Med School Gets Federal Grant

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Final Plans for the initial construction of the $30.5
million Louisiana State University Medical School at
Shreveport were released by school officials yester-day,
when the $20,288,242 in federal matching funds
were announced. The proposed medical school is the
complex of buildings in the center of the photo. On
the left is the existing Confederate School of Nursing,
while the existing Confederate Memorial Medical
Center is on the right. The small building in the right
front of Confederate is the proposed $900,045 out-patient
facility which was also funded yesterday.
Med School Gets Federal Grant
By Margaret Martin
Times Medical Writer
Louisiana S t a t e University
Medical School at Shreveport
was funded for $20,288, 242 in fed-eral
money yesterday. The school
will be constructed on the
grounds of Confederate Memorial
Medical Center at a cost of $30.5
million, which i n c l u d e s
$10,211,758 in state bond money.
Rep. Joe D. Waggonner made
the announcement here after
being notified by the White
House and the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
Waggonner said Sens. Russell B.
Long and Allen J. Ellender were
also notified yesterday and made
the same announcement in Wash-lington.
Waggonner also announced a
separate grant of $900,045 for
Confederate Memorial Medical
center, which will be used for an
outpatient facility. The state has
approved $450,000 in capital
outlay funds for that project
which will bring the cost of
construction to $1,350,000, accord-ing
to Dr. George Meneely,
associate dean at the medical
school.
The $30.5 million medical
school will encompass five build
ings, to be constructed simulta
neously, according to a state
ment prepared earlier by Dean
Dr. Edgar Hull, who is in Spain
for the summer.
The largest building, which
will rise 120 feet, will be joined
to CMMC at eight floor levels.
The five structures are:
1. An 11-story basic science
administrative and r e s e a r c h
building.
2. A five-story comprehensive
care and clinical teaching facili-ty.
3
. A four-story library building
housing 156,000 volumes and with
space for 329 readers as well as
a 250-seat auditorium.
4. A mechanical, engineering
and power plant building.
5. A one-story radioisotope and
volatile storage building.
Dr. Meneely said that the
money for Confederate is only
the first phase of up to $10
million in improvements planned
for the facility. He said grants
for both the school and Confeder-ate
"are all part of the same
program and are dependent on
the incoming number of stu-dents.
The three-story outpatient fa-cility
at Confederate will be
erected adjacent to the present
outpatient wing. The ground floor
will contain the record library.
The walk-in clinic will be on the
first floor, and the medical and
medical speciality clinics will be
on the second floor, while the
surgery, urology and otorhinolar-yngology
clinics will be on the
third floor. It will be air-condi-tioned.
Dr. Hull said construction bids
will be taken by early 1971. Dr.
William Stewart, chancellor of
the medical center, who was in
S h r e v e p o r t yesterday, said
groundbreaking will be within
the year, and probably next
spring.
Expected completion is 42
months, according to Dr. Hull,
making the new facility available
for full usage by mid-1975.
The building will have a
half-million square feet of floor
space, according to Dr. Hull,
"and the 11-story building will be
the largest in North Louisiana
and second only to Charity
Hospital in New Orleans in size
within the state."
"It is anticipated that the
project will be the largest in
dollar volume ever let to con-struct
in Louisiana in public
works building construction,"
said Dr. Hull.
Concrete Frame
The buildings will be of
i
on Education for Health Profes-sions,
part of the Public Health
Services, gave the nod on the
project, but final approval has to
come from the Secretary of
HEW. In 1968, the government
agency rejected the school's
request for federal money.
Thirty-two freshmen began att,
tending classes in temporary
quarters at the Veterans Admin-istration
Hospital last fall, and a
32-member freshman class h a s j
been accepted for this fall.
Administrative offices and the
medical school library are also
located at the VA.
Associated Medical School Ar-chitects
is in. charge of the
building design and will super-vise
construction. The group is
made up of three architectural
firms, Samuel G. Wiener &
Associates, Wilson & Sandifer,
and William B. Wiener, Morgan
& O'Neal.
concrete frame construction with
reinforced steel, with an exterior
masonry facing, compatible with
the CMMC structure. The con-struction
will be fire resistant
with interior walls of masonry,
acoustical tile ceilings and floors
of terrazzo and compositional
tile, Dr. Hull said.
The complex will be equipped
with interior flourescent lighting,
as well as year-round tempera-ture
and humidity controls,
through more than 3,000 tons of
air conditioning.
The more than 1,300 rooms
designed into the five structures
include lecture halls, laborator-ies,
office facilities, clinical
teaching areas, with closed
circuit television origination and
receiving facilities available in
all teaching areas, the dean said.
The building will be construct-ed
between Confederate and the
Confederate School of Nursing
building. The land is being
leased to LSU by the CMMC
board of directors for 999 years
at $1 a year.
The complex is designed to
accommodate upwards of 400
medical school students and
others in the health science fields
as well as a number of support-ing
faculty and staff, said Dr.
Hull.
'Academic Excellence'
He said he feels the new
facility will advance Shreveport
as well as Northwest Louisiana,
as "a truly emerging center of
academic excellence," in the
training of physicians and others
"to help meet the expanding
health in coming years."
Approval of the school's appli-cation
for federal funds came in
December, but actual funding
didn't come until yesterday.
The National Advisory Council