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Page 2 Duke Hospital, InterCom Question Box on the New Building How will patients get to the Emer gency entrance during construction? There will be two phases iu the eoustruetioii. Duriiig the first phase patients will eonie from Erwin Road past the front of the liospital to Emergency and turn around there. A construction fence will block the road beyond Emergency. During this phase the new construction will be tied into the service tunnel. During the second—and final— phase the road in front of the hos pital will be closed, but the fence de scribed above will be removed. Pa tients will come in the Ordnance Re search Road, past the Engineering building, and on to Emergency. Dur ing this phase the connecting passage way A will be constructed. Where will the passageway (unit A in the photograph) enter the hos pital? It will enter through the present Record Library. The roof of the passageway will be five feet above the present level of tlie ground in front of the hospital. This area Avill be filled and graded so it will be level with the passageway roof. This will make it level, also, with the liospital’s j)resent main lobby, and will allow patients to enter on the street level without having to climb any steps. Will the Record Library have to move? No. It will have most of its pres ent space plus additional si)ace to be built adjacent to it and to the passageway. Will the present main lobby continue as such? Yes, until some future time when a building is constructed over pas sageway A to combine the liospital and new building into one unit. Will there be any additional parking space? Yes. There will be some behind the new building, but it will be limited. When the building and passageway are complete, how will you get from one side of the hospital to the other? It will be possible, of course, to walk through. If you wish to drive, vou will have to go around by Erwin Road. Will this building be air-conditioned? Yes, completely. What about elevator service? There will be two high-speed, self- service, passenger elevators with full provision for a third. There will be one freight elevator. What employee facilities will there be? There will be lounges for women oil the second and fourtli floors. What kind of work will be done in the Gerontology Building? The entire building will be devoted to various aspects of research in gerontological problems. Subjects of study will include both humans and animals, and experiments will range from the laboratory to the field. One floor will be used for clinical studies of steroid metabolism and atherosclerosis. One of the major areas of emphasis is the central iierv- ous system. Neuroi)athology, neuro- physiology, neurosurgery, psycho physiology, and sociological studies will receive particular attention. In addition there will be conference and lecture space available to fui-ther both the research needs and the teaching aspects of the gerontologicnl l)rogram. Will any of the clinics move to the new building? Yes. ENT will move to the first floor of the Diagnosis and Treatment Center. Space in the hospital now occupied by ENT (Jlinic will be used to ex])and the Eye Clinic. Also moving to the Diagnosis and Treatment Center will be the Al lergy, (iastroenterology, Riiiial, and Pulmoiiiiry Clinics. What staff members plan to move? A great re-shuffling of office and laboratory s])ace Avill take |)lace, and many long-time senior staff members will move from the present hospital to new (piarters. Space has been re served, also, for offices for the future director of the Clinical Research ward. I understand there will be a “Day Hospital” in the Diagnosis and Treatment building. What is a Day Hospital? A fourteen patient Day Hosi)ital (day-care Psychiatric Service) is j)lanned. This service will occupy about two-thirds of the third floor of the Diagnostic and Treatment Building. Its physical facilities will consist of a large living-dining-kitch- enette area, and adjoining Occupa tional Therapy area, a connecting nurses’ ofifice, and five additional of fices for the psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social work er, psychiatric resident, and secre taries who will be working with the day-care ])atients. By providing the facilities and skilled personnel neces sary for theraj)y on an 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. basis, the day-care service extends the psychiatric services of a medical center to those wlio require the beiiefits of psychiatric hospitali zation, but are well enough to be outside the hospital part of the time. Family and other social contacts can be maintained for such patients and more rapidly integrated into the treatment. Long-term hos])italization can sometimes l)e averted by the use of such a facility in patients with rel atively severe psychic disorders. Costs of psychiatric day-care treatment are considerably less than those for full time hospitalization and can, there fore, be made available to a larger number of jx'ople. What will be the function of the Clin ical Research Center? It will create new knowledge about diseases which are now ill-understood and poorly treated. Its ward of 20 beds will house patients Mith diseases which are being intensively studied by th(> staff with the intent of im- (Continued on page 7)
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