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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT Friday, March CHRONICLE 2, 19S2 15 UR Declares Inability Added Costs in Aiding to Absorb Needy III Edward Welkley Dies; Operated Businesses Floyd Pratt Dies; Ex-Industry School Employe Edward Welkley, 79, of lifelong resident of Pcnfield before he retired died at his 700 Pcnfield Road, Tcnfield, a and active in several businesses home yesterday (March 1, 1962) HEARING AID Floyd I. Pratt, 81, of Killar- ney, a former cottage, supervisor at the State School; after a long illness. in Industry and a retired in-j Mr. Welkley started a dairy surance agent, died Tuesday business on land which1 Teaching Program Aids t'R The advantage of the University's teaching program has been substantial and has contributed to the School of Medicine's becoming one of the world's leading medical fchools. Since approximately one-fourth of the physicians practicing in Rochester are graduates of the School of Medicine, the benefits of the school's educational program are enjoyed directly by the substantial proportion of community residents who are patients of thee physicians, The contributions of the was later developed into the Chestnut St.

in East Roches-Ellison Park Heights subdi- ter for more than 20 years ivlslon' He enlisted in the Army in Retueen 192.1 and 1933 Mr. i CAMEO (Feb. 27, 19G2) in his home. Mr. Pratt, a native of Wcedsport, Cayuga County, worked at the state school 22 years before he took a inh agent for Travelers Insurance, Cos.

here. He retired after about 10 years with the com Pan-V "i DISCREETLY TINY Try tht Ctmeo QUALITY PERFORMANCE Today No ebhgition Pratt and his Watpmnrt and r.asnnrt Zenith prices start as low as $53 Pay as little as $1.25 weekly. birthplace, Hoosick Falls, and had made his home at 220 W. i iay iai ana cnt 10 nance ff?" mLv the 335th field Artillery. Mr.

Hunter had been at the hatcherv five vears. Before that he was an attendant at Gilbert's service station in East Rochester and a clerk for the W. D. llewes Insurance Agency. He leaves a brother, Harold R.

Hunter of Fairport, and several cousins. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Harry Brady Funeral Home, 110 W. Spencer East Rochester. mi 7 'It-; KM get the lion's share in March weiMey upuraieu an auiuino biIe in East Roches- id.

lie aiau ion a uncu and vinegar business luith nlants in Alhion MiHrilp.i lie naa a iiitiiiuti ui inc I Fairport Methodist Church tary Club. i Surviving Mr. Welkley are his widow, Estella; a son, Russell; two grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Perry Rothfuss of Pcnfield, and two Charles of Pcnfield and Lee of St. Petersburg, Fla.

A service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Emery Funeral Home, 76 S. Main Fairport, and burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. George F. Hunter, 68; War I Veteran George F.

Hunter, 68, World War I veteran and assistant to the superintendent of the Monroe County Fish Hatchery at Powder Mill Park, died at Genesee Hospital yesterday (March 1, 1962) after an illness of three months. Mr. Hunter came to Rochester in his youth from his Salesmen's Guild Elects President William Merzcl, salesman at Ralph Pontiac, 626 Main St. is the new presi- dent of thery-sr Pontiac Mas- ter Salesmen's uuna lor me Buffalo zone.tjUjs which includes Kocnester. As president.

Merzel will be awarded an all-expense paid trip to Washing William Merzel ton, where he will meet Pontiac factory officials. He, his wife and four children live at 128 Eastland TOP-RATE peryear dividends compounded and paid quarterly 14 DIVIDEND AND I SOUTH AVI. OOWNTOWN Opt Tu. Thuri. SOUTHTOWN tin.

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March 1. Open or add to your account during- extra dividend days! 'anticipated dividend Hospital. Similar assurance has been given to the county government. The university row publicly reaffirms this willingness. The university has explained to the city and at this time reiterates that it does not have the resources that would permit it to assume financial responsibility for the operation of the Municipal Hospital.

The university's resources are and must continue to be fully committed to meeting its primary and unique responsibility namely, the support of its educational and research programs. Further expansion and strengthening of these programs will tax any additional financial resources that the university is likely to obtain in the foreseeable future. The university now provides essentially the full support of the salaried medical staff for both the Strong Memorial and the Municipal Hospitals, as well as much of the ancillary diagnostic, therapeutic, and research facilities that make possible the unique range of services offered by a University hospital. In addition, the university Is expending for direct services to patients in its outpatient and emergency departments in excess of a year from its endown-ment income and general funds for which it is not reimbursed from any source. As a result, the university cannot absorb additional unmet costs for the care of patients who are the responsibility of the general community.

The university further believes that it should not pass these costs on to self-paying patients in the Strong Memorial Hospital. Continuance Vital The decision as to whether the facilities of the Municipal Hospital which are now owned and financially supported by the city shall continue to be available for the care of patients and the decision as to how these facilities are to be supported are matters that should be of vital importance to the community. In our society the traditional responsibility of local government to provide necessary medical and hospital care for the needy sick in the community is well established on moral and legal grounds. How this responsibility is met and how it is shared among the several agencies of local government are decisions made by each community. While responsibility in this matter rests on government, it may be expected that, if the present arrangement in Rochester is altered, a number of other agencies will be concerned that a satisfactory solutions be achieved.

Such agencies include Blue Cross, the Community Chest, the Council of Social Agencies, the Medical Society of the County of Monroe, the Patient 'Care Planning Council, the Rochester Hospital Fund, and the Rochester Regional Hospital Council. If the university is asked to participate in an alternative to the present arrangement for the operation of the Municipal Hospital, its primary interest will be to rercive adequate assurance that: 1. The hospital will be operated in such a way that patients will receive a high standard of hospital and medical care, 2. The facilities of the hospital will continue to be fully available to the school for its teaching program, 3. No additional costs of patient care will become a charge against university funds.

In conclusion Whatever the community's ultimate decision concerning the Municipal Hospital may be, the university urges that satisfactory provision be made to assure the needy sick in our community of a continued high standard of care. The university pledges itself, if asked, to work with the officials of local government, as it has in the past, for the achievement of this goal. Community Savings Bank COR. MAIN CLINTON 424 RIDGE ROAD WEST Mtmbftr COR. EXCHANGE BROAD 30O WARIN3 ROAD COR.

SOUTH MAIN CHURCH, P1TTSFORD, N. Y. Fadiral Deposit Insurance Corporation The University of Rochester yesterday declared that it is ready to discuss alternate financial arrangements for the operation of Municipal Hospital with the city and county, but that it cannot absorb additional costs for the "care of patients who are the responsibility of the general community." Dr. McCrea Hazlett, university provost, and Dr. Donald G.

Anderson, director of the University Medical Center, in a joint statement pointed out that $100000 of university funds already are spent or uie care 01 pauenis in me nospitai outpatient ana emergency departments. Further, they said, it provides "the full support of the salaried medical staff as well as much of the ancillary diagnostic, therapeutic and research facilities that make possible the unique range of services offered by a umver- sity hospital." Their full statement follows: Th future of the Municipal Ifospital has become a matter of public discussion. Because of the University of Rochester's long relationship with the Municipal Hospital, the university believes it desirable to issue the following statement. For nearly 40 years the University of Rochester has had a contract with the City of Rochester to operate the Municipal Hospital for the care of residents of the city who require treatment in an acute general hospital, but are unable to pay for such care. Each year approximately patients enter the Municipal Hospital.

The illnesses and injuries for which they are treated extend over the full range of serious medical, surgical, pediatric and psychiatric disorders. It may also be noted that more than 1,000 babies are born each year in the Municipal Hospital. The present arrangement for the operation of the Municipal Hospital was instituted in 1923 when the city and 1he university entered into a far-sighted and pioneering agreement an agreement which has brought great benefits to the city, the university, and the citizens of our community. Contract Renewed As slated at the time the original contract was executed and as reaffirmed on the several occasions when the eon-tract lias hern renewed, the eitv entered into the acrrc-ment because it rpnonnh.c that it w9 to the Tlvqnfacrp of the pinole of Prx-hester to have the benefit in he Mti-ricinal TTosnitnl of he professional the facilities ef tlio nnivesUv's School of Memoir." and and Strong Memorial Hospital. The rilv nho fivnnllv re.

crnized that it wou'd benefit the community to have the university's teaching activities extended to the Municinal Jfnjipital in the same manner and to the snme extent as in the Strong Memorial Hospital. The university entered into the contract because it recognized that access to the Municipal Hosnital would benefit its teaching for medical students, nurses, interns, and resident physicians. Both parlies recognized that an extension of the service of the Medical School would brin2 an incren.se in medical knowledge and both recognized that economies could he attained by operating the Strong Memorial Hospital the Municipal Hospital in close coordination. 1 The vision and the hones of those who developed the "agreement have been fulfilled. The quality of medical 'care provided patients in the Municipal Hospital 'has been of a very high order "and compares favorably with Tthe best obtainable in any city tr county hospital in the country.

Patients in the Munici-pal Hospital benefit from the 'full range of professional services of the faculty and staff of the School of Medicine and from the full. range of the university's highly developed and specialized diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. iiiiyiiWMlW' ft i i SAVi lid DOLLARS ON HIGH GRA0I FURNITURE 4 1 144 N. Strong Memorial-Municipal 1Iospiul compex to medical care, education, and research are widely recognized ana have earned for the hospitals a distinguished place among the 10 Jeading hospitals in the United States. Because of this reputation top-ranking graduates from other medical schools have eagerly sought to come to the Strong-Munici- pal for their internships and residencies.

As a result, while many hospitals throughout the country, particularly city and county hospitals, have for years been unable to attract adequate numbers of interns and residents to provide even a minimal standard of acceptable patient care, the Strong-Municipal has had a surplus of applicants. The service that this outstanding group of interns and residents provides patients in Strong-Municipal on a 24hour-a-day basis is a major contribution to the health and welfare of the community. After completing their hospital training many of these interns and residents have remained in Rochester to practice. They represent a further major addition from Strong-Municipal to the community's pool of physicians. Coordination Economical The economies foreseen by those who drafted the con-tract have been achieved.

Over the years the costs to the city and to the university for both capital and operating expenses would have been far greater had not the two hospitals been operated in close coordination. For example, it has not been necessary for the city to construct and operate for the Municipal Hospital such facilities as outpatient and emergency departments, operating rooms, X-ray department, clinical laboratories, record room, kitchen, laundry, and other expensive facilities that would be essential if the Municipal Hospital were operated independently. Similarly, the city has not had to recruit and support even the minimal professional staff of pathologists, radiologists and other physicians without whom a modern hospital cannot operate. Moreover, because of the potential availability of beds in cither institution, neither the city nor the university has had to build or maintain additional patient floors on a stand-by basis for periods of peak occupancy. If these economics had not been affected, the additional costs necessarily would have been passed on to the taxpayer, to self-paying patients, and to community agencies.

Thus, the economic benefit resulting from the contract has been widespread in the community. As the foregoing summary indicates, the cordial and cooperative relationship between the city and university has made possible a major contribution by the university to the health and welfare of the community. Ready to Discuss Plans Discussions with city officials in recent years have revealed to the university that, because of the city's limited fiscal resources and because of its desire to strengthen and expand other municipal services, the city has been giving serious thought to seeking relief from responsibility for operating the Municipal Hospital, Now the City Council has voted to request the county to assume responsibility for the hospital. In its discussions with the city the university has expressed its willingness, if asked, to explore the possibility of other arrangements whereby it can continue to provide to the community the important services it is now furnishing in the Municipal 1 Colonial Maple SOFA-BED and CHAIR ONLY Reg. $149.95 Value Jennie, who died in 19j4, had a summer Lake and Florida.

home on spent winters Mr. Pratt is survived by three nieces. The funeral service will be held this morn ing in winter Garden, Ha. Curial will be in Wcedsport. Orville Pugsley, 95, Retired Rail Engineer Orville Pugsley, 95, of 877 Phillips Road, Webster, vet eran New York Central Railroad engineer, died yesterday (March 1, 1962) after an illness of two months.

Mr. Pugsley, a native of Webster, retired 24 years ago after completing 47 years with the New York Central. Most of that time was spent as an' engineer on the Auburn branch. He was a 60-year member cf the Rochester Lodge 660, Mrs. Pugsley leaves a daughter, Mrs.

William McCoy and a son, Kenneth, of Webster. A service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Smith Lotze Funeral Chapel, 10 Lapham Park, Webster. A Masonic service will be held at 8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.

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