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CHICAGO (NC)-The Catho
lic Hospital Association of the
V U. S. ( and Canada urged in a
convention resolution that the
Hill-Burton Act, which aids
hospital construction, be ex
tended in range and time.
In other resolutions delegates
to this years convention, which
was attended by some 7,000
people, paid tribute to the late
Pope John XXIII and reiterated
the stand they took in 1962
affirming the duty of Catholic
hospitals to serve all without
discrimination.
Msgr. James H. Fitzpatrick,
associate superintendent of
hospitals for the Brooklyn dio
cese, was inducted as presi
dent of the CHA. Newly elect
ed officers are: president elect
for 1964, Father Paul R. Moore,
pastor of Our Lady of Prompt
Succor church, Chalmette, La.,
first vice president, Father
Joseph Winter of Manchester,
Mo., the bishop’s representa
tive for St. Louis archdiocesan
hospitals: second vice presi
dent, Msgr. Daniel E. Lawler,"
Catholic Charities and Welfare
director for the Syracuse, N. Y.,
diocese: treasurer, Sister Mary
Gerald, administrator of Holy
Cross Hospital, Salt Lake City,
Utah: and representative for
the central U. S. on the CHA
executive board, Sister Mary
Paul, administrator ofSt.Alex-
Head Catholic Hospital Association
PICTURED AT THEIR ANNUAL convention inChicage are
the new 1963 officers of the Catholic Hospital Association
of the United States. Left to right: (standing) Msgr. Daniel
E. Lawler, diocesan director, Catholic Charities and
Welfare, Diocese of Syracuse, N. Y., second vice-presi
dent; Msgr. Clement G. Schindler, Belleville, Ill., past
president; Rev. Joseph B. Winter, Bishop’s Representative
for hospitals, Archdiocese of St. Louis, Manchester, Mo.,
first vice-president; (seated) Rev. Paul R. Moore, pastor,
Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church, Chalmette, La.,
president-elect; Msgr. James H. Fitzpatrick, associate
superintendent of hospitals for the Diocese of Brooklyn,
N. Y., president. (NC Photos)
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THE DELEGATES expressed
"deep appreciation to the Con
gress of the U. S. for the in
itiation and effective implemen
tation" of the Hill-Burton pro
gram, and said "the countless
blessings" of the program "al
ready benefitting our society
need to be preserved."
"Be it further resolved,"
the resolution stated, "that the
CHA go on record as favoring
an extension of the range and
length of time of the Hill-Burton
program."
Under the Hill-Burton Act,
which expires in 1964, Federal
grants and loans are provided
for construction of general hos
pitals, nursing homes, hospitals
for the chronically ill, rehabili
tation facilities and diagnostic
centers.
Delegates resolved that the
CHA "pay tribute to John XXIII"
by carrying on in his spirit
"when ministering to the sick
in all of the Catholic hospi
tals in the U. S. and Canada."
The resolution against dis
crimination reiterated the phil
osophy for Catholic hospitals as
passed at the 1962 CHA conven
tion: that "as Christ’s love
for man impelled the Church to
establish hospitals, so they in
turn must serve all men in cha
rity regardless of race, creed
or financial status."
* * *
AT A GENERAL convention
session the dean of the college
of nursing at the University of
Illinois urged the delegates not
"to sigh for nursing as it used
to be," because specialization
in nursing is here to stay.
"I believe that skilled patient
care, present as well as future,
is forcing specialization upon
nursing," Dean Mary Kelly
Mullane said. "We must exa
mine carefully our traditional
pride in nurses who were will
ing and able to nurse anywhere,
anytime. Jacks-of-all trades
can be masters of none; they
may be even dangerous incom
petents.
Today’s therapies allow nur
sing care in modern, active
hospitals to be safe only when
directed, if not provided, by a
true master nurse. Specializa
tion in nursing is no longer a
subject for rational debate;
it is a necessity for competent
nursing in many of the medi
cal and surgical interventions
practiced in modern hospitals."
* * *
AT ANOTHER SESSION a nun
deplored the absence of an ad
visory board in many Catholic
hospitals. Sister Mary Ursula,
administrator of St. Vincent
Charity Hospital in Cleveland,
said such a board, "composed of
outstanding lay people, Catholic
and non-Catholic, . . . can be
of tremendous value to the hos
pital."
"The real purpose of the
board," she said, "should be to
assist, advise and cooperate
with the Sisters in the manage
ment, operation and further de
velopment of the hospital." She
also said members of the board
"must be made to feel that they
are needed and their opinions
and advice respected."
Richard L. Johnson of Chi
cago, assistant director of the
■American Hospital Association,
called attention to statistics
stating that "since 1946 there
has been an average annual
increase of 500,000 admissions
to the voluntary, short-term
hospitals of this country."
"To cope with this increase,"
he said, "requires appro
ximately 10, 300 additional beds
based on an average stay of
7.6 days per admission. To
provide the care and treatment
of these patients an additional
30,000 persons must be annually
added to the ranks of hospital
personnel. Assume . . . that
there is an average ratio of
one supervisor for every 10
employees. This means that
3,000 additional managerial po
sitions will be needed for every
year in the foreseeable future."
Father John Mullally, chap
lain of Yorktown (Tex.) Memor
ial Hospital, was elected chair
man of the Hospital Chaplains’
Conference, which met at the
same time as the CHA conven
tion.
Other conference officers
are: Vice chairman, Father Ed
ward Phelan, chaplain at St. An
thony Hospital, Rock Island, Ill.,
and secretary, Father Thomas
Lee, chaplain at Mercy Hospi
tal, Portland, Maine.
HEART DISEASE
Monks Help In
Study Of U. S.
No. 1 Killer
ATLANTA, Ga„ (NC)—In a
battle against the country’s No.
1 killer, heart disease, abbots
and monks from 25 Benedictine
and Trappist monasteries met
here several months ago for a
progress report on a "heart-
diet" study.
It was described as the first
large scale meeting in this
country of abbots and monks of
the two communities. The meet
ing was sponsored by the Geor
gia Department of Public
Health. Twenty-three abbots
were present.
The study, little publicized,
has been in progress for five
years. The object is to deter
mine the relationship between
the diets of Benedictines and
Trappists and hardening of the
arteries—atherosclerosis.
Dr. Carroll B. Quinlan, chief
of cardiovascular research and
project head, and Dr. J. Gordon
Barrow, director of the cardio
vascular disease control serv
ice of the Georgia health de
partment emphasized the meet
ing was called for a progress
study, not to report final re
sults.
Dr. Quinlan said: "We have
learned a great deal since the
project originated in 1957, but
it is far too early to draw sig
nificant conclusions."
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THE MEETING attracted
members of the Trappist and
Benedictine monks from points
as far distant as the Benedic
tine Monte Cistello monastery
in Rome, Italy, and Trappist and
Benedictine monasteries in 20
states and three Canadian pro
vinces.
The research project began
as a comparative diet study be
tween the Trappist monks of Our
Lady of the Holy Ghost monas
tery in Conyers, Ga., and the
Benedictines of St. Bernard’s
abbey, Cullman, Ala. For scien
tific purposes the two orders,
Trappists and Benedictine, af
forded a natural experiment.
The Trappist diet is simple and
vegetarian, totally devoid of
meat, fish or fowl. The Bene
dictines eat at typically varied
American diet.
* * *
SOME 2,000 MONKS, all vo
lunteers, are currently engaged
in the diet study. All have sup
plied the research teams with
medical, social and family his
tories. Each has had a complete
physical examination including
an electrocardiogram and chest
X-ray. Numerous blood and diet
studies have been made.
The meeting here brought to
gether participating monks and
physicians. It was called pri
marily to coordinate and stan
dardize reporting and interpre
tation techniques.
The atherosclerosis study is
being sponsored cooperatively
by the Georgia Department of
Public Health and the National
Heart Institute, United States
Public Health Service.
Hospitals
Care For
26,634
Catholic Hospitals of the
Diocese of Savannah treated
a total of 26,634 patients last
year in its three hospitals
located in Augusta, Colum
bus and Savannah.
7,032 in-patients and 1,920
out-patients were treated
by Saint Joseph’s, Augusta.
St. Francis Hospital in Co
lumbus treated 6,219 in
patients and 3,550 out
patients. Total number of pa
tients cared for at St. Jo
seph’s, Savannah, was 4,484
in-patients and 3,429 out
patients.
The Southern Cross, September 5, 1963—PAGE 3
SAINT JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL, SAVANNAH
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New Building Planned For
Savannah’s Saint Joseph’s
SAVANNAH — Saint Joseph’s
is one of three Chatham County
hospitals planning new or ex
panded facilities under a Mas
ter Hospital Plan based on the
use of federal and state funds.
Now in the planning state is
a new hospital that would even
tually contain 350 beds and cost
7.4 million dollars. The first
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phase of construction would
provide for 200 beds, 88 more
than are presently available.
The Hospital planning Coun
cil has given St. Joseph’s top
priority in its Master Plan
approved several months ago.
All plans for expansion and
requests for assistance funds
must be channeled through the
council upon direction of the
State.
Full support of the medical
and dental staff of St. Joseph’s
was given the plans at a meet
ing last week. A resolution
adopted at the meeting was a
necessary step in the pro
cess of applying for federal as
sistance funds.
The resolution along with
other documents including de
tailed plans for a new hospi
tal were directed to the State
Department of Health which ad
ministers federal Hill-Burton
Assistance funds.
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