ALBERT WATSON
                                                              District 2 - Columbia



                             SOUTH CAROLINA REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAM


          The South Carolina Regional Medical Program covers  your.District.  The
          plannino phase of the Program in South Carolina is well underway.  A
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          Regional Advisory Group broadly representative of the health  resources
          and interests has been appointed; several standing committees have been
          established to assist it; and six task forces organized in the  overall
          planning and development of operational proposals.  Funds in the amount
          of $379,246 are available for current planning, which includes three
          feasibility studies to:  establish a cooperative tumor registry; provide
          a comparative cancer streatment program in a semirural area; and  study
          the role of the Greenville Hospital System in the Region.
          The South Carolina Regional Medical Program has set up 10 districts  as
          subregions; these correspond to the 10 districts of the South  Carolina
          Medical Association.  (District II encompasses the Columbia area.) Each
          has a program coordinator and a local advisory group.
          An initial operational proposal has recently been received from the
          South Carolina Regional'Lvedical Program.  A list of proposed operational
          projects in your District for which support has been requested, is included
          in the attached summary.








                                                               ALBERT WILLIAM WATSON
                                                               DISTRICT 2 - COLUMBIA


                              SOUTH CAROLINA REGIONAL MEDICAL  PROGRAM


         REGION                                State of South  Carolina
         COORDINATING HEADQUARTERS             Medical   College of South Carolina

         STARTING DATE                         January  1,  1967


         FUNDING

              Current Award:                   $379,246

              Current Request:                 .$2,000,000

              Projected:                       $2,147,500
         OPERATIONAL STATUS                    An initial operational  grant  request  sub-
                                                mitted in February, 1968

         PROGRAM COORDINATOR                   Charles P. Summerall, III, M.D.
                                               Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
                                               Medical College of South Carolina
                                               Charleston, South Carolina

         PROGRAM DIRECTOR                      William J. Warlick
                                               Former Public Health Advisor
                                               USPHS
         ADVISORY GROUP                        1.  Chairman:  William M. Mcdord, M.D.,   Ph.D.
                                                               President
                                                               Medical College of South  Carolina
                                                               Charleston,  South  Carolina

                                               2.  Membership:  67 (attached)
                                                   Practicing Physicians, 12; Medical
                                                   Centers, 10; Hospital Administrators, 16;
                                                   Voluntary Health  Agencies,  8;  Public
                                                   Health Officials, 16; Allied Health  1;
                                                   Public, 1; Other, 4


         In March 1966, the Medical College of South Carolina, the State Board of Health
         and the South Carolina Health Heart Association  organized  a  Regional  Advisory
         Group.  This group included representatives of public and voluntary health
         agencies, the hospital administrators of major community hospitals, and the
         Directors of State-Aid Cancer and Heart Clinics.  A  planning  committee  of  this
         group, with the advice and concurrence of the group  at  large,  developed  guide-
         lines for a Regional  Medical  Program.






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         2.  A cooperative cancer therapy program in a semirural area, to include  a
             study of the operation of a proposed supervoltage radiation therapy  unit
             at the Marion County Memorial Hospital.
         3.  A study of the role of the Greenville Hospital System in the region, to
             supplement the activities of an existing ad hoc committee of the  medical
             staff, and'to plan the patterns of cooperation that might be  developed
             through this hospital system for the comprehensive and continuing care of
             patients with heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

         Relationship to Comprehensive Health Program
         Present plans call for coordinating the two Advisory Groups once the CHP Group
         is appointed.  The State Board of Health has been designated by the Governor as
         the State comprehensive health planning agency.  Dr. Kenneth Aycock, the State
         Health Officer, is an active member of the Regional Advisory Group.

         Selected Operational P@e t@s
         Funds have been requested for the following operational projects, which  fall
         within the Congressman's district, by the South Carolina Regional Medical
         Program.
         Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training:  The South Carolina Heart Association,
         Columbia, South Carolina, has developed a project to instruct physicians  and
         allied medical personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation  procedures.  The
         project staff would work with the Columbia Hospital where faculty  training
         courses would be presented.  (Amount Requested for first year - $55,393)
         Demonstration Project for the Detection of Cancer of the Gastrointestinal Tract:
         Columbia Hospital of Richland County proposes to sponsor this project.  (Amount
         Requested for first year - $44,842)
         Acute Stroke Management Demonstration Project in a Community Hospital:  Columbia
         Hos ital of Richland County has developed a hospital-based acute stroke service.
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         The need is great in a region which has one of the highest incidences of stroke
         in the nation.  (Amount Requested for first year - $162,476)
         Regional Stroke Rehabilitation and Treatment Demonstration Project:  This
         project, sponsored by Columbia Hospital of Richland County, is designed  to
         convert the Ridgewood extended care facility into a stroke rehabilitation center.
         (Amount Requested for first year - $93,905)









                ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING FOR REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS

                                       IN SOUTH CAROLINA



              Chairman


                   Dr. William M. McCord
                   President
                   Medical College of South Carolina
                   Charleston, South Carolina

                   Dr. Franklin C. Fetter
                   lst Vice-President and Dean
                   School of Medicine
                   Medical College of South Carolina
                   Charleston, South Carolina

                   Dr. E. Kenneth Aycock
                   State Health Officer
                   State Board of Health
                   Columbia, South Carolina

                   Dr  Norman 0. Eaddy
                   Pr;sident
                   South Carolina Medical Association
                   Sumter, South Carolina

                   Dr. Dill D. Beckman
                   Executive Officer and Director
                   State Agency of Vocational Rehabilitation
                   Columbia, South Carolina

                   Dr. Robert Edwards
                   President
                   Clemson University
                   Clemson, South Carolina

                   Mr. Robert Alexander
                   State-Federal Coordinator
                   Office of the Governor
                   Columbia, South Carolina

                   Mr. Henry M. Lee
                   Chairman, Executive Committee
                   South Carolina Heart Association
                   Greenville, South Carolina










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                   Dr. Frank Geiger
                   Director, Cancer, Heart Disease
                     and  Tuberculosis
                   State Board of Health
                   Columbia, South  Carolina


                   Dr. Dale Groom
                   Assistant Dean for Continuing Education.
                   Medical College of South Carolina
                   Charleston, South Carolina

                   Miss Dora McNeill
                   Executive  Director
                   South Carolina Nurses' Association
                   Columbia, South  Carolina


                   Mr. Grant Hurst
                   Executive  Director
                   South Carolina Hospital Association
                   Columbia, South  Carolina


                   Mr. Robert L. Davis
                   Executive  Director
                   South Carolina Heart Association
                   Columbia, South  Carolina

                   Dr. Charles S. Chandler
                   Coordinator, Planning and Research,
                   Vocational Rehabilitation Planning Program
                   Columbia, South  Carolina

                   Maj-Gen. 0. P. Newman
                   President, South Carolina Division
                   American Cancer Society
                   Columbia, South  Carolina

                   Mr. Ernest V. Williams
                   President
                   South Carolina Chapter, APTA
                   Columbia, South  Carolina

                   Mrs. Frances Poston
                   Charleston County Health Department
                   Charleston, South Carolina

                   Mrs. Martin Jernigan
                   Executive  Vice-President
                   American Cancer Society-South Carolina Division
                   Columbia, South Carolina-












               Distri          eston
                    ct I (Charl     I

                    Dr. Curtis P. Artz
                    Chairman, Department of Surgery
                    Medical College of South  Carolina
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Dr. T. C. McFall
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Dr. Edward F. Parker
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Dr. Ford Rivers
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Mr. Jack Porter
                    Superintendent
                    Medical College of South  Carolina
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Mr. Robert L. Russell
                    Director
                    Veterans Administration  Hospital@
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Dr. Albert Kuritz
                    Chief of Staff
                    Veterans Administration Hospital
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Dr. George F. Stevenson
                    Director, School of Allied Health Sciences
                    Medical College of South  Carolina
                    Charleston, South Carolina

                    Dr. John F. Finklea
                    Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine
                    Medical College of South  Carolina
                    Charleston, South Carolina


              District II (Columbia)


                    Dr. L. J. Brannon
                    Director, State Aid Cancer  Clinic
                    Columbia, South Carolina

                    Mr. James M. Daniel
                    Superintendent, Columbia  Hospital
                    Columbia, South Carolina












                   Dr. E.  DuBose  Dent
                   Columbia,  South  Carolina

                   Mr.  William  Boyce
                   Administrator
                   South Carolina Baptist Hospital
                   Coluinbia, South  Carolina

                   Dr. Dana C.  Mitchell,  Jr.
                   Director of Medical Education
                   Columbia   Hospital
                   Columbia,  South  Carolina

                   Dr. Donald E. Saunders
                   Associate   Director
                   State  Heart  Clinic
                   Columbia,  South  Carolina


                   Dr. 0. B. Mayer
                   Columbia,  South  Carolina

                   Dr. U.  Hoyt  Bodie
                   South Carolina Baptist Hospital
                   Columbia,  South  Carolina


                   Mr. Julius E. Hammett
                   Assistant   Director
                   Vocational   Rehabilitation
                   Columbia,  South  Carolina


              District III (Greenwood)


                   Dr. B. M. Montgomery
                   Newberry,  South  Carolina

                   Dr. W.  A.  Klauber
                   Director, State Aid Cancer Clinic
                   Self Memorial Hospital
                   Greenwood,  South  Carolina

                   Dr. J. Roland McKinney
                   Medical Center
                   Greenwood,  South  Carolina










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              District IV  (Anderson)

                   Mr. D. K.  Oglesby
                   Administrator
                   Anderson Memorial  Hospital
                   Anderson, South Carolina

                   Dr. Charles T. Battle
                   Seneca, South Carolina

                   Dr. William  Hunter
                   Clemson, South Carolina

                   Dr. John B.  Martin
                   Anderson, South Carolina

                   Dr. J. H. Young
                   Acting Director
                   State Aid Cancer Clinic
                   Anderson, South Carolina


              District IV (Greenville).

                   Dr. George M. Grimball
                   Greenville, South  Carolina

                   Dr. John C.  Muller
                   President
                   South Carolina Heart Association
                   Greenville, South  Carolina

                   Mr. Robert  Toomey
                   Director, Greenville General Hospital System
                   Greenville,.South  Carolina


                   Dr. F. R. Wrenn
                   Greenville, South  Carolina

                   Dr. William  Pryor
                   Greenville, South  Carolina


              District V (Rock  Hill)

                   Dr. George  Adickes
                   Rock Hill, South Carolina










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                    Dr. Alton G. Brown
                    Director State Aid Cancer Clinic
                    Rock Hill, South Carolina

                    Mr. Fred  Ellison
                    Administrator, York General Hospital
                    Rock Hill, South Carolina


              District VI (Florence)

                    Dr.  James Allen
                    Director, State Aid Cancer Clinic
                    Florence, South Carolina

                    Dr. N.  B. Baroody
                    Director, State Heart Clinic
                    Florence, South Carolina

                    Mr. Kenneth Gallier
                    Administrator, McLeod Infirmary
                    Florence, South Carolina

                    Mr. W. B. Finlayson
                    Administrator
                    Conway  Hospital
                    Conway,  South  Carolina


              District  VII  (Sumter)

                    Mr. Ralph Abercrombie
                    Administrator, Toumey Hospital
                    Sumter,  South  Carolina

                    Dr. Leah B. Givens
                    Sumter,  South  Carolina

                    Dr. D. D.  Moise
                    Director, State Aid Cancer Clinic
                    Sumter,  South  Carolina


               District   VIII ran eburg)

                    Dr. V. Wells Brabham
                    Director, State Aid Cancer Clinic
                    Orangeburg, South Carolina

                    Dr. C. Birnie Johnson
                    Orangeburg, South Carolina













                   Mr. Filmore Mabry
                   Administrator, Orangeburg Regional Hospital
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                   Orangeburg, South Carolina


             District ix (Spartan ur

                   Dr.J. P. Coan
                   Director, State Heart Clinic
                   Spartanburg, South Carolina

                   Dr. Charles B. Hanna
                   Pinewood Mall
                   Spartanburg, South Carolina

                   Dr. John M. Fleming
                   Director, State Aid Cancer Clinic
                   Spartanburg, South Carolina

                   Mr. Zerno Martin
                   Associate Director
                   Spartanburg General Hospital
                   Spartanburg, South Carolina

                   Dr. George D. Johnson
                   Past-President
                   South Carolina Medical Association
                   Spartanburg, South Carolina