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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, February 28,1964 27 SMITH BEVERAGES LIMITED OSHAWA vand the Hospital Services Com-| mission. . | Stephenson's At the present time we have) 355 medical and_ surgical "en Garage Busy Oshawa General Hospital Marks Year Of Progress is fully accredited by the Ca-| nadian Council on Hospital Ac- creditation. This accreditation is your assurance that the stan- 61 obstetrical beds; 80 chil- dren's beds; 76 bassinets and| 42 chronic beds in operation.|) A Church street firm, Ste- FAREWELL ST The percentage occupancy, Of| nhenson's Garage, lays claim to| 750 f our medical and surgical beds) | iit. or being Oshawa' | By W. A. HOLLAND is approximately 95 per cent e : itle o : eing si awa | Administrator and the overall average, includ-| original specialists in vehicle ing bassinets is 85 per cent for| wheel alignment. aa the year. It is suggested that) qhe company, presently oper- : Oshawa General Hospital tion we serve, approximately one in six were admitted to the hospital during the year; an even greater proportion were Authorized Bottlers For 1963 marked another year of progress and increase in hos- pital facilities for the people of Oshawa and surrounding dis- tricfs. The opening of all areas in our most recent addition of 220 beds was accompanied with- out fanfare, as addition! nurses were located, The obtaining of a sufficient number of nurses has been our biggest problem in connection with our new wing, which is functioning very well id the nfanner in which it was designed. These problems are now behind us and I am happy te report the new construction ig filling a vital need for those requiring hospitalization. It is indeed unfortunate that we still] have a waiting list. We all hoped, I am sure, that. with this 220 bed addition, waiting lists would be a thing of the past, but such is not the case, Dur- ing the entire year, we have been faced with the problem of having more patients than we have beds. This resulted in ad- thissions being restricted to those cases most urgently need- given hospital service if out- patients and emergency meth- ods are included in the total of those treated. Our School of Nursing con- tinues to increase in size and presently we have 125 student nurses enrolled. Our Laboratory Technicians Course has four students enrolled and our X-ray Technicians Course has three students enrolled. In addition, we have student physiotherapists and student dietitians with us during the summer months. We are also approved for the train- ing of interns and presently we have four in our training program. In addition to the shortage of beds for hospital patients, we| find now that additional acco- mmodation is required for stu- dents in our training courses. At the present time, it is ne- cessary for some of our stu- dents to live outside the hos- pital, The Oshawa General Hospital dards of medical care and facil- ities provided in the Oshawa General Hospital are maintain- ed at an acceptable level..The provision of adequate hospital services is ever before your Board of Directors and I feel sure they would want me to state that while no official en- largement. program has been developed, the matter of addi- tional services for the resi- dents of this area is being con- sidered, with the Ontario Hos- pital Services Commission wh must grant approval for any changes in hospitals and a re- port will be forthcoming in this active medical and surgical beds should operate at approx- imately 85 percent, which allows for a little leeway when pa- tients request various types of accommodation and prevents) overcrowding. From these fig-) urés you can see that even with our new facilities, we are Oper- ating 10 percent above the esti- mated maximum and for this reason, it is difficult to have available, the type of accommo- dation sometimes requested by patients. | The Board of Directors would) like to express their thanks to} regard in the not too distant future. OWNED BY CITIZENS The Oshawa General Hospital is owned by the Citizens of the Community and governed by 2 Board of Directors on your be- half in accordance with the {rules and reguations laid down) by the Department of Health { jserve, the many friends of the hospital) who made contributions to-| wards the 'purchase of eqlfip- ment or for any ofher reasons, | during the year, thereby ensur-| ing our continued high standard of care to the patients we w. A. HOLLAND Administrator, Oshawa General Hospital! ing hospital care coming in first, with the elective cases, not requiring immediate ad- mission, booked for some months in the future. In all cases, however, emergency and accident cases were admitted as received in our Emergency De- partment. ;Much new equipment was) purchased during the year to keep abreast of medical ad- vancements; much more will be required this year as new methods of treatment are de- vised and more effective and efficient ways of performing treatments are introduced. As an employer of almost} 1,000 persons, including part-) tinie and having a budget of} over $4,000,000, the Oshawa General Hospital has a tremen-| dous economic effect on this| area. This fact is not generally) realized because the public at) lange, does*not think of a hos-) pital in the same light as an industry, even though our ser-| vices are perhaps used by more} people in a given area than| most other products of indus-| try. | MANY ADMITTED During 1963, 16,964 adults and} children were admitted to: beds| in the Oshawa General Hospital | and stayed a total of 170,412) days, Also during the year,| 2665 babies, more than 7 per| day, were horn and these were here for a total of 17,787 days. In addition to the admission to beds, there were 23,754 (an in- crease of 15 per cent over 1962) persons ed in our Emer- gency, tory and X-Ray Departments as Out-patients, When related to the popula- OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT IS OUR WORKMANSHIP . .. OUR CARD... Mr. Industrialist Member:-- Associated Credit Bureaus of Canada CREDIT BUR 286 KING ST. WEST, OSHAWA EAU of OSHAWA LIMITED PHONE 725-6591 |loca ated by Lloyd and Ray Stephen- son, was founded by their father | in 1931. Business boomed, and in| 1935 became centered around! wheel alignment. Lloyd and Ray took over the operation in 1955 and other spe- cialties now include wheel) balancing and frame straighten-| ing. "If there are any prob-| lems in our field in town, we're} the people who can _ handle} them," stresses Ray Stephen-} son. There are three employees n the payroll. The original) tion at 15 Church street was) remodeled when the adjacent road was widened some time. ago. Pepsi-Cola Canada Ltd. Crush International Ltd. TO OSHAWA ON ITS 40th ANNIVERSARY NATURAL GAS romotes Oshawa's pe progress! ... by stimulating industrial development Oshawa has succeeded in attracting new industry large and small in recent years. The availability of a de- pendable supply of low cost Natural Gas has been a factor in bringing many of them here. a commercial development Stores, Office Buildings, Restaurants, Financial In- stitutions, etc. use Natural Gas in many ways. It puts and end to heating problems. Natural Gas equipment costs less to buy... less to install and far less to maintain. housing development Natural Gas is available for most new Housing Dev- elopments as well as the older sections of Oshawa. It simplifies so many household tasks -- makes Heating, Cooking, Water Heating, Clothes Drying, etc. so clean, fast and carefree it is not surprising so many have switched to this modern fuel, ('Sonsumers' ('as - 29 CELINA ST. OSHAWA 723-3468