Striking new lift

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33276, 13 July 1973, Page 1

Striking new lift

A Christchurch firm o architects has com pitted the transfer mat ion of a coU grey convent huildin at Halswell into warm, home-like ho> pita), much to the de light of the occu pants. It is the St John of Go Hospital, which has 5 patients. 11 of whom ar quadraplegics — person paralysed in four limb The firm of Heaven, Hun and Associates tran formed the old Goo Shepherd convent built mg in two stages at lota! cost of $350,000 One of tile main features < the work has been t) installation of an exte ior lift (at left) su rounded completely I' glass, with all tl structural steel painte in bright, cheerful co ours. ” s huki‘ ul grniii*" The hospital nianag (Brother P. L. Ford) sa that the design of the li and its location were stroke of genius — b cause the lift providt an interesting distract it for immobile patients i well as performing i important mechanic function. It also saw space inside Ihe lift has just been cor ph ■ commissioning. Ado-i,on- o, the hospital at renovations to the grout floor cost $250,000, whi< was raised by way loan front the Stale A vanCes Corporation. Brother Ford said that t i interior of the hospil | was now aesthetics! , very pleasing — qu devoid of the clink atmosphere often i sociated with hospital Only one in N.Z. jThe quadraplegics unit is t only one in New Zt land. The patients the require almost to skilled nursing ca They are the victit mainly of motor ac dents, and are unlikely make any signifies physical recovery’. One of the primary aims rhe nursing of su patients is to help th< to adapt to their phy cal handicaps. Nearby, at the S’ John of G home for retarded bo the Lands and Sun Department has beg surveying the propel in preparation for bt ing it from the Brotht of St John of God. II will open the way i the building programi of new villas for 1 boys.