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Show Completion 0 Medical Center Accomplished I": Bv RICHARD WATERS Chronicle Staff Writer Twenty years of dreams, and more than $16 million have resulted re-sulted in the imposing University Medical Center. Back in 1942, the dean of the college of medicine medi-cine at Syracuse Univers. ty was asked by the University s Board of Regents to study the problem of creating a four-year medical program at the University. - , ''rrZ THE AFFIRMATIVE r, by the dean resulted in 7! porary set-up of facilities University with the County Hospital as a f medical school. mf But such facilities were , thing but ideal, and off dreamed of eventul ? one centrally located fL all aspects of the rnedSfe (Continued on Page 3j "jlmiiji jji'MMTifntiriwrr - n-Mn'ffhr-iitiffH Tii'iteMimiW"" JJk - Artist's conception of the then proposed Unl versity Medical Center shows three wing; extending from the central building Each ; building houses vital research laboratories. The 16 million dollar complex begins to take form and the dreams of many are reality as more than 2,000 rooms are built. Federal, stall and private funds made the center possibk 1 run,,. ., j f w EST i f B "f - J sT, I 1 I " - L. I WWIHI i i - "ill ' yt.. tMWlKI"'1 : . . ' , mil Mil 1 1 : iJ iirr - - The completed building, the largest In Utah has the floor space equal to ten football fields, I 557,000 sq. feet The building opened July 10 with patients from the old county hospital. Medical Center Sees Completion (Continued from Page 2) J IN 1957, efforts to raise funds ito finance the building costs were initiated. The Utah State Legislature complied with a requested re-quested quota, and appropriated $4 million toward a medical cen- ter building fund. - Agencies of the federal gov- eminent also contributed funds ion a matching basis. Grants totaling nearly $8 million were made through the National In-stitutes In-stitutes of Health, health re- ! search facilities programs, and through the Hill-Burton program for federal support of hospital construction. the University Hospital, the College Col-lege of Medicine and its teaching teach-ing and research areas, and a portion of the College of Nursing. Nurs-ing. The main structure is divided into three main areas. The north wing is the hospital; the center wing is for clinical departments; and the south wing houses the College of Medicine and basic science departments. LOCATED on the first floor are the hospital administration offices, the volunteer service, the outpatient clinic and emergency service, the Rehabilitation Center, Cen-ter, the Department of Radiology, a four-year school in 1943. From scattered buildings on campus and in the city, the College has become a multi-wing complex able to serve all phases of medicine medi-cine in one central location. FINALLY, ON July 10 of this year, the double glass doors swung wide and a six-year-old boy was wheeled through on a stretcher. The University Medical Center Cen-ter had admitted its first patient and was now in operation. Watching were the Governor of the State and the Dean of the College as 20 years of dreams became reality. 1 BUT FEDERAL and state appropriations ap-propriations were not the only funds made available. A private Medical Center Fund Drive, com-" com-" menced under the direction of the late Leland B. Flint was started. Over $3 million has been donated by private individuals, ! corporations, and churches. I J The result is the imposing $16 million structure seen to the east of the campus in the foot- - hills. fit THE MEDICAL Center consists con-sists of five major structural components. The main structure is the three-wing building visible 4 from all parts of the campus. it Within this building is housed nte the laboratory for the study of hereditary and metabolic disorders, dis-orders, and the offices of the Dean of the College of Medicine and his staff. Also located on the first floor is the hospital snack bar and cafeteria. Floor space of Utah's largest building, comprising 2,000 rooms, is equal to ten football fields 557,000 feet. IN ADDITION to the main building, there is the Rehabilitation Rehabilita-tion wing, the Cancer Research wing and the Research Extension. Exten-sion. The history of the College of Medicine is a long one. Started as a two-year school, it became |