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About Nyssa gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1937-199? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1950)
* y . <tri» i x i, ' 77ieNYSSA GAI VOLUME XXXXV NO. 35 Modern Memorial Hospital Meets State Standards The Malheur Memorial hospital, which will be opened September 24 . is located on a nine-acre tract on Alberta avenue. It is modern in design, construction and equipment ? ■ ------ - THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1950 and complies with the latest stand The type of construction and design ards and specifications for hos follows the new code for construct pitals. ion of hospitals. The purpose of In 1948, the United States govern the code is to safeguard the patients ment gave specifications for hos while in the hospital, from unsanit pitals and recommended them to ary conditions and fire risks. There the various states. These specifi \ is no need of elevators, nor fire- cations have been adopted by the escapes as the doors to all the rooms health departments and fire mar and halls will be wide enough that in shals of most of the states, includ case of danger, the patients’ beds ing Oregon. The board of directors can be wheeled out of the hospital complied with the building require in any direction, leaving the hos ments of the state board of health pital by ramps to the outside. The in order to obtain a license to op building is regarded as fire safe. erate the hospital when completed. No serious fire has been known in ~ “ 13 A Dream That Has Come True For many years, the people oi this area have been talking hospital. This dream will come true with the opening of the MALHEUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL This hospital is one to be proud oi. It is well planned, very adequately equipped and now is ready for operation Congratulations, Folks, on a Job Well Done Wilson’s super Marhei Phone 21 204 Good Ave. I A New Hospital In A Healthy Community Nyssa has always lteen considered a fine eoinninnity in which lo live. Il has every thing any other community has and then some— good water, good crops, good schools and good people. JOURNAL Now it has added a good hos pital. The people of the area have worked hard and donated freely. Tlmy certainly deserve this hospital as their reward. We Say, Congratulations To All OI You! Hollingsworths’, Inc. PHONE 142 Hospital Is Result Of Five Years Of Strenuous Effort committee of the Lion's club, meet When the dream of a hospital in ing with other interested persons at Nyssa becomes a reality as the doors the Nyssa city hall, made definite are officially opened this fall, the plans to raise funds for the con results of a veritable "five year” struction of a hospital. At that plan will have been realized. The Malheur Memorial hospital is a time the plans were for a 24-bed modern miracle of achievement re hospital, in addition to X-ray, de sulting from the efforts, persever livery room and surgery. The Nyssa Pharmacy and the ance and liberality of the people of O w y h e e Drug company were this area. For a number fit years there had headquarters for -donations to be been the idea that Nyssa, a growing raised by the solicitation of families city in the center of a thriving in the Nyssa, Adrian and Big Bend trade area, was an excellent loca areas. Letters were sent out to fam tion for a hospital that would serve ilies, and solicitors were to follow the local and neighboring commun up. At this time is was planned ities. Back in 1944. the Nyssa Lions to seek federal aid for the building club issued a statement that people of the hospital. On December 22, 1945, at a meet in this area received less than the best care at times due to inadequate ing of the hospital committee, plans hospital facilities. This condition were outlined for the dedication of as recognized by the local doctors. the proposed Malheur Memorial It was then that the Lions club, hospital at Nyssa to the memory of seeing the need of a modern hos those servicemen who had died in pital. bought and assumed the World War II. At the meeting, management of the local nursing the committee members decided on home. They made improvement and the name, "Malheur Memorial Hos added equipment. This project they pital" The formation of a board of found would be the start of a new directors were to be elected by con modern hospital. "That is" they tributors. All contributors were In said, “ if the people of this com formed that In case the hospital munity would lend their assistance. plan failed their money would be In order to make such a project suc returned to them. During January, letters were sent cessful, this entire community must give its support. It is a project to local residents containing this excerpt, “To perpetuate the memory which concerns everyone of us”. To make a start on finances, the of those who have made the sup Lions club sponsored a dance and reme sacrifice in this past war, and entertainment. Lloyd Lewis was to do it in a way that would please general chairman of the affair, and those who now lie in foreign soils, Ron Whitaker was chairman of "the by making available service to their style show of the year". The pro families, the project of constructing ject brought in »4140, which wasn't and operating a modern hospital in much toward the final cost of a this area, has been proposed." During the next month. In Feb hospital, but made a sizeable start. During the next year, concern ruary, 1946, a giant thermometer, over the enterprise was still evident showing the progress of the hospital and a committee of the Lion's club fund campaign was erected in front decided that solicitation would be of the First National bank by the the best method of raising funds. Lion's club. At this time $5000 had They decided to sponsor a project been collected toward a goal of to select solicitors to seek contrlb- $50,000. Then the Arcadia Sunshine utations for a fund to be used for club gave $440 collected from a the construction of a hospital in "white elephant" sale. At the sale Nyssa. That "there was critical inflationary prices were paid for need for a hospital In this area" pies. Among those “purchasing pies was again reiterated, and Dr. K. E. at a price" were John Zittercob, who Kerby announced an unsolicited paid $70, Dr. Sarazin who paid $30 contribution of »140 from three and Drover Vest who paid $27. Jake persons at a store at Langton’s cor Oroot at this same sale purchased a set of dish towels for $30. Mrs. ner. (Continued on Page 3) In December of 1945 the hospital a modern one story hospital design ed as the local hospital. Among the many notable feat ures of the new hospital Is first of all the design of the building. The one story structure permite addit ions to meet future demands of ex pansion. The design is not only fire and dust proof, and offers pos sibilities of expansion, but also has economy of operation because of In- terelationship of the various sec tions and facilities. The construction of the hospital Is of brick veneer over concrete cinder blocks laid on concrete rein forced foundations. The bricks are of a pressed type made in Utah and laid in varying colors. The roof is a slate coloring, with wide white eves and green shades. The building Is 190 feet in length running north and south with the entranoe on the east side about one-third the dist ance from the north end. The entrance leads Into a large reception lobby and waiting room, to the right of which Is the business office and office of the administrator. Swing ing doors lead from the waiting room to the main corridor, which runs north and south. The central nurs es station located just opposite the business office on the main corridor, is the control for the opperatlon of the hospital. The maternity section occupies the whole north end of the building. Here is the delivery, emergency and labor rooms, also the large nursery with a view window opening into the corridor. Other facilities are the examination room, a special suspect nursery, formula room, large utility and clean-up room, a family waiting room and the hospital rooms and the two and four-bed wards, for maternity cases. From the central nurses station, the surgical section of the hospital extends to the west as a wing of the building. This oontalns, the X- ray, laboratory, emergency operat ing room, which opens into a corri dor connecting to the south with an ambulance entrance. Next is the large sterilizer, anesthesia storage room, dressing room for doctors, clean-up room for doctors and other rooms necessary for the surgical wing of the hospital. Extending from the south of the nurses station along the main length of the building on the west, are the nurses dressing rooms, lockers and dining room, the latter next to the kitchen. The kitchen is centrally located In reference to the patients' rooms. Along the east side of the build ing. extending to the south from the waiting room are the wards and rooms At the west end of the build ing there is an "L" extending to the east. This contains the 10 beds In rooms and wards that can be com pletely Isolated from the main pait of the hospital and used for polio and contagious diseases. There is an outside entrance tc this section The hospital Is completely air con ditioned. and the air for all the rooms will be properly humidified, dust free, and will be changed every three minutes in the patients’ rooms. The motor coolers are In the office space of the building. Uniform heat will be delivered to the rooms by radiant heat, an eco nomical operating heating syste". The walls contain many hundreds of feet of copper pipes through which the heated water passes. Because these pipes are of copper, and be cause the water is not changed, but added to accasionally, there is no deposit of mineral, or corrosion or SECOND SECTION rust of pipes. Another modern feature of the hospital is the placing of toilets and baths between the patient's rooms and wards. All patients who are able to do so are urged to wait upon themselves. In th basement room that under lies about one-third of the hospital, is located the two large boilers that will provide hot water for the hos pital. and also for the heating sys tem. One boiler is a reserve boiler in case something goes wrong with the one in use. The boilers are heated by slack coal that is carried by a carrier from the huge bin hold ing several tons of coal to the boil ers. The remainder of the basement consists of a large light room on the east side of the building that will be used as a meeting room for the medical staff and the board of directors. Another room located in the basement is the shelf-lined storeroom that will be used to store supplies for the hospitals. Sarazin Elected Chief Of Staff Dr. J. J. Sarazin, pioneer Nyssa physician, has been elected chief of staff of the Malheur Memorial hospital, he will be assisted by Dr. L. A. Maulding, assistant chief of staff, and Dr. C. John Kopp, secretary-treasurer. Miss Barbara Browne, who is now taking a refresher course In the Multnomah County hospital In Fort- land, has been employed as head nurse. Miss Margaret Sarazin will be medical technician; Mrs. Jean Blakesley, receptionist and book keeper, and Lee Montgomery. Jan itor. Jonn J. OToote, superintendent of the hospital, was completing ar rangements the first of the week for employment of the remainder of the staff. The medical staff was organized at a meeting held August 28. «a THE MALHEUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL •b —*5* 5 5 • *— * * was built for the protection of the resi dents of this community. None of us knows when he will have need for the use of its facilities. Let us continue to protect it as it will protect us in our times of most trying need. +—+ TOWNES GARAGE W e Are Proud... Of the people of Nyssa and suriounding areas for their splendid efforts in behalf of the MALHEUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - i - Without your fine co-operation, a project of this size would have been impossible — 8— We congratulate you and the hospital board for your excellent job. We are for you 100 per cent Everyone will appreciate this hospital even more if they attend the open house Stunz Lumber Co. PHONE 110-W NYSSA
