The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-04-01
north DAKOTA HAS
Only FOUR OTHERS
IN HIGHEST RANKING
Capital City Has Only Institu.
tons Meeting Full Require
ments in West Halt
STEADY PROGRESS SHOWN
criteria for Physicians and Sur
geons and for Hospitals
Are Outlined

Two Bismarck hospitals have met
the full requirements of the American
College Of Surgeons according to the
latest report issued to The Bismarck
Tribune by DR.. Franklin H. Martin,
Chicago. director general of the COL
.lege..
The hospitals meeting exact stand
ards are st. Alexius. conducted by the
Sisters of st. Benedict, and the Bis
marck hospital and Dcaconcss Home.
conducted by the Evangelical church.
Only four other North Dakota hos
p.tals meet full requirements. They
are st. Johns and st. Luke's at Fargo.
and st. Michaels and Grand Forks
DeaconeSs at Grand Forks.
Two Minot hospitals are in the
conditioned class. They arc st.
Joseph's and Trinity. Mercy hospital
class.
Great Progress Shown
The American College of Surgeons
began promotion Of their hospital
Standardization plan in 1918. At that
time only 80 institutions or 1910 per
cent Of the total number in the
United States and Canada. met re-
Quirements. In 1929 the number
meeting full requirements had in
creased to 1869 or 60 per cent.
All government hospitals of the
United States-Army, Navy, Public
Health Service, Veterans Bureau end
National Homes for Disabled and
Volunteer SoldierS-are now Oh the
approved list of the college.
That disqualification construction is
keeping pace with the growth of the
knowledge Of human ailments is in
dicated by the fact that over S l,000.-
600 daily Is being spent in this ac-
tivity, according to figures compiled
by the college.
Salient Features Listed
Some of the salient features CT
Martins report arc:
THE markedly increased efficiency
in the administration of hospitals.
The growing tendency to place the
control or government in the hands
Of commissioners or boards of trus-
tees not directly dependent OIL the
vote Of the constituency and free
from political aspirations and obli-
cations.
Improvement in executive aG-
minstration of hospitals under sur
vey.
Lack of opportunity fer the proper
training OF hospital executives.
Set Doctors Standards
Increasing care in the selection Of
hospital personnel with proper as
signment of duties under competent
supervision.
IA hospital recognizing others than
full graduates of medicine and OK
tending to them privileges to work
therein cannot expect a place on the
approved list.
Every hospital must be SO Oper-
ated as to assure the public that they
can obtain adequate, skillful and re-
sponsible medical art.
Increasing attention being given
to good nursing service particularly
through well maintained ratio of
nurses to patients and efficient super
vision.
Education Required
Following Is the minimum stand
ard OF education deemed essential for
practitioners Of the healing art by the
college:
<a) Completion Of secondary school
education equivalent to the four
yea course in the better high
schools:
(b) Two years pre-medical in n coll
lege of liberal arts. including
courses in physics, chemistry, and
biology:
lc) Medical training under expert
teachers consisting Of a four-year
course in q we'll equipped medical
college, including W years i'll
the laboratories of anatomy,
physiology, bacteriology. hygi-
enc, pathology. pharmacOlogy, and
physiological chemistry. and two
years devoted to the study OF pa
tents with all types Of diseases,
in the dispensary and at the pa
TENTS bedside in q teaching hos
pital:
I'D Practical experience obtained in
a fifth yea as an inferno in an
approved hospital.
General Results
A fairly accurate general estimate
Of the scientific efficiency of hospitals
In the United States and Canada may