Newsletter [October 15, 1975]

              New Building to be Completed by July
Mr. Dave Ramseur, Project Representative and Architect with Odell Associates expressed high hopes in early September that the
tower and annex now under construction
should be completed and ready for occupancy
by July, 1976.
The annex, which may be completed before
the tower, will double the service capacity of
the Emergency and Radiology Departments
and will enlarge the Surgical Department by
four new operating rooms.
The new five story wing will house 120
medical/surgical beds and expand the laboratory facilities, ICU/CCU, and improve the
obstetrical services including new delivery
and labor rooms. There will also be additional
nursery space and a premature nursery.
The medical/surgical floors will have an
oval hallway comparable to a racetrack that
will surround the nursing center, the supply
rooms, and other areas strictly for the nursing
staff. On the outside of the racetrack will be
the patient's rooms. It is hoped that this type
of design will be more functional for the staff
nurses since their supplies will be centrally
located.
The laboratory, ICU/CCU, and the nursery area will also have the oval design that
centrally locates the nursing staff and supplies. For example, the lab will have one main
lab area with several specialized rooms such
as the tissue room, the blood bank, etc. located around the perimeter of the lab room.
The patient rooms will be designed with the
patient in mind in regard to color, atmosphere
and furnishings. Each room will have a television and a full bath with a tub and shower. All
rooms with the exception of a few will be
private. There will be six suites, two on each
floor, that will have an adjacent room connecting that room with the patient's, in the event
that the visiting family chooses to stay
24 hours per day.
The Intensive Care Unit and the Coronary
Care Unit patient rooms will be glass partitioned to enable the nurses to watch each
patient continuously, thus providing faster
and better care.
The tower and annex which cost nearly $9
million, was designed with functionalism
combined with efficient use of space as the
main considerations.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
WESLEY LONG COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
OCTOBER 15, 1975
North Elm Street, looking North, Greensboro, N. C.
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The house on the right is Long Hospital on Elm Street in 1917. The picture was copied from a
postcard by Mr. A. O. Smith.
Wesley Long Hospital in
RETROSPECT
Many who still staff Wesley Long remember the "old Wesley Long Hospital" on
Elm Street and some may even remember the
thriftiness of John Wesley Long, himself. The
past Director of Nursing at Wesley Long,
Mrs. Virginia Williamson, remembers she
was sixteen and too young to be admitted to
nursing school, yet Dr. Long allowed her to
train. He was a talented man, and "ran the
hospital like a tyrant" says Mrs. Williamson,
who further explained that he had to since the
hospital had very little then and had to be
managed carefully.
"One night I remember Dr. Long calling
the hospital from his home next door, to inquire why an electric light was burning on the
third floor. When he was told it was needed he
was satisfied but reminded the staff to be sure
it was off when they finished. Everyone was
responsible to conserve," Mrs. Williamson
recalled.  Dr.  Long's secretary would sew
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John Wesley Long
One Man's Portrait
(Excerpt from a speech by Herbert Ogburn,
M.D.)
" I shall confine my remarks as closely as
possible to the history with a few remarks of a
personal nature. I was permitted to spend
twelve years associating intimately with Dr.
John Wesley Long—24 hours a day. I was
perhaps with him under more trying circumstances and nervous strains than any other
person, maybe including his wife. He once
told me that he thought the nicest thing any
person could say about him and the characteristic he would most like to be remembered
by, was that he was a resourceful man. I think
that it could be said that he was a most resourceful man. He would come out of every
difficult situation and always had a solution,
usually a new one and one least thought of by
others, for every problem which confronted
him."
"Together with his resourcefulness he had
the tenacity of a bull-dog and would carry his
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Infection Control
Program Started
The Medical Staff Infectious Diseases
Committee established a new program effective September 15,1975, to prevent the spread
of infection in the Hospital. Janice Walden,
who is originally from Franklin, Georgia, but
has lived in Greensboro for the past ten years,
has accepted the post as Infection Control
Nurse. Among her duties will be to work with
the Infection Control committee in setting up
a system of surveillance and reporting the information to the Infection Control Committee.
She is presently working out of Room 223 in
the Kiser Building, M-W-F, from 8:30-12:30,
and hopes any one with suggestions will stop
by to discuss them.
AHEC Gives
Wesley Long
Audio-Visual
Equipment
The Greensboro Area Health Education
Center has purchased audio-visual equipment
for each of its nine hospitals including Wesley
Long. This equipment is permanently assigned to each hospital as long as it is used for
educational purposes. A partial list of the
equipment for each affiliated hospital in the
Greensboro AHEC which Wesley Long has
already received includes a Sony 19" Trinitron Color Monitor/Receiver, a Ektagraphic
slide projector with zoom lens and remote
control, a W U Video Cassette Player with
remote control, an Audio Cassette
recorder/player synchronized for slide change
and program stop, and earphones with volume
control.
Eventually through a statewide cooperative
effort of all of the AHEC's, it is hoped that a
considerable amount of self-instructional
material will be available for each of the nine
hospitals in the Greensboro "AHEC.