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Show Xid Inc. may get new hospital "This is large enough to start a new program and Salt Lake City is an excellent location to pull residents from the entire Intermountain Area. Such a program should be quite successful if operated properly," he said. Dr. Miller told the board that they must have advanced funding fund-ing for supplies, food, salaries, training facilities, etc., not including in-cluding building, rent and renovation. This could amount to more than $150,000. The local board is currently seeking a vacant building or other facility that could be utilized as a hospital. Also, the board is reviewing applicants for a director to be hired early next month and an assistant director and program coordinator to begin about July 1. By GARY R. BLODGETT SALT LAKE CITY A proposed hospital and long-term treatment facility for adolescents suffering drug and alcohol abuse could be "up and running as early as Oct. 1," it was announced by Dr. Newton Miller, founder and director of KIDS, Inc. He told the board of directors of KIDS of Great Salt Lake, a local chapter of KIDS, Inc., that the facility would be operational operation-al by Oct. 1, "but that there are several factors to be worked out." He said the local chapter should look toward having an 80-bed medical treatment facility as well as a long-term rehabilitation center. "You can't operate one without the other," he said. Preliminary approval for a hospital and treatment center has already been given to the local chapter of KIDS "if and when all the arrangements can be met." The facility would be the fourth of its kind in the United States. Dr. Newton explained that the proposed hospital should accommodate about 80 persons under 18 years of age who are drug or alcohol dependents. Group homes must also be made available to residents (dependents) for long-term rehabilitation. He said that KIDS, Inc., in New Jersey presently has 18 adolescents from Utah 15 boys and three girls who are attending the KIDS program. |