.
Wheeler came to GGH in 1926 rapidly to private cook and to Nursing officials describe Mrs.
and was employed as an orderly night cook and in 1966 left the Garlington as an expert in the
on the nursing staff. He became hospital to retire.
a favorite on the staff, and But when she learned she was nursing care of burn patients
especially of children in needed on the dietary staff, she and that she excels in bedside
pediatrics, through special at- returned, Toomey said. And dur- nursing, Toomey said.
tention, friendship and loyalty, ing her 33 years with the Willie Hunt began his hospital
Robert E. Toomey, hospital hospital, her only absence from career 17 years ago as a
director, said.
regular duties was for a three- member of the housekeeping
Miss Claire Richbourg, with week hospital stay. Mrs. Brock, department but special claim
the hospital for 36y2 years, a widow, also is the mother to him was made by physicians,
nursing staff and patients in
reported for her job as book- of seven children.
keeper Jan. 1, 1934.
Mrs. Grace Townsend .was the obstetrical unit, Toomey
"Through the years, she has first employed as assistant said.
given detailed attention ef- housekeeper 30 years ago and The six employes also reo
ed congratulatory letters fn
ficiently with dignity a n d will retire Thursday.
dispatch^ flhpmey said.
She was promoted to ex- Gov. Robert E. McNair, U,
She hasHfeen active in civic ecutive housekeeper and filled Rep. James Mann and Mitoor
and community organizations in- this demanding p o s i t i o n , R. Cooper White qBrntnenaTng
them for their serWce to the
hospital and the community.
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The Greenville Piedmont
O c t o b e r 1, 1970
Volunteer Chaplaincy Service Officers
New officer of the Volunteer
Chaplaintopipllce of Greenville Genj eral Ho_j|rcai -are, left to right, Rev.
Allen Long, ffrjîdent; Rev. Louis H.
:
. Cross, vice president; and Rev. Eugene
: W. Lawrence?*secretary. Long, pastor
of Lee Road Methodist Church has
been a volunteer chaplain si)
Cross, Tremont Avenue Cl
h
God, a volunteer chaplain sij
1
and Lawrence, of White OaK? Baptist
Church, a volunteer chaplain since
1948. (Piedmont photo by Bennie
Granger)
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O c t o b e r 2, 1970
Gilkerson. Ramsaur Elected
Tc^County Foundation Ro\
Announcement of the election
of E. A. Ramsaur and Yancey
Gilkerson to the Greenville
County Foundation's board of
trustees was made today by
chairman Caldwell Harper.
Harper also told of committees selected to serve this
year.
Ramsaur, executive v i c e
president and a s s o c i a t e
publisher of The GreenviUe
News-Piedmont, and Gilkerson,
president of the Textile Hall
Corp., were elected to six-year
terms on the f o u n d a t i o n ' s
board.
Other board members, in addition to Harper, are S. Lewis
Condron, Mitchell P a t t o n ,
Howard Lamar, W i l l i a m
Rosenfeld, T. C. Cleveland and
James H. Woodside.
Vice chairman of the foundation is William Rosenfeld.
Mrs. Thurston H. Nicholson is
secretary, and Mitchell Patton,
treasurer.
Committee chairmen named
YANCEY GILKERSON
by Harper for the year are:
finance, Mitchell P a t t o n ,
chairman; projects, James H. Roy Hunt, James Ryan Jr.,
Woodside; public information, Earle Sargent, D. L. Scurry,
M. Elliott Taylor; music and Owen G. Shell Jr., and William
arts, Mrs. Jack C. Ward; special Merritt and Caldwell Harper,
committee on real properties, ex-officio.
Charles A. Gibson.
Projects — W o o d s i d e ,
Harper announced that T. C. chairman; Mrs. F. A. Abbott,
Cleveland had accepted the Guy Gunter, Mrs. John Hamchairmanship for the annual mett, J. Larry Jameson, Dr.
foundation dinner. Date of the Leslie Meyer, Hunter Park,
William Rasenfeld, Mrs. Harold
dinner wM be announced.
Serving with the various com- R. Turner, and Mrs. Jack C.
Ward.
mittees will be:
Finance - Patton, chairman; Public Information — Taylor,
RAMSAUR
chairman; McNeill Carpenter,
Ben Geer Keys, Dave Partridge,
and Mrs. Richard V. Slaker
Jr.
Music and Arts — Mrs. Ward,
chairman; Howard Lamar, Mrs.
E. Arthur Dreskin,a M r s .
Margaret Gilliam, JaclrA. Moi
ris Jr., Mrs. Richard H. ttiinn
and Mrs. David Tillinghast,..
Special committefcjgiltfrreal
properties — Gibson, chairman;
S. Lewis Condron and C. Vincent
Brown.
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Greenville Newsl
|October 3 , 1970
County Foundation
!3
Gilkerson, Ramsaur
Elected As Trustees
Yancey Gilkerson and E. A.is vice chairman of the foun-t
Ramsaur have been elected to dation. Mrs. Thurston H.]
the board of trustees of theNicholson is secretary, and PatGreenville County Foundation, ton is treasurer.
chairman Caldwell Harper an- Harper also announced the
nounced Friday.
selection of committees for the
Gilkerson, president of thecoming year. C o m m i t t e e
Textile Hall Corp., a n d chairmen are: Mitchell Patton,
Ramsaur, executive vice presi- finance; James H. Woodside,
dent and associate publisher of projects; M. Elliott Taylor,
JThe Greenville News-Piedmont, public information; Mrs. Jack
were elected to six-year terms C. Ward, music and arts, and
Charles A. Gibson,, special comon the foundation's board.
mittee on real properties.
Other board members include Harper announced wSt T. C.
S. Lewis Condron, Mitchell Pat- Cleveland had a c' C'$i p t e d
ton, Howard Lamar, William chairmanship for ti« annual
Rosenfeld, T. C. Cleveland and foundation dinner. The date of
James H. Woodside. Rosenfeld the dinner will be announced.
The Greenville Piedmont!
O c t o b e r 1>, 1 9 7 0
Mrs. Parker Tells Medical Auxililarv Of Needs
Mrs. Thomas Parker, president of
the Auxiliary to the South Carolina
Medical Association, left, was speaker a t the fall luncheon of the Auxiliary to the GreenviUe Medical Society Monday at the Poinsett Club.
With her are Dr. Charlton P. Armstrong, president of the county medical society, and Mrs. George M. Grimball, local auxiliary president. (Photo
by Fletcher W. Ross)
membership ot i,U6» write tne
Also welcomed were past
Doctors' wives must know reported that bulbs to be sold men's
society has 1,725, This presidents in attendance: Mrs.
the ties, rules, regulations and to raise funds for mecial leaves,
she
noted,
at
least
I.
H. Grimball, Mrs. R. M.
invasion of privacy connected scholarships will be ready to 6 able, intelligent wives Pollitzer,
Mordecai
with socialized medicine and distribute at the next meeting waiting to ^hare in the Nachman, Mrs.
Mrs. Perry Bates,
do something about it now and it was announced the auxiliary's accomplishment. Mrs. McMurry
Wilkins Jr.,
or they will lose their free deadline is h e a r for She pointed out it is the Mrs. L. H. Taylor
Jr., Mrs.
way of life, Mrs. Thomas subscribing to the American membership's
responsibility to Lucius M. Cline, Mrs. J
Parker told members of the Medical Association Education reach these —
prove it Robert Thomason, Mrs. Calvin
Auxiliary to the Greenville and Research Foundation for is more than a to
social club T. Smith, Mrs. T. C.
County Medical Society at its its diristmas card project. and to inform them
the Stoudemayer, Mrs. Marion
fall luncehon at the Poinsett To join this, one sends money community program, of
which Waters, Mrs. Wayne Brady,
Club Monday.
to the foundation in lieu of includes s c h o l a r s h i p s , Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Willian
Mrs. Parker, president of spending money on cards to legislation, safety, health and Bannen, Mrs. E. A. Dreskin,
the Auxiliary to the South members.
other areas.
Mrs. John K. Webb.
Carolina Medical Association,
Mrs. Brady, chairman of
Mrs. Jim F. Hicks gave
She continued by saying the
prefaced this remark by hostesses, and Mrs. W. Esley wives
have a tremendous the invocation and M r s .
asking members to join the Jones, co-chairman, w e re impactcan
for good in presenting Malvern C. Holland requested
American Medical Political assisted by Mrs. C. M. Easley, . their husbands'
and new, unwrapped Christmas
Action Committee (AMPAC) Mrs. T. K. Howard, Mrs. J. that it is a veryimages
honor gifts for patients in state
which informs members of P. Matthews Jr, Mrs R. C to be a member real
of such a mental institutions. T h i s
political movements in the McLane, Mrs. J. W. McLean group.
Operation Santa Claus is a
medical field, and the South
co-sponsored by the
Once JEi wives a r e project
Carolina Political A c t i o n and Mrs. W. M. Shirley
auxiliary
with the Mental
Hostesses had m e m b e r s recruited, it's up to the Health Association.
C o m m i t t e e , the state
seated at tables according to auxiliary to keep t h e m
affiliate.
Mrs. George C o u s a r
She pointed out t h e their birthdays, with the interested through p u t t i n g
organizations need money to various zodiac names on the them to work and t h e
programs presented in ways
carry on, that time is running _-tables
to meet their needs.
out to prevent doctors from rsocTar wetl-bemg, The latter
She concluded by saying she
being able to practice their s b e , ^ _ _ lsi™Pg T ^ Z l loves her country so very
profession freely and for wives good *ings .good cars, color much, she will do all in her
not losing the* free way of TVs and aU the other luxuries power to keep it free.
]ife
.
in addition to physical care.
Mrs. George M. Grimball,
She added that as state ,,_she ^ A the South Carolina county president, introduced
president she could n o t Medical Society presented to the speaker and presided at
'possibly.go into all the.in- " ^ g i . 1 ° £ a ! *£, fo the meeting.
She welcomed as guests Dr.
sMious inroads communism organization tne request ior
has made in this country, but J hls change in terms. White Charlton P. A r m s t r o n g ,
president
of the Greenville
would concentrate on the .he social welfare of people
medical end which i s » too big tor the auxiliary County Medical Society Dr.
definitely being invaded.
* »
to^y,
* e C. Dayton Riddle, chairman
of the advisory council to ihe
She explained that the term medical care,
the local auxiliary and Mrs. ,
being used by the medical She also told the wives that William B. Turner o f
profession and the auxiliary membership controls t h e Greenwood, state auxiliary |
is medical care instead of effectiveness of the entire president-elect.
|
health care. The latter, she auxiliary in its community
s a i d , i n c l u d e d t o t a l service projects. This service
care—mental, physical, and o r g a n i z a t i o n has a
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O c t o b e r 8,
1970
Pantsuit Craze Hits Hospital Here
T h e paintsuit craze currently
sweeping the country is reportedly
now accepted nationwide for hospitalstaffs on-duty uniforms. Here lour
employes of the department of 1 aboratories staff at Greenville General
Hosaifcal are shown in their new uniforflBPThey are, left to right, Mrs.
Jack Cook, histology; Miss Orinda
Bramlett, hemotology; M r s . Patsy
Bragg^ "chemistry and Miss Elaine
Gregory, hemotology. Department officials call the new look "function* al," while the medical technicians
find the attire "comfortable and we
are receiving more attention than we
ever did in our dress uniforms." Mrs.
Cook's outfit was designed and made
by herself: the others were purchased at uniform outlets. (Piedmont
photo by James G. Wilson) *
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The Greenville
O c t o b e r 9,
News
1970
DETECTION DEVICE—Dr. Jon Owings, general surgery
•esident in Greenville General Hospital's education program,
demonstrates the fiberoptic gastroscope for Miss Francis
Hogg, RN, member of the nursing staff.
Cancer Society Presents
Gastrpieope To Hospital
A new $3,200 f'i b e r o p t i c Hospital.
gastroscopi. * purchased by the The instrument permits direct
Cancer Society 'of Greenville visualization, biopsy and still
County, a member of United and movie photography of the
Fund, for clinical research in internal surfaces of t h e
and diagnosis of diseases and esophagus and stomach. Exconditions of the u p p e r aminations are done With the
gastrointestinal tract has been patient awake, using l o c a l
presented to Greenville General anesthesia and sedation.
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HONORED BY AUXILIARY—Members of the Auxiliary
to the Greenville Hospital Friday honored, from left, Mrs. F.
Nathaniel Beaver, 1970 Volunteer of the Year; Mrs. L. H.
Walker, 1969 Volunteer of the Year; Mrs. Dan MacMillan,
first recipient of a 6,000-hour pin; and Mrs. Rulus C. Bruce,
Grand Volunteer of the Years. (Greenville News photo by
Fletcher W. Ross)
Toomey Outlines Levels Of Care
By ALICE H. SKELTON
Dr. Robert E. Toomey, administrator of the Greenville
Hospital System, outlined five
levels he envisions in the
future of medical care at the
16th annual awards luncheon
of the Auxiliary to the Greenville Hospital System at the
Golden Eagle Restaurant.
Dr. Toomey said he sees
health education for all people
as the first step in maintaining
health. Family counseling,
planning, housing, sanitation,
nutrition and environment as
well as .social and mental
health must be emphasized
to maintain a "generally
healthy condition," he said.
This program, he said, would
be maintained by non-medical
people.
A second phase, he said,
would be primary care with
"general practitioners able to
handle most illnesses in the
community tfith adequacy and
well." This step would lead
to the specialized level of care
in the specialist's office, in
a hospital, medical school, or
"wherever the care is that
you need," he said.
Rehabilitative or restorative
care would follow, he said,
to all who could not recover
completely or who need longterm follow-up care to return
them to society in useful roles.
The final level would be
custodial care on a medical
level for patients w i t h
terminal illnesses.
"Our job," the speaker said,
"is to establish services and
care in a system with a
specifically d e f i n e d relationship with physicians so
that they do not give up their
privacy or independence, but
can provide care in an
organized, integrated manner."
Toomey said he had no
answer for financing such a
far-reaching system, but he
said he trusted the democratic
process to reach a compromise between extremes
such as an insurance coverage
plan proposed by
the
American Medical Association
and another proposed by
"liberals" Sens. Kennedy and
Javitz and AFL-CIO head
Walter Reuther.
"Medicine today is 100 per
cent different from 40 years
ago," Toomey said. "What can
be done now is not just
'hopeful' but a promise to
preserve your life."
He concluded with an excerpt from a speech he made
recently in Houston, Tex., in
which he cited awesome
medical advances he termed
a "tribute to tbe triumph of
one mind" on one hand to
a "condemnation of mind and
soul" on the other. Medicine
today promises enlightenment,
hope, freedom from pain and
disease, he said, but at the
same time it must promise
to free men's hearts from
disease.
During the presentation of
awards, Mrs. C. Dan MacMillan was recipient of the
first 6,000-hour pin awarded
by the auxiliary Mrs. John
E. Wright made the presentation.
Mrs. Rufus C. Bruce was
named Grand Volunteer of the
Year. She was awarded a
gold bracelet by S. Lewis Condron, a member of the board
of trustees of the Greenville
Hospital System. The 1970
Volunteer of the Year award
went to Mrs. F. Nathaniel
Beaver, who accepted a silver
bowl from L. Stanton Tuttle.
Mrs. Marie R. Harris, director of nursing, recognized
Mrs. L. H. Walker as the
1969 Volunteer of the Year.
A 5,000-hour pin was presented Mrs. John Wright
by Mrs. Nick Hunter. Mrs.
Condron presented 3,000-hour
pins to Mrs. Bruce, Mrs.
Robert L. Brown, Mrs. W.
Frank Vaughan and Mrs.
Angela Atkins. She awarded
2,000-hour pins to Mrs. C. B.
McLeod and Mrs. Walker.
Pins for 1.000 hours were
presented Mrs. F. Nathaniel
Beaver, Mrs. V, C. Long,
Mrs. Irene Edwards, Mrs.
Richard J. McCauley and
Mrs. H. Douglas Wheale.
Mrs. Harmon Henderson
presented 500-hour pins to
Mrs. Peter Bylenga, Mrs.
Carolyn Griggs, Mrs. J. B.
Hart, Mrs. Frank Larkin, Mrs.
William R. McKibbon, Mrs.
Rodney Phibbs and Mrs. Jay
Sponseller.
Mrs. E. A. Ballentine, Mrs.
Morgan Barnhill, Mrs. Jack
Charlotte, Mrs. Henry Elrod,
Mrs. Frank Espey, Mrs.
Marie Griffin, Mrs. Charles
A. Huneycutt, Mrs. K. B. Hopper, Mrs. W. T. Hudgens, Mrs.
Grace Hunt, Mrs. William B.
James, Mrs. T. B. Kimbrough,
Miss Nancy Lathem, Mrs.
Mattie Lou LeGrand, Mrs. M.
E. Looney, Mrs. Jack Merritt,
Mrs. John H. Randolph, Mrs.
C. Randall Shelton, Mrs.
Robert F. Smathers, Mrs. L.
W. Turner, Mrs. A. W.
Williams, Mrs. Joe Wright,
Mrs. Chester Snyder, Mrs.
Ben Sloan and Mrs. J. L.
Bauer.
Mrs. Robert L. Brown, auxiliary president, also recognized Mrs. John W. Stanley, auxiliary c o n t r o l l e r , and
presented her a silver bud
vase in appreciation for her
service.
Receiving 100-hour p i^n s
The invocation was given
were the following mem- by the Rev. Allen Long and
bers:
the benediction by Chaplain
John Smith.
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The Greenville News
O c t o b e r 11, 1970
Hospital
Chairman
Is Elected
S. Lewis Condron has been
elected chairman of the sevenmember board of trustees of
the Greenville Hospital System.
He succeeds W. W. McEachern,
chairman for the past year.
Other officers elected along
with Condron, a partner in
S. D. Leidesdorf Company and
a leader in Greenville civic and
community affairs, were David
E. Cromwell, vice chairman;
and Harry Daniel of Greer, secretary.
Cromwell, executive vice
president of Woodside Mills,
and Daniel, president of the
Bank of Greer, were renamed
to positions they held on the
board last year.
McEachern, honorary chairman of the board of South Carolina National Bank, has one
year remaining of his six-year
tenure on the Hospital System
board. He will serve as chairman of the finance committee.
Other board members are
Herman N. Hipp, president of
Liberty Life Insurance Company; Thomas K. Johnstone
Jr., partner with Haynsworth,
Perry, Bryant, Marion, and
Johnstone, attorneys; and William H. Orders, president of
Orders Tile and Distributing
Company, Inc.
Condron, a native of Elgin,
Tex., has resided in Greenville
since 1947. He did his undergraduate work at Bowling
Green College of Commerce and
received his master's in business administration from Harvard Business School. He is a
certified public accountant in
South Carolina and Texas.
He has been active in many
programs and organizations;
chairman of Greenville County
Foundation and of the United
Fund; past president, Greenville Kiwanis' Club; past president of the Greenville Little
Theatre, and a member of the
boards of Greater Greenville
Chamber .<& Commerce and
Blood Assurance Plan.
He was tecipient of the Diamond Merit A w a r d of the
Greenville Chapter of Administrative Management Society,
and Greenville Jaycees awarded him the 1960 "Boss of the
Year" award.
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T h e G r e e n v i l l e News
PniiffPi Arivpr'lêment
O c t o b e r 2 5 , 1970
Poljfi'-fll Adêr'tême^t
Pnijt.ipal Adver Isement
CtiARDSON OPPOSES
SITUATION
Greenville General Hospital is presently partially financed by a 6 - m i l l levy
on Greenville County residents. However,
residents of any other county of South
Carolina or state of the United States
are readily admitted here, causing the
tremendously
overcrowded
condition
which exists. I would advocate t h a t no
out-of-county patient be admitted to
Greenville General Hospital except upon
certification from a qualified physician
t h a t the patient's life would be endangered if not admitted, and would f u r t h er advocate that the county in which a
charity patient resides be required to
pay any and all hospital costs incurred
not covered under medicaid.
William D. Richardson
VOTE
W,D. (BILLY) RICHARDSON
House Of Representatives
70-101
MONDAY,
OCTOBER
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G R E E N V I L L E ,
SOUTH
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C A R O L I N A
I I I N T T - T H R E E
Greenville Hospital System Grows Into Comprehensive Medical Care Center
"Time present and time
are both present . . . in time
future" for the G r e e n v i l l e
Hospital System, which
developed from its beginnings
in Greenville in 1911 into one
of the most progressive and
comprehensive medical care
centers in the South.
Director Robert E. Toomey
of the Greenville H o s p i t a l
System has noted the tremendous community effort and support which has been involved
and largely responsible for its
growth, progress a n d
complishments.
The movement for a hospital
Ln Greenville dates back to
1895. A number of citizens, including many women, became
alarmed when two workmen
were taken ill with typhoid and
had to he cared for in the
Perry Avenue boarding House
•where they lived.
The Women's Hospital Board,
with the backing of civic-minded
community leaders, over some
15 years, concentrated their attention and fund-raising efforts
to secure a hospital for the
town. In 1909, their zeal resulted
in the opening of a twa-room
clinic (in the building later
known as the Salvation Army
Citadel) adjacent to the Greenville News-Piedmont Company,
on Broad Street.
Two years later, the board
had raised $16,000 t o w a r d
purchase of the Corbett building,
at the corner of Arlington Avenue and Memminger Street,
formerly used as a private sanitorium. In 1911, when Greenville had a population of 11,000,
the first hospital began operations.
Since nurses were needed, the
School of Nursing was opened
in January, 1912. According to
historical accounts, students not
only studied and learned to care
patients, but along with
members of the nursing staff,
they also had the tasks of
scrubbing and cleaning the
rooms and mopping hallways.
In 1918, the City of Greenville
acquired the institution and
operated it as City Hospital.
The old Corbett building was
enlarged and the name was
changed in 1935 to Greenville
General Hospital.
A citizens Committee was
formed in 1947 to study means
of operating the hospital on
non-profit basis for the benefit
of all taxpayers and residents
of the county. Its recom'
mendations were approved in a
referendum, a n d necessary
legislation, introduced by
Greenville County Legislative
Delegation in the South Carolina
General Assembly, followed.
Under the legislative
ownership and authority for
operating and m a i n t a i n
hospital facilities of Greenville
General Hospital was vested in
an i n d e p e n d e n t ,
selfperpetuating board of trustees,
on behalf of all the people of
the county. Later, the act was
amended to include the hospitals and programs under the
corporate name of the Greenville Hospital System.
Noting that advances and
specialization in medicine have
created new hospital needs, Dr.
Toomey said, "In our major
hospital today, we have our
Around 1900 a private hospital -with 16 rooms and a tile operating room was opened at 421 E. Washington St. by Dr. W. C. Black.
Black's Sanitarium was in operation until City Hospital was opened in
1918. The site now is a parking lot.
recovery room, intensive care, Education Center, for the care
coronary care, and spinal cord of children with emotional
disturbances.
injury units. In our special Under construction on Grove
procedures laboratory, we are Road are the 303 - bed Generaldoing heart catheterizations and Medical Surgical Hospital, the
other delicate r a d i o l o g i c Diagnostic and T r e a t m e n t
Center and the Roger C. Peace
procedures.
Institute f o r
Rehabilitative
"Since Greenville has served Medicine, with a 50-bed capacias a focal point to attract physi- ty, and the energy plant for
cians and specialists in all fields heating and air conditioning.
of medicine, we have become Ground was broken for these
a medical center. Our patients
can now be diagnosed and
treated in facilities h e r e ,
whereas in former years they
had to travel to Duke or Emory
Universities or more distant
medical centers for the same
tests and types of surgery."
With Greenville G e n e r a l
Hospita! as the parent institution, the first hospital
division in outlying areas was
the Allen Bennett Memorial I
Hospital at Greer, which opened
in 1952. An expansion program I
brought the bed capacity to 540
where today 615 patients can
be accommodated in o.ertaxed
facilities.
The Roger Huntington Nursing
Center, with 80 beds, at Greer,
and the 40-bed Hillcrest Hospital
at Simpsonville were opened in
1963. Subsequently, additions
were built to Allen Bennett,
Memorial Hospital for a total j
bed capacity of 63, further enlargement has been announced
by the board at a cost of $2,500,000.
After in-depth study of Green-1
ville County health needs, the
hospital trustees purchased 128
acres on Grove Road in 1966
for an expansion program and
for development of a major 1
health complex to serve com-'
munity requirements.
In 1967, the William G. Sirrinej
Hospital, planned and designed
for the care of chronic andl
convalescent patients, and which,
is also being used for the eye
operatory, on Pendleton Street
was opened. The sixth and latest
unit of the hospital system is
the Marshall I. P i c k e n s !
Hospital, for the care of thei
mentally ill, first structure built;
on the Grove Road property,!
along with the Children's Re-
facilities in November,
They are scheduled for completion in April, 1972. The new
Grove Road facilities will cost
$21,000,000.
Hillcrest Hospital at Simpsonville, which has semi-private accommodations, will be enlarged,
and the board and members
of the county delegation and
County Council are continuing
to study plans for a facility
in north Greenville County.
From its beginnings to the
present, the Greenville Hospita'
System has made the transition
of being a minor, relatively
small institution with minimal
economic impact on the community, into an organization
which has s i g n i f i c a n t importance as a medical csnter
and'has a major economic impact throughout the area.
Projections for community
growth win make new demands
on the Hospital System, Toomey
said. "Projections as regards
medical practice will present
us with new dimensions in
hosoital activities. As we look
back at the past and see whst
'_as been done in curing disease,
undoubtedly, the future will be
focused on maintenance of
health — rather than curing
disease, and this, too, will cause
changes and create demands on
the hospital's endeavors."
Off Grove Road in south Greenville, construction is progressing on new facilities of the
Greenville Hospital System. When completed and equipped, they will cost some $21 million.
Shown is the architectural rendering ol the 308-bed general medical-surgical hospital and
diagnostic and treatment center, scheduled for completion m 1972- Also under construction
is the nearby io-bed Roger C. Peace Institute for Rehabilitative Medicine (not shown). _
The Greenville News
O c t o b e r 2 6 , 1970
T R I - C E N T E N N I A L EDITION STORY
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The Greenville P i e d m o n t
O c t o b e r 27, 1970
Volunteers Ahead
A t Work On Car
By FRANCES EVANS
"ONE WHO ENTERS into or offers himself for a particular area, assisting in assembling
singers, etc.
for any service of his own free will."
Pink Ladies will perhaps be among the
That's the way the dictionary defines
first of the volunteers for the annual Christmas
"volunteer."
Program on December 6, when
There are plenty of them in Greenville, Caroling
singers collect funds for the younger patients
serving you.
of the Greenville area.
And the "Pink Ladies" at Greenville General
Mrs. Slaker, who has devoted much of
Hospital no doubt would head the list. Oops! her time during the past 10 years to hospital
Mayibe we shouldn't call them Pink Ladies, volunteer work, has participated in
because male volunteers (youths and older preliminary sessions on caroling in recent
men) might take issue with the title.' But weeks. And she, with Mrs. Lou (Robert L.)
those referred to as Pink Ladies are the Brown, auxiliary president, will become even
women volunteers who don pink pinafores more involved as the date nears. Mrs. Brown,
and go throughout the hospital performing all with about six years in volunteer work, must
kinds of tasks and providing many, many divide her time between family, home, four
services for the patients.
children and the hospital.
Actually the volunteer organization's correct
It has been said many times, if you want
title is Auxiliary to Greenville General something done, ask those who are the busiest.
Hospital (and men are involved). But the It must be true.
volunteer effort expands much farther than
the hospital walls.
MRS. SLAKER considers the caroling
project important, but talks enthusiastically
SUCH WOULD BE the case of the Christmas about the whole auxiliary program. Auxiliary
Caroling Program, sponsored by the auxiliary, volunteers assist wherever needed in the
which involves volunteers from the entire hospital, from the pediatrics floor (where
Greenville area as well as a u x i l i a r y caroling funds are used) to handling and
members.
distribution of the mail.
If you could talk personally witfn Mrs.
The auxiliary about 187 strong (in addition
Peggy (R.V.) Slaker, vice president of the to 250 Candy Stripers), provides chairmen
auxiliary and public relations committee for various departments and areas of the
chairman, you probably would go right out hospital. Sometimes a special area calls for
and volunteer — for any worthy project. a special person. The Marshall I. Pickens
She can make you a believer of volunteering.
Hospital volunteer would be a "special handPeggy is very serious about volunteer work, picked" individual, Mrs. Slaker explained.
which she somehow manages to weave into
Perhaps everyone is familiar with the gift
a busy schedule (that includes an active cart manned by volunteers, but many other
lO-year-old daughter). And it did her a service valuable services may go unheralded.
one*: it; kept1 her too busy to worry when
In ff mWi'Jyi a student at the University
PEGGY PUT IN A plea for
of Georgia, was in Vietnam.
"We just don't have enough.
Volunteefjt<.are concentrating on caroling she said.
these days,'al^king an effort to recruit other
If you're interested, just cod?
volunteers. ^
teer office at the hospital. Arid if yonVare
"We need volunteers from every single male, I'm sure you won't be dubbed as a
area," Peggy says. She emphasized the need "Pink Lady," since the pink pinafore lis not
for those who would assume responsibility manadatory for male volunteers.
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19MCaroling Project
Gets enthusiastic Start
"It warmed the cockles of
my ole Irish heart to see
the enthusiasm shown by the
auxiliary volunteers toward
the Chirstmas C a ro 1 in g
Program."
That was the way Mrs; Nancy O'Neill,
executive
coordinator for the caroling
program, a project of the Auxiliary to Greenville General
Hospital,
described
the
volunteer effort.
Mrs. O'Neill and other
volunteers attended a coffee
at the Nurses Residence of
Monday to kick off the caroling, which will be held during
the week of Dec. 6-13.
Dr. Robert N. DuBose, 1989
general
chairman
was
recognized for "outstanding
dedication and strong interest."
Also recognized was the 1970
general chairman, 'Buck
Mickel, president of Daniel
Construction Co.
Auxiliary volunteers were
informed of changes iff the
1970 caroling program. A
special day will be set aside
but the singing will continue
throughout the following week,
wiih singers in a particular
area participating whenever
convenient. Collections will be
turned in to G r e e n v i l l e
Memorial Auditorium Dec.
13.
The purpose of the caroling
program, Mrs. Robert L.
Brown, auxiliary president,
said, is not to set a monetary
goal in order to achieve an
amount to surpass a previous
year. The prime object of
Christmas caroling, she said,
is to allow all of Greenville
County's children to actively
participate in a worthwhile
Christmas endeavor which
benefits other children.
"The promoting of the spirit
of Christmas is just as significant as the voluntary contributions received," M r s .
O'Neill said.
Dr. DuBose Honored
Mrs. Robert L. Brown, president of the Auxiliary to Meenville General Hospital,-presents. Dr.
Robert N»DuBose, 1969 general chairman of the
Christmas Caroling Program, a plaque for outstanding service during last year's caroling. (Greenville
Piedmont photo by Leon E. Carnes)
The Greenville Piedmont - ACTION
O c t o b e r 30,
LINE
1970
Q. What happened to the plans for building a branch
of general hospital in the Marietta-Travelers Rest
area? I mean the one for which we have been
paying taxes? — B.J.W., Marietta, L.H., Travelers
Rest.
He Hospital System officials said.-?
the7jjjj|£>osed hospital are receiving detail
by authorities of the Upper Greenvillth
District, Greenville County Legislative Deleg
Greenville County Council and the Greenville Hospital
System. To date, no special taxes under the hospital
district for that area have been levied, they said..
Q. I realize that Greenville General Hospital is federally
funded,, therefore, no exemption for admission can
be made. However, I wonder why, since Greenville
County residents paid for the hospital bond issues,
they couldft't have some kind of preference over
adjacent »l»nties? For instance, Pickens Couniy just
voted aga^pit building a county hospita^. Would it
not be feasible for local residents to have priority
on rooms when people from other counties are
involved? Why couldn't we set hospital fees like
state-supported colleges and require out-of -county
residents to pay a higher rate for hospitalization,
except for emergency admission? — M.H.
A. Hospital officials said residents of Greenville County
already are and will be given priority over all other
admissions in assignments of beds, in all cases of
elective admissions (other t h a n emergencies).
The Greenville Hospital System, of which
Greenville General is the parent institution and the
center of major medical services in the area, receives
some federal appropriations in limited amounts to
help toward construction of buildings.
They said t h a t no increase in fees, such as
you suggest, are imposed on people traveling over
South Carolina roads, just because they are from
other states; nor do tickets cost more for
performances at Greenville Memorial Auditorium and
football stadiums at Clemson, Columbia and
Charleston, which were built and are maintained
at state expense.
. i_
Your proposal is similat ,J t(«Biêrs presented in
the past and hospital offlctats-Tsaid they do not
oppose the philosophy of-yoi.^thoughts and basic
suggestion. However, when all ftdPtors are considered,
implementing such a policy would pose difficulties
to the hospitals and contribute to costs, as well
as be perhaps unhamanitarian.
|
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Toomey Takes
Hospitdvêat
HOUSTON Tex. 4fAP> - A
South Carolina min was electled to the board of directors of
the American Hospital Association Wednesday. And a North
Carolina man was elected to the
ruling House of Delegates.
Elected to a three-year term
on the board was Robert E.
Toomey of Greenville, S. C.
Elected to a three-year term on
an at-large basis, as a member
of the House of Delegates was
John N. MacJJfelgfiS of Chapel
Hill, N. C.
They were cho§en at the association's 72nd annual convention.
The Greenville News
N o v e m b e r 3,
1970
THE GREENVILLE PIEDMONT
N o v e m b e r 1 0 , 1970
Fire Alarm Causes Student Nurses To Get Wet
A small fire at the General Hospital School of
Nursing residence sent occupants scurrying into the
chill rain today. A City Fire Department spokesman
said the "fire" consisted only of a hot motor on a
vending machine. Students nurses are routinely
evacuated when a fire alarm is given. (Piedmont
photo by Fletcher W. ROss)
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JGREENVILLE PIEDMONT
N o v e m b e r 2 3 , 1970
Hospital
Reports
Inconttgr
The GreenviHÎ o s p i t a 1
The GreenvB|l*H
System
generated <a n approximate gross hospital income
of $18.6 million in its services
to some 135,000 medical and
nursing care patients during the
fiscal year which ended Oct.
4.
The system, consisting of six
hospitals, was cited nationally
for planning and comprehensive
innovations in the health care
field during the year. Three
more hospital divisions under
construction are expected to be
occupied in the spring of 1972.
The system reported 205
employes per 100 patients for
its 900 beds as compared to
the national average of 270
employes in similar s i z e d
hospitals.
In the system's six hospitals,
there were 36,656 p a t i e n t s
discharged from all six existing
hospital divisions. Clinic visits
in the facilities at Greenville
General totaled 33,434 compared
to 31,644 in 1969, and there were
13,000 physician referrals for
outpatient services.
Emergency room visits for
1970 totaled 53,465 with 43.254
patients treated at Greenville
General, 7,405 at Allen Bennett
Memorial Hospital, and 2,806 at
Hillcrest Hospital. The 1969 total
was 47,168.
Births totaled 4,067, X-ray examinations 80,173 and laboratory
tests 610,675, operations 14,518.
There were 1.120,319 meals
served and 3,5§4j£MO pounds of
linen laundecSMKor the six
hospital divisksfflt*
Adult pahem days totaled
290,347 aiflT the number of
employes per in-patient averag,ed 2.1.
THE GREENVILLE
D e c e m b e r 1,
PIEDMONT
1970
Plant Will Process
Pre-Cooked Foods
; :
Officials of AGS F o o d
System, Inc., of Greenville today announced a new food
processing system and the
start of construction on a
$500,000 production facility at
Greenville's
Donaldson
Center.
AGS marketing vice president G. Donald Gibbins said
the product will be available
under the trade n a m e
Savorvac b e g i n n i n g in
February in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.
Gibbins said the AGS vacuum
pouched, portioned, deep chilled and pre-cooked entrees and
vegetables provide a menu of
hot items for volume feeders
of all types.
Col. Ambrose T. McGuckian,
corporation president, said tlie
process used is one which
evolved from a joint research
program entered into by the
Anderson Memorial Hospital,
System a n d Spartanburg
General
Hospital,
with
assistance from the Duke
Endowment and the Cryovac
division of W. R. Grace &
Co.
Purpose of the study was
to develop a better system
f o r preparing, packaging,
preserving and serving food
in these i n s t i t u t i o n s .
McGuckian was project director for the study and went
on to form the company to
bring the result of the study
to a commercial state. The
participating hospitals are entitled to use the process,
McGuckian said, adding that
foods processed by these
methods have been used by
System for the past two
years.
Greater Greenville Chamber
of Commerce p r e s i d e n t
Thomas A. Roe said the AGS
development is a welcome one
for the area. The facility at
Donaldson will produce three
million pounds of processed
food annually, he noted.
M c G u c k i a n said the
Donaldson facility will serve
the tri-state market with
products tailored to regional
tastes and needs.
"We will be calling on
hospitals first," McGuckian
said, "but the system applies
equally well to industrial cafeterias, motels, hotels, colleges, school systems and all
other volume feeders, whether
internally managed or on contract food service."
Company officials s a i d
that,in addition, they feel the
housewife may be interested
in the simplicity of preparing
and serving Savorvac products
and that they are now considering a factory outlet.
The 10,000 square f o o t
Donaldson building
was
designed by J. Harold Mack
and will be constructed by
M. L. Garrett of Greenville.
The Cryovac Co. developed
special machinery and the
plastic vajum pouch used in
the sy
HPfel_*
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Corporate .ioffflpls include
William
W e b"s t c r
III,
chairman of the b o a r d ;
William N. Page, treasurer'
and Richard W. R i l e y ,
^secretary.
General's 60-Year-Old School^
OL Nursing To Be Phased Oat
By MIRIAM GOODSPEED
G r e e n v i l l e General
Hospital's School of Nursing
will graduate its final class
in 1974, thus closing its 60year-old dijrifccna n u r s i n g
educatlbffprippm here.
Announcement of the nursing school's phasing out was
made today by Robert E.
Toomey, director of Greenville
Hospital System. Also present
was Mrs. Marie R. Harris,
RN, administrator for nursing
service of Greenville General
Hospital, and head of the
school of nursing here.
The nursing school will ac-
lenville Hospital System director Robert E. Toomey today announced the phasing out of the Greenville
the nursing school were both
economic a n d educational
ones.
"Clemson has already opened its school of nursing and
Greenville TEC is scheduled
to open its training program
in the fall of 1971," Toomey
said.
He explained that these
programs would assure the
"IT IS HARD to close a Piedmont area of having as
school which has been so many or more student nurses
superbly successful, and I in training as there are now.
have a great affection for both
"Closing our school will not
school and faculty," • h e affect in any way the care
observed, "but it is no longer of our patients at Greenville
appropriate for us to continue General Hospital," he stressit."
ed," because, with advances
Reasons given for closing in medical techniques, it is
necessary to have registered
nurses on the floors 24 hours
a day."
cept its final nurses training
class in August, 1971.
"We will continue the same
high caliber and accredited
program we have taught in
the past until every student
finishes our
training
program," Toomey promised.
Appearing at the news conference with
him was Mrs. Marie R. Harris, head of
the nursing school. (Piedmont photo
by James G. Wilson)
HE ADDED that b o t h
schools' student nurses would
continue to take their lab
training in the Greenville
Hospital system, as they do
currently.
Education-wise, it is better
for the students to take college
and university nurses training
programs, Mrs. Harris said,
so that if a student wishes,
she may continue her studies
to receive her B.A. and more
advanced degrees.
"A student nurse, who
graduates from a hospital
school of nursing, must often,
if she wishes to continue her
education, repeat at least two
years of college work because
the universities refuse to accent credits from nursing
sctaols," Mrs. Harris explained.
"Also, today it is necessary
for a nurse to receive all
the advanced training she can
because of the many new
medical techniques w h i c h
have been discovered in recent
years."
She added that, although the
hospital nursing school tuition
was in some respects less ex-
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pensive IFTan a university's
because the student traded
service for tuition, there are
a number of f e d e r a l
scholarships available f o r
nursing students.
GREENVILLE'*' 'nursing
school, which is sponsored by
funds from the hospital's gross
profits, costs the local hospital
more in terms of sponsorship
than it receives in services
from the student nurses,
Toomey pointed out.
He said that the school's ,
faculty will be absorbed into
the hospital's c o n t i n u i n g
education a n d orientation
program for newly employed
nurses and in the student
nurses lab program.
Toomey pointed out that the
concept of hospital nursing
schools is a dying one, and
that out of 13 such programs
in South Carolina in 1963, only
two remain. The second remaining hospital program is
in Orangeburg.
Imgge Problem Harts Recruiting
For Dietary Technician Course
By SAM ZIMMERMAN,
A brochure on dietetic
technology explains that "the
dietary technician is a
specialist in the science of
foods and the nutritional requirements of the human
body."
The brochure is published
by Greenville TEC, and Miss
Cary Prickett, health career
consultant for the S.C. Appalachian Health Policy Planning Council, assures applicants the description as accurate.
The council is sponsor of
the course in d i e t e t i c
technology described by TEC.
Miss Prickett's job involves
recruitment of students for
classes that lead to careers
in health.
Her task has been hampered
somewhat by the fact that
not many people, especially
would-be students, know what
the course is.
"They believe it is mainly
cooking and sewing," Miss
Prickett said.
"We do have an image
problem to overcome," said
Dr. John Manly, dean of the
paramedical division at TEC.
He quoted one prospective student as saying, "I've been
in the kitchen all my life.
"NOW I WANT to take
something that will get me
out of the kitchen," she
lamented.
Miss Prickett explained that
perhaps one reason for the
lack of information sbiat
dietary technology may be
that "it is a brand new
area."
The two-year course was instituted because of a shortage
of dieticians.
"The d i e t a r y technician
plays a vital role in the
prevention of disease and in
the rapid recovery of the
sick," the consultant said.
"Technicians work with tne
dietician, or sometimes alone,to plan and prepare meals
in h o s p i t a l s , institutions,
homes or wherever a nutritional specialist is needed.
"They help plan menus for
special patients, such as heart
attack victims and those who
have suffered strokes.
"They may also test new
foods for vitamin content
where there is a question of
whether a food is nutritionally
good for a patient," she
said.
A HIGH school diploma or
its equivalent is the only requirement for enrollment. In
addition, students also must
take a Differential Aptitude
Test to make sure necessary
aptitudes are present.
At the end of the program,
graduates are awarded an
Associate of Applied Science
degree. Credits earned in the
class can be transferred to
Limestone College in Gaffney,
where they may be applied
toward a BS degree in
science.
The course is open to men
and women. Those who have
an interest in preparing food
and the composition of foods
are especially urged to investigate enrollment.
Both Manly and M i s s
Prickett pointed out t h e
serious need for t r a i n e d
dietary technicians in the
state and nation. A new class
will begin in Januarv at
TEC.
•
S a t u r d a y , N o v e m b e r 14, 1970
Unfold for c o m p l e t e s t o r y and p i c t u r e
Mrs. Shirlene Phillips confers with Don Waddell, in bed, about the proper diet during his hospital stay as p a r t of her duties as diet technician.
(Piedmont photos by Bennie J. Granger)
Mrs. A.B. Coe, a diet technician, checks food
temperatures at Greenville General Hospital.
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T H E G R E E N V I L L E N . L •'_.
November 21,
1970
DR. R. C. BROWNLEE
DON R. DAVIS
Greenville
Hospital
Appoints
Don Davis
Don R. Davis has been appointed to the position of assistant director of planning and
development of the Greenville
Hospital System, Robert E.
Toomey, director, announced.
Davis, a native of Alabama,
has served six months of
residency
requirements
in
hospital
administration
at
Greenville General Hospital for
his master's d e g r e e requirements from the University
of Alabama.
Last fall, he w a s administrative resident with the
South C a r o l i n a Appalachia
Health Planning Council.
He was graduated f r o m
Auburn University with a B.A.
in aeronautioaL ^ministration
and matricul
in 199fcin the
School of Hi
Ser™ice s
Administratioi it the Ltaêrsity
of Alabama
dical Center to
work on his master of science
degree in hospital administration.
Brownlee
Appointed
Director
Dr. Robert C. Brownlee Jr.,
nationally known in the field
of pediatrics, has been appointed
medical education director for
the department of pediatrics at
Robert E. Toomey, hospital
director, said the appointment
will be effective Dec. 1.
At Greenville G e n e r a l ,
Brownlee is a senior associate
in pediatrics and chairman of
the pediatrics department. He
has practiced with the Christie
Pediatric Group since 1951.
Brownlee, secretary for the
section on pediatrics of the
American Medical Association,
will begin work on full approval
for the pediatric residency
program here as well as
recruiting young physicians as
members of the house staff for
the pediatrics department
Brownlee also will assist in
organizing the family practice
residency which is expected to
begin here July 1, 1971.
Brownlee, a native of Due
West, completed study a t
Erskine College and Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine.
He served his internship and
residency at V a n d e r b i l t
University
Department • o f
Pediatrics and the .University
of Virginia and is former chief
resident at Yanderbilt's department of pediatrics.
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APPOINTED — Mrs. Peggy
Ellis Dulaney has been appointed director of nursing
service for the Marshall I.
Pickens Hospital, a d m i n i strator Frank D. Pinckney
announced. A native of Greenville, Mrs. Dulaney received
her B.A. and master's degree
in community mental health
nursing from Duke University.
She also was an instructor in
the nursing, detriment at
Dorothea DuHfospital in Raleigh, N.C.Wnd at Norfolk
General Hospital ""School of
Professional Nursing.
Leaves
Medi-Data
The Greenville H o s p i t a l
System has withdrawn from
Medi-Data, Inc., a pilot program
for utilization and application
of computers in hospital opera-!
tions, Robert E. Toomey, direc-|
tor, announced.
Toomey said future efforts in
this area of electronic data processing will be concentrated
toward programs d e s i g n e d
especially for the hospital divisions within the G r e e n v i l l e
Hospital system.
"We fully recognize and appreciate t h e n e e d for determining a n d implementing
better ways to do more work
at a lesser ^nit cost, which
are important and( meaningful
to medical and' holpital operations with the ispecific interests
of our patiernS and the community in mind," Toomey said.-

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