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Show N7 The Daiv Utah Chronicle August 2003 Make way for the new I i Med center adds 5 more Andrew Kirk Feeling a little congested? Now that the Olympics have been over for more than a year, parking on campus is t 1 Andrew Kirk returning to normal, except in the Health Sciences area. Several new projects, like the Health Sciences Education Building, the new Moran Eye Center and the Chronicle Staff Writer Upper campus is constantly under construction. The Eccles Critical Care Pavilion, located in the north wing of University Hospital, Sciences area. The new pavilion features an improved emergency I. ? v 1 Ak Emma Eccles Jones Medical Science Building, are all ' v " U v v tS V V i X V. u V. room, intensive care unit and a same-da- y or short-sta- y sur- Construction crews work on a new building site just east of the College of Nursing. gery center. Progress for the other five projects is underway. On schedule to open next summer, the Huntsman Cancer Research Hospital will be located east of University Hospital, adjacent to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. ; The $100 million-projeViU create a hospital specifically designed for cancer treatment. The building's six floors will include 50 inpatient beds, four surgical suites, a phar- - macy, a nostic laboratory, ct state-of-the-- diag- art 32 outpa- tient exam rooms and facilities for radiation therapy. The most recent groundwas for the breaking Orthopedic Surgery Center Institute in Research Park, located to the southeast of campus. The $26 million, 100,000 three level facilisquare-foo- t, ty will incorporate the eight major orthopedic subspecialties, including foot and ankle, hand and sports medicine. It is expected to be com- - pleted in the fall of 2004 and also will not affect campus traffic or parking. Construction on the $25 million medical science building began recently. It will be a building with five full lab floors and an underground leveL It is scheduled to be completed by March 2005. On May 22, construction d began for the $40 million, building, which will feature cutting-edg- e computer technology in the classrooms as well as student lounges. The building is also scheduled for completion in the spring of 2005. The final planned construction project, Moran n, has not yet broken ground for construction, although a site has been selected to the south Children's of Primary six-lev- el Hospital. While these five buildings are the only projects that have been announced through 2006, a new School of Medicine is in the works. akirkchronicle.utah.edu state-funde- Caring Connections Hospital offers grief U counseling to survivors Andrew Kirk meet once a week for eight weeks. Chronicle Staff Writer Students research In the Eccles Health Science Library. Library serves as U student center Andrew Kirk Chronicle Staff Writer The health sciences library offers refuge to students and faculty, and it's one of few places on upper campus. Just south of the School of Medicine is the Spencer S. Sciences Eccles Health Library. : Open 100 hours a week during the semester, the library is a comfortable facility to socialize, study and "decompress," says Wayne Peay, library director. Available materials serve the educational, research and clinical needs of health professionals, students and researchers at the U, says the library Web page. the From page, stumedlib.med.utah.edu, dents can access the online computerized catalog a database. The catalog allows students to print electronic or multimedia material owned by the library. It contains records of books, journal titles, audiovisuals, theses, reserve items, government documents and multimedia located at the library. Besides document access, the library is one of the only two real community spaces in the Health Sciences Center, Peay said. The other is the crowded and noisy cafeteria. "Right now, we're the community's educational facility, where every student and faculty member can feel at home. We're all about service," Peay said Garth Garrison, a medical student, comes to the library four or five times a week, roost recently to study for his COPY! iivir uiuy digging. Chronicle Staff Writer renovations "opened to the public last ApriL It was She first of six major construction projects to be completed in the Health Parld"g woes board exams. Dallon Jones, a public health student working on his master's, says he enjoys using the library's computers. He's been able to find books on cancer for his research and had a thesis from another university sent there. Some of the functions of the library will change in a few years when the new Health Sciences Education Building, directly to the south of the library, is completed. "It will surely change the library," Peay said. "It will have a much larger student social environment." But according to Peay, the library will still offer students a quiet place to study and the library faculty will be needed to assist with technology going into the new building. When the education building was designed, students insisted on a bridge connecting the two facilities, Peay said. The Eccles unique in that Library is science it is a library. The staff is much more focused on health sciences. Their knowledge and expertise are much deeper in those areas. Peay predicts their services will be needed more than ever in the coming years, as colleges like the College of Nursing admit more students. The library includes three levels, with the entrance on the second. The public service areas of duplication, circulation, reserve, interlibrary loans and reference can all be found on that levcL akirkchronicle.utah.edu h Pain from the death of a loved one can be softened by the programs of Caring Connections in the College of Nursing. Caring Connections was started by Beth Cole, U professor of nursing, in 1998, after a U Hospital quality-contrsurvey revealed a need for a grief and bereavement center. Cole was serving on a hospital task force to assess the "end of life needs" of patients and their families and sensed the growing interest in having a grief center. She put the interests of the hospital and nursing school together to organize Caring Connections. The program allows a smooth flow from dying to after death services, Cole said. It sponsors quarterly group sessions that ol grief-suppo- rt Hundreds of people participate in the grief groups each year. Cole said. Social workers and therapists act as facilitators. Grief groups are regularly organized for children, adolescents, friends and family of suicide victims, survivors of homicide victims and parents who've suffered perinatal loss. Sessions are occasionally offered in Spanish. The most important message to share with people is that everything they're feeling during the grieving process, from anger to depression, is normal. Twice a year, large mourning services are held. Grief Awareness Day, held on Sept n this year, and also Seeds of Remembrance Day, allows people to meet together for a brief program to honor the deceased. akirkchronicle.utah.edu being constructed on former parking spaces. Those areas were originally the sites of buildings built during World War IL The structures were torn down with the intention of some day replacing them with new education buildings, said Anne Racer, U director of facilities planning. The parking lots, Racer said, were always intended to be temporary. Limited space on upper campus has made the construction of new parking spaces impossible, creating an escalating problem. Administrators are hoping use of the new TRAX station on Medical Drive (opening in late September) will help, but some are doubtful. Students and staff are feeling the pinch. Student parking (U and E lots) is sacrificed to preserve faculty parking (A lots). But according to lab technicians in the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, it's impossible to find spaces in A lots. Kim Zumbrennen purchased an A lot permit reserved for faculty and staff, but is forced to find a space in the U or E lots by the time she gets to work at 9 in the morning. Barbara Jones sent in a which complaint via several others signed, after being unable to find a space even with a very expensive and exclusive permit for the parking terrace. She never received a reply. Sam Parker purchased a U pass and is frustrated by how far southeast the lots have been moved since parking space was cornered off to begin construction of the new Emma Eccles Jones research building. Holes needed to be drilled in the ground to find all the utility lines before digging could begin. That process delayed the beginning of construction for about two months. Jacobsen Construction, in charge of the project, was then ready to receive bids from subcontractors who do the actual "It just sucks, that's all," said Charley Iorge who paid for an A lot permit but never finds a space. Many students have given Brian up on parking. Schneider, in his seventh year of graduate work in oncological science, said he purchased parking permits during his first three years at theU. But as the prices rose and finding a spot became more difficult, he started riding campus shuttles more. When construction for new buildings is planned, designers rarely take into account the need to replace lost spaces by creating new ones, said Patti Ibholm, U associate director of parking operations. "Of course we get blamed for it, but it's not our fault," To replace lost spaces in visitor parking or paid parking, A lot spaces are taken away. To replace A lot spaces, U spaces are used, and to replace U, E lots are reduced. It's a domino effect, Ibholm said. To get more spaces for the E lot, parking operations had to negotiate with residential parking to turn under-use- d lots near Red Butte Canyon into E lots. While Ibholm says the new TRAX stations will alleviate some of the congestion, she doesn't anticipate it making much of a difference during the peak hours between 8 a.m. and noon on Mondays and Wednesdays. But Linda Amos, U associate vice president for Health Sciences says she hopes it will. The Utah Transit Authority promised TRAX would solve the parking problems currently endured. More than half of the students questioned at Eccles Medical Library said they're still planning to drive themselves after the line is done. Nursing student Tiffany Castagno said riding TRAX from Millcreek wouldn't save her any time and she never has trouble parking in the A lot when she arrives at 6:30 in the morning. Her friend, Yaw Poku, who works in University Hospital, has a hard time parking in U lots, but still plans on driving after the line is complete. He lives in Sandy and riding TRAX would add an extra 10 to 15 minutes to his commute. While many students said they will switch to using TRAX, most still say parking will be more convenient. akirkchronicle.utah.edu Shortage causes state strain Nursing school can't produce enough grads Andrew Kirk Chronicle Staff Writer Becoming a nurse at the U isn't easy. Last year, only 100 of the 266 applicants were admitted into the U College of Nursing reported Maureen Keefe, the school's dean. The college is short 30 faculty members. It doesn't have the funding to hire sufficient faculty. It's also difficult to retain U nursing faculty because salaries aren't competitive with other states, Keefe said. But the less than 50 percent chance of admittance isn't stopping students from trying. For many, nursing is an ideal job. "Nursing would allow me to incorporate several things that I love into a career," said Andrea Webb, a nursing school applicant in an earlier interview. After graduation, Utah nursing students are essentially guaranteed a job. Utah, like many other states, has a severe nursing shortage. La:;t year, 1,500 vacant positions were reported by the Utah Nursing Association. Recruiting from other states is a mini- s Erlka BartschI, a fourth -semester nursing student, checks out one of many training dummies. mal option because neighboring states are suffering shortages similar to those in Utah and salaries are not competitive. There are enough nursing school applicants to fill the state's shortages, but the state's nursing schools don't have the funding to teach them. Last year, the state's eight nursing schools graduated 710 students and received 1.609 applications, Keefe said, who is also chairwoman for the Utah Nursing Leadership Forum. While nursing schools statewide are 205 faculty members short, the 30 lacking at the U is especially felt because the U is the only school offering nursing master's and doctorate degrees. To educate more students, the schools SEE SHORTAGE PAGE N10 |
