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Show w r THE CHRISTMAS NEWS Salt Lake City, Utah Saturday, December Hospitals Meet Increased r Decreased Staffs; Increased Business Taxes Mercy Facilities . , Undaunted by the war, with Mrs. Olive Wardrop, Its repercussions of epidemics on the home front, population shifts and drafting of medical personnel, hospitals in the Intermountain area, having taken World War I and the depres-- . sion in their strides, are maintaining efficient service at .a maximum capacity and minimum organization. With doubled per diem maintenance costs, no increase in bed capacity, and decreased medical staffs, hospitals are serving twice as many patients at no increase in cost to the and has 53 of doctors and .nurses to the armed services. Because 96.5 per cent of the cases admitted are charity cases, the number cared for decreases during prosperity, and only 3,500 patients were admitted during 1943, as compared with 4,500 patients cared for in prewar years. Dee HosThe million-dolla- r pital in Ogden, with a capacity of 300 beds,' is under the direction of Lawrence H. Evans, superintendent, and is constructing a new addition which will- be completed Jan. 1, 1944, and will provide for 100 additional beds. originally a small brick building on the corner of 5th East and 3rd South Sts. Three years latef, the Holy Cross Hospital, then located on 5th East between South Temple and 1st South Sts., and boasting a capacity of 13 beds, was established under the auspices of the Catholic church. Early Records Listed f staff doctors, one house doctor and 115 nurses. St Marks, as an just example, has lost seven doctors, 27 nurses and seven staff employes to the On Dec. 30, 190tf, the Salt Lake Herald announced that war effort. The addition which four hospitals: St. Lakes Salt is- under construction, will be Cross-- , Keogh-HosmMark's, Holy in March, 1944, and completed Salt Lake Pri4he and will accommodate 75 additional latter two vate (the Hospital beds and 16 more bassinets. a tolater with discontinued), Forty-fivhundred patients 274 beds, had tal of capacity were admitted to St. Mark's Idaho Hospital Cited cared for 2,800 patients during during 1943, as compared with L. D. S. Hosthe year. A far cry from the The $500,000 an average of 3,300 patients in 13,000 patients cared for in one Idaho at with Falls, Ida., pital prewyears. Five hundred a 130 40 of beds and hospital alone during 1943. capacity babies were born this year, as The Groves L. D. S. Hospital, -- is bassinets, supervised by compared with a 350 annual W. Collins, superin- the largest In the Intermoun-taiGeorge era. average in the prewar patient. area rand the largest priva16 doctors and 18 The Holy Cross Hospital, tendent, has Costs tely-owned Explains lost hospital west of having graduate mires, with a capacity of 274 beds'and J. Howard .Jenkins, superin- 72 bassinets, is under tjie di- nine doctors and several nurses the Missouri River,was established in 1904, under tKe tendent of the Dr. W. H. rection of Sister Mary Virginia, to the W'ar effort. of the L. D. S. Church, Veterans in the art of makGroves h- D. S. Hospital, larg- superintendent, and has 45 in and 1910, the Dee Hospital best of the est civilian hospital in the In- staff doctors, 2 house doctors, ing apparently in now valued at $1,000,-00the Ogden, odds, termountain West, explains and 28 graduate nurses; having was erected by Mrs. this achievement on the ground lost 11 staff doctors, two house Intermountain hospitals- still D.' Dee as a memorial Thomas on. carry that operating at maximtim ca- doctors, and many nurses to to her husband. Operated by on minimum organizathe war effort. Approximately pacity I'tah Hospital History the Dee family for three years, tion results, economically twice as many patient have In the it was acquired by the L. D. S. The largest industry exbeen cared for during 1943 as speaking, in a decrease in United States frpm the staraic ?Karhifor-3913-. penses over prewar days when were cared for in prewar years, of capital involved, hosThe Salt- - Lake County Genof the hospital and the 3,000 babies born in point only one-hal- f is a eral Hospital was established pitalization comparatively beds were occupied and main- the hospital during 1943 new induMry in the Inter- in 1912 and the Budge Memtenance costs went on just the doubled the annual births of mountain West. There were orial Hospital at Logan and the same. prewar years. no hospitals in this section of L. D. S. Hospital in Idaho Falls, The average stay of a patient Members Staff Leave the country 71 years ago. In- Ida., 1923, followed in rapid Is now nine days, whereas it miners jured operated on succession. S. L. D. Groves The 15 21 was Hospital, years ago. This days in 1872 w'hen homes their until The $334,000 Utah Valley does not mean that patients with a capacity of 380 beds and Daniel S. Tut le, Epis- Hospital in Provo, sponsored Bishop 60 ,T. headed bassinets, by get less rare Despite public copalian Bishop of Utah, found- bv the Commonwealth Fund of the contrary, pa- Howard Jenkins, superintendopinion-'t- o ed -- the St. Mark's 'Hospital, New' lork, and dedicated In 4)oe-tor- s tients are not being throwrn ent, has relinquished 35 40 to nurses armed and the out prematurely to make room (or new patients. Efficiency forces. Thirteen- thousand paof present-dadrugs, increased tients were admitted in 1943, competency of doctors, new fa- as compared with 6 000 patients Q cilities suchas transfusions cared , for SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH have, according to hospital su- babies were turned out, as 1930. in with 1,100 perintendents, speeded up pa- compared Established 1872 The Sail Lake County Gentients recovery. APPROVED AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SLRGEONS eral Hospital, with a capacity Personnel Goes To War APPROVED' AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION of 250 beds in the hospital, 220 MEMBER AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION. St. Mark's, the Intermoun-taibeds in the infirmary and 25 MODERN EQIIPMENT. area's oldest hospital, with bassinets, is supervised by n capacity of 150 beds and 14 Dr. George N. Curtis, superinACCREDITED SCHOOL OF NlRSING is supervised bassinets, by tendent and relinquished scores . - J - e -- n auk-pic- - 0 - in-19- s and-3,20- the Price Municipal Hos- of the Utah State Hospital Aspital, built In 1934 from $70,000 sociation, reported that, wherewilled to Price by Dr. Frank as 18 of the major operaF. Fisk for hospitalization pur- tions had proved fatal in 1917, poses; the Lehl "Hospital, built only three per cent were fatal in 1938; and the Bingham Hos-- ' in 1928, and although the pital are in their infancy, com- average stay m hospitals durparatively speaking. ing 1917 was 25 days, this had been reduced to 13 days by National Recognition 1939; ecutive was heard to murmur that production has now speeded 'up to the point where it practically runs away Hospitals of individuals, whereas many, of which the Lehi Hospital la exemplary,- - were made possible by WPA funds and other fed- era! subsidies. The Utah Valley Hospital at Provo is unique in having been sponsored bya New York philanthropic agency, receiving $244,000 of its $334,000 construction cost from the Commonwealth Fund of Newr York, in return for which the directors pledged themselves to admit charity cases up to 25 per cent of the total number of patients admitted. The Ft. Duchesne Indian Hospital at Ft. DuchesmUtah, is controlled by the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs and has a capacity of 30 beds. n Although the majority of the Intermountain hospitals were built by and are operatecFun-de- r th& auspices of various In, 1923, the American Mass Production Enters churches, they are of lege Surgeons, inspecting m- policy, make no disall American hospitals wj.th- - a is cheaper crimination on the basis of Hospitalization capacity of more than Si) beds, than ever before because more creed, race or colpr, and nummade honorable mention of people hospital serv' ber among their, patients' and. areusing six Utah hospital?, and in 1928, ice and the turn-ove- r is greatpatrons members of various seven Utah St. er the hospitals: principle of mass pro- religions. Marks, Holy Cross, L. D. S , duction having injected itself Several hospitals, of which County-Geneal- , Dee, Budge, into the hospital industry. the Dee, Budge and Price inand Shriners Crippled Chihospital room which ldrens Hospital, mobile unit, cost $3 per day .15 years ago is stitutions are typical, had their in the philanthropy were entered on of now $5 per day, the average inception List of Approved Hospitals patient needed it for 21 days of the UnitecUStates and Can- in 1928 whereas he uses it only ada. .This international recog- nine dajs now, reports the su&.-MAnition was more than perintendent of the largest loOnly 69 5 per cent of the hos- cal hospital. FOUNDRY CO., INC. pitals examined by the College Fifteen years ago ail editorial of Surgeons made the approved of a local newspaper rlaimed list. Today there are 26 Utah that production of health, like hospitals which, arV approved automobiles - and radtosr lias P. 0. BOX 396 PHONE bv the American Mediral As- been speeded up in the past 454 West Fifth North sociation. decade Comparing present-daIn 1928, representatives of production of health with LAKE CITY, UTAH SALT the college who-ca- me from the more rurrent ' airplanes Chicago to confer with officers and television, one, hospital ex- 1928. Col- - the-rost- Y LUNDIN Founders And Machinists y JACK E. PERKINS . Phan RICHARD L. PERKINS lit Km. Phon IL-- Perkins Construction Company General Contractors -P- -fl-.frR- H. General Contractor -- 206 West 112th Street, Los Angeles Thomwall 061 1 Hospital SALT LAKE CITY OFFICE PHONE 503 BEASON BLDG. 626 DOOLY BUILDING n SALT LAKE Tel. CITY, UTAH BUSINESS... HEN peace comes, Utah industries will fill" a new place in the business pattern of America- - The necessities of war have developed new skills . . . new merits . . . new products. The Christensen Machine Company is preparing for peace through service in war. Men and machines have proved capable of producing machine tools, precision gauges and custom machine work which fit the exacting demands of American production ; if Through technical knowledge, skill and equipment in modern construction, is our assurance to our fighting forces that the job is being-donon the home front and wilTbe ; if if if e if if 'f Y Ye ack the Attack Buy More Bonds" F Ye Yi In the new industrial future of Utah, we sincerely pledge the same high standard of effort and production which has won for us and our "E. employes the Army-Nav- y FO&D-.'J'..- liislensen machine 1)75 Ssstk tai West Page 11 Demands On Services e St. Mark 18, 1943 ' TWA If CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Salt Lake City, Utah Street (jr . 420 BOSTON Los Angeles, Calif. I . Pm BLDG. 451 South Boylston A ; J " . k .. |
