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Medicare does a good job of taking care of the elderly once they are ill, but the seven-year-old program provides little in the way of regular preventive care. A 67-bed community hospital in Prosser (pop. 3,000), in southeastern Washington, has come up with a unique service to fill this gap. It provides those over 65 with monthly checkups at a bargain-basement price of only $6 per year...
...Prosser plan lies in using the institution's staff and facilities at off times. "Hospitals have peak periods when all of the personnel are at work," explains Hospital Administrator Larry Mclntyre, who developed the plan with the institution's chief of staff, Dr. Gustav Bansmer. "But there are other times when a lot of them are just standing around, so when we utilize that time there is no added cost." To take advantage of these slack periods, the hospital requires patients to make appointments in advance...
Social Occasion. If test results indicate that a patient needs treatment, he is immediately referred to his own physician. Bansmer believes that the monthly examinations will enable doctors to detect early signs of illness in patients who frequently do not get regular checkups. In addition, many members of Prosser's eldercare program look forward to the monthly hospital outings as social occasions that give them a chance to see friends...
...Prosser, Wash...
...page 129 of his titillating roman a clef, Comparative Animal Physiology, Professor C. Ladd Prosser writes...