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Show YOUR HOSPITAL CITY OF CARE The Milford Valley Memorial Hospital is a "City of Care," staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to protect pro-tect and restore health in much the same manner that the police and fire department of a city work around the clock to protect lives and property. Hospitals as Cities of Care deal in services person-to-person services. Within their walls are gathered many people with a 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 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 them. The public demands and is receiving more and more of these ever-growing, ever-expanding services. Nationally, in 1945 there were 27.2 million visits to hospital outpatient departments. By 1965 these visits had increased to a total of 95.4 million, an increase of 249 percent. In industry the addition of more advanced techniques, procedures, pro-cedures, and equipment is often oft-en associated with a reduction of personnel. The very opposite oppo-site is truejn hospitals. Most of the advancements in hospital hos-pital care over the past 20 years have required more personnel, per-sonnel, not less personnel. Unlike Un-like industry, the trend toward the substitution of automation for labor has had little effect on hospitals. This is why hospital hos-pital costs have risen higher than those of industry. But now more than ever before hospitals must compete with industry for highly trained, train-ed, highly skilled and highly educated people. Competitive wages and salaries sal-aries are the key to attracting these technicians and professionals profes-sionals to a hospital and retaining re-taining them. With the recent advances in wages and salaries for hospital personnel in all sections of the country, the hospital employee Is catching up with his counterpart in in-dusry. in-dusry. This "catching up" process pro-cess will be reflected in the hospital costs of the immediate future. Nontheless, taking into account ac-count the revolutionary strides in hospital care over the past 20 years, it is not likely that any of us would want to receive re-ceive 1947 hospital care even at 1947 prices! |