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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Bo Georgia Hospital Association
Within the next 12 months, one out
of every ecight people will be a hospi
tal paiient according to staitstics re
leased by the Georgia Hospital Asso-‘
ciation. That eighth person could be
you, ‘
Thirly years ago to be hospitalized
was an act of charity. People generally
preferred to remain in their own
homes to be treated. Today, however,
to benefit from the many important
advances of medical science, we pre
fer hospitals—where the latest tech
nology is right at hand.
Hospital and medical costs are con
sidered high. From 1946 to 1961 the
cost of caring for a hospital patient
for one day has risen 273%. Three fac
fors are primarily responsible for this
increase: (1) the greatly improved
quality and scope of hospital and
medical care, which demands increas
ingly larger numbers of technical per
sonnel and equipment; (2) the im
proved working conditions of hospital
personnel; and (3) inflationary factors
that have prevailed throughout the
economy.
During this same period however,
the length of hospital stay has been
cut more than half, so that a patient
today actually pays little more in to
tal hospital charges per admission
that he did twenty years ago.
In 1850 the average hospital bill
was SIOB, and it took 88-man hours of
work at the then prevailing average
manufacturing wage to pay this bill.
In 1960 the average hospital bill had
risen to $lB7, but was being paid with
only 90-man hours of work at then
prevailing manufacturing wages. More
over, a far greater percentage of each
hospital dollar is going into improved
professional services today than for
Jhe simpler services of twenty years
Qago,
The number of hospital employees
has risen 1287 since 1946. A hospital‘
by its very nature must remain essen
tially a personal service to people by|
people. It must operate 24 hours a day,
and therefore must employ three full
staffs. A ratio of two full-time em
ployees for each patient is essential
to assure the exacting and individual
care required. And more people are!
going to hospitals for more servicesi
every day,
Due to wage increases to compete
withprivate indusrty for high quality
personnel, and the need for more
highly specialized personnel, the hos- |
pital's payroll has increased 521% |
since 1946. Payrolls today represent
62% of a hospital's total operating
cost, the association reported.
We now have miraculous new tech
niques, equipment, and drugs which
have come from medical research. To
make these discoveries available in
our hospitals requires constant spend
ing on new equipment. As a matter
of fact, the public insists that it have
the advantage of each new discovery |
as soon as it is proven.
So, today's general hospital finds it
self in the position of providing the
most effective care in its history, and
losing the most money, Costs are con
tinually rising to a level which often
exceeds income, Our changing social
pattern has cut contributions from
philanthropy. And although more
counties are financing at least a part
of the indigent care load through tax
revenues, many hospitals experience
great difficulty in meeting payrolls
and other overhead.
The charges for hospital care are
based on cosi. No one receives any
profits or dividends. All contributions
are used to improve and increase
service, or to de.ray the cost of care
provided those unable to pay in tull
or in part.
Here, then, is the hospital paradox.
On the one hand, the American pub
lic demands that the life-saving and
life extnding discoveries of medical
science be made available to them
around the clock. On the other hand,
these services are costly, and can be
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met only if the public shows more
willingness to budget for the expense
of illness,
There is a tendancy sometimes to
attempt to compare daily hospital
room charges with typical hotel rates,
Yet, the hotel-type services included
in a hospital (physical space, mainten
ance of buildings and equipment,
housekeeping, linens, heat and utili
ties, etc.) account for only 22% of the
daily room charge. Food takes another
11%, and the remainder goes for nurs
ing and other professional services.
‘ Costs of providing hospital services
will probably continue to increase due
to rising labor costs, continuing need
for higher skills, increasing amounts
of research and education provided by
hospitals, and rising costs of equip
ment and supplies to keep us up with
the march if medical science. But our
hospitals are conslantly striving to
develop effective and efficient me
thods of curbing costs. In our state
of Georgia, the cost to the public for
hospital care is 14% less than the na
tional average.
We are living longer and living
healthier due to the advances of medi
cal science. The most effective way
for YOU to assure the payment nec
essary for this care is to budget for it
in advance (as you do for automobile,
fire and other insurance) through
Some form of hospital prepayment pro
tection. (Another article in this ser
ies prepared by the Georgia Hospital
Association will go into the subject
of prepayment and sound insurance
protection).
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