JULIES REGUliATIONS 
ot 
The Out=Patient Department 
of 
Bellevue Hospital General Medical Super 
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
OF 
The Out-Patient Department 
OF 
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL The Out= Patient Department Of 
Bellevue Hospital. 
1. The Out-Patient Department of Bellevue Hospital shall be 
under the authority, supervision and control of the Executive 
Committee of the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital. 
2. The Out-Patient Department shall be divided into the same 
number of divisions as exist in the Hospital, and said divisions 
shall be known in corresponding numerical order. 
3. Upon nomination by the Nominating Committee of each 
Divisional Visiting Staff of the Hospital, joining with the Com- 
mittee on Nominations from the Board of Trustees, there shall be 
appointed by the Board of Trustees and definitely assigned to 
duty on each division of the Out-Patient Department, Physicians 
and Surgeons and Assistant Physicians and Assistant Surgeons 
to Out-Patients. The term of office of all appointees shall be for 
one year. 
THE SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE OUT- 
PATIENT DEPART M E XT. 
There shall be a Supervisory Committee appointed annually 
in January from among the Physicians and Surgeons of the Out- 
Patient Department by the Executive Committee of Bellevue 
Hospital. It shall have supervisory charge over the Out-Patient 
Department. By supervision and instructions it shall cause to 
be executed all the rules and regulations governing the Department. 
The Supervisory Committee shall take cognizance of and report 
to the Executive Committee of Bellevue Hospital all infractions of the rules and regulations of the Department on the part of any 
members of the Medical Staff, nurses or attendants. 
The Supervisory Committee shall exercise control over the 
granting of requisitions for medical and surgical supplies to be 
used in the Out-Patient Department. 
The Supervisory Committee shall compile each month com- 
parative tables of the amount of medical and surgical supplies 
used in each class of the Department, together with a statement 
of the attendance of the members of the entire medical staff. 
Copies of said tables shall be sent to the Executive Committee of 
Bellevue Hospital and shall also be posted upon the bulletin board 
in the Out-Patient Department. 
The Supervisory Committee shall carefully inspect the monthly 
comparative statement of the use of medical and surgical supplies, 
and shall recommend those measures that shall tend to insure due 
economy in the administration of the Department. 
The Supervisory Committee bv its action shall insure the 
recording and preservation of the medical histories of the patients 
of the Out-Patient Department to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee on Clinical Records of Bellevue Hospital. 
A member of the Supervisory Committee may approve the 
granting of a leave of absence to a member of the subordinate 
medical staff of the Out-Patient Department. The application 
for leave shall name a duly qualified substitute accepted by the 
superior medical officer in charge of the class. No Physician or 
Surgeon, Assistant Physician or Assistant Surgeon, shall quit his 
post of duty on leave of absence till he has been notified by the 
Superintendent of the Hospital that his application for leave has 
been granted by the Board of Trustees. Leaves of absence granted 
by the Board of Trustees shall he made a matter of record by the 
Supervisory Committee.