Show 1 Hospital Board Says Build pavis Com- Ka community w Urn committee weeks ago of a and Ks committee the presents- hospital K in and Welled country several times to see various hospitals-we listen to them and have considered many ECKMAN was impressed with the Hospital Corporation of America's plan to provide the community with a The Hospital Corporation invited several persons who were vitally involved in the hospital to view their modern hospital in seeing their fine said made us feel our need for a new hospital even more At first I was inclined to make a recommendation that South Davis County should let provide the This thought faded when 1 was grasped by those with community spirit who rally to the idea that South Davis is a choice place for a hospital and that it can be a tremendous asset to the community to own and control its own THE ORIGINAL dream was for a county hospital financed through government funds and bonding-but two-year dream went out the window with the change of spending policies in Eckman said not only one but several groups are interested in financing the hospital on a community THE HOSPITAL business has become more enticing in recent years because of improved insurance and health care programs that keep the in the black and offer a private corporations have been doing very well financially according to stock market THE financing company seeking to finance the South Davis Community Hospital was not but was referred to as an out-of-state They require a feasibility study before making a definite Past accomplishments should give us the courage to delve into the We have leaders in this community who are willing to work for no monetary to bring this hospital from a vision to a twenty years says we had nothing but dusty culinary water inadequate schools-everything you could including a high mill Good people with hope in their in a few short years have built recreational bonded for water spending millions of have built all the fine things that make for gracious people they can accomplish the things that are Twenty years ago these things seemed like an WE HAVE one person who says he will give as scon as the decision is another after construction starts and another in his Two professional fund raisers have said it would not be a problem to raise one-half to If we could get that much in endowments or it would make our task quite said only one but several people are Hospital earnings are going up rapidly each We still have per diem less in patient if we put all these things it looks TOMMY Frist from with his charisma and his fine selling job on impressed nearly our community would be paying for their beautiful high rise office building in the jet plane and pilot that carries them across the country on and their beautiful plush office with secretaries selected for their The cost of a new hospital with 42 square feet per bed was estimated by the committee at This figure was arrived at after checking with the project architect of Salt Lake's new St. Mark's Hospital and figuring land according to THE TIME schedule for completion would likely be approximately two years regardless of who was to the Since the ground is on a a floor plan cannot be it will be necessary to tailor it to the The old hospital will have an important task to perform during the next two years of providing the needed care for the Harold Chairman of the Hospital sees the old facility as an asset to tie in with the new hospital with some type of extended THE NEW hospital will have about twice as much space per Space has been the number one problem of the present and it will likely continue to get more crowded during the two year construction lb |