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Marketing Meeting
The second meeting of those interested in exploring the possibilities of furthering Production and Marketing of home products, sponsored by the Extension Service will be held Monday March 11 at 8:00 p. m. in the Trinity Parish Hall. Considerable interest was generated at the initial meeting on February 25th. A cordial invitation is extended to all persons concerned in developing such a program to ajtend this meeting/
State-Local
Hospitalization
Program Explained
By M. E. Buntin
The unpleasant news that our county was unable to authorize hospital care for an indigent pneumonia victim this past week - end has raised questions about our hospital program. Why is it * that funds should be exhausted so early in the year? Are we going to let people die? What can be done about it? The program in question is known as the State-Local !_ Hospitalization Program. Now that hospital bills for welfare cases are paid from the same federally matched funds as are usedfor grants, the SLH Program has become a program for the medically indigent. This group of people does not receive welfare; usually they ! are self-supporting but do i not earn enough to be able ! to pay large medical and i hospital bills. They cannot | afford to carry hospital insurance. A good many elderly people living on minimum Social Security benefits come within this group. 1 State funds for the SLH Program are allocated on the basis of population. In the present fiscal year we received $948. in State funds. Our local appropriation of $1000. gave us matched funds of $1896. with a little left over. This seems like an ample sum, but consider for a moment the per diem rates we pay under contracts negotiated with all surrounding community hospitals as well as the University of Virginia. These rates range from $21.16 per patient day ' to $26.29, which is the maximum allowed by the State at the present time. The rate at the University of Virginia Hospital is $26.29. People often ask us why we don't use the hospitals with the lowest rates. The majority of our cases go to the University of Virginia for several reasons. The outpatient clinics there, which are free to welfare recipients and the medically indigent, have complete facilities for diagnosis and
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