Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-04-21
SAY HOSPITALS
DON'T RECEIVE
SQUARE DEAL
Physicians Tell Board of Health
City Institution Is
Favored.
PRACTICE DETRIMENTAL
AND CHANGE REQUESTED
Matter Referred to Committee,
but Relief Is Prob
.IematicaI.

Asserting that the hospitals OF the
city, outside the City Hospital, were
not given q square deal in the dis
tribution of accident and acute medi-
cal cases, a delegation Of doctors rep
resenting the various protesting hos
pitals appeared before the Board of
Health last night to urge a readjust-
ment of the system. Physicians rep
resenting st. Michaers, st. James's,
st. Barnabas's, sBeth Israel and the
Women and Children's Hospital
made up the party.
DR.. d. L. Mccormick, a member Of
the Health Board, said that that body
would be perfectly willing to divide
the cases If the delegates would point
out how this could be accomplished.
1t Is OF no use for you to tell US
why the private hospitals should re-
ceiye more of these cases." said DR..
Mccormick. Tell US how to divide
the cases and we will do it."
Commissioner Edward q. Gnichtel
expressed similar views. DR.. William
Disbrow, chairman of the board, told
the delegation that they were losing
sight Of the fact that the city beds
were maintained in the other hos
pitals only because the City Hospital
was too small to handle all the cases.
The other hospitals are practically
branches of the City Hospital" Said
DR.. Disbrow.
Would Have to Change System.
I'VE receive all kinds of cases in
the main hospital, so why not at the
auxiliary institutions? Unless the
present system of paying $3.50 per bed
is changed SO that the other hospitals
are paid per capita for the patients
they receive, can see no other soiu-
ton than for the other institutions
to continue to take what We send
them
The resolutions were referred to the
hospital committee of the board upon
motion of DR.. Mccormick.
DR.. William d. Miningham, on be-
half Of the committee, presented q
set of resolutions which had been
adopted at meeting OF the physi-
clans on March 2S.
The City Hospital. it was asserted
receives large .percentage of the
accident and acute cases. 4 wniis
patients suffering from lingering dis
eases. pAcessitating their staying ir
the hospitaf Tor several months. were
sent TO J00 0Luef INSTITUTIONS.
Among other things, the petition
asks that all the hospitals of the city
receive certain definite quota OF
accident and acute medical cases.
The petition also states that sit is
against public policy to treat patients
In the City Hospital that come under
the employer liability law the rea-
son for this being that they would
be q source OF revenue for the other
hospitals, while IL taken to the City
Hospital treatment would be free.
After the petition was read several
Of the physicians took the floor to
urge the board to give the matter
serious consideration, and, incidental
ly, to criticise the methods employed
by the City Hospital authorities.
Among those who spoke were DR..
Albert d. Nash and DR.. George A.
Rodgers, of the Women and Chill
dren's Hospital; DIR. w. D. Mitchell
and DR.. Charles e. Teeter, of st.
Michaers; DR.. IS. E. Robertson, of ST.
James's; DR.. Victor Parsonett, of
Beth Israel. and DIR. Miningham, of
st. Barnabass Hospital.
DIR. Nash, chairman of the delega-
ton, said that the charter Of the
City Hospital does not permit 1t to
charge patients, no matter how we'll
TREY could afford to pay.
'I know the accident insurance
companies like to see patients taken
to the City Hospital" said DR.. Nash.
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