West Bend Journal (Newspaper) - September 8, 1994, West Bend, Iowa VOLUME CV SEPTEMBER 1994 NUMBER 36 AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION HONORS FORMER WEST BEND MAN IS THERE A TREASURE WAITING FOR YOU Joseph of Forest for merly of West was awarded the Outstanding Rescue Award by the American Heart Association at the organizations annual meeting held recently in Iowa The award recognizes a person through the use of saved the life of another human Jones was honored for an incident which oc curred in where he works six months out of the year as a fishing Last summer one of Joes typical fishing expeditions turned into a life said Byron Chairman of the AHAs Emergency Cardiac Care who presented the When Jones and his guests were on their way to their fishing they came across a drowning swimmer Jones dove in after the victim and swam him to By the time Joe reach the the victim was totally lifeless no said Joe performed CPR until signs of life and then he sought additional Because Jones was no where near a medical he had to leave the victim with his so he could re turn to the plane which had dropped them off at the After nearly a half Jones and the pilot returned to the victim and flew him to the nearest community where an ambulance was waiting to take him to the Im happy to say the victim made a quick and full recovery and had this to say to Jones in a letter he I am a family man with three I wish to congratulate the person that revived me from near Jones was unable to attend the American Heart Associations annual awards but his father Joseph was on hand to accept the award on his The American Heart Association is the nations tary health organization dedicated to the reduction of disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and In the AHA will spend over million to fund car research projects in WEST BEND INTERNATIONAL FIELD DAY THE CASE IS BEING SHOWN THE WORK IT CAN DO BY FILLING IN THE LARGE HOLE IT HAS Many people believe that they never lose track of their Contrary to that since May over million owed to more than lo wans has been received by the Treasurers reports State Trea surer Michael Many people dont believe that they could have money coming to them from the Great Iowa Treasure Fitzgerald But we receive mil lions of dollars each year in unclaimed Sometimes people switch change and just forget about a or It is much more common than you The Treasurers Office is holding million for more than lo wans in unclaimed That doesnt include the stock certificates and safe deposit boxes which also have a said Our goal is to return as much of this property to the rightful owners as Through the Treasure Hunt we have returned over million to more than rightful owners and my goal is to keep those numbers The fall publication of the Great Iowa Treasure Hunt will begin on If you see your name or someone you clip the coupon and send it to the Treasurers As always people can write to the Treasurers Office to sec if they have money That address is Michael State Great Iowa Treasure Hoover Des Iowa 50319 PACK SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH MERCY HEALTH SERVICES OF IOWA Palo Alto County Hospital PACK Board of Trustees has signed a man agement contract with Mercy Health Services of Iowa MHS to become effective September Under the contract MHS will provide PACK with an administrator who is selected PACH Board of The contract will also make available a variety of management services in assistance with staff development and train plus physician recruitment and The management contract affiliates PACH as a member of the Mercy Health Service of Iowa As a network PACH will remain with the local Board of Trustees retaining full governance The P alo Alto Care Foundation will also remain the governed by its own Board of The benefits of the agreement in cludes cost savings from group pur shared support and access to expertise legal qual ity informa tion clinical and professional strategic planning and phy recruitment and It also provides an opportunity for Palo Alto County Hospital to continue to be a healthcare service provider with an integrated delivery system for fu ture managed care contracts and in surance as well as have ac cess to new business secured by the Jim president of PACH Board of As a rural we see the benefits for us in being associated with a large provider We look to Mercy Health Services to help us in the immediate areas of concern such as providing us with quality administrator applicants and physician We also look to this network as a resource for a variety of support services when Palo Alto County Hospital will par with North Iowa Mercy Health Mason one of five hospitals in Iowa owned by in its network activities such as the Re gional Network Advisory Council in Boards of Trustee from ten affiliated and contract managed hos and three It also will be included in state and national grants received by the network such as computer network de and a project to develop programs which assess and improve overall health of As a result of the on September an interim administra tor will be named to replace who has resigned to take another admin will be named as soon as pos sible following an executive search Mercy Health Services of Iowa is part of Mercy Health Services based in Farmington one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United AN AID TO LOCATING VITAL RECORDS EVEN THE KIDS ENJOYED CHECKING OUT THE NEW TRACTORS THAT WERE ON Vital records are just We need access to In this age of bureaucratic everyone has need of copies of records of marriage or An application for benefits from the Veterans Administrator or Social a passport or marriage license requires not only the informa tion in the records but usually copies of the records All these records are stored perma by stales and the Federal We all know but where each docu ment is kept is frequently The Consumer Education Research a national nonprofit consumer found there was little unifor mity on where the records were avail able and the In some birth records are kept by the city and in oth ers by the county or To further complicate often older records are held in different places than cur rent In the addresses where the records are kept are changed quite The consumer group found many people had difficulty in locating the records they it was nec essary to make expensive long distance calls just to find out where to what information was required and how much money to For that rea son CERC has been publishing a book entitled Where To Write For Vital Records which contains a state listing of the addresses and tele phone numbers of the archive where each reord can be the cost of a copy of the document and sample form letters containing all the information needed to get these and other vital CERC has just released an updated For those needing information from foreign the book con tains a list of government offices where you can get help in locating vital records kept in almost every Even citizens born on a ship or aircraft can locate the place where their records are The organization found that many people have used previous editions to locate their family trees or For the book includes information on the Family History Library of the Mormon This library contains over volumes of family his tory records and a list of almost a quar termillion people who are willing to share information to help you find your family To get a copy of this useful send plus to Consumer 350 Scotland 07050 or call 800 8720121 with credit Robert executive director of CERC says that originally the book was published to satisfy the needs of persons applying for various benefits but many others have found it He has received letters from law social credit collection stock ownership law persons searching for missing heirs and even those interested in searching their family All these and others have found use for a book that helps them locate and prove the status of Many times documents can be used to prove things other than what they For one woman wrote to the group telling them that a birth certificate for her child proved her resi dence at that time in the United States and helped her become eligible for le gal residence and
