From This Week in Pittsburgh 3 May 1940.
The convention of Hospital Association of
Pennsylvania which convenes next Wednesday (8) will bring to Pittsburgh
hospital executives from throughout the entire state.
Almost 300 hospitals are members of Hospital Association of Pennsylvania.
The association acts as the medium of expression for the hospitals
throughout Pennsylvania. This impending convention will provide the
administrators, trustees and all other officials of Pennsylvania
hospitals an opportunity to discuss common problems of vital interest to
the public welfare.
Few persons realize the surprising extent to which the hospitals of
the Keystone State serve the public. On an average day there are
approximately 80,000 persons in this state occupying hospital beds.
An increasing amount of interest is being shown by the public toward the
hospitals. Formerly only a comparatively small percentage of persons
exhibited interest in the hospitals, this despite the fact that no
community is any more modern than its hospitals. Such an attitude
frequently led the ill to postpone hospitalization with the result that
serious harm resulted. Illness which if not submitted to hospital
treatment in time, became greatly aggravated as a result of such delay.
Hospital Association of Pennsylvania is cognizant of the need of
placing hospitalization on as wide a scope as possible. Due to this
realization the association has approved officially the non-profit group
hospitalization plan now in operation throughout the entire Pittsburgh
district as well as in other parts of the state.
A Pittsburgher, Abraham Oseroff, is president of the Hospital Association
of Pennsylvania.