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TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON 1964 to $4,774,000.00, in 1960 to $6,307,000.00, in 1962 to $7,000,000.00 and in 1964 to $8,364,000.00. Recognizing the responsibilities of this growth, the department of development in addition to the many brochures, mailings, contacts, etc. has held luncheons for leading citizens throughout the year to acquaint them with the hospital and its needs, and as previously reported conducted the first estate planning seminar. We are indeed fortunate in having an able and dedicated Director of Development, Mr. J. Robert Fulton. In addition to our long range plans for a 300 bed addition, with growth and development in medical practice comes the need, and from time to time the urgent necessity of adding new equipment, facilities, and even modification of buildings and departments. Your board of trustees has spent much time and study in this area. I would like to take this opportunity to report some of our immediate needs and plans. Much sooner than anticipated, our X-ray, physical therapy and laboratory departments have outgrown their areas. Our lobby is over-crowded, our admitting office needs more room, our coffee shop and the Wo men's Service Alliance Gift Shop can use more space. After careful study the board of trustees have assigned No. 1 priority to the following projects and has authorized the architect to proceed with working drawings for the following changes and additions: Remodel the out patient clinic area which now has the physical therapy and radioactive isotope department for a new X-ray department. Remodel and move the physical therapy department to the present X-ray department. This will give both departments the added space they so urgently require. Build a new one story building and basement in the area between the hospital entrance wing and lobby to the outpatient department. This will be so designed and built to tie in with the present building. In this new area will be the enlarged gift shop for the Women's Service Alliance with a basement for storage, new enlarged coffee shop with basement storage, a larger public lobby and an extension of the admitting office into the present lobby area. The pharmacy and radioactive isotope departments will be moved to the basement area of the new building and on the ground floor or in the basement area will be a barber and beauty shop. A landscaped court will be provided between the north glassed wall corridor of the new building and the present building or the laboratory area. Two new elevators will be provided for use by the public in the area where the new building joins the outpatient building and the main hospital building. On each floor there will be an enlarged nurses station and a waiting lobby for the public. With this program the present three elevators will be for hospital use only and will be closed off to the public. The total estimated cost of this project is $1,211,018.00. Obviously the hospital does not have such funds to proceed with the project. We are hopeful that some federal or state funds may be available in the future and in some cases to be eligible plans must be ready and on hand. Let us bear in mind that for any federal aid the hospital must have from one half to two thirds of the total cost available or on hand in the form of matching funds. Therefore it is imperative that everything possible must be done to have these funds accumulated. In addition to the above program we may soon require a second floor to our psychiatric department, a second intensive care unit will soon be needed at an estimated cost of $17,000.00 for equipment. A cardiac resuscitation program has been approved at a cost of $15,000.00. A new monitoring system for better patient care, the equipment cost approximately $50,000.00, and perhaps in the near future, a Linear Accelerator, an addition to our X-ray therapy department for the treatment of cancer, this unit to be housed underground near our cobalt room, the total estimated cost of equipment and room is $210,- 000.00, as we look ahead this is what we foresee. We know the need is there, the life it saves may be yours or a loved ones', and yet none of tins can be done without the necessary funds. The warm heart and the friendly, homelike atmosphere of the hospital continues to be supplied by the dedicated and sympathetic services of the Women's Service Alliance through their over 300 members and sponsored vivacious teenage Candy Stripers with approximately 80 members who are being trained and prepared to serve their fellow man. It would be impossible to measure the value of the Alliance service. In addition to the thousands of hours of dedicated service to the hospital in every department, through their many activities they have this year contributed $11,500.00 to the hospital which brings the total since they were organized a few short years ago to $36,500.00. Mrs. Erma Munger, the president of the Alliance, will give us a more detailed report later. Our thanks and appreciation to her and her dedicated group. As president of the hospital I have had the privilege to sit in as an ex officio member of the executive committee of the hospital staff. This group meets twice each month. Dr. Fred Q. Jing has just completed his year as president of the medical staff. On behalf of the board of trustees, the hospital and its members may I take this opportunity to thank Dr. Jing for the excellent manner in which he has fulfilled his office and our thanks to the officers, committee members and members of the staff for their untiring efforts and devotion in insuring that a high standard of medical care prevails at the Fresno Community Hospital. This can only be accomplished by self-sacrifice. As an illustration may I bring to your attention the R.C.D. Program which is enthusiastically supported by the members of the medical staff. R is for resuscitation, C for Cardiac and D for Defibrillation. In addition to the purchase of a complete cardiac resuscitation cart, it is necessary to spend many hours in the education of staff members in order to provide the proper and effective use of the equipment. I am confident that many lives will be saved with this new program. The full responsibility of the operation of the Fresno Community Hospital rests upon the Board of Trustees. This is a complex business and large in scope, with over 600 employees, over $2,700,000.00 annual payroll, over 13,000 patients. Buildings, equipment, future plans and needs for financing and many other phases of operation too numerous to enumerate, all require men of experience and good judgment, men who are willing to devote time, energy, and the best of their ability, men who are fair and just, men who can evaluate and be evaluated, and men who know when and what to criticize and yet accept criticism. This is the kind of men we have on your board. I would like to express to each of them my most sincere thanks and appreciation for their efforts and for the support they have given me as president. Although I am certain you are all acquainted with them, but in tribute for their service I would like to introduce them at this time: Wm. L. Adams, Jr., M.D., Vice President Paul Staniford, Secretaiy and Chairman of Emergency Service Committee H. F. Anderson, D.D.S., Chairman of House Committtee E. L. (Ted) Barr Gilbert T. Caswell, Co-Chairman of Finance and Endowment Committee Sam Davidson R. O. McMahan, Assistant Secretary John D. Morgan, M.D., President Emeritus During this year Dr. Morgan was honored by the Fresno County Medical Society for completing his 50th year in the practice of medicine. At this time he was awarded a 50-year pin by the California Medical Association—the fifth doctor ever to receive this award. Maynard Munger, Chairman of Building Committee Vern E. Redman Jess E. Rodman, Co-Chairman of Finance and Endowment Committee Milo E. Rowell Ted P. Shelton J. E. Young, M.D., Chairman of Nursing Committee The success of any organization depends upon its administrator or manager. My report clearly indicates that this organization has been a success. On behalf of the board members, members of the hospital and the Fresno community may I express our thanks and gratitude to Mr. Clifton H. Linville, our administrator. His able guidance has brought us to this point, his foresight and knowledge will carry us forward to new goals. We are gratified for his devotion, his dedication to the hospital and its patients, his untiring efforts to serve, not only the hospital but his community. During this past year he was the president of the California Hospital Association. He completed his term and retired from office with great honor by setting new higher standards and goals for the association and hospital and patient care. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees it has been suggested that the format of our next annual meeting which will be our 20th anniversary should be changed by combining our annual meeting with a meeting of the hospital associates in the form of an evening dinner meeting which could well be one of the major meetings in Fresno next fall. If this idea continues to seem advisable it may be pursued for our next annual meeting. Today we briefly reviewed the past and note with pride the progress we have made, and today we outline our future needs, the responsibility that is ours, the challenge that faces us. It it for us to prepare today what will be required by our children and grandchildren in the future. These needs of the future cannot be fulfilled unless we act now. Let us resolve to do our utmost, be it large or small to meet the challenge and fulfill our plans so that ten years from now and all the years to come it can be said "The Fresno Community Hospital by the devotion of its members merits its motto—'Dedicated to Health—Physical, Mental, and Spiritual'." Thank you. Leon S. Peters, President
Object Description
Title | Scrapbook |
Object type | Photo album |
Physical collection | Leon S. Peters papers |
Folder structure | Biographical_information |
Description
Title | Page 85e |
Date Created | 1965-03 |
Physical description | 28.0 cm. x 21.5 cm. |
Full text search | TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON 1964 to $4,774,000.00, in 1960 to $6,307,000.00, in 1962 to $7,000,000.00 and in 1964 to $8,364,000.00. Recognizing the responsibilities of this growth, the department of development in addition to the many brochures, mailings, contacts, etc. has held luncheons for leading citizens throughout the year to acquaint them with the hospital and its needs, and as previously reported conducted the first estate planning seminar. We are indeed fortunate in having an able and dedicated Director of Development, Mr. J. Robert Fulton. In addition to our long range plans for a 300 bed addition, with growth and development in medical practice comes the need, and from time to time the urgent necessity of adding new equipment, facilities, and even modification of buildings and departments. Your board of trustees has spent much time and study in this area. I would like to take this opportunity to report some of our immediate needs and plans. Much sooner than anticipated, our X-ray, physical therapy and laboratory departments have outgrown their areas. Our lobby is over-crowded, our admitting office needs more room, our coffee shop and the Wo men's Service Alliance Gift Shop can use more space. After careful study the board of trustees have assigned No. 1 priority to the following projects and has authorized the architect to proceed with working drawings for the following changes and additions: Remodel the out patient clinic area which now has the physical therapy and radioactive isotope department for a new X-ray department. Remodel and move the physical therapy department to the present X-ray department. This will give both departments the added space they so urgently require. Build a new one story building and basement in the area between the hospital entrance wing and lobby to the outpatient department. This will be so designed and built to tie in with the present building. In this new area will be the enlarged gift shop for the Women's Service Alliance with a basement for storage, new enlarged coffee shop with basement storage, a larger public lobby and an extension of the admitting office into the present lobby area. The pharmacy and radioactive isotope departments will be moved to the basement area of the new building and on the ground floor or in the basement area will be a barber and beauty shop. A landscaped court will be provided between the north glassed wall corridor of the new building and the present building or the laboratory area. Two new elevators will be provided for use by the public in the area where the new building joins the outpatient building and the main hospital building. On each floor there will be an enlarged nurses station and a waiting lobby for the public. With this program the present three elevators will be for hospital use only and will be closed off to the public. The total estimated cost of this project is $1,211,018.00. Obviously the hospital does not have such funds to proceed with the project. We are hopeful that some federal or state funds may be available in the future and in some cases to be eligible plans must be ready and on hand. Let us bear in mind that for any federal aid the hospital must have from one half to two thirds of the total cost available or on hand in the form of matching funds. Therefore it is imperative that everything possible must be done to have these funds accumulated. In addition to the above program we may soon require a second floor to our psychiatric department, a second intensive care unit will soon be needed at an estimated cost of $17,000.00 for equipment. A cardiac resuscitation program has been approved at a cost of $15,000.00. A new monitoring system for better patient care, the equipment cost approximately $50,000.00, and perhaps in the near future, a Linear Accelerator, an addition to our X-ray therapy department for the treatment of cancer, this unit to be housed underground near our cobalt room, the total estimated cost of equipment and room is $210,- 000.00, as we look ahead this is what we foresee. We know the need is there, the life it saves may be yours or a loved ones', and yet none of tins can be done without the necessary funds. The warm heart and the friendly, homelike atmosphere of the hospital continues to be supplied by the dedicated and sympathetic services of the Women's Service Alliance through their over 300 members and sponsored vivacious teenage Candy Stripers with approximately 80 members who are being trained and prepared to serve their fellow man. It would be impossible to measure the value of the Alliance service. In addition to the thousands of hours of dedicated service to the hospital in every department, through their many activities they have this year contributed $11,500.00 to the hospital which brings the total since they were organized a few short years ago to $36,500.00. Mrs. Erma Munger, the president of the Alliance, will give us a more detailed report later. Our thanks and appreciation to her and her dedicated group. As president of the hospital I have had the privilege to sit in as an ex officio member of the executive committee of the hospital staff. This group meets twice each month. Dr. Fred Q. Jing has just completed his year as president of the medical staff. On behalf of the board of trustees, the hospital and its members may I take this opportunity to thank Dr. Jing for the excellent manner in which he has fulfilled his office and our thanks to the officers, committee members and members of the staff for their untiring efforts and devotion in insuring that a high standard of medical care prevails at the Fresno Community Hospital. This can only be accomplished by self-sacrifice. As an illustration may I bring to your attention the R.C.D. Program which is enthusiastically supported by the members of the medical staff. R is for resuscitation, C for Cardiac and D for Defibrillation. In addition to the purchase of a complete cardiac resuscitation cart, it is necessary to spend many hours in the education of staff members in order to provide the proper and effective use of the equipment. I am confident that many lives will be saved with this new program. The full responsibility of the operation of the Fresno Community Hospital rests upon the Board of Trustees. This is a complex business and large in scope, with over 600 employees, over $2,700,000.00 annual payroll, over 13,000 patients. Buildings, equipment, future plans and needs for financing and many other phases of operation too numerous to enumerate, all require men of experience and good judgment, men who are willing to devote time, energy, and the best of their ability, men who are fair and just, men who can evaluate and be evaluated, and men who know when and what to criticize and yet accept criticism. This is the kind of men we have on your board. I would like to express to each of them my most sincere thanks and appreciation for their efforts and for the support they have given me as president. Although I am certain you are all acquainted with them, but in tribute for their service I would like to introduce them at this time: Wm. L. Adams, Jr., M.D., Vice President Paul Staniford, Secretaiy and Chairman of Emergency Service Committee H. F. Anderson, D.D.S., Chairman of House Committtee E. L. (Ted) Barr Gilbert T. Caswell, Co-Chairman of Finance and Endowment Committee Sam Davidson R. O. McMahan, Assistant Secretary John D. Morgan, M.D., President Emeritus During this year Dr. Morgan was honored by the Fresno County Medical Society for completing his 50th year in the practice of medicine. At this time he was awarded a 50-year pin by the California Medical Association—the fifth doctor ever to receive this award. Maynard Munger, Chairman of Building Committee Vern E. Redman Jess E. Rodman, Co-Chairman of Finance and Endowment Committee Milo E. Rowell Ted P. Shelton J. E. Young, M.D., Chairman of Nursing Committee The success of any organization depends upon its administrator or manager. My report clearly indicates that this organization has been a success. On behalf of the board members, members of the hospital and the Fresno community may I express our thanks and gratitude to Mr. Clifton H. Linville, our administrator. His able guidance has brought us to this point, his foresight and knowledge will carry us forward to new goals. We are gratified for his devotion, his dedication to the hospital and its patients, his untiring efforts to serve, not only the hospital but his community. During this past year he was the president of the California Hospital Association. He completed his term and retired from office with great honor by setting new higher standards and goals for the association and hospital and patient care. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees it has been suggested that the format of our next annual meeting which will be our 20th anniversary should be changed by combining our annual meeting with a meeting of the hospital associates in the form of an evening dinner meeting which could well be one of the major meetings in Fresno next fall. If this idea continues to seem advisable it may be pursued for our next annual meeting. Today we briefly reviewed the past and note with pride the progress we have made, and today we outline our future needs, the responsibility that is ours, the challenge that faces us. It it for us to prepare today what will be required by our children and grandchildren in the future. These needs of the future cannot be fulfilled unless we act now. Let us resolve to do our utmost, be it large or small to meet the challenge and fulfill our plans so that ten years from now and all the years to come it can be said "The Fresno Community Hospital by the devotion of its members merits its motto—'Dedicated to Health—Physical, Mental, and Spiritual'." Thank you. Leon S. Peters, President |