Griffin Memorial Hospital
Recipient Of Foundation Gift
The Griffin Memorial Hospital
announced today that it had re
ceived a check for $5,000 from the
Ford Foundation, half of its share
of the Foundation’s $200,000,000
grant program to assist the na
tion’s 3500 voluntary, nonprofit
hospitals to improve and extend
their services. The balance of the
gift is expected to be paid next
year.
Under the terms of the grant,
final decisions as to the use of
the money is left to the hospital s
governing board. The only condi
tion made by the Foundation in
its original announcement of the
grant program last December 12,
was that the funds could not be
used for repaying past obligations
or “operating expenses for ser
vices currently being performed
by hospitals.”
Sister St. Dorothy, administra
tor of the Griffin Memorial Hos
pital, said that in making the
formal application for the grant,
it had informed the Foundation of
possible uses of the money. These
included the establishment of a
laboratory, and the purchase of a
new x-ray machine, a late model
put out by the General Electric
Company which will increase the
efficiency and range of the diag
nostic x-ray department.
The flexibility of the grant was
indicated in the Foundation an
nouncement which permitted the
hospital to use its gift in any area
of hospital service, including, for
example, attainment of accredita
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tion, disaster planning, mental
illness, prematurety, rehabilita
tion, handicapped children, pre
ventative or diagnostic services,
outpatient care, or any other area
which in the opinion of the hos
pital’s governing board, would
best serve its community.
Sister St. Dorothy hailed the
gift as "one of the greatest votes
of confidence ever placed in our
voluntary hospital system. It now
becomes our duty to see that this
money is put to the best possible
use for the benefit of our people.
“The modern hospital is a tre
mendously complex center of
health services. Its responsibility
is to keep pace with medical
science so that the accomplish
ments of the scientists are trans
lated into patient care. The fi
nancial problems of hospitals
have grown particularly acute dur
ing the past decade. It has become
increasingly difficult to find the
funds to improve and extend our
services to the extent possible in
the light of our present know
ledge. The Ford gift permits us
to do things which we undoubtedly
could not have done without the
Foundation's generosity."
Dr„ Edwin L. Crisby, director of
the American Hospital Association
said in Chicago that “the grants
chould be considered ‘seed money,’
money which, if wisely expended,
will bring greater community un
derstanding of total hospital needs
and greater support for their so
lution. The Ford grants are muni
ficient indeed but they cannot
meet the total needs of our com
munity hospitals.”
Mr. H. Rowan Gaither, Jr<, presi
dent of the Ford Foundation, said
in New York: “The trustees of the
F’ord Foundation seriously consid
ered requiring matching funds lor
the December grants, but decided
not to do so on the grounds that
it might precipitate a disorderly
scramble and choatic competition
in fund raising, and that this
might in the end delay rather
than hasten effective results. The
Foundation’s recent grants are
therefore not matching grants.
But we hope they may be regard
ed as challenge grants, by those
who traditionnally support the in
stitutions receiving them.”
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