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Hospital Needs Aided By New School Of Medicine At ONC, Surgery Oldest Branch Campaign Launched In 1945 To Improve Health Stand ards Throughout State By DR. HENRY T. CLARK, JR. Administrator, Division of Health Affairs Back in 1944 a distinguished group of 50 representative North Carolinians was asked by Governor Broughton to study the health needs of the state and to recom mend a program to meet these needs. The results of the study startled most citizens. By many of the yardsticks which can be used to measure compara tive health standards, e. g., physi cians per 1,000 population, per cent of draftees rejected because of physical defects, infant and ma ternal mortality rates, hospital beds per 1,000 population, etc., North Carolina ranked very poorly as a state. A brilliant action program was charter under the battle - cry of “More Doctors, More Hospitals, More Insurance.” The campaign for improved health standards was carried to the people of the state in 1945 and 1946. As one consequence, the gen eral assemblies of 1947, 1949 and 1951 made significant appropria tions for new health facilities and services. Since 1946, in the field of “More Hospitals,” North Carolina ranks second in the country in new hos pital beds which have been built or are presently under construc tion. Many of the past needs for health facilities are being filled. Much Progress Considerable progress has been made since 1946 in the field of med ical economics, also with Blue Cross and Blue Shield enrollments having expanded markedly and many local governmental agencies having assumed a greater respon sibility for the care of indigent patients. Major problems of financ ing health care have yet to be ov ercome, however. In the field of “More Doctors” (or, more accurately, of more health personnel) it was proposed in the 1944 report that a complete health training center be develop ed at the University of North Caro lina by converting the existing two year School of Medicine to a full four - year program, by activating a new teaching hospital and new Schools of Dentistry and Nursing, and by strengthening the long-es tablished Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health. Continuing Agency It was further recommended by the 1944 committee that the Uni versity Health Center become a continuing agency to evaluate the health needs of the people of the state and to coordinate the effort toward meeting those needs. In 1947, planning was started for the expansion of health facilities of the University. In October, 1949, construction was begun on the first new major unit, the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Oth er construction was started in the months that followed. New staffs have been assembled and these are being expanded. New curricula have been and are being planned and new teaching programs started. The tooling-up phase of the basic components of the enlarged Health Center is nearly complete. The following is a brief summa ry of the current picture in the Di vision of Health Affairs at the Uni versity of North Carolina: 411-Bed Hospital Construction on the 411-bed North Carolina Memorial Hospital was essentially completed by the early fall of 1952 and the Hospital accepted its first patient last Sep tember 2. At present, some 122 beds plus complete laboratory and out-patient facilities are in opera tion to serve patients referred from all parts of North Carolina with a wide variety of complex medical problems. Over 6,000 such patients have already been served during this beginning operation period of the Hospital. An excellent basic hospital service staff has been as sembled and this is being expand ed as the days go by to provide for an orderly activation of a complex teaching and service facility. An 80-bed psychiatric wing, which will contain one floor for alcoholic pa tients, is under construction. It is currently expected that this wing will be ready to accept patients during the summer of 1954. Con struction on a 100-bed tuberculosis unit, a new facility of the North Carolina Sanatorium system, has reached an advanced stage. This unit started receiving patients in the late summer of 1953. Expanded Medical Staff The School of Medicine rapidly expanded its clinical staff during the past year and started its first class of third - year students in the fall of 1952. The first class of stu dents from this expanded program will be graduated in June, 1954. A “north wing” to the School of Medicine building, which provides enlarged facilities for three basic science departments, was complet ed and put nito use in the fall of 1952. A similar “south wing” is now in use. A training program for laboratory technicians by the School of Medicine began in Sep tember, 1953. The new School of Dentistry building, which was begun in May, 1951, was essentially completed by September, 1952. It was immediate ly put into use as a clinical facility for the training of dental students. The first class of dentists will be graduated from this school in June, 1954. Already, many low - income patients from all parts of North Carolina have been given service in the dental clinics. A new pro gram for training dental hygienists was activated in September, 1953. School of Nursing The new School of Nursing build ing and dormitories were complet ed during the fall of 1952 and are occupied by two classes of student nurses. The first of these classes will be graduated for service in North Carolina in June, 1955. Plans are now being drawn for the acti vation of a training program for practical nurses and the inaugura tion of a master’s degree program for graduate nurses. The Schools of Public Health and Phamracy are carrying forward their normal programs. As an in dication of their vigor, however, the School of Public Health added a twelfth department, the De partment of Mental Health, during There’s Nothing Better Than Transylvania County’s Enlarged Hospital * We Extend Congratulations and Invite You to Have a Coke BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Asheville, N. C.—Hendersonville Branch: Dial 6184 nlr«** k * rta'ilim/ frnrfi ■mI * O ’ 952, THE COCA-COLA COMPAMt Retailers Like Packaging With Olin Cellophane, Booth Popular A store-level pre-packaging tech nique of particular importance in soft goods merchandising, which was first worked out and tested in conjunction with L. Bamberger & Co., of Newark, N. J., by Olin Cel lophane, was unveiled for the Na tional Retail Drygoods association meeting in New York last week. Viewers at the Olin Cellophane booth saw a demonstration of the basic technique which has been in actual operation at the Newark store for a year. A bag-making ma Scrubbing Hands Important Job At Local Hospital Even washing hands is impor tant when it is part of the prep aration for an operation. Doctors and nurses scrub their hands and wrists to the elbows 10 minutes with a brush and an tiseptic soap, and then rinse in alcohol, and dry them with a sterila towel that has been kept in a sealed package. Finally they put on rubber surgical gloves. During all this scrubbing it would not be sanitary for the doctors and nurses to regulate the flow of water with ordinary hand faucets. Water is controlled by a lever that is operated by the knee. Temperature of the wa ter is determined by knee pres sure: the greater the pressure the hotter the water. They also don a surgical mask before start ing to wash and wear a cotton scrub suit under their uniform. Everyone is families with mov ie scenes in which nurses are seen helping the doctors into their white operating gowns. But such scenes, if ever, show the nurses getting dressed; they help each other. Such preparations for opera tions are taken for granted and infection nowadays is simply not heard of. the past year, and the School of Pharmacy awarded its first Ph. D. degree at the last University’s commencement. Both of these schools are urgently in need of better housing in order to serve, the people of this state more ef fectively. Although this main tooling - up phase of the Division of Health Af fairs is approaching an end, there is an enormous job ahead of ex panding facilities, of maintaining sound financing and of carrying forward excellent teaching, re search, and service programs. There is an equally large task ahead of making available the ben efits of this Health Center to the communities and rural areas of the state. The future health of North Carolina is our job, however, and the size of the task seems less when compared with the size of the op portunity. MOVIE BEGINS AT 6:30 THURS. & FRIDAY “The Baron Of Arizona” Starring Vincent Price and Ellen Drew —Also— Selected Short Subjects • SATURDAY ONLY 9 Dean Jagger As the Customs Agent in “C-Man” • SUNDAY & MON. • Damon Runyan’s “Bloodhounds Of Broadway” In Technicolor Starring Mitzi Gaynor and Scott Brady -Also Selected Short Subjects ft TUESDAY & WED. I “The Pirates Of Capri” Starring Louis Hayward COMING SOON! The Champion Musical! “Everything I Have Is Yours” In Technicolor A Motion Picture You Won’t Want To Miss! chine turned out cellophane bags in seven different bag widths to ac commodate department store mer chandise suitable for cellophane wrapping. A clerk at a counter in serted goods in the bags and deft ly sealed and labeled each bag. Featured in the exhibit was a display of cellophane-polyethelene packaged items — each one em bodying a fresh idea in the mer chandising of multiple, related or gift items. “Each item illustrates one of the most exciting opportunities which has come up in the depart ment store field in many years,” said Charles Pfeifer, Olin Cello phane’s New York-New England sales manager who developed the technique used at Bamberger’s. “For years department stores; looked for a way to use cellophane1 to combat losses due to soilage* markdowns. The Olin Cellophane* technique has not only accomplish ed this superbly but it has opened an entirely new concept in increas ing sales through multiple packag ing and in ensemble combinations.’*' when man's ingenuity and his conscience (that force which urges him to seek the good, the true and the beautiful) unite in ac tion, achievement results . .. and whether or not all men agree on what is good, true, beau tiful, there is no mistaking progress when it can be measured in terms of hu man welfare . . . thus are hospi tals conceived, built, staffed, operated . . . thus their services are brought within the reach of everyone through blue cross—blue shield ... thus we grow toward practise of a realistic brotherhood which understands that a benefit to one is a benefit to all thus we go forward on the road from which we can no more turn back than we can retreat the modes of life our ancestors lived . . . HOSPITAL SAVING ASSOCIATION BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD, HEALTH SERVICE CHAPEL HILL, N. C. 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