Caption: Booklet - Research Hospitals (1929)
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i in pre\ ntin the ca in niversity and tl. I h ment I III DISPl \ 1 ' n tl. \ hospi 1 ii' la a dispcnsai thr h which ] are ] in1 the hospital. In d mil i the pi for a dispensary by t» Department,^ transf< >ur Coll Di he Hospi Is .nd have opei I it thei ever Bin This IH is, ther >re, in part of the Hospi .1 organization, but is ; organiz tion of our I M . •inc. Ii has b Q in o] < f thirty y < > more, reaching back I a period con-id r i he trans T of the old College of Physicians and Sui >ns to the I liversity. In order to meet the expenses of this Dispene ry, we 1. always made a small char for medicine and n I strati on. No cl. ha n made 1 r - rvices. Our method- are the usual methods of dispensaru-. Only those who cannot pay for service receive consideration. We make insistent inquiry into the ability of a pati it, who com- - to our Dispensary, to pay. If he can pay, we do not admit him. I have no doubt that in spite of our efforts som< dishone-t people act by, but I do not know. The fa< th we charge 25 cents for r ;istration and the i -? pri< i of drugs has been m the basis of statement- that we are ill imateb oll< ting fees in a Stal hospital. The above statements show he chare I > be untrue. If the Hospitals were sustaining the Disp ry tl v would n I an additional appropriation for operation < of at least $50,000 a y r. Tin NTJBSES' TRAINING SCHOOL gc m was made some (wo year- or more ago that the Uni- I over the work formerly done by the Illinois Training 1 for Xui to provide nur for Conk County Hospital, In rand spring <f 1926 proposals were made that the University > »] ild do tl si ork. The University did not see its way clear to do BO, Board stated thai it would consider any proposal put up to i; proper authorities of Cook County. 1 was asked to enter into formal discussion of the mailer with the efficiency experl o\ the Cook Coun Hoard of Commissioners representing (he committee in chargt of the discussion i r the purpo c of trying to find, if we could, a plan, or hen or ries of proposal for the establishment of a trainin versil gel )\i under the University, which probably would be acceptable on the one hand ( > the University Board of Trustees and on the other < 7
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