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Duke Receives Ford Grant
A $2,700,000 grant has been made
to the Duke University School of Med
icine by the Ford Foundation, Duke
President Hollis Edens has an
nounced.
Part of a $90 million program to
strengthen instruction in private
medical schools throughout the United
States, the Duke grant of $2.7 million
includes an initial installment of
$500,000 announced last September.
The grants are to be held as invest
ed endowment for at least 10 years.
During this time, income from the en
dowment may be spent for instruc
tional purposes but not for construc
tion and research. After the 10-year
period, the recipient medical schools
Construction Moving
Schedule Outlined
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have not been named yet but a com
mittee is working at it. Two of the
nursing units have forty beds each
and the Intensive Nursing Unit on the
fifth floor has 29 beds. All beds are
electrically operated variable height
beds. The room furniture has been
designed for us with the color scheme
and nnich of the furniture arrange
ment directed by Harold Shuttles,
interior designer of Asheville.
Plans are being made to install an
nitra-sonic cleaner for instruments
in the operating room suite. This is
a very recent development for hos
pitals and will clean instruments
quickly and completely. Speed is es
sential now that there will be 18
operating rooms in use. Duke Hos-
[)ital will be one of the first hospitals
in the country to have such an instal
lation. Also an entirely new concept
in the preparation of instruments and
sterile packs has been built into the
D.K. suite, making for efficiency and
economy by decreasing the time be
tween operations and by centralizing
many functions.
are free to use the principal sums
as well as endowment income.
Henry T. Heald, president of the
Ford Foundation, expressed the hope
that the grants will help focus public
attention on the increasing financial
needs of medical education.
President Bdens described the gift
as “another example of the Ford
Foundation’s willingness to strike
boldly at a major national problem in
higher education, and in so doing to
encourage others to follow.
“Medical education,” he empha
sized, “is inherently expensive if it is
of high quality; if it is not, utimately
the health of our people suffers. Once
more, the Ford Foundation has made
a generous, sound investment in the
An emergency generator already in
operation, will serve the new addition
in case of power supply failure. The
new centralized food service system
will be in o])eration soon and will
have a minimum capacity of 250 trays
prepared and served. The dining
room for ambulatory patients located
on the third floor will have a capacity
of 85 chairs and will provide a new
type of food service for hospitalized
patients. A new retail pharmacy is
located adjacent to the new Out-
Patient Department waiting room
and will have the most modern equip
ment available. The Womens’ Auxil
iary will have a counter in the same
area and will provide a much needed
service to the patients.
The entrance to the rear of the ad
dition will be for patients who arrive
by ambulance and in private cars but
who cannot go up or down stairs. It
is only a short distance to an elevator
which will take them to the main reg
istration areas for the Private Diag
nostic Clinics and the Out-Patient
Department. The Emergency Room
will remain in its ]>resent location.
Patients will be admitted to the hos
pital from the new O.P.C. Adminis-
future of this country. Duke Univer
sity is deeply grateful for its gift and
we shall seek to use it wisely.”
Duke Medical School Dean W, C.
Davison said the grant will be used
“to improve medical instuction by
strengthening the departments and
increasing faculty salaries.”
Duke University ranks lltli in the
nation in terms of the amoimts award
ed to raise faculty salaries. In the
medical school program, Duke led the
Soutli and tied for 12th place among
the 45 American private medical
schools. Duke Hospital is one of 57
hospitals in the United States that re
ceived top grants of $250,000 each in
tliat part of the program.
tration area during the day and from
tlie Emergency Suite at night and on
week-ends.
Almost two-thirds of the building
area is for Ambulatory patients. It
is expected to relieve the conge.stion
in the halls in the present Clinic
areas. All chairs will be removed
from the first floor corridors to facili
tate the flow of traffic. Tlie new auto
matic pneumatic tube system will be
in ojieration in the new addition and
will be coiuiected to the ])resent pneu
matic tube system at the main station
in the Medical Kecord Library. In
the automatic sy.stem the carrier can
be set to drop out at any one of the
21 new stations without being trans
ferred from one tube to another as is
necessary under the present system.
It is exj)ected that this innovation
will s])eed up communications and re
duce the number of messenger trips.
The entire building is air condition
ed. It is planned to have the
dedication ceremony early in the fall
so that the many friends of the Uni
versity and Hospital will have an
opportunity to see the completed
building.