South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-09
TELL HOW TO
SPEND $4,000

How the $4,000 Epworth hospital
fund will be spent Is set forth in a
report just issued BY the trustees as
follows
We have stated that S25. 900 a year is
our cost of operation. but the cost OF
administration is S2,666.50, or little
over ten per cent. The remainder
goes TO the care OF patients.
In this last year in moving our
Kitchen, installing new plum bling, and
opening up a ward on the third floor.
We have had an expense OF S500.35,
the moving OF the kitchen alone, how
ever. will pay for itself in a single
year.
our new mangle in the laundry. at
cost OF $500, will save the hospital
$500 TO S40O each year. This will
give the people an idea OF what we
are trying 10 do and how hard we
have labored in watching every corner
IN the effort TO maintain the highest
efficiency OF service and keep the cost
down so we could go ahead. because it
certainly would be a calamity IL the
hospital were 20 close its doors.
It IL our aim TO reduce our cost Of
administration. as Il is the aim OF any
large business TO reduce theirs. and we
submit for comparison a plant as arge
as this great citizens institution, with
varied a line OF obligatf0- o~'-~f o..
" resting upon II, embracing the
great sum OF twenty-five thousand dol
lars. 10 MAINTAIN yedrly, oAu cOs,.lis
on an average of only ten per cent for
its total administration. leaving nearly
twenty-five thousand five hundred dol
lars annually for use in the direct
efficient service, supplies, etc, to its
patients. This is not a money making
institution, every penny received goes
back into the actual work and mainte-
nance OF it. except the small amount
Of necessity used for the pay OF our
efficient superintendent and nurses and
the actual help around the hospital.
The president and the board OF trus
tees and all officers OF that class and
kind, filled by the men and women OF
our city, are gratuitOusly given for
the welfar and benefit Of this great
citizens hospital
The increased cost Of living is our
problem as il IS the problem of the
housekeeper throughout the city, for
IL IS ever an unknown quantity.
The purchase Of 100 pairs Of blan
kets is only one OF the many items we
have been called upon TO meet re-
Gently for the comfort OF our patients.
We want TO tear down the old annex
and build there a new wing that will
accommodate 10 or 10 rooms; ma
ternity ward, a chiidren's ward, and
sun parlor or pavilion for GONZALES
cents.
The S5O,O VIII enable us 10 give
some free beds for men and women
and when you understand that 1t cost
$1,000 week TO maintain each charity
bed you can easily figure what this
alone will cost this hospital this an
num- and in addition 20 this and many
other things in mind we want to move
the front Of the nurses's home and
use IT for quarters for the hospital
help. giving them better quarters, and
place a new front to the building, so
rs 10 accommodate more nurses, which
room We must have.
To better our present equipment and
furnishiI gs for the hospital we want
new beds, new rests. new surgical
beds, new sets of fracture boards and
splints, that alone Will cost several
hundred dollars. appliances for plas-
ter casts, wheel chairs, nurses treat
ment room with proper equipment.
and comfortable rocking chairs for the
old buildings. and we could go on in
this line and show TO the good people
of our city why their splendid institu-
ton needs every penny that we have
asked for, fifty thousand dollars, and
how every penny will be spent TO Sc
cure and maintain the very highest
type of efficiency in hospital service.