Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-15
HOSPITAL RULES.
REGULATIONS TO GOVERN THE NEW CHAR
TABLE INSTITUTION.
Applicants for Free Treatment Must be Residents Of
the Gity-RuleS Governing Pay Patients.
Training School for Nurses
to be Opened.

That the purpose OF the new City
! Hospital and its rules and regulations
| may be fully understood by the public,
the Board OF Directors has authorized
the following publication:
The hospital is to be public charity,
as many free patients being received as
| its income and accommodations will
| Justify, and it is hoped that the volun-
| tary memberships and contributions OF
the benevolent will be sufficiently abun-
dant 10 make this number as large as
the capacity of the hospital.
Pay patients will be received either
/ in the wards or furnished with private
rooms at prices given below.
Applicants for free treatment must be
residents of the city and well recon-
mended as deserving the care OF the As
ISOLATION. Accident cases will be re-
| ceived without question, according TO
Rule 5, printed below.
Free patients will be treated by the
members of the Hospital staff on duty.
Pay patients can select their own phys
ician, any physician OF the city or else
where can send a patient to the Hos
pital and attend him there. The nam
| ing of a staff has not been with the pur-
| pose of depriying any physician OF the
| advantages Of the Hospital, but to insure
the interest of certain number OF the
medical profession, and secure their care
for those patients who may be unable to
recompense their services.
A number Of rooms have been fitted
up By individuals and societies, and
placed at the disposal Of the Hospital
Association as means of securing rev.
enue. These rooWs will be occupied by
pay patients, who desire better accom-
modatons than TIE wards furnish. And
emily in case of the endowment or annual
support OF room or bed will the per-
son making the gift have the right to
designate the occupant OF it,
In the wards the prices will be five
dollars per week. The rooms will be
ten dollars and upward per week, ac-
cording to location. When the Associa-
ton shall furnish the upper floor OF the
building there will be some private
rooms at lower rates.
These charges include such medicines
as may be prescribed, and on occasions
have the free use Of the fine collection
of instruments and appliances belong
ing to the hospital.
The building has bean renovated
throughout, and all the furniture
and appliances are new and Of the most
approved patterns. The surgery has
been fitted with the best modern appa-
rasus, and will compare favorably with
anything to be found in the hospitals Of
the larger cities. The Matron and her
assistant are graduates Of training
schools for nurses in Chicago, and have
had experience both in hospital work
and with private patients.
1t is intended TO open training school
for nurses at an early date. Applicants
for this position must be between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty years,
and present recommendation from their
physician and clergyman as to health,
ability and character. While under
training they will receive small COM
pensation for their services. Such APP
plication may be made either personally
or by letter TO the Matron, Miss May
wood, at the Hospital.
Persons having friends in the Hospi-
tai may visit them every day between
the hours of two and four o'clock in the
afternoon, and on Wednesdays the
building will be open for the inspection
OF the public between the same hours.
No person having an infectious or
contagious disease, as smallpox, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, measles,
whooping cough, ETC., shall be admit
ted.
Persons applying for admission to the
Hospital prepared to pay for their sup
port, shall be admitted at once by the
Matron and attended by their own physi-
clans.
All persons applying for admission to
the free service of the Hospital shall do
so between the hours OF ten and twelve
a. M, when possible, and shall be ex-
amined by the physician or surgeon OF
the staff then on duty, or by his
authorized representative. In case
OF examination elsewhere than at the
Hospital, if the physician or surgeon be
unable TO examine promptly, his author
lied representative, or in case neither
can be had, some other member OF the
staff shall make the examination. All
examinations shall be subject to the APP
proval of the physician or surgeon on
duty. If the case is decided proper
one for admission, certificate TO this
effect shall be given by the examiner
and on presentation of this TO the Ma
trOn by the patient he shall be ad-
mitted.
Accident cases occurring within the
corporate limits of the city, provided
application be made within twelve hours
after the accident, shall be admitted at
once and reported to the visiting sur
geon. Free cases not coming within
this restriction shall be admitted in the
regular way.
Chronic or incurable cases can not be
received or remain in the free service
of the Hospital to the exclusion OF other
patients. The visiting physician or
surgeon may determine whether in ex-
ceptional instances it may be eXpedient
TO admit such cases for temporary treat
ment.
Free patients shall be discharged by
the Matron when the physician or sur
geon on DUTY shall consider them sniff
GENTLY recovered. But no patient shall
be retained in the Hospital for longer
period than three months, without the
consent of the Executive Committee,
and such consent shall require urgent
reasons.
The physician or surgeon on duty, or
the Matron, If the discipline of the
Hospital shall require it, may discharge
a patient for misconduct, and such cases
shall be promptly reported 10 the Exec
utive Committee.