Show GUTS CUTS I PER PEA DIEM G COST TI fOR PAST YE YEAR Ri 2646 Cases Treated During 1930 Increase of Report Shows The total tot number of cases treated and md discharged at the county hospital during 1930 was 2646 an Increase of over the preceding year accord- accord ng jig to the hospitals hospital's annual report received re re- ed Saturday by Commissioner B. B F. F Quinn The report was compiled complied by Dr R. R J. J Alexander hospital su sUp su- su The per diem cost per r patient decreased decreased decreased de de- de- de creased from to with each patient averaging twenty twenty one one days In lii he the Institution The average number of patients per day was compared com corn pared to during 1929 1029 The total number of patient da days das s was which is an increase of com corn pared jared to the corresponding figure of the previous year according to Dr Alexander Persons treated at the receiving or out patient department during the year car totaled This is an Increase Increase increase In In- crease of patients handled b by this his department over o the previous year ear The average cost per pcr case was as 3 32 cen cents ts TOTAL L COSTS 11 Total operating costs of the tion for 1930 TV were ere This is Lei in excess of the budget which was allowed Dr Alexander pointed out The Increased expense is ac- ac Continued d on Pa Pace e Fifteen HUM HOSPITAL CUTS GUTS PER DIEM COST GOST fOR PAST YE YEAR H Continued from Pare Page e Seven counted for by the fact that a psychopathic psycho- psycho psychopathic ward was Installed during the year ear at a cost of while only 2500 2500 was set up In the budget for this his purpose he explained Of or the total number of cases 1400 were medical surgical obstetrical ob- ob obstetrical and emergency surgical The number of obstetrical cases shows an increase of over oer the preceding year Never before In the history of the Institution has the out patient department de do- been so taxed as It was In 1930 Dr Alexander said In his re port A total of applicants had hado to o be refused treatment some because be because cause they were nonresidents and others because Interrogation revealed they were able to pay for professional services ACCEPT PAY CASES It has been the policy to make the InstitutIon as completely indigent In Ints Its ts operation as possible We have however accepted pay cases in the tubercular ward which is the only tubercular sanitarium In the state and in the isolation ward which is he the only isolation hospital in the state The percentage of pay cases during 1930 1030 was 7 compared to 93 03 per cent of indigent cases Dr Alexander expressed his appreciation for aid given the hospital by bythe hc the Visiting Nurses Nurses' association and he the Utah Tuberculosis association Without the aid of the nurses nurses' association asso asso- elation Dr Alexander said it would have me been impossible for the hospital to o care for the large number of cases it t has Especially has the association helped In operation of the maternity ward where the normal capacity Is but thirteen cases and the ward has lias accommodated as high as thirty cases at one time during the past few months The tuberculosis association has furnished the county with a nurse especially trained in the work carried on in this ward The report points out that hospital capacity Is now beds an increase of fifteen beds over the capacity in 1929 1029 ASKS FOR BUILDING In concluding the report Dr Alexander Alex ander recommends the county commission corn com mission formulate a comprehensive building program to be carried out as soon as possible furnishing an additional add addi tuberculosis cottage to relieve the crowded condition existing In the present cottage a new building to house the isolation ward which is now housed in a wing of the main hospital building a food conveyor to deliver patients patients' meals hot from the kitchen to the various floors of the hospital and additional nurses nurses' quarters to eliminate the tho expense of 50 per month now being paid for a cottage to accommodate the overflow from the nurses nurses' home The report will vill be presented to the county commission lor individual ex cx- |