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Show Moss opens Intensive Care Center Nineteen tiny babies fought for their lives as photographers flashed earners and U.S. Sen. Frank E. Moss officiated at the opening of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Newborn Intensive Care Center, Thursday. Dr. A.L. Jong, director of the center, guided Sen. Moss through the facility housed in the pediatrics ward of the University Medical Center. The only facility serving the Intermountain West, the center is capable of caring for 22 sick or premature infants. $80,000 Spent Over $80,000 has been spent for equipment which includes 1 1 controlled-temperature isolettes (incubators) and nine portable monitor units measuring heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and temperature. Most of the money for the equipment has been donated by the Utah State Division of Health and the Medical Center Volunteer Volun-teer Auxiliary. Although four additional isolettes have been borrowed from other hospitals, an estimated $30,000 worth of equipment is still needed. Besides the cost of the equipment, over $16,700 has been spent on remodeling the L-shaped intensive inten-sive care area 'vhile $1,200 worth of drapes, floor coverings and cabinets have been donated by Salt Lake City merchants. |
