By JOHN HOINSKI
Staff Writer
When the Redi-Care Medical
Centers sprang up in California
several years ago, they quickly
developed a reputation more
suited for a fast-food chain than
a health corporation. In fact,
they were commonly known as a
“Doc in the Box.”
Unfortunately, it’s also the sort
of reputation that sometimes
suggests an exchange in quality
for streamlined service. That is
not the case in this situation.
A privately funded corportion,
Redi-Care centers do provide
fast service, but they also pro-
vide efficient, low-cost quality
care with a full-time staff of
qualified doctors. Perhaps even
more importantly, they ease the
burden placed on hospital emer-
gency rooms as well as the
patients who sometimes must
wait for hours before being seen
by a physician.
“We are sort of a take-off of
the emergency room in hospi-
tals,” Joe Balavage, of the Back
Mountain, administrator of the
newly opened Redi-Care center
on the corner of Wyoming Ave.
and Union Streets, Kingston,
said.
“Those rooms in a hospital are
used for real emergencies, a
crisis-type situation. We usually
don’t handle that sort of thing
here. We service the people who,
for example, would go to a hospi-
tal to be looked at for a case of
wait for a long time before they
are seen. Here, people are
coming and going in less than a
half hour.”
Although the center is pre-
pared to handle more serious
cases, it does not admit anyone
into a hospital.
“If an abnormal situation does
occur, we tell them to notify
their physician, or if they don’t
Redi-Care staff
or
have one, we tell them to come
back for a consultation and pro-
ceed from there,”” Balavage
explained.
“In a more serious case, like a
heart attack, we will attend to
them until they can be trans-
ported by paramedics to a hospi-
tal. But, we are more of a
seasonal type of operation. Right
now, we are handling a lot of flu
cases. In the summer we handle
fractures; cuts, bee stings, any
minor medical problem.”
Another advantage of the Redi-
Care center is the low cost of
care compared to that of a hospi-
tal. Balavage estimates that
people can save approximately
50.percent in medical expenses in
addition to being treated in a
more friendly confine.
“When you go into a hospital,
you pay for the use of the emer-
gency room, the doctor and so on
down the line,” Balavage said.
‘But, here you pay one set
charge. And, along with getting
quicker service, they are also
being treated in a friendlier
atmosphere.
“Here, our staff is oriented
‘toward patients who are not seri-
ously ill. But, sometimes in the
emergency room in a hospital
the staff there can be very busy
with a lot of critical situations.
Then, when they are just about
through for the night someone
might walk in with a case of the
flu, for instance, and because of
the hectic conditions that existed
before, the doctors can be a little
hard with the patient. They don’t
do it on purpose; it’s just the
stress of that type of setting,”
Balavage continued.
“But, here we know what type
of people we are dealing with
most of the time and our staff is
well-prepared.”
The center, which operates
seven days a week, is open from
9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Currently, it is
also providing a free health
screen in which a series of
approximately 24 tests are run
on the blood.
Although the facility has only
been in existence since the begin-
ning of January, the center is
already a huge success and no
one is happier than Balavage.
A former promotion and dis-
play worker with Pomeroy’s, he
has always had a fascination
with medicine.
“I worked with Pomeroy’s for
several years in the promotions
and display department, but I
became stagnant. I just wasn’t
happy with what I was doing,”
the 34-year old Shavertown resi-
dent said. “I always had an
interest in pre-hospital care, so I
got involved with the Kingston
Township ambulance service.
“After I left Pomeroy’s, I went
to Wasserott’s and eventually
met a few doctors. Then I
became involved in the paramed-
ics program which was being
taught by Dr. David Perrone. We
both began talking and from
there, one thing led to another
and this is where it ended up.”
The Kingston facility, which is
also being run by Dr. John
Caruno, along with Balavage and
Perrine, is equipped with five
examination rooms, one x-ray
lab and a procedure room. With
a full-time staff of 15 doctors,
none of whom have a private
practice, one doctor is on duty at
all times.
The group recently expanded
and is now operating a new Redi-
Care center in Easton.
ROBERT TUPPER
Robert T. Tupper, 40, of Angleton,
Texas, died January 21 following an
accident in Angleton.
Surviving are his wife, Gayle;
children, Robert and Brenna, at
home; brothers, Carl, Mehoopany;
James, Trucksville; and Craig,
Dallas.
Funeral services were held Janu-
ary 23 from the Angleton United
Methodist Church. :
HENRY C. TUCK IV
Henry C. Tuck IV, of Dallas, died
January 24, victim of a gunshot
wound.
Surviving are his parents, Henry
C. Tuck of Dallas; and the former
Janet L. Shaver of ‘Dallas; brothers,
Daniel L. Tuck, of Sweet Valley;
and Andrew G. Tuck, Dallas Town-
ship.
Memorial services were held Jan-
uary 27 from the Shavertown United
Methodist Church, with The Rev.
James Wert, pastor, officiating.
Interment, Hollenback Cemetery,
Wilkes-Barre.
ROBERT WILLIAMS
Robert L. Williams, 92, of Broad-
way Road, RD 1, Sweet Valley, died
January 26 in Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital, Kingston, following an ill-
ness.
Surviving are his daughter,
Elaine Williams Jones, Sweet
Valley; son, Robert L. William Jr.,
Fanwood, N.J.; sisters, Mrs. Lor-
etta Wright and Alica Williams,
both of Kingston; Mrs. Dorothy
Wasley, Harveys Lake; seven
grandchildren; one great-grandson.
Funeral services will be held
C. Snowdon Funeral Home, 420
Wyoming Ave., Kingston. Inter-
ment, Mount Greenwood Cemetery,
Trucksville.
ADA DAVIS
Mrs. Ada M. Davis, 87, formerly
of RD 3, Dallas, died January 27 in
the Meadows : Nursing Center,
Dallas.
Surviving are her daughter, Mrs.
Elmer Reese, Orange; sons, Robert
E., Exeter; James J., Chase; 10
grandchildren; five great-grandchil-
dren.
Funeral services will be held Jan-
uary 30 at a time to be announced
from the Harold C. Snowdon
Funeral Home, 140 N. Main St.,
Shavertown. Interment will be in
Memorial Shrine Cemetery, Carver-
ton. Friends may call today 7 to 9
p.m.
ANDREW CHEWEY
Andrew M. Chewey Jr., 50, of
Hareys Lake, died suddenly Janu-
ary 26 in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital,
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House where they joined en masse
with other ralliers.
Among those who supported the
demonstrators was President
Reagan himself. Speaking via a
telephone hook-up between the
White House and loud speakers
where protestors gathered, Reagan
said, “I’m proud to stand with you
in the long march for the right to
life.”
Although the official count esti-
mated a crowd of about 37,000, a bit
more than half of last year’s total,
other reports indicated that the
number was closer to 90,000.
“It was monstrous,” Carol Sitar
of Dallas said. “It was shoulder to
shoulder and we met people from
all over. We met people from Cali-
fornia, Tennessee, Georgia, Louis-
iana, there was even a group of
about 100 people from Florida who
rented a plane for the day and flew
down. I don’t know how they deter-
mine the size of a crowd, but I
thought it was larger than last
year.”
Sitar, who made the trip for the
second time, is also the mother of
five children and feels very strongly
about the support of human life.
‘Having children, I know what it
is to give birth,” she noted. ‘But we
are not only destroying unborn
babies; we are destroying our-
selves. In no way shape or form
should life be eliminated.”
— JOHN HOINSKI
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Paul Detwiler of Kingston also
agrees. ‘It was a tragedy, but I
don’t think we should stop explora-
tion. We’ve been going on for years
and, with all the miles we logged, I
think the fatalities are nill com-
pared to the people being Killed
every day.
“Individuals get killed in their
cars and nobody cares except for
the family involved,” Detwiler con-
tinued. ‘‘But just because this
includes a nation, it doesn’t make it
any more of a tragedy.”
“I don’t think we should scrub the
program,’ Bob Lynady of Kingston
agreed. ‘‘You have to expect things
like this to happen once in a while.
You're going to have accidents no
matter what you do. But, it’s no
worse than going out on a high-
way. bal
Still others believed it was part of
the danger that astronauts risk on
every mission and it is something
we have to accept.
“It was a tragic thing, but it was
inevitable that it was going to
happen someday,” Dorothy Geb-
hardt of Brown Manor said. ‘‘Astro-
nauts are always facing danger and
it is something they also realize.
You keep hoping everything will go
well, but in the back of your mind,
you just never know.”
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added, ‘“You’re worried that sooner
or later something like this is going
to happen, but you have to keep
going. Hey, the Blue Angels keep
flying, don’t they? But, we have to
realize how dangerous all this is. I
think Senator (Jake) Garn said he
wanted to go up on the Shuttle.
Maybe next time we should let him
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ing that NASA officials weren’t sure
what happened. At first, it was
believed that a major malfunction
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a “fireball.”
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students and parents of McAuliffe,
were aware of what happened.
Cameras showed the parents of the
37-year-old teacher watching the lif-
toff, but when the explosion
occurred, the craft was so high
above they could not tell what
happened.
Planes and ships were dispatched
to the scene where the shuttle
landed in the ocean, but all that
could be seen were small chunks of
floating debris.
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