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WELLAND COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL RATING ANNOUNCED
[Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 23 January 1947]
It is a credit to the Welland County General hospital that it has gained provisional approval in the listings of the American College of Surgeons for 1946. Each year the listings contain hospitals in the United States and Canada which have compiled satisfactorily with the fundamental requirements that assure the best care of the sick and injured.
Provisional approval indicates a hospital which is trying to meet the requirements of the college, but for acceptable reasons has not been able to do so in every regard.
The hospitals of both countries are reconsidered each year, and as wartime difficulties have disappeared the standards are higher. In 1946, 3,118 hospitals qualified-a decline of 63 from the year before.
Dr. Irvin Abell, president of the college’s board of regents, explained this as a “sinking into post-war lethargy”. He said the college expected hospitals to be “leaders in the post-war effort to improve every type of welfare service.”
The citizens of a community are held responsible for insisting upon good hospital service and for giving the support and encouragement need to provide it. The two problems now facing hospitals are inadequate nursing staffs and untrained administrators.
The College of Surgeons appeals to schools and community institutions to stimulate recruiting of student nurses. It suggests that the public can see that hospital administrators appointed are men who understand both the professional and business problems of a hospital.
Niagara peninsula hospitals did well in the ratings. Fully approved were the Niagara Peninsula Sanatorium and St. Catharines General hospital. The Niagara Falls hospital was provisionally approved.
The requirements for approval include the following fundamentals: modern physical plant, clearly defined organization, carefully selected governing board, competent, well-trained superintendent, adequate and efficient personnel, organized medical staff, adequate diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, accurate and complete medical reports for research, regular group conferences of the administrative and medical staffs, and a humanitarian spirit-“the primary consideration being the best care of the patient.”
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