Testimony of Chief Medical Director, Veterans' Administration: Concerning Veterans' Hospitals, Facilities, and Personnel. June 17 and 18, 19471947 - 42 pages |
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... answer any question that is asked them . Now , the Congress is not limited by the Budget recommendations . You can raise the Budget recommendation just as easily as you can cut those Budget recommendations when it is necessary to do so ...
... answer any question that is asked them . Now , the Congress is not limited by the Budget recommendations . You can raise the Budget recommendation just as easily as you can cut those Budget recommendations when it is necessary to do so ...
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... answered your other question more fully : The principal reason for the reduction was that for some reason they estimated for the fiscal year 1948 only 62 percent bed occupancy in our existing general medical and surgical hospitals ...
... answered your other question more fully : The principal reason for the reduction was that for some reason they estimated for the fiscal year 1948 only 62 percent bed occupancy in our existing general medical and surgical hospitals ...
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... answer these inquiries that come to me . They keep asking me about this . I have telegrams on my desk now asking me to use my influence to keep that hospital open and when the Legion Posts and the VFW Posts , and so forth , look at this ...
... answer these inquiries that come to me . They keep asking me about this . I have telegrams on my desk now asking me to use my influence to keep that hospital open and when the Legion Posts and the VFW Posts , and so forth , look at this ...
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... answer questions that are directed at me and I am still unable to answer them . Dr. HAWLEY . I understand . Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma . General , while we are on this question of temporary versus permanent hospitals , I had several ...
... answer questions that are directed at me and I am still unable to answer them . Dr. HAWLEY . I understand . Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma . General , while we are on this question of temporary versus permanent hospitals , I had several ...
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... answer to that , sir , is that we cannot close NP beds where the ratio of employees to patients is very low , and we can- not close tuberculosis beds , and all of the closing of beds will have to be in general hospitals where the ratio ...
... answer to that , sir , is that we cannot close NP beds where the ratio of employees to patients is very low , and we can- not close tuberculosis beds , and all of the closing of beds will have to be in general hospitals where the ratio ...
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200-bed hospital ALLEN American Legion Americus answer arthritis atric NP GM&S Bronx building Bureau Calif closed Congress Congressman Taylor construction CROW denied admission district doctors DONOHUE EDITH NOURSE ROGERS employees F M F M F facilities Finney fiscal year 1948 FM FM full-time gentleman from Oklahoma gentleman yield Georgia GM&S Total TB HAWLEY hospital administrators hospital at Saratoga hospital open Hot Springs HUBER Johnson City JOHNSON of Oklahoma JUNE 18 KEARNEY keep this hospital Lake City Madam Chairman MEADE MITCHELL Mount Alto Muskogee NP GM&S Total number of beds number of patients Oklahoma City operate patient-day patients treated permanent PHILLIPS pitals poliomyelitis question RAMEY RANKIN record Ross Saratoga Hospital Saratoga Springs service officers situation small hospital staff statement Tallahassee TEAGUE temporary hospitals Tenn Thomasville Total TB Psychi treatment trying tuberculosis hospitals understand waiting list WHEELER
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Page 15 - ... emergency cases. I think the public, from the information that comes out of your office, it seems to me, gets such a glowing report that everything is going all right, when I know down in my State that they are not. I just fairly well sympathize with the Appropriations Committee and everyone else, but if you are not going to come in here and tell us what you need...
Page 20 - ... the certification ? Mr. SHUFF. I was not in it at the time. I have to get that from Mr. Fowler. Do you have the vote ? Mr. FOWLER. Do you want the actual figures of the vote ? Mr. PUCINSKI. Approximately. Mr. AYRES. Yes, approximately. Mr. PUCINSKI. I will give it to you in just a second. Mr. AYRES. The thing that I am trying to get at, Mr. Chairman, is that this has come up in different places throughout the country. The employees go out and strike and then, before anything is settled, most...