The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-14
HOSPITALS MUST PROVE
VALUE TO GET MONEY
Saturday and sunday AssOcia-
ton Amends Rules for
Its Distribution.

The HosDital saturday and sunday As
socia ton, which raises ana distributes
funds to forty-seven non-munlciWt hos
pi,als of the city. has adopted three i'm
portant amendments which will raise the
standard of private hospitals aid improve
the basis for distributing the associations
funds. The changes were made unani-
mously at the annual meeting held yestcr-
day and attended by representatives OF
the institutions.
The first amendment provides that no
hospital snail hereafter be admitted TO
, membership unless 1t IL duly Incorporated.
has had for at least three years not less
than thirty-hye beds in its wards and has
given during the same period not less than
five thousand days of free service per
year. Any hospital falling below the
qualifications required for admission at
the time OF its election to membership shall
forthwith forfeit its membership and all
rights to participate In the FUNDS dis
tributed by the association
The distributing committee must con-
slider not only this point, but also the cost
of treatment. which varies in different hos
pitfalls according to the nature of it's work,
from So and SO day to - cents. The
/ third amendment takes into consideration
the quality Of the service. II provides
that if "A hospital is graded by the stat.
Board OF Charities in Glass ch'ro
gradc) as to management the approprs-
ton which /; would regularly receive may
be reduced by 80 per cent. the f1rs, year
| and withheld entirely If II should con-
! thu. in the same grade. Hitherto the
distribution has been according to the
| amount OF free days service only.
Frederick u. Greene. general secretary
said yesterday that the new scheme viii
4 tt1s IN
work. although there will be no discrim-
ination against smaller hospitals because
! of limitations Of their plants.
"In the case of large number of hos
ptals." Mr.. Greene said. 'the public has
no means OF deciding whether TO give oil
not 20 give. The giver is perpleAed by tn,
| appeals and the lack VI any way OF telilnL
which are worthy and which unworthy
| The new plan guarantees Just this point
| II has been Impractical, although proposed
| for many years. because We had no full
accurate and uniform data from hospitals
We now have a method OF getting this
! The hospitals doing the more serious work
will get the larger share and the others
under less expense will receive "A smaller
share"
! Mr. Greene believes that the new ar.
rangement Of distribution and higher
: standard OF hospitals Will cause grea,
deal more to be done for such institu
! tons. lie pointed out that in London the
King Edwards Hospital Fund Associa
ton distributed about s750.oO0 last veal
among 100 hospitals In the metropolitan
, district The funds raised by the Satur
day and Sunday Association last yeai
amounted TO nearly $4,000. In London
h, said. the fund is getting large leGacies
ON. amounting to $4,000 was received b!
the local fund recently. but Mr.. Greene
believes that there should Toe others.
Al the meeting of the association fou'
new trustees We're elected. They wer,
Leo Arnstein. Frederick Hirschborn. Dr
James Alexander Miller and Arnold Wood
Mayor Mitchell, Postmaster Morgan. JOIN
Cluhin. Otto T. Barnard. James Speye
and James c. Fargo were chosen as tn,
distributing committee for the year Mrs
James Speyer for the Woman's Auxiliar!
reported slI.67S already raised by tina
division.