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WINSTON-SALEM . the boorth i amctnm ?f ones* North CarofcM'i largest ihsspttuts - North Carolina Baptist at Winston-Salem-says hos pital costs wffl continue to climb iMJkisAMLjiiiiMil uiiKfi Juii lhai ?M' !?ati?ot now is getting . mora ??re for "hi? money tVmn evor.be tore hi Wrtary. ? <> :? i > Be. fimiai FuUar, writing is tfie August issue Of Trustee, a mag aziufr***** ?* <tks Assericas Hospital'Association, pohiU sot that Himoo^htaiajrtr potto*'pay* more per Aar. *? -BSti wail ttuwibar. goes boats eeeheg, oolorns to his Job ?saner, sod usually Uvas -longer tt*i dUt hts Mrtprr j Dr lNiHer analyses resets of , stgdy on Boqpital costs sod services made In three Winston-Salem in 1960-1960 and uses these figures to support his argument that, after all, hoapital charges are relative when balanced against a patient's earnings, productivity, and lorn of time *rom work. The hospital tins tee, he says, is ia the unenviable positiao of being 'constantly ques tioned ataut the, rising coats of hos pital caPS*" wherever he happens to be ? % his office, at a public gath eringHda eocial affair, and, some times. 4Mb, ?t church." As bdwk hr goee on, *we are expedM to lave all the answers. Although we rang know the reasons for these increases, and are cer tain that the hospital patient is receiving excellent value for his money, many tf us find ft difficult, if not impossible, to convey these facts adequately Uf our questioners, who simply cannot understand why thjir <hsapital bills ara higher than they were a few years Sf?." ' lb the 10-year period we cast to the patient for a day m care at 'City Memorial hoepital4n Winston Salem went from $11 Jg to $20.85; at Baptist fiospital ftom $12 IS to $21.96. At Kate Bitting Reynolds in the area for Negroes, the daily Messerial. the oaly major hospital <coet'advanced $7.50 a day. } v, ? Dr. Fuller poinU aut that salar T fcsacSotiht for'O&'to 70 per cent of each hospital's total operating coat. In these hospitals while costs to the patient were advancing by 81.6 per cant, salaries increased 135 per cent. Even with this increase, he points out, hospitals still are not able to pay their .professional staff salaries comparable to what industry pays similarly trained workers, and he predicted that hos pital costs will continue to spiml until they approached the level of industry, rising at the rate of 5 to 7 per cent a year. Industry offers trained workers such excellent financial rewards, he says, "that hospitals have had to struggle to pay enough to attract and hold hte people they need. Many who criticise hospitals for higher b?Hs do not seem to realize this fact." The cost of modem equipment, essential today for care of the sick, as another factor that is in creasing costs of care, he says. He gives as an example the 100 open heart operations performed at Bap tist Hospital each year. "The cost of the specialised equipment that naqst be used in this difficult sur gery.' be continues, "ruas from 330,000 to 340,000. Added to this is il I ?; II U 1 the expense of specialists who work together to perform the surgery and to care lor the patient before and after the oparatiaa. However, balanced against these costs are the lives saved, which would have, teen 4est before this surgical procedure was made ponsibte." ? He also used Baptist Hospital's oobalt to therapy unit to point up tin costs involved is providing lor taeatmenteod cancer. The unit re presents an outlay of ttlMOO. he said, adding: "AU advances in medical science, which have -brought untold bless lags to the rich, are accompanied by lacge cost- increases. Polio has teen dealt -an almost deadly blow Tuberculosis is no longer the great hitter it once was. Typhoid lever, smallpox, chronic mastoid, and est-. eomyelitis have- been relegated to | medical history. And the appendec tomy, which required a 14 to 16 day hospital stay in 1940, now re quires a stay of only three to five days." ' Dr. Fuller, a Kinston obstetrician and gynecologist, dees not expect the length of hospital stays to be decreased much further. The aver age at Baptist Hospital has de creased from 9.6 days to 7.9 days in 10 years. - He uses a maternity case and an appendectomy cast to illustrate the reduction. The maernity pat ient in 1940 remained flat in bed for 10 days after the birth of her baby and then for two days more remained up and around her room such a maternity patient is up and before being discharged. Today: taking a shower the day' after the i baby arrives and is home three to' five days later. "Sudh early ambu lation," he 'says, 'Has done more than cut the cost of the hospital bill. It has also greatly reduced the incidence of many secondary com plications." Twenty years ago, he points out, "an. appendectomy patient was like ly to be in the hospital for two weeks. At Baptist Hospital he would have paid $10 a day for a private *wanr' ?st 5)0 V,J '* '*"*? ' CHALLENGE AND OPPOR TUNITY - Luther Winborne Self, Asheboro. cbnfefs with Miss North Carolina, tall Jeanne Swanner of Graham, about her Atlantic City pre sentation gown, a gift of Cone Mills. Self has created the presentation gowns for five previous state queens, *? zmmgmWm .. vS including Maria Beale Fletcher, Miss America of 1961. At right is Mrs. Luther E. Self, the designer's mother who will make the gown, in dis cussing his neW challenge, Self states, "That much pulchritude over a six-foot-two frame is an opportun ity for any designer." room, or about $150. Today the bill for such a patient would be around $115 for the expensive room in the hospital. "The saving results from the fewer days spent In the hospi the job about 10 days earlier than tal. Not only that, but he is back on he would have been in former years. If he were making $2 an hour, he could earn well over $100 in the time he would have spent in 1 bed 15 years ago. Another interest from two weeks to two rhontbs in ing example is the pneumonia pat ient, who 10 or 15 years ago spent the hospital. Now, with the aid of new antibiotics, this stay has been reduced to one week or less." FCIC To Pay 4,681 Claims This Year The Federal Crop Insurance Cor poration expects to pay one and three-quarters million dollars in 4,681 elaims this year to make up the difference between the cash value of crops sold and production costs. This prediction was arrived at by FCIC supervisors who have inspected the crops over the entire State and came to these cotnclu sions today. Most of the claims to be paid ! will be to tobacco policyholders in ! the drought stricken counties near the North Carolina - Virginia line. There, 3335 claims will be paid in the amount of one ..and a quarter million dollars on aUurisk FC1C in surance lor labor and other expen ses that insured crops will fail, to bring on the markets. Rainfall in the parcer areas in the immediate future would reduce insurance in demnities, hut much of the tobacco has matured to the point that mois ture can give only partial relief. Claims paid thoughout North Car olina will pome from iverrtiums re ceived froth insured farmers. Guarantees of labor and produc tion costs are assured only through FCIC. administered by the U, S. Department of Agriculture, and are not available through commercial insurance channels. Many FC1C in suMds also take hail and ether specific risk insurance offered by private companies. , There is no ,other governmental source that makes direct payments te private individuals in such dis asters as now threaten a large sec tion of North Carolina. Distressed farmers in the long area reaching frcm Surry County in the west to Northampton and Hertford Counties in the east can only receive cash rc.ief through their FCIC insurance. FCIC indemnities stabilize the entire economy and are a boon to businessmen and credit agencies which depend upon farm market ings. . . The present disaster, brought on principally by lack of rain, is in sharp contrast to last year when cloudbursts destroyed tobacco in co&.tal plain counties and resulted in nearly two million dollars paid to FCIC insureds in eastern North Carolina. This year FCIC, restricted to gu arantees in only 60 of the 100 Nor th Carolina counties, has guaranteed 40,000 North Carolina farmers, that their agricultural income cannot fall below 70 million dollars, their production costs. Over 90 percent of live protection is on tobacco,, about 4 percent on cotton, 3 percent on poanuts, and the remainder on pea ches. soybeans and corn. Farmers in the drought area are heavily insured by FCIC There are 10,934 farmers in 10 counties of the dry area that are guaranteed the return of nearly 17 million dollars. These counties are: Alamance, Cas well, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Frank hue. GranviUe, Guilford, Hal if as, Hertford, Nash, Northampton, Par -oii Hockingham, Stokes, Surry, Vance, iWarren and Washington. . FCIC regrets that all farmers did not avail themselves of all-risk protection, application for which closed before - planting began gen erally. ? I North Carolina residents in the N. C. 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