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Show over the country. The unit maintains an air ambulance specially equipped and staff- , ed to handle this type of patient and will go out to isolated areas anywhere in the US and fly the patient to the medical center. The two-day seminar conducted con-ducted for local hospitals is given only by special request. re-quest. As of this writing 8 to 10 have been given, including in-cluding the hospitals at Price, Vernal, Beaver, and Pocatello, Idaho. HOSPITAL NURSING STAFF GAINS VALUABLE INFORMATION On Monday and Tuesday, June 10th and 11th, the nursing nurs-ing staff at Mllford Valley Memorial Hospital was afforded af-forded the unique opportunity opportun-ity of having two experts on newborn Intensive care conduct con-duct a two-day seminar pertaining per-taining to that subject on the local hospital premises. Pat Isaacs, R.N., community commu-nity coordinator of the newborn new-born intensive care unit of the University of Utah Medical Med-ical Center, and Elizabeth Ho, R.N., nursing consultant consult-ant for the Utah State Division Divi-sion of Health, Bureau of Special Health Services, at the request of Dr. D. A. Sy-mond, Sy-mond, Chief of Staff of the Mllford hospital, met with the nursing staff and others interested in deallngwlth the problems of the critically ill newborn. Lectures were given by the two R.N.S and equipment was demonstrated using "Resci-baby", "Resci-baby", a special designed doll used for training purposes. pur-poses. All the attendees were ' able to practice with the equipment. Under the dlrec- ' tion of Dr. A. J. Young, "Operation "Op-eration Newborn Care" was launched at the University of Utah Medical Center In July 1968. The unit is staffed by the director, and his associates, Dr. S. Atherton, Dr. M. Miller, Mil-ler, one full-time resident pediatrician, two pediatric Interns and one anesthesia resident, along with a highly trained nursing staff. At the present time some four to five hundred critically critical-ly 111 newborn babiesare admitted ad-mitted to the unit from all |