Barnes Hospital Bulletin Published by Public Relations Department Barnes Hospital, St
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BARNES Barnes Medical Center, St. Louis, Mo. hospiTAl—■ March, 1969 BullEik Plans Are Finalized for East Pavilion Monkey Shines . Since plans for the 14-level East Pavilion were The fourteenth level will be a mechanical floor first announced, a number of revisions and re- for air conditioning and other equipment in- finements have been made in the schematic stallations. Additional features of the building drawings. The final preliminary plans are now include a 130-seat auditorium, an archives room, complete and were displayed at an open house visitors' lounge, and a classroom on each patient for the medical staff and hospital employes on floor to facilitate teaching. Friday, January 31 in Classroom 1200. Ground- The East Pavilion will replace all patient care breaking ceremonies are anticipated for this facilities (excluding clinics) in the Maternity and summer and the project is expected to take two McMillan buildings. The medical patients now years to complete. cared for in Barnes (1418 and 2418) will be The East Pavilion will represent a unique ap- moved to Wohl Hospital and the neuromedical proach to hospital ownership. Specific levels of and neurosurgical patients now treated there the structure will be owned by the Trustees of will be moved to the East Pavilion. The vacated Barnes Hospital, while others will belong to the area in Barnes will be used for expansion of the Trustees of Washington University, further Barnes central diagnostic laboratories. The Mc- strengthening the ties between the two organiza- Millan and Maternity buildings, owned by the tions. As far as can be determined, this will be University, will be converted into teaching and the first "condominium" ownership of a hospital research facilities. in the United States. Plans for the East Pavilion, and the overall con- Through extensive planning with many members cept of a long-range plan for a West Pavilion with of the medical, nursing and administrative staffs, 19 stories and seven more stories to be added it was possible to incorporate the most efficient to the East Pavilion, were made public in April, and up-to-date methods for delivery of hospital 1968. Since that time, a fund-raising drive has care in the final design. Each service will have been underway under the chairmanship of Ray- treatment rooms and an intensive care area that will allow close supervision and isolation of the most seriously ill. All rooms will have piped oxy- Eight floors with 25 semi-private gen and suction outlets, as well as private bath and 8 private rooms are planned facilities. for the initial building. A ground level will have boiler rooms and me- chanical facilities. Shafts will be installed so that The rhesus monkey shown above is a member of mond E. Rowland, Barnes trustee, and former an automated materials handling system to dis- one of the most valuable species of research Ralston Purina Company president, board chair- animals known to man. It was in the animal's blood tribute linens, food, pharmacy supplies, etc., that the Rh factor (named for the monkey) was may be added later. man and chief executive officer. As of March 1, isolated—a discovery that has led to saving the $5,653,586.18 has been pledged to the fund. lives of countless newborns whose blood is incom- The main lobby, admitting office, central supply patible with their mothers. In a master study on This includes nearly $100,000 pledged by the alcoholism, the monkey is one of the subjects un- area, housekeeping storage, and other support- hospital employes. Additional funds for the proj- der observation to determine alcoholic tolerance ing services will be at ground level. General ect will come from Washington University for and subsequent effects on behavior. The jet near business offices will be on the third level. the animal's mouth is his source of water supply. its share of the facilities. (See story page 3). Twenty-one operating rooms, five delivery rooms, and eight labor rooms will be located on the fourth and fifth levels. The fourth level operat- The East Pavilion will represent a condominium approach to hospital ownership. ing rooms will be used for eye, ear, nose, throat, and neurosurgical patients. The fifth floor will accommodate maternity and gynecological patients. The fourth and fifth level operating and delivery rooms have been designed for closed circuit television which can be monitored in the audi- torium and classrooms for teaching purposes. Eight patient floors, each with 25 semi-private and 8 private rooms, are planned. Obstetrical and gynecological patients will occupy the sixth, seventh, and eighth levels; ear, nose and throat patients will use the ninth level and eye patients OB-GYN clinical facilities will be relocated in the will be on the tenth and eleventh levels. Neuro- Dr. Ralph B. Woolf, (left) associate obstetrician and gynecologist, discusses the details of one of the new building and Maternity will be turned back to medical patients will use the twelfth level, neuro- OB-GYN floors to be located in the new East Pavil- Washington University for research purposes, as surgical patients the thirteenth. ion with assistant director, Tom Winston. The entire will the building now used by maternity. Contributions to Barnes Tribute Fund November 1-February 15 Following is a list of honorees (names in bold- Mr. Eldon DeCosted Mr. and Mrs. James G. Alfring face) and contributors (listed below name of honoree) to the Barnes Hospital Tribute Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brooks Mr. Francis O'Brien from November 1, 1968 through February 15, Dr. Truman Drake Mr. Roger Signor 1969. Contributions to the tribute fund are used Board of Trustees, Barnes Hospital Mr. Edgar M. Queeny for improvements in patient care, teaching, and research throughout the medical center. Dona- Dr. and Mrs. Henry B. Schwartz Mr. Harold Boeschenstein tions may be made by sending checks, payable Mrs. Janet Duncan (Boeschenstein Foundation) to the Barnes Hospital Tribute Fund, to: Tribute Mr. Samuel Allen Rieg Fund, Barnes Hospital Plaza, St. Louis, Mo. Captain and Mrs. Michael Rumelt 63110. Mr. Shiel Dunsker Eleanor, Roger, Louis, Chris Rieg Mrs. Shiel Dunsker Mrs. Joel Rogers Mrs. Irene Eyermann Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lowenhaupt Dr. W. B. Larkin Mrs. Guy Stoughton Mr. Lucien Fouke Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cochran " Ute Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cochran Mr. Walter E. Williams Mr. William Henry Harris Miss Helen Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Harris Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schwartz Chaplain and Mrs. George A. Bowles Mrs. John Fuchs Dr. and Mrs. G. Robert Bowles Mr. and Mrs. James F. Wiggins Mr. Harry W. Herron Mr. John Brakebill and family Mr. George T. Higgins ■1 ift Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Portman 1^. ^^^ ^^^-^^B 1 ft Mr. Carl Hohengarten ^^^fc^^ 9tf^^^ I 1 ft Mr. F. G. Nicolay W^^^^^Bfc* ^MB^^^^I \ 1 Mr. Charles M. McAbee, Jr. ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^S \ 1 Dr. Harry E. Raybuck S^^^^^V ^BH^^^ ■■H Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Heywood Mr. Morris Honigberg m IN MEMORY OF Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Portman fcg^? ^ Zin Mrs. George Applebaum Eleanor May Isaacs Jayne and Nick Carter Mr. and Mrs. Richard Levis, Jr. Mr. David Biederman Mr. Arthur Jones i^fc ^^r %uK^ ^^A Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hornbein Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hornbein ^ °Km. \^ft ^ Mrs. Albert G. Blanke Mr. Robert Leiken fcfo. JM ■ ■ ■Mtor^^^i Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hayward Mr. and Mrs. John Friedman Mr. Archie Bregman Mrs. Carl E. Lischer IN HONOR OF Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fox Dr. and Mrs. William D. Perry Mr. Edwin R. Culver, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Henry G. Schwartz Barnes Hospital Volunteers Mr. John C. Baine Mrs. Irene Litzsinger Women's Auxiliary Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cochran Mr. Gene Theiss Missouri Baptist Hospital Mr. William Benton McMillan Mrs. Bessie Lowenhaupt Dr. Harold Cutlet Miss Joyce A. Mackey Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Gitt Mrs. Carolyn B. Goldman Mr. Vance W. Lichtenberg Dr. and Mrs. Richard Prager Mr. Joseph Glaser, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Barutio Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Uchitelle Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Platt Corporate Offices—UMC Mr. J. A. McDonald Mr. Leonard Hornbein Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Tupper Mrs. A. H. Wallace Mrs. Fred Z. Salomon Board of Trustees, Barnes Hospital Mr. Cuyler McGinley Mr. and Mrs. Harry Loeb Universal Metal Products Mrs. Earl M. Johnston Mrs. Sophie 1. Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Otto Mr. John B. Mitchell Mrs. Ira Wittelshofer at a particular bakery is picked up for the dietary Association. Renard patients are taken on out- Motor Service Provides department. Items are transported to and from ings to historical areas of the city, parks, opera, Hospital Transportation the warehouse storage area for housekeeping. baseball games, etc., as a change from the daily Two buses, a station wagon, motor scooter, and Blood requested from other hospitals in the hospital routine. a truck comprise the inventory of the little known area is taken from the blood bank and delivered by a security driver. Specimens from other hos- From 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., a driver trans- division of safety and security called motor ports nurses getting off the 3 p.m. to 11 shift service.Initiated six years ago in the dispatch de- pitals sent here for analysis are returned by Barnes motor service. to their homes and picks up those on the 11 to partment to transport nurses on the night shift to 7 a.m. shift. Handled through the nursing of- and from work, the service has since expanded Service to groups is handled by the two buses fice, registered nurses who do not have access to include almost every area of the hospital on or station wagon.