New hospitals needed in greater New York : Recommendations by the Standing Committee on Hospitals of the State Charities Aid Association with a report on present conditions and future needs.

  • State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.). Committee on Hospitals.
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: New hospitals needed in greater New York : Recommendations by the Standing Committee on Hospitals of the State Charities Aid Association with a report on present conditions and future needs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Committee does not accept or endorse in all 'particulars Mr. Jacobs' report, but regards it as an important and valuable con- tribution to the subject. Upon consideration of the facts as presented in Mr. Jacobs' report, and otherwise known to the Committee, and after a series of meetings at which many different phases of the subject have been discussed at length, the Committee has reached definite conclusions as to the principles which should determine the loca- tion and size of hospitals to be constructed hereafter in Greater New York. These recommendations deal, not with administrative problems, but with questions of location, size and function. It is intended to outline a general plan of co-ordination of hospitals, which would make each of them serve a definite purpose in a well organized system; and to suggest how the municipality, by making from time to time additions to some existing hos- pitals, and establishing a small number of new hospitals, may secure a well developed hospital system within the next decade. The inquiry naturally divides itself into two portions: i. As to the total number of patients requiring hospital care. 2. As to the distribution and character of the hospitals. I. The fundamental considerations determining the total num- ber of patients are: a. The prospective growth of population. b. The amount and character of sickness likely to occur. c. The extent to which the sick are likely to need and to seek hospital care, as distinguished from home care, or absence of care. AVhile none of these three factors admits of exact calcula- tion, sufficient data are available to serve as a basis for outlining a general scheme of hospital location and distribution, to be revised from time to time, subject to modification as circum- stances may change, or as later and more specific data may modify present estimates. II. The fundamental considerations affecting the distribution and character of hospitals, assuming that general conclusions have been reached as to the total number of patients to be cared