By JOAN KINSBURY
Staff Correspondent
Joyce Collins, a resident of Hunts-
ville Road in Dallas, has been
named Nurse Coordinator of the
Children’s Unit of the Wyoming
Valley Clinic.
Wyoming Valley Clinic, located in
the building which housed the
former Wyoming Valley Hospital on
Dana Street in Wilkes-Barre, is a 79-
bed private psychiatric hospital.
The hospital treats patients with
problems of substance abuse as well
as other mental problems. Patients
range from age four to 18 years in
the Children’s Unit, but the hospital
‘treats adults, too.
Joyce is originally from Manhat-
tan, New York City. She is a gradu-
ate of Bellevue Nursing School. She
has been on the psychiatric staff at
Bellevue and Roosevelt Hospitals
and has worked at Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital in the Children’s
Service Center and the in-patient
center of the Luzerne-Wyoming
County Mental Health Center. Cur-
rently, Joyce is pursuing a degree
in Health Care Administration from
St. Joseph’s College in Maine.
Of all nursing assignments, Joyce
finds psychiatric nursing the most
exciting; the area of nursing that is
changing the most at the present
time. Joyce finds working with chil-
dren most challenging. She gets a
chance to work with the entire
family rather than with just the
Joyce gets to know the mother,
father, brothers and sisters during
the course of the treatment.
In her job as nurse-coordinator,
Joyce deals with in-patients which
means that these patients live on
the hospital premises 24 hours a
day. On September 19, Wyoming
Valley Clinic will open its owns
school for the children’s benefit. Art
therapy, music therapy, psychod-
rama, recreational therapy; all are
offered to patients. The treatment
program is based on the child’s
needs and abilities. Each program
is tailored to each child.
Joyce and her husband, John both
work in the area of psychiatric
health. John is co-ordinator of Wyo-
ming County Children’s Service
Unit. John’s three children, Merrily,
10, Jenna, 8 and Travis, 5 complete
the Collins family.
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Mrs. Nancy Perkowski,. Directo-
ress of Nursing, has been promoted
to Assistant Administrator, it was
announced by administrator Ray-
mond Benkoski, Leader East Nurs-
ing and Rehabilitation Center,
Kingston.
Mrs. Perkowski was born and
reared in the Wyoming Valley. She
graduated from Larksville High
School and the Mercy Hospital
School of Nursing. She is licensed as
a nurse and as an administrator in
Mrs. Perkowski and her husband
Leonard reside in Shavertown with
their two sons, Leonard Jr.
James.
Smiles is
appointed
R. NELSON SMILES
R. Nelson Smiles, CPA has been
appointed Director of Administra-
tive Services for Rural Health Cor-
poration of Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania.
MRS. NANCY PERKOWSKI
In this capacity, he is responsible
for all financial and data processing
systems, policies, and procedures in
the delivery of medical and dental
services for Rural Health’s more
than 20,000 patients.
Smiles is a native of West Pittston
and graduated from Wilkes College
where he was a full scholarship
student. He also did post graduate
work at the University of Scranton.
He is a member of the American
and the Pennsylvania Institutes of
CPA's.
Prior to joining the staff of Rural
Health Corporation, Smiles was
employed in public accounting both
in his own practice and with Par-
ente Randolph Orlando Carey and
Associates, CPAs. He has had
extensive experience in financial
reporting, taxes, data ‘processing
and business financing.
Rural Health Corporation admin-
centers located in Noxen and Exeter
Township, Wyoming County and
Wilkes-Barre, Shickshinny, Free-
land and Nuremberg, Luzerne
County.
The offices provide preventive
and primary health care, nutrition
counseling, individual and family
counseling, pharmacy, transporta-
tion, and educational programs.
Services are available to all per-
sons.
The Office of Continuing Educa-
tion at Luzerne County Community
College will offer a course entitled,
“The Paperless Electronic Office,”
an executive awareness program
designed for the business operator
or manager who has limited expo-
sure to the functions that the micro-
computer can perform in the office
and home working environments.
The program, which will be
offered on Tuesddy and Thursday,
September 27 and 29, from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m., at the college’s Educa-
tional Conference Center, will
include lectures on the components
of a computer expanding a system
and trends of the industry.
Participants will receive hands-on
computer experience to create a
paperless file system with multiple
to enable students to identify the
components of a computer, recog-
nize the devices which are neces-
sary to enhance the capabilities of a
eomputer, and observe the scope of
such capabilities as word process-
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for the terminal cancer patient.
Unlike traditional hospice pro-
grams, where the patient and
family is cared for at their home,
the VA Medical Center Hospice
Team prepares and cares for the
setting within the medical center.
Mrs. Shirley Smith, R.N., M.S.N.,
of Dallas, Coordinator of the VA
Medical Center’s six-bed Hospice
Unit has had an article, on the
subject of developing a hospice pro-
gram, accepted for publication. The
paper, co-authored by Ms. Nancy
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of Hospice Care’’. The publication
will appear in the November issue
of the Journal of Nursing Adminis-
tration. The article focuses on
essential components of hospice
care and necessary planning to
ensure a successful palliative treat-
ment program for the terminally ill.
Mrs. Smith points out in the article,
the importance of family involve-
ment and usual family activities
and relationship during the last
stages of termimal illness.
As the Clinical Specialist in Oncol-
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family groups. Mrs. Smith has been
reappointed as Clinical Professor at
Wilkes College Department of Nurs-
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REV. ANITA AMBROSE
Steps taken by Blue Cross of
Northeastern Pennsylvania for
achieving increased savings through
stringent utilization reviews, cost-
effective practices, a brief overview
of the Plan’s vastly improved
claims processing systems, and a
look at certain priority projects
planned for the remainder of 1983,
are among topics for discussion on
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 12:15 p.m., at
the Blue Cross fall luncheon forum
for Advisory Board members only,
at Genetti Best Western Motor Inn,
Wilkes-Barre.
Announcement of the upcoming
meeting was made by Roy E.
Morgan, Forty Fort and. the Rev.
Anita Ambrose, Plymouth, co-chair-
men of the panel representing the
communities of central Luzerne and
Wyoming Counties. ‘For the past 43
years,’”’ they said, ‘‘Blue Cross
Advisory Board members from
communities in the northeastern
Pennsylvania region have been
meeting regularly for the purpose of
keeping informed about Blue Cross
and Blue Shield operations. This
informal, roundtable dialogue has
been most helpful for members who
volunteer their time to discuss com-
munity subscriber interests, and to
stay advised of the Plan’s current
and future activities.”
Forum participants for the Blue
Cross Plan will include Gilbert D.
Tough, newly elected president and
chief executive officer, and Thomas
J. Ward, director of professional
affairs.
Also serving as area Advisory
Board members are: Mrs. Ruth
McHenry, Joseph Chisarick, Samuel
Bianco, Walter Glogowski, The Rev.
James Lackenmier, CSC, Joel
Riegel, Arnold S. Rifkin, Atty. Louis
Shaffer, John Namey, Eugene
Spier, Raymond Terwilliger, S.M.
Wolfe, III, Wilkes-Barre; David M.
Baltimore, Leo J. Bergsmann, Wil-
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Madge Benovitz, William Rolland,
Wallce F. Stettler, Kingston;
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Hughestown; Jerome Fenner,
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Roselund, Atty. J. Joel Turrell,
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