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Last PCA Class Harold Chandler Mickey, To Begin April 7 Former Administrator, Dies Mr. Harold Chandler Mickey, formerly superintendent of Duke Hospital and dir ector of the course in hospital admin istration, died Dec. 22 of a heart attack. At the time of his death, Mr. Mickey was executive director of Rochester Meth odist Hospital in Rochester, Minn. "Mr. Mickey was one of the men who helped develop the foundations of Duke Medical Center," Mr. Louis Swanson, dir ector of planning, said. "He was well respected by many people both at Duke and throughout the country." At Duke Mr. Mickey instituted the first central sterile supply room, at that time an innovation used in just a few U. S, hospitals. He was also responsible for construction of the first hospital laundry. The laundry has now been moved to another building and the old laundry is being used by immunology, anatomy and radio biology. In addition to these changes, Mr. Mickey re-established the hospital admin istration program which had been tempo rarily interrupted during World War II. While he was with a hospital consultants firm in 1949, Mr. Mickey conducted the first long range development plan for the medical center. Born in Denver, Colo., in 1908, Mr. Mickey was a resident in hospital admin istration at Duke from 1936 to 1938 and served as assistant superintendent of the MR. MICKEY hospital from 1938 to 1943. He was named superintendent in 1943 and re mained In that position until 1949. Following five years with the hospital consulting firm of James A. Hamilton and Associates, Mr. Mickey became admin istrator at Rochester. Clergy Attend Seminar Fifteen clergymen from eastern North Carolina participated in a unique seminar at the medical center Jan. 24 and 25 on "The Clergy's Role in Chronic Illness." The purpose of the seminar was to bring together clergymen, medical and paramedical personnel to discuss the re habilitation of the chronically ill to home and community. The conference was planned by the Duke Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in connection with a grant from the Social and Rehabilitation Ser vices, Washington, D. C. Dr. Robert A. Gregg, associate professor of physical medicine at Duke, and the Rev. L. C. Adams, hospital chaplain for rehabili tation, organized the two-day seminar. Each of the 15 clergymen invited to the seminar represents his county minis terial association. Conference planners, hoped that the participants would present information gained at the conference to other ministers in their home areas. Speakers at the seminar included per sonnel from Duke, the Veterans' Admin istration Hospital, state government, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Gregg gave the keynote address on "Phi losophy and Implementation of Rehab ilitation of the Chronically III in a Med ical Center." The hospital will be offering its final patient care aide class tentatively from April 7 to May 30. The course will be limited to hospital employes only. Since Durham Technical Institute has begun a program for training hospital aides, the PCA classes at Duke will end May 30. All personnel interested in the class should contact Mrs. Mary Roberts in the medical center personnel office to enroll. Employes who wish to participate in the program must give a two-week notice to present supervisors. Anyone having a question about the PCA course should call Miss Linda Leffel of the Education for Patient Care Depart ment at extension 4293. Buildings (continued from page six) It is designed to take care of serious eye diseases, to conduct a vigorous research program, to present teaching programs for both medical students and residents and to offer continuing training for prac ticing ophthalmologists. The center will accommodate both children and adults and both private and staff patients. As a complete unit the center will lend itself to the institution of new ideas in hospital planning and patient care. At present architects are drawing plans for the center. Contributions from both the Kresge Foundation and the Seeing Eye Foundation have been made as part of the matching money for a proposed 50-50 NIH grant. The communications-education-admin- istration complex, to be built in an area adjacent to Bell Building, is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $16-18 mil lion. At present medical center planners are concentrating on the Communications Building of the complex. It is scheduled to house the medical center library, the Department of Audiovisual Education and a computer center. Preliminary plans for the entire complex have been com pleted. The new community health sciences center will be constructed on the corner of Science Drive and Erwin Road. It will house the Department of Community Health Sciences, a faculty family health clinic and the student health, service. Plans for this building are in the very early stages.
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