Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-28
GEORGETOWN ADDS
HOSPITAL BUILDING.
New Structure. Soon to Open,
viii Provide 100 Addi-
tional Beds.

Completion Of the new five-story ad-
dition 10 the Georgetown University
Hospital, providing for 100 additional
hospital beds. marks the first step taken
by the university authorities looking TO
the establishment Of an enlarged medi-
cal center adjoining the campus grounds
in Georgetown
This new brick building; erected at a
cost i'll excess of S25o,o00. fronts on
Thirty fifth street and Prospect avenue
and makes the Georgetown institution
one of the largest hospitals in Washing
ton. Arrangements are being made for
its formal opening at an early date.
The building makes provision for the
administrative offices Of the entire in
stitution and additional quarters and
clinics for the GEORGETOWN Medical
School A board of experts made a
study of the largest and finest hospitals
IN the United States and applied the
best features of this study III Quitting
the new unit here.
Has New Style Equipment.
The Georgetown authorities have de-
parted from the customary whiteneSS Of
interior hospital furnishings and have
equipped the building in manner that
gives 10 the wards and private rooms a
touch of home" atmosphere. Especially
designed furniture. known as the
Georgetown suite is supplied for all
the rooms. Instead of the usual white.
the furniture. including even the
bureaus and tables, is Of mahogany
color
Besides 40 large private rooms, each
with a separate bath and six laeye
wards. the new building provides hVlnG
NJ EranPNS
who care for the institution. occupying
the whole Of the fifth floor There are
Is private rooms on that floor with 9
rooms on the fourth floor. The fifth
floor is equipped with a white-tlled
kitchen. dining room and large recrea-
ton hall for the hospital staff. with
roof garden on the south end of the
building.
New Chapel Provided.
On the fifth floor is a chapel of
Gothic style. with a seating capacity
for about 200 worshipers
The first floor of the hospital building
Is given over 10 administrative Offices
on the main lobby, physicians staff
rooms. waiting rooms and with clinics
for the medical school in the basement
Each floor has its special diet kitchen.
There are 10 private rooms for
patients with separate baths. and two
wards on second, third and fourth
floors.
The present capacity of Georgetown
Hospital will be enlarged by these new
facilities 10 approximately 400 beds and
the equipment Will give advantages for
the students Of the medical school and
nurses of the Georgetown University
Hospital Training School.
Other Space Released.
Another matter of utmost Importance
70 the hospital is the needed space rp-
leased by the new quarters supplied for
the staff of sisters. This will afford
more spaces for the nurses in training
and other rooms for beds in the older
building
The institution was established in
1897 with only so beds In the opening
year IL had 273 house cases. 4el
emergency cases and 633 dispensary
cases This number had increased in
1926 70 1880 house cases. 1910
emergency cases and 1852 dispensary
cases. Nearly half of all the patients
were cared for free Of charge.