RT Journal
A1 Moore F
T1 ANnual congress on medical education and licensure
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD March 25
VO 112
IS 12
SP 1185
OP 1189
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.62800120014030
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.62800120014030
AB COUNCIL ON MEDICAL EDUCATION AND HOSPITALS 
    February 13—AfternoonSYMPOSIUM ON THE SMALL HOSPITAL 
    The Community Hospital 
    Mr. Barry C. Smith, New York: 
    This paper will be published in full in The Journal.The Small Hospital: Organization and Management 
    Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern, Chicago: 
    In the present discussion I shall mean by the small hospital one which cannot, for various reasons, supply within itself complete diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. Usually its bed capacity is less than fifty, but under some circumstances a hospital of seventy-five or a hundred beds may justly be placed in the small hospital class. Not many governmentally owned hospitals fall into this class. Occasionally a community may through its organized government build and maintain such a hospital, but usually the small hospital is owned and operated by a church, a fraternal order or the community through some organization other than the community government and is spoken of