Evening star., 1946-06-04
Hospital Center
Action Delayed
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Most of Members of
House Subcommittee
Away Until July
Bv Harold B Rooers
By Harold B. ROGERS

Action by the House District Com
mite on the Senate passed Tydings
bill for new hospital center here
has been postponed until some time
IN July, it was learned today.
Chairman McGehee of a House
District Subcommittee handling the
measure announced he must leave
Washington Friday for Mississippi
and will return about July 5. He
said most members of his subcom-
mittee are out of the city now or
will be absent in connection with
the political campaign.
Under the circumstances, he eX-
planned, it will be impossible" to
give early consideration to the Tyd-
mgs measure.
However, with prospects that Con-
greSs may not recess until August
there is some hope, he feels, that
the subcommittee and the House
District Committee itself may act
on the legislation before the recess.
NoncOnsn,ittal on Passage.
What cnance the measure will
have of final enactment depends
on the speed with which Congress
will be able to dispatch the ac-
cumulatiori of business which usually
pies up toward recess time. Mr..
McGehee did not commit himself
on the question of prospects of en-
actment.
The measure has received strong
support not only from this COM
munity but from the so-called
Munger report" on hospitals, con-
Quoted for the Council of Social
Agencies. The report was made
public yesterday.
Three institutions here are now
committed to cooperate in the pro-
posed new hospital center-Emer-
gency, Garfield and Episcopal Hos
pitals.
Bates FavOrs Thorough Study.
Representative Bates, Republican,
of Massachusetts,, member of the
McGehee subcommittee, who has
taken keen interest in the hospital
situation here, said that now the
Munger report is before the COM
mittee, I'VE should give the situa-
tion immediate and constant study
until we reach a final determina-
tion as to what should be done"
"The care of the sick comes first,
under our mode of life" he said.
Although he has not had time to
study the Munger report. Mr. Bates
said he was glad to hear that among
its recommendations are a new
Bureau of Hospitals in the Health
Department, and proposed legisla-
ton to broaden the scope of the
Health Departments supervision
over hospitals and clinics in Wash
ington
Council to Meet June IL.
Meanwhile. another major step
forward to implement one of the
principal recommendation of the
hospital survey report will be taken
next week, when the newly-formed
National Capital Area Hospital
Council meets again to perfect its
organization and take up immediate
problems.
The council will meet at 4 pm,
June IL, at Emergency Hospital, at
the call of its president, William R.
Castle of Garfield Hospital, and the
secretary, Sister Marie of Providence
Hospital.
One of the first items of business
will be consideration of proposed
changes in the temporary bylaws
adopted at its previous session, May
q, at Emergency. The council also
has before it a proposal for a uni
form system of accounting in all
hospitals in the area.
Several suggested amendments
have been submitted in writing to
the officers of the council, it was
learned today, and will be distributed
to representatives from the various
member hospitals for consideration
Among them are proposals made at
the previous meeting by DR.. Herbert
P. Ramsey of Garfield Hospital that
q larger representation of the Coun-
Gil Executive Committee be given to
doctors on the medical stats and
to trustees of the hospitals.