Baptists Raise Funds to Treat Needy Poor, 1958

“Baptist Churches Will Make Contributions to Hospital,” from the Wednesday, May 7, 1958, issue of The Tabor City Tribune. "Forty percent of hospital's patient days devoted to those who had to have financial assistance."

Members of 44 churches of the Columbus Baptist Association will join with those of some 3,200 other Baptist Churches in North Carolina in making contributions to Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem on Mother’s Day, May 11, Rev. P.C. Gantt, pastor of Tabor City Baptist Church said today.
The offering given by North Carolina Baptists each Mother’s Day is for the support of the hospital’s extensive program for the medical care and hospitalization of the needy sick.

Last year, about 40 percent of the hospital’s patient days were devoted to those who had to have financial assistance, Rev. Mr. Gantt pointed out. In addition, out-patient clinics operated to serve these patients, handled 58,766 visits from patients representing 92 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The 15,910 bed patients admitted to the hospital in the year received a total of 125,033 days of hospital care.

Each year brings an increase in the number of patients needing help from the Mother’s Day fund, Rev. Mr. Gantt said, adding that figures released by the hospital show that in the decade of 1948 to 1958, visits to the out-patient department grew from 36,965 in 1948 to 58,766 last year.