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COURT HOUSE - Only a few bureaucratic hurdles remain before the establishment by Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital of a residential alcoholism treatment facility in a wing of the former Crest Haven Nursing Home here. The center is targeted to open in November, 1985, but the proposal must still work its way through a tortuous review process. LAST WEEK both the review committee and the full board of the Southern New Jersey Health Systems Agency approved the hospital's certificate of need, hospital officials said. The proposal will now be reviewed by the State Department of Health and the governor's office, according to Richard Magee, director of social services at Burdette. "WE ARE very pleased with the progress so far and with the strong com-.

' munitysuppoK for this pro- » jed," said hospital presi- : dent and administrator : William Waldron HI. I "The SNJHSA project i review committee and its [ board were especially i gratified by the inclusion of provisions for the care of i the elderly and the medically indigent." I The treatment facility will be owned and operated by the hosptial, which will provide a 28-day in-patient rehabilitative program, i Follow-up care will be ofi fered on an outpatient I basis, with existing resources. HOSPITAL officials pointed out that the State Department of Health has cited Cape May County as having the highest incidence of alcoholism in New Jersey. Currently, they said, local residents suffering from alcoholism must travel out of the area for extended treatment, and many find they cannot afford the comprehensive care they need. The hospital's proposal has been particularly well received because it responds directly to the needs of the county's elderly residents and the medically indigent. THE CENTER, a hospital-based, freestanding unit, makes it possible to keep costs lower

than if regular hospital beds were used, officials ■ said. An extended period of recuperation therefore may be offered for a per : day cost much lower than that of similar services provided in other hospitals The project is specifically designed so that C06ts will' be competitive with free-standing for-profit residential alcoholism treatment facilities and reimbursable under the New Jersey Hospital Rate Setting Program, they added. "Our facility will meet the needs of all Cape May County residents regardless of ability to pay and will provide a high quality therapeutic program," states Waldron. Recently the required Certificate of Need proposal was approved by the Cape May County Freeholders, Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Board, Human Services Advisory Council, and Health Services Agency. Next month, the BTMH I Certificate of Need will be I presented to * the State I Health Coordinating Coun- I til. If approved, a final I decision will be made by 1 the State Department of Health and the Governor.

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AVALON - Congressman William J.. Hughes told the chamber of commerce that resource recovery and recycling are necessary "rather than make the same mistakes over again " Hughes and chamber members aiso celebrated the federal decision to fund secondary, instead of primary, sewage treat-

ment faci'ities for the county. Hughes said primary treatment effluent was "little more than raw sewage.' And he said that when he asked county municipalities to help him in his opposition to it, "the first letter came from Mayor Rachel Sloan of Avalon." Mayor Sloan, in turn, praised the Democratic congressman, a candidate for reelection in two weeks, for his help in getting « federal assistance after the March storm She gave Hughes two Avalon mugs and a bumper sticker that read, "I Stop for Turtles." "Any sand?" asked Hughes, peering into the brown bag. "We don't give that away," said the maypr. The chamber voted to support a question on the ballot in Avalon that would improve police pensions at some increase in taxes. They were told it would cost a person with a home assessed at $150,000 an additional $5.85 a year in 1985 and 1986, and $16.65 additional a year in 1987 and thereafter. The measure, defeated twice before in Avalon, also is on the ballot in Stone Harbor Sea Isle City and Lower Township.

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