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We do not plan to use any of this money for new technology
that is currently on the horizon. We do have on order a cat
scanner which will arrive in November, but that's not part of this
project.
Campbell: One of the questions I get: We aren't getting
any more beds, in fact, we are going to have less beds. Is
that right?
Nunnery: Not at Iredell Memorial. We have the same,
the same number of beds. I think there are two parts to the
answer here. One is, we would like to have 26 to 30 more beds.
The Hamilton study recommended that Iredell Memorial have 26 more
beds in the 1980 study. In April 1981, when we submitted a letter
requesting an application for certificate of need for this project,
we received a letter stating that the project would be automatically
denied a certificate of need if it included any additional beds.
Therefore, we decided to continue with our planning,_to continue
to reassess, and to fight for the additional beds at a later
time.
We have submitted an application for certificate of need for
eight additional beds. We submitted that application last week.
We will add those eight beds, if we are permitted, we will add
additional nursing units of approximately 30 beds if we can get the
certificate of need approval for that, The building is designed
to be able to add additional units, this is 30 -bed patient floors,
without any disruption. There is a mechanical equipment penthouse
which will separate the top floor of the current plans from any
" further construction. So we do have built in the capability of
acas 25 �,:,�