Tabor City tribune., 1963-02-13
Hospitals Get
Duke Endowm't
Charity Funds

CHARLOTTE. N. C-Ap-
preparations of Sl.374.lG5.33 L.
assist North Carolina and
south Carolina hospitals and
'hild care institutions ia cGtm-
ity work were Announced tu..
day by trustees uI The Duke
Endowment.
q Columbus county hospital
''nI child care institution rr-
ceIrcd fund; under the apuru-
prldtlon. Columbus CnIu.v
hospital al WhitcviIlc viii gr,
81, l37 for 1862 as cunuur,d
with Si.5IG it received for
1861. The Boys IIGmc al LAX,
Waccandw Receives S3.8l3.O#.
LurIS CUmmu.Ily hospital
received IN appropriation. uI
Sl.502 nom Tho EndCwin,n.
as an aid toward Grfrayinn
CHARITY costs. This compares
with Sl,2ji ,h" hospital re-
c"ivod the previous yvnr.
The funds, based on charity
care IN the fiscal year which
ended Sept. 80, 1862, are Being
distributed as follows: %
North Carolina hospitals.
>573,297; 27 North Carolina
enid care institutions, S2aG.
329.75; ~ Snuth Carolina hos
,I',aiS, S3+5, ,548: &c South Car
"iina child care institutions.
Sl16,99O.53; North Carolina
total, S88l .626.75: South Caru-
lima total, S492 .53H .G8: hospl:-
al totals, both states, S9l8,8I5.
child care institution totals,
both states, $I55,320.33
The appropriations, said
Thomas p. Perkins. chairman
of The Endowment. bring IT,
S35.0l2,318 the amount Given
In 80 consecutive years to aid
III financing charity services
of Carolina hospitals and child
care institutions.
Assisted hospitals receive 81
q day for each lrcH day of
care, Marshall |. Pickcns, sec
retary Of The Endowment and
executive director of the Hos
pital and Orphan sections. cx-
planned that the Curcn. ap-
preparations for 9l8.845 free
Gays of care represent 49, per
cent of the 5,050,Oyl total days
of care in the hospitals, as
compared with III per cent
III these institutions during the
previous year. North Caro-
iina'S free days were 1877 per
cent of the 3.442.602 total.
South Carolina'S 2l.5 per cent
of the I,607, ,489 total.
ALLEGATIONS to child care in
StitutionS were on the basis of
approximately 81 cents day.
North Carolina institutions
had 539,748 days of care for
orphan and half orphan chill
drcn; South Carolina haG 257,-
3i5.
Child care appropriations
represent funds used dS fol-
lows: institutional care. S4l5,-
764.85; for 139 children in COL
,ege, $l8.4l8.73; for foster
home care, Sl4,854.l7: and for
aiding widowed mothers in the
care of their children at home,
S6,282.58.
The Endowment, which was
founded by the late James B.
Duke in 1924, makes annual
appropriations 10 assist nor
profit hospitals and child care
institutions in charity pro"
grams. II also aids in con-
struction, equipment, and pur-
funds for Duke, Furman. and
John c. Smith universities and
chase of hospitals, provides
johnson c. Smith universities
and Davidson college, and gives
financial aid to retired Meth
odist ministers and rural chur-
chcs of North Carolina.
II conducts an extensive
field service to advise assisted
institutions on problems Of re-
ducing expenses and increas-
ing efficiency and provides
staff counseling in the plan
ming of facilities. For a numb
er of years, il has aided the
Children's Home Society Of
North Carolina in financing a
special program Of placement
Of cl or children in family
homes for adoption. Current
ly, il is helping to finance pro-
grams designed TO encourage
more medical students to ent-
er general practice, to inn
prove nursing service in a
group of ascisted hospitals,
and TO attract North Carolina
young people TO health car