History - 1958

Rudolph Benson, Administrator of the Duluth Clinic was Chairman of Minnesota's 1958 meeting in Duluth.

"I remember a meeting at the Duluth Clinic with Dick Anderson.  He introduced me to pizza.  He learned to like it in Italy where he was a "bird" colonel in the Air Force (B-24s) at age 26-27.  One of the Duluth Clinic doctors gave an excellent talk on the history of the North Shore.  As a history buff, I remember it, but I don't know what the managers' meeting was about.  I assume the usual items."  (Robert Newell)

The Hutchinson Medical Center was founded in 1958 as were Southdale Ob/Gyn Consultants, PA, Edina; and Neurosurgical Associates Ltd., Minneapolis.  Glen Engwall was Hutchinson's first clinic manager, followed by Bob Otte and Brenda M. Maiers in later years.

The 32nd Annual Conference of NACM was held in Minneapolis on Oct. 18-22, 1958, under the leadership of President Floyd Detert of the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wis.  A preconference program was offered at the Mayo Clinic which clinic served as the official host of the conference.  State meetings were held as a part of the Minneapolis conference as well.  There reportedly was a very large registration of approximately 259 from among the more than 400 members then enrolled.

The first comment we have seen on state meetings in national material was a "Bulletin" report indicating that six or seven such one- or two-day informal meetings were held during the year.

Some subjects discussed during the conference included:

• Study and report carried out of Floyd Detert on a patient's story about a clinic visit;
  
• Brainstorming; and
  
• Professional corporations.
  
  

It was reported with some satisfaction, apparently, that "the NACM now has liaison with the AMA and the AAMC."

Minnesota members attending the national conference in Rochester and Minneapolis numbered 22 with Woodrow Glad from Worthington and James R. Streitz of the Mesaba Clinic both attending for the first time.

The Midwest Institute for Clinic Managers was held on May 17, 1958, at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis.  This was sponsored by the NACM and the American College of Clinic Managers in cooperation with Indiana University.  Donald W. Moore served as Chairman.  Budgeting appears to have been the principal subject of the conference.