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By Libby Demp

A hospital is a special place. Most of us would chose not to go there unless we absolutely had to. You don’t go to a hospital because you’re feeling tip top. You go because you’re sick or you’re about to have a baby, or because your family physician has ordered a sefies of tests. A hospital reflects the life in general of a community. There are enough TV soap operas, novels and movies about

WILLIAM H. WALDRON. Ill Hospital Administrator hospitals, doctors and hypochondriacs that give a negative side to the medical field. Last week’s issue of the Herald featured a front page story on the advent of spring in Cape May County. It briefly lit on the 3.8 million dollar expansion program now underway at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital. This week the Herald went back to Burdette Tomlin to learn more about the extensive remodeling and building program underway that will ultimately update patient care and provide Cape May County with better health

services.

According to William H. Waldron. HI. Administrator of the hospital, the project consists of three major areas - two new buildings, an east wing and a west wing, and expansion of parking facilities. Thirty-six spaces in front of the south lobby entrance are nearing completion, the last of 300 additional parking spaces that have been added. “There’s a npw spirit in the hospital nowadays." said Waldron. "The staff is immensely proud of what’s happening. They are looking forward to the new facilities that will give our patients the/good health care we feel they deserve " The new expansion program is the final phase of a three part improvement project. Phase I and II were completed in 1974 when the Whitkar Wing was added ort* housing the emergency department. EKG. physical therapy, respiratory therapy, admissions, outpatient, a new surgical unit and a renovated medical unit. The new west wing is being

attached to the side of the hospital that parallels Rt. 9. It will house an extended dietary department on the ground floor, and a larger maternity section on the first floor as well as a second

floor pediatric area.

"On the ground floor we are adding dry storage areas, a walkin freezer, a diary refrigerator and a meat and vegetable refrigerator. There will be new stoves and a new dishwashing area. We’re excited about the new conveyer assembly line in the dietary department that will .get food more quickly to our /patients, so they’ll get their hot food hot and their cold food cold."

said Waldron.

The new maternity section, according to Waldron, will make Burdette one of the most modem maternity centers in the area. The unit will house four brand new labor rooms, two private delivery rooms, a solarium, an anesthesia room and utility

rooms.

A renovated section of the maternity department will have a new nursery close to the main entrance of the department where immediate family can see the babies. There will also be a feeding room for babies who might have to remain after their mothers go home. A fathers’ waiting rdom will

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New Cardiologist Joins Staff At Burdette

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Dr. Suketu Nanavati is the newest specialist to join the staff of Burdette Tomlin Memorial HospiUl. bringing with turn expertise in the area of unplanting temporary pacemakers for paUents suffering aetde heart attack, a heart block or very slow

heartbeat

•This life saving technique anil now be done in Burdettes emergency room instead of rushing patients to Shore

Memorial Hospital, as was done

in the past

After three or four days the temporary pacemaker can he removed. In some cases further evaluation may determine the need for a permanent

pacemaker.

School, and has done internships at tawpitals in Perth Amboy, N.J., Brooklyn, N.Y., and DuBois. Pa. His residency in Cankoiogy was done at Coney Island General Hospital and Ns fellowship was at Beth brad in

New York City

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renovated including a treatment room, a playroom, a solarium, a children’s tub and shower room. 10 semi-private rooms anrPo one bed isolation room. The east wing will be a two story building, with a long needed cafeteria for hospital employees on the ground floor There will also be three conference rooms with expandable walls and a snack room where vending machines will be installed. The first door of the east wing will be "Our pride and joy.” said Waldron "It will house a brand new laboratory, a blood bank bacteriology section, and sec lions for chemistry hematology urine anal}.is and histology There will be a laboratory out patient waiting area for the convenience of patients who have been referred to Burdette for lab tests by their family physicians '' The new buildings are viewed as strictly utilitarian structures according to Waldron. “They re two of the plainesl. buildings you’ve ever seen." he said. "'Ihe days are gone when you could afford to build a beautiful edifice The architecture will blend in with the present buildings The interiors are what we are interested in. what I call the 'functional beauty of patientcare.’” The opening of the new wings is IPage 2 Please)

Burdette Aux. Meets Apr. 5

The Auxiliary of the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital will hold its annual election of officers al the General Meetiug on April 5th at 7:30 p.m. in Ike meeting

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