| Doctors, | 1 | to every | 20 patients |
| Nurses, | 1 | to every | 10 patients |
| Occupational Therapists, | 1 | to every | 50 patients |
| Social Workers, | 1 | to every | 50 patients |
| Vocational and Prevocational trainers and assistants | 14 | to every | hospital of 200 patients |
| Other hospital employees. | 130 | ||
Making a total of 182 employees to every 200 patients, or almost one attendant and assistant to each patient.
This arrangement provides that all patients will have equal care and attention of such a similar type as to guarantee to all classes of patients the best of professional, nurse and domiciliary attention that can be given, no matter in what Department they are being treated.
All of the Departments constituting the Board of Hospitalization are now meeting in joint sessions, wherein they take up in detail all of the matters pertaining to the welfare of the Veteran Hospitalization subject. Out of this consideration there is developing a much better understanding, a more complete system of operation, better conduct and much better end-results.
One of the objects of this conference is that you the better understand by personal contact with each other and with the different phases of the work, what the business of caring for these veterans in its entirety means. We know of course that you each have your special problems, you each have certain affairs within yourselves that keep your attention very much engaged in the things with which you come personally in contact, but we thought it would give you a better impression of the magnitude and importance of the subject if we were to have you here where those who are responsible for the direction of the affairs of Hospitalization could meet you individually.
We want you to know that we are greatly interested in you and the service you are rendering. We wish you to feel assured that your interests are our interests. We wish to impress upon you that the conduct of the affairs under your administration means the reputation and the historical record of the Government’s treatment of the World War veteran.
We are anxious indeed that you should get from this meeting inspiration for better work and encouragement in the efforts that you are putting forth, new ideas with which to meet the great and everchanging propositions which are before you, closer touch with those who, like yourselves, are interested in the World War defenders. This accomplished and each of us will have benefited and the expense of time and money in your coming here will be justified.
Your contact here should make you bigger and broader men. If you will take out of the great opportunities that are presented in the privileges of this meeting, the effects which may be obtained, we are sure that you will go back to your respective fields of service better satisfied, more capable and certainly more determined than ever to render the best service there is within you under all circumstances and conditions.
It seems pertinent that I should impress upon you at this time that no matter what kind of institutions the Government may possess, how well equipped with apparatus, or how pleasing in location, without your interest, without the scientific care and attention which you can provide, without your determination and your loyal support and action in all of the affairs pertaining to the conduct of these institutions, they will fail.
On the other hand, if you will give them the best within you, if you will keep yourselves professionally and administratively in the vanguard of such affairs, if you will go whole-heartedly, persistently and determinedly forward to the carrying out of the highest ideals your constructive visions can invent, the world War Veteran will realize that in his Government he has the care and appreciation of the best Government under the sun.