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serve by out-patient facilities. The wave of the future
is out-patient services. This means fast diagnosis,
modern treatment, and quick recovery. It means shorter
stays in the hospital for everyone but the most severe
cases, and that means it will cost less --much less than
the old days when lengthy stays were common.
We need modern equipment and places to put it like
this modern intensive care monitoring equipment. We
need modern private rooms with private bath and shower
facilities like this one.
People need to have many different kinds of laboratory
tests available, and the results of those tests known
quickly. Hospital wings should be built with a clear
view from the nurses' station of all the area the nurses
are responsible for. We are both taking the most cost
efficient route possible. We are renovating what we have
and adding new only what we absolutely must. Itv,s a lot
cheaper than building a new hospital.
Iredell Memorial will remodel about 53,300 sq.ft.
and add about 110,000 sq. ft. in a new building shown
attached in this model.
Lowrance will use its existing courtyard space to put
a new lab, use the old building for non -patient functions
and put new rooms in this shelled -in third floor of the 1971
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