The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-19
Bills For Sickness Made
 Easy By Baptist Hospital

Christian institution, and for that reason has bought it's hospital at West End.
 Dr. James NJ. Long, superintendent, explained the service this week in this beautiful way:
 Christ came. and He taught, preached and healed We feel 1t is the duty of our Christian denomina- tion to do those three things for His people. We Baptists saw how lilly able was the average man and woman to keep his sick loved ones at the hospital when 1t was necessary. and We have evolved this plan so that all may not be denied the best.
 Everybody Wanted
 eve want it distinctly understood that while the Baptists have as- sumed responsibility for running the institution. that all denominations are welcome-we want everybody, no matter what their faith is; and any one can buy these contracts that shortly we are to sell. They are being printed now"
 Among the interesting contracts that are to be sold are these:
 For the sum of $2.5o per month the beneficiary, the wife or husband,
 
 ficary for support, or either of them. when their conditions require it, will be furnished free of charge by the hospital a private room, meals gem eral nursing, usual surgical dress ings. operating room, ether anaes- thetic and routine laboratory namely, urine and blood tests.
 Other Policies
 A contract for s1 per month guar 1.. q. l.. gs.,t- | case requires, will be furnished a pri- vate room, meals. general nursing, usual surgical dressings, operating room, ether anaesthetic and routine laboratory.
 Two other contracts-one for s1 per month, the other for 50 cents, guarantee respectively, first: That beneficiary, wife or husband, children wholly dependent on beneficiary for support, or either of them when their conditions require, shall be furnished free bed in ward. meals, general nursing, usual surgical dressings, op- erating room, ether anaesthetic and routine laboratory. Second: At 50 cents. the beneficiary, condition re- quiring 1t, shall be furnished free with bed in ward, meals, general nursing, usual surgical dressings, opIs erating room, ether anaesthetic and routine laboratory. In both these lat ter policies, no maternity cases will be accepted in the ward.
 These plans represent the heart work of pr. Long for 10 years, for the problem of those unable to meet big hospital bills lay heavy on his soul. He is one of the finest, broad gauged men in Birmingham and an untiring Humanitarian. He is here only few months, having come from Atlanta, where he was in charge of the Georgia Baptist hospital.
 For Benefit of All
 The institution here is eleemosy- nary. It can never declare divi- dend. It is being/operated solely for the benefit of all the people. The contracts do not furnish doctor, be- cause one would necessarily wish to have his own. anyway. and the prac- tice of medicine does not belong to a hospital but to doctors who have spent thousands on their training
 The prettiest thing of all is this: That even if one for years paid the contract fees asked by the Baptist hospital and never went there, one would have the consciousness that his money was going to help others who must yearly go. "In this respect the rich should help the poor" said Dr. Long, who further stated that S8 per cent of the people in this country are unable to pay hospital costs and that the very rich and very poor receive the best hospital attention because the rich can afford to pay for it and the very poor can go to a charity hospital.
 Only contagious diseases like smallpox, yellow fever, tuberculosis and others that would necessitate isolation are barred from the institu- tion-this for the protection of all the patients.
 Since the plan has been put on, the hospital is being visited daily, with many persons eager to take up the offered protection.