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Show ; - , mi ii Trinnnw jat. j:- in "" " Outside view of new Garfield County Hospital shows the clean lines, modern design. Completion and occupancy of the $1,050,000 facility are expected by mid-summer and will replace the present Panguitch IDS Hospital. Work on an adjoining clinic Is also expected to be completed at about the same time. Hospital, Clinic Completion Expected In July; Three Doctors To Set Up Practices in Region Completion of the new Garfield County Hospital in Panguitch is anticipated by mid-summer with actual occupancy of the building planned by August, according to Eugene C. Beck hospital administrator. At the same time, Beck said two of three new doctors will arrive about the same time to set up practice in the community, as well as establish clinics in other southern Utah communities. The third will arrive in the fall. Beck said the latest word from the construction contractor, Christiansen Brothers, the $1,050,000 hospital facility will be finished in July, if all goes according to schedule. Beck stated that furnishing the building and preparing it for occupancy is expected shortly afterward. A tentative open house and dedication of the facility is planned for Aug l. Construction began last fall and has continued at a steady pace throughout the winter months. The three doctors who are scheduled to open practices in Panguitch are Dr. Harry Cavanaugh, Dr. Stanley J. Bezek, Jr., and Dr. Donald Leppe. In addition to their occupying the new $50,000 clinic owned by Garfield County, plans call for part-time clinics to be set up in Escalante and in Piute County which the doctors will staff. The Panguitch clinic building, which has 2,500 square feet and offices for three physicians, is located immediately south of the new hospital and will also be completed in July, Beck stated. The three doctors are coming to Panguitch through the f National Health Service Corps, an arm of the U. S. Public Health Service. Beck said they will work on a salary basis, with funds to be paid through the NHSC, with Garfield County as sponsor. This means the county will underwrite the cost of the doctors' salaries, and will, in turn, handle all billing and collection of medical accounts for the three. Beck said that in addition to the Health Service Corps program, Garfield County has been awarded a Rural Health Initiative grant through the University of Utah's Department of Family and Community Medicine. The three-year grant will allocate $56,27 for the first year, which will be used to help furnish the new clinic, as wt'. as help establish the Escalante and Piute clinics. Dr. Cavanaugh is presently doing residency at Prttbyterian Hospital in Denver. He and his wife, Jane, have purchased a home in Panguitch and will arrive the last of June. His practice, however, will begin sometime in July. Dr. Leppe will arrive in July and will be in Panguitch for one year only under a special program of the National In stitute of Health. He is presently completing the first of a two-year program with that agency, which is under the U. S. Public Health Dept. Dr. Leppe has been doing research at the department in Bethesda, Md. and will go to Johns Hopkin University, New York City, where he will specialize in cardiology. Dr. Bezek will arrive in September. He completed internship and residency at Cleveland General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio and is completing a residency in family practice at University of Colorado in Denver. His wife is a registered nurse. |