European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes monday june 4,1990 a medical centers lacking in Quality . Study finds Washington apr Quality standards at a medical centers generally lagged behind those of other hospitals in a Survey made of a National accrediting group officials confirmed saturday. Veterans affairs department officials said saturday that they were concerned about the results of the Survey by the group that accredits most of the nations hospitals. Officials said they will move quickly to Correct the problems that can be remedied. The joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations based in Oakbrook Terrace 111., studied 116 of the 172 a centers that provide medical care to 3.5 million veterans annually. It found the centers at least 20 percent More Likely than other hospitals to fall below Quality standards in the areas of emergency services special care services surgery and anaesthesia services surgical Case review alcohol and drug treatment planning and fire safety. It did not name any centers. The los Angeles times last week quoted William Jessic the commissions vice president for accreditation surveys As saying the a had a a seriously aging infrastructure in its health care Jessic also said the a had not been a adequately funded to bring these physical plants up to current life safety a spokesman Don Smith acknowledged that a number of problems were found at centers on the West coast particularly in the area of record keeping. A we recognize a necessity to keep better records Smith said in an interview saturday. A we Haven to been doing it in some instances and we need to do Smith said however that record keeping problems were not the same As deficiencies in providing care. He added that he did not a think that the recitation of the the study found that the a had a a seriously _ aging infrastructure in its health care a William Jessee commissions findings will shake the system to its j i j n a i done to want to excuse them though and 1 Don t think the system wants to excuse them a he added. Don Avant a special assistant to the commission president said in a Telephone interview that there were Many a Good people in the a health care system but he added that the department was on a scale with a maximum score of 100, the average for veterans centers was 69.8, while the average of 5,182 other hospitals was 77. Hospitals Are surveyed every three years for accreditation purposes. Under the system a score of 90 merits a a a commendation rating while anything lower than 50 puts a Hospital on a probationary status. Six percent of veterans hospitals received 87.5 Points or More in the study compared with about 25 percent of other hospitals. But 16 percent of the veterans institutions scored 57.5 or fewer Points compared with 4 percent among other hospitals. T Smith said six veterans medical centers Are on a conditional accreditation status Long Beach Sepulveda and Palo Alto in California Portland and Roseburg in Oregon and Walla Walla in Washington. He said All veterans hospitals Are accredited. Getting carried away Over taxes Federal marshals wheel away admitted tax protester Ron Brakke in Fargo n.d., after the candidate for Cass county sheriff was arrested for hauling impounded Grain from a farm in Horace. Brakke was put on the mail cart after refusing to answer questions. He was taken to the Cass county jail. Stateside dutch firm unveils audio tape that could rival digital sound los Angeles apr a dutch electronics firm has developed a conventional audio tape process that music Industry officials say is Good enough possibly to put a Dent in the new digital audio tape Market. . Philips quietly unveiled its new tape machine for several major record companies in los Angeles but the company has declined to discuss the so called digital compact cassette machine which is scheduled to hit the Market next year. A it sounds very Good its not As Good As a cd com. Pact Dis but its so much better than Standard analog cassettes a said a1 Mcpherson chief Engineer for Warner Bros. Apollo capsule to remain stored in a. Cape canaveral a. Apr the charred Apollo capsule in which three astronauts died 23 Yean ago will remain in storage in Virginia rather than be buried in an abandoned missile silo or Given to a museum Nasa has said. The capsule was to have been shipped in May from Langley research Center in Hampton va., to its final resting place in a silo at Cape canaveral. It was to have been buried on top of debts from the 1986 challenger explosion americans Only other space tragedy. The Transfer temporarily was halted after curators at the smithsonian institutions National air and space museum said they would like to acquire the capsule As a historic artefact. The Kansas cosm sphere and space Center in Hutchinson kan., also had expressed interest. Nasa spokesman Mark Hess said the decision to keep the capsule at Langley indefinitely was made after conferring with relatives of the three astronauts who died and former Apollo am cuts fare for soviets emigrating to the . New York apr pan american world airways is knocking a few rubles off the Cost of emigrating from the soviet Union to the United states. The airline has announced it is offering a one Way ticket to the . For $999, a 32 percent discount from the regular fare of $ 1,466. Pan am said the fare is designed to help the Flowel immigrants to the United states. It said their Access to air travel has been restricted by a requirement that they Fly on the soviet airline Aeroflot which has limited seating and expensive fares. Emigres can skirt the requirement by buying the discounted tickets outside the soviet Union and arranging through pan am to pick them up in the country said pan am spokeswoman Elizabeth Hynko. The discounted flights Are available from Moscow and Star to be tried for Possession of cocaine los Angeles apr a a cheers Star Kelsey Grammer already serving a 30-Day sentence Drunken driving has been ordered to stand trial o felony cocaine Possession charge. I the 35-year-old actor who plays pompous is Trist frasier Crane in the hit to series wore a co y jail Blue shirt and pants and was unshaven Tor hour Long preliminary hearing that resulted in the municipal court judge Aviva Bobb ordered him. Back to court june 13 for arraignment. Life cocaine Possession he could be sentenced to years in prison. A a Grammer has served one week of a 30-Day be for Drunken driving. Filming for a cheers is o this season and Grammer a jailing did not at show. Boy 4, Dies before liver transplant surgery can begin Dallas apr a 4-year-old mexican boy who was minutes away from a liver transplant died saturday before surgeons could begin the operation. Sammy Aguirre arrived at children a medical Center at 4 a.m., but his liver was failing said Hospital spokeswoman Sylvia Bodell. A the was immediately put into the intensive car unit but quickly took a turn for the worse Quot Bodell said. The surgery had been scheduled to begin at 1 ., but surgeons determined that Sammy would not survive the operation she said. He died Between 12 30 And 1 Sammy a parents Rosa Lilia and Armando Aguirre of Buenaventura in Northern Mexico were by his Side when he died Bodell said. Parents and physicians had been elated but anxious when they Learned Friday that a liver had been found for Sammy but doctors said the boys condition had seriously deteriorated. The donated liver came from a Florida child who was slightly larger and a Little older than Sammy said Sammy a doctor or. Troy Reyna. The Organ was sent to another liver transplant patient Bodell said. On thursday Sammy was moved to the highest priority for patients awaiting Organ transplants because his liver had failed. The boy remained in a coma. Sammy a ordeal began May 7 was admitted to Providence Hospital in Elpaso about 120 Northeast of his Hometown. Sammy was from Mexico he _ a ave Gible for . Programs that Como helped with the operation. Reyna launched a Niedria c p that brought a 15000 Douay in Ciudad Juarez Mexico b us. And additional donations from me v lie
