Expanded Services Seen for CMMC

              16-A Friday, Nov. 3, 1972 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES
Senior medical students at Louisiana
State U n i v e r s i t y Medical School at
Shreveport were honored at a dinner
last night. Harold K. Quinn, chairman
of. the Confederate Memorial Medical
Center board of directors (center),
discufises Confederate programs with
Ken Harrison (left) of Shreveport,
president of the senior class, and Barry
Rills of Addis, secretary-treasurer of
the senior class. (Times Photo by John
A. Moore)
Expanded Services Seen for CMMC
The doors of Confederate
Memorial Medical Center are
going to be open wider and
wider for all citizens of the area
— indigent or npt — according
to Harold K. Quinn, chairman of
the hospital's board.
Quinn spoke last night at a
dinner at the Shreveport Club
honoring senior medical stu-dents
at Louisiana State Univer-sity
Medical Center.
Quinn said within 30 days the
same hospital services would be
available for all taxpayers,
whether they were indigent or
not. Arrangements will be made
for partial payment for the
serviees.
Quinn also said that later
there will be a wing in the
hospital for private patients.
He also predicted that eventu-ally
every emergency case in
in North Louisiana will be
brought to Confederate, and ore-dieted
that within the next 18
months the hosrrtal will have
both a trauma unit and a burn
unit.
As part of the trauma unit,
ambulances and personnel will
be on call for all apcidents in
the area, he said.
And at a recent board meet-ing
Dr. Rod Yeager, medical
director, said that ambulances
will also be a part of the
hospital fleet.
Patients will be brought first
to Confederate and then shipped
to other hospitals after the
initial treatment, Quinn said.
Quinn also said that Confeder-ate
is planning satellite clinics
and mobile satellite clinics.
Quinn — an insurance execu-tive
who has been board chair-man
less than three months —
told the students that if they
come to Confederate for their
postgraduate training they will
see things done "which are not
done a n y w h e r e else in the
country . . . you are going to
receive good training — the
best."
Quinn also promised them
representation on the board,
including a vote after Jan. 1.
Also speaking was Yeager,
who said that, contrary to some
reports, the patient load at
Confederate is not decreasing.
In other areas of the hospital,
services have either remained
stable or increased.
Both Yeager and Dr. Charles
K n i g h t — former chief of
surgery — said that interns and
residents still have patient res-ponsibility
at Confederate.
Also greeting the students
were Robert C. Hall, acting
director, and State Senator C.
Kay Carter.
Carter told the group — which
included members of the medi-cal
s c h o ol and Confederate
staff and physicians in private
p r a c t i ce — that the new
Confederate board of directors
had "shown more enthusiasm in
three months than the other
board had shown in 20 years."