DESCRIPTION:
Subject: Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Condition: Excellent (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: No
Year: Ca. 1910
Publisher: Unknown
"Outside the major cities, Uniontown Hospital Association was merely the most striking example of this change, reporting over two-thirds of its income from tax funds in 19 l0, but 90 percent from private patients by 1924. Hospitals lacking the large endowments of, say, Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia were heavily dependent on tax funds in the late nineteenth century. This dependence increased in the first decade of the twentieth century but then fell off rapidly as a proportion of budget as the contributions of private patients rose. By the mid- 1920s, most hospitals were getting the great majority of their income from patients, with the pattern most marked outside Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. As they became increasingly proficient at selling their services in the new market for hospital medicine, hospital budgets also expanded rapidly. At Jefferson Medical College Hospital, for example, annual state subsidies remained relatively constant between 1900 and the early l92Os; but the hospital expanded steadily on all fronts. Thus, state funds represented 42 percent of that hospital’s income in 1908, but only 17 percent of a much larger budget in 1923." (Attribution: http://books.google.com/books?id=aV_CDE3kRocC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36)
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