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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1958)
Price 10 Cents 53rd Year moi RIBUNE Special Section Special Section Me Pages 1-8 United Press Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1958 United Press Full Leased Wire M eoTrn tr d i rf fr Five yeai-s of planning and two years of actual construction will be realized this week end Iby the board of directors and administrators of Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, and valley resi dents who contributed time and financial aid. A new hospital, costing about $2,800,000, will be dedicated in ceremonies at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the three-story building at the corner of Barnett and Murphy rds. Following cere monies, tours will be conducted by medical staff members, the hospital auxiliary, and founders' group during an open house. Guided tours and an open house also are' scheduled Sunday. The hospital originated almost 40 years ago as a small, private institution with only a few beds. The new structure has a present capacity of 80 beds, but the central corp of the facilities will provide for a hospital of 150 beds. Public subscriptions totaling about $900,000 came from 3,300 individuals throughout the val ley. Private donors contributed $1,309,700 to ita construction, with $564,000 from federal Hill Burton funds, and $26,300 from the Ford Foun dation. Virtually all the equipment in the hospital is new. The third floor, which includes the nurs ery, three major operating rooms, and obstetrical suite along with other doctors' and nurses quar ters, is automatically air-conditioned throughout the year. Various wards and other rooms are on the second floor, while laboratories, emergency wards, ambulance entrance, and administrative offices are on the first floor. The basement in cludes housekeeping and sewing rooms, the laun dry, the kitchen, cafeteria, general store rooms, autopsy room, engine room and the stand-by generator. - ' The information desk and switchboard are just inside the main entrance, and on the wall ba'ck of the reception lobby will be the names of individual donors. The plaque, officials said, will be temporary at first, but a permanent plaque is planned in the future. Patients from the present hospital will be moved to the new building May 1. Third Section
