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Show I Having received final approval ap-proval from the Utah Health Department on architect's blueprints, the Grand County Hospital Board voted Monday night to let bids as soon as possible on a new solarium addition to the facility. To be located on the east end of the building, at the end of the acute and extended care wing, the room will be available to any patient given permission to be out of his room by hospital staff. The solarium will be L-shap-ed, due to an exit hall required by the Health Department and Fire Marshal to be taken from the originally-planned oblong room. The space, though somewhast smaller, will offer more variety of use, with a relatively private corner. Some recreational equipment, equip-ment, such as television, cards and games are planned, and the room w ill also be available for patients with visitors, providing a more home-like atmosphere than the sterile hospital room. Those expected to benefit most are the extended care, or nursing home patients, who will have the opportunity to see something besides hallways hall-ways when they are out of their rooms. The room will have large expanses of windows win-dows which will be set low enough for the patients in . w heel chairs to have a good view of the grounds and i surrounding scenery. I Budgeted this year for the project w as $20,000 in revenue sharing monies. It was hoped that construction could begin early in the year, however objections on design from the Health Department have held up progress until this week. Board Chairman Adrien Taylor Tay-lor expressed concern about rising building costs and the likelihood of receiving bids within the amount of monies 1 available. She stated, however, that the Board's decision to build was firm; that if construction , of a strictly utilitarian room to . begin with was necessary, this would be done; and if further funds are called for in order to build at all, the Board will vigorously seek those funds. The Hospital Board, said Mrs. Taylor, sincerely thanks the Moab Points and Pebbles Club and many other Moab citizens who have sponsored projects to earn money or otherwise donated for needed cardiac equipment at Allen Memorial Hospital and in the 3 ambulance. The solarium r room will probably also re-' re-' quire support of Moab citizens and organizations to make it as comfortable and versatile as 5 possible, she said. J. Board members learned at ! the Monday meeting of a I boon, in the form of two coronary care beds obtained by Administrator J. Kay i hawks from South Davis ' Hospital. The beds, budgeted , this year for $1500, were excess and in storage at the South Davis Hospital, and were obtained by Mr. Hawks for a paper transfer fee of $10 each, freeing the budgeted monies for other uses. |