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

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THE ANNUAL 1922 053 ENICIR I' Pflffl' H1 ir!

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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

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THE ANNUAL Page2fourteen1 CLASS ADVISOR L. R. MERRIFIELD, R. N. West Suburban Hospital Oak Park, Illinoisj Women's Hospital, New York City New York ' To warn, to comfort, and command.