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Hospitalceremonytor new nursing facilityBy LEE DIXON Record Staff WriterGroundbreaking ceremonies for the new 120-bed St. Mary’s Nursing Home — estimated to cost more than $1.9million — are scheduled for 2 p.m. Aug. 3, the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother and board of directors announced today.Sister Mary Julietta Mendoza, Provincial Superior of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in Broken Arrow, Okla., will be present for the occasion, along with board Chairman Charles Reed of Roswell, the Rev. Edward Taylor, hospital chaplain, Roswell Mayor L.C. Stiles and otherdignitaries.Robert E. Briggs, St. Mary’s Hospital chief executive officer, said the new facility will be built about 400 feet south of the present hospital and will be connected to it by a covered walkway flanked on the west by an employee parking lot and on the eastby one for visitors.Architects Page, Southerland and Page of Dallas, Texas, have planned a low, Spanish stucco structure with a red slate tile roof and “a lot of glass,”care identified hy federal licensing, Briggs explained, adding that this is the greatest present need in Roswell.It is for patients not in need of “the constant skilled care of registered nurses,” but whose services should beaccessible in case ofBriggs said the home’s “proximity to the hospital will be a distinct advantage, because patients will have immediate access to acute oremergency care, if the need arises.easily emergency, he explained.The 20 private and 50 double rooms in the new home will be filled gradually from the hospital’s “usual waiting list of 20-25 patients,” and Briggs expects the staff to “increase by 20 to 30 employees as the beds fill,” he added.“We’ll maintain an agreement with the nursing home for the purpose of facilitating such transfers,” he said.Briggs said he thinks the nursing home is large enough to meet Roswell’s current need, but noted thata patient may be referred from any part of the state where no bed is available for him./
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Roswell Daily Record
Roswell, New Mexico, US
Thu, Jul 27, 1978
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