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Dedication of St James New F loors Set for Dec. 18Contractors will complete finishing touches on construction of the third and fourth floors of the new south wing of SI. James hospital in Pontiac by the end of next week.Sister M. Bonaventura, administrator of the hospital, announced at a meeting of the hospital s lay advisory board Wednesday night that dedication ceremonies will be held at 5 p.m. Dec. 18 and there will be open house tours for the public I —__from 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 21.Taking part in the dedication will be the Most Rev. William Cousins, bishop of the Peoria diocesecabinetwork and the most modern surgical equipment.Ceilings have metal acoustical ' tile.of the Roman Catholic church, the ____ r* i « •,r .... , _ ’ . Oppermau General Contractor.Rev. Mother M. Liliosa of Peurui,mother general .£ the Third Order i, J®'Ha'°,ppcr-r vT - , • . man Sons of Pontiac. Subcon-of St. Francis which operates the [tractors under that firm include local hospital, and the Rev. John in. L. McManus of Peoria, metal Whelan, the hospital chaplain, will j acoustical tile; F. C. Clothier be master ot ceremonies. jSons of Bloomington, which putThe dedication will not be open i IVISt ‘ile. **U? =ncl marble| window sills: plastering by George to the public because of lack of i Snider of Pontiac; painting by space but conducted tours for the!John Myers Son of Pontiac; public will be made Dec. 21 by thc!^oorin» ^ State Terraza23 board members of the St. James j FI°°r comPan' of Peoria.Hospital Auxiliary. LM^al wbinets were purchasedI by the hospital direct from the Total Cost S250,000. I dealer. St. Charles Cabinet Equip-Sister M. Bonaventura said total1 IH^t company, in St. Charles, 111.,1-j , t i lie other two contractors be-of the third and fourth Hooi*;sja-cs the Oppermau firm are Wil-construction will run close tojliam Oberholtzer of Pontiac, who 5250,000. About half of the cost [was awarded contracts for plumb-wili be borne by the Third Order |inS- heating ami air conditioning; of St. Francis. A total of S87.00o|and Wynant Electric of Pontiac,' i in cash has already been received-011 electrical work, ion a total of $109,000 in pledges j Work on the addition began obtained during a community sub-M^'Th 3. Architect was Hamilton scription campaign. In addition.L^- Pox Peoria, a $33,000 grant from the Ford; ^ *1C. Si'oup in charge of the con-Foumlation has been received, as \ struction work is the hospital lay well as 50,000 left over from the j advisory board and officials of theUvoj Third Order of St. Francis'The lay advisory committee isbuilding fund for the firstfloors of the south wing. i ~ vuuiuiun.-cThe two new floors will incrca.se o0™P°5ed of Zell Jones, president; the hospital's bed capacity from!, 1 ■1'or|lljai1t;11. vice president; 77 to 90, in addition to expanding' *,lr,rm Jut surgical, laboratory and otherfacilities.The third floor will contain the obstetrical rooms. It will contain .two delivery rooms and n labor room, a nursery, suspect nursery, formula room, doctor's room, a priv-'te room, nurse's station and a three-bed m a I er n i t y wa r d. Fo r-: incrly there was one delivery and ] one labor room in the hospital.| Five Surgery Rooms.The fourth floor will contain i five surgery rocins (two for major surgeries, one minor surgery, one urology and one I'm* easts), doctor's room, nurses'-s station, anesthesia roQin and central supply ; room for the fourth floor.A penthouse on the addition ihtuiscs heating and air condition-. ing equipment for the two floors ! of 11’.o wing.! Formerly there were two surgerv rooms, one for major and one' for ‘ msm.r surgery. Laboratory spacer iin a nother pari of the wing will • he expanded because of removal 1 of surgical department to the new addition.The interior decoration of the older part of the south wing has been carried through the third and fourth floors. This includes waits painted in different pastel shades, lerrazy flooring and ceramic tile walls, some wains coat high and some the full height of the walls.The two floors will have all new furniture and equipment, including a large amount of metalBurton W hit more, secretary-treas urcr; ’IVilliam C. Harris. Francis Lehman, Roger Harding. Glen Chenowcih, Ben Light. John Vicars. John Lough ran, all of Pontiac; M. J. Blan of Minonk: Dale Rich of Graymont: Jarlyfh Watson of Odell, and Howard Paulsen of Dwight.
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Pontiac Daily Leader
Pontiac, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 04, 1958
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