MUHLENBERG MEDICAL CENTER.

rv1~C =:: PULSEVol. 12, No.5 November, 1979MUHLENBERG MEDICAL CENTER, BETHLEHEM, PA.

Albert Moggio Elected Hospital PresidentHutchinson's Goal Donald Schlegel"Make MMC Food and Robert FowlerService Exciting" Vice-Presidents

"Exciting" is the manner inwhich the employees of Muhlen-berg Medical Center describe thehospital's food service under the di-rection of Gary S. Hutchinson, thedepartment's director. Not only ishe putting the new and revolution-ary regithermic system offood pre-paration into operation, but noweek goes by that those who eat inthe cafeteria do not have an unusu-al treat.

"There is nothing more interest-ing and exciting than food, "Mr.Hutchinson insists, "but a directorand his staff must continually workat it to get the desired results."

So employees are treated to suchweekly experiences as "make yourown taco or hoagie or sundae". Thesalad bar, which Mr. Hutchinsoninstituted, proved to be a success.

But it is the regithermic system ofpreparing and serving food to thepatients that has provided the mostexcitement. The system was inaug-urated on the second floor on Octo-ber I and, three weeks later, wasextended to all patient floors. (Seearticle on page 4)

Gary Hutchinson is an employeeofM. W. Wood, the firm that pro-vides the MMC food service. Heworked for Wood as a kitchenhelper during summer breaks whilea student at Bloomsburg State Col-lege. Upon graduation he was as-signed to the company's HealthCare Division and later was namedassistant food service director atthe Good Shepherd Home and Re-habilitation Hospital in Allentown.He held similar posts at AllentownOsteopathic Hospital and EastonHospital before coming to MMCas director of the Food Service De-partment this past February.

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Albert V. MoggioElected President

Donald P. SchlegelFirst Vice-President

'79 Summer Festival Proceeds$30,000 Despite Saturday Rain

Calvin Frey NamedTo MMC MenBoard

Calvin J. Frey of Easton hasbeen elected to the board of direc-tors of the Men of MuhlenbergMedical Center. President ElmerJ. Paules announced that Mr. Freywas named to fill a vacancy on theboard.

Archie Dowdle, chief of phar-macy at MMC, addressed the menat their October 29 meeting on"Changing Aspects of Pharmacy".

At the September 24 meeting ofthe group Richard Frantz, chief ofphysical therapy, discussed therole his department plays in physi-cal rehabilitation.

Mr. Paules reported that themen's membership stands at 341.

A check for $30,000 was pre-sented to Donald E. Porter, MMCexecutive director, by Austin J.Ueberroth, general chairman of the1979 MMC Summer Festival.This sum represented the proceedsfrom the 3-day event in August.

Mr. Ueberroth noted that thecommittee was highly pleased by

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Albert V. Moggio, retired Allen-town textile manufacturer andlong-time civic leader, was electedpresident of Muhlenberg MedicalCenter at the annual reorganiza-tion meeting of the board of direc-tors on October 17. He became thethird president in the 22 year his-tory of the hospital.

Mr. Moggio succeeded Atty. Ja-cob S. Kolb of Bethlehem, whoheld the post for a record 12 years.During that period, MMC under-went a series of changes as it pro-gressed from a hospital for thechronically ill to a full service insti-tution. The recent expansion andrenovation program doubled thehospital's space.

The board also elected DonaldP. Schlegel, Bethlehem Steel exec-utive, first vice-president, and C.Robert Fowler, Lehigh Litho,Bethlehem, second vice-president.

Mrs. Sara Fritch Henry, Allen-town, was re-elected secretary andDonald E. Porter, Bethlehem, willcontinue as assistant secretary.John W. Woltjen, Bethlehem, aLehigh University official, was re-elected treasurer, and Jerry V.Jones, First Valley Bank vice-pres-

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Donald E. Porter. Executive Director

Guignet Named Physical PlantDirector, Supervised Expansion

Maintenance of MuhlenbergMedical Center's buildings andgrounds are now the responsibilityof Paul D. Guignet, who wasnamed director of physical plant onOctober I. Donald E. Porter, theexecutive director, said Mr.Guignet will supervise mainte-nance, housekeeping, security andgroundskeeping.

Mr. Guignet is no stranger to thehospital, as he was engaged by theLehigh County General PurposeAuthority as project manager forthe $6.5 million construction andrenovation program. He assumedthat position in February 1978 andwas overseer of the constructionwhich is now in its final phases.

The physical plant director hashad considerable experience in thisfield. He supervised the construc-tion of the Sacred Heart HospitalTower in 1975 for the Alvin H.Butz contracting firm, and, duringhis six years with Butz, also was incharge of building the Philip LauerMiddle School in Wilson Borough.

As a supervisor for WilmerSchultzt he built the FrancisScheckler Elementary School inCatasauqua.

Prior to spending two years atMuhlenberg College as superinten-dent of buildings and grounds, Mr.Guignet was with Turner Con-struction, working out ofN ew YorkCity, Boston and Philadelphia. Hewas superintendent of constructionof Bethlehem Steel's Homer Re-search Laboratories in Bethlehem,a project that took six and one-halfyears to complete, and also builtthe Cardinal Cushing Hospital inBrockton, Mass., a 350 bed institu-

Paul D. Guignettion.

The business-like constructionexpert also was with four otherAllentown firms, and supervisedconstruction of the AllentownSchool District Stadium during thisearly phase of his career.

A native of Allentown, he wasgraduated from William AllenHigh and, during World War II,enlisted in the U.S. NavyV-12 pro-gram that was based at Franklin &Marshall College in Lancaster. Heserved in the Pacific then returnedto the Navy to serve a year in Japanduring the Korean War.

He resides in Center Valley withhis wife, Emily, and two sons.Another son is married and lives inAllentown.

Paul Guignet is highly pleasedwith the two new wings at MMC.He pointed out that the patientrooms are as large as any in theLehigh Valley and described all ofthe new facilities as "exceptional".

Hutchinson (continuedfrom page 1)graduated from Salisbury High More Catholic Church in Allen-School where he was a member of town.the basketball and golf teams. At Not only food specials, but suchBloomsburg State Mr. Hutchinson features as movies and the currentearned a bachelor of science de- Guess the Weight of the Pumpkingree in business administration. Contest make eating in the MMC

The food service director and his cafeteria fun. As long as Garywife, Marilyn, reside in Fountain Hutchinson is the director, doctors,Hill. They are members of Central nurses and the non-professionalPresbyterian Church, Bethlehem, staff members can be sure the ex-and he coaches the 8-9 grade boys citement will continue.basketball team at St. Thomas

Cheryl Jakisa Elected MMCJunior Auxiliary President

Cheryl Jakisa, ajunior at Bethle-hem Catholic High, is the newpresident ofthe MMC Junior Aux-iliary. She succeeds Kathy Guld-ner, a Freedom High student, whoheld the post this past year.

The juniors also elected DeniseOnyskiw, Liberty High, vice-presi-dent; Lynn Watson, Notre Dame,secretary; Nancy Brooks, Liberty,assistant secretary; Stephanie San-to, Freedom, treasurer, and MindyGarland, Freedom, assistant trea-surer.

This year's advisors will be Mrs.Stephen Jakisa, Elaine Fabian andDiane George, all of Bethlehem.

The Junior Volunteers sched-uled a Donut Sale for November

Cheryl Jakisa16 and will hold a Candy Sale onDecember 12.

Auxiliary He-elects Mrs. LongMrs. Beatrice Long of lehigh-

ton was re-elected president of theMMC Auxiliary at the organiza-tion's annual luncheon meeting.Mrs. Lena Kistler, Slatington, isthe president-elect.

The women also elected Mrs.Joseph Rutkiewicz, Easton, vice-president; Mrs. Aral Hollenbach,Allentown, secretary; Mrs. HelenDetthof, Bethlehem, treasurer, andMrs. Clifford Sloyer, Easton, as-sistant treasurer.

Mrs. Stephen Solloy, Allen-town, was named correspondingsecretary; Mrs. Raymond Hoffert,

Festival (continued from page 1)the results, considering that a tor- filled the grounds.rential rainstorm had washed out The chairman expressed hisSaturday's program. To make up thanks to the more than 200 volun-for the lost day, the committee ex- teers who manned the booths andtended the festival Monday after- performed a myriad of other duties.noon and evening. Although there The summer festival is cospon-was little opportunity to publicize sored by the Auxiliary and the Menthe added day, another large crowd of MMC.·-----~--~--~--~t--·~-~-~~

Jr., Bethlehem, membership chair-person; Mrs. Bertram Nagle, Beth-lehem, financial secretary, andMrs. Minnie Kuhns, Lehighton,historian.

Mrs. Paul Kerrigan, president ofthe Pennsylvania Association ofHospital Auxiliaries, was the key-note speaker for the affair. JosephFitzgerald, MMC assistant-execu-tive director, brought the greetingsof the hospital.

More than 200 members andguests attended the lunch at Holi-day Inn of Bethlehem.

Ambulance at the new emergency entrance to Muhlenberg Med-ical Center. Emergency is now located in the new AmbulatoryCare Wing.

400 Tour Hospital on Dedication Day"It's a new hospital" was the

consensus of the more than 400 vis-itors who toured Muhlenberg Med-ical Center on September 23. Theoccasion was the dedication of thenew Patient and Ambulatory CareWings.

From 1:30 until the dedicationprogram at 5 p.m., steady streamsof men, women and children wereformed into tour groups to inspectthe wings and also areas of theoriginal hospital where renovationwork was well under way. TheAuxiliary served refreshments inthe dining room at the tour's end.

Another 300 persons assembledunder the portico at the new mainentrance for the historyentrance for the history-makingdedication program that signalledthe beginning of a new era of ser-vice by the hospital.

The guest speaker, Dr. Frank J.Rauscher, Jr., senior vice-presi-dent for research, American Can-cer Society, emphasized that one ofthe major tasks of providing goodhealth care is giving physicians incommunity hospitals access to newinformation which will add to theirknowledge and skills.

The speaker, a Hellertown na-tive, and one of the nation's mostdistinguished researchers in thefield of cancer, advised his audi-ence not to be alarmed by thecarcinogen of the week. "We'vetested 23,000 things and found thatonly 31 cause cancer," he noted.The speaker reminded the hospitalof its responsibility to get informa-tion to the public that will help toprevent disease.

Clarence A. Reichard, MMCboard chairman and president ofthe hospital during its develop-ment stages, reviewed those earlydays and traced its progress since itwas conceived by a group of Luth-eran pastors and laymen in the latefifties.

Donald E. Porter, the executivedirector, described the need for the$6.5 million construction and reno-vation program. He pointed outthat the expansion is virtually com-plete and renovations should be fin-ished by mid-December.

Bethlehem's Mayor Paul Mar-cincin noted that MMC plays a vi-tal role in the community's totalhealth care and emphasized that itsimportance will be more pronoun-ced with the advent of the new facil-ities.

Bethlehem Attorney Jacob S.Kolb, the president, was the mas-ter of ceremonies and Dr. James J.Heller, dean at Moravian College

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DEDICATION CEREMONY. Part ofthe audience under thePatient Care Wing portico for the ceremony that officially openedthe new MMC facilities. Dr. Frank J. Rauscher, Jr., is deliveringhis dedicatory address.

Dr. Clarence A. Reichard

Dr. James J. Heller

and a member of the MMC board,introduced Dr. Rauscher.

Prior to the program the Mora-vian College Concert Band played

Mayor Paul Marclncln

Donald E. Porter

a 40-minute concert under the di-rection of Donald Spieth.

Dr. Frank J. Rauscher, Jr.

Atty. Jacob S. Kolb

Dr. Eingorn Opens GeneralDentistry Office On Campus

Another member of the Muhlen-berg Medical Center's medicalstaff has opened his office in theDoctors Campus adjacent to thehospital.

Stephen D. Eingorn, D.M.D.,who will practice general dentistry,received his doctorate from the Un-iversity of Pennsylvania's Schoolof Dental Medicine in 1974. Earli-er the university awarded him abachelor of arts degree.

He practiced in his native Phila-delphia and also was an instructorin oral medicine at the School ofDental Medicine. Then he spenttwo years in practice in Switzer-land, and served as a volunteer den-tist at Kibbutz Sde Bokar in Israel.

Dr. Eingorn is a member of theBethlehem and Lehigh Valley Den-tal societies and the Pennsylvaniaand American Dental associations.He and his wife, Graciela, reside in

ep en mgorn, . . .Allentown where they are mem-bers of the Allentown Hiking Club,the Alliance Francaise of the Le-high Valley and the Allentown ArtMuseum. Dr. Eingom also studiessculpture at the Baum School ofArt.

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ident was named assistant trea-surer.

Sister Louise Burroughs, Rev.Morris S. Greth, Atty. Edwin K.Kline, Jr., George M. Sowers, G.Whittier Spaulding and Rev. Dr.Wilson E. Touhsaent were re-elec-ted honorary members of theboard.

Albert M. Lerch, a retired super-intendent of the Northampton AreaSchool istrict, and Donald R.Wily, Unionbank executive vice-president, were elected to 2-yearterms on the board.

The following directors were re-elected:

Mrs. Margaret Berger andWharton L. Schneider, Allentown;Rev. Frank Flisser, Bethlehem; Ir-vin H. Lengel, Neffs; Rev. Jan C.Walker, Wescosville, and Fowler,Moggio and Reichard.

Dr. George R. Eichler, CenterValley, was re-elected as the rnedi-cal staff representative.

Dr. Gavin Barr, Bethlehem,Reichard and Schneider werenamed to the executive committee.

TEN YEAR ASSOCIATION. William Gaidula, EquitableLife Assurance Society, presents plaque signifying 10 years of ser-vice by the society to Muhlenberg Medical Center. Left to right,Ronald J. Macaulay, MMC controller; Executive Director Don-ald E. Porter, Mr. Gaidula and Edward Buzza, personnel direc-tor.

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Regithermic Food DistributionPleases Patients, Cuts Costs

Sister Esther Observes 40thAnniversary As Deaconess

In 1939 Esther Schenker wasconsecrated as a deaconess in theLutheran Church in America. Onthe 40th anniversary of that solemnevent she was honored at a dinnerat the Motherhouse in Philadelphiaand at a reception at MuhlenbergMedical Center

Sister Esther came to MMC in1961 when the hospital opened.Prior to that date she served at theLutheran Home, Germantown;Lankenau School for Girls, Phila-delphia; the Reading Inner MissionSociety; St. John's LutheranChurch on Long Island and theMary J. Drexel Home in Philadel-phia.

At MMC she is the coordinatorof the chaplaincy, acting as the liai-son between the hospital and thearea clergy. She also is chairpersonof the Music and Worship Com-

Neither patients nor food servicepeople have been happy with thelong delay between the preparationof hospital meals and their arrivalat bedside. This failure to meet rea-sonable standards of quality andpatient satisfaction was due to thecomplexity involved in providingthe meals and the fact that food pro-duction is tied directly to distribu-tion.

In October Muhlenberg MedicalCenter inaugurated the regither-mic system of food distribution,whereby all food is prepared in theusual manner and, when cooked tothe proper degree of doneness, isblast-chilled and refrigerated at 37degrees F. The food may then bekept under refrigeration for as longas three days without any loss ofnutritional value.

At mealtime the food is placedon specially designed porcelainplates in its cold state and toppedwith a stainless steel cover. Theplates are transported in an insula-ted stainless steel cart to the pa-tient unit up to one hour beforeserving time. Once on the unit thecart fits into a specially built recei-

ver unit called the Regithermic In-frared Oven. Within 15minutes themeals are reheated to a servingtemperature that assures the pa-tients hot, fresh food.

The regithermic process bringsfood back to the same temperature,taste, consistency, appearance anddegree of moisture it had at the timeit was cooked. The food also re-tains its nutrients, vitamins andweight. The quality could be dupli-cated only if each patient floor hadits own kitchen and cooking staff.

The system reduces food wasteby enabling the staff to prepare alltypes of meals and store them untilthey are needed. The ease of serv-ing reduces the hospital time spentin the distribution of each meal.

Through the regithermic system,MMC expects to reduce food costsby 10 percent and also save$12,000 the first year in energycosts, as less energy will be con-sumed by kitchen equipment.

The system, the first of its type inthe Lehigh Valley was purchasedby M. W. Wood and leased to thehospital.

IS er st er c en ermittee at Holy Trinity LutheranChurch, Bethlehem.

Sister Louise Burroughs, the firstadministrator of Muhlenberg Med-ical Center, and Sister Anna Ebertcame to Bethlehem for the 40thanniversary reception.

Dermatology Lecture SubjectSteven Binnick, M.D., lectured

to the MMC medical staff on"Common Dermatological Disor-ders" at the staff's Septembermeeting. He emphasized the gener-al practice treatment routine forsuch disorders.

Dr. Binnick is assistant profes-

sor of medicine, Division of Der-matology, Hahnemann HospitalMedical College, Philadelphia.

The lecture was one of a seriesarranged by Dr. Ben C. Barnes,MMC director of medical educa-tion.