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mitted to the Co-Ordinating Board
of the Metropolitan Health Council
at $3.50 pm. next Tuesday at the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. This board, of about so men,
bers, will act on the report. It will
be subject to ratification by the dele
gate body of the Health Council at
its annual meeting November 7.
"The committee finds a need for
an agency of the type Of HSA IN
this metropolitan area" said the
McIntire report. THE committee
envisages further services which
HSA may perform on behalf Of the
hospitals and the community"
Much responsibility for working
out the new program for the health
agency apparently was turned over
to the hospital council. But the
hospital council itself, the NcIntire
report recommended, should be
broadened in its scope.
Wider Membership Urged.
Health Security Administration
should have "affiliate membership"
in the Federation of Community
Chests, the committee added, but
not in any one community chest.
The hospitals individually could
not be considered agencies of the
community chests as long as they
are on a. purchase of service
basis" said the report. But, 1t
added, the hospital council should
be a member of the Federation OF
Community Chests, deriving its
basic budget therefrom and repre-
senting the whole hospital group
with one voice."
In respect to social service, the
committee continued, the activities
of the health agency "are limited
to economic social service, finding
of facilities and making arrange
ments. This in no way relieves any
hospital from the necessity Of hav-
ing its own well-rounded complete
medical social service with close and
cordial working relations with
HSA."
A Joint commission should be set
up by Health Security Administra-
ton, Federation of Community
Chests and Hospital Council, the
McIntire report proposed, for these
purposes:
Il. To study the basic structure
of HSA and the desirability Of
bringing it into close relationship
with the hospital council and Of pro-
viding county representation IN It..
20. To consider a method OF
derivation of the administrative
budget of HSA.
"3. To assist in establishing a
sound method for uniform cost &C
counting in the hospitals.
"4. To augment the functions OF
HSA to include central clearance
of all kinds of hospital reporting and
of hospital accounting with periodic
parallel column reports to these
three agencies, to the hospitals,
Group disqualification, Inc, and the
Washington Metropolitan Health
Council.
IS. To renegotiate the HSA-
Chest hospital agreement ION pay
ment of costs for hospital care
source of recent controversy.
IS. To study methods of co-ord-
mating the activities of other agen-
cies in the Federation of Commun-
ity Chests doing similar work, with
those of HSA
81. To determinate the derivation
of the disqualification fund for the
area from the Federation of Com
munity Chests"
Relationship Studied.
In other quarters it was learned
a subcommittee of the Budget Com
mittee of the Federation of Com
munity Chests already is being ap-
pointed to study the relationship OF
the federation to Health Security
Administration and the hospital
council.
The McIntire report recommended
that the health agency and the
hospital council establish joint
committee "to study the most effec-
tive way of o-ordinating the activi-
ties of central admitting and hos
pital admitting; that admitting pro-
cedures shall be as simple As pos
sible, consistent with good prac-
tice."
The health agency's public re-
lations program was criticized, as
it's greatest weakness. It recon-
mended a broadly conceived, well