The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, April 14, 19873
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Dy SUSAN ODEMXIRCHEN
Staff Writer
The North Carolina Memorial
Hospital is in the early stages of
planning new neuropsychiatric
and children's hospitals to replace
its antiquated psychiatric and
pediatric units, built in 1952.
"All weVe done is look at the
long-range picture and seen the
need to replace these existing
facilities," said NCMH spokes
man John Stokes. "These anti
quated 35-year-old facilities just
won't do."
The new hospitals will be built
separate of NCMH, with inde
pendent management and identi
ties, but the NCMH board of
directors will govern them both.
Stokes said.
The new hospitals will not be
much larger than the current
facilities, but updated and mod
ernized, he said.
The neuropsychiatric hospital
will be located to the east of the
Biological Sciences Research
Car break
From staff reports
UNC police are concerned that
thieves have begun a new rash of
automobile break-ins after laying
low for a while, Sgt. Ned Comar said
Monday.
Eight break-ins were attempted
last Thursday to cars parked in
Craige and Morrison residence halls'
parking lots, according to police
reports. And 2-3 car burglaries were
reported over the weekend, Comar
said.
Thieves broke into cars, damaging
some of them, and stole car stereo
systems valued between $400 and
$850.
Comar said he is hopeful that
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Center. The existing psychiatric
unit, now located in the south,
wing of NCMH, will be demol
ished to make room for the new
children's hospital.
"The main difference between
these new facilities and the old
ones is these will be modern state-of-the-art
buildings to function as
replacements for the old," he said.
"The existing facilities are worn
out."
Construction of the children's
hospital will not begin until the
neuropsychiatric hospital is com
pleted, because it will be located
in the present psychiatric unit.
"Our pediatric unit is a hospital
within a hospital right now,"
Stokes said.
The present pediatric unit is
now operating under antiquated
conditions "with great imagina
tion and skill," he said.
Hospital officials are request
ing $2.5 million from the General
Assembly and the State Budget
Office to begin building plans.
- ins concern police
detectives could lead to the arrest of
the suspects and the recovery of the
stereos. "The crimes will, or are
already, solved . . . and recovery is
imminent in some, if not in all, of
the cases," he said.
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"All weVe done is draw boxes
on a map. We haven't begun to
draw buildings yet," Stokes said.
If the State Budget Office
grants the necessary building
approvals, construction could
begin soon, he said. "We could
be breaking ground for the neu
ropsychiatric hospital in 24 to 36
months," Stokes said.
Construction of the hospitals,
which will both have six floors
and contain 100 beds, should take
about six years, he said.
"The money we will use for
these facilities will come from our
earnings," Stokes said, referring
to hospital profits.
The NCMH budget was $160
million this year, with the state
allotting $23 million and patients
paying the remaining $137
million.
The neuropsychiatric hospital
will cost about $21,591,000 to
construct, and the children's
hospital will cost about
$33,140,000.
Comar recommended that stu
dents "go and visit" their cars as often
as possible, so if a break-in does
occur, police can pinpoint the time
and anticipate when future incidents
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Commissioner stedies fairness
off "Safe Driver 5 insMraece plan
By CLAY THORP.
Staff Writer ""
A storm of controversy is brewing
in the automotive insurance industry
because of problems with North
Carolina's Safe Driver Insurance
Point Plan (SD1P).
"We think the whole system is
unfair, outdated and needs to be
reworked," said Max Powell, special
assistant to N.C. Insurance Commis
sioner Jim Long.
The N.C. Department of Insu
rance is conducting an in-house
study trying to correct the system,
Powell said.
One element of controversy is the
classification plan, said Bruce N.
, Fritz, the Charlotte branch manager
of The Kemper Group, a nationwide
insurance and finance consulting
firm, and chairman of the board of
governors for the N.C. Rate Bureau.
The problem arises because some
insurance companies would rather
classify clients by age because
statistics show that younger drivers
have more than twice as many
accidents as older drivers, said
Joseph E. Johnson, former chairman
of the N.C. Senate Insurance
Committee.
"I think that each driver should
pay based on experience and use of
(his) car as closely as possible," said
T. Duke Williams-IH.-presidenl. of .
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Chapel Hill.
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Fitz said.
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Fitz said that because of the risk
factor, the facility usually loses
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Until recently, all of the driving
public paid off the deficit, but now
only drivers with insurance points
are forced to pay. "That is unfair
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The fee to pay off the facility
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public, as the law once provided for,
he said.
Fitz said that since young drivers
often obtain insurance points, they
must pay excessively high rates.
If younger drivers are classified
according to age rather than their
record, the deficit would be lower,
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