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Duke University Medicai, Center, InterGom
ACCOLADE
to the Central Supply Room
Photo by R. McKee
Walter Wilson, Jr., of the Central Supply Room staff does not work
directly in a patient area, but like the other members of the Central Supply
room team, he provides service essential to the well-being of Medical Center
patients.
The staff of the Central Supply Room is responsible for the prepara
tion, sterilization and issue of sterile supplies to all Medical Center units
that need them. This Section is a part of the Nursing Service organization
and is sometimes referred to as the “back bone” of the Hospital.
A staff of 48 keeps this facility in full operation 24 hours a day, seven days
a week.
Picture, if you can, the magnitude of the job. Bach month Central
Supply processes some 4,200 treatment trays such as tracheotomy and
phlebotomy, 1,200 blood administration sets, 24,000 syringes and their
needles, 19,000 pairs of sterile gloves and 1,200 operating room packs.
One important item handled in Central Supply is the sterile solutions.
Approximately 14,500 bottles of sterile solutions are made up each month
by a Pharmacy Technician and two assistants. Walter Wilson, one of the
assistants, is shown above processing bottles for these solutions. After
sterilization, it is necessary to tighten the caps on the bottles to create a
vacuum and insure sterility. The “space suit” worn by Walter is for his
protection during this process in case a bottle explodes.
The recent addition of an ethylene oxide sterilizer permits the staff to
prepare many items which could not tolerate the standard method of
sterilization by steam.
Ray Brown to Head
Hospital Adminis
tration Program
Ray B. Brown has been appointed
director of the graduate degree Pro
gram in Hospital Administration at
Duke University effective March 1.
1964. Mr. Brown, who also will hold
the academic rank of professor of
hospital administration, is now vice
president for administration at The
University of Chicago and a profes
sor in the University’s Graduate
School of Business.
The Duke program to train college
graduates for careers as hospital ad
ministrators was converted from a
non-degree to a degree program a
year ago under the direction of
Charles H. Prenzel, superintendent
of Duke Hospital and professor of
hospital administration. He will con
tinue to serve in the latter two capac
ities after Mr. Brown assumes the
program directorship.
A native South Carolinian and a
former resident of North Carolina,
Mr. Brown has been identified with
The University of Chicago for 19
years. He served from 1945-61 as
superintendent of The University of
Chicago Clinics, from 1951-62 as di
rector of the institution’s Graduate
Program in Hospital Administration,
and from 1951 to date as a professor
in the Graduate School of Business.
He became vice president in charge
of administration in 1961.
Both Duke and The University of
Chicago have pioneered in programs
to train hospital administrators. Prior
to 1962, Duke offered a non-degree
program which was organized in 1930
and was the Nation’s oldest formal
program in hospital management
training.
The program at Chicago, estab
lished in 1934, was the first to offer m
degree in hospital administration.
Since then, similar programs have
been established at nearly a score of
other institutions in this country,
Canada and Mexico.