The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-23
PLAN
TO BUILD ANNEX
PRrsENT HOSPITAL FACILITIES
NOT SUFFICIENT FOR NEEDS
OF CAMP

MOtner agnes ana the SlSteIS III
charge of st. Mary's hospital have
purchased a strip of ground fronting
on Columbia avenue, n adjoining
the present st. Mary's hospital prop
erty, and on this they will build a
large hospital annex which will be
for use of all the towns-people of
Goldfield. The present hospital
property is owned by the mine inter-
ests but the new hospital will be on
land owned by the Sisters and will
be entirely their own property. The
two buildings will be connected by
Railways. The present very salts
factory relations between the Sisters
and the niue owners will be contin-
ued the addition being needed to
take care of scores of general cases
from town that are now denied ad-
mission to the hospital because the
present building is overcrOwded with
mine cases which always have prefer
ence.
In speaking of the Sisters plans
this morning Mother Agnes stated
thhot " " hohS iii pos q
been ar insistent demand for extend
ed hospital facilities here. 1t has
not been an unfrequent occurrence
that some person connected with the
mines a by reason of preference
that must be given to all mine cases
been removed from the last bed in
the hospital to make room for some
mine case. In occasional cases the
persons who had to be deprived of
the bed was in no position to be
safely moved.
There is no reason why any per-
son demanding hospital treatment
and attention should be taken to
Reno or elsewhere, after we have
the additional room" said Mother Ag-
mes. The duty of the Sisters is to
serve all mankind, not any specified
group of persons, and we will do that
when we have the annex.
In addition to the annex we need a
great deal of modern hospital equip
ment. A complete electrical appara-
tus must be installed and other ap-
paratus is needed. 1t is our inten-
ton to make the hospital here a
life work and we wish to be equipped
so that we may do the best possible
work for the greatest number of peo-
pie. We love Goldfield and her peo-
pie and we wish to serve them most
efficiently"
Mother Agnes has mentioned her
rtartiDpc IN cayAro1 pnrconc on1 oil
have given the plan unqualified en-
dorsement. No community is immune
from urgent hospital needs. All the
people are subject to the need, sOme
time or other and no person under
stands the present lack of accOmmo-
dations for the general public better
than Mother Agnes and the Sisters
who too often, scores of times some
months, are put to the painful neces-
sity of refusing admission to st.
Mary's, to sick persons, who, in
nearly all cases, are forced to remain
in homes hat are not equipped for
the proper care of their cases.
Quite a number of the prominent
women and those of the business
and mining men who have been made
acquainted with the plan to build the
additional hospital facilities have
volunteered their services to do
whatever they can toward assisting
the Sisters in raising the money nee
essary for the new plant. Mother
Agnes has tentative plans in mind.
For the new building and the equip
ment she wishes to install, she needs
$4,000.