https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/b504a7d951dfd5deefd360f32cb4414f.pdf 56bd309a28b66273f612433b2bf66dbd PDF Text Text 1 ~ • ~ I 1 ( f I ( ...( ' Artist's Concept Of Regional • ~ ona • ~ Hospital ( • I I I I t I t I ( I to announce shortly the rooms on the upper five floors of enlistment of leaders for the key the hospital, with the second floor being used for the adcampaign divisions. I The architects ' concept shows rninistrati ve functions of the a hospital that is functional in hospital. Other patient facilities I design as well as attractive. The will include a 12-bed coronary r 'fhe new facility will be basic design of the hospital care unit, a 12-bed intensive t located on a 30-acre tract of permits easy expansion as ca1"e unit , a 36-bed ob-gyn unit, a land , donated by the city of needed , as well as providing for 32-crib nursery, a 12-crib inI J...,lorence, on East Cheves the present needs of the Pee tensive care nursery, and a 32Dee. bed psychiatric wing. The tower Street. The ground floor base of the can be expanded three floors Initial construction is scheduled to begin in the early hospital is 650 feet long and 200 higher to accommodate future s summer of 1976 with completion feet wide. Housed on the first needs. r At the Friday news conto be approx. two and a half floor will be all of the outc years later. The McLeod patient service facilities, such ference, J. Givens Young, Memorial Hospital Board of as the laboratory, physical chairman of the Board of Trustees is now in the final theraphy, emergency room, Trustees of McLeod Memorial process of selecting a firm to day hospital, radiology lab, and Hospital said, ''The Pee Dee Regional Health Services manage the construction of the radiation therapy lab. Along with these will also be District Board and the Board of new hospital and will be announcing their selection in the the hospital patient services, Trustees of McLeod Mmorial such as surgery, pharmacy, Hospital are very proud of this ani very near future. • housekeeping, facility. The expectation of 1,he . latest project cost is dietary, 1 approximately $20 million. engineering, and laundry. these Boards is that this facility mi 14.,unding f01.. this program will These services will be expanded will become the hub of MJ co1ne from a variety of sources. and upgraded for the use of the specialized medicine for the Pee Dee area. The regional Toese include state and federal residents of the Pee Dee. One example of this ex- medical center concept will grBnts of $1.5 million, a million dollar grant from Florence pansion is in the surgery suite enable the residents of the Pee County, proceeds of a public where adequate operating Dee to receive the best medical will serve such care available with the least fund-r·aising campaign, a $6.8 rooms million Hill-Burton loan specialties as neurosurgery, inconvenience to them and their guarantee' with an interest orthopaedic surgery, op- families. This facility is but one subsidy, and long-term thalmological surgery, oral more step in the growth of the surgery, and many others. Pee Dee area. '' borrowing for the balance. At present many residents A.M.Quattlebaum, of 14,lorence and Georgetown is are forced to travel great eneral chairman of the pulilic distances for these services that un-raising campaign, the wilt ·b e offered at the McLeod ~dvance gift phases of which Regional Medical Center. , The seven - story patient will begin in late fall of this year. Quattlebaum is expected tower will consist of 300 private Witl1 the 1..elease of the architects' concept last week, the long awaited McLeod Regional Medical Center of the Pee Dee began to take shape as a reality. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Weekly Observer Description An account of the resource The Weekly Observer was published out of Hemingway, SC from 1973 until printing ceased in 2012. The paper continues as an e newpaper on scnow.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973-2012 Subject The topic of the resource Local Newspaper covering the Johnsonville and Hemingway communities. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pee Dee McLeod Regional Hospital takes shape, 10-2-1975 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-2-1975 News Newspaper Weekly Observer