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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 17
MAY 5, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
U, s. Hospitals Honored Next Week
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MATMNAL H«SriTAL WEEK
Next week, May 7-13, National
Hospital Week and Duke will join with
some 7,000 other hospitals throughout
the nation in observing the event.
The entire May 12 Intercom will be
dedicated to the several hundred health
professionals who will be graduating from
Medical Center educational programs that
week.
National Hospital Week, an event
sponsored annually by the American
Hospital Association, provides hospitals
with an opportunity to tell the public
more about hospitals in particular and
more about health care in general.
The idea was initiated in 1920 with a
National Hospital Day that marked the
100th anniversary of the birth of
Florence Nightingale, the woman credited
with establishing the modern profession
of nursing. Miss Nightingale pioneered in
concepts of hygiene and sanitation that
are taken for granted today but which
were revolutionary in her time.
Today, hospitals are passing another,
and equally important, milestone, one
exemplified by this year's National
Hospital Week theme: "We Want You...In
the Picture of Health." Long dedicated to
bringing sick people back to health,
hospitals now are assuming a new
commitment—providing the framework
for keepings// the people healthy.
That commitment means both a larger
hospital role in maintaining the health of
the people and a larger responsibility for
assuring that health care is available to all.
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the board of visitors—Those attending the April 21 meeting of the Medical Center's Board of Visitors, a group that
meets here annually to assess programs and recommend for the future, delayed the start of their afternoon session for this picture.
Seated left to right are: Miss Lucille Mercadante, visiting professor and consultant in nursing administration at the Downstate
Medical Center, Brooklyn; Henry E. Rauch, chairman of the board and vice chairman of the University Board of Trustees; J.
Alexander McMahon, chairman of the Board of Trustees; and Dr. June S. Rothberg, dean of Adelphi University School of Nursing.
Standing left to right: Dr. William G. Aniyan, vice president for health affairs; Dr. Frank W. Putnam, professor of molecular biology
at Indiana University; Dr. Mitchell W. Spellman, dean of the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School; Dr. William R. Pitts of
Charlotte; Dr. Ben N. Miller of Columbia, S. C.; James R. Felts, Jr., executive director of the Hospital and Child Care Sections of
the Duke Endowment; Richard J. Stull, executive vice president of the American College of Hospital Administrators; Dr. Martin M.
Cummings, director of the National Library of Medicine; and John M. Russell of New York City, (photo by Thad Sparks)