Identifier: 26831530R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The past, present & future of the Yale University School of Medicine and affiliated clinical institutions : including the New Haven Hospital, the New Haven Dispensary, the Connecticut Training School for Nurses
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Yale University. School of Medicine, author
Subjects: Yale University. School of Medicine Schools, Medical
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Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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fectious medical cases arein Gifford Wards. Infectious cases are inthe Isolation Pavilion. The Dispensary ison the opposite lot. During the summer the rehabilitationof the East and West Wards was begun.Indeed these have been entirely wreckedand only the outer shell of the buildingleft. The mansard roof was removed, thewalls were continued to make a completethird story, reinforced concrete floors re-placed the old wooden ones, modern sani-tary equipment was installed, and largepiazzas placed on the south side; in factthese wards have been restored to meetthe most modern ideas in hospital con-struction. The old elevator at the east endof the building has been replaced by amodern one, and a new elevator has beeninstalled in an unused shaft, at the westend of the building, near the GiffordWard. During the summer a second importantbuilding was begun; namely a laboratory,including a basement and two floors, 125feet long and 30 feet wide, on the northwall of the main corridor, between the 44
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EAST WARDS. EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS, AFTER REHABILITATION 45 old North Ward and the Chapel, as indi-cated in Diagram II. Plans have beencompleted and contracts let for a privatepavilion (see chart). Construction on thispavilion is now under way. This reconstruction will increase thecapacity of the Hospital materially. TheEast and West Wards, of which only thefirst and second floors had been availablefor patients, provided approximately 80beds. Reconstructed, they will providefacilities for 120 beds; an increase of 40.The private pavilion will have 55 indi-vidual rooms in place of the 18 rooms nowlocated in the North and South Wards.There will be a redistribution of the bedsamong the services as follows: (a) Medicine: Gifford I; male; non-infectious cases; 20beds. Gifford II; female; non-infectious cases;20 beds. Isolation; male and female; infectiouscases; 35 beds. (Total 75 beds for medical cases.) (b) Surgery: East I; male; 22 beds.East II; female; 22 beds.West I; male; 18 beds.

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