HOSPITAL RECORD BARNES HOSPITAL ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Vo I No. 1 January, 1950 * 1949 IN RETROSPECT we have extended to these patients » Webster defines a hospital as "an during the preceding year of 1949. institution for the medical treat- Early in 1949, Maternity Hospital ment and care of the sick." It instituted a revolutionary new plan seems superfluous to add that it is known as "Rooming-in," a plan in the goal of every institution worthy which the mother keeps her baby in a of bearing the name "hospital" to crib at her bedside and feeds, Maintain the highest standards of bathes, and changes him. This plan ^ treatment and care for the patient, is voluntary and has proved to be and also to improve constantly the quite successful. In addition, imany services offered to him. That Maternity Hospital has also in- this represents no small task is evident from the statement DR. BRAD- stalled wired music in the delivery LEY made recently which places the and labor rooms for the benefit of those patients who are having their wtotal number of different services tjAj average, full-equipped, general babies under one of the new anal- • nWpital performs for the patient at gesia such as spinal or caudal. A 3,500! new enlarged premature nursery was opened in the fall, increasing the \n 1949, Barnes, McMillan, and St. capacity for premature infants from Louis Maternity Hospitals cared for 10 to 19. ^a total of 21,761 patients. A daily Over in Barnes, the Metabolism ^average of 639 patients brought the Division was enlarged by 8 beds,thus year's total to 233,160 days of pat- providing badly needed space. The ient care! It is enlightening, at new space was provided by the con- \ the beginning of a new calendar year, struction of a building just off the to evaluate the new services which north-east corner of the main lobby. Page 2 Hospital Record In the middle of December, an inter- HOSPITAL RECORD communication system was installed I Vol. h No. 1 January, 1950 in the Isolation Division, enabling the patient and his relatives tfc Editor talk to each other without danger^! MARTHA WILLIAMS of contagion. > Assistant Personnel Director These are some of the major changes which have taken place at Barnes Published in the interest of within the past year. Continuing BARNES HOSPITAL the tradition of excellent service 600 S. Kingshighway to the patient, there will, without' doubt, be many more to report ^^fr St. Louis, Missouri the year 1950, all of which will contribute in some way to the wel- fare of the patient. 19 49 IN RETROSPECT (continued from page I.) The first floor of this new con- struction houses the new Personnel DR. FRANK R. BRADLEY WRITES ON * Office which was opened in September. MEDICAL RESEARCH IN ST. LOUIS On the opposite side of Barnes lobby, Dr. FRANK R BRADLEY, Director of excavation was begun in the fall for the Barnes Group, was the author of the erection of a new chapel for the an article on medical research which"", use of patients and their relatives. appeared in the December 30th issue MR. WILLIAM DANFORTH is furnishing of the St. Louis Star Times. Dr. the chapel which will be known as Bradley has represented the medical the Danforth Chapel. profession for the past several years in the year-end edition of the For the purpose of additional fire Star Times in which is summed up the safety, a vault for alcohol and progress of St. Louis during the combustibles is in the process of preceding year. At the close of completion. This is outside the 1949, the remarkable advances oi hospital, but adjacent to it. Di- medical research during the first^ rectional signs were installed in- half of the twentieth century were side and outside the hospital (the presented. two in the ambulance driveways being illuminated) which will aid in the In his article, Dr. Bradley statedt^tec 1 location of buildings and depart- that, "With an atmosphere and cif men t s . ral background in which research grows and is productive, St. Louis" In September a pioneering effort has attained world stature in the to improve patient food service was field of medical research." He begun with the use of airline equip- cited the collaboration of busi.nes£ ment on some of the private floors. and industry with medicine as ^ The new plastic equipment cuts down cause for the outstanding success. on noise, breakage, and cost, and is Credit for the world renown St. infinitely less clumsy than the tra- Louis has achieved in this field ditional hospital trays and dishes. January, 1950 Page 3 ALBERT M. KELLER NAMED ACTING CHAIRMAN It has been announced that MR. ALBERT M. KELLER has been named acting chairman of the Board of Trustees of Barnes Hospital, filling the vacancy caused by the death of the late FRANK C. RAND. Mr. Keller has been a member of the Board since 1933, and has served as Vice- Chairman since 1945. Mr. Keller is one of St. Louis' out- standing business and civic leaders. A graduate of Central College at Fayette, Missouri, he is now Presi- was also given to the two fine dent and Director of the Paul Brown universities whose medical schools Realty and Insurance Company. He is have contributed much in the way of also a director of the Mercantile * pure research, and to the excellent Bank and Commerce Company, the Secu- hospitals which have contributed rity Insurance Company, and the Mid- greatly in the way of post-graduate land Fire and Marine Company. In medical education and clinical addition to his trusteeship of research. Barnes Hospital, he also serves in that capacity for the Missouri Val- Dr. Bradley went on to say that ley College, the Central Institute ] I there is evidence of St. Louis' for the Deaf, the Methodist Orphan- importance as a center for medical age, the Radford School for Girls research in the fact that Nobel at El Paso, Texas, and St. John's prizes have been awarded a number of Methodist Church. He is active in times to scientists whose investi- the Municipal Opera Association and gations and research have been car- the Boy Scouts, and is a member of ried out in St. Louis. A number of the St. Louis and United States the projects in medical research Chamber of Commerce. underway at the present time by St. ^^>uis scientists were mentioned, and Our hospital has profited greatly in ^Hgh hopes for the future of medical the past through his counseling and research in this city were expressed sincere interest. His acute under- by Dr. Bradley. standing of social problems and his willingness to meet them have made < him an invaluable aid to the Board of Trustees. U.076 people died of gas last year: 29 inhaled it. 47 put a lighted match to it. Wolf: a fellow ent it led to life, lib- 4,000 stepped on it. erty, and the happiness of pursuit. Page 4 Hospital Record REVEREND BROOMFIELD, RETIRED SWEDISH NURSE ON STAFF METHODIST BISHOP,DIES SONJA OGREN,' Staff Nurse on 5200, The REVEREND JOHN CALVIN BROOM- is the charming exception to thfe FIELD, retired Methodist Bishop of rule that all Swedish people are>.j Missouri, died January 8, at Ohio blue-eyed and blonde. Miss Ogren Valley Hospital in Steubenvi 11 e , has the height usually attributed^" Ohio, following a heart attack. to people from her native land, but Many Barnes employees will remember her c 1 ose-cropped curly hair and Bishop Broomfield, for he spent much her eyes are dark brown. She claim* time around the hospital while he that almost all girls are quite tallTl was Bishop. in Sweden, but hastens to add that 'The men are all tall too, so r^B \ Born in Eyemouth, Scotland, Bishop the girls don't mind their height Broomfield came to the United States at all. " when he was eighteen years old, and after working his way through col- Miss Ogren hails from Smaland, Swe- lege, began his long career in the den, and came to the United States I ministry. A nationally known author, in March, 1949, with the intentional lecturer, and evangelist, he was one of staying in America for two years of the leaders in bringing about the to study our methods of nursing. unification of the three branches of She came to Barnes from Massachu-^ the Methodist Church in 1939. Imme- setts General Hospital in Boston, diately after the unification, he and after a few months in St. Louis, was named Bishop and held that post will go on to California for further.,] until he retired in 1944, to be experience in one of the large hos- succeeded by BISHOP IVAN LEE HOLT. pitals out there. Since his retirement, Bishop Broom- Miss Ogren graduated two years ago field has traveled throughout the from the Red Cross School of Nursings United States holding evangelistic in Stockholm, Sweden. She has not- meetings. He had been conducting a iced quite a bit of difference be- week of prayer in Toronto, Ohio when tween the American and Swedish* he was stricken with a heart attack hospitals, because the latter are which proved to be fatal. government controlled. However, Sweden does not operate under a sys-x HOSPITAL RECORD IN NEED tern of socialized medicine such as OF PHOTOGRAPHERS they have in Great Britain. She The HOSPITAL RECORD is in need of a says that a great deal more charti^^ , photographer, and would welcome a work is done on patients in AmeriSm volunteer who would be interested hospitals than is done in Sweden, in offering his services.