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Rehabilitation Moves to New Building
REHAB/L/TAT/ON 11—Duke's newest building, located on Erwin Road across
from Hanes House and the Graduate Center, will house all types of rehabilitation
services. The structure has been designed so that an additional two stories can be
added in the future, (photo by Thad Sparks)
Erwin Road Structure
Offers Patients More
To treat, re-educate and rehabilitate
the severely ill, injured^ or disabled pa
tient is the goal of physicians just moving
into the Medical Center's newest building.
Rehabilitation II.
An outpatient facility. Rehabilitation
II is located on Erwin Road across from
Hanes House. The two-story rectangular
building is constructed in Duke's tradi
tional Gothic design from Hillsborough
stone and precast concrete.
Dr. Saul Boyarsky, professor of urol
ogy and newly appointed director of
rehabilitation at Duke, defined rehabili
tation medicine as one form of compre
hensive care. "It offers medical, surgical,
psychological, vocational and even social
readjustment."
The doctors now located in the new
facility specialize in returning patients to
productive roles in society. Physical and
occupational therapists, vocational coun
selors, psychologists and social workers
also aim, through the team approach, to
equip the patient to assume a way of life
similar to or in place of the one he fol
lowed before he was injured or became
ill.
In addition, the center serves as a place
where physicians can treat patients with
injuries resulting from automobile acci
dents or burns, children with serious
birth defects, the emotionally disturbed
and stroke patients.
Dr. Boyarsky noted that the entire
spectrum of rehabilitation services will e-
ventually be available.
"If an organ or ability of a person is
damaged or lost, that person needs reha
bilitation care," Dr. Boyarsky said, ex
plaining the why and how of rehabili
tation. "He needs to be taught to com
pensate for that which is lost or impaired.
This can best be accomplished by several
specialists cooperating in the treatment
of the patient."
In addition to comprehensive care for
the rehabilitation patient, the center pro
vides counseling for his family to prepare
them to help in the patient's readjust
ment to home life.
The $1.1 million facility has nearly
27,000 square feet of floor space, with an
additional two stories expected to be
added in the future to house programs in
cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, mental re
tardation and other disorders.
Training programs for nurses, doctors,
medical students, therapists and other al-
Dr. Saul Boyarsky, professor of urolo
gy at Duke since 1963, was named direct
or of rehabilitation earlier this year. Dr.
Boyarsky will oversee the operation of
the Rehabilitation Center as part of his
new position.
A native of Burlington, Vt., he earned
his B. S. magna cum laude and M. D. cum
laude degrees from the University of Ver
mont. Prior to his appointment at Duke
in 1963, he was associate professor of
urology at the Albert Einstein College of
lied health personnel will be conducted in
the center.
The move of Medical Center rehabili
tation personnel to the new facility is ex
pected to be completed in the next few
weeks.
Medicine in New York.
The author of a book and more than
125 scientific publications and mono
graphs, Dr. Boyarsky is presently director
of urologic research, assistant professor
of physiology and part-time chief of
urology at the Durham Veterans Admini
stration Hospital. He is a consultant to
several national health facilities and agen
cies. This year he is also serving as chair
man of the urology section of the South
ern Medical Association.
Boyarsky Named Rehab Director