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Ingenuity and modern
techniques are cutting
costs antl improving
the care of patients
Mayo Clinic physicians had been plan
ning a new kind of hospital for Roch
ester, Minn. It was to be a circular struc
ture, where nurses at the center would be
within 11 feet of all patients, able to see
them at all times. Then they heard that
the idea wasn't unique, that the Atomic
Energy Commission was planning a simi
lar hospital at Broqkhaven, N. Y.
The Mayo doctors learned it was true,
not only at Brookhaven but also in Brook
line, Mass., and Van Nuys, Calif., where
new hospitals will have patients on circu
lar floors with nurses in the center, to save
- nursing mileage and assure better care.
In a variety, of "ways, many hospitals in
the U. S. ale using ingenuity and a will
ingness to break with traditions to solve
many of their problems. But not only in
construction is ingenuity at work.' San
Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital has no new
building. But it has a week-end hospitali
zation program for many people who need .
short-term treatment or. diagnostic serv
ices. It saves time, money and worry and
improves the hospital's efficiency.
Entering Mt.- Zion -up to 7 p.m. Friday,
a patient can be ready to leave by 11 a.m.
Sunday after getting X-ray, laboratory
and other services and -treatment. Typical
of many patients was the housewife who . :
required . minor surgery. She got it over
a week end, while her husband was home
to care for the children.' '.
All hospitals are open seven days a
week, but major services are provided on
only five. Mark Berke, Mt. Zion's director,
realized that not . only did hospital ex
penses for nurses, kitchen, janitors and
so on go right on over week ends, but
also that - week-end treatment would be
ideal for many people. Why not have a
full staff on duty for week ends? If short
term patients could be cared for then,,
empty beds would be filled, pressure taken
off during the week and over-all operat- '
ing costs spread over seven days.
It's a long way from Mt. Zion's week
end service to the University of Okla
homa's terminal rooming-in plan, but that
is also a fresh approach.
For the process of giving birth, hospi
tals provide wonderful efficiency ana
safety. But manywomen and medical au
thorities wonder about the cold practice
that separates mother and newborn child
except for brief intervals.
A few hospitals have adopted the rooming-in
principle, which calls for major
changes, with special facilities to allow a
mother to keep her baby with her all the
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Family Weekly. September 13,1959