Lakeview Hospital School of Nursing - Annual Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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THE ANNUAL THE COMMUNITY AND THE HOSPITAL A community which supports its hospitals is only obeying the Master's command when He said, Go thou and do likewise, as the Good Samaritan carried the beaten and sore traveler to the inn. In addition, society is re- ceiving a direct benefit, because the better treatment given the patient by the hospital lessens the time lost to the community on account of illness. A person in bad health or so injured as to be partly or wholly incapacitated is a community liability: but a person in good health is able to work and con- tribute to general prosperity. If the ailment is contagious or communi- cable, the patient is not only a burden to society but a menace as well. An example of how the hospital can help is that of a miner who had his back broken some time ago in this city. Before the days of hospital care it would have been necessary for the public to take care of this man for the rest of his life and he would have been helpless, but expert treatment and care in the hospital has enabled him not only to recover but to go back to Work in the mines. . A more recent test of the wonderful work possible was shown by the care given when the Hedrick cyclone destroyed the town and left so many injured and homeless. In the Illinois State Health Report of April, 1922, you will find that the death rate for Illinois in 1921 was 11 per thousandg in 1920, 12.6 per thousand or in terms of life saved 8,928 persons in the state are now living who would have been dead had the rate of 1920 prevailed during the year. Chicago, Illinois, has more hospitals than the rest of the whole state and although you might think that congested tenement districts in the city would be more unhealthful than the country, their death rate, 11 per thousand, was less than our own Vermilion County, which was 14.1'hf. Statistics show that access to the advantages of hospitalization is a wonderful asset to the com- munity. The hospital through education of interns and nurses, remedial care and preventive methods is largely responsible for this difference. A hospital runs 24 hours a day and has a trained personnel and thousands of dollars worth of equipment, all of which are ready for any emergency and are just as available to plain Mr. Chopsovitch as Millionaire Jones. Our own hospital in Danville today uses equipment every hour which was never dreamed of 50 years ago: and even the richest man would hardly have means, space and trained help to keep such things functioning and ready for im- mediate use when needed, as sometimes they are, when minutes may mean the difference between life and death. The members of your family may live on Sunny Street and be safe, but let sickness invade the less fortunate districts and the people who serve you, handle your foods and furnish your wants may not be so fortunate and sick- Ulclgc clcucn

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THE ANNUAL A A . ,,. Q jf W f 2 ff l 1 i A ,, ,. . . .Ci C. E. BAUM HELEN E. WOOD, R. N. Superintendent Superintendent of Nurses ELEANOR MOORE MARTHA LOUGH. R. N. MARIE MOORELOCK, R Assistant Superintendent Assistant Superintendent of Nurses Night Supervisor ELLA SHERWOOD, R. N. KATHERINE WINTERMANTLE, R.N. RUTH ROLLER! Second Floor Supervisor First Floor Supervisor Assistant Dietician M. PHILLIPS IDA BROWN, R. N. MARY KNEEPER Dietician Third Floor Supervisor Massuist Page tenj - v

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THE ANNUAL ness may enter your home through some outside channel. The hospital is a clearing house for the city and community and the Doctors, Nurses, Labora- tories and equipment furnish a means of controlling unsanitary conditions before they become epidemic. The hospital's work is to furnish the quickest and the best service to those needing ity and the high quality of service rendered costs a great deal of money: therefore, a hospital can never be expected to pay dividends it its costs are kept within the reach of the public. A hospital that renders service is as good a prospect for dividends as an Orphans' home or a Sunday Schoool. The dividends from an Orphans' Home should be good citizens: from a Sunday School, Christian character and from the hospital, health for the individual, family and community. The measure of a hospital's value to the community is the value and kind of service rendered and not the dollars it costs. CLARENCE BAUM, Supt. of Hospital. as DO YOU KNOW? THAT it takes a person and a half to care for a patient? THAT we serve 14,000 meals a month? THAT our laundry washes a piece of linen for every man, woman and child in Danville each month, over 40, 000? THAT it costs 34. 50 a day to take care of a patient? THAT it takes over 100 people to run the hospital? THAT 70012 of our beds are run at less than cost? THAT we need an endowment fund of S100,000.00? THAT our operating cost per diem is below the average for the same quality of service as compared with other hospitals ot' the same size? THAT we burn 200 tons of coal a month? THAT we spend over 312,000.00 a year for our student nurses? THAT we use over two miles of gauze each year? THAT we use over 500 gal. of milk and cream a month, and 800 loaves of bread? THAT we eat 26 head of cattle-15 calves-25 lambs-25 hogs-700 chickens a year? THAT it takes 600 bushels of potatoes and 4,000 dozen eggs a year? THAT in round numbers it costs 3400.00 a day to run the hospital? THAT We save a life a day. Page twelvefl