Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-09
'UPK0LDS HOSPITALS
APPEAL FOR FUNDS
Emergency's Work for the Dis
trict Set Forth by Wood
bury Blair.

I'VE believe the Emergency Hospital
has the confidence of the public. and
when our citizens are fully informed
of the conditions which confront us
the necessity for the maintenance fund
ally subscribed to-
This comment is contained in a state
ment issued last night through the
Emergency Hospital maintenance fund
committee. prepared by Woodbury.
Blair, president of the board of di-
rectors of the hospital. Mr.. Blair deals
with the status of the hospital as a
public institution serving the city of
Washington and performing a needful
work for the community
Entitled to Support.
The Emergency Hospital is public
institution, and is. therefore. entitled
70 aid as a public charity" Mr.. Blair
says. 1T is private institution only
to the extent that patients who can
anord to pay for rooms and board are
charged for the same. The money re-
eelved from this source is used for de-
1rayinS the expenses of the patient
from whom it is received and if there
is any surpius-which is seldom the
case-lt is used toward defraying the
expense or those patients who pay to
the institution much less than the
actual cost of their maintenance and
those who pay absolutely nothing And
the TACT that there is a deficit in the
maintenance funds shows conclusively
the extent of charity work done by the
hospital
NO charge is made to any patient,
rlch or poor, for the professional serv-
ices OF the physicians on the house staff
ana the institutional nurses who are on
DUTY day and night in the wards and
on each floor of the hospital When
patients prefer to have their own phy-
slcian and special nurse. the payment
Tor such service is an ARRANGEMENT be-
tween the parties and is not a matter
IN which the hospital has an interest.
IN the treatment of private patients
no discrimination is made in favor of
the attending staff of the hospital: all
physicians and surgeons of good stand
ing IN the District are allowed to at
tend private patients in the hospital
ana every facility of the institution is
placed at their command AS far as |
can learn. the physicians of this CITY,
irrespective of any connection they
may have with other institutions. are
appreciative of the courtesy always
extended to them al the Emergency
hospital to assist them in every way
IN the discharge of their responsibili-
ties to their patients
1t is the endeavor of the directors of
the t-mer gency Hospital to secure the
most up-to-date methods of manage
ment and economy without impaiaring
the efficiency of the institution and 10
further this end. the directors invite
from time to time. Investigations and
suggestions of experts Of national
reputation a to business meth
ocs and management of the hospital In
this connection Dr. Winford H. Smith
superintendent of Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, made a careful and thorough ex-
animation of our system of purchas-
ing. accounting and management And
while his report contained a number of
useful suggestions, his high conmenda-
ton and approval of the management
efhciency and economy was most graft
flying to the directors"