Speedway Flyer, Volume 35, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1966 — Page 4

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UNITED HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN Although the United Hospital Campaign is just reaching its mid-point in pledging and total collections are years away, the Methodist Hospital Board of Trustees and Medical Staff have demonstrated their concern for currently meeting the needs of the serious shortage of facilities. Demonstrating a faith in the positive results of the campaign, the

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hospital has borrowed funds based on anticipatted contributions and future earnings and in November started constructtion on additional new facilities. This became evident as the erection of structural steel could be observed early in January. Methodist Hospital is adding a $3,500,000 addition of six floors to the “C” building at the north end of the hospital at the southwest corner of 18th St. and Capitol Ave. This air-conditioned building will provide 239 addi-

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tional beds. One hundred and seventy-two will be medical and surgical beds on the 4th, sth, 6th and 7th floors in one- and twobed rooms (43 beds on each floor). There will be 41 psychiatric beds on the third floor and 26 beds for contagion and isolation patients on the top floor of the building. The latter is the only unit solely for isolation purposes in a voluntary general hospital in central Indiana. This six-story addition, included in the United Hospital Campaign, is scheduled for completion in mid-1957. Some of the new beds will replace beds in older sections of the hospittal where plumbing is

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inadequate and remodeling for patient occupancy would be uneconomical. This area will then be used for professional and supportive service. The majority of the new beds, however, are additive rather than replacement Methodist presently provides the largest psychiatric service in a voluntary general hospital in the United States. The 41-bed addition (private, two-bed and four-bed accommodations) added to present psychiatric facilities constructed in 1958 will provide a total of 158 in-patient psychiatric beds. The 30 psychiatrists on the Medical Staff of the hospital have often had as many as 90 patients waiting for admission.

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The first floor of the ned addition (third floor for psychiatric patients) will be carpeted, and the corridors will be decorated with oil paintings to give a more home-like setting. The beds will be a. combination bed and daytime lounge unit. In addition to patient rooms, there will be a nurses station, large dining and lounge area, and conference and examining rooms. Recreational therapy is important for a treatment unit of this type and there will be large recreation area on this floor as well as a new recreation area added to the present second floor. The psychiatric outpatient and elec-tro-stimulation therapy facilities on the first floor will be expanded and the occupational therapy (ceramics, rug weaving, leathercraft, etc.) area will be greatly enlarged. A large outdoor patio will be provided on the second floor and will be available to all mentally ill patients.

The hospital’s large psychiatric service can provide a broad and more effective approach to care of the mentally ill. A number of general hospitals in the state provide services for 15 to 30 psychiatric patients. In these units it is difficult and uneconomical to provide all of the elements valuable for full patient care, and it is often necessary to house the patients together with varying degrees of mental illness. Methodist, by its size, is able to segregate patients based on the degree of their mental illness, thus separating those patients who are highly disturbed from those persons with minimal illness, for the benefit of both. It is also able to provide recreation, occupational therapy, social service and other types of treatment aids which would be unavailable, impractical and uneconomical in smaller units. A future project is a new multiservices building planned for north of 18th St. on Senate Ave. behind Wile Hall, the student nurse residence. This building,

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also included in the United Hospital Campaign, will include a concentration of activities therapy (gymnastics, swimming, bowling, etc.) for the in-patients and for psychiatric “day and night” patients. The hospital has presently been caring for some patients on a partial hospitalization basis on a “day and night” program. Certain psychiatric patients can be treated during the day and return home for the evening -and night Other patients can be in their home or work situations during the day and treated and remain in the hospital overnight This has been demonstrated as a very practical approach as a kind of “crossroads” for patients with mental illness.

This facility will also be used by the over 600 students presently engaged in various educational programs on the hospital campus. Only quite limited recreation facilities are now available for these students. The multi-services building will be attached by tun-nel-type corridor with the main hospital The building will include additional class rooms for nursing, medical and technical programs, and a new, enlarged professional library. It will provide a replacement of the volunteers’ meeting and work area and a food service for the increased number of students, hospital personnel, and for out-patients and visitors. Based on statistics accumulated

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by the American Hospital Association, the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis is the 16th largest general hospital in the United States in relation to the quantity of .Jin-patient services rendered, it is the Bth largest in the United States, and the third largest church-related hospital. Following the completion of this addition and the remodeling program, the hospital will have a total of 1,200 beds and bassinets. This will help alleviate the long waiting list for beds at Methodist of over 1,200 emergency and elective patients.

POST OFFICE NEWS Indianapolis is one of 75 cities, which will receive components in the largest postal source-data computer complex in the world, Postmaster Charles H. Boswell said today. The Indianapolis Post Office will be tied in with a $33.5 million computer complex that will gather and compute vital postal operations information for local use. The $33.5 million complex will mean that nearly SIOO million in new equipment will be installed under Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien’s accelerated mechanization and modernization program. Just last Tuesday, Mr. O’Brien unveiled a massive postal modernization program which calls for contracts totaling $65 million

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to be negotiated by June 30. A few days earlier, President Johnson had given the postmaster general the go-ahead to move toward improving window and parcel post services in thousands of post offices. The postmaster general said the new electronic data processing complex will cost an estimated S3O million. Simultaneously, he disclosed that, beginning on or about Feb. 1, the department will solicit proposals from the computer industry to replace, with about $3.5 million worth of more sophisticated equipment, ADP systems now being used in the six postal data centers and at postal headquarters. “Implementation of this sourcedata gathering system will be a giant step toward more effectively utilizing manpower in areas which handle more than half of our total mail volume and employ nearly 50 per cent of our total work force,” Mr. O’Brien said.

The Indianapolis Post Office is one of those 75 larger offices in the country that handle more than half of the total mail volume and employ nearly half of the total work force. The source-data system, based upon successful experiments in Milwaukee, Wis., and Minneapolis, Minn., will initially be used to gather such information as mail volume, workload, manpower fluctuations, manhour and attendance records, and transmit it instantaneously to high-speed computers for analysis and evaluation.

Results and conclusions will immediately be flashed back to postmasters and supervisors for their use in more effectively moving the mail. The new system will virtually eliminate the slow and tedious manual methods presently used to gather the necessary information on which to base policy and operating decisions. For example, the system will enable supervisors to quickly determine where the major work loads exist in a post office, and what steps they must take to more effectively utilize their employees.

The system will utilize longdistance leased telephone lines to form a nationwide telecommunications network for transmission of postal data between participating post offices and central electronic data processing units located at various points around the country, including Post Office Headquarters in Washington. A series of some 6,000 specially built recording machines, electronic scales and piece count devices will be strategically located in key offices, branch offices and stations from coast to coast. Participating post offices will have an average of 80 information recording units. As information is fed into this equipment locally, the transmitter is activated and flashes the data to one of the centrally located high-speed computers. The computer digests, compares and analyses incoming information and automatically prepares appropriate management reports which are transmitted back to the office for use in making management decisions to improve operations.

In the Milwaukee-Minneapolis project—through which the new system was successfully tested—-source-data was gathered in Milwaukee and Minneapolis and transmitted to computer in the Minneapolis Postal Data Center. The Milwaukee - Minneapolis project has saved more than 20 man-years of work since its installation in 1964. It also proved that the system is capable of sending and receiving information at the same speed, regardless of the distance involved between member post offices and computing centers. “Installation of the new complex will begin November of this year,” Mr. O’Brien said. “We are shooting for a completion date, nationwide in 1968.”

Art League Exhibition The Marion County Art League announces its annual competitive exhibition to be held at Holliday House, Holliday Park, Indianapolis, on March 19 and 20. The exhibition will be open to all Indiana residents, with the exception of Marion County Art League officers and executive board members. Deadline for entry blanks is March 1. Entry blanks can be received by writing the chairman, Agnes Leßoy, at the following address: 402 N. Delaware -108, Indianapolis. A special award for a painting pertaining to Indiana and commemorating Indiana’s Sesquicentennial will be in the amount of $250. The Sesquicentennial winner’s picture will be included in the commemorative showing at the State House Art Salon on April 1. One picture will be selected from this showing to be presented to the President of the United States. The winner of the first place award in the Marion County Art League’s juried show will be granted a one-man show at the Purdue University Indianapolis Campus.