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Wednesday, August 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
New hospital's design aids healing
Special to the Kansan
KANSAS CITY, KAN—Although the new University of Kansas hospital is known to med as Hard Memorial Hospital, University of Kansas Medical Center staff know it as a "building" living there.
Kermit Kranz, dean of Clinical Affairs and chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Med Center, said recently that the term "living" building to Belfast because its design was made so that it could be interchanged without affecting other units.
Kranz, who played a large part in designing the new building, was also essential to the construction of a hospital because it allowed services and equipment to be updated to meet the changing needs.
The new hospital was constructed at a cost of $88 million, marking it the largest medical facility in the state of Kansas. It was dedicated May 18 and is scheduled to become fully operational by September 2015.
The new hospital will replace the old one at the Med Center and has several features which make it more conductive to healing.
"WE NEEDED A medical center for the state of Kuwait and a center for education. You can't educate superior people in an inferior center," Krantz said.
Krantz said he thought Bell Memorial would provide excellence in both of those categories.
One area in which the new hospital improves upon the old one is surgery. There are 23 surgery suites, doubling the number of areas available. The area around a central supply core, which is filled with carts containing sterile surgical supplies, makes it easier to support all patients.
On the same floor as the surgery suites are a 32-bed room and surgical intensive care units, which allow for minimal movement of a patient after
ALSO ON THE SAME floor is an outpatient surgery unit, which allows some patients to come in, have surgery, and check out the room. They pay the cost and time for money the patient. Kruger said.
Bell Memorial Hospital
Krantz said the emergency room at the new hospital was a big improvement over the old one.
The new emergency room has two entrances, one for patients who walk in and out, the other for those who are there. There are two sections to the emergency unit, one for dealing with trauma patients and one for patients who come to the hospital because they have no regular doctor. The unit is self-contained and has no main system. You must pass through it as did the old emergency room.
ALSO FOUND AT the emergency room are 30 fully-equipped examination rooms, a home-based intensive care unit and a therapeutic treatment room. Kranz said all this makes the hospital capable of handling all types of patients.
Just a short distance from the emergency room is the hospital's family practice center which serves as a training ground for physicians interested in general practice.
The center simulates the atmosphere of a clinic that might be found in a small town.
There are three large suites at the center, which are staffed by three doctors and their residents. Patients who do not have regular doctors or non-traumatic patients from the center need to be admitted for a practice center and receive the same kind of care they would get from a family doctor.
THE TOP FLOOR of the hospital is reserved for obstetrics and gynecology.
He said the floor was designed to provide total care for women. It has its own admissions unit, an intensive care unit for infants and a specialized nursery for premature infants, a 32-bed nursery for newborns and a special father's waiting room. There are bassinets suspended from the ceilings in the mother's room and mother to be together as much as possible.
Krantz said that one of the biggest problems he had encountered when planing and executing the service is services efficient and unobtrusive. Support services include food, mechanical and other services.
The food system allows patients to order their own meals, rather than all being served the same thing.
WHEN PATIENTS CHECK in, they are given menus, Krantz said. They make their choices, which are sent to the kitchen.
At the kitchen, meals are prepared and assembled on trays, then frozen. The huge freezer can up to two weeks of meals at one time. The meals are taken to the nursals units on each floor to be heated by an electric boiler designed designers examined food services in the airline industry for help in designing this system.
The third floor of the hospital is entirely mechanical, a house central equipment room with air conditioning and air-handling units. This saves space on the other working floors of the hospital; Krantz
BETWEEN THE floors of the hospital are seven-foot spaces which house additional wiring and air ducts. Krantz this makes for a room without disrupting normal hospital routine.
Krantz said other structural aspects of the building which improve patient comfort and safety were:
- indirect lighting throughout the hospital,
- the majority of the rooms are private,
- carpet running four feet up the wall to act as a noise buffer.
City hall . . .
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funds before building. But the issue narrowly passed.
- a manufacturing pharmacy.
- Krabt said the new hospital cost $74 a square foot to build. But because the funds for building came from revenue sharing taxpayers, it did not cost the taxpayers anything.
- a complete sprinkler system and firewalls throughout.
- a manufacturer of plant machinery;
* private dining rooms in the women's care center for mother and father;
* a complete sprinkler system and
THE CITY DECIDED to build the new city hall by the construction management method, according to Glenn.
This method calls for the hiring of different contractors for each job instead of hiring one contractor to do the entire project.
Glenn said the city was anticipating money from a National Arts Foundation fund for a sculpture and a small pool area in front of the hall.
IN ADDITION TO the waiting area, the public works department and the community development department will be on the ground floor.
The city commission meeting room, the planning department, a joint conference room and the mayor's office will be on the main, or second, floor.
On the third floor will be the water
department and other collection offices, the city clerk's office and the central work processing office.
The human resources office, employee relations office, a joint conference area and storage and expansion areas will be on the fifth floor.
Offices for the city manager and his staff, as well as the park and recreation depart- ment on the top floor. It will also have a public library, a public garden, north and south along the Kansai River.
Watson said the city commission approved the modern architectural style for the hall, but did not inject its personal taste.
"Who voted the style of the Golden Gate Bridge?" Watson asked. "But, honestly, the hall is going to be beautiful."
BY VALERIE HOWARL
Staff Reporter
In 1854, a group of settlers named their city Lawrence, honoring Amos Lawrence, who was one of the leading members of the New England Emigrant Adm. Alden Lawrence. The Oread Institute was located where they called Mt. Oread on the Oread Institute in Massachusetts.
Since that time, the city and campus have both grown, but the buildings on campus still are being named to honor those who have given substantially of themselves, their money or their service. Some schools have also namedakes are right former chancellors.
STRONG HALL—Kansas University's administration building was constructed in three stages: 1911, 1918 and 1924. It was finished first, followed by the west wing and part of the central area. Finishing touches were added in 1924. It is named in honor of Frank Strong (1859-1924) from 1903 to 1928 as KU's sixth chapter.
The Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hall on Jayhawk Boulevard was a gift of the Glass of 36. It is referred to by its acronym, JYH. It is the pterodactyl, and it has been the object of controversy because it is more smiling than the famous smiling representations of KU's mascot.
**SNOH WALL—The present Snow Hall,**
constructed in 1929, succeeds a building
designed in 1860, erected in 1868,
abandoned in 1873, and rebuilt in
building is named in honor of Francis
Huntington Snow (1840-1908), who served
as KU's f千吳 chancelor, from 1890 to
Snow, at age 26, became one of the first three faculty members hired for the University, and is remembered for his scientific collections, particularly in the field of entomology. According to histories of the University, Snow also is one of its habitats of coasting down Mt. Orca on his feet up and coasts flailing in the wind.
LINDLEY HALL—This building houses the classrooms and offices for departments specializing in the earth sciences, and is named in honor of Ernest KU from 1920-1939. The building, erected in 1943, also houses the KU Observatory.
MALOTT HALL-This building.
constructed in 1954, is named in honor of Deane Waldo Maltol, KH chancellor from 1989-1991. This hall is the home of the chemistry, pharmacy and physics chancellors, Maltol, a member of the Class '21. The first KU graduate to become chancellor.
MURPHY HALL—The center of music and dramatic arts at the University is named for Franck Murphy, chancellor of the university and dean of the medical school from 1948-1951. The building was erected in 1957. The museum depicts the south side of the building, is named for Murphy's wife. He is now chairman of the Times Mirror Co., Los Angeles.
NICHIOS HALL "The space
technology of the 1970s was
named after former chancellor
Raymond Nichols He served the
University from 1972-73 and the 12th
In front of Nichols Hall, is a sculpture of the mythical character leros, son of Daedalus. He was the character in Shakespeare's play, The Tale of the sun on man-made wings and fell to his death in the sea. lera represents, however, man's willingness to exile and to venture into the unknown even though such quests may be dangerous.
WESCO HALL-All "this building, finished in 1973, is named in honor of W. C. Wesco," the Hall contains 58 classrooms, including 12 electronic classrooms, four 90-seat rooms, 16 seminal rooms and the 10 largest classrooms. Wesco's first floor is a large study area with a concessions bar and tables to seat 40 guests. The building as KU chancellor from 1986-1996.
HOCH AUDITORIUM is one of two buildings named in honor of Kansas Governor James O. Baker after Edward Wallis Hoche, in accordance with a legislative directive, and honors the State Board of Education, the State Board of Administration, forurerunner of the Kansas Board of Education.
The other is the RORNSON CENTER, named after former governor Charles Winnard who owned the land where Woodrow Wilson was born for his veto while governor, the state university would have gone to instead of ML. Oread in Lawrence.
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