The Columbia evening Missourian., 1921-11-17
KANSASCITY
NURSE HEADS
NEW HOSPITAL
Miss Eleanor Kelley, Formerly
Superintendent of St.
Luke's Directs Local
Institution.
Institution.
WILL OPEN DECEMBER l
Six Nurses Will Constitute
Staff at Opening, Two of
Whom Are Already
in Columbia.

Miss Eleanor Keeley who was super.
iniendent of ST. Luke's Hospital in Kan.
sas City for sixteen years is superintend-
ent Of the new Boone County Hospital
which will be opened about the first of
December. Miss Keeley resigned from
St. Luke's TO enter the service during
the war and was overseas fourteen
months.
I'VE hope to open the Boone County
Hospital about the first Of December,
said Miss Kelley. "We will start with
forty beds but more can be added if nee.
essary. The only ward in the building
is the one in the basement for the negro
patients. A great many hospitals are
doing away with wards entirely. There
will be six nurses to begin with but i
will probably need more later on"
The hospital has reached that stage of
construction which requires many small
pieces Of work 10 complete il. The two
large operating rooms on the second
floor are equipped with special lighting
system designed by DIR. F. c. Nifong
and the representative from the firm of
Bailey-Reynolds in Kansas City. The
system is constructed 10 prevent the con.
centraiion of heat in the operating
rooms.
The frs, and second floor plans are
alike with the exception of the operating
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the first floor. There is diet kitchen
a sun parlor. work room. supply room,
and sterilizing room on each floor in ad-
dition TO the rooms for the patients. The
first floor is finished with mahogany
and gray enamel. the second and third
floors with white woodwork and gray
enamel. The furniture for these floors
will be mahogany.
The third floor has been converted
into 4 sun parlor and small room that
can if necessary be used to isolate
case. There is fully equipped X-ray
room in the basement of the hospital and
the drug room and laboratory are also
in the basement. A few doors down the
hall from these rooms is the emergency
room and across the hall from that is
the one room in the building which has
bars on the windows
I've are required by law to have al
least one room with bars" said Miss
keeley. 1T is used in case Of delirious
patients or cases here under observation
before being taken TO Fulton.
The general kitchen, the nurses din
ing room. the refrigerator room. the veg.
e.able cellar and the laundry room are
all in the basement, also the rooms for
the negro patients Just back Of the
main hospital building is the heating
and laundry plant The residence west
of the hospital has been remodeled into
a home for the nurses.
Misses Alice Corbin and Ella Day,
two Of the nurses, are already here and,
like Miss Keeley, both served overseas
curing the war. Speaking Of her ex.
periences during the war Miss Keeley
said. Il had charge of los nurses. We
were organized under the Red Cross but
were transferred to the army at New
York. We were in Limoges, hospital
center, the entire time and had charge
of three hospitals. On Armistice Day
we had 3,247 patients. OF course, we
couldn't keep record all Of the time
but that day We really wanted to know
how many we had