NEW HOSPITAL DIGS IN FOR FALLOUT SAFETY
A description is given of the design of the St. Barnabas Medical Center, under construction in Livingston, N. J., which will incorporate two floors designed to provide protection from radioactive fallout. On these first two floors of the six-story building are located all of the basic services and professional facilities plus 75 patient beds. Each floor covers approximately 2.5 acres, and the entire shelter area can accommodate 1100 persons for a minimum of 14 days. Location of the building on a hillside takes advantage of both excavation and backfill to provide protection for the ground floor, 95% of which is actually underground. Specially designed baffle walls were used also to protect primary exits and entrances to the shelter area so it can function as a hospital during normal operations. Service and ambulance ertrances allow trucks and ambulances to be driven in under cover and decontaminated before they are unloaded. The shelter will have available at least 750 tons of air conditioning capacity. All air intake units are equipped with a combination of continuous mat filters and electrostatic filters to remove radioactive particles from the air. To make the entire hospital safe from any type of gas warfare, the ventilation and circulation ductwork is designed to accept special filters and additional booster pumps. To ensure a continuous and uncontaminated source of water, an 800- ft well was driven to produce in excess of the 200 gal/min required to operate the shelter area. A large area has been allocated to primary and secondary storage of supplies of all types: food, linens, drugs, medicines, and surgical instruments. The central supply room is equipped to produce parenteral solutions in an emergency. The cost of incorporating the shelter in the hospital will be more than 0,000; 0,000 of this will be met by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. (BBB)
- Research Organization:
- St. Barnabas Medical Center, Newark, N.J.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-018096
- OSTI ID:
- 4053529
- Journal Information:
- Modern Hospital (U.S.) Merged with Mod. Nurs. Home to form Mod. Healthcare, Journal Name: Modern Hospital (U.S.) Merged with Mod. Nurs. Home to form Mod. Healthcare Vol. Vol: 100; ISSN MOHOA
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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