Show YOUR HOSPITAL CITY OF CARE Uintah County y Hospital is a City of Care staffed 24 29 hours hOUIS a day seven days a week to protect and restore health in much the same manner that the police and fire firc de de- de department of a city work vork clock the to protect lives and property Hospitals as cities of core care del deal in services person to services Within their walls are gathered many people with diversity of education and skills Hand in hand with the revolutionary advancement of hospital care over the past 20 years has been the need to support the new techniques procedures and equipment with more and better trained pel per per- personnel The more numerous and the more sophisticated the techniques procedures and equipment the more sophisticated must be the training of the personnel who administer then them The public demands and is receiving more and more of these ever growing ever expand expand- expanding ing services Nationally jn in 1945 there were million visits to hospital outpatient depart depart- departments ments By 1965 these visits had increased to toa toa a total of million an increase of per cent In industry the addition of more advanced techniques procedures and equipment is often associated with t a r reduction of personnel p The very Cry opposite is true in hospitals Most of the advancements in hospital care over ovel the past 20 years have required more personnel not less personnel Unlike industry the trend to to- to towards wards the substitution of automation for labor has had little affect on hospitals Tl Thus s is why hospital costs have risen higher than those of industry But than hospitals before now more ever before hosl must compete with industry for highly trained tr highly skilled and l highly educated people Competitive wages and salaries are the key to attracting these technicians md and professionals professionals to I a hospital and retaining them With the he recent advances in and sal sal- salaries aries for hospital personnel in alt all sections of the country the hospital employee is catching catching up with his counterpart in industry This catching up process will toil be reflected in the hospital costs of the ie immediate future |