TowerTalk Volume 2 Issue Nr. 7, September 1981

              Come Celebrate
Our 10ath
It's hard fo imagine a family birth-
day party without home movies and
special refreshments. Traditionalists
and sentimentalists won't be disap-
pointed in the celebration of Saint
Joe's 108th Birthday�there'll be
"home movies" to show the way we
were (no hissing or booing, please)
and fresh popcorn and fruit juices.
All this occurs in the Assembly
Room on Monday, Sept. 21 from 2
p. m. to 4 p. m., and Tuesday Sept.
22, from 1 a. m. to 2 a. m. Watch for
flyers with show times and more
details.
Changing
of the Guard
Effective Sept. 1, EagleSecurity
Systems began fo provide security
service for Saint Joseph Hospital. In
order to make certain the chan-
geover is accomplished without any
interruption of service for the em-
ployees and the public, Eagle Secur-
ity and Midtown Security will jointly
handle security functions throughout
the month of September.
For communication purposes, we
will continue to use phone extension
6767; however, contact on that
extension number will be made
with our switchboard rathet than the
Midtown communication system.
With this change, our fransmittal of
messages will be handled internally.
Our contract with Eagle Security
System provides for additional secur-
ity coverage in the amount of 56
hours per week. We anticipate this
added coverage will improve on
our service and provide added as-
sistance fot our employees.
We want to reassure our employ-
ees of our continued effort to reeval-
uate the security function and to
improve on service as needed.
Heart Place
One Year Old
The Heart Place, Saint Joseph's
Cardiac Rehab Center, is only o
beat away from its first birthday,
Sept. 23. The Center pumps out an
exercise, counseling and education
program for cardiac patients. Hospi-
tal staff will be in the right vein if
they take advantage of a variety of
fitness activities including aerobics
classes, a running club and Fitness
Friday programs.
The Safe Side
by Jacque Decker
Heart to Heart
Everyone is aware that diet, smok-
ing and stress are factors in heart
disease, although no one is quite
sure just how important any one
factot is. Now, accotding to Science
News, researchers at Ohio State
University have uncovered another
contributing factor so unexpected
they repeated the experiment twice
� each time with the same results.
It seems the kind of fendet loving
care you get can be significant in
how well your heart holds up. During
the experiments the researchers
discovered that 14 rabbits who were
cuddled and played with showed
only half as much evidence of arterio-
sclerosis as rabbits who got routine,
impersonal laboratory core.
Obviously, whoever dreamed up
the heart as the symbol of love must
have known something. Hug a
bunny today or, better yet, o
heart patient.
New CT Scanner
In an effort fo keep up with the
lafest in the state-of-the-art, Saint
Joseph Hospital has submitted a
Certificate of Need application to
the Colorado Health Facilities Review
Council for a new CT Scanner.
The application indicates the new
scanner, which gives cross-section
views of a patient's brain, would be
cost effective. The hospital's current
scanner will be retained as a
back-up.
The application will be ptesented
to the council at its November
meeting.
TOWER TALK
Published by the Hospital
Community Relations Department
President: Sister Mary Andrew
Medical Staff President: Leroy J.
Sides, M.D.
Director, Hospital Community Rela-
tions: Anne-marie Zuccarelli
TOWER TALK STAFF
Steve Jackson
Gerald Magley
DEPARTMENT REPORTERS
Pauline Crisp, Darlene Boston,
Food Services
Kay Lange, Surgery
Anonymous, IC Nursery
Anonymous, ICU
Anonymous, 7 North
J. Stuthers, EKG Lab
Anonymous, Medical Records
Michelle Osgood, Occupational Therapy
Pat Pike, Speech and Hearing
Lynne Stanfield, Catdiac Rehabilitation
CONTRIBUTING STAFF
Edith Repka
Jacque Decker
Loise Lachman