Testimony of Chief Medical Director, Veterans' Administration: Concerning Veterans' Hospitals, Facilities, and Personnel. June 17 and 18, 19471947 - 42 pages |
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... keeping them up to a proper standard . One great difficulty that the Veterans ' Administration had in the years passed was that there was a number of hospitals which were never visited by anyone from outside within 5 years , and we do ...
... keeping them up to a proper standard . One great difficulty that the Veterans ' Administration had in the years passed was that there was a number of hospitals which were never visited by anyone from outside within 5 years , and we do ...
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... keep patients in for at least the past 15 or 20 years , and one in which we would have to spend some $ 3,000,000 to rehabilitate the plant and when we had spent that , we would still be faced with the same staffing problem . Mr. Ross ...
... keep patients in for at least the past 15 or 20 years , and one in which we would have to spend some $ 3,000,000 to rehabilitate the plant and when we had spent that , we would still be faced with the same staffing problem . Mr. Ross ...
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... keep these beds full , we will run considerably over - how much increase was that , do you remember ? Dr. PRESS . About 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 . Dr. HAWLEY . The money which they estimated would be sufficient for rations would have ...
... keep these beds full , we will run considerably over - how much increase was that , do you remember ? Dr. PRESS . About 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 . Dr. HAWLEY . The money which they estimated would be sufficient for rations would have ...
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... 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 , they see a new hospital being built in ...
... 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 , they see a new hospital being built in ...
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... keep open the Norman General Hospital . You sent Colonel Brown to Oklahoma City under the theory that we were going to get an additional 200 beds at the hospital by moving out V. D. beds there . Now , that has fallen by the wayside ...
... keep open the Norman General Hospital . You sent Colonel Brown to Oklahoma City under the theory that we were going to get an additional 200 beds at the hospital by moving out V. D. beds there . Now , that has fallen by the wayside ...
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