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History 1960 - 1965 |
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For about 10 years all was more or less peaceful and calm on the "building front" and then in 1959 the need for new and modernized patient and special service areas became acute. Plans were formulated and the building of the five-story West Wing began.
The changes from this point on were rapid - first, came the completion of West 2 and 3 and the closing of C and D Wards. Surgery, X-ray, Urology, and Emergency Units were opened on the first floor of the new wing. The old Surgery was completely renovated and the Laboratory occupied these two floors, including the A Ward Sunporch which housed the Blood Bank. West 4 was completed and Wards A and B were closed. D Ward and part of C Ward were renovated and offices moved in. The ground floor of the Maternity Wing was completely renovated, for the offices of Administration, Purchasing, Dietary, Chief Engineer and Director of Volunteers.
At their January 1963 meeting, the hospital's Board of Trustees authorized the architect to prepare final drawings and specifications for a two-story addition to the hospital. The construction entailed a new front lobby, a separate enclosed ramp for discharging patients by wheelchair, a conference room above the new lobby, a new telephone switchboard room, a chapel, coffee and gift shops, public rest rooms, renovated admitting office and patient waiting area and a doctors' parking lot.
The entire project cost was approximately $320,000. A Federal grant for $75,000 toward this construction was received from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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