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CentraCare Health DigitalCommons@CentraCare Health CentraCare Health Publications (Newsletters, Beacon Light Annual Reports, Etc.) 2-1972 Beacon Light: February 1972 St. Cloud Hospital Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.centracare.com/beacon_light Part of the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation St. Cloud Hospital, "Beacon Light: February 1972" (1972). Beacon Light. 138. https://digitalcommons.centracare.com/beacon_light/138 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the CentraCare Health Publications (Newsletters, Annual Reports, Etc.) at DigitalCommons@CentraCare Health. It has been accepted for inclusion in Beacon Light by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@CentraCare Health. For more information, please contact [email protected]. C ‘,/ / Volume XXI Number 6 St. Cloud Hospital February, 1972 THE Chaplain's Corner BY REV. RICHARD TETZLOFF BEACON LIGHT From Our Executive Vice President a ON FEBRUARY 15, REPRESENTATIVES OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND HEALTH AND WELFARE AGENCIES MET publication GENE BAKKE FOR THE FIRST TI ME WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE of NEWLY CREATED ORGANIZATION PEOPLE UNITED FOR SOUND HEALTH (PUSH) . THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING WAS TO DEFINE PROBLEM AREAS IN THE DELIVERY AND St. Cloud REV. TETZLOFF FINANCING OF HEALTH CARE AND TO ULTIMATELY SEEK SOLUTIONS TO THOSE PROBLEMS. Hospital THAT PROBLEMS EXIST IN MEETING THE COSTS OF WHERE DOES TIME GO? HEALTH CARE AND IN MAKING HEALTH SERVICES READILY editor AVAILABLE TO THE PEOPLE , CANNOT BE DENIED • IN I HAVE KNOWN FOR OVER A MONTH THAT I NEEDED TO GET THIS AR- FACT, THESE PROBLEMS ARE RECOGNIZED AS BEING sam wenstrom TICLE OUT, BUT ALWAYS PUT IT OFF TO A MORE CONVENIENT TIME AND NATIONAL IN SCOPE AND OF HIGH PRIORITY BY ALMOST NOW IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A WEEK AGO. WHERE DOES TIME GO? EVERYONE. LENT IS ALREADY HERE. GOOD GRIEF, I AM NOT READY FOR IT. SUB- JECT TO TI ME BUT ALWAYS RACING THE CLOCK SEEMS TO BE THE BUT FINDING THE SOLUTIONS TO THESE PROBLEMS staff THEME AND THE MOTTO OF LIFE. IS NOT AS EASY AS DEFINING THEM IT IS NOT A TI ME BECOMES EITHER A FRIEND OR A FOE , DEPENDING UPON SIMPLE MATTER OF PLACING THE BURDEN OF RESPONSI- al blommer WHAT WE MAKE OF IT AND HOW WE USE IT. SOME PEOPLE ATTEMPT pernina burke TO RESHAPE A WHOLE LIFE IN A FEW DAYS, AND OTHERS SEEMINGLY BILITY ON ONE AGENCY OR ONE PROFESSION TO COME CANNOT SURRENDER A STYLE OF LIVING IN A LIFETIME . TO A CHILD UP WITH THE ANSWERS. TO COME UP WITH EFFECTIVE agnes claude ANTICIPATING SOME FUTURE EVENT, A WEEK IS AN ETERNITY AND TO THE ELDERLY A YEAR IS LIKE THE PASSING OF ONLY A FEW DAYS, IT SOLUTIONSWILL REQUIRE A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY sister colleen SEEMS EVERYONE IS SURROUNDED BY AND STRUGGLES WITH THE APPROACH IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF TRUST AND UNDER- BOUNDARIES OF TIME -- "OUR LIFE SECONDS NUMBERING, TICK-TOCK cissi hansen TICK-TOCK " STANDING WITH A VIEW TOWARD THE PRACTICAL AND PERHAPS THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE, FOR TIME IS A TREASURE, THE WORKABLE. marie hoppert A GIFT FROM GOD, DONATED TO US TO INVEST IN LIVING LIFE. JESUS AS A MAJOR PROVIDER OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES TELLS THE STORY OF THREE SERVANTS WHO WERE ENTRUSTED WITH A joanne keck SHARE OF THEIR MASTER' S PROPERTY, " EACH ONE ACCORDING TO HIS IN THE AREA, ST. CLOUD HOSPITAL IS COMMITTED TO ABILITY." (MATHEW 2 5 : 14-3 0) TWO OF THEM DOUBLED THEIR IN- MEETING THE HEALTH NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE WITHIN beatrice knuesel VESTMENT. THE OTHER SERVANT, FEARFUL, PERHAPS NOT WANTING THE LIMITS OF ITS RESOURCES -- HUMAN, PHYSICAL tom mclaughlin TO ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY, HID HIS SHARE AND MADE NO USE OF IT. WHEN THE MASTER RETURNED, HE COMMENDED THE TWO FOR AND FINANCIAL . AND WHILE THE HOSPITAL IS COM- THEIR WISE INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, TO THE ONE WHO SIMPLY HAD esther merkling MITTED TO COOPERATE WITH PUSH AND ALL OTHER HIS SHARE, HE CHASTISED QUITE SEVERELY, SAYING, "THE LEAST arlene sauer YOU COULD HAVE DONE WAS TO DEPOSIT IT IN A BANK WHERE IT COULD PEOPLE , PROFESSIONS AND AGENCIES CONCERNED WITH HAVE BEEN SAFE AND EARNED INTEREST." HEALTH CARE , IT DOES NOT HAVE THE RESOURCE S sister mart' schneider THE IMPLICATION IS QUITE PLAIN. IF TI ME IS VIEWED AS A GIFT, -- "TREASURE" - THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS TO INVEST IT ALONE TO MEET THE TOTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF THE donna strack WISELY WHERE IT WILL EARN DIVIDENDS FOR US AND GOD. LIFE OR PEOPLE. TO DO SO WILL REQUIRE THE COOPERATION " T1 ME" IS A GIFT TO US TO USE , NOT TO HIDE OR TO SIT ON , BUT AND SUPPORT OF EVERYONE INVOLVED , NOT ONLY AT marie tronnes TO INVEST FOR OUR MASTER - "OUR LIFE SECONDS NUMBERING, TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK . " THE LOCAL LEVEL, BUT AT THE STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL AS WELL I Comment on the Cover ... Our Record of Service EMERGENCY " PUT YOURSELF IN THE PICTURE OF HEALTH" I S THE TO MEET LATE THIS MONTH TO BEGIN PLANNING. TRA- ADMISSI ONS BIRTHS THEME FOR THE 197 2 OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL HOSPITAL DITIONALLY, THE OBSERVANCE INCLUDES AN EMPLOYEE OPERATIONS X—RAYS LAB.TESTS OUTPT. VISITS JANUARY WEEK , TO BE OBSERVED MAY 7 -13 EARL PEDERSON , RECOGNITION BANQUET, DISPLAYS, SPECIAL INFORMA- 1,488 122 REHABILITATION COORDINATOR , HAS BEEN AP P 0 I N TED TIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE PUBLIC, ETC. 1972 530 4,099 • 24,289 724 CHAIRMAN , AND THE HOSPITAL WEEK COMMITTEE PLANS St. Cloud Hospital Page 3 Page 2 The Beacon Light Two RN's Named Assistant Directors Retired Trustees, Chiefs of Staff Honored Three retired Trustees and 21 past Chiefs Two Head Nurses have been promoted to capacities in Nursing Service since 1956, of the Medical Staff were honored for their administrative positions in the Nursing Ser- has be en Mrs. Moline's Assistant since service to St. Cloud Hospital Friday, Febru- vice Department, providing a total of three Connie w a s appointed ary 11, during the annual Recognition Dinner Assistants to Director Mrs. Connie Moline. as Director in 1967. held in the Recreation Therapy Department. Sr. Joanne Bavier and Mrs. Carol Bor- Previous to that, Mrs. Executive Vice President Gene S. Bakke pre- man join Mrs. Lena Ha g en in the Nursing Hagen was an instruc- sided, and awards were presented by Mother Service Office, and responsibility has been tor in the School of Henrita Osendorf, 0, S. B. Board President. split so each Assistant supervises specific Nursing, Evening Sup- Mother Henrita expressed appreciation floors. ervisor, Night Super- to the doctors and trustees for "giving of Sr. Joanne is a 1958 graduate of the visor, Private Duty yourselves to insure that the institution pro- School of Nu r s in g , and holds a Bachelors Nurse, and a Staff vides for its patients . degree in Nursing from Seattle University. Nurse since coming "It takes a lot of doing," she said, and She has worked in Ped- here in 1941. She will MRS. HAGEN thanked the honored guests for "your concern iatrics, was the Head no w be administratively responsible for the for the good of others". Nurse when the Men- Nursing care on 6 South, and in Rehab, ER, Present Chief of Staff Dr. J. W. Smith tal Health Unit was CCU and ICU, and will supervise the Floats reviewed the responsibilities of his office , e stabli shed in 1968, and Orderlies. and expressed satisfaction with the progress and since 1969 has been "We now have three Assistant Directors being made by the staff this year. Head Nurse on the 4 with eachch responsible for one-third of the A xri us i c al combo including Jan Dahl TRUSTEES HONORED INCLUDED SISTER CLYDE West Intensive Medical Nursing Service Department, " Mrs. Moline PAVELSKI AND B . HOWARD FLANAGAN . AT THE LEFT ARE (piano), Dr. Donald Heckman (drums), Rosie GENE BAKKE AND MOTHER HENRITA . THE THIRD RETIRED floor. Taking over her said. "The reasons f or these additions are Marx (guitar and vocal), Sister Paul (saxa- TRUSTEE TO BE RECOGNIZED, MARY PATRICK MURRAY, duties on 4 West will be mainly that we have grown as a hospital WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND . SHE IS ADMINISTRATOR OF ST. BENEDICTS HOSPITAL IN OGDEN , UTAH. Mrs. JoanMocken- SR. JOANNE from 300 beds to 500 beds, that more spec- haupt, who has been a Supervisor in Nurs- ialized units for nursing care have developed, phone), Chuck Rice (trumpet) and Dr. Carl ing Service. and that one Assistant could not adequately Thuringer (trumpet) provided the entertain- Mrs. Borman graduated from the School develop and give support to the Head Nurses ment. of Nursing in 1954, followed by two years as and Supervisors. " Retired Trustees receiving awards were a Staff Nurse in the Nursery. Her family "We hope to achieve, through these new B. Howard Flanagen (1967-71); Sister Mary then moved to Phoenix, positions, better organization of the depart- Patrick Murray, 0.S.B. (1959-71); and Arizona, where she ment, thus better patient care, " she stated. Sister Clyde Pavelski, 0. S. B. (1961-71). was on the staff of St. The new assignments were effective Jan- Past Chiefs of Staff recognized were Joseph's Hospital, be- uary 24. Dr. R. N. Jones, 1939; Dr. W. T. Wenner, fore returning here in 1941; Dr. H. B. Clark, 1943 and 1951; Dr. 1957 as a float, Assis- C. S. Donaldson, 1944; Dr. J. B. Beuning, tant Head Nurse and Another Patient Care Record 1945; Dr. P. L. Halenbeck, 1948; Dr. F. H. Head Nurse on 2 North. On Wednesday, January 19, St. Cloud Baumgartner, 1952; Dr. 0. C. Phares, 1954; She then accepted a Hospital was caring for 451 patients ..