Show gP I i I i r 1 I ajl S t- i. DRAWING OF THE NEW Uintah County hospital building looking at the northwest The new be built to connect onto the old at far The construction bid for the new acute care Uintah County Hospital was approved Monday after- owed of ai the closeness of bids TSi the i low bidder was not determined until Monday arter deciding on how many alternates to include tn the construction Interwest Construction of Salt Lake City was given the final approval for a bid which included five alter- Rapp Construction was the next low bidder with an aggregate bid of Other bidders included Rem- which will eventually be used for an extended care The project will cost slightly over million and be funded by the sale of million in n x x x I I r i I Construction contract awarded for new hospital r and J Ron Stacy Alternate bids included along with base bid were site Stan- dard and seamless The construction bid does not include furnishings and Representatives for Interwest Con- at the bid awarding Monday said they would have someone on the job as soon as Thursday and be ready to start construction in 10 days They said they would bring in expert builders if they were not locally available Super- the hospital construction for In- will be John D. Wallace and The new hospital structure will be ap- one floor with 10 Private rooms and 26 i-priva te rooms The new complex SS another 36 beds if necessary ln future- Application has been submitted to state authorities to adapt the present hosPital building to an extended care nursing home complex with 34 beds as a future project when funds are Uintah County road crews and equip- ment prepared the new hospital site this summer by hauling and ting five feet of The new ture will be built west of the present |