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Show Thursday, Sap tom bar 1, 1983 Fag 12 Teamwork Is Key Factor (From Page 10, Col. 6) Still more people are in operating Pioneer Valley hospital. Admissions personnel work to help the patient move quickly and easily into the hospital. Those on the business office staff insure the accuracy of hospital charges and help the patient find a way through the maze of Medicare and Medicaid regulations and insurance forms. A discharge planner helps the patient having special problems make the transition from hospital to home. She can arrange for home care or a nursing home, help the family prepare for problems that may occur, provide - even help the counseling patient find ways to get financial assistance. A large, sun-li- t dining room fills one corner of the new where hospital can get together employees for meals and conversation. Backstage, 30 employees prepare 125,000 meals a year for patients, visitors and other employees. Without the continual efforts of the 40 employees in the maintenance, vironmental sciences, en- biomedical instrumentation and materiel management departments, the hospital could not function, it was further explained. Environmental services employees are at work 24 hours a day cleaning patient rooms, vacuuming miles of carpet a week and handling thousands of pounds of linen a year. The maintenance crew ensures the proper operation of air conditioning and heating systems, overhead needs of the media. Workers in the medical elaborate fire and safety alarm systems and lighting systems. In addition, they care for the hospital the hospital and outpatients. Volunteers donate more than 13,000 manhours each year to assist wherever help is needed. Administration personnel oversee all hospital operations. As the chief administrative officer, the sprinkling systems, grounds. The biomedical in- strumentation department guarantees the function of medical devices and makes repairs and adjustments when necessary. Material management orders supplies, by the thousands and makes sure they get to the right place at the right time. Everything from paper clips to sophisticated com- monitoring puterized is handled by personnel in this department. Still more people assist in the multitudinous tasks necessary to run a modern hospital. The personnel office screens thousands of applications a year to find systems the employees best to fill qualified hospital jobs. Public relations employees inform and educate the public about various hospital programs and services and serve the records department carefully records preserve the patient of every that enters the hospital. Switchboard operators handle the constantly ringing phones and direct all calls. The pharmacy team fill prescriptions needed for patients both in administrator functions with the counsel, direction and advice of the Pioneer Valley hospital board of trustees. Administration, like all employees of the hospital, work in concert with the medical staff to achieve one end excellent patient care. Hospital employees are on the job 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year providing health care when it is needed. Physicians, nurses, therapists, diet- - icians, pharmacists, in- housekeepers and more, cluding many specialists with one purpose save a life or improve its quality. Hospitals are more than bricks, mortar, technology. Theyre people . . . there to care and cure. - ALL 90 STORES AND BUSINESSES AT THE VALLEY FAIR MALL WOULD LIRE TO WELCOME PIONEER VALLEY HOSPITAL INTO OUR PROGRESSIVE CITY Famous For QualityFamous For Value - Lelond Allrad, itaff technologist, damonstratas for Susan Mendelsohn units. ' ' i f fi ' one of Pioneer Valley's WH 3500 SOUTH X-r- ? 7 -- t a e nil T JL 2700 11 WEST |