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Show Hospital Departments Facilitate Patient Intensive Care Unit Any patient requiring a constant vigil of vital signs is kept in the intensive care unit This section contains space for four beds each hooked up to the lateet life maintenance equipment Two of the four beds are enclosed in small rooms designed for cardiac heart attack victims can Ctients. Here,from the noise and motion present in the trauma section. A nurse physically checks each patient every fifteen minutes. The patients heartbeats are also constantly monitored on a console screen behind the ICU nurses station. This care monitor, the latest in advanced technology allows the nurse on duty to trace four heartbeats simultaneously. Kay Harmston is in charge of the nurses who are on constant duty in the ICU. Internist Dr. Ace Madsen, who will be joing the hospital staff in mid-Julwill turn over as the ICU physician Orme and Nurse'Jeannie Beckstead chart patient progress in the Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Eric Department Films Patient Conditions X-R- ay y The new wing serves both outpatients and inpatients on physician referrals. After filling out necessary paperwork, the patient proceeds to me of two rooms or the Ultrasound X-ra- X-ra- y room. The large Siemens machine can l, perform florouseopy, upper small bowel and sail bladder The other machine is used mainly for chest work, tomography, or body section gastro-inteet-ina- X-ra- radiography. Ultrasound, operated on a principle of sound wave detection, has become an effective technique in prenatal care and detection of cysts, gall stones and liver conditions. Technicians perform about 70 readings per month. The wing also includee a barium kitchen for mixing up dyes, a storage library, reading room and various staff X-ra- y rooms. Besides Wilma Blanchard who brings' the department technicians Val Betts and Brian King staff the y wing with Katie Jennings helping out on night emergency calls. Secretary Laura Riddle manages the library. 24 years of experience to X-ra- specialist Staff Physicians perform a variety operating room Trained Nursing Staff Provides Skilled Care r Janet Womack Scrub OR Jennie Benson Scrub OR Toni Halle Carol Allred Betty Cuch Alice Daniels Dorothy Slaugh Sandra Remund Helen Waehbiim Marilyn Priest j,- - r T ' -- w smile, and a fcA pink Jacket,'area cheerful trademarks of the ' rn willing , spirit hospital auxiliaiy, the Pink Ladies. Last ! P alono Pfnk Ladies donated, 264 .year V.houra of service. ta v .Pink Ladiss an versatflp hi the array. fof servlet performed.. They visftpatfenta W ijf and relieve busy nurses of duties such he .$ 3 ; bringing water - and refreshments, run-- ' i P ning errands and making phono calls. Tnrough an s. arrsngamant with ' a J chfldrens photography agency, they taka 0 photographs of newborn infonts m tha!ij ' nursery so that famines might have V record of thoee first hours.'1 They also have a number rtf projects to " raise ninds for hospital equipment and supplies. They operate vending machines j fl and garage sin the lobby sponsor food c sales .throughout the year.-,-- .. 4 With . the - hospital expansion,,. .Pink t j. Ladies wen given space just off the main t c lobby for a gift stop. Some items at the j other T are purchased forrosale; gift shop 2--? Clela RadmaU Val Roth Lupe Duncan '; ' Mary Ann Thompson Carolyn Jacobsen Brett Robbins Candi Johnson Patient Education LoAnna Allen Jeannie Beckstead Linda Kenney Virginia Nielsen Jo Anne Parrish ' Maria Taylor Sylvia Barnett Recovery Room Alice Heater - Patient Education Stella Ames - Scrub OR Myra Mitchell - Supervisor CS Marilyn Steinmetz E stella Shaw Verdene Betts ! . a. m - .f -- V - NURSEs AIDES Janice Steinhorst Cheryl Boren Wendy .Cuch Jeanette Reed Alberta Tapoof Lena Tanner La Donna Johnson Rita McNac Val Hewitt Rachel Postma Kathy Davis Caroline Sherman Lori Mary Elaine Roberta machine performs a variety of procedures. Screen on Large left shows progress of injected dyes in the system. X-ra- y ' OR Ward Clerk ' WARD CLERKS Carter Darcy Karen Ross TeAnn Taylor Linda Linford Ruth Ann McKee Clarene McKinnon Michelle Reidhead Christine Stewart The Pink Ladies gift shop offers a other patient needs. ' |