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Show Site of the Future LOOK SITE OVER Bill Jones, Wayne McTague, Dr. Harvey Hatch, Luana Searle and Mayor Malcolm Beck look over site of new hospital. Hospital Site Is Picked Land for the new American Fork Hospital has been identified and arrangements are underway to purchase pur-chase the property, it was announced announ-ced jointly today by Luana Searle, chairwoman of the American Fork Hospital governing board, and Bill Jones, chairman of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Hospital Corp. board of trustees. The announcement was made at a staff member visited Roseburg, Oregon, to inspect a hospital which was designed by the same architect working on the new American Fork Hospital. The purpose of the trip was to look at the building layout, circulation patterns, and positioning of the hospital departments. Information Infor-mation from the visit is helpful in making decisions on American Fork's new hospital. brief ceremony on the new hospital site with Malcolm Beck, mayor of American Fork, Wayne R. McTague, administrator and board member and Harvey R. Hatch, M.D., president of the medical staff. The 30-acre site is located at 1200 East between 300 North and Main Street in American Fork. "Now that the new hospital site has been determined, application for approval to build the hospital will be submitted to the State Health Planning Plan-ning and Resources Agency. The program to build the new 82-bed hospital in American Fork is on target, Mr. Jones said. "Once we have state approval, we will start construction work. Weather permitting, permit-ting, we hope to have the footings in for the new hospital before next summer," he added. IHC construction management and planning staffs have been working closely with the American Fork Hospital board, city officials, civic leaders, and in particular the medical community in detailed planning plan-ning for the hospital. Members of the American Fork medical staff and IHC construction management have been meeting each week to plan the hospital. The medical staff has been most helpful in laying out the basic design and concepts of the new building. Emphasis Em-phasis to date has been in surgery, delivery, emergency room and nursing nur-sing floor designs. Recently, four physicials from the American Fork medical staff, the hospital administrator and an IHC |