San Francisco Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Seal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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The Emergency Hospitals The Mission Emergency Hospital, which is part of our Receiving Department, is one of the six emergency hospitals established by the Board of Health and located in various parts of the city. By name these hospitals are: 1. Central Emergency Hospital 2. Mission Emergency Hospital 3. Park Emergency Hospital 4. Harbor Emergency Hospital 5. Potrero Emergency Hospital 6. Fleishhaeker Emergency Hospital. M . M1ss1oN EMERGENCY Page 73

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. .... ,. , Q , ,.m-..-,. VIYREATDIENT Room M1ss1oN EMERGENCY Admission of Patients Patients are admitted to the general wards thru th S ' l S e 0c1a ervice Department. They are referred h r b ' ' ' e e y oulslde social workers, by doctors, friends or social agencies, or they make personal application. There are no pay-beds in the general hospital. Upon application for admission to the hospital the atie tt , p n s social and finan- cial history is taken by the Social Service Director and the patient, or his parents or guardian signs a formal application for admission to the hospital. To be eligible for hospitalization, patients must be residents of the City, unable to pay for hospital care elsewhere, and recommended for admission by the exam- ining surgeon or house officer. Non-residents are admitted onl ' y in emergency when necessary from a hu- manitarian standpoint. After admission all children non residents , - , cases of heart disease and other cases requiring follow-up care, are referred to the Hospital Social Service worker for further investigation and if necessar f , y, or reference to the proper agency after leaving the hospital. Page 72 u

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The Qperating Rooms HE Surgery is located in the second tlooriof the Admission Building. It is accessible to the surgical wards, and its component parts are 111 con- venient rel 1t10n to elch other. . 6514515 Theie are two 11121111 operating rooms of the amphitheatre type, each ith seating capacity of fifty. V LILAH DIAHAN, R. N. Here are held weekly surgical clinics for visiting surgeons, staff and students. Immediately adjoin- ing are two rooms of equal operating size, but with smaller seating capacity. They are used for tonsils and specialties. Four anaesthesia rooms and one recovery room are also in use. Near the centrally located office are rooms for instruments, sterilizers, linen, equipment, supplies and solutions, locker-rooms for visiting surgeons, internes and nurses and three scrub rooms. There is also a cast and appliance depart- ment which is managed by a trained technician. An interesting feature of the surgery is the emergency operating room. It contains all of the equipment necessary for operative procedure, and stands ready for almost instant use. All acute surgical cases are conveyed from the five out-ly- ing emergency hospitals to the San Francisco Hospital, where prompt operative treatment can be instituted. Recently, a Urological room has been equipped with 1nost of the ordinary instruments as well as high frequency apparatus for dessica- tion, fulguration and diathermy. There is also an X-Ray tube and stand for taking pictures of the urinary tract, and a modern table with a built-in Bucky Diaphragm. Cvsto- scopes of almost every type for examination, catheterization and radium treat- ment are available, as well as a complete assortment of catheters. LILAH R. MAHAN, R. N. Supervisor of Surgery, l Page 74