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PAGE SIX THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953 Brilliant Tar Heel Health Program Of 1944 Has Progressed In Rapid, Rewarding Campaign By Dr. Henry T. Clark Jr. itiv'tsion of Health Affaif 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 te 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 comparative health standards, e.g., physicians per 1,000 rejected because of physical de population, per cent of draftees fects, infant and maternal mortal ity rates, hospital beds per 1,000 population, etc., North Carolina ranked very poorly as a state. A brilliant action program was chart ed under the battle-cry of "More Doctors, More Hospitals, More In surance." The campaign for improved health standards was carried to the people of the State in 1945 and 1948. As one consequence, the General Assemblies of 1947, 1949, and 1951 made significant approp riations for new health facilities and services.- Wbtra W Stand Since 1940, 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. Considerable progress has been made since 1946 in the field of medical 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 finan cing health care have yet to be overcome, 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 by converting the existing two-year School of JMedicine to a full four-year pro gram, by activating a new teach ing hospital and new Schools of Dentistry and Nursing, and by strengthening the long-established Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health. In 1947, planning was started ties of the University. In October, 1949, construction was begun on the first new major unit, the North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Other 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 start ed. The tooling-up phase of the ba siccomponents of the enlarged Health Center is nearly complete. Current Picture The following is a brief sum mary of the current picture in the Division of Health Affairs: Construction of 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 expanded as the days go by to provide for an orderly activation of a complex teaching and service facility. An 80-bed psychiatric wing, khich will contain one floor on alcoholic patients, is under con struction. It is currently expected that this wing will be ready to accept patients during the summer of 1954. Construction on a 100 bed tuberculosis unit, a new facili ty of the North Carolina Sanitor ium system, has reached an ad vanced stage. This unit should be ready to receive patients in the late summer of 1953. 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 into use in the fall of 1952. A similar "south wing" is under construction and should be ready for use by September, 1953. Plans are nearing completion for program for laboratroy technic ians by the School of Medicine., beginning in September, 1953. The new School of Dentistry building, which Was begun in May, 1951, was essentially completed by September, 1952. It was immedi ately put into use as a clinical facility for the training of dental students. The first class of den tists 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 program for train ing dental hygienists is scheduled for activation in September, 1953. The new School of Nursing building and dormitories were completed during the fall of 1952 and are occupied by two classes of student nurses in residence. The first of these classes will be gradu ated for service in North Carolina in June, 1955. Plans are now being drawn for the activation of a train ing program for practical nurses and the inauguration of a master's degree program for graduate nur- The Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy are carrying forward their normal program. As an indi cation of their vigor, however, the School of Public Health added a twelth department, the Department of Mentay Health( during the past year, and the School of Pharmacy awarded its first Ph.D. degree at the last University's commence ment. Both of these schools are urgently in need of better housing in order to serve the people of this state more effectively. Although 'this main tooling-up phase of the Division of Health Affairs is approaching an end, there is an enormous job ahead of expanding faculties, of main taining sound financing and of car rying forward excellent teaching, research, 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 a big job. How ever, the size of the task seems less when compared with the size of the opportunity. . DESOTO 112 W. 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