STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER

Palo Alto -Stanford Hospitals

    A new era in medicine for residents of the San Francisco
Peninsula will begin with the starting of construction on the com-
bined Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital in May 1957. A detailed scale
model is shown below.

   The new Medical Center, one of the largest medical con-
struction programs undertaken in the United States, will have an
initial cost of $20, 000, 000.  Included in the program,  aside from
the hospital, is a Rehabilitation Center and several Medical
School Buildings.

Completion should be in mid-year 1959.

Buildings shown in the scale model are (1) Palo Alto Nursing Pavilion;
(2) Hospital "Core" - surgeries, delivery suite, clinical laboratories,
pediatric beds, general services, administration; (3) Stanford Nursing
Pavilion; (4) Stanford Clinic (outpatients), clinical departments I
offices and laboratories; (5) Teaching laboratories, classrooms, basic
science laboratories; (6) Library, basic science laboratories;
(7) Stanford Rehabilitation Center, basic science laboratories.
Governor's Square, with access to Willow Road, is indicated at Lower
right.

Architect-Edward D. Stone

Landscape Architect-Thomas D.  Church and Associates

Model Construction - Works hop Models , Berkeley