Mott Hospital Plans Revealed

Details of plans for the 200 bed Charles Stewart Mott Children's Hospital to be erected at the University's Medical Center between the Outpatient Building and Women's Hospital, were announced today by the U-M. The hospital was made possible by a gift on last April 20 by the Charles S. Mott Foundation of Flint of up to $6,000,000 for construction of the proposed seven-story structure. The hospital will face north and be the first building to be erected under the U-M Medical Center' s long-range plan which calls for a complete "about face" of the center, Dr. A. C. Kerlikowske, director of University Hospital said. Dr. William N. Hubbard Jr., dean of the U-M Medical School, and Dr. Roger B. Nelson, associate director of University Hospital, have been named co-chairman of the Mott Children's Hospital building committee. The U-M Board of Regents at its June meeting accepted an initial gift of $1,000,000 from the Mott Foundation to start the building. The four upper floors of the Mott Children's Hospital will be identical areas fior patiënt care, each containing a series of two and four-bedrooms to accommodate 50 patients per floor. When needed, each room can be converted to an intensive care unit or used íor isolation. Extensive pediatrie X-ray f j cilities, six operating rooms, anesthesia quarters, cast room and recovery room will be; grouped on the third level oí i the proposed building, Dr. Kerlikowske said. The second floor, at ground level, will contain the lobby, ambulance entrance, business offices, and laboratories. The first floor will be reserved for storaee. and records. Under present schedules, construction will begin about Jan. 1,1 1965, and the building should be ready for occupancy May 1,1 1967. : Between April and November, a planning committee headed by Minor Vandermade, associlate director of University Hospital, has held 23 formal sessions and innumerable short meetings to iron out details with doctors, administrators, nurses, supervisors, and architects. In his charge to the architects, Dr. Kerlikowske said, The first emphasis must be on the quality of care for the child land adolescent, then his family, then the purchaser of his health care." Other requirements listed for the architects, Albert Kahn and Associates of Detroit, included: 1) Maximum area to be devoted to bed space. (The plans now call for bed space to total 41 per cent of the entire building, with 800 square feet of space per bed.) 2) Duplication of services to be avoided. (The building will be connected to the main hospital by a covered passageway at ground level, permitting transportation of hot food carts, supplies and other services from the main hospital's facilities.) 3) Patient and visitor traffic to be separated from routine staff activities. (The layout of laboratories, elevators, main traffic corridors and the groupings of patient areas on the upper floors help to accomplish this goal.) Proposed Mott Children's Hospital This architect's rendering shows the proposed Charles S. Mott Children's Hospital to be built at the University Medical Center with a gift of $6,000,000 from Flint's Mott Foundation. The building at extreme left of the Mott Children's Hospital, which faces north, is Women's Hospital. The U-M outpatient Building can be seen at right. Detailed plans of the seven-story, 200-bed facility were released today by U-M officials.