Cone Hospital review [August, 1982]

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THE MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Construction Project Begins
Architect's Rendering of New Addition
Surveyor's stakes and cords are beginning to sprout up all over the grounds of
Moses Cone Hospital signaling the beginning of what will be the most extensive building and renovation project ever
undertaken by our hospital.
As with any building project, the first
step is site preparation. The size and location of this project dictates that site
preparation will be extensive. It will
affect virtually every employee, as well
as the general public.
Because a number of utility lines run
under the area the new building will
occupy, you will soon begin to see
trenches in the service road, loading
dock and management parking areas as
the old gas mains, water mains and electric lines are dug up and relocated.
Parking To Be Shifted
The greatest change will occur with
the closing of several parking lots and
the relocation of others. The new
addition, on the west side of the hospital,
will take some of the space now used by
management and physicians as parking
facilities.
In early November, this parking area
will be closed and the lot will serve as
the staging area for the construction
project. Physicians will park in the circular parking area directly in front of the
hospital.
Gates will control access to both the
main Northwood entrance and the Elm
Street entrance in the same way access is
controlled to the management/
physicians' lot at the present time.
Parking for management staff will be
moved to the lower visitors' parking lot,
and employees using that area will enter
the hospital through the main entrance.
Construction Manager To Oversee
Building Project
Walt Adams has joined the Moses
Cone Hospital staff as a fulltime
manager of the building project we are
undertaking. Adams, 31, will act as the
hospital's representative during
construction. He will work with architects and contractors and will be
responsible for ensuring that the best
quality work is performed.
Adams has just completed a job as
construction manager for a $32 million
expansion of the Baptist Medical
Center's Princeton, Alabama unit. He
has a diverse background in construction
project management which includes
projects    in    Birmingham,    Alabama,
Saudi Arabia, and Lakeland, Bartow and
Winter Haven, Florida.
Adams' office is located in the basement in Facilities Management.
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What is now the hospital's main entrance
will be closed to the public and will be
used only by physicians and some
hospital employees.
All public and patient parking will be
located in the present outpatient/visitor
lot of the hospital. To accommodate the
parking shift, this lot will be expanded
all the way to Church Street, and the lot
will be increased from the present 153
spaces to approximately 313 spaces.
Bids have been received for the
expansion of this area, and paving
should be completed by late October or
early November.
Gravel Lot To Be
Relocated
The expanded public lot will exit into
the service drive as well as into North-
wood Street. This exit will run through
the existing gravel parking area, located
adjacent to the service drive. The gravel
lot will be relocated.
Approximately 100 employees
presently use the gravel parking area.
During the expansion of the visitors' lot
they will be reassigned other parking
space. One-half of these employees will
temporarily use the employee parking lot
on Tankersley Drive and the other half
will use the lower visitors' lot. Upon
completion of the expanded public
parking area, the small gravel lot will be
relocated near the comer of the service
drive and Church Street.
Entrance Change
Due to construction, several entrances
will be shifted. The rear entrance, next
to the physicians' parking area, will be
closed entirely. Employees who park in
the lot on Tankersley Drive will enter the
building at the entrance near the loading
dock, located between the ground floor
Lab and Purchasing. The main entrance
to the hospital will be closed to the
public and all patients and visitors will
enter through what is now the Patient
Admission and Discharge Area.
Closing of the hospital's main
entrance will make the existing patient
entrance the primary entrance for both
patient and visitors. To accommodate
this increased volume, the patient
entrance will be redesigned and
expanded.
A reception desk will be built into a
portion of the area now used by
Admitting. To make room for visitors,
some of the space now being used by the
Department of Human Resources will be
shifted into the entrance area.
Several new signs will be erected to
acquaint the public with the shifts. In addition a new hospital sign will be erected
at the entrance to the new asphalt parking area.
As these changes occur all employees
and physicians will be personally
notified. These changes will help us
prepare for the construction that is to
follow. It will be an exciting time for
this hospital and this community.
NEXT MONTH: 4700, A New Unit To
Come On Line.
July Blood Drive Is Record Breaker
donor reached his 14 gallon plateau.
The $25 donor prize went to Dickie
Batten in Facilities Management, and
Mary Beth Dolon, Division 4500, won
the $10 solicitor drawing prize.
Solicitors for this drive were Ellen
Zubow, Pharmacy; Frank Pequigney,
Safety/Security; Linda Charles, Laboratory; Margaret Garner, Mail Room; Suzy
Dowd, Surgical Intensive Care; Nancy
Bridges, Day Surgery Center; Val Rhae
Lackey, Division 3500; Jan Brown,
Division 3700; Diane Wolff, Division
4000; Mary Beth Dolan, Division 4500;
Ann Norwood, Division 5000; Marie
Cancemi, Division 5500; Eddice Martin,
Staff Development; Jackie Jobe,
Division 6000; and Lynn McLaurin,
AHEC.
The July 30 Red Cross Bloodmobile
visit to Moses Cone Hospital had the
largest donor participation in the history
of blood drives sponsored by the hospital. There were 249 people who came to
the drive and offered blood; 28 potential
donors were deferred by the Red Cross,
but 221 pints of blood were collected.
Nineteen were first time donors, and one
REVIEW
Moses Cone Hospital
1200 North Elm Street
Greensboro, North Carolina 27401- 1020
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Greensboro, N.C.
Carolyn Beard, Editor