RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD July 16
VO 140
IS 11
SP 965
OP 966
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900460035013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900460035013
AB ARMY 
    BEGIN JOINT STAFFING OF NAVAL HOSPITALS 
    Joint staffing of four Naval hospitals with Army medical personnel at St. Alban's Hospital, Long Island, N. Y.; Corona and Long Beach hospitals, California, and Portsmouth Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., was announced July 1 by the Surgeon General. The joint staffing of military hospitals was recommended by the Hawley Board last January in order to economize on physicians and other scarce professional personnel and to reduce the number of hospitals. Under the plan, hospitals of the respective services allocate a certain number of beds for patients from other services. A total of 825 beds has thus been made available in these four hospitals for Army and Air Force patients.Nine Army Medical Corps officers, including a pediatrician, an internist, a general surgeon, an orthopedic surgeon and five general duty physicians, are being assigned to St. Alban's Hospital, which has allocated 450 beds to