TowerTalk Volume 1, Issue Nr. 5, March 1980

              Vol. 1, No. 5
March, 1980
________Soint Joseph Hospitol, Denver, Colorado
Radiology
Celebrates
Anniversary
Dy Jenny Powell
March is a special month for
Radiology. On March 20, the depart-
ment will recognize a two-year
anniversary in its new location. To
some people, the old location never
existed. But to old timers it was
very much a part of the first floor
area which now houses Medical
Records.
In contrast to the old 10,000
square-foot location, housing six
rooms and a specials lab, the new
location covers an area of 53,000
square feet on the third, fourth
and fifth floors. Diagnostic Radiology
can be found on the third floor
and has 15 equipped rooms. Ultra-
sound, Nuclear Medicine and Special
Procedures are located on the fourth
floor and Radiation Therapy is on
the fifth floor.
Most of the rooms on the third
floor sport new equipment which was
purchased specially for the new
location. There is also a variety of
x-ray equipment scattered through-
out the hospital. Radiology has
six portable machines on various
floors, a fully equipped emergency
room, 2C-arm intensifiers and four
x-ray rooms in surgery.
The CT Scanner was another
machine introduced in the new
location. CT is located on the fourth
floor and handles up to 15 patients a
day. In the early stages, CT could
only handle four patients a day.
Now, with technical aspects flowing
smoothly, patients travel from
all the surrounding mid-west states
for scans.
X-ray is in operation 24 hours a day
and functions on an in-patient and
out-patient basis. This concept was
developed so the sick patients do
not interact with the well patients.
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JAN LEWALLEN, CROSS MATCH LAD, AND JOHN HOLYOKE, M.D., PATHOLOGY, ARE SHOWN HERE
GETTING IN SHAPE FOR THE ANNUAL DENVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MARATHON RUN HELD
MARCH 2. DOTH LEWALLEN AND DR. HOLYOKE RAN THE LONGER 8.15 MILE RACE STARTING FROM
RUDY HILL PARK IN SOUTHWEST DENVER. DR. HOLYOKE WAS ONE OF TWO OLDEST PARTICIPANTS.
HE RAN THE COURSE IN 61 MINUTES AND 58 SECONDS AND RAISED AROUND $400 FOR THE
SYMPHONY. LEWALLEN TURNED IN A TIME OF 75 MINUTES AND $120 IN PLEDGES.
Personnel
Notes
Dy Patty Anderson
The Personnel Deportment
encourages all employees who are
leaving Saint Joseph Hospital to
participate in an exit interview. Since
resignations represent a consider-
able loss to the hospital, it is
important to learn the facts behind
the resignation.
Exit interviews can be completed
by an interview in the Personnel
Department or by completing on exit
interview questionnaire. Doth
methods provide the resigning
employee with the opportunity to
discuss his job and his feelings
toward his job in a confidential
manner.
Saint Joseph Hospital encourages
employees to communicate their
feelings so that the hospital may
continue to improve and be
responsive to employee needs.
Getting Into
Shape for
Summer
By popular demand, a new
weight-loss contest will be held
in the Employee Health Service on
the ground floor of the Mullen
Building. The initial weigh-in will
be Monday, March 31 at 9 a.m.
Each participant puts S>1 in the
kitty. There will be five winners at the
end of eight weeks, with the final
weigh-in on Monday, May 19.
Call the Employee Health Service
at extension 7778 for further details.