European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Agazine Hospital director John Fosythe stands in front of the new Core for the univ enily of Michigan medical Center. Robots and satellite nursing stations Hospital of tomorrow by John Barbour associated press something like 1.5 million ailing people have passed through the doors of old main since in opened 60 years ago ii is a antique among hospitals yet the sent of Oneal the most prestigious medical centers in the nation. But next month it exits in Lavor of a new and unusual building reflective of the changes in medical care in the last Haff Century. When they decided to build a new Core for the University of Michigan medical Center Ai Ann Arbor they decided to do it right this time. The result St. Elsewhere no More. They ran emergency scenarios in a mock up patient s room found out who stumbled Over who trying to save an imaginary victim of cardiac arrest they asked patients what they haled most what they would like instead. They talked to visitors. They thought a lot about the past present and future. Ii la part of a new wave of Hospital renovations across the country in this Case a $285 million medical Center with 584 Beds and a staff of 900. The slate of Michigan put up $ 173 million individuals and foundations and corporations another $20 million and the rest was borrowed. While some Hospital officials say this May be the last wave of such expensive undertakings Tor the foreseeable future the Cost of the Michigan med Cal Center is still Lar less than the s360 million it takes to buy a 24-plane Squadron of f-16 fighters Lor Tho air Force a matter of priorities. The nation s regional medical centers lend the lives of millions who live in their own and neighbouring states t Hoy Are teaching hospitals where the latest and Best in equipment and medical technique Are available whore Vount doctors learn where unusual cases provide a living Laboratory to study the vagaries of rare diseases where medical experiments save some lose some. At at Columbia presbyterian in new York City and the University of Virginia medical Center there Are great changes afoot Here changes that will bring new concepts to patient care. They have discovered that the design of a Hospital has much to do with its Success. Instance patients complained that lying in bed they could not see anything out the window except the sky. The windows in the new Hospital Are lower providing a View of the Huron River Valley or at least the Campus of the University of Michigan. People complained about dirty venetian blinds As somehow indicative of a Gray mood and Lack of care. The new windows Are double paned with the blinds inside. There May be dust but not on the blinds. The windows Are hinged in the Middle go that both sides can be washed from the inside. And that s just the windows. One principle we followed is that every put Merit is temporarily disabled.  says or. Janet Carpman project manager of the patient arid visitor participation project. She and her colleague. Myron Grant interviewed 3,000 people it turns a Normal competent adult into n child Yon  up your clothing. You re not in our Fain her routine you re not making decision about when you to to . When you Wake up. What you Eal. It s awful. To my nothing about worrying Over your  but there Are other motivations when one d  i n place of Hope there is much More Competition Tho a con i attending to patient needs not just out of concern but out of Bottom line economics the changes i be seen in Tive and a half years of working on this protect Are just enormous. The -1 Are patients and visitors and they re under tre a and to re designing this Hospital to take care of them. We Havo to compete for patients. We have to attract p it intr we re concerned about  for instance because of changes in medical insurance and medicare patients Are being on Charro l after Shorter Hospital mafia   greater sense of Paco the cafeteria will sit 8?0 a opt a  i o avoid Linos. It too overlook1, the Huron River and thu soccer Fields to the North so what about the h r, malt  the were consulted Loo above each patient s  is a service pane with outlets for Power air. Oxygen vacuum. The staff asked for and yet duplicate Wusels on each Side of the bed to Speed up emergency procedures eliminate scurrying in an emergency to save Money there Are robots Small wheeled carts computerized to run More than 700 errands each Lay delivering drugs and equipment direct to Tho intended f Oor they have their Oah .  i a Mirn carwash to keep Thorn h Spital c Oan to save Money there in. A Uvo nillion a jul Ori Lank of water bund a Hundred fee  the in Sintal where the water  be refrigerated during Tho night and u de to feed the Hospital s air conditioning a Stem by. Saving 25 cents on Tho Dollar to save lives the Hospital has a 2-j-hour helicopter called survival flight with two nurses aboard there Are  Wing air  standing by. Each 32-bed unit has its own isolation room and its own intensive care unit each has a command care Post conference rooms for medical diagnosis arid discussion. Each has Lour satellite care units where nurses will tend no More than eight Beds and still have privacy and a place to study or write reports close to bedside. The staff has identical parallel corridors Bui linoleum floored and More Businesslike less Oak. Less trafficked than the Public corridors wednesday. December 25, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13