Pag« Twelve
Thursday, Jun« 21, 1973
The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
total inpatient days--including
Approximately 61 cents of $105.30 in 1972.
Hospital expenditures tn 1971 visits in hospitals increased
Medicare has had a power­ those of the Medicare group--
totaled 28.8 billion or 35 of bv 18 million in 1971 to a total every dollar in a hospital bud­
On any given
the Gross National Product. of 200 million for all U.S. Hos­ get is used to pay employee ful impact on hospital utiliza­ went up 6.6%.
tion. In 1971, persons 65 and day, approximately one third
»ages and salaries.
There are 1.56 million beds pitals.
The national average cost of over spent 78.5 million days ot all the patients in community
The average annual salary of
tn the nations more than 7,000
a hospital employee in 1946 maintaining one patient for one in hospitals--an increase of 135 hospitals were Medicare pa­
hospitals.
In comparison, tients.
Just 30 years ago the person
The numtier of out patient »as $1,329. Todas it Is $6.812. day in a community hospital »as over 1967.
who entered a hospital could
expect to stay approximately
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14 days. Today the length of
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stay averages just five days.
Thanks to the improved methods
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of medical care. W ith the ad­
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vanced methods which are em­
ployed today in hospitals, the
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patient is made more comfor­
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table, recovers faster, and re­
turns to his normal daily rou­
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tine sooner.
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Approximately one person tn
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eight will enter a hospital this
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year and many of them »ill be
greatly
concerned.
They
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shouldn't be. The major rea­
son for concern about hospital­
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known. A doctor’s recommen­
dation for surgery may upset
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you, may lead you to expect
and even fear of fatal conse­
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quences.
It is only natural to feel
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some apprehension. But consi­
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der this
Even if surgery is
required you probably will be
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able to return home within a
week and resume your normal
activities a very shot time
later. Y’our doctor will not re­
commend surgery unless there
is an excellent chance that it
will be of considerable bene­
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fit to you. Remember that in
most cases, the surgery patient
is much safer than he is »hen
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out driving an automobile.
When you are in the hospital
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it is because your doctor be­
lieves it is the best place for
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you to be. Therefore, no mat­
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ter what your problem might
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be, you are in the place where
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help can be received, and you
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will fare better if you put your
hospitalization into its proper
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perspective.
There are 2.9 million persons
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employed in the more than 7,000
nations
hospitals. There is
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more than 2 1/2 hospital em­
ployees to each patient in a
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hospital, on any given day. This
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is necessary because it takes
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people to care for people and
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a hospitals doors never close.
If you are hospitalized this year,
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try not to become alarmed,
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try not to worry, and try and
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enjoy your stay at the Malheur I
Memorial Hospital.
WESTERN SHORES
I ran across some interest- |
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ing facts abou’ hospitals the
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other day. They are.
WESTERN SHORLS
SEA PACT
MALHEUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
A Report To The People
Gale Christensen, Administrator
In this decade, our nation is
beginning to recognize that
health care is a right of all
rather than a privilege of some
of the people. This pnniciple
has made a change in the de­
mands we make of our health
care system and of our hospi­
tals.
Inflation, labor costs,
unusually expensive equipment,
and increasing demands for
health services are creating
pressures an health care costs
no one seems to know how to
relieve.
Hospitals have been accused
of being unresponsive, not only
to individuals but also to com­
munity needs. They are being
asked to assume responsibility
not only for the care of the acu­
tely ill bed patient, but for
preventive health care for the
community. Some have diag­
nosed the primary cause of the
ills of our health care sy stem
as inefficiency in the use of
the hospital’s personnel, the fa­
cilities and the resources of our
hospitals.
In a recent talk,
John Kauffman, chairman of the
board of the American Hospital
Association, speculating on why
health care is approaching a
crisis today, said that perhaps
it is because changes came too
quickly, or that maybe the sys­
tem was subject to too many
competing interests.
He concluded, however, that
whatever the reasons, health
care in the seventies is a mix­
ture of the finest of ingredients
in an imperfect container. The
challenge of health care in the
seventies, he said, will be to
structure a new container--a
new system of health care de­
livery and financing.
Today when we talk about
.delivery of health care we are
talking about how health care
can be delivered to the com­
munity as a whole and how is
this care planned.
Today we are talking about
a health care system that builds
on the good aspects of our pre­
sent system and is a restruc­
turing, not destruction of the
existing health care system.
We in this area are very for­
tunate, the system that the Ame­
rican Hospital Association en­
dorses at the present time is
Congressman Ullman’s Natio­
nal Health Care Services Re­
organization and Financing Act.
The objectives of the Ullman
bill are to establish a program
of comprehensive health care
benefits and assure access to
comprehensive health care for
all people through a reorganized
and coordinated health delivery
system. It provides for changes
in both delivery and financing of
health care that would be ac­
complished on a practical, five
year timetable. A central pro­
vision of the bill is the esta­
blishment of community-based,
not-for-profit health care cor­
porations which would group
local health resources into or­
ganizations capable of providing
comprehensive care to a de­
fined population group in a geo­
graphic service area.
Despite
federally-imposed
controls, inflation, the neces­
sity to continue to purchase and
maintain costly equipment and
facilities, and pay our people
at least competitive »ages, our
commitment to meet increasing
demands for our services, we
are making progress in con­
taining costs and increasing the
efficiency of
our operations
within our capacity to do so. W e
are doing this through such
things as group purchasing and
sharing services with other
hospitals,
cooperative com­
munity health care planning, and
maintaing the utilization review
process in our hospitals, which
provides for regular exami­
nation of the proper use of our
hospital beds.
But with all our efforts, our
primary dedication must con­
tinue to be providing the highest
possible quality of care at the
least possible cost to the pa­
tient.
What can the public do? First
take an interest in and support
your community hospital. You
can offer to serve your hospital
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
in a volunteer capacity. You
can support your hospitals pro­
jects.
You can assist in ob­
taining the needs of your hospi­
tal.
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A statewide search for the
state's annual Retailer of the
Year is being launched by the
Oregon Retail Council, retail
division of Associated Oregon
Industries.
ORC Pres. Lawrence Win­
throp said the search again will
be coordinated with Chambers
of Commerce throughout the
state in an effort to recognize
the outstanding retail mer­
chant.
Last year’s winner was Fred
G. Meyer, pioneer retailer and
chairman of the board of Fred
Meyer, Inc., Portland. First
runner-up was Ben Tsukamaki,
partner in the Ontario Market
in Ontario, and second run­
ner-up was Esther Ferguson,
partner in Nancy's Apparel m
Albany.
Winthrop said candidateswill
again be judged on a wide va­
riety of qualifications, including
contributions to business, civic,
charitable and religious acti­
vities, efforts to promote in­
dustry-wide relations, fidelity
to the buying public, leadership
and public acceptance.
Nomination forms »ill be fur­
nished to Chambers of Com­
merce and others interested in
submitting names and qualifi­
cations of candidates. Entries
must be returned to the Ore­
gon Retail Council no later
than August 15. Entries are to
be addressed to the Retailer of
the YearCommittee, 1149Court
St., N.E. Salem 97301.
Judging will be by an impar­
tial panel of distinguished Ore­
gon citizens, Winthrop said, and
the winner will be announced
during the annual ORC con­
vention in Eugene September
27-29.
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