Cone Hospital review [November-December, 1971]

              MOSES CONE HOSPITAL
REVIEW
Vol.  6,  No. 3
GREENSBORO,  NORTH CAROLINA
November-December 1971
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$1,330,178 Contracts Being Let
For New Laundry, Food Service
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Contracts have been let by the
Board of Trustees for construction
and equipping of a new Laundry
building and for remodeling the present Food Service system.
The $1,330,178 contracts carry
a completion date of 365 calendar
days which means the construction
should be finished by December
1972.
King-Hunter, Inc. of Greensboro,
general contractors, will be the
builders.
700% Fair Share
Laundry and Personnel Lead  Depts.
To Top USC Campaign Goal In Drive
Laundry and Personnel led all the
departments in the recently completed United Services Campaign
which saw hospital employees pledge
$16,531 for 103% of the goal of
$16,000.
The 23 members of the Laundry
not only gave to the drive, but all
23 pledged a Fair Share. Their
record included pledges from three
members who were ill or hospitalized
at the time.
Tying Laundry's percentage was
Personnel whose four members each
pledged a Fair Share.
The hospital was one of the first
groups in the community to meet its
goal and by the first USC report
meeting.
Director H. L. Bettis said of the
campaign here, "It's a tremendous
record and I'm proud of it."
Laundry and Personnel department members were guests of the
hospital for lunch as a mark of
appreciation for their contribution.
Frank Johnson who directed the
campaign said he was very pleased
by the success and expressed his
thanks to all the contributors and to
the many team captains who were
the contact people. He reported a
gain in every aspect of the campaign
over last year's drive as the following
figures show:
1971-72
1970-71
Number Employees
1015
979
Number/°/0  Contributing
824-81%
783 - 80%
Number/% Fair Shares
312-38%
267 - 34%
Total Amount Pledged
$16,531.00
$13,944.00
Average Contribution
$20.06
$17.81
Number "Zero"  Pledges
191
196
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Bids had been submitted earlier
this year but came in well above the
architect's estimates. The Trustees
then had the architect revise the
plans and asked for new bids from
the firms which had been low bidders the first round.
As now projected, the contracts
include $769,950 for the Laundry
building, $212,882 for equipment
for it and $347,346 for Food Service.
In revising the plans, the automated transportation conveyor system between the Laundry and the
main hospital building was eliminated. Instead linen is to be transported by truck or cart between the
back platform and the Laundry. The
new building will be located beside
the present steam plant.
The Food Service plans were left
intact because all changes were
necessary to installing the centralized food serving system. But this
work only includes the central kitchen. Any redecoration and expansion of the cafeteria and the creation
of a corridor will come later as remodeling of the whole building is
carried out.
When the centralized serving of
patient trays is begun, the present
floor kitchens will be closed and the
personnel working there now will be
used in keeping the conveyor belt
system supplied.
The food will be served to the
patients on insulated trays by nurses.
This is a return to an orginal nursing
duty. The patient's diet has always
been an important part of his care
but had been divorced in large measure from Nursing. Now the serving
will be back in Nursing and as much
importance attached to the food by
nursing personnel as they now attach
to medications and patient reactions to these.
(Continued  on  P. 4)