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-yf*^ SHELVED IN AKU $ v) .} Barnes Medical Center, St. Louis, Mo. hoSDJTAl_ _■ limp IQfiQ Raymond E. Rowland Elected Board Chairman Raymond E. Rowland was elected chairman of district sales manager and in 1934 became a the Barnes Hospital Board of Trustees at the division assistant sales manager. board's annual meeting Wednesday, April 23. Mr. Rowland was made manager of the Circle- Mr. Rowland succeeds Robert W. Otto, who was ville, Ohio plant in 1934. In 1940, he became a elected to fill the unexpired term of Edgar M. Ralston Purina assistant vice president; in 1943, Queeny, who died July 7, 1968. a vice president. Mr. Rowland became president Mr. Rowland, who has been a member of the of the company in June, 1956, and was named Barnes board for seven years, is former presi- chairman of the board in 1963. On Jan. 1, 1968, dent and chairman of the board for Ralston he retired from the company. Purina Co. For the past year he has served as The new Barnes chairman is also a director of general chairman of the Barnes Hospital Fund. Ralston Purina Co., Mercantile Trust Company Other new officers of the board of trustees in- National Association, Transit Casualty Company, clude Edwin M. Clark, who was re-elected vice Granite City Steel Company, Union Electric Com- chairman, and Irving Edison, selected as vice pany, and Norfolk and Western Railway Company. chairman and treasurer. John Warmbrodt, In addition to Barnes Hospital, Mr. Rowland also Barnes' deputy director, was named secretary. is active in the Herbert Hoover Boys' Club of St. As Barnes' new chairman, Mr. Rowland brings to Louis, the United Fund of Metropolitan St. Louis, the office 41 years of business experience. Born the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the on a farm in Illinois, he attended the University National 4-H Club, and several other groups. Mr. of Illinois and was graduated from the University and Mrs. Rowland have twin daughters, a son, of Wisconsin. After a brief time as a faculty mem- and 12 grandchildren. When he is not busy with ber at State Teachers College at Conway, Ark., his St. Louis activities, Mr. Rowland visits his <J&*&\ Mr. Rowland joined Ralston Purina Co. as a 500-acre farm in Belleview, Mo., where he breeds junior salesman in 1926. In 1929 he was made purebred polled Hereford cattle. Raymond E. Rowland 1968 Annual Report Emphasizes Barnes' Role in Community Shows Hospital Spent $34,206,429 for Patient Care "Barnes and the Community" is the theme of university teaching hospital. (He sought allow- "There is a destiny that makes us brothers. None goes his way alone."—Edgar Markham the Barnes Hospital 1968 Annual Report recently ances in the reimbursement formula for deprecia- mailed to employes at their home addresses. The tion and teaching costs.) report shows that the hospital spent $34,206,429 "Again in 1968, Barnes broke all records for dollars for patient care during 1968, and em- numbers of patients served," said Barnes Direc- ployed an equivalent full time staff of 2,886 tor Robert E. Frank in his message, (He referred persons. to the 31,812 persons who were admitted in Highlights of the publication include a report on 1968, and the average daily Barnes census of plans for the East Pavilion on which construction 938 patients.) - V will begin during the summer of 1969 with Examples of concern for the dignity of the patient completion scheduled for 1971. Details of con- are shown, s'uch, as computerization of appoint- struction projects completed in 1968 are de- ments for clinic visits, so that the clinic patient scribed, such as the elevator addition and ad- no longer faces lengthy waits before he sees a mitting area in the Rand Johnson Building; the physician. •;- .-.. ... ; :" '■■/■'• '• renovation of the fifth floor of Rand Johnson into semi-private and private accommodations for The problems of the "performance gap" between surgical patients, and two new intensive care that which is clinically possible and desirable and flfllM areas for patients in the "crisis" phase of stroke the actual delivery of this high standard of care and respiratory problems. to all is discussed. At Barnes, one solution is in un/HMi intensive care areas, which are, basically, an MKIIII The report's emphasis, however, is on the hos- assembling of the most sophisticated and effici- I Mil |M. pital's role in the community in addition to its ent equipment, and most highly trained person- regional, national, and international services. nel to serve the sickest patients. i^N/il During 1968 Barnes has emphasized an in- "In many segments of the economy today, de- creased concern for the patient as an individual, tErfitll mand creates supply. This is not so in medical while planning ahead to anticipate the demands jifluni care. As soon as a new treatment is found to be of tomorrow. effective, everyone who is afflicted with the ill- )l(fff//l')/ ness it alleviates wants to be treated. So, supply ii 1111 J i 11 A tribute to Edgar M. Queeny, deceased chair- creates demand . Shortages of hospital per- Contemporary drawings reminiscent of the art- man of the Barnes Board of Trustees is includ- work in McGuffey's Reader or Alice in Wonderland ed in the annual report of the year's events. His sonnel continue to be a grave concern, though are liberally sprinkled throughout the 1968 annual contributions to the hospital are outlined, includ- the number of hospital employes in the U. S. has report. Quotations from contemporary and literary sources relate to the subject matter of the ac- ing his trip to Washington in the formative more than doubled since 1947," the report companying text. stages of Medicare to plead the cause of the points out. $2 Million Received New Code 1000 Procedure Is Part of Revised From Queeny Trust Disaster Plan Barnes Hospital and Washington University are New disaster planning manuals, superseding the each recipients of a $1 million gift from the white August, 1968 booklet, have been distribut- private charitable Wingmead Trust set up by ed to all department heads. The 52-page loose- Edgar M. Queeny to be used for construction of leaf guide has a blue cover with the "BH" logo the East Pavilion. at the bottom right-hand corner. Through a unique arrangement reached before Changes in the disaster procedures effective ■ Minot Fryer, associate surgeon, attended the Mr. Queeny's death, portions of East Pavilion immediately include transferring the responsibil- American Association of Plastic Surgeons meet- will be owned by the hospital while other areas ity of disaster command from the chief adminis- ing in San Francisco May 1-3. A former president will be owned by Washington University. trative disaster officer to: First, the administrative officer of the day and second, the nursing officer of the organization, Dr. Fryer moderated one of As chairman of Barnes' board of trustees from the panel sessions. * October, 1961 until his death in 1968, Mr. of the day. ■ Robert Lund, assistant surgeon, was recently Queeny was instrumental in upgrading the facili- The revised manual also explains the new Code elected an associate member of the surgical di- ties for patient care. He insisted also that the 1000 alert. Whenever the telephone operator vision of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He most sophisticated equipment be made available announces: "Code 1000—will all available medi- attended the Academy's April meeting in Boston. for dealing with disease and disability. cal staff please report immediately to the direc- tor's office," hospital personnel with specified ■ Associate pathologist, John M. Kissane, gave In 1964, he played a leading role in developing duties should report to their assigned Disaster the seventeenth annual Alpha Omega Alpha a new contract that binds together Barnes Control locations. lecture May 15 in Clopton Auditorium Amphi- Hospital and Washington University in their theatre on "The Victorians Look at Science." mutual endeavors to advance research, teaching, A master paging switch has been installed in and patient care. the telephone switchboard office. When turned to "disaster," the telephone operators can be David Schlessinger, associate professor of Commenting on Mr. Queeny's service, Dr. William ■ heard in Maternity, McMillan and other key loca- microbiology at Washington University School H. Danforth, Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs tions within the complex, as well as those areas of Medicine, was awarded the $1,000 Eli Lilly of Washington University, said, "We in this presently being served by the page system. Award May 5 in Miami for his basic contributions medical center are grateful for Edgar M. Queeny's to the study of ribosomes and their role in work, foresight, and generosity. He led a great The last major change in the revised disaster protein formation. hospital through an important period of modern- manual concerns the medical team assigned to ization." triage, the initial sorting and treatment station ■ Herman N. Eisen, chairman of the Washington for all incoming casualties. Triage will no longer University Department of Microbiology was re- Raymond E. Rowland, chairman of the Barnes be staffed by predesignated individuals (e.g., cently elected to the National Academy of Sci- Board of Directors, said "The'Current gift of chief general surgery resident, second call or- ences in recognition of his research on the struc- $2 million from the Wingmead Trust is a testi- thopedic house staff, etc). Instead, assignments ture of antibodies and their biological formation. mony to Edgar Queeny's faith in the strong ties between the University and the Hospital. I hope to triage disposition locations and any other ■ Obstetrician-in-Chief Willard Allen spoke to his generosity will inspire others to contribute to areas where medical coverage is needed will be the National Conference on Breast Cancer at the the new hospital." made by the chief medical disaster officer.

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