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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1973)
The old hospital presented a gloomy sight Health Center To Open Monday A&M’s health facilities will be given a “shot in the arm” with the opening of the new University Hospital on Monday. The new health center consists of three floors, the first of which is the out-pa tient department with 12 ex amination rooms, seven doc tor’s offices and administra tive offices for the hospital staff. In addition, there are special clinics for physio therapy, audio, eye, ear, nose and throat, dental hygiene clinic and a special clinic for injections. The second floor contains the longer term patient fa cilities. There are 20 rooms for double occupancy, two rooms for isolation of con tagious diseases and one in tensive care unit for the acutely ill. Nurses and doctors can relax in lounges and food for staff and patients will be prepared in the new hos pital kitchen and cafeteria. Dr. Hal Powe Jr., direc tor of the new hospital de scribes the $1.7 million fa cility as “second to none at least in the southwest.” There are four full time physicians and at night five Bryan-College Station doc tors stand by on call. In ad dition, specialists in the fields of radiology, urology, surgery, orthopedics, gyne cology, internal medicine and psychology serve as con sultants. Out patient service will begin at the new facility this weekend. Due to mov ing from the old hospital to the new one treatment will be restricted to emergency cases. W Dental services will be offered in the future Photos By Rodger Mallison The new X-ray machine will do almost everything The beds, like everything in the new hospital, are very modern The old hospital shows its age