The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-10-08
HEALTH STATION
SITE SOON KNOWN
OFFICIALS HERE FOR
FINAL CONFERENCE
County Medical Association Gives
Hearty Appr0vaLExpense Easily
Met, Say Prominent Men of Affairs
of the County.

Seventeen out of the twenty-four
members of the Medina County Medi-
cal association greeted Drs. Freeman
and Boudereau of the State Board of
Health at meeting held last week
Thursday at st. Paul's parish house.
The purpose of the meeting was to
take up with the physicians the mat
ter OF establishing a rural health sta
tion in Medina county, and to ascer-
tain definitely if, in case the station
is established here, the hearty and
unanimous cooperation of the physi-
clans could be depended upon.
DIR, Freeman explained in detail to
the physicians the purpose, plans and
ideals of the proposed station, what
would be the far reaching effects of
its results, and the direct value that
would accrue to the people of the
county by reason of the exceptional
advantages offered, not only in the
matter of expent diagnosis, but of
specific and expent treatment as we'll.
Following the meeting DR.. Free
man announced that the physicians
expressed themselves unanimously as
being in full accord with the move
ment, and gave assurance of their
whole-hearted cooperation.
Thursday evening Drs. Freeman
and Boudereau met with about
twenty-five representative citizens
from different parts of the county, at
the Winyah club, where DR.. Freeman
again entered fully into the rural
health station plan.
The estimated expense of the sta
ton per annum, said DIR. Freeman,
would approximate $4,000 to Medina
county. This amount, however, ac-
cording to DR.. Freeman, should and
doubtless would be offset, or very
largely SO, by individual fees for med
ical and surgical treatments. That
is, the station does not primarily
represent a benevolent institution, ,ex-
cept as to the great general advantage
es accruing to all concerned, but to
provide a place for demonstrating the
most modern and effective methods
of preventing as we'll as coping with
physical and mental defects of every
description by specially trained phys
icians, surgeons and nurses, at cost
based upon the expense of the station,
which, according to DR.. Freeman,
would be nominal.
\ DIR. Freeman states that the plan
/ of the State Board is so large, that it
would not be advisable to launch it
in entirely at one time, but to begin
with the establishment of but one un-
it, the first and most important, of
which, at least in the beginning, being
that of the health nursing depart
ment. The present plan is to estab-
lish a force of seven nurses. There
is one in the county now, furnished
by the Red Cross, and is soon to be
another, thru the activities of the
Wadsworth Red Cross Chapter. This
would leave five more to be provided
by the county, one for each of five
health districts into which the coun-
ty would be divided under the states
rural health station plan.
The state, said DR.. Freeman, would
provide two highly trained specialists
one of whom would supervise the
work of the station, and both Of whom
would reside here.
AS stated in the SENTINEL last
week, Portage county is waging a
spirited contest for the proposed sta
ton, and the contest has narrowed
down to the two counties. Drs. Free
man and Boudereau were scheduled
for meeting with Portage county
citizens at Ravenna last Friday.