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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NY33A. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 21. 1958 PAGE THIRTEEN OFFICIAL STATEMENT Preserving LIFE and HEALTH Should be the FIRST CONCERN of a Progressive Community The M alheur Memorial Hospital was opened in October, 1950. G reat credit should be given the 2,300 donors and volunteer w orkers in a com m unity-w ide money raising campaign. Almost one-half million dollars was raised w ithout federal aid. This is one of the MOST OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN COMMUNITY EFFORT IN ALL AMERICA. SERVICE D uring the first five years of operation, 4,681 patients used the hospital. H undreds of lives w ere saved and untold suffering was prevented. 1,112 babies w ere born. The hospital through excellent m anagem ent has given the people the best of personalized service and care. Throughout the history of the hospital, th ere has been unselfish sacrificial service by the M embers of the Board of Directors, devoted employees, and splendid cooperation and specialized service by the nurses and the medical staff. Assisting the Board of Di rectors, there has been unselfish cooperation and aid of m any com m ittees and individuals and also the loyal support of the M embers of the M alheur Memorial Hospital Association and th eir associates. All of these w orking together have made possible the splended hum anitarian service of the hospital. The inspiring volunteer service of over two hundred members of the Women's Hospital Auxiliary has been most valuable. COMMERCIAL CREDIT EXCELLENT THE HOSPITAL IS OPERATED IN A MOST BUSINESSLIKE MANNER. All current bill* are paid every thirty days and wages every two weeks. Former m embers of the Board of Directors: Glea Billings, Ralph C astator, Arvel Child, Helen Frost, Amasa Hammond. L. G. Hawley, J. L. H errim an, R. G. Larson, Bert Lien- kaemper, Richard Maw, Frank T. Morgan W. B Russell, George Schiemer, Carl Sebum , M. Seuell, and Eldon Ulmer. Members of the present Board of Directors: Fred Bracken, Mrs. Wesley H. Browne, D H. Christensen, B ernard Eastm an, W arren Farm er, Jacob Fischer, Richard A. Forbess, Robert A Johnson, Jed T. Lewis, G rant H. R inehart, and Luit Stam. The Malheur Memorial Hospital is a non-profit corporation. There are no stock holders. No person or corporation receives any dividends. All income is used for operating expense, effecient nursing, and maintenance of the building and equip ment. BOARD OF DIRECTORS HOSPITAL HANDICAPPED The original hospital plan called for thirty-tw o beds. We w ere urged by authorities to build forty-tw o beds so th at there would be a polio treatm en t center in preparation for an epidemic. This greatly increased the cost of the building. The federal governm ent could not contribute the usual one-third of the cost of building and equipm ent which has been done in virtually all hospitals in Oregon. IT WAS NECESSARY to secure a m ort gage loan for $60.000. NO OPERATING CAPITAL W A S RAISED in the ca m p a ig n . The requirem ent to provide interest a n d p a y m en t on p rincipal of the m o rtg a g e, e a c h m onth together w ith the NECESSITY OF CARRY ING LONG-TERM ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE HAS PRESENTED A PROBLEM. REPAIRS HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED. OPERATING CAPITAL: A REVOLVING OPERATING CAPITAL FUND. MAIN TAINED FROM YEAR TO YEAR. DEFRAYS HOSPITAL OPERATING EXPENSE WHENEVER ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE ARE ESPECIALLY LARGE BECAUSE PA TIENTS HAVE TO WAIT "UNTIL THE CROPS COME IN" AND OTHER UNA VOIDABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AVERAGE S30.000. This fund should be increased from year to year to ASSURE THE OPERATION OF THE HOSPITAL DURING PERIODS OF "POOR CROPS." DEPRESSION. EPIDEMICS AND DISASTERS. The control and m anagem ent of the hospital is in your Board of Directors—Eleven laymen elected by M embers for three year terms. They serve w ithout pay. MEMBERSHIP Any person, organization, or corporation contributing $100 or more has ONE VOTE in the election of directors and in corporation business. No person, or organization, can obtain control by buying m em berships or obtaining proxies to accum ulate votes. Associate M embers are those who subscribe less than $100. They may attend all m eet ings and have all the rights of m em bers except voting. They may, at any future date, add to their subscription a sufficient am ount to bcome a voting member. MEMBERS WILL NEVER BE LIABLE FOR DEBTS OR ASSESSMENTS. THERE ARE NO ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DUES. THERE IS NO STOCK AS IN A PROFIT CORPORATION. THE TIME HAS NOW COME FOR A UNITED EFFORT TO PLACE THE HOS PITAL ON A SELF-SUSTAINING BASIS. IT CAN BE DONE IF EACH PERSON SUBSCRIBES TO THE BEST OF HIS ABIL ITY. WE KNOW THAT THE MONEY YOU GIVE WILL SAVE LIVES AND RELIEVE HUMAN SUFFERING. M alheur Memorial- Hospital Jed T. Lewis, President The present campaign is to PLACE THE HOSPITAL ON A SOUND FINANCIAL BASIS IN ORDER THAT IT MAY BE SELF-SUSTAINING. POLIO EPIDEMIC MERCY KNEW NO BOUNDRY UNES — Early in 1952, at the request of health authorities, the Board of Di rectors of this community hospital assum ed the risk and burden of becoming the ONLY polio treatm ent center for victims from Malheur, Payette, Canyon, Umatilla, Baker, Harney, Grant and Union Counties. From June 30 to July 21, 1953, 11 polio cases were adm itted NOT ONE FROM NYSSA, 7 were from Ontario, 2 from Pay FIRST 5 YEARS SERVICE COMMUNITY-WIDE — This 40-bed hospital in its first five years of opera tion. cared for 4,681 patients; 60 more than the total population of the city of Ontario. 1.690 patients were from Nyssa. 1.077 from rural Nyssa. 719 from Parma area. 306 from Ontario, 206 from Vale, and 160 from Adrian. The balance of 1. 468 (31%) patients from Payette and Canyon counties. Idaho and a few from unclassified areas. 1,112 babies were born. A REMARKABLE RECORD for the first 5 years of a new hospital. Hun dreds of lives were saved. SURELY NO ONE WOULD BELITTLE THIS RECORD. ette, 2 from Parma. From July 21 to December 21, 1952, 81 severe polio cases were admitted. OF THIS NUMBER ONLY 10 WERE FROM NYSSA. This great hum anitar ian sacrificial service on the part of the only hospital in eight counties that treated severe polio cases, a t tracted national attention. THIS HOSPITAL DEMON STRATED THEN AND EVER SINCE, THAT THERE ARE NO BOUNDARY LINES, city, county or state in its ser vice to humanity. NEXT 10 YEARS ESTIMATE FOR NEXT TEN YERS — At w ill be treated here. This is 389 more than siding in Nyssa, Ontario, Parma and Vale. At hundred lives will be saved. There may be this hospital some day. least 10,800 of your friends and neighbors all the men. women and children now re least 2.020 babies w ill be born- Many more disasters. You or some loved one may need Please keep in mind the remarkable record of your community hospital and the ser vice it will give to the sick and injured the next ten years, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years. THE LIFE OF THIS HOSPITAL IS PERPETUAL. These Are the Facts. . . The Rest Is Up to You!
