Big Changes Due In Hospital Area

Cambridge Hall, the University Terrace Apartments building nearest Observatory, and a porlion oí the Terrace apartment building next to it will be torn down next ' month after Ithe occupants move out, the U-M has announced. Demolition of the buildings will allow rerouting of sity Terrace and E. Hospital Drs.- which in turn will be in preparation for building a 1,045car parking structure. All the changes are in preparation for building new U-M Medical Center patiënt care fácilities. University officials have determined that when the present parking lots back of University Hospital are covered by new buildings, additional parking facilities will be needed. But the parking structure with a tentative price tag of $1,900,000 will be far from adequate when completed, and other structures will have to be built or the cars put underground, as once suggested by U-M Vice-President Wilbur K. Pierpont. The new parking facility will be started buildings connected with patiënt care, such as the Medical Records Building, a $5,000,000 Continuing Medical Education Building and, further in the future, a 200-bed Psychiatrie Hospital and 200-bed Heart Disease Hospital. These are in addition to the new research buildings connected with the U-M Medical School and not directly with the University Hospital, which are being built around the perimeter of the Medical Center complex. Minor J. Vandermade, associate director of University Hospital, says that in the more distant future planning for patiënt care facilities, he envisions the possibility of a new to bed general hospital on the site now occupied by the Neuropsychiatrie Institute (NPI) the Interns' Residence. A $3,800,000 renovation of various portions of the University Hospital Building has been under way for the past four years, but there is a question that the present 18-bed wards in the old building can be satisfactorily converted into private and semiprivate rooms because of neccessary plumbing modifications and their shape. State laws on new hospital construction limits hospital wards to no more than four beds so it may be more economical to construct a new building and use the area of large wards for other purposes, !Vandermade says.