LOGISTICAL NEEDS OF OFFICE OF MEDICAL SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00058R000100040025-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: October 9, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Medical Services
FROM: John M. Ray
Director of Logistics
SUBJECT: Logistical Needs of Office of Medical Services
REFERENCE: Memo for D/OL from D/OMS, dated 2 Oct. 87, Same
1. I share with you the concerns mentioned in reference
egarding OMS space. Be assured that we in the Office of
Logistics will do whatever we can to make the OMS area as
"presentable" as possible. I have forwarded your memorandum to
STAT Chief, Facilities Management Division/OL, who will
serve as our focal point in this matter. John will be in direct
contact with you in the near future to discuss measures that can
be carried out in the near term to achieve whatever is possible
to improve the working conditions in OMS.
3. As far as long-range improvements are concerned, John
will also be discussing these with you so that they can be
incorporated into our program, which will improve the working
environment in the entire Original Headquarters Building..
STAT
John M. Ray
cc: C/FMD/OL
O-DL/JMRAY:mgk (8 OCT 87)
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee
1 - C/FMD/OL
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1 - D/L Chrono
OL 0040-87
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2 October 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Logistics
FROM:
SUBJECT:
John:
Gary E. Foster
Director of Medical Services
Logistical Needs of OMS
1. I'd like to have someone from your office assigned to
help us rethink OMS space and to do what we can in the near term
to make this office more hospitable and more sanitary. Several
things have become apparent in my six months here:
a. It has been years since parts of this office were
painted or seriously cleaned. Our clinical area does not
meet either doctor's office or clinic area sanitation
standards on most days. Furthermore, it would not look
clean even if it were.
b. Lighting throughout the office is dreadful. Our
ceilings are too high to make people feel comfortable. Our
already small individual offices are made inhospitable to
both the sick and the healthy because of inadequate lighting
and the dwarfing heights of the rooms.
c. The place is arranged badly, both for the practice
of medicine and for normal office functions.
d. There is virtually no storage space for special
supplies. Patient spaces are filled with our "spare parts."
e. Treatment of emergencies is very difficult with our
current layout. Long nails, tight turns, small doorways,
and inadequate access to clinical and lab areas make it
difficult to wheel in emergency stretchers and to treat
simultaneous crises.
f. The waiting area for allergy shots and travel
immunizations is far too small.
g. Our lab is inadequate for the testing we must
provide, costing us efficiency and putting at risk our
samples, specimens, and patients.
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SUBJECT: Logistical Needs of O14S
2. I know that your people are aware of our problems. In
fact, when we had a major cleaning crisis in the gym, your staff
helped us pressure Allied and that situation has improved. ide
have made some recent space adjustments and have received
excellent priority service from Logistics. But the office needs
more significant and thoughtful attention quickly. We need to
plan for more size and changed shape so that OMS personnel and
our patients can see that things will get better. I'd
appreciate any attention that the Office of Logistics can give
to this set of issues in the near term.
3. Clearly, a fair share of responsibility for this
situation belongs to OMS. Management here pressed the system
too little, and I have to tell you that there is no money in-the
budget to support the kind of redesign and spiffing up that is
necessary. At the same, I have to say that the system also has
failed OMS. None of the automatic things like drapery cleaning,
wall painting, or regular vacuuming and dusting seem to happen
here as often as elsewhere in the building. I'd really like to
turn things around. I'll work my side, but I also need your
support.
4. I've attached copies of some current work orders that
address painting and recareting. Clearly, these are for show
until we can get it right. I don't mind short-term fixes if
they give the impression that we take the larger issues
seriously. Any other short-term fixes--that go beyond cleaning
and beautification--need to be undertaken only in the context of
a real plan. Otherwise we'll keep making our current conditions
worse by small increments.
5. Thanks for whatever you can do.
CTary- . Fos er
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