"Inter-Community Memorial Hospital at Longview Object of Committee." The Clatskanie Chief (Clatskanie, Columbia County, Oregon), Friday, 28 Dec 1951. p. 3. [Google News]
"A Clatskanie committee is being formed to cooperate in the Inter-Community Memorial Hospital building-fund campaign, it was announced here yesterday by Dr. Clyde DuVall.
The committee will met an an early date, Dr. DuVall said.
Inter-Community Memorial Hospital Association has launced a million-dollar building fund campaign to create a non-profit, community-owned medical center in Longview, which will serve the entire Lower Columbia area, including Clatskanie.
The campaign receid its first big contribution last week when doctors who own Cowlitz General Hospital in Longview agreed to give the property to the Inter-Community Memorial Hospital Association.
The property includes 13 1/2 acres of land in the heart of Longview, and a 94-bed hospital building. The gift, estimated to be well worth over a quarter million dollars, is contingent on success of the campaign to raise funds for a new hospital.
The medical center is to be made up of two institutions - the proposed Inter-Community Memorial hospital, which will be built on the Cowlitz General grounds, and the existing Cowlitz General hospital.
When the new Grade A, general Inter-Community Memorial hospital is completed, Cowlitz General will be converted to uses for which it is best suited, such as a nrusing home for the chronically ill, a modernized pediatrics department for the care of children, and an isolation department.
Inter-Community Memorial hospital will provide facilities for 100 patients. It will be a Grade A, general hospital, completely separate from the Cowlitz General hospital.
Plans for Inter-Community Memorial hospital call for beds for 100 patients, plus the vital medical and surgical facilities which distinguish the true hospital from the nursing home.
These will include major and minor surgeries, emergency receiving and treatment rooms, fracture and splint rooms, labor and delivery rooms, nurseries, an x-ray department, clinical laboratories, a medical records library, a physio, hydro and electro therapy department, a dietary department, and instrument, drug, sterilizing and other utilities.
The entire project will be non-profit and community-owned and controlled. Contributors who subscribe and payy $100 or more to the building fund will become life members of the association, with the right to vote at annual elections of trustees. The trustees will rotate with one-third going off the board each year.
The campaign is receiving wide spread support, according to Rev. E. H. Gebert of Longview, chairman of the general campaign council. Among groups who have endorsed it are doctors, graduate nurses, granges, labor organizations and churches."