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First phase of the program, tne
SPEAKER said, will be the a fy.ag
out Immediately, of plans to finish
the 28-bed ward on the first floor
of the service building, dedicated,
June 81, 1916.
Plans include moving of colored
patients from the colored ward to
this new facility for several
months until the colored ward can
be completely renovated and made
into a modern, sanitary facility,
he added.
After the colored ward has been
completed, he continued, patients
will be moved back from the serv-
Ice building and the entire second
floor of the South building will be
converted into facilities for treat
ment of obstetrical patients.
The building is presently divided
into South wing two; North wing
two and East wing two, he pointed
OUT.
The East wing will be convert
ed into a modern delivery suite
containing eight labor beds and
two complete delivery rooms.
That portion Of the building To-
Gated between North wing and
South wing, now used for nurses
stations and waiting rooms will be
converted into three modern .urs-
cries for newborn babies, the gen.
eral newborn nursery and a
smaller isolation nursery for
babies born outside the hospital,
and the premature nursery which
will house the incubator used for
these cases.
The new obstetrical division will
contain At beds, exclusive of the
delivery suite.
There will be IA private rooms
ii place. OF the five now used by
Obstetrics, and will include two 2
bed rooms and 29 beds in rooms
with four beds each.
Rankin also told Rotarians that
to replace the present obstetric
beds it is planned to place "a beds
in South wing m and % beds in
the new Service building plus the
20 beds that will be available in
Marion Sprunt to provide more IA
cilities for medical a d surgical
patients. The program also in
cludes the converting of the Mari
or Sprunt first floor into private
and semi-private rooms.
In nnInf1n0 ny1f that fha cfafo
and national program for hospital
expansion covers a period of five
years, Rankin said he had no way
OF knowing at what stage of the
state program h e Wilmington
program would be developed and
approved.
He added "the chief reasons for
the building of a two million dol
Ter hospital building is to allow the
board of managers to abandon the
old original hospital building
which is no longer suitable for
hospital purposes and to allow us
to convert the South building,
which was a war time emergen-
cy, built without steel Or fireproof
construction, into a Diagnostic
Center and Clinic which will be
completely utilized by the dag
nostic services of the institution
and by the out-ptaient department
and clinics.
This is a birdseye picture o.
what this community needs if it
is to adequately answer the oues-
ton of medical care for its people
and those to whom it is RESPONSE
BILE for good health, the superin-
tendent pointed out.
Rankin had earlier told Ro-
tarians that three essential fac
tors were adequate in medical
care hone of which can be separat-
ed if the welfare of the patient
is the first consideration.
First, he continued. is the doc
tor, the trained physician or sur
geon.
Second, the nurse.
Third, a group of highly train
ed technicans who aid in the
diagnosis and treatment as direct
ed by the doctor.
The modern hospital is not a
complex business, but it is a com
plex combination of businesses
and one of the more complex
of social organizations in which
more than a score of highly
specialized, semi-specialized and
non-specialized functions are per-
formed under one common opera
ton and with one common. object,
he declared.
James Walker Memorial hospi-
tai. for an example, affords a
livelihood for 60 doctors and some
80 special duty nurses, he continu-
ed.
The average day at the institu-
ton shows that in addition to the
regularly employed 300 workers,
and 125 to $50 nurses and doctors,
plus the $50 patients and 500.
daily visitors, a total of 300 to
1000 people come in contact with
the all-important subject "medi-
cal care" each "a hours.
He pointed out the hospital is a
trust created by the will of the
late James Walker and that trust
is held by a board Of managers
consisting of nine men, serving
! without remuneration. They are:
Daniel H. Penton. Herbert Blue
thenthal, Walter P. Sprunt, J. C..
Roe, Charles 3. Parmele, R. H.
Holland, w. D. McCaig, L. A.
Raney and j. M. Blass.
The superintendent declared the
job of picking a director for a
hospital was today a complex mat
ter and that the process Of educa-
ton in hospital administration is
new Is years old-and that
less than 100 hospital s%uperinten-
dents in the country are now rum
nino institutions. who have had