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Show Taxpayers Vote Monday on $160,000 Hospital Bond Issue Taxpayers of Beaver County Service Area No. 2, including Milford, South Milford and Min-ersville, Min-ersville, and the desert area west to the county line, will vote Monday on a proposed $160,000 bond issue to finance construction of a 17-bed hospital in Milford. All registered voters who paid a personal or real property tax in 1960 are eligible to vote. The polls will be open from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Polling places are: for Minersville, at the Minersville town hall, and for all three Milford precincts, at the Milford Library building. Absent voter ballots have not been available, because Utah election laws make no provision provi-sion for absent voter ballots at bond elections. The Milford Valley Memorial Hospital Association now has ' on hand more- then $13,000 which, along with the $160,000 , derived from sale of bonds, if the bond issue is approved, will be matched by federal Hill-Burton funds, making available about $292,000 for constructing and equipping the new hospital. The bonds would be retired over 20 years with revenue from a 4-mill levy, which is now in effect. Proponents Pro-ponents of the new hospital point out that if the bond issue is defeated, taxes will not be lowered, as under Utah statutes stat-utes the money from the 4-mill levy will accumulate until such time as there is sufficient money available for the construction. con-struction. "It's a question of whether we have a new hospital now or wait 15 years to build one," Mrs. Virginia Davis, secretary of the service area group, said. Thrustees for the area are Russel Mayer, J. C. Smith, Warren Johnson, James Eyre and Howard Pryor. A breadown of the financing program shows that of the entire $292,000, 45 would be derived from Hill-Burton funds, 19 from utilities of the area (in taxes) and 36 from local property owners. "That means" Mrs. Davis said, "that the Union Pacific Railroad will pay about $3,660 each year, other utilities about $1,840, and the property owners about $5,500. The average home owner will pay about $6 per year." Final plans have not been drafted, pending outcome of the bond election, but tentative plans, approve by the Service Area officials and drafted by an architect who has drawn plans for other hospitals which have been built with matching Hill-Burton funds, call for: A surgery unit including scrub rooms, special storage for anaesthesia, dressing rooms for the doctors and for nurses, and sterilizing room for surgical surgi-cal equipment. Seperate emergency room, to handle ambulance and other emergency patients, with seperate sep-erate outside entrance to prevent pre-vent possible contagion from entering the regular operating room. Obstetrical delivery room and labor room. Maternity unit separated from medical and surgical patients. pa-tients. Two semi-private and one private maternity rooms; nursery with six bassinets and provision for isolation basinet. Pediatric room (for young children) with two beds. Recovery room for critically ill patients and patients recovering re-covering from surgery who need constant nurse supervision. supervi-sion. This will be placed adjacent ad-jacent to the nurses' station. Waiting room for visitors and convalescents; laboratory and X-ray room; special storage stor-age rooms for sterile equipment, etc. The 17 beds will occupy five semi-private rioms and two private rooms, in addition to the maternity and pediatric units. Housekeeping facilities will include kitchen with seperate washroom, small dining room for on-duty staff members and patients who can walk to their meals (the room also would be used for hospital staff meetings) meet-ings) ; laundry room, and stor- -age rooms. A geriatric (care for the aged) wing is planned but would not be financed by the proposed bond issue or the 4-mill tax levy. Funds are available for construction of such homes for the elder citizens, citi-zens, through federal sources, which can be repaid through revenue and would require no local tax money to finance. Plans for this unit are included in the preliminary drawings, and it is expected that construction con-struction of this unit would be completed along with the hospital. Plans call for 10 bedrooms, bed-rooms, bath for men and women, wo-men, a waiting and visiting room, recreation room, and dining din-ing room. With the geriatric unit built in conjunction with the hospital, it is expected that the same nursing and supervisory sup-ervisory staff wiU be able to care for both institutions. |
