@ i i I I i '@ l@l 1 I i * @ t l@ @CA 20 Section 0 Local Neivs Preparation Inadequate' On New'Health Agency,. Regional Director Sa s y By DAVE ERNST Consumer education and participation in the @rea- tion of a new regional health planning agency are being sacrificed to meet a deadline that may well turn out to be meaningless, a health official said Wednesday iii@lit. Dr. John R. F. Ingall, direc- tor of the Lakes Area Regional man siid there was nothing Medical Program, said con- wrong with placing heavy re- umers have not I eeii made sponsibilities on unkmnowled" aware of just how vide-rangitig able citizens so lo"g as they the po@vers of this nc%v agency are intellient and concerned will be. 2n(i can be educated about the It will be knowa as a Health law. Systems Agency (IISA) and . . . will assume the duties of Dr. JOSEPII TURNER. president ingall's group and the Western f t h , Western New York N e w Y a r it Compreliensi%,e Hospital Association, backed Health Planning Council. 'ne Dr. ingall. He raised the possi- new agency will have great bility of special interest groups control ovec what does and "at packing each hearing to get does happen in the field of their own representatives on health care in the eight West- the nominating committee. ern New York Counties4 Only eight of the 50 persons HSAs were designed to allo1v attending the hearing identified maximum citizen participation themselves as consumers. rat-h- in health plannin@,. er than providers, of health Yet only a few minutes are care. given to explanation of a com- Several person said they plex law at public hearing! had attended the Williamsville being held this week and next hearing. They could conceiv- throughout the county, Dr. In- abiv attend ard vote at all the gall said. Then people who he@rings, Nl r . Rohrdanz have never met each other are ,conceded. being asked to select some 0, But despite some reserva- their number to form a nomi- tionq, the group decided to go nating committee ivhich will. In turn help select a governin, ahead and elect four persons to body for the HSA. serve on a temporary Erie County Conditional sub-area Comniittee. HIS COMMENTS, made at . . . the second hearing Dr the series FRANK CRANE, administr.,im in the BOCES Center in East tor of Ntillard Fillmore Hospi- Aurora, were similar to coin- tal, was elected to represent plaints at a hearing Tuesday health care providers. James night in Williamsville, . Neivman of Hamburg and John Paul G. Rolirdanz. amember E. Escott of East Aurora, along at the Health Planning Council, ,ith alternate, Pz,,Ia Roden of did not disagree, but said the West Falls and Cecelia Nlatta application for federal funding of Hamburg, were elected to had to beat a Jan. 19 deadline. epresent consumers. A p blic hearing an the final One elected official also was pl@ ap Ication in usi be held 30 to be chosen, but none attend- ,days prior to that and has been ed. The -roup decided to asl, set for Dec. 13. William F. Nlirx, a member of The Western New York ]ASA the East Aurora Board of in ust compete ivith 217 others Education, to sere. It he de- throughout the country for part clincd. thcv ,ould then asi@ of $6o million. Delays cOul(l Legislator NViiii,n, P. Bennett mean all the m(iney Ivill be of-liolland, then Legislator- gone before the application Iselect Marie Richardson or submitted, ',Nlr' Rolirdanz said. Hamburg, then Aurora Super- . . . visor Abbott B. lienshaiv. BUr DR. INGALL said the The four, along with others federal government will find it elected at the other hearings, politically impossible to fund 'will screen and nominate 10 @any HSAs until it also sees persons to serve on the 79- proposals submitted to meet amember HSA governing board second "cycle" deadline in and others to serve on the Erie 'March, County Sub-area Council. "Why rt,, h through It and make ourselves vulnerable to those who feel they were ex- Reserve of Shark Teeth cluded?" Dr. ln,,all asked. Sharks normallv have five or Others pointed out the plan six sets of reserve teeth behin' has beeii'given extensive TV the outer row. When a shar@ and nc%vsl)aper coverage, but it lose3 teeth, new ones begin to is just noi something tailored to work forward into place within grab public attention. Another 24 hours.