A COMMUNITY PUBLICATION OF the JEWISH HOSPITAL of St. Louis 216 S. KINGSHIGHWAY, ST. LOUIS, MO. 63110 Vol. 18 —No. 2 APRIL, 1969 Two New Board Members Elected at February Meeting Edward B. Greensfelder, president of the Board of Directors, has announced the election of two new members to the Board: Sydney M. Shoenberg as a life member and Eugene C. Weissman for a three-year term. Mr. Shoenberg, president of Sydney M. Shoenberg and Company, is a former vice president of the May Department Stores, director of the First National Bank and the St. Louis Union Trust, and a director of CIT Corporation of New York. He also served as a director on the Board of the Y.M.H.A. He served on the Jewish Hospital Board of Directors from 1914 to 1946; in 1946 he was elected to the City Art Museum's Board of Control. His father, Moses Shoenberg, was one of the original contributors to Jewish Hospital in 1901. The Moses Shoenberg Memorial School of Nursing at 306 South Kingshighway is dedicated to his memory and was made possible by a gift of $300,000 from Moses Shoenberg's widow, Dollie, and his son, Syd- ney. The Shoen- Grant Awarded berg Research Building at 4949 To Dr. Baue Forest Park Bou- Senators Stuart M. Symington levard was a gift and Thomas F. Eagleton recently from the Shoen- HYMAN R. SENTURIA, M.D., director of the Department of Radiology, explains the Radio-Isotope Scanner which announced a research grant of berg family. was made available for the Hospital by a $15,000 gift from the Associates of the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. $95,756 to Arthur E. Baue, M.D., Sydney M. Members of the Board of the Associates are (left to right): Donald P. Gallop, Edward B. Greensfelder, president of the Hospital, Julian L. Meyer, president of the Associates, Louis I. Zorensky and (far right) Abe J. Garland. Surgeon-in-Chief, from the De- Shoenberg's wife partment of Health, Education, was Stella Hays Sydney M. and Welfare for the study of Shoenberg and Shoenberg "Surgical Aspects of Shock and their three sons are Sydney M. Associates Present New Diagnostic Hypoxia." Shoenberg, Jr., John M., and The objective of the study is Robert to develop a better understanding Mr. Weissman, president of Unit to Department of Radiology of organ and cell injury pro- 9-0-5, a Division of Pet, Inc., duced by shock and hypoxia, received his de- The Associates of The Jewish ical in the organ under study. is a great advantage in the study which are commonly encountered gree from the Hospital of St. Louis have an- The isotope is detected by its of patients who are critically ill by surgeons. The limits of endur- Denver College nounced a gift of $15,000 to the radioactive "signal." The organs or unconscious. ance of several component parts of Pharmacy in Hospital's Department of Radiol- in the body which are most fre- One of the most common lung of the organism in shock will be 1955. He is vice ogy toward the purchase of a quently studied by means of conditions which is encountered studied, particularly the lung and president of the new diagnostic unit for scanning radioisotope scanning are the in medical practice is pulmonary the behavior of living cells under Associates of The various organs in the body using thyroid, brain, liver, lung, kid- embolism, a condition in which adverse circumstances. Jewish Hospital radioactive isotopes. According to neys, bones and heart. When the a blood clot obstructs one or more of St. Louis and Hyman R. Senturia, M.D., di- distribution of the isotope in an of the blood vessels distributed Eugene C. a director of the rector of the Department, the organ is abnormal it can be cor- to the lungs. The early recogni- Federation Drive Weissman Jewish Hospital isotope scanner has been installed related with certain disease pro- tion of this condition is imperative of Denver. in the division of nuclear medi- cesses. since obstruction by a clot of a Now in Progress He is also a division chairman of the March of Dimes, a member cine. The new instrument has twin major vessel can be instantly The goal for the 1969 Jewish of the budget committee of the Organ scanning is accomplished opposing 5 inch detecting crystals fatal. Minor episodes frequently Federation Drive at the Hospital Jewish Federation, and a past by administering a radioactive which permit patients to be ex- precede a major fatal clot. Early has been set at $12,000. The drive vice president of the Federation. chemical to the patient and then amined more rapidly and with a detection of these minor episodes will continue through May. moving the sensitive detecting de- higher degree of accuracy. The by lung scanning leads to earlier Mr. Weissman and his wife, the Armand F. Jaquier, director vices back and forth over the detecting probes allow opposite treatment and decreases fatalities. former Sylvia Eastman, have four of building services, is chairman part being studied in a rectilinear children and one grandson. sides of a patient's body to be The scanner cost $32,000 and of the Drive this year. Mrs. fashion mapping out on paper examined simultaneously, thus de- Also re-elected to the Board for replaces a unit in use in the Ernestine Scott, supervisor in and on a sensitized film, the dis- creasing the length of time that isotope laboratory for the past three-year terms are: J. Arthur Food Services, has been named tribution of the radioactive chem- the patient is immobilized. This ten years. Baer II, Norman Bierman, Julius co-chairman. Cohen, Bernard Edison, Bram Last year Hospital employees Lewin, Lee M. Liberman, Mrs. contributed $17,647 to the Drive Harry Milton, Herbert S. Schiele, First Annual Dinner Meeting of Associates which was 73% over the $10,200 Harry N. Soffer and Elliot H. The first annual dinner for Active in the hospital and and was a member of the Social goal. The Hospital received Stein. members of the Associates of health field on both national and Security Administration's Adviso- $250,000 from the Federation to Robert L. Shifrin, recently the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis local levels for 25 years, he has ry Panel for Incentive Reimburse- partially defray costs of providing elected president of the Jewish will be held April 22 at 6:30 assumed a position of leadership ment Experimentation. He also care for needy patients and to Center for Aged, has been named p.m., in the Moses Shoenberg in developing and pioneering new served as special consultant to support the medical and surgical ex-officio to the Board, replacing School of Nursing, 306 South programs in care of the aged, the National Institutes of Health teaching programs, the Chronic Arthur Bierman, past president of Kingshighway. home care, and hospitalization of Regional Medical Programs Re- Disease Division, Aaron Wald- the Jewish Center for Aged. alcoholics. More recently he has view Committee, and is a mem- heim Clinics, Department of Two members of the Leader- The guest speaker is Mark been involved on a national level ber of the California Committee Psychiatry and the Home Care ship Development Council of the Berke, executive director of in dealing with such problems as on Regional Medical Programs. Division. Jewish Federation, Richard Mey- Mount Zion Hospital and Medi- the severe health manpower Following Mr. Berke's talk, erhardt and Jules Pass, have been cal Center in San Francisco, and Local beneficiaries, besides the shortage, developing incentives members of the Jewish Hospital appointed as observers to the President-elect of the American Hospital, include the Board of for the more effective delivery of staff will discuss aspects of Jew- Jewish Hospital Board, effective Hospital Association. His topic Jewish Education, Jewish Center health care, and the Regional ish Hospital care. Jewish Hos- February, 1969. As observers they will be "What Makes A Good for Aged, Jewish Community Medical Program. pital panel members are: Stanford will attend regular meetings of Hospital." Centers Association, Jewish Com- Mr. Berke has served as a Wessler, M.D., Physician-in-Chief; munity Relations Council, Jew- the Board. As the administrator of a well- member of the Health Facilities and John E. and Adaline Simon ish Employment and Vocational Mr. Meyerhardt is with Levin- known hospital, Mr. Berke is in Panel of the National Advisory Professor; Morris Alex, M.D., Service, Jewish Family and Chil- son, Helman, Raisher, Inc., a a position to talk authoritatively Commission on Health Man- President, Medical Staff Associa- dren's Service, the St. Louis Jew- building and development com- about the key issues facing hos- power of the Department of tion; and David A. Gee, execu- ish Light, and the Federation pany, and Mr. Pass is with United pitals and health care nationally. Health, Education and Welfare; tive director. Community Chaplaincy Service. Food and Packaging Corporation. I~3E APRIL, 1969 PAGE 2 VOL. 18, NO. 2 APRIL, 1969 216 is published every six weeks "^ U. S. Information Agency by the Public Relations Department of " Films Hospital Nurse THE JEWISH HOSPITAL OF ST. 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