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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 6 Friday, May 16, 1986 The latest developments in Utah and around the Intcrmountain West IJtah-Region- al UVRMC v, Expands Respiratory Care Wing - --- i i,- - " v&v By CATHY ALLRED Herald Correspondent Utah Valley Regional Medical Center will get a new addition to its Respiratory Therapy Center today with only one hitch. It needs furniture. Of course the significant lack of furniture is nothing new to its director of 13 years, Ed Trammell. ' pre-exa- - ' 4 iiMn mmmwv' lpiiliTO.W " , " ' mmmmf iiiiKyiiii4i :.: ' " , Health When Trammell started at Utah Valley Hospital, his office was a chair with a briefcase in his lap. He took a $2,000 yearly cut in pay when recruited from California's Loma Linda Hospital in Redlands to UVRMC as itsfirst respiratory director; he was making less than a therapist does today. Now he has a private office in a large modern department facility with a secretarial staff. Although lacking desks and seating, the department will be open for business in its new addition Saturday .The new area adds 2,000 more square feet including outpatient waiting and reception areas as well as a workup room for jl ' v.'.. MM.;:-i.M-K::-- ' ff yC;, - - " i ' ' 4 " - j I ' J pm - At O a -- 1 1 m care: weighing, drawing blood, measuring blood pressure. They will also now have a new easily accessible entrance for disa- bled outpatients. There will be six new exam rooms, two new doctor's offices, sleep study rooms for neonatal care, an echocardiogram analysis, area,; treatment rooms for limb hyperboric therapy and a storage llPlill area.- - .Fifteen years ago the department of respiratory care was practically nonexistent; it was then called inhalation therapy. The fledgling staff was trained simple procedures while working at Utah Valley Hospital. Certification in the field was not a necessary employee qualification then. ".When I started there were five e of us; two and three part-tim- e Sieve Olsen Photo A New Bridge, Caboose Over Troubled Waters In patching up damage from a winter avalanche, Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon just installed a new bridge and a railroad caboose car Thursday, . of a rennovaton project. The bridge was shipped in from Alexandria, Minn. Money for the project part came from it Society, a organization. Approximately more in donations are needed to finish the project, according to David Grow, owner. non-prof- ' $10,000 donated by the Scenic Canyon $10,000 full-tim- employees," said Barbara the Respiratory office manager. "I had been a licensed nurse and came into the hospital as Liddiard, an oxygen therapist. I had to learn on the job. "The work we did then was minimal; we gave several breathing treatments a day." The breathing treatments were a form of hyperventilation on a simple lung respirator. "The supervisor we had was a nurse who got her certification in inhalation therapy after she was hired." Today they have two technical director assistants and two medi- cal directors. Approximately 80 students have gone through the therapist school that Trammell started in 1978. More than 30 of those students have gone on to medical school. Many employees have left UVRMC to start respiratory' departments in hospitals such as Cedar City, Nephi, Roosevelt, "trammell is proud of his school and for good reason. "We have the highest academically credentialed therapists in the state," said Trammell. "Historically 100 percent of our group passes national exams the first time while the national average for students is approximately four percent. Our students once having completed our program are probably in the top 95 percentile academically." Several foriegn doctors who have immigrated to the United States have entered UVRMC"s respiratory therapy school to learn how to monitor and operate the sophisticated equipment, become therapists, and also to help their training and preparation for the national medical board exams. Collecting Higher School Fees Challenges Nebo By LEANN MOODY Spanish Fork Correspondent - An increase SPANISH FORK in student fees and how to collect those fees took up the bulk of discussion at Wednesday's Nebo School Board Meeting. A change in state policy plus the difficulties in collecting unpaid student registration fees prompted the district to approve a slight increase in fees charged students in grades nine through 12. District officials reviewed for the board a new state policy which states that a student should be able to participate in all school activities whether they can pay fees or not. Officials also said the policies sets up new guidelines to determine who should have registration and textbook fees waived. Students eligible to have fees waived include those that are in custody of the state or on public welfare. According to the state guidelines it is the decision of the principal who pays and who does not. The board said from prob- lem with collecting the fees was high schools could no longer withhold graduation from students owing the school money. The board then discussed whether vocational programs and athletic department were losing money because of students who were not paying for equipment and materials needed for projects. District officials said these areas were different in that teachers and coaches had some recourse. Officials said the only way registratoin fees and textbook money could be collected was to go through the court system. It was noted vocational programs and others would keep projects not paid for and resale them to cover the cost of materials. The increase in fees for high school students will see registration staying the same at $25 but the textbook lee will go up $5. school fees will go for ninth grades to with the textbook fee high $13-$1- 5 register going up $5 to $20. Eighth grade students, which acto new state guidelines cannot be charged a registration fee, will pay a new $15 activity fee. The board expressed concern over an increase in the fees every year for the past three years. Errol Smith, Board Clerk said the increase has been necessary to keep pace with increased school and district costs. 'In other action the board approved joining a Utah Public Education Cooperative Financing Program. The program is being sponsored by the state to allow districts cording- , rate on short term loans. 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