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VOLUME 18, NUMBER 24
JUNE 25, 1971
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
- - AUG 19i?71
Life Insurance
■cations Still Taken
Duke Life Itfiyr^n^ Program
Basic Annual
Amount of
'
Earnings
Life Insurance
Monthly Contribution
$25,000 or more
$50,000
$15.00
22,500 but less than $25,000
45,000
13.50
20,000 but less than
22,500
40,000
12.00
17,500 but less than
20,000
35,000
10.50
15,000 but less than
17,500
30,000
9.00
12,500 but less than
15,000
25,000
7.50
10,000 but less than
12,500
20,000
6.00
8,750 but less than
10,000
15,000
4.50
7,500 but less than
8,750
12,500
3.75
6,250 but less than
7,500
10,000
3.00
5,000 but less than
6,250
7,500
2.25
Less than $5,000
5,000
1.50
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ALL IN A DAY'S WORK-Mrs Betsy
Bell, left, new head nurse on Hanes Ward,
goes over a report with RN Carol
Fonville. (Photo by Lewis Parrish)
BACK ON MEYER WARD-Wirs.
Linda Moore has been appointed head
nurse on the psychiatric ward, where she
worked part-time last year. (Photo by
Lewis Parrish)
2 Head Nurses Are Appointed
Two new head nurses have recently
been named at the Medical Center.
They are Mrs. Betsy Bell on Hanes
Ward and Mrs. Linda Moore on Meyer.
Mrs. Bell received her RN training at
Watts Hospital School of Nursing. She
taught in the practical nursing school at
Watts from 1959-1969 and was head
nurse there for the last two years. Mrs.
Bell has been at the Medical Center since
May and will take her new post July 1.
Mrs. Moore, RN, earned a B.S. in
nursing from Berea College in Berea,
Kentucky. She worked part-time at Duke
last year while studying for her master's,
in psychiatric nursing at the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Prior to
returning to the Hospital June 1 she
worked at the Guilford County Health
Department in Greensboro.
The deadline for full-time employes to
apply for Duke's new life insurance plan
has been extended until the end of June.
The expanded coverage, written by the
Northwestern National Life Insurance Co.
of Minneapolis, Minn., will become
effective July 1.
Duke's old plan from the Aetna Life
Insurance Co. will end on that date.
Eligible employes who have had the
Aetna insurance must re-apply for the
new program.
If an employe has misplaced the
application form sent to him and he
wants to sign up for the insurance, he
should contact the Medical Center
Personnel Office for a new application. A
total of 75 per cent of Duke employes
must take the new insurance for the plan
to become effective.
The new policy will cut the cost of life
insurance in half with the premium
dropping from 60 cents per month for
each $1,000 of insurance to 30 cents per
month.
In addition, a new accidental death
and dismemberment plan was added to
the policy, with the cost of this
additional insurance included in the 30
cents per $1,000 monthly premium.
The cost to employes for life insurance
coverage of their spouse and children
drops from 87 cents per month to 50
cents per month.
As was true with the Aetna Plan, any
employe who participates in the Duke life
insurance program for 10 years or more
and then retires will receive a $2,500
paid-up life insurance policy.
In the new plan, premiums will be
waived for employes on full and total
disability but the insurance will remain in
force.
The amount of insurance an employe
is eligible for depends upon his basic
annual earnings. (See box, this page.)
For more information on the new life
insurance program, contact the Medical
Center Personnel Office, 1160 Hospital,
or phone extension 3424.