Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
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Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
Medicine, Military; Military hospitals; World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
The personnel in the Reconstruction service is obtained through Central
Office from Civil Service register. When the Educational Director at a
hospital desires additional personnel he will make request through the
commanding officer of the hospital to Central Office direct, stating the
qualifications of individual required. Central Office will then make the
most advantageous assignment possible and order the individual to report
for duty at the designated station. In securing personnel for
dispensaries and for follow-up nursing, the request will come from the
officer in charge through the District Medical Officer and District
Manager to Central Office, stating the qualifications of individual
required. The Reconstruction Section will secure the name or names of
individuals and request the District Medical Service Section to secure
the appointment of the same through Personnel Division, and notify the
District Office of the date the same shall go on their payroll and the
amount of salary they shall receive. All personnel in the Reconstruction
service, except the Occupational Aides and Physiotherapy Aides in Public
Health Hospitals and Army Hospitals, will be on Central Office payroll.
This will include teachers and occupational aides.
_TRANSFERS_
Transfers of personnel in hospitals will be made by Central Office upon
the recommendation of the Commanding Officer and the Educational
Director. Transfers of personnel on the District Office payroll in
dispensaries and the follow-up nurses may be made within the District by
the District Manager. If it is an interdistrict transfer, the same must
be made by Central Office. All surplus personnel, either in hospitals,
National Soldiers’ Homes, or in District Office, or in Sub-District
Office, should be reported promptly to Central Office.
_COMMUNICATIONS_
All communications from Central Office to personnel in a hospital will
be routed through the Medical Officer in Charge of hospital. All
communications from personnel in a hospital will be sent through the
Commanding Officer to proper destination. All communications to
personnel in Reconstruction Section outside of hospitals will be sent
through the District Manager to its destination. All communications from
personnel outside of hospitals within a District shall be sent through
the District Manager to its destination.
_SUPERVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND PRE-VOCATIONAL TRAINING_
There shall be a sufficient number of supervisors of Occupational
Therapy and Pre-Vocational Training employed and placed on Central
Office payroll to properly supervise the work in all districts. Their
duties shall be to supervise the work under the direction of Central
Office, to keep Central Office fully advised as to the condition of the
work and the needs of each reconstruction center they visit, and to
recommend any changes in personnel, giving reasons for recommendations.
_PHYSIOTHERAPY_
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