March 11, 1970 (12 pages)

Patients recovering from surgery performed in the operating room of the Nevada General Hospital's recently modernized and rejuvenated surgical. suite may not be dreaming if they imagine they are floating on a pink cloud. The recovery room offers extra protection to the person who has just undergone surgery and is part of an overall plan designed to send patients in and out of surgery with a quiet feeling of well being, according to Dr. Peter J. Keenan, the hospital's medical director. Round the clock bedside nursing care 4a The Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, March 11, 1970 Renovated recovery room offers extra protection is given here. Equipment and drugs for ~ emergency situations are at the medical staff's fingertips. Before the era of-this special area, patients were wheeled back to’ beds, where such intensive care was not possible, : Surgery, cast, urological, scrub, and storage rooms form the modernized wing. The tab for all this updating came to about $15,000, according to Robert Coseley, hospital administrator. Costley recently told county supervisors that the hospital has been self supporting through an almost two-year general improvement program, which has included landscaping of the spacious grounds, However, the administrator fears that continued expense for renovation and rehabilitation. could pose a serious threat to that financial self sufficiency. The board of supervisors ordered improvements at the hospital almost two years ago, The order was in response to a‘plea from a group of citizens who wanted the hospital kept as an acute care DR. PETER J, KEENAN, medical director of Nevada General Hospital, and Roberta Hackney, 59, oe aon R ‘ yere: % STR e. ig CF eeru ve. ca ee ( ee facility. Groups and individuals within the Golden Empire contributed financially and gave their time to aid in the giant project. Hospital personnel pitched in. to help, and workmen from Nevada General are credited with much of the construction work in the new surgical suite. The big rains of 1969 hit in the midst of the work-program, and water saturated the roof “of somé of the building. The venerable old operating room was practically "drowned out of business." Dr. Keenan said he surveyed the disaster and decided that modernization was . desperately needed, Besides, the old operaing room had long needed some major surgery itself. He reported today that "this modernization is now complete." State Department of Health agencies approved plans presented by county officials, and actual work began about five ‘ months ago. The surgery was re-opened surgery superintendent, appear pleased at prospects of practicin: atmosphere in the newly renovated surgical suite. — ¥ ty a ‘s BOF os) ‘ re eerie iPass eee eee ae about the first of the year and has seen at least 26 major surgical procedures. An "electric eye" which glows green in benign moods, but flashes red when danger is eminent, guards the portal to the operating room. Dr. Keenan explained that this electrical transformer flashes red at the first sign'-of malfunction of. electrical circuits. It is the first transformer of its kind to be installed in California, he said. ae : Spark proof floors and the "electric eye" guarantee that no stray sparks can ‘cause trouble with oxygen, anaesthetics or any potentially explosive materials which are routing equipment in this area. . Sa: ei ke at Le eo : EOS OR Se Senses g their skills in this modern OBERTA HACKNEY, surgery superintendent for Nevada “General Hospital, is shown in a scrub room adjacent to the surgery room. Dr. Keenan, who claims kinship with Irish leprechauns, said he searched from the Mexican to Canadian border to find a nurse with Mrs, Hackney's qualifications, She insists she is a "desert rat from Arizona." Beale cutback small _ _ but McCellan’s large Beale AFB near Grass Valley will be affected in only a minor way by the military employment cutbacks announced Wednesday, but McClellan AFB at Sacramento faces a substantial reduction, Both bases employ anumber of people from the Golden Empire, and: some servicemen stationed at Beale, near the Yuba-Nevada county line, live in Nevada county, At Beale, 62. civilians and 14 military personnel will be _ cut, the Pentagon announced, This is not expected to affect many individuals as the cuts ~ are likely to in authorized pos} itions which are not currently filled, . The cutback is small interms of the total employment level at This includes 860 officers, 5,; ee listed men and 506 civil. the 14th Strategic Aerospace DiVision, an arm of the Strategic _ ordinates activities of the bomb wing at Fairchild AFB in Spokane and the refueling unit at Travis AFB at Fairfield. In addition, tactical units of the division are at Beale, In April, the 14th division will be realigned to anall-California ‘unit, with Beale in charge of the bomb wings at March AFB, Riverside and Mather AFB, Sacramento, The local. base houses 25 Squadrons, but the most famous activity at Beale probably is its . surveilance flights with the SR71 strategic reconnaissanceplane, a supersonic successor _ Beale of almost 7,000 people, . Beale is the headquarters of Air-Command, As such, it co-to the U-2 of the 1950s, The cutbacks at McClellan will involve 886 civilians and 94 military personnel. It is not known whether any Nevada county civilian employes will dismissed. : terly dividend of 45 cents a share on the common stock, payable May 1, 1970toshareowners of record April 9, 1970. 89-year record of uninterrupted dividend payments, a record which ranks 11th among the manufacturing firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Patients recovering from surgery performed in the operating room of the Nevada General Hospital's recently modernized and rejuvenated surgical. suite may not be dreaming if they imagine they are floating on a pink cloud. The recovery room offers extra protection to the person who has just undergone surgery and is part of an overall plan designed to send patients in and out of surgery with a quiet feeling of well being, according to Dr. Peter J. Keenan, the hospital's medical director. Round the clock bedside nursing care 4a The Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, March 11, 1970 Renovated recovery room offers extra protection is given here. Equipment and drugs for ~ emergency situations are at the medical staff's fingertips. Before the era of-this special area, patients were wheeled back to’ beds, where such intensive care was not possible, : Surgery, cast, urological, scrub, and storage rooms form the modernized wing. The tab for all this updating came to about $15,000, according to Robert Coseley, hospital administrator. Costley recently told county supervisors that the hospital has been self supporting through an almost two-year general improvement program, which has included landscaping of the spacious grounds, However, the administrator fears that continued expense for renovation and rehabilitation. could pose a serious threat to that financial self sufficiency. The board of supervisors ordered improvements at the hospital almost two years ago, The order was in response to a‘plea from a group of citizens who wanted the hospital kept as an acute care DR. PETER J, KEENAN, medical director of Nevada General Hospital, and Roberta Hackney, 59, oe aon R ‘ yere: % STR e. ig CF eeru ve. ca ee ( ee facility. Groups and individuals within the Golden Empire contributed financially and gave their time to aid in the giant project. Hospital personnel pitched in. to help, and workmen from Nevada General are credited with much of the construction work in the new surgical suite. The big rains of 1969 hit in the midst of the work-program, and water saturated the roof “of somé of the building. The venerable old operating room was practically "drowned out of business." Dr. Keenan said he surveyed the disaster and decided that modernization was . desperately needed, Besides, the old operaing room had long needed some major surgery itself. He reported today that "this modernization is now complete." State Department of Health agencies approved plans presented by county officials, and actual work began about five ‘ months ago. The surgery was re-opened surgery superintendent, appear pleased at prospects of practicin: atmosphere in the newly renovated surgical suite. — ¥ ty a ‘s BOF os) ‘ re eerie iPass eee eee ae about the first of the year and has seen at least 26 major surgical procedures. An "electric eye" which glows green in benign moods, but flashes red when danger is eminent, guards the portal to the operating room. Dr. Keenan explained that this electrical transformer flashes red at the first sign'-of malfunction of. electrical circuits. It is the first transformer of

its kind to be installed in California, he said. ae : Spark proof floors and the "electric eye" guarantee that no stray sparks can ‘cause trouble with oxygen, anaesthetics or any potentially explosive materials which are routing equipment in this area. . Sa: ei ke at Le eo : EOS OR Se Senses g their skills in this modern OBERTA HACKNEY, surgery superintendent for Nevada “General Hospital, is shown in a scrub room adjacent to the surgery room. Dr. Keenan, who claims kinship with Irish leprechauns, said he searched from the Mexican to Canadian border to find a nurse with Mrs, Hackney's qualifications, She insists she is a "desert rat from Arizona." Beale cutback small _ _ but McCellan’s large Beale AFB near Grass Valley will be affected in only a minor way by the military employment cutbacks announced Wednesday, but McClellan AFB at Sacramento faces a substantial reduction, Both bases employ anumber of people from the Golden Empire, and: some servicemen stationed at Beale, near the Yuba-Nevada county line, live in Nevada county, At Beale, 62. civilians and 14 military personnel will be _ cut, the Pentagon announced, This is not expected to affect many individuals as the cuts ~ are likely to in authorized pos} itions which are not currently filled, . The cutback is small interms of the total employment level at This includes 860 officers, 5,; ee listed men and 506 civil. the 14th Strategic Aerospace DiVision, an arm of the Strategic _ ordinates activities of the bomb wing at Fairchild AFB in Spokane and the refueling unit at Travis AFB at Fairfield. In addition, tactical units of the division are at Beale, In April, the 14th division will be realigned to anall-California ‘unit, with Beale in charge of the bomb wings at March AFB, Riverside and Mather AFB, Sacramento, The local. base houses 25 Squadrons, but the most famous activity at Beale probably is its . surveilance flights with the SR71 strategic reconnaissanceplane, a supersonic successor _ Beale of almost 7,000 people, . Beale is the headquarters of Air-Command, As such, it co-to the U-2 of the 1950s, The cutbacks at McClellan will involve 886 civilians and 94 military personnel. It is not known whether any Nevada county civilian employes will dismissed. : terly dividend of 45 cents a share on the common stock, payable May 1, 1970toshareowners of record April 9, 1970. 89-year record of uninterrupted dividend payments, a record which ranks 11th among the manufacturing firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange.