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LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER.
EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1963
$834,000 Fund Drive Ready to Roll
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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
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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
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LEONARD JACOBSON
Medical GiW Chairman
HARRY RUBENSTEIN
Heads Medical Center
Foundation
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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.
A professional community
fund raising organization, the
American City Bureau, with
head offices in Chicago, 111.,
has been retained to assist in
tho fund campaign. The
American City Bureau has
helped conduct some 8,000
community campaigns, in
cluding more than 400 hos
pital fund campaigns.
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A successful community campaign will bring about the expansion
CmiiriA Plan outlined here for Sacred Heart General Hospital in Eugene,
VJIUUIIU fae ncw facilities would be added to the south o the existing
hospital. E. 12th Avenue presently on an alignment witn me
Plan
main entrance above would be closed for the one-block strip
and other buildings razed to make way for the nursing wing and
parking lot. .
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