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"."'1 : -afcasw .-gSiVgfei 1 -.1 1 - ! i -5 ft -i Q i i - 4 -1 4 MA!L TRIBUNE, MdfarJ, Or. Monday, Auguit 17. 1959 Shot Fatal to Brother - Roseburg - (UTO - Reginald James Hastings, 15, of Rose-fi-urg, was fatally shot Friday fcight when his brother Ger ald Lee Hastings, 18, fired at what he thought was a rac coon. The victim is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jehn Hastings of Eoseburg. According to state police, the elder Hastings is home on leave from the Navy and is stationed at a Naval air station in Alameda, 'Calif. The two boys went raccoon Jmnting Friday night along the Garden Valley road here, vhe older brother reportedly Jold the victim to stay on the xoad while he circled through in area of brush and the Shooting accident occurred a short time later. I", Investigating officers say Gerald told them he fired when he saw something jump 'in the brush and thought it was a raccoon. Neuberger, Morse Join Migrant Farm Bill 4 Washington - (UPD - Oregon 'senators . Richard L. Neuber ger and Wayne Morse have joined 13 other senators in introducing a bill to prevent exploitation of migrant farm workers. Z Compulsory r e g i stration with the Labor department would be required of migrant labor contractors who trans port, feed, supervise and re cruit some 800,000 migrant workers and their families Jvho go from state to state. . las Vegas Desert Inn :Sod for $10 Million Las Vegas-flJPD-Sale of Wil bur Clark's Desert Inn for 'more than $10 million to Law rence A. Wien, New York at torney and real estate inves tor, was announced today. It was believed to be the -largest real estate deal of its "kind in Las Vegas history. The sale included a lease-back agreement. The Inn will continue to be Operated by Clark and asso--eiates. One of Every Eight Persons Will Enter Hospital Next Year; Types Are Explained The defense department's Pentagon building covers :about 34. acres of land. Editor's note: The chances are that you or some member of your family will occupy a Hospital oea at some time in the coming year. How mnch do yon know about hospitals the various types, the charges they make and why, what sort of care the different hospitals off? This is the first of two dis patches on the American hospital system. By PATRICIA McCORMACK UPI Correpsondenl New York-OJPD-About 20,- 000,000 Americans, or nearly one of every eight persons in the country, will enter a hos pital in the coming 12 months. The answers, of course, de pend on the type of ailment, the neigbhborhood in which you live, your doctor and to some extent your finan cial situation. But there are certain gen eralities that can be helpful to anyone faced with the pros pect of entering a hospital. First, the bed you occupy in all likelihood will be one of 709,446 in the nation's net work of 5,546 general hos pitals. Of all hospital admis sions in the past year, 95.4 per cent were to such insti tutions. The . rest were new admissions to mental hos pitals, TB sanatoria, and oth er special- hospitals. One of Four Types From a management and financial standpoint, your hospital will be one of four types: the voluntary, nonprofit-making hospital; the federal hospital; or a city, county or state operated hos pital. Almost two-thirds of all patients enter the voluntary, non-profit hospitals. Volun tary means that the hospital, historically, was set up volun tarily to fill an unmet com munity need. Non - profit means it is not in business to make money. If such a hos pital shows a profit, the mon ey is poured back into the hospital to improve it. Such a hospital is tax-exempt. This privilege, to some extent, is earned by a prom ise to keep its doors open to all those who can't pay, as well as to those who" can; As a result, such hospitals get many charity patients. In many localities, city, county or state funds reimburse these hospital for a share of the charity care. Endeaver to Break Even Money to run the voluntary, non-profit hospital comes from paying patients, either directly when a patient digs into his pocket and turns over cash, or through hos pital insurance, such as Blue Cross. Through charity care Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Gettysburg, Pa.-President Eisenhower, expressing sorrow at the death of Fleet Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey: '(His great personal contribution to the successful cam paign in the Pacific and the exploits of the forces under his command are a brilliant part of American military history." Washington-Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) stressing in a newsletter that the United States will uphold the doctrine of non-intervention even thought that might open the way to charges of supporting Latin American dictatorships: "The fact is that both Nicaragua and the Dominican Re public have stable governments, and in a 'lopsy lurvy world we are interested in stable governments." Plainsboro, N.J.-Mrs. Thomas A. Powner, commenting on the disclosure that hidden microphones listened in on her, her husband and their children during the 14 days they spent in an atomic "fallout" shelter: "Of course, we would have lived much differently if we fiafl Irnnum nta urafa kainif nn 1 I' TTT-. 1 J i i tvac ucuig iciucu. v e wuuia nave ueen much more self-conscious." Los Angeles-Police Officer Austin Burt Fernwald, 36, who had delivered three babies from parents who couldn't get to the hospital on time, after he had to do the same for his own wife: "I wasn't at all nervous until I started to drive' home. Then it hit me. I really look it easy going home." reimbursement from public money or gifts from charit able arganizations and per sons, or Dom, xne nospnais endeavor to break even. Many voluntary, non-profit hospitals shoulder certain ed ucational functions such as the training of nurses, in terns (student doctors) and other medical personnel. The voluntary, non-profit hospital must be non-sectarian, even if it is nominally run by a religious group. Its destiny is normally in the hands of a board of commun ity leaders who serve with out pay. By contrast, the proprie tary, profit making hospitals usualy are set up as corporate structures to make a profit. Six and a-half per cent of all admissions last year were to such hospitals. These hospitals pay taxes. They admit only paying pa tients. Only in emergencies do such hospitals administer Young Democrats Rap Idea of. McKay Dam Portland-DPB-The' executive board of the Oregon Young Democrats .Sunday blasted the proposal to change the name of Green Peter dam to Douglas McKay dam. A resolution adopted by the group requests that the proposed dam be renamed after Dave Epps, late Demo cratic chairman, instead of after McKay. A LITTLE EARLY New York - HIPD - At least one New Yorker Sunday ap peared ; awfully impatient. Thomas J. Deegan Jr., chair man of the committee for a proposed World's Fair here in 1964, suggested that the time capsule buried at the 1939 fair be opened in 1964. That's 4,975 years early. to the needs of those who can- , they battle them out with the Budget Bureau. not pay. Cost About Same The proprietary hospitals, in effect, slices that part of the hospital service pie that it knows can be served up with a profit. Except for swank gold coast rooms, the proprietary hospital rooms, private and semi-private, cost about the same as similar rooms in voluntary, non-profit hospitals. But the proprie tary group, in addition to not handling charity patients do not maintain as many seldom used facilities as do the vol untary hospitals. Thus their operating costs, or "over head," are smaller. The proprietary hospitals provide services that can be offered at a profit. The vol untary, non-profit hospitals endeavor to offer comprehen sive services to both paying and non-paying (charity) pa tients, in addition to absorb ing nurse-training and other medical instruction costs. The proprietary, non-profit hospitals, except in very rare circumstances, do not train doctors and nurses. VA Hospitals Example Federal hospitals are differ ent again. Their money comes from Uncle Sam. Their pa tients, as a rule, do not pay. They are primarily veterans with or without service-connected disabilities, and serv icemen, plus their depend ents. Veteran's Administration hospitals are an example. Pub lic Health Service Hospitals are another. Walter Reed Hos pital in Washington is, per haps, the best known of the federal hospitals. The federal hospitals carry a part pf the educational func tion, especially in the training of young doctors who want to qualify for specialists. If they have money problems, expenses exceeding budget, 24" Planer Blox Big Double Loads Summer Prices S & H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone SP 2-2111 ' Last year, 5.9 per cent of hospital admissions were to federal hospitals. Most of the doctors in such hospitals are salaried. In the voluntary, non-profit hospitals the sal aried staff doctor is the ex ception. In the profit-making hospitals, the doctors who own the hospitals may split the profits. Tax Supported Salaried, too, are the doc tors in hospitals operated by city, county or state govern ments. Such hospitals are tax supported and are operated principally for the benefit of charity patients. Some of these hospitals also bear part of the educational burden, helping, as do the federal hospitals, to train young doctors. The over-flow from the city, state or county hospitals goes to the voluntary, non-profit hospitals in most localities. That is because the city, coun ty and state fathers find it more economical, and in some cases better for the patients, to send them to the voluntary hospitals. Funds are allocated to pay the voluntary hospitals for the patients they get this way. Last year, 18 per cent tf admissions were to the tax supported local hospitals, plac ing them, from a patient-load standpoint, right behind the voluntary, non-profit hospitals.- The profit-making hos pitals, in terms of patients cared for, stand third and the federal hospitals, fourth. Must Meet Standards Which type of hospital is best. None is fly-by-night. Each must meet certain stand ards to belong , to the Amer ican Hospital Association. In addition, in many places, there are local and state licensing requirements to meet. But,' as in the automotive business, there is a difference between a six-cylinder car and a twelve-cylinder one, there are differences concerning the level of quality of hospital care. In the hospital business, the equivalent of 12-cylinders is something called "Accredita tion by the Joint Commission on' Accrediation of Hospitals." The Commission, with head quarters in Chicago, is com- the American College of Sur geons, the American Medical Association, thr American Col lege of Physicians and the American Hospital :. Associa tion. , When a hospital seeks acred- itation, the Commission sends fact-finders to inspect the hos pital and evaluate the quality of patient care. Physical plant, governing body, medical staff, nursing service, administra tion and the medical departs ment are given a thorough going-over. One qualification for accreditation- is that the hos pital offers services "of , a quality more intense than minimum." Symbol of Safety Accreditation has come to be a symbol of patient safety. In recent years, there has been increasing public pressure on hospitals to become accredit ed.Of 368 federal medical and surgical hospitals, 256 are ac credited; 2,039 , of the 3,060 voluntary ones are; 131 of the estimated 900 proprietary one are; and 445 of 1,147 city, county and. state ones bear the accreditation stamp. .The accreditation certific- posed of representatives from i ate usually may be found, framed, in the main lobby' of a hospital " or near the bank of elevators on the first floor. Or you can ask to see it, or check with your doctor. (Next: The voluntary, non profit hospitals - versus the profit-making ones.) . Mm i HNS A Great New Shopping Adventure Is in Store for You! Watch for it! 4 There is only one Olympia Beer.. Light Olympia always tastes the same wherever you enjoy it. 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