The first national medical center under Jewish auspices in the United States will be established at Los Angeles, according to a decision adopted last night by more than 500 delegates attending the national convention here of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association.
The plans discussed at the convention provide that the Los Angeles Sanatorium, operated by the J.C.R.A., is to be expanded from an institution specializing in tuberculosis patients to a medical center treating all types of disease. The budget for the medical center was set at $7,215,000 to be raised and spent within two years.
The new center will contain a hospital equipped and staffed to diagnose and treat the various types of disease in a departmentalized set-up. In addition the center will include a medical school, a nurses school, and a research department. It will also participate in a national educational program for the promotion of good health.
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