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-2 - Mr. Smith told the Board he is going to update on a limited basis the encephalitis copies for the Spring. Mr. Henley said he has some work to do in the Pheasant Brook Estates, some in Conservation land and in Lexington near the Hanscom Air Base and also in Burlington. After brief discussion Mr. Henley thanked the Board and retired. Mr. Smith told the Board that he had received a letter from Health Stop stating that they were going to put on a "Heart at Risk Profile/Screening Program on Sunday, March 16th, 1986 from 9:00 a.m. to 12: noontime at the Lexington Health Stop at 35 Bedford St. They would be screening for Diabetes, also. Northgate's Treetops of Lexington filed plans to build a medical facility "TREETOPS"on Waltham Street between the Elks Hall and the Waltham Star Market. Mr. Smith told the Board that he would like to have them into the next Board meeting of the Board of Health to discuss their plans. The Board agreed that they also would like to discuss this project with them. The Board and the Director discussed the V.N.A. and how one of their nurses V.N.A. refused to visit an elderly person in one of the villages. Her reasoning was that the Board of Health would not allow her to accept any elderly patients. The Board said that the nurse should have gone to visit such a sick patient because all elderly do not come under the Board of Health visits but the nurse refused anyway, not knowing whether the person came under Medicaid, Medicare or some private insurance. Then the V.N.A. took it up with Rita Sullivan of the Housing Authority who in turn wrote a letter to the Town Manager. The Board explained to the Manager what the setup was and the Board of Health felt it was criminally negligent on the part of the nurse to refuse to go see the patient. Dr. Asarkof was also visited by Jim McLaughlin, Chairman of the Housing Authority wanting an explanation for this "behavior". The Board agreed that a letter should be sent to Rita Sullivan in regard to this incident. Dr. Asarkof agreed that he would write the letter and will bring it into the office for George Smith to see. The Board received letters from Dr. Iclal Hartman of the L.B.C. stating that Seragen and Collaborative Research have both requested to do rDNA research at their Lexington facilities. The L.B.C. reviewed the permit application of Collaborative Research to conduct BL1 level experiments and voted to recommend permission to do this. The Board of Health at their meeting approved the application of Collaborative Research to conduct rDNA at BL1 level experiments. 1