Evening star., 1939-10-16
19 Hospitals
Here Placed on
Approved LIST
Two Cancer Clinics
Also Are Cited at
Surgeons Sessions

Attesting to the generally salts
factory standards of Washington's
hospitals, 10 in this city were in
cluded in the list of approved hos
pitals" announced at the 22nd
annual Hospital Standardization
Conference which opened today in
Philadelphia in conjunction with
the Clinical Congress of the Ameri-
can College of Surgeons.
1t was announced that two cancer
clinics conducted in Washington by
Garfield Memorial Hospital and the
Veterans Administration Hospital
also were among the approved"
cancer clinics maintained by BOT
general hospitals in the United
States and Canada.
The list of approved general hos
pitfalls accounted for 2,720 in the
United States, Canada and a few
other countries. it was said, compar-
ing with only 80 that received Of
ficial approval in the first list Of
% years ago.
List Is Announced.
The list announced fer Washing
ton and the number of beds MAIN
tanned at each hospital is as follows:
Central Dispensary and Emer-
gency Hospital, 280: Children's Hos
pital, 200: Columbia Hospital for
Women, 211; Eastern Dispensary
and Casualty Hospital. 146; Episco-
pal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
105: Freedmen's Hospital, 405: CAL
linger Municipal Hospital, 1852:
Garfield Memorial Hospital, 1896;
Georgetown University Hospital.
26l; George Washington University
Hospital, 1856; National Homeopathic
Hospital, "a; Providence Hospital,
800; st. Elizabeth's Hospital, $500;
Sibley Memorial Hospital. 359:
United States Naval Hospital, 178;
United States Soldiers Home Hos
pital. 44e; Veterans Administration
Hospital. 327; Walter Reed General
Hospital. 1927, and Washington
Sanitarium and Hospital, 1876.
Casualty Hospital, the announce
ment stated. had accepted the mini
mum requirements, but for lack of
time or other reasons acceptable to
the college, has not yet been able to
carry them out in every particular.
DR.. George Grille of Cleveland.
chairman of the Board of Regents of
the college. pointed out that hos
pitals earning the right to appear
on the list have had to strive for
betterment to meet enlarged con-
ceptions of the minimum standard
requirements in the light of me-
chanical and scientific progress"
Behind the statistics has been a
powerful impulse to improvement
engendered by hospital standard
ization, he declared, and this i'm
pulse has been shared by a great
many hospitals that have not yet
won approval.
Public Support Stressed.
''They are working zealously to
overcome difficulties" he added.
land they will succeed in doing so
if the public gives them the support
that it should. in view of the benefits
that it will derive. One out of every
IA persons in community, on the
average, is a patient in hospital
each year"
The advance in cancer clinics has
been considerable in recent years,
the college announced. OF hospitals
| of 100 beds or greater capacity, 20
per cent now have this specially
organized, approved service for the
care of cancer patients. From 100
i cancer clinics approved in 1882,
when the list was announced, the
number has grown steadily to the
present figure of BOT.
DR.. Grille emphasized the fact,
however, that the publication of the
list of approved cancer clinics in no
way implies that effective treatment
for cancer cannot be obtained else
where The list indicates institu-
tions that are not only equipped
with complete facilities for treat
ment, but in which the resources Of
a competent medical personnel have
been pooled in an organized effort
for the group care of cancer
patients.
The college has assembled in its
archives the records of more than
80 900 1ve-year cures of cancer.