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M. '). ".; frfr-v Section D Films, TV, Radio LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1963 $834,000 Fund Drive Ready to Roll 1 Hospital Expansion To Benefit By DAN WYANT Of the Register Gumrd A community campaign to raise $834,000 to help finance a $2.5 million expansion proj ect at Sacred Heart Hospital will be launched soon. The money will be used, along with a $665,000 federal grant and mortgages on pres ent hospital property, to fi nance an addition which will provide 95 additional patient beds, a new maternity depart ment, a larger emergency de partment and other new fa cilities. The new addition will be built on the south side of 12th Avenue, across the street from the present Sacred Heart structure. The Eugene City Council has already approved the closing of 12th Avenue from Hilyard to Alder to per mit the expansion project, in exchange for future street right-of-way for a connector cutting across hospital proper ty at 13th and Alder. Although the formal public campaign won't get underway until May 15, groundwork for the drive is already well es tablished. Calvin R. Smith was named general chairman of the cam paign last fall. Most division chairmen have been appoint ed. Additional volunteer work ers are currently being re- cruited. Between now and May 15, the campaign workers will approach some of Lane Coun ty's larger businesses and in atitutions for advance pledges. And starting about April 30, the 173 doctors on the hos pital staff, plus hospital em ployes, will be asked for pledges. Dr. Leonard Jacobson, chairman of the medical gifts t - 1rW.Tr. U,r; - ! fm '-'t .i -'' "S-f i- U rJ U 1 J A ?J-: fTSa rrri "rtq rTjj ctss mm -v.- Lit; ri rrriv: 1 ' "-! V,,;' M ' -i i T, , ir m, TTT .i .1 Looking West From Alder Street at Future Sacred Heart Complex of New and Old Buildings as Architects Envision It division of the campaign, said this week the doctors alone will have a goal of $250,000 or almost one-third the total community campaign goal. The official public cam paign will open at a May 15 dinner meeting to which some 700 community leaders will be invited. "Project One," has been selected as the campaign name. It is a phrase intended to indicate that the current expansion program is only the first part of a long-range de velopment program. Smith, who heads the cam paign, has been active. in nu merous community projects and serves as a director of the Eugene Water Sc Electric Board. He retired in 1960 as manager of the J. C. Penney Co. Store in Eugene, a post he held for 17 of his 35 years with Pcnney's. The associate chairmen working with Smith will be ' Merv Dahl and R. A. Kron enberg. Advance gifts division chairmen include Foster An derson, J. O. Julson, James Kilpatrick and E. H. "Ted" Wood. LaVera George and I. G. Jackson are co-chairmen of the hospital employes di vision. Dick Williams heads the national firms division; Thax- . ter Reed is chairman of the community gifts division; Mrs. E. C. (Hope) Pressman will serve as chairman of the clubs and organization divi sion. The campaign will be con ducted through the Sacred Heart Medical Center Founda tion, a non-profit organiza tion formed last fall by the Lay Advisory Board. Wil liams heads the hospital's 15 member Lay Advisory Board, which helps give local guid ance to the hospital adminis tration. The new Medical Center Foundation was organized not only to provide funds for the current expansion project but also to take on other projects ' helping in the development of Sacred Heart as southwest ern Oregon's number one medical center. The founda tion's 10-member board of trustees is headed by Harry Rubenstcin, who is also a member of the Lay Advisory Board. Functioning under the Med ical Center Foundation is the "Founders Assn.," headed by Arthur S. Flemming, Univer sity of Oregon president. This group consists of several hun dred community lcadors who have indicated a willingness to function as a large public relations body for the hos pital campaign, ' .Other groups which assist in the hospital's development Hospital Addition to Meet Needs Projected by Study R. CALVIN R. SMITH General Campaign Chairman MERV DAHL Associate Chairmen for Drive A. KRONENBERG 7 DOCTOR LEONARD JACOBSON Medical GiW Chairman HARRY RUBENSTEIN Heads Medical Center Foundation ARTHUR S. FLEMMING Founder Ajsn. Head iS Ul Cl r?R 'tr (ft 1 I If II If 1 Ml V T: J- t Anderson Baker Mrs. George Jackson Julson Kilpatrick f .a u . - Willi WaWkJl Wm A $2.5-million addition planned for Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene will enable the medical center to meet anticipated growth demands projected by a comprehensive survey last year. The survey was carried out for the hospital by Stanford Re search Institute. The proposed addition, calling for facilities for 95 additional patient beds, will be the first phase of a long range program that fits into the Oregon State Board of Health's, master plan. Sacred Heart is designated as the base hospital for southwestern Oregon the only base hospital in the state outside Portland. ' ' . The expansion, which involves the closing of 12lh Avenue from Hilyard to Alder will include construction of a new three-story wing south of the present building, with a two-story addition attached to the new wing. Lobbies will link the exist ing structure with the new additions. The main entrance of the hospital will be located in the lobby section built across what is now 12th Avenue, so that the main entrance faces east onto Alder Street. 1 The first floor of the new wing will be devoted to expanded emergency and out-patient treatment facilities, plus administra tion offices. The second floor will contain maternity beds and nursery facilities. The third floor will be for medical and surgical beds. , The second new structure, just south of the three-story wing, will have the new maternity delivery wing on Us second floor. The first floor will be used Initially for storage. Later it will be developed for nursing school classrooms or clinical use. After the addition is completed, the hospital's present ma ternity wing the original part of the hospital will be torn down. . ., Largely of wood frame construction, the building was con structed in 1924 as Pacific Christian Hospital. It no longer meets state hospital standards. The space now occupied by the old maternity wing will be used for parking. Of the 95 new beds which the addition will accommodate, 45 will be in the new obstetrical or maternity department. The hospital's present maternity wing provides for 30 beds. The new maternity wing will have an initial bassinet capacity of 56 compared to the present maximum capacity of 46 bassinets. Even in the present inadequate obstetrical department, some 2,447 new babies were ushered into the world last year. By 1965 this figure is expected to exceed 3,000 births per year and by 1970, the projected annual full-term delivery rate will be in excess of 3,500. An innovation In the new addition will be the creation of an 11-bed "intensive caro unit." Here, critically ill patients and those with extended recovery periods from surgical oper ations will receive continual, close attention. To equip and in stall this section with the special facilities needed will cost somewhere around $26,000 per patient bed. One of the most hard-pressed departments in the present hospital building is the emergency department. There more than 60 per cent of all adult medical patients are admitted. Over 9,000 people received outpatient treatment last year in its two small treatment rooms. Emergency facilities in the new wing will include three surgical rooms for emergency surgical procedures and eight small individual treatment rooms. The new emergency depart ment will have x-ray facilities and will have a "cast room" for application and removal of casts a function which must now be performed in one of the operating rooms. At some future time a new surgical wing will ilso be built Klamath Falls Workers 1 Set Sights on Million Community campaign workers seeking funds for a new hospital in Klamath Falls this week topped their original campaign goal of $725,000 and decided to shoot for a million dollars. The Klsmath Falls Herald and News said the campsign total reached slightly more than J7S5.00Q by lnursaay. General Chairman Jim Stilwell said the campsign will con- j tinue in an effort to raise at least $1 million toward the total cost of almost $3 million. ' The campaign seeks cash donations and pledges for the Prabyterian Intercommunity Hospital, to be located near the new Oregon Technical Institute campus. A federal grant is expected to provide the balance needed for the new hospital. Klamath Falls currently has two smaller hospitals, both several decides old. Both the present hospitals are private ly operated by groups of doctors. on the south side of 12th Avenue facing onto Hilyard. This project Is not part of the current program, however. The hospital last summer remodeled its surgical corridor and present facilities are expected to be satisfactory for the next five years. The $2.5-million current project will be financed by a $665, 000 grant from federal government Hill-Burton funds, from $1 million, which the hospital can provide from mortgages on its prcsont property, and from a $834,000 community funds cam paign. This campaign will get under way in May. The target for start of construction is Aug. 1. .' A $750,000 student nurse dormitory, to be erected at the corner of 11th and Patterson Street, is being financed through another federal loan. The loan will be repaid by fees charged the students. The dormitory Is entirely unlnvolvcd with the projected fund drive since no contributions will be needed for its con struction. The four-story dormitory will house 150 student nurses. Sacred Heart's school of nursing, the only such school remain ing In the state outside the Portland area, now has about 100 students. Sacred Heart General Hospital is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark, N.J., with guidance from a local Lay Advisory Board of 15 business and professional people. The hospital is a medical center for all southwestern Oregon, providing facilities for diagnosis, treatment, and re search. Its medical staff of 173 physicians includes specialists in all medical fields. The hospital has a present capacity of 260 beds. Last year, 13,728 patients were hospitalized at Sacred Heart, with an average patient stay of 5.5 days. The hospital's 1962 fiscal payroll was $1,768,228 and approximately $1 million more was spent in the community for supplies and utilities. program include the Medical -Center Foundation's Hospital . Affairs Committee, headed by Mrs. John Warren, and the . Medical Center Foundation' Development Council, headed by Lynn McCready. Under the Hospital Affairs Committee, three separata , councils function. They are the Physicians' Council, head ed by Jacobson; the Em ployee' Council, headed by Mrs. George and Jackson; and the Women's Guild Coun cil, headed by Mrs. Donald- Malsnn Under the Development Council are tour separate committees, they include . a Public Relations Committee, headed by Paul Lansdowne;. membership Committee, headed by Edwin M. Baker . and L. H. Williams, an Audits and Reports Commit tee, headed by Marvin Piquet; and a Speaker's Bureau . . . , headed by Carl Fisher. : . , Heading up the Medical ' Center Foundation's Cam paign Advisory Committee . will be Alton F. Baker Jr. , Activities of the Medical Center Foundation are ex pected to go beyond the cur rent fund raising campaign.' Future projects may include such programs as establish- . ing an annual medical clinic, endowments for medical re search, scholarships for in terns and nurses, and other projects. 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