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Show MEDICAL CENTER IN SUGAR HOUSE OPENS WEDNESDAY The Sugar House area witnessed witness-ed the opening this week (Wednesday) (Wed-nesday) of Utah's newest medical medi-cal building, the Memorial-Medical Center at 2000 9th East. The building, constructed at a cost of more than a half million dollars, will provide offices, laboratories, and other necessary facilities for 13 physicians and surgeons and two dentists, making it the largest larg-est of its kind in the southwest area. .. The project was sponsored and construction of the building supervised sup-ervised by 'Willard B. Richards, pioneer Sugar House businessman business-man and civic leader, who explained ex-plained that the structure embodies em-bodies many of the latest develop ments in medical center construction construc-tion and equipment. It is situated situat-ed in what used to be known as the Strevell property, and is set back from 9th East by several hundred feet, with lawns, trees and gardens surrounding the building. Parleys creek flows through the grounds and under a corner of the building itself. The two-story brick building is divided into seven clinical divisions, di-visions, each with its own waiting wait-ing rooms, in addition to the general gen-eral reception room. It contains a siireical division, laboratories. offices and library. Among the members of the Memorial Medical Group are: Dr. Paul S. Richards, industrial medicine me-dicine and senior consultant, and his daughter, Dr. Lenore Richards, Rich-ards, general surgery. . |