History - 1953

The Minnesota Association held its third Annual Conference in 1953, this being in Duluth under the direction of Rudolph Benson.  The program included a significant discussion of credit and collections.  In this year the Women and Children's Medical Center, St. Cloud, Minn., was founded.

NACM membership at that time, according to the proceedings, was 284.  Data are available by state.  California was first with 42; Illinois second with 25; Texas third with 16 and Minnesota fourth with 15.

The first issue of the NACM "Bulletin" was published for the 1953 conference.  Ed Stevens, who had put the first one together, volunteered to produce four more bulletins on a quarterly basis with no cost to the group.  It's obvious that Mr. Stevens was a prime mover in the early development of publications which have become so enormously important in serving the members, the public and in establishing an identity for the association.

The American College of Clinic Managers was incorporated in Minnesota in 1953.  It was changed to a Colorado corporation in 1975.

Major topics at the conference included:

• The Kintner decision; and
  
• Retirement and death benefits (noting the limited life of partnerships).
  
  

NACM sponsored an educational institute at the University of Illinois on the ABC's of Clinic Management in 1953.