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Basic science walkway
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENEF
The interior of the new Med Center basic science building includes a multi-level walkway between the new building and the old Hikari Laboratories building, which was partially
remodeled to conform to the style of the new, adjusting building facade. It is intended to cover an engranaged class of 200 medical students, as well as other student nurses.
Work doubles Med Center size
By JAY BEMIS
Staff Writer
The basic science building at the University of Kansas Medical Center is near completion with dedication memories planned for sometime next month.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor,
said last week that partial occupancy was to begin in the building soon and some basic classes will be offered in those classes in the structure later this month.
"It should be complete within six weeks," he said.
The building went under construction last fall and is designed for basic science teaching for an enlarged class of 200 medical students and 2,000 other students enrolled in all educational programs at the Med Center.
Laboratories, classrooms, an auditorium and a learning resources area are included in the building. Faculty offices and research labs are not included.
The total cost of the structure is $6 million. A grant from National Institutes of Health of more than $4.5 million covers almost 80 per cent of the construction costs. Appropriations from the state of Kansas total $1.2 million.
Construction of the basic science facility is in conjunction with the 700,000 square-foot clinical facilities building, which has a completion date of late 1977.
together, the two projects will cover 900 square feet of building space, nearly all of it in a spacious
The project is the largest single building investment ever planned for a Kauai campus. The $85 million projected total cost includes $9 million for architectural fees,
Lucas said current contractors working on the clinical building site were progressing well.
A closure package contract, which involves work on exterior walls and windows, has recently been awarded. Lacas said, and he stressed that the package should be received later this month.
The $47 million project will increase the
mother's bedding capacity from 500 to
800 beds.
"A surgerist" is also planned that will allow patients to have surgery at the Med Center.
Included in the clinical building will be a new emergency room, clinical support laboratories, diagnostic and treatment areas, outpatient clinical facilities and neurosurgical and other intensive care units.
Lucas said an architectural contract was recently awarded for the Med Center's $8.5 million radiation therapy center, which was to be completed in an appropriations bill two weeks ago.
Meyn and Fennel Architects of Kansas City, Kan. were awarded the contract. Lucas said they should begin complete construction of a building would probably take six to nine months.
Ground-breaking for the center should begin this summer.
can't be determined until the architects are finished with their plans, Lucas said.
A completion date for the therapy center
The bill signed by Bennett appropriates $2 million toward the center's $3.5 million
total. The remaining $1.5 million, to be used for equipment purchases, will be paid for by the state.
Housing radiation sources for cancer treatment will be the main purpose of the
University Daily Kansan
Fountain fixer
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Cliff Marks, Kansas City, Kan., prepares a KU Medical Center fountain for the dedication of a new building at the Med Center.
"In my specialty, we do very few lifesaving operations," he said.
Operations ..
Fred Reckling, chairman of the ortopedic surgery section, said quality of life was a concern.
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"MOST OF OUR surgery is done to improve the quality of life. We put in artificial bins, artificial knees and, certainly, we're more of that than we've ever done before.
"But I don't know that you want to deny people the right to good life and pain relief simply because somebody might call it unpleasant."
Opinions "given by the Med Center patientis contacted on second-opinion pagination."
HUMPREFY SAID, "I'm very much in favor of a patient getting another opinion," he said, "Most competent surgeons welcome that. They're not at all offended or afraid to have the patient get another opinion. For me, it can be an educational
But Frank Mantz, surgical pathologist, said second-opinion surgery plans would be "middlesome, troublesome and expensive."
MANTZ IS CHAIRMAN of the tissue committee, a group required by the American Medical Association in all hospitals. The tissue committee's responsibility is to examine tissue extracted from a patient, and evaluate the surgical procedure used on that patient, Mantz said. It's a way of policing surgery, he said.
The committee is required to meet six times a year, he said. Questionable cases are reviewed by the committee, he said. Out of the latest 3,000 consecutive surgeries, seven cases have been reviewed by the Med Center's tissue committee, Mantz said. Mantz cited that figure as evidence the Med Center's operations weren't needless.
"If there were a problem, (unnecessary he said, "this shouldn't be a medical abbreviation."
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