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FRESNO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
Fresno & R, Fresno
233-0911
Clifton H. Linville, Adm.
•
Robert Fulton, Editor
•
Fresno Community Hospital is Community sponsored, not for profit. It is
supported by proceeds received from
services provided, donations and bequests. Detailed information is available on the Development Fund through
the Administrator. The Fund exists
solely for the provision of new and improved facilities for patient care.
"THE LEGAL VIEW"
"Editor's Note — Part of a series on
charitable giving and tax benefits by
Raymond L. Hanson, past President
of Presbyterian Medical Center, San
Francisco. Articles have been condensed and the name of Fresno Community Hospital substituted."
Husbands and wives, in making
gifts to the Fresno Community Hospital, Development Fund, or for that
matter gifts of any kind, should be
particularly careful to determine
whether or not they are actually making a gift from community property
or from property owned by one of
them free and clear of any interest
by the other.
Interestingly enough, the California
law prohibits a husband from making
a gift of community property without
his wife's consent. Normally, the husband has control of the community
assets and deals with them as though
the wife had no real interest, but
when gifts are made he must restrict
this tendency and secure her approval. However, if either the husband or
or wife are dealing with their own
separate property, they can dispose
of the assets as they see fit.
The situation becomes more complicated when people who have not
been residents of California move into
the state and make a gift, because
the California community property
rules may or may not apply, depending on the specific situation and the
origin of the funds, even though the
monies may be the result of the husband's efforts after his marriage. In
making gifts of any size from assets
brought from out of the state, it is
most important to have professional
advice to correctly complete the gift
in the manner desired.
NEW SERVICES, NEW SKILLS
(Gary Chamberlain, darkroom technician in the X-ray Department at Fresno
Community Hospital is shown with new equipment described in the following
article.)
Advances in modern technology have been occurring with increasing
rapidity. In order to be able to offer these new services to patients requires
a hospital to continually upgrade old, or purchase new, equipment. Such a
program has just been completed in the X-ray Department. Some of these
marvels make it easier and faster to do a particular job. The new image in-
tensifier performs such a function. A conventional fluoroscopic image is electronically amplified 5000 times permitting viewing in a dimly lit room. Gone
are the days of darkened rooms and red glasses for adaptation! Originally the
amplified image had to be viewed through a mirror system. It is now possible
to project the image on a TV monitor giving the operator more mobility. This
could be carried one step further by installing an additional monitor in another
room or remote location to permit viewing by other department members or
the patient's physician.
Fluoroscopy generally involves filling an organ with contrast medium and
observing it. Sometimes it becomes important to know whether an organ can
be distended or if it is fixed and lacks the necessary "waves" to carry food,
urine, etc. through it. Such an action can take place very rapidly and is often
difficult to record on film. A recent break-through in this area has been the
production of a mobile, transistorized tape recorder for use with television.
We are now able to record our fluoroscopic images on tape and then play
them back at our convenience and more closely study the part under question.
The broadcasting networks utilize a similar system with their "instant replays".
With the increasing age of our population, the various "aging" diseases of
vessels have become more important. The surgeon can now clean out a plugged
artery and it has become the job of the radiologist to demonstrate these vessels
preoperatively so the surgeon may better plan his approach. This requires
introducing a thin tube (or catheter) into the vessel and positioning its tip
near the vessel in question — a job greatly simplified by the image intensifier.
The next problem involves the filling of the vessel with a substance which will
permit it to be visualized on an X-ray. Since this "contrast medium" becomes
diluted very rapidly by the blood, it is necessary to have a device which will
forcibly inject the substance. Our new pressure injector is capable of delivering
1 to 2 ounces of dye in a matter of seconds. It now remains to record the sequence
of events on a series of x-rays. The newly purchased automatic film changer does
the job. It is capable of taking up to six pictures a minute on a maximum of
30 pieces of x-ray film. If required, it can divide this into 3 sequences, varying
the number of exposures for each and also allow a variable time interval
between each sequence.
These new additions of equipment (involving only one room in one department ) are then an example of the continuing effort on the part of your hospital
to provide the most up-to-date facilities for the care of the ill and injured
patient.
The first hospital operation under an anesthetic was performed in 1846 in
Boston. The first x-ray equipment was installed in hospitals in New York and
Chicago in April, 1896.
* * *
On an average day there are 1,420,918 patients in hospitals in the United
States. About 14% of these patients are in the over 65 age bracket.
* * *
National Hospital Week, May 8 - 14, is built about the May 12th birthday
of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse crusader. It was through her efforts
that the early hospital schools of nursing were established.
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| Full text search | FRESNO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Fresno & R, Fresno 233-0911 Clifton H. Linville, Adm. • Robert Fulton, Editor • Fresno Community Hospital is Community sponsored, not for profit. It is supported by proceeds received from services provided, donations and bequests. Detailed information is available on the Development Fund through the Administrator. The Fund exists solely for the provision of new and improved facilities for patient care. "THE LEGAL VIEW" "Editor's Note — Part of a series on charitable giving and tax benefits by Raymond L. Hanson, past President of Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco. Articles have been condensed and the name of Fresno Community Hospital substituted." Husbands and wives, in making gifts to the Fresno Community Hospital, Development Fund, or for that matter gifts of any kind, should be particularly careful to determine whether or not they are actually making a gift from community property or from property owned by one of them free and clear of any interest by the other. Interestingly enough, the California law prohibits a husband from making a gift of community property without his wife's consent. Normally, the husband has control of the community assets and deals with them as though the wife had no real interest, but when gifts are made he must restrict this tendency and secure her approval. However, if either the husband or or wife are dealing with their own separate property, they can dispose of the assets as they see fit. The situation becomes more complicated when people who have not been residents of California move into the state and make a gift, because the California community property rules may or may not apply, depending on the specific situation and the origin of the funds, even though the monies may be the result of the husband's efforts after his marriage. In making gifts of any size from assets brought from out of the state, it is most important to have professional advice to correctly complete the gift in the manner desired. NEW SERVICES, NEW SKILLS (Gary Chamberlain, darkroom technician in the X-ray Department at Fresno Community Hospital is shown with new equipment described in the following article.) Advances in modern technology have been occurring with increasing rapidity. In order to be able to offer these new services to patients requires a hospital to continually upgrade old, or purchase new, equipment. Such a program has just been completed in the X-ray Department. Some of these marvels make it easier and faster to do a particular job. The new image in- tensifier performs such a function. A conventional fluoroscopic image is electronically amplified 5000 times permitting viewing in a dimly lit room. Gone are the days of darkened rooms and red glasses for adaptation! Originally the amplified image had to be viewed through a mirror system. It is now possible to project the image on a TV monitor giving the operator more mobility. This could be carried one step further by installing an additional monitor in another room or remote location to permit viewing by other department members or the patient's physician. Fluoroscopy generally involves filling an organ with contrast medium and observing it. Sometimes it becomes important to know whether an organ can be distended or if it is fixed and lacks the necessary "waves" to carry food, urine, etc. through it. Such an action can take place very rapidly and is often difficult to record on film. A recent break-through in this area has been the production of a mobile, transistorized tape recorder for use with television. We are now able to record our fluoroscopic images on tape and then play them back at our convenience and more closely study the part under question. The broadcasting networks utilize a similar system with their "instant replays". With the increasing age of our population, the various "aging" diseases of vessels have become more important. The surgeon can now clean out a plugged artery and it has become the job of the radiologist to demonstrate these vessels preoperatively so the surgeon may better plan his approach. This requires introducing a thin tube (or catheter) into the vessel and positioning its tip near the vessel in question — a job greatly simplified by the image intensifier. The next problem involves the filling of the vessel with a substance which will permit it to be visualized on an X-ray. Since this "contrast medium" becomes diluted very rapidly by the blood, it is necessary to have a device which will forcibly inject the substance. Our new pressure injector is capable of delivering 1 to 2 ounces of dye in a matter of seconds. It now remains to record the sequence of events on a series of x-rays. The newly purchased automatic film changer does the job. It is capable of taking up to six pictures a minute on a maximum of 30 pieces of x-ray film. If required, it can divide this into 3 sequences, varying the number of exposures for each and also allow a variable time interval between each sequence. These new additions of equipment (involving only one room in one department ) are then an example of the continuing effort on the part of your hospital to provide the most up-to-date facilities for the care of the ill and injured patient. The first hospital operation under an anesthetic was performed in 1846 in Boston. The first x-ray equipment was installed in hospitals in New York and Chicago in April, 1896. * * * On an average day there are 1,420,918 patients in hospitals in the United States. About 14% of these patients are in the over 65 age bracket. * * * National Hospital Week, May 8 - 14, is built about the May 12th birthday of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse crusader. It was through her efforts that the early hospital schools of nursing were established. |
