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VOLUME 22, NUMBER 32
AUGUST 22,1975
DURHAM, NORTH CAROUNA
A TURTLE, A POTATO ORAN OMEN?—Barry Cooksey, a teller in the hospital brarKh
of Wachovia Bank, and his father-in-law David Wrenn through they'd found a turtle
for a few seconds last week while digging up vegetables in their seven acre Apex,
N.C., garden. It turned out that the turtle was really a potato, complete with
humpback, four legs, tail, navel, head, two eyes, nose and mouth. The "poturtle"
caused quite a stir in the bank the day when Cooksey brought it from home to show
his fellow employees. Most people thought the resemblance was both remarkable
and humorous, but one older woman claimed the potato was an "omen telling of
hard times to come." (Photo by David Williamson)
Mcllvane Named New
This month, the hospital welcomed
Betty Mcllvane as director of its new
Department of Organizational
Development.
A native of Long Island, N.Y., Ms.
Mcllvane has spent the past 20 years
in Washington, D.C., designing
educational training systems for a
District of Columbia company and
developing training programs for
medical manpower in the U.S. Navy.
She has also conducted applied
research on various manpower
problems and issues in complex
urban settings.
Organizational development will
serve as a resource to the hospital in
providing techniques and processes
for enabling people to provide
quality patient care more effectively
and satisfactorily. She remarked that,
“an example of a resource could be
analyzing a job in terms of what
people do, determining what needs
to be done and planning the means
for achieving the desired outcome.
The planning could be training or
could involve other activities. The
department services will be defined
in relation to the hospital's need to
provide exemplary patient care
practices and responsive support
systems.
“Organizational development is
not a new concept, but its application
to the health care field is relatively
new," she noted. “It is a systematic
means for helping people identify
human and job performance
problems and develop solutions.
“For a significant portion of the
next year," she said, “we will be
Uxjking at what is going on. We will
work with groups and departments
to determine how they interact and
develop strategies for designing and
developing programs where there is
a need for management, supervisory,
or skill training. As we move along we
will also be looking at job
performance needs and
organizational requirements of the
new hospital."
Ms. Mcllvane said the Department
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BETTY McILVANE
Cancer Center Will Take
Detection Tests to Industry
KANNAPOLIS — A free cancer Every employee screened will be
screening program begins Monday sent a letter with the results of the
(Aug. 25) for employees of Cannon tests. If additional tests are needed.
Mills Plant 4 here. employees will attend an hour-long
The program was announced their personal doctors,
today by Cannon and Duke’s Cannon Mills will pay for all Pap
Comprehensive Cancer Center. It smears ($4 each), as well as for urine
marks the first time an industry has and rectal cancer test strips,
teamed up with the Cancer Center to All screening tests will be done in
bring cancer detection services to the plant infirmary. The program
people where they work. will run around the clock — even
Men 35 and older will be invited to during the midnight shift. Employees
undergo painless tests for prostate will be given time off to take part,
and rectal cancer. The tests take according to Cannon Mills Medical
about one minute. Smokers will be Director Dr. R.S. Stephens,
checked for oral cancer; men 45 and Doing the screening will be a
older who smoke will be given a chest doctor and a nurse from the Cancer
X-ray for lung cancer. Center, and nurses from the plant
Women 20 and older will be invited infirmary. The Duke physician. Dr.
to have a Pap smear taken. This is a Siegfried Heyden, said the program
painless test for cancer of the womb will be held in the plant to make
and cervix. Examinations for breast participation as easy as possible for
cancer and rectal cancer will also be employees.
offered to women 35 and older. “It’s much more convenient to
Men and women screened will be conduct a program like this at the
asked to bring in urine samples; place of work,” he said, “rather than
nurses will check these for signs of ask workers to come to the doctor.’’
bladder cancer and diabetes. Special The Cabarrus County Medical
plastic containers will be given out by Society voted unanimously to
the infirmary in which to bring the support the effort, he said,
samples. Heyden, director of the Cancer
Finally, all who participate will Control Program here, won an award
have their blood pressure measured. from the German Medical Society for
setting up similar screening plans in
. . I Switzerland.
/ l screening team there
I I examined 1,900 women in eight
I department stores for breast cancer,
of Organizational Development will Three cancers were found,
interact with people based on a need Pre-cancerous conditions were found
to define what a person does, should in seven women,
be doing and how the outcome affects As part of the program at Cannon,
patient care. employes will attend an hour-long
“People receive a greater educational session. Women will
satisfaction by performing a job meet separately from men. All who
competently and thus providing attend will learn how the screening
better quality patient care," she said. tests help detect cancer. Women will
“Our function will be to guide find out how to do breast
hospital employees in defining job self-examination; men will have a
competencies and in achieving briefing on prostate cancer. Twenty
appropriate skills, knowledges and minutes will be set aside for questions
attitudes through training. “We will and answers.
be directing some ‘self-looking' which Those who want to sign up for the
we hope will help people to clarify tests can do so at the end of the
their responsibilities and to specify session.
the help needed to perform their job Cannon Mills was chosen as the
competently and satisfactorily. Our screening site, Heyden said, because
relationship with hospital people is of “its openness to medical
going to require a commitment on programs.” The Plan 4 program is a
both sides," she said. “There will be trial run, he said. If it is successful, it
mutual responsibility for all may be expanded into other Cannon
involved." Plants and to other industries.
July Safety Scoreboard
Total Number of Employee Accidents 69
Total Number of Days Lost 61
Accidents Causing Lost Time 15
Total Number of Needle Punctures 21
Total Number of First Aid Cases 32
In the continuing safety contest between the Dietetics and Environmental
Services departments. Dietetics retained the plaque again this month with
fewer accidents. In July, Environmental Services reported five accidents while
Dietetics reported only four.