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Friday. October 23, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Outmoded Watkins 'Doing Well'
By FRANK SLOVER Kansan Staff Writer
In 1931, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Watkins gave the Watkins Memorial Hospital in Memphis to a group of her husband at a cost of just $25 million. The department of Housing and Urban Development pledged almost $3.5 million over a period of 35 years to finance a new hospital.
Watkins Memorial, heralded as a model of university health facilities because of its student population of fewer than 4,500. The service now handles many employees are taken into account. For an outmoded institution, Watkins does very well for itself. It has records and records not one away from its clinic. It is open 24 hours a day and has leap year—and there is always a doctor on the premises or on call. There are facilities for mental health and physical therapy as well as clinics for examinations and
THE BIGGEST problem is in finding doctors. According to the medical school each physician, the hospital should have 18 doctors; it has 11, and two of whom are part time. The health service says, the greatest hiring hurdle is the low salary classification. Currently, the starting salary is $34,000 less than a doctor can make in private practice or industry. That is figure is not exact. Schweitzer believes that new classification will limit initial salary offers to a totally different number.
"I believe that the salary scale should start at over $20,000," he said, "and they're having trouble doing doctors at that price in Illinois.
He went on to note that there was always some motivation other than money that attracted doctors to university work. Most
of the doctors are middle aged and may want to avoid night work or house calls or just enjoy working with students.
As Dr. W. L. Anderson put it,
"I'm probably earning one-fifth
the money and having five times
the fun that I did working in in-
terns."
Anderson sits on the emergency Committee and acts as athletic medic in addition to his regular Watkins chores.
THE REST OF THE Watkins staff is not under the same duress as the physicians but, with over 18,455 of 1831, nobody has a slack job. According to Mrs. J. Eugene Fox, an accountant in charge of purchasing, there is always work required by the system, then it's a reorganization of records or procedure. She pointed out that most of the student bodies have a microfilm because of the shortage of storage space. This includes clinical records for every student since the founding of the institution only be released with the written permission of the individual involved and are useful as medical doctors and insurance companies.
The morale of the staff is high. The turnover is low, considering that many of the employees are on vacation and move on after graduation.
Tenures of over ten years are common in the clerical, nursing and kitchen staff as well as the medical personnel.
"Everybody's content . . . it'a a nice place to work . . . we're just big on happy family ,' typify the employees about the hospital.
Perhaps the biggest—and only-complaint is the lack of space and that can only be cured by the introduction of a new which is scheduled to start in 1971. The new health service will be housed in a building planned for a student population of 20,000 people and will have more clinical space to be added.
THE KITCHEN is a case in point. Everything runs smoothly
but casual observation show-
ing of the patient, ventilation and wound-
hyde inadequate and there is barely enough room for the staff to be able to work effectively.
In addition, Mrs. Marcela Williams, head dietitian, noted that to reach the dining room fire she had to open the kitchen, which was already hard pressed to serve the 130 employees of Watkins, the nearly 30 impatiens and the outpatients in the kitchen and eat in the Watkins cafeteria.
She tries to stick to one menu,
which is a compromise between
"what they want and what's good
for them."
The menu is served to everybody in the hospital with the appropriate changes made for those with special diets. An attempt is made to change the menu, please as many people as possible.
The salaries for the clerical and nursing staff as well as the technicians and physical therapists are determined by the hourly rate. If employees receive less payment, because they are hired on an hourly basis but have the advantage of being able to arrange meals in their schedules," according to Judy Phillips of the business office.
NURSES RECEIVE regular salaries but are not given extra compensation for night work or long time. One of the benefits of working in the University is the slack period during the breaks, but this has diminished lately as students leave. Lawrence between semesters. There is room for 40 inpatients on the second and third floor of
Currently, 15 to 20 students are using the facilities. Some of the students may have difficulty or inflexuza and require close attention. Another strain on the student is the position of the floor clinic which is always busy and handles between 200 and 300 patients.
registered nurse at Watkins
Both she and Schweiger said that they hoped the civil service people would act soon on the request for some new numbers for nurses. Each civil service number is a number and to acquire the numbere
The health service is funded entirely from student fees but some students have made, ratification is necessary from officials either on campus or in Topeka. Each machine must be found to be valid before the actual purchase is made. The student fee period of time, from the student fees up to $8 per semester, may be off the HUD-supported bonds.
ONE PERSON who got new machines is Jacqueline King, head of physical therapy and a graduate in physical therapy department is one of the equipped units of its size in the area. The staff of *competent*, her team according to Miss King, She believes that one of the reasons Watkins can now attract students from declaciation has allowed the payment of salaries equal to those of other physical therapists and as a result the average going rate, as in previous years. Although the training cramped for space, it handles everybody who needs its service and can usually begin a program as soon as the patient applies for
The University health service continues to function smoothly despite its financial restraints. The new hospital should aid in the resolution of most of these diffe- rent challenges, such as space enlargeled staff and, perhaps, some operational streamlining through computer systems. It is doubtful that the service now available at Watkins can be upgraded drastically except in cases of physical surroundings.
Interlopers
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Two the temporary buildings that have infested the University of Kansas campus since early this
year sit in probably the most prominent spots on campus—right under the shadow of Fraser Hall. University officials said this summer that the buildings were erected to save money and denied that their locations were purposely chosen to make them obvious.
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