Annexation - Eden Township Hospital Dist, 02-15-1972

Home

City Council of San Leandro - May 18, 1972 Page three Radiotherapy Section (Cont'd) - treatment unit will be installed. Eden Hospital Radiotherapy serves all of South Alameda County from Oakland city limits to the southern and eastern boundaries. Patients from Contra Costa County also are referred to Eden Hospital for cancer treatment. As in the diagnostic section, patients waiting for cancer treatment are required to wait in the corridor. Physical Thet-apy - The patient load has been increasing steadily for the past five years. All available area is being used to its limit. The study reveals that inpatient treatments have been increasing at the rate of 18.47o annually and outpatient treat- ments at 20. 37o. Here, too, waiting is in the corridor area. Respiratory Therapy - The respiratory care program has grown from two employees to nine employees, becoming an independent department with trained therapists and a growing outpatient service. A full scale department with treatment and diagnostic stations, a chart room and a large area for equipment storage and servicing will be provided. Cardiac Care Unit - Presently the cardiac care unit is located on the Fifth Floor in two semi -private rooms and a ward room. Because it must be a self-contained unit, requiring a nursing station within the area, it has become overcrowded due to the amount of various pieces of equipment, including monitoring devices needed to observe and treat cardiac patients. The unit will be relocated on the Fourth Floor and designed expressly for cardiac care. There will be a total of eight beds, each as a private unit, and equipped with modern equipment for patient monitoring. The unit would afford full observation of each patient by the nursing staff at all times. Pharmacy - The department is well located with direct access to the dumbwaiter system for serving the nursing floors and for direct issue to diagnostic and treatment facilities on the First Floor. This location is being maintained, however, it is being modernized to relieve the crowded conditions that now exist and to meet the advantages of unit dose dispensing system which requires additional storage space. Central Supply - Work and storage area presently is inadequate. The department will be modernized and equipped to meet demands on its function in the preparation and sterilization for all user departments.