As the last pieces of steel are put into place, the Eccles Critical Care Pavilion at University Hospital is nearing its final shape. The structure is on schedule to be enclosed by late fall and completed in March 2003, according to Dan Lundergran, associate administrator for U Hospital.
“We are pleased with the progress and are excited to have this expansion for our patients,” Lundergran said. “By this time next year, we will be in the new Eccles Critical Care Pavilion.”
The state-of-the-art facility will expand the hospital’s critical care services with a new emergency services department, 26 surgical intensive care beds, a short-stay surgery center and a post-anesthesia care unit. The expansion will be fully operational within three weeks of the building’s completion.
Additional operating rooms will be created in the current surgical intensive care and post anesthesia care units when they are vacated.
Perkins gets endowed chair?Dr. Sherrie Perkins, professor of pathology at the U’s School of Medicine and an expert in hematopathology, has been named the second recipient of the C. Scott and Dorothy E. Watkins Endowed Chair honoring Dr. Ernst J. Eichwald.
Perkins is also associate chief of the division of anatomic pathology in the hematopathology section. A native of Los Alamos, NM, she received her doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Miami in 1983 and her medical degree from Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1985.
Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and grants from the National Children’s Cancer Foundation, has focused on molecular genetics and immunohistochemical techniques useful in the classification and diagnosis of cancers of the blood.