Cone Hospital review [July, 1979]

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Moses Cone Hospital
iGreensboro, North Carolinai
New Trustee
EN. P. Hayes,
■ Jr., Vice-President
S?§H and Secretary of
I Carolina Steel Cor-
'm JH poration, was elec-
I ted to the hospital's
I Board of Trustees
I at the annual meet-
Bing of the board
held May 2 at the hospital. He succeeds his father, N. P. Hayes, who
has served as a trustee of the hospital
since 1965.
Mr. Hayes, Jr., a Greensboro native, is a graduate of Woodberry
Forest School, Orange, Virginia, and
of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Later he served in the U.
S. Navy as an officer aboard the aircraft carrier Essex.
Active in civic activities, Hayes is
President of the Board of Design
Foundation at North Carolina State
College.
Hospital To Have
Chaplain
As an expansion of services to patients, Moses Cone Hospital soon
will have a full-time chaplain on its
healthcare team.
Trustees Mrs. Robert Taylor and
Mrs. Britt Armfield, working with
representatives from the Women's
Auxiliary, have developed a chaplaincy program plan, and are interviewing for the position.
The hospital chaplain will be available to any patient faced with a crisis
or grief situation or to a distressed
family, to offer comfort, understanding and strength.
The medical staff and hospital personnel who care for patients live
daily with stress. These professionals
will be able to turn to another professional, the hospital chaplain, as
another resource for developing coping mechanisms.
The chaplain will not replace the
family minister, but will add another
dimension to hospital ministry by
serving in a resource and support
capacity to the family pastor.
New Business Offices
July, 1979
Moving day for Business Office personnel.
Business office personnel moved
into new quarters in the renovated
portion of the 1900 wing in mid-May.
The space formerly occupied by data
processing and the insurance and collection sections of accounting, also in
the 1900 wing, is presently being remodeled and will provide office
space for data processing and the
general accounting and payroll staff.
The business office staff of 43, including accountants, bookkeepers,
insurance and payroll clerks, and
data processing personnel, assist
Controller Don Mitchell with all the
hospital's financial transactions.
The general accounting section,
headed by Hal Simpson, processes
and disburses all accounts payable,
prepares monthly and quarterly financial statements, and quarterly
departmental budget comparisons.
In addition, they prepare Medicare
and Medicaid interim and final cost
reports, reports to other agencies, the
bi-weekly payroll for 1430
employees, and are responsible for
maintaining the inventory records of
building and equipment and applicable depreciation.
Payments are received and posted
to patient accounts by the credit and
collection section, which is supervised by James Lane. Personnel in
this section correspond with insurance companies where coordination
of benefits is involved, and they
make arrangements for delinquent
accounts to be paid. Cashiers accept
payments and help make final arrangements for payment of patient
accounts at the time of discharge.
The insurance section, supervised
by Dalton Beamon, files all insurance
claims for commercial companies,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
Medicaid, Medicare and other sponsoring agencies.
Ken Gimlin coordinates the data
processing operation where inpatient
and Emergency Room admissions,
outpatient registrations, as well as
daily charges from other hospital departments are keypunched. This section, working two shifts, also
keypunches accounts payable distributions.
In addition to overseeing these
four sections, Mitchell is responsible
for the hospital's endowment accounts and the pension and tax deferred annuity plan. He also prepares
an annual budget for approval by the
Board of Trustees, and effective this
year, the budget must be submitted
to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
North Carolina.
Linda  Westcott  working  in  new  cashier
area.
High Cost of Health Care?
According to the North Carolina
Hospital Association, from 1967 to
1977 hospital costs climbed 194
percent; physicians' fees 214 percent; legal fees 220 percent; postal
fees 226 percent; Social Security
taxes 308 percent; HEW budget
364 percent; the federal budget 400
percent; and the cost of running
congress 422 percent!