White River Medical Center Batesville, Arkansas
The White River Medical Center is a 108 bed general hospital to be located on a gently sloping 14 acre site. The planning allows for the logical expansion of all departments. The mechanical system will be a self contained power house that allows for individual comfort control in all areas including specialty area throughout the hospital.
The planning of the distribution system is based on the Gordon Frezon (sp) cart system that utilizes separate cart elevators to move supplies throughout the vertical levels of the hospital. Each floor has utility rooms that receive clean supplies and returns soiled material. Efficiency in use of staff to move supplies is emphasized in this design.
The patient room also utilize the concept with clean and soil lockers that are stocked with clean supplies and hold soiled supplies until the respective cart makes it’s rounds.
This project was shelved when the bond issue failed to pass.
Hewitt & Royer, Architects 1971
The White River Medical Center is a 108 bed general hospital to be located on a gently sloping 14 acre site. The planning allows for the logical expansion of all departments. The mechanical system will be a self contained power house that allows for individual comfort control in all areas including specialty area throughout the hospital.
The planning of the distribution system is based on the Gordon Frezon (sp) cart system that utilizes separate cart elevators to move supplies throughout the vertical levels of the hospital. Each floor has utility rooms that receive clean supplies and returns soiled material. Efficiency in use of staff to move supplies is emphasized in this design.
The patient room also utilize the concept with clean and soil lockers that are stocked with clean supplies and hold soiled supplies until the respective cart makes it’s rounds.
This project was shelved when the bond issue failed to pass.
Hewitt & Royer, Architects 1971