The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-08-31

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81 have been invited to talk to you
today in regard to the hospital situa.
ton in Valley City, think all of you
fully realize the good as we'll as the
need of adequate Hospital facilities in
city of this size, supplied with two
trunk railway lines also a thickly set
tied and prosperous farming COM
munity many miles in extent, contain
ing many villages and small towns.
"We have at present building
maintained by the County at consider
able expense to the taxpayers, which
is for the accommodation of the county
poor and admits pay patients as a
side issue. This building is not modern
nor we'll equipped in the sense that
the hospital of the present day should
be, and is not of sufficient size for the
conduction of general Hospital bust
ness in connection with the admission
and care of the County poor.
"There has been within recent years
a survey Of examination of all Hos
pitfalls of the United States and Can
ada, with accommodations for fifty or
more patients conducted under the aus
pices of the American College of Sur
geons, which is body compose1 of
the leading Surgeons Of the United
States and Canada, this College is con-
cerned with the betterment of Hos
pitfalls, the laws which relate to Med
ical practice and privilege, and with
unselfish protection of the public from
incompetent medical service.
"This service has resulted in the
standardization of the institutions ex-
amined and the division of the same
into classes, some of which come up
to the required standard and others
which do not. In this regard | wish to
quote from the report on Hospitals
published January 1922 by the i1ospit-
al standardization committee Of the
College.
'"Since the inception of this move
ment in 1915, and after the mini
mum standard was evolved from the
combined experience of Surgeons, in
ternists, and hospital executives, it
has met with increasing recognition,
until today seventyfour per cent of
the 100 bed hospitals IN the United
States and Canada have adopted.
"Surely the time for debate las pass
ed. 1t is beside the mark to argue the
wisdom of movement which has en-
listed the cooperation of three fourths
of hospitals in America. Any adj
vance in medicine must ,begin-and
end-with the welfare of the patient.
He must be at once the actuating i'm
pulse and the final beneficiary. Just
so surely as the patient is benefited
so also will be the doctor and the hos
pital. And, precisely, because the
minimum standard was evolved to
bring every group in the hospital
together to work for the patient, it
has created an organization which has
resulted in better work for the individ-
ual surgeon, internist, hospital super
intendent, and nurse.
"The minimum standard embodies
the basic principles of scientific re-
search. Research begins with secur-
ing facts, compiling facts, analysing
facts. This DONE research draws tent
alive conclusions gained from analysis
of facts. These conclusions, if sup
ported by sufficient evidence and COR
roborated by practice, become known
as scientific truths.
"This standard consists of a work.
ing arrangement by which these same
principles of research are applied
daily in the hospital for the benefit of
the patient. Accurate, adequate case
records, modern laboratory equipment
manned by skilled technicalism-what
are these but provisions to marshal
the facts before the physician for ex-
animation? The monthly clinical staff
meeting-what is this but an oppor-
tunity to test out the data which the
records and laboratories have furnish
ed? Insistence on competent and
ethical practitioners-what is this but
guarantee that the interpreters Of
the facts, regarding each patient are
skilled medical men, on whose judg-
ment the public has every right to re-
ly?"
:, "What do hospital superintendent
of experience think of the minimum
standard after they have seen it in OPP
Grafton for a period of years? Quick
to recognize its advantages, their en-
dorsements have been numerous. The
following quotation from Mr.. Frank
Chapman, director of the Mt. Sinai
Hospital, Cleveland, serves as rep