Page 2 - SUSQUEHANNA TIMES Foundation to fund Marietta health center The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced the selection of St. Joseph Hospital as one of about 60 hospitals in the United States to receive a major grant to develop a primary medical care group prac- tice. Only one other Pennsyl- vania hospital, located in Pittsburgh, was named. The grant to St. Joseph Hospital totals $497,620 and is intended to assist the hospital and its medical staff to improve people's access to medical services by establishing and spon- soring a primary care group medical practice. Over 900 community hos- pitals were invited to sub- mit applications for the four-year, non-renewable grants. According to Dr. Kenneth M. Carroll, Medical Direc- tor at St. Joseph Hospital, “The hospital will be expected to develop and provide around-the-clock primary medical care, ulti- mately for at least 15,000 people, with full time physicians who are mem- bers of the active staff of St. Joseph Hospital, and appropriate technical sup- port services. We need this kind of service because many people who do not have family physicians are seeking general medical care in emergency rooms or out-patient departments which were not really designed for that purpose.’ At present, St. Joseph Hospital has two delivery sites for primary care. One is located in the hospital and the other in a tempo- rary satellite facility known as the Marietta-Maytown Family Health Center and operating in the former offices of Dr. Michael Gratch, 23 South River Street, in Mavtown. St. Joseph Hospital plans a permanent primary care facility in Marietta at the corner of Route 441 and Bank Street. This proposal has been endorsed by the Project Review Committee of the Health Resources Planning and Development, Inc. which is the Health Systems Agency of South Central Pennsylvania. The proposal must be approved by the full Board of this organization which meets September 9 in Harrisburg. Final approval rests with the Secretary of Health of Pennsylvania. Mr. Thomas B. Gibble, vice-president of St. Joseph Hospital, indicated that the hospital's architect is al- ready preparing the design development of the new facility. “This design will be presented to Hospital Au- thorities during the early part of September. Assum- ing this proposal is ap- proved and providing ap- proval is obtained from the Secretary of Health during September, it is possible that construction could start in October with an occupancy in late winter or early spring 1977. The structure is anticipated to be built primarily of brick and will consist of approxi- mately 4000 square feet with four professional suites plus x-ray, labora- tory, and clerical space in the ground or upper level. A lower level will be provided for storage, per- haps a community health education center, and even some expansion if the need arises. Cost of the structure plus equipment and fee is expected to be about $240,000." The Foundation program does not include support for construction. As a condition of receiving a grant, participating institu- tions are required to assure the availability of appro- priate facilities to house the primary care group prac- tice. Construction funds will be derived from liquidation of issets already owned by ne Hospital. Hospital au- thorities also pointed out that funds from the recent- ly completed successful Capitol Fund Drive are i Dr. Frank M. Krakowski-Director, Ambulatory Services, St. Joseph Hospital, Lancaster. totally committed to the main Hospital project and will not be used for this endeavor. The Foundation does pro- vide support for two pur- poses; the costs of program planning for the practice and the costs of the development of the prac- tice. The kinds of health care services to be available through St. Joseph Hospi- tal at both locations were described by Dr. Frank M. Krakowski, Director, Am- bulatory Services. ‘‘The hospital-based center will provide four basic areas of access to health services. One will be the Family Health Center where three to five physicians will maintain practices, seeing a pediatric to geriatric spectrum of patients. The Walk-in Center will func- tion daily with appoint- ments and handle minor complaints for which the patient could not schedule a visit to the main Center. The Emergency Room will see patients with major complaints or patients with catastrophic illnesses. 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