The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-19
Bishop Dedicates St. Mary's Hospital Wing Tomorrow
Hospital Addition Has
 Latest Conveniences
Basement Dining Rooms, Children's, lsOIaton Mater
 nity Dept's. Important Sections of New Wing

1 with connecting toilet for the ao- commodation of mothers who might want to play with the child. Just inside the doors from the corridor into the childrens department the charge nurses station and ada joining are the stretcher and linen closets and clothes.chute.
 On the second floor are i8 serli~ private rooms, each equipped for 9 beds with individual built-in metal lockers, bedside tables, nurses call switches, bed light and res ceptacle plugs. Tn the Franklin street wing are utility, treatment chart, kitchen, linen, and stretcher rooms. male and female toilet rooms, nurses station, bath, main staif- way, elevator, maids closet and day room.
 Isolation Department
 The rear half of the Scovil street wing is the Isolation De- partment and is separated from tho balance of the floor by cross-cor- ridor partition. The "two.bed' rooms in this department are equipped with surgical sinks with knee-action faucets and this de- partment has It's own kitchen. treatment, chart, linen, utility, toilet, and bath rooms. Complete inSolas ton from the rest Of the hospital is thus assured for both patient and attendant. The section is c miniature hospital, complete ii every detail, in itself.
 The third story has 23 private rooms; 17 of those have private toilets and six have private bath rooms. For service to these rooms there are two utility rooms, q treatment room, chart room, kitchs en, flower, nurses rest, Stretcher. and linen rooms.
 Maternity Department Modern
 On the fourth floor or Maternity Department on the Franklin street side arc 6 private rooms, 6 of which have private toilets and two nave private bath-rooms. There are also six two. bed" rooms, kitchen, flower, chart, nurses rest, and utility rooms, both, toilet, Stretcher, and liner rooms. The larger part of thO scovlll street wing on this fiooS lS the Delivery Department. cons sisting of three Delivery roornA three labor rooms, doctors roonlt work and supply room, SteriliZnG room, utility and laundry room.
 This section Is set off from the balance Of the floor by crosSs corridor partition and doors. Tho doctors room has one door giving entrance from the corridor and ( second door leading into the deS livery corridor.
 The doctors room Is equipped with toilet and shower, and dress" ing rooms. lockers, couch, desk, etc.
 Each labor room has q connects ing toilet room. Each delivery room is finished like an operating room with terazzo floor and base. tiled walls and special swivel op- crating lights with bell dome for general room illumination; doctors Scrub-up sinks, and builtsin iflStru- ment cases.
 Each delivery room has It's own ventilating unit, taking air in from outside, Altering and warming 1t. nil controlled by thermostnt. Tho humidity Of the room is also main: tained and controlled by individual hunidlstatS.
 Roof Features
 On the roof iS Q large enclosed sun parlor, c roof shelter, and an open sun deck together with toilet rooms for both sexes.
 Aa A ing alcove with adjoining toilet for visitors. At the corner of Scovill street there Is c day room or sun room on each floor.
 Above the basement oil toilets, utility, treatment, formula, flower, linen, md stretcher rooms, closets, and nll stair halls have teraz1o floor and base; the patients rooms and corridor of Isolation and Dee livery Departments also have terazzo floors. Floors and base in private toilets and private bath rooms are tiled. Floors in kitchens are red quarry tile. All other cor. riders and patients rooms have rubber flooring. ....
 All patient room doors arU % placed that when open they screen the view of bed from corridor and are hung on friction hinges to hold them in any position and pre- vent slamming. Arm-hooks in place of knobs are provided on each side of the door for convenience of the nurses and roller latches in place of spring latches to obviat0 nCzse. | Sounds Absorbed
 Ceilings of all corridors, tCilet rooms, childrens' wards, treatmene rooms, kitchens, work rooms, chart rooms, and other spaces where noise originates are of acoustic tiles sound absorbing material.
 Each patient room throughoue has an oxygen outlet set in wall cabinet near the head of tho bed bed and connected to the oxygen room in the basement. This elii1l- mates the necessity of bringing in oxygen tanks. There are also A oxygen outlets in the childrena ward: 2 in the infants ward, ana one in each delivery room, c total of 65 oxygen outlets in all.
 A complete nurses calling syss tenn is provided, including haw switches at each bed-signal lights outside the doors in the corridorss annunciators at nurses station4 kitchens, utility and nurses ress rooms.
 1 A complete doctors paging syA tenn is provided. each doctor havin a number which is flashed inter- mittently on the paging arinunciaA tors located on the various fioorss
 M. DIS Registry System
 A doctors registry system IS ais9 uroyided. consisting of "an in-and3 out" cabinet located in the docturS room on the first floor and cone nected to a duplicate one set above the telephone operators desk. Each