Page tour . THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina Friday, February 23, 1934.
The Noore County Hospital
Pertinent Facts From The Hospital
Records For The Year 1933
Two thousand six hundred and six
teen (2,616) persons received medical or
surgical care at the Moore County Hos
pital.
Nine hundred and twenty eight (928)
persons were admitted as In-patients and
I'emained in the Hospital an average of
eleven and nine-tenths (11.9) days.
The total of eleven thousand and nine
ty four (11,094) patient days gave the
Hospital an average daily house count of
thirty and four tenths (30.4) patients, or
about ninety per cent (90%) of its total
capacity.
Normal hospital capacity in this coun
try is considered as not over seventy per
cent ^10%) of the bed capacity. On this
basis the Moore County Hospital has av
eraged over one hundred and twenty five
per cent {125% ) of normal hospital capac
ity, and on many occasions ran over one
hundred and fifty per cent (150'^t ).
The tradition of the institution of
never refusing admission to any person
in real need of Hospital care has been car
ried on through the year.
All of this service has consequently
meant a very heavy charity burden totall
ing seven thousand two hundred and sev-
ety nine (7,279) days of free care. This is
an average of twenty (20) charity patients
for each day of the year. Sixty per cent
{&)%) of such charity patients were
white, and forty per cent (40^f) were ne
groes.
Fifty five per cent (55%) of all white
patients admitted were classified as char
ity cases; ninety four and one-balf per
cent (94Vo%) of the colored patients re
ceived free care.
Earnest effoi-t is at all times made to
eliminate from the charity list any pa
tients able to pay their own bills.
The Need for 1934
Based upon past experience and a
careful estimate of the 1934 budget of in
come and expenses, it will be necessary to
secure sixteen thousad and five hundred
dollars ($16,500.00) from general contri
butions in order to continue the s^me
standard of sei*vice and end theyeai’ with
out a deficit.
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