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Show , , vaey Hospital Turned Over to LDS Church Operation Next Wednesday I ,. ,v hospital, olievoa to i'fAnv community fthf, in the WW, will tcvr to the LPS y:l" vi it wns announced approved by the !all,0 e tW of stockhold--",aSS, to discuss financing who nHt, the million-dollat :;.VJItic I 8f u render, administra- j .J"LpM for the past' ten years, will continue in the same capacity. The hospital will in the future be known as the Utah Valley Hospital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The presiding bishops of the church will issue new instructions to bishops in the area on the handling hand-ling of church welfare cases at the hospital, it is stated. Already afiliated with the Central Cen-tral Utah Vocational School in the training- of licensed practical nurses, nur-ses, the hospital is expected to pro- vide facilities under new management manage-ment for the recently inaugurated school of nursing- at the Brigharn xoung university. In addition to the usual bed patient pa-tient care, the hospital medical staff have rendered service to the indigent of the area through their many organized free clinics. The hospital is situated on an 11-acre plot of land so there is ample room for future expansion When originally opened, the hospital hos-pital had 55 beds and in 1951. an addition was completed which increased in-creased the bed capacity to 115 beds. The medical staff comprises 45 doctors, including a number of specialists in several fields. The hospital has a large well-equipped X-ray department in charge of a full-time radiologist. The laboratory labora-tory is under direction of a full-time full-time pathologist. A class of 15 nurses will complete com-plete their training as licensed |