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Show New Med Center Has Birthday By LINDA HAGMAN Moving day, July 10, 1965, began be-gan at 6:30 a.m. with roll call of 80 National Guardsmen from the Army Guard's 144th Evacuation Hospital and from the Air Guard's 151st USAF Dispensary. The 17 ambulances from the various Utah-based Utah-based military units were available at the emergency and at other exits to receive patients. MRS. PEARL LANCE, one of the most critical hospital patients, was one of the first to be moved. She had suffered severe injuries in an automobile accident on July 7 and was partially paralyzed. Unable to breathe adequately by herself, she depended on the PR-s Bennett Respirator Res-pirator to expand her chest mechanically. me-chanically. However, because the Respirator was too large to fit into the ambulance, it was replaced at the last minute before her move with a hand-operated "ambu-bag." Anesthesiologist Dr. Robert W. Loehning rode with the patient, and, as he explained, "By hand-squeezing hand-squeezing the bag, I did her breathing breath-ing for her." Also, Mrs. Lance was on i striker frame. The military ambulance ambu-lance was not large enough, and the doors had to be lashed clof'l THE PATIENT arrived safely at the University Hospital at 9:30 a.m. Similarly, each patient was carried car-ried from his room by four Guardsmen Guards-men to waiting ambulanres which moved with flashing red lights to the North Entrance of the Hospital where the patient was taken from the ambulance and wheeled to his room. OBSTETRICS PATIENTS were also among the first to be moved. The premature babies were moved in their isolettes. According to Hospital Administrator, Adminis-trator, Vernon L. Harris, only a skeleton crew reported to the County General Hospital the morning morn-ing of the move. Most of the nurses regularly on the 7 a.m. shift reported re-ported to the new University Hospital Hos-pital that morning. Each patient was accompanied in the ambulance move by one doctor. For related pictures and stories, see pages 3 and 5. Grant Hunsaker, 6, who had been greeted by Dean Kenneth Castle-ton Castle-ton and Governor Rampton as the Medical Center's first patient, was anxious to show his new blue dump truck and "first patient" award, and grinned broadly at anyone who entered his new hospital room. BY 11:20 A.M. the last ambulance had left the emergency exit at the County Hospital. And the once voiceless halls of the University Hospital were now filled with the familiar hospital din. The emergency service, quiet for the first two hours after its opening, open-ing, built a 60 case average during the first 24-hour period. The first cases included two heart attacks, a seizure, six poison ingestions, a perforated esophagus, a dog bite, a fractured back and a fractured jaw. In its first year of existence, the University Hospital has borne witness wit-ness to both the joy and the pain of human life. The hospital's first joyous experience was the birth of a 5-pound 8-ounce girl to Mrs. Wallace Wal-lace R. Grdham at 4:15 a.m., July 12. For years to come, the Umver; sity Hospital will stand guard, in the time-honored hospital tradition, over life and death. |