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Page 2 Duke University Medical Center, InterGom Supt i Coxnex by Charles il. Fmizel The eoiistruetioii of tlie Main En trance Building, connecting: the pres ent hosi)ital with the Diagnostic and Treatment Building, will complete the planned hospital complex for this site. This project will increase oiir bed complement to approximately 7;)0 beds and will correct several of our serious shortcomings by provid ing adecpiate lobby and waiting room space, a complete ‘ ‘ emergency ’ ’ clinic, a comprehensive X-ray department, and an outstanding delivery suite. Our long range plans call for addi tional hospital facilities in a new building complex located in the area between Bell Building and Erwin Road. This new hospital will prob ably be built in stages over many years but it is anticipated that it may reach a size comparable to the present hospital. We recognize the obvious disad vantage of operating two major hos pital complexes at what now appears to be a considerable distance from each other but there are numerous ad vantages to be obtained from this plan. It is the i)revalent view of hos pital experts that a hospital of over (i()()-700 beds tends to become tinman- ageable, impersonal, and inefficient for good patient care. Recognizing our eventual need for over 1200 beds, ()\ir concei)t of two hospitals, avoids the development of a nuissive single hospital. Many deficiencies still exist in our space requirement for supportive di agnostic and service functions. Con tinued addition to the present build ing complex makes the location of efficient space for these functions ex tremely expensive and in some cases virtually impossible. Construction of additional hospital facilities in the new complex will enable us to stage effectively adjustments and expan sion of functions in the present build ing to provide these badly needed suj)port services. Often overlooked is the adverse ef- f(*ct nuijor construction can have on the ()j)eration of the existing facility, it has been many years since Duke Hospital has been able to oj)crate at a near “normal” level because of the continuous construction projects on all sides. The Main Entrance Build ing will again seriously affect our op eration for the next several years. The .staged construction of a new hos pital facility on a separate site shovdd enable us to operate the j)resent hos pital under reasonably stable coiuli- tions during this j>eriod. INTERCOM Published by Duke University Medical Center and D>ike Hospital Auxiliary. Editors Evelyn S. Stead Barrie Wallace Batricia AYynn (’OM .\I ITTKK Elon H. Clark Charles II. Frenzel George B. Kantner Julia Xegley Xorman K. Nelson Nina Waite IMailing address: Box 2895, Dnke Hos])ital, Durham, N. C. A New Front Door (Continued from page I) building includes bringing in a new road from the northeast which will cii’cle in front of the new building. One-way traffic on this circle is ex pected to alleviate much of the traffic problem that now exists. A preliminary to the new construc tion has already started and will be finished about the end of this year. The courtyard outside of the PDC is now being filled in to the level of the first flooi- to allow for expansion of the Surgical and Medical PDCs. As in the past we can all feel proud of another new building which is de signed to bring better medical care, more conveniently, to more patients and at the same time bring the latest FRANK LIBMAN ENGEL December 10, 1913-July 10, 1963 Here was a man, gifted as few are gifted. Many men are endowed with scholarly perception, with creative imagination, and with the capacity for sustained incjuiry. If he had had only these endowments, Prank would have been distinguished among his colleagues, for he was richly endowed with those qualities which brought him well-merited recognition in the woi'ld of medical research. Others know far better than I ever can the contributions he made to the science of healing. I speak only as his friend aiul his Rabbi, only as a man who saw tlie measure of Prank Engel as a luiman being. He dignified and enriched those words: human being. His compas sion, Ins unqualified readiness always to be humanly useful, his gentleness, his delightful wit—all these gave him a dimension rarely achieved by most of >is. In his all too brief passage through life, the warmth of his per- ■sonality, the supportive strength of his very being, somewhere, .somehow, in large ways and in small, touched the destinies of some, and the day-by- day lives of more than we can num ber. —Rabbi Efraim M. Eosenzweig in teaching and research spaces to our ])rofessional staff.
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