| Show How To Assist Childr M Tom chief administrator of the Primary Children's portrayed the roll of that tender and wonderful healer of small children to Bountiful Thursday IN EXPLAINING the roll of the he told of how the concept of serving the child has changed from the familiar polio period to one of serving the acutely ill the suffering from severe heart exceptional heart and other abnormal difficulties happening to little Harris pointed out that the changes in new medical checking psychological and medical treatment of the severe children's has not only changed the manner of the approach to cases but has changed the physical needs of even the building To illustrate he said that the hospital was built with large rooms to accommodate the treatment of polio Today's treatment of children's ills require smaller because today's ills require more individualized This need he said is becoming as all too often 18 little tots are crowded into one room depriving them TOM HARRIS of quality private treatment so greatly ADMINISTRATOR Harris pointed out the extremely high cost of the late equipment but related their place in the treatment of the critically ill for example their late heart monitoring machine will give the minutes left that a child can This enables doctors and nurses to save hundreds of children that would normally be ANOTHER late machine he which performs the breathing for the very ill child whose system has ceased to in most cases has returned children from the The genial administrator related how the attitude of the hospital toward the patient and parent had been changed from one of cold and almost indifference to one where the patient and parent He I first went there several months I found one voice missing and that was the voice of the patient and the HE RELATED how it was taking two and sometimes more hours for a patient to be Every responsibility was being placed on the parent and when much that was needed done the intake personnel of the hospital could That has been chaH an for average of fifteen riH In answering his that one and one half of dollars was raised Primary Children's penny All used exclusively for-rH He said lal had one and ohl million dollars in a and that due to the contributions coming all over the nation of the world they able to keep the fund nfl using only the its earnings each yearB IN HIS closing pointed out the for an adequate build inH that the financial public is critical to it and adequate |
