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.a few of th crea so os as bam for hina hm pital - has be sn ? tedtheprinciplesoithc~~dua-year was bemg dooe, a new tay Effort" ast containment program emerged comm spcxporrd by the American Architectonics, Budget and Hospital Association. the Capital Budget - or ABC Amencan Medial Association program. This represenh a and othas. The hosprtal's in- sigmficant breakthrough by terestisbofferqualitycarenow plulns these three pirripl and m the future at favorable documents into a common larelauvecost. mat ~ n l ytime will teU if our em which was discussed in last Midyear m fiscal lW8 we year's annual rrpart but COR established weekly praductinty cluded dunng the f i i l year meetings. Thge meetmgs give was the placing d per- eachmanageranoppatmtvto manent financing of the report productivity for .the Hmpital's debt. Briefly. the prenous week to his or k financial feasibility study, peen. favorable audit and successful Roane State Community appeanace More the bond College occupied part of the r a w pople in New Yo& ear. Westmall Building one year ago. ned an A-plus and an A-1 from IIus Fall they occupied nearly the wo major nbng agencies all of the rest of it. We are These favorable raUngs in turn picased to have this facillty put enabled the bonds to Seu at an u, such gomi use again semmg avenge rate d 5.65 percent. the community at large TIE mcetssfui ISSIK saved the ~ n l ydifficulty has bee^ wth patients up to sia m&on over mpet to cramped pa- lo^ theproposed llfe of the bonds m the ev m ngs Q DoMldManveIlrebredtha Dunng the past fiscal year. year as aWtee due to the twe the operating contract with the Board of %tees. He has been Ridge M a t e d Universities an acbve. concerned and el- was f i ~ lired .Rus is aB year fecbve trustee for the Hospital contract providing for basic and its community We regret household serv~cesin the space losing him. created for them in the Brouad the Hospital Board is Mr Lester The Hospital has m hand an FOX of Clinton. A sumssfdand audit from cooprs dr ~ybnd. h@y regarded businessman P our external auditors. Agaim this theam. wewilllookfonvard year they gave us a ckan Mr.Fox'sJemceontheBoard. opinion and did their work dFew memben d the general fectiwly. plietly and quietly sibhty hc6piW tnatees assume In addition to this f i i , when they accept Lmlceship. audit, the Medical Staff through wnai time wtuch the men and fstively to continue improving women contntute in assurmag the quality m e d i d care h. this mpasibility Bcard corn- , mittees. particuiarly the 0Executive Committee and t& 1 officers. doark even m m time )omc Gmrntrrm on kccrmi,. I pabents and the public. We are *-rm: ~ Another financial matter thusiasm IS jusrified plblic recognize the mpm whilehereonthesite. overseeing the b pt tal for he tationolHokrpicolr , fate to The Amorcoo Hospiiol mer- level mtind Bur Cross m d Buc Shddd to infuse thc Board women 4 t the management President has many good things to report this year OAK RIDGE HOSPITAL OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH THREE YEARS AT A GLANCE Average Length of Stay.. Emergency Room Visits. . NOTE Decrease i n tests due to change in method of counting tests performed. Gross Services to In Patients $12,841,879 511,056,082 Gross Services toout Patients 1.203.160 1,051,186 Operating 8 Other Expenses Nursing Care Services Other Professional Services Westmall (L Medical Arts Building Fixed Equipment Renewal &
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ORHUMC Annual Repod. & ? o h 1978 - Pop New level of excellence is evident the recent public forum on medical care in Oak hdge. Marshall Whisnant. president of the hospital. referred to the "Sew" Oak Ridge Hospital Indeed. the improvements in facilitm and expansion of staff dunng the past few years have combined to bnng what was already a fine health care facility with a highly qualified Surr to a neu level of excellence which desernes to be he president's report and several feature articles in this annual review of hospital ac. hvities bear rntne ~ sto the fact that the last year was a banner year in this striving for excellence. The evidence comes from many directions: , The addition of five physicians to the medical staff bnngtng the mtal to 72. Many d these new physicians are highly d health senrlces provided by tion 01 died by the nvw ~ d patients conducted by hospital medical and nursing care audits a d ulc bw level of malwactie d cats d medical services at & Oak m e Hospital with the eats of similar services in tmspitah d our size in T a - nesee and. for that matter. in + The replacement of the initnl bonds which had been lrsued to finance the recent e x bearing a very favorable rate of interest. This exchange will save the pabents several million dollars over the life of thehoods budgeting. and the cost. monitoring measures, and. of threeyear contracb with structibe approach hdring been The addition of akills and facilities are important but what has permitted our haspitll community to take full ad vantage of these additions has been the outstanding >pint of cooperation and mulual respect and the sense of common pur pme which each of the keb par bcipating groups continue lo Cmomtrate to a rare and ex Speaking on behalf of the Board of Trustees which represents the communitv ser ved by the hmpital I salute thp doctors nurses administrators volunteers and all other harpital employees for their common sew of dedication to thp The challenges of the coming years will be great Controlling the cmt of medcal care while maintaimng high standards in require the best skills d aU uivolved The hospital has voluntanly endomd fhe Vol un W Cast Containment Program p-cpxed by the Amencan Harpital Assocubon and ocher orgaalabom m the health care field Given its Slulls and at btude the Oak hdge Hwtal WIIIundwbtedly conbnue to be a leader in provimng competent. =ivenew doctors add to Five wtstandmg doctors have Ken added to the Oak hdge 4 ~ pita lstaff during the past lative of Alabama He com. )let& his undergraduate degree it Harvard College and went on o earn his Doctor of Medicine iegree at Harvard Medxal Dr Shelton has been granted DRSHELTON MI.CmR staff privileges in internal Medicine with a specialty in Pulmonav Medicine and he has been imtmmental in setting up the hospital s new respiratorq therapy laboratorq Ha office will be in the Medical Arts Residing in Oak Ridge Dr vantage of the man) op for hiking and sailing two of his many recreational interests IS Doetor of Mdc in e degree at the uruversity of Notre Dame at ter receiving hs undergraduate at the University of fietugan He has been granted staff p nd qes in Family prac Sernce Corps a branch of the Shelton plans on taking ad 4 Edueabon and Welfare. and has enpy'ng the pleas- rural an office at the Pee- Health living ppients in the area north d Oai granted staff pnnlega m InRidge he also serves as ternal Medicine Herspecmlty IS physicun 10 Brushy Mountain Endo cdc gy whch includes. State Pnson among other Uungr. hormone Dr caster has ]rat moved inlo and metabolic studies and versatility of staff dergraduate degree at the Universih of Massachusetts at Amherst and her Doctor of Medicine degree at the Hedical College of Pennsylbania in Philadelphia Her office is in the Medical Arts Building Dr Bumck and her husband are residents of Oak Ridge and are expecting their first child in November Her interests include camping tenrus and sketching of Clereland. ?d~ssissippi He completed his undergraduate work at Delta Slate Cnivenity in Cleveland and his Doetor of Medi-ine at the Cnivenity of Hls internship and residency were sened at Vanderbilt He h a s been granted staff pnvileges at Oak RidgeHmpital in Internal Medicine with a specialty in Gastroenterology Kenneth FLu chan n with of fices in the Hed~cal Arts now settled in their new home in granted pnnlegs in Emergenc y Medicine in Januarv of ths year and p i d the -staff of dergraduate degree at HumboltGymnasium Dusseldorf Cer Mdc in e degree from the Washingwn DC Universities of Bonn and Dr H m h and his wde reside Dusseldorf Germany in Oak Ridge The! enpy the He completed h s surgical in- lakes and mwntairis of East ternship and residenc) at the Tennessee and pansularl) like Hashington Hospital Center to trare, to have such a hospital' Our City can be proud of the this hea!'h care facilit: which s continuing excellence at the Oak W M d to ,,one Ridge Hospital Since the hospital was establshed in 19% A.K. Bissell been made dunng each year of Many commuties in our state and nation have DO hospital at all. or they are expenencing senom Qffieulties maintaining adequate health services We are ver) fortunate to have in our hospital recognized for providing excellent health care Our hospital's medical staff. board of trustees volunteers and bptal personnel are to be congratulaled for their untiring efforts to build the Oak R a e Haspifal to its present posiion of As Mayor I am proud d OUT outstandinghmpital and pleased to know the citum of Oak Ridge and the surrounding counties
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These are the people. .. WLdy me d Ibe 1,233babies born at Oat Ridge Ha pital A new pticat educalicm service will be surling 5 o m m 'b house "V to beus inform plicnc about surgical procedures. c abu hg care. diet. a d man? otber programs.
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Ihc L a p i u l Emergency Department provided care fan.276patients during the ?car. Records lor the horpiCalC5jcmplo)m are handled bj the Personnel Department Ibe Dielay Deputmmt pmparcd pJ.IB palira1 m a b Iasl 2ke it all possible
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Fire Rcventiaa Week. I&& to WI Safety Direelor. Nwbg Offkc direcco the naming care d all Tk Accounting Oflice kccpr u p with a wide variety of sotistical and financial inlormalice. being performed there on an outwrnabne witholder methods 'Ibc Nuclear Medicine Departmentgave 1 3 6 treatmenu last year. Latest medico1 practices available lea&. to a loss of teeth. and it patlent usually ani\ has to stay p b ~improves the person s in the ho~pita~one ught. wMe a is equipped to handle all types of .. d the new surg~calteChNques Fiber aptlcs are also used in patient basis The latest are tmy probes that can be in urological surgen as well as in used and patients can be into the body allowing dm nn a rvd iam q(T knew monitored while being moved swdmns and perform Certain evaluation are dkussed in H Among the featurn d the prorrdures with only a small in- vnaniPartlrleInthlsrwor( I Emmency Department are 24- (llsimor no incision at all program where wrgw can get a close look at here IS a stapling & w e that specially-mid nurses qluckly p b l e m s or determine that allows doctors to elme surgical classify pUmS accormng to there is no problem The patient inc1~10ruin a fracum d the tlme the seventy d thnr illness or ind o a n t have to undergo major Ionnerl: required for stitching ]ury. incRvcdnursingstaff and surgery just for diagnosis In resuscitation m e cases this means a hospltal who are using man\ of the latest capabiliua ,uy o[ one night *n=lPad 111 trrhnraues the medical All d thsc factors cane The Emergency Department Allhaugh it IS fksurgeons greater facilities for oulmonarv fromEmergencytootheruNts lower bill &need Wapr ~rdgress has and ~ n ganas a top Fiber optics have a vanety d been made i n pulmonary notch hmpital,onethtisstaIfed One IS [he Bandaid medicine In radiologv with qualified and well-lraincd ma& and the sureerk is done uhlch show a cros section d the finest in m d c a l care prGntcarc Ik borpitrl pharmacy moved mta mew, modern quam
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ORHUMC Annual Report. Octobw. 1978 - P o g . 7 Ihc Y&aI Suff cfunng the yar larebed a new 1-1 of flK!&cJl prrctlce mstunty and ranntmem pwmm Thu was Ward SbeItan, an internist rpccializing in Pulmonary respiratory therapy group brwkned into a full pllm-ry h tl oates m and maw xsultcd ID immcasunbly better health care for many pabents treated in Oak Ridge Hospital havmg ather a pnmary or secondary respiratory tract We have also been most for tunate m havlng Dr Elaine Buruck settle in Oak Ridge An mtemst also Dr Bunick ssub s pel olt y IS Endocrinology and she IS a great asset in diagnosing and treaung some d medicine s most elusive problems It IS very unususl for a commumty the sue of Oat Ridge to have a pace mas ~ g n ~ f ~ can tadmtion VU by the amVal wth the Nabonal Health Service Cluuc m Peuos. and Dr Roland Emergeney Rarm A Yo c ln ~ Further evidence of the prcgram. again approved fa MAa d tab on and called examining physician These pathology conferences are scheduled regularly under tht chairmanship of Dr Alex me Inlemon Control Committe e restructured and enlarged itself to provide im physicians led by Dr Alan b y . with persmel from all hoapital momtoring and evaluauon of hospital infections Their apabdity was expanded this past year by the a&hon of a Nurse Epidemiologist New techruque for wlatq and c w trolling the more contapars for have bees implemented All d thu has one god ln nund t a settug fa the opWnal &rug early days d rmbulrban by the pauent recovmng from a myocardial infarction Potem tially serious arrhythmtrs hggd by suchstress can be valuable instruments and therapy altered to a v ~com pricauons Further avian in Uusarea IS in prognss Organization IPRSOI prwpam was instituted one year ago Th~s Federal Government mandated program seeks to contrd the overuse or abuse d hospital faciliues throughout the CoUntrv The nearly perfect record d thh Oak Ridge Hospital PRSO further altesls to the high qualit? of medicine practiced by the Medical Staff hppropriate hospital admissions followed bk timely discharges are a major )unction with cataract surgery way of controlling health cam in selected patients led to the costs Our record shows this IS formation ol the Pabent Revlev accomplished in Oak Ridge Committee Whde its role is TheMedical Staffworkedwtth currently limited to overseeing the hmpital's Pahent Edu~atmn the use of mtraaular implants Committee. a mulu.dLcnWry Drug Admmtstratron.it could be t d for wtth pabents lbse a l l y brondened to cover other include video tam covering new mvestqauon areas of common medical problems. medxiw whch will be available to UIThe canirnc psuent's care was dwxiual patrents over the roam fur&a ~ l h p dwtth the television sets beginnurg m GlncludeDr Ches@cas*, --%advent d the inhgaeular plementation of portable November F.rmty Pracbtloacr VSoelnted lem unplnt, done m con mwutors wfuch can be worn Familyceotered care h a s New …
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