After completion of the third floor of the new hospital, the delivery room moved to a small room beside the operating room. Because of the current competition from a maternity hospital on 8th and Bemidji Avenue, obstetric patients were given up to ten days of room care and delivery room services for a flat rate of $35. Money was scarce and hard to collect at these prices.
Information from the recollections of Dr. Vandersluis, archives of the Beltrami County History Center.