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Show Page Sunday, February 29, 1976 HERALD, Provo, Utah, 16-- THE $12.8 Million Hospital Addition Said Proceeding 'On Schedule' Construction on the $12.8 million expansion of the Utah Valley Hospital is proceeding "about on schedule," according to Kent Tolboe of Construction Cc, Tolboe contractors for the expansion. "Naturally, this time of year you lose seme time due to weather problems," he said, adding that the time lost to wet weather had not exceeded what had been anticipated in the construction schedule. The seven - story expansion is due for completion in November, 1977, and Grant hospital Burgon, administrator, said he expects to be in thefiew facility by the end of 1977. Groundbreaking for the addition took place Oct. 7 and Tolboe's crews have been putting in the foundation and concrete supports since then. Mr. Tolboe said work on the concrete and brick outer walls would begin in about 10 days. "Right now I would guess we have about 40 men working on the site but that figure will increase rapidly as the weather clears," he explained. The walls of the 187,500 square foot structure will take a full year to complete, he added. Tolboe Construction Co. was the contractor for the existing Utah Valley hospital's main facility and was the lowest of 10 bidders for the expansion contract. Bed Capacity addition will The tower-lik- e Six Central Utah School Districts enrollment of 19,513 to 20,228, an increase of 715 students, or just slightly less than two elementary schools. Nebo School District, the area's second largest, also came in second in the contest for student as growth, population grew from 10,411 to 10,728, an increase of 317. Provo and Wasatch Districts also grew, but Juab lost students, and Tintic remained at the same level with 301 Projects in Alpine Alpine District has classroom teachers. Provo The District student 80 move Many younger children with the older ones. No new construction was started, but some remodeling was done at the district's schools which still have room for more students. A three-leve- ancillary l section adjacent to the tower on the south and east will include a radiology area, a new room and an emergency on the first suite operating floor. communications, Hospital electrical switch gear and will pnuematic tube rooms floor. second the occupy Receiving and central supply areas, a pharmacy and a new kitchen will top off the smaller structure. "With the completion of the addition, we have medical will every More 161,000 than doubling square feet of the the existing hospital, the new addition will make Utah Valley the second largest Hospital total of beds for the hospital, old buildings and new addition, was projected for the needs of Utah Valley through 1981. Hospital Projections He explained, however, that the growth rate for the valley "a slight has increased amount" since that time and the expansion of other local hospitals as well as the construction of new hospitals in Utah Valley are all variables that might affect the hospital's projections. While the construction bid for the new addition was awarded at close to $13 million, Mr. said the cost of Burgon furnishings and equipment will jump the total cost to $17 million. Public pledges for the new addition are close to the goal of $4.5 million. Slightly more than $1 million of that figure has been collected with the balance to be received over a five-ye- iiV' if lie JV jw i ! rMjiy ..jr - 1 1 period. The majority of the funds for the project will come from Intermountain Health Care, Inc. the corporation that assumed control of the hospital' when the LDS Church divested itself of health care facilities ownership in 1974. CONCRETE SUPPORTS for the new addition to Utah Valley Hospital are being placed by Tolboe Construction Co. workers. Work on the exterior walls will begin in about 10 days. The structure is due for completion in November, 1977 and will make Utah Valley Hospital the second largest medical facility in the state. ZCMI IPiPil WMMWM tftrtfenS53 Eloquence, The Luxury SITftw'Txw: Mi mSWSi WWW m&m By Orem Student In Bicentennial Tribute Drama - An Orem CEDAR CITY student at Southern Utah State College in Cedar City was in the cast of "I Remember Mama," part of the Bicentennial observances being produced by the drama department. He is Michael Eaton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Eaton, who attended one of the performances. The play was a tribute to to the United immigrants States. Others have been "Wonderful Town." a tribute to American employed there, officials said. A new elementary school was J schooling. families are teachers Level one will contain offices. The administrative intensive care and coronary units will be consigned to level two. Levels three through seven will be devoted entirely to patient care. Mr. Burgon said the 383 District School continue population from 8,917 to 9,129 a 212 student increase. The district has 280 teachers. New construction in Provo District involves the high school at 650 East and 3650 North. That building is scheduled for occupancy in the fall of 1977. Building in Wasatch Wasatch District, with 1,889 students last year, has 1,912 this year, an increase of 23. About 204. virtually completed last year in Midway, and a new junior high school in Heber City is scheduled for completion this summer. The new school will have a capacity of 500 students and will house grades seven through nine. Juab Discussing Bonding Juab District lost 27 students, dropping from 1,039 to 1,012 students, and the district has 53 teachers. Board members there are bonding for a discussing possible new high school in Nephi, but no other building is Tintic its intensive care units swelling the total new bed capacity to capability with the exception of open heart surgery right here in Utah Valley," Mr. Burgon indicated. reported the same number of students, but officials noted tne student population had shifted from the west desert area to Eureka, the home of many Burgon Mine employees. The shift was due to a district policy of offering grades one through eight in the outlying areas. When a student reaches the age for ninth grade, he must move to Eureka to 765 School coronary medical hospital in Utah. planned. Tintic District Shift district also has been the most active in expansion with three new junior high schools completed during the last year one each in Orem, American Fork and Pleasant Grove. Planned for construction to begin this year are an addition to Valley View Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, and new elementary schools in east American Fork and at 1200 North and 900 West in Orem. Report From Nebo Nebo District employs 410 teachers. It recently has completed a middle school and junior high school complex in Spanish Fork. Underway in the district now are additions to Grant School in Springville, Wilson School in Payson and to the high schools in Payson and Spanish Fork. Planned for next year is a junior high school in Payson. 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