The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-10
Our Hospital
 Vi ely Known /
 For Methods

''The people of Bridgeport do not know what they have got at their own front door,
 This significant remark concern ing the Bridgeport Hospital was made to Times man by Dr. John Bresen- han who today becomes its superin- tendant-
 Dr. Bresenhan has been engaged for some time in the development or Hospital Standardization in this country and Canada while connected with the American College Of sur geons in Chicago. The first stase or this work was completed with the publication of lists of hospitals in the two countries, which measured up 10 certain standards. This work mas with hospital conditions on this con tinent, than any other one man in the country today.
 .'This hospital was among the list which measured up to the standard, he continued, "and the regulations adopted here in the Bridgeport hos pital in order to provide the patient with every safeguard so far as medl- cal and surgical treatment goes have been used in our sStandardlzaton work as model.
 Because of this we'll known con- stitution and bylaws Bridgeport hos pltaI is better known west of the Mississippi River than it is in New England. This constitution was pub lished in the official journal Of the Standardization Bureau as the best example of constructive work regard ing medical staffs in either the United States or Canada. How many hospitals have followed it as a model it would be impossible to tell, but l personally know of at least nIty which have been influenced, by it in | "A los
 "The one outstanding feature of the | system here is the monthly medical audit Every commercial institution has a monthly. audit of its financial matters and a balance sheet made ! out The same thing is done here in the Bridgeport Hospital every month in connection with the medi- cal care of the patients. The efficiency committee of the staff, to- gether with the superintendent, as a
 sort of board of medical auditors, go over the months medical work and
 turn over to the trustees balance
 sheet showing any failure on the part Of those working in the hospital to
 get results. This is a decidedly new departure in medical affairs
 After a survey of the plant I am
 convinced that the Bridgeport Hos
 pita1 has every facility for rendering
 first class service to the people of
 this city. I feel that the acute need
 the job in hand, is to develop as great
 and general use of these facilities as
 is possible and much more so thar
 is being done at present. I find, fol instance, that you have radium here Now radium is far from common, and | very valuable, and every use should
 be made of it that is possible and fo every citizen who needs 1t. I als' ) find that there is X-ray outf
 here that is above the average anC
 should be much more generally used It is to be my immediate work, t f develop the hospital work along thes' and similar nnes-'
 Doctor Bresenhan is man il
 the prime of life who was born Il
 Boston and graduated from the col = lese and medical school of the Uni t versity of Pennsylvania He was fo = a time the assistant superintendent
 of the Massachusetts General Hos
 pital Later he was attached to tn T general staff of the army in Washing U ton in the morale department. Fol lowing this he had charge of the re " turned wounded in Camp CuSte1 n Michigan, going from there to tn l. standardization bureau of the Amer n ican College of Surgeons in Chicago g When it became known that Docto '- Bresenhan was to be through wit l. his standardization work on the frs 'e of January, the Bridgeport Hospits e started messages over the wire | r Chicago. Just what was in them
 not known, but today the doctor
 in charge of the Bridgeport Hosplta