Scudder Oration on Trauma. The accident hospital

Provision of prompt, skilled, cost-effective, and rehabilitation-oriented care for the injured worker is best achieved in a hospital with facilities and staff devoted exclusively to these purposes. As a semi-autonomous unit of a major medical center in or near a large metropolitan area, the accident hospital would assure the worker, his employer, and much of the general population the full range of skills and services essential to the treatment of both major and minor trauma at less cost than current or proposed methods.