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Mayor Peterson and Chief John Danktl display the plaque which was
given to the city of Fort Valley.
Fort Valley honored by AAA
for safe pedestrian record
Fort Valley was recently named as
one of 38 Georgia cities selected to
receive the American Automobile
Association's (AAA) Pedestrian Safety
Award. The award is presented to
cities that go at least one year without a
pedestrian fatality being reported. The
city was once recognized for having
one of the best pedestrian safety
records in the state, after it received
numerous consecutive AAA awards.
In the more recent past, Fort Valley
has received the Pedestrian Safety
Award four times out of the last six
years
In the news release concerning the
awards the AAA explained the reasons
for them
It is hard to find any situation that
has hern improving for over 40 years,
but the American Automobile Assoc ta
tion and the Georgia Motor Club are
proud to say that since AAA began
pedestrian safety programs in 1937,
the numlser of pedestrian fatalities has
dropped 44 pet cent
A pedestrian was the nation's first
recorded traffic dcaih in 1899, and by
1937 over 15,500 people were struck
and killed by automobiles. That yeat
AAA developed a program of public
education and organized community
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Medicare changes affect Peach Co. Hospital
Peach County Hospital, along with
medical facilities all across the nation,
will go on the prospective payment
method for Medicare patients Novem¬
ber 1, in accordance with federal
guidelines. The change is pan of the
government’s effort to stem ever-rising
Medicare costs by paying hospitals a
predetermined amount for the
particular diagnosis a patient is
admitted under. It will require very
exact diagnosis for each admission
with only slight differences in the
diagnosis resulting in differences of
hundreds and sometimes thousands of
dollars in Medicare payments to the
hospital.
The most important change in the
Medicare is the diagnosis procedure
known as Diagnostic Related Group¬
ings or DRGs. The procedure literally
labels and numbers a patient’s
particular illness. The hospital is paid
according to the principle diagnosis.
According to Controller Miki
Howcroft, a patient may be admitted
under several different diagnosis, with
large amounts of Medicare payments
in the balance. For example, for a
patient admited with body burns
diagnosed as being over 19 per cent of
his body, the hospital would receive
approximately $11,000 less in medicare
payments than for a diagnosis of
having burns over 20 per cent of his
body.
activities to protect pedestrians Since
over twic e as many people are killed in
pedestrian-vehicle accidents in urban
areas than in rural areas, this effort
was centered in the nation’s cities last
year, 8,700 pedestrians were killed in
traffic, accidents. This represents a
reduction of 44 per cent During this
same time, the number of cars on the
road increased 455 per tent, the
population grew 80 per cent, and motor
vehicle travel jumped 479 per cent
The AAA Pedestrian Program,
unique in the nation, fix uses attention
nationwide on pedestrian safety needs
by stimulating interest on the local
level in pedestrian-related programs
Communities participating in (he AAA
program are judged with others of
comparable size and characteristics
Program areas evaluated include
maintenance of accident records,
safety legislation, enforcement, traffic
engineering, quality of school traffic
safety programs, and active public
information and education programs
AAA salutes all the cities that were
recently honored with pedestrian
safety awards and hopes that their
record continues since a break will
mean that a human life lias been
uselessly lost in an accident
City receives $358,000 to
complete Griffinline
The city of Fort Valley will soon have
more (han $358,000 to be used to
complete the second portion of the
Griffinline rehabilitation project
MayorC. W, “Pete" Peterson recently
received a letter from Governor Joe
Frank Harris saying that contingent
upon the state's receipt of federal
money, the city will receive the
Community Development giant
The city has already renovated
berween 35 and 38 houses in the
Griffmline area, using a previous
Community Development grant of
$393,000 This year's grant should be
enough to renovate 32 houses, Mayor
At their regular monthly meeting
last Thursday, the Peach Counry
Hospital Authority voted to purchase a
$10,000 computer to assist in assigning
proper diagnosis for each Medicare
patient. It will prompt workers in the
medical records for additional derails
on a patient's record in order to select a
diagnosis and will check Medicare
payments the hospital receives for
accuracy. Howcroft says the computer
is "an indispensable tool, just like a
typewriter” for the hospital.
The controller told authority
members that even with a properly
trained staff, mistakes are very easy to
make and are often quite costly, and
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Byron Council
continued from front
study the ordinances he proposed and
probably act on them at the November
meeting.
A request from Natural Beauty of
Georgia for an increase in natural gas
service and an interruptable rate or
direct sqle, was tabled until more
information could be gathered
concerning the effects any decisions
would have on residential customers
Natural Beaury is expanding and it is
expected that the firm would use as
much or more natural gas than the
enure city of Byron.
Peterson said
In the past, the city has used a
similar $500,000 federal HUD gram to
rehabilitate approximately 40 homes in
the Vtneville Street area.
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A fire at the "Village Plaza
Convenience Store at 519 Edwards
Street on September 28 at 12.23 p.m.
resulted in minor damage Cause of the
fire was a light ballast thar had burned
out.
ARE YOU GAMBLING
WITH YOUR
mADACfte
As far as I’m concerned , you’re gambling with your
health if you gulp pills and potions every time you have
a headache.
Of course, an occasional headache doesn’t always
stop with an occasional recurrence. There’s always a
chance of migraine.
You’ll need only one with its zigzag flashes,
nausea, and depression to tell you that.
And you’ll never find a migraine that doesn’t start
with a headache.
There are other types of headaches also and a com¬
mon one is the occipital headache. This refers to a
V type of recurrent headache usually described as a dull
I I XI ache, the soreness base of the and skull. occasional The pain sharp usually pain that begins
i v at radiates up
over the back of the head along the sides of the
f s temples.
* >\ Generally there is a tender area on either side of the
neck at the base of the skull. Occasionally the patient
i who suffers recurrent occipital headaches also suf¬
fers transient dizziness. The pain may be increased or
relieved by changes in the position of the head. The
jr. headache may awaken the patient at night and may be
relieved by simply changing position of the head and
ik r* neck. The headache may be present upon awakening
and disappear after the patient is up and around. The
r recurrent occipital headache is nearly always caused
T by faulty alignment of the vertebra in the neck. Such
•» misalignments apparently cause pressure on the
nerve root where it leaves the spinal column and
v. •,-> l l ) The passes Doctor through of Chiropractic’s the openings role between is to the realign vretebrae. these
^ vertebra and hence relieve the pressure on the spinal
7 ( J nerves. If you have occasional headaches
l I urge you to do
HI what so many headache sufferers do. They seek
specialized care from a Doctor of Chiropractic.
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therefore, the computer was worth
many times its cost. “A couple of
errors’ would pay for it, she said.
Assistant Administrator Vernon
Bowden reported that claims from
hospital employees had more than
doubled premiums with the hospital's
insurer, Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Because of that, the same policy would
have increased by 200 per cent,
bringing a family rate policy to $260.00
p<. r month Bowden said he had
checked with several insurance
companies and had found “they don't
wam anything to do with hospital
groups." An alternative Blue Cross¬
Blue Shield package, with increased
deductables, will be used as "a
stop-gap measure” until a more
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Peach County, even if the hospital
cannot perform the needed pro¬
cedures, such as heart surgery.
During the month of August the
hospital losses totaled $54,896,
bringing the year-to-date losses to
$82,449. This is $23,518 less than the
year-to-date losses for the same period
last year.
Controller Howcroft said the losses
were largely caused by low patient
census and by $3,000 in salary and
benefit expenses for vacation and
severance pay to 25 employees who
were recently laid off.