Prominent city and state leaders participated in ground-breaking ceremonies held yesterday for a new, $3,000,000 surgical wing of the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, in Brooklyn. Among the participants were Senator Kenneth B. Keating; Representative Edna F. Kelly; City Comptroller Abraham D. Beame; Assembly man Stanley Steingut; and Brooklyn Borough President Abe Stark.
This new addition to the hospital’s facilities will be a four-story structure and will contain four operating rooms, complete with medicine’s newest facilities for all phases of surgery, including tumor and neurological conditions; plus eight recovery rooms for post operative patients; an expanded X-ray department to include a cobalt unit and 50 semiprivate beds. It is the largest voluntary non-sectarian institution in the country for the care and treatment of the chronic sick.
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