OCR Text |
Show immunity Hospital To Get odern Elevator Equipment To Be Installed At Once r BOARD DECIDES TO BUY HYDRAULIC LIFT FOR BUILDING Preparations for installation of an elevator in the Community hospital hos-pital were being completed this week, following approval of the hospital hos-pital board to go ahead with the long-needed improvement. The elevator equipment was purchased pur-chased Tuesday from the Otis Elevator Ele-vator company in Salt Lake City, by board members, to be installed immediately. The board acted on the project at a meeting Monday. At that time, the members, including W. S. Storrs, Leo G. Meredith, Warren Anderson, F. Rulon Nicholes, A. Frank Gais-ford Gais-ford and Mayor Albert Tregaskis decided to negotiate for the elevator. eleva-tor. The improvement has been under consideration for some time but has been postponed because of limited finances. Operated By Water The new elevator will be of 1500-pound 1500-pound capacity, and will be of the hydraulic type to be operated automatically auto-matically by water pressure, being connected with the water system. It will be used for lifting patients and freight. Difficulty experienced in the past in carrying patients by stretcher up the long flight of stairs will be eleminated by the elevator. The need of the equipment has been urgently felt at the hospital. Anniversary May 24 Representatives of the elevator company Wednesday started preparations prepa-rations for the installation, taking measurements for blueprints. It is planned to install it in the small room just south' of the hospital entrance, en-trance, and it will open on the hospital hos-pital floor near the operating room. It will be entered from the present ground floor stairway entrance. The improvement will mark the first anniversary of the opening of the. hospital, being significant of the progress of the institution. Since opening on May 24 of last year, the hospital has filled an urgent need in north Utah county. Activities Cited Leo G. Meredith, secretary, and Mrs. Maud Thornton, nurse in charge, announced that the hospital will have taken care of more than 400 patients by May 24, the average stay of each patient being about ten days. According to a statement issued by Mr. Meredith, included in the hospital service have been many types of hospitalization, including major operations wherein the local medical staff have worked with specialists from various parts of the state. There has been invested in permanent per-manent equipment $1,623.00; remodeling re-modeling expense has been $4,500; the building was purchased at $2,-500. $2,-500. During the period of eleven months, $9,791.32 in service has been rendered. The income from the hospital hos-pital cases has maintained the expense, ex-pense, not buying new equipment, but buying supplies and paying wages and other expenses. The entire project has been financed fi-nanced by the hospital board through borrowing money and some donations. The downstairs property proper-ty of the building owned is rented to cover building maintenance, $100 a month on borrowed money, and interest. in-terest. No public funds are involved in the establishment of the institution. |