Jewish News 7 Friday, November 3, 1950

THE TIME HAS COME TO BUILD!

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The Greater Detroit Hospital Fund, which
is now conducting a campaign for $19,720,000,
has asked the Jewish Hospital Association, one
of the four major beneficiaries of the project, to
undertake responsibility for securing contri-
butions from members of the Jewish com-
munity.

Now the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund has
earmarked $2,500,000 for the new Jewish Hos-
pital to supplement funds previously con-
tributed or pledged. When the current Fund
has been completed, the hospital will rise on a
site in northwest Detroit, bounded by Lauder,
McNichols, Whitcomb and Outer Drive.

The Greater Detroit Fund has allocated
grants subject to the successful completion
of the drive—for the expansion of ten existing
hospitals in the Metropolitan Detroit area and
toward the construction of four new hospitals,
of which the Jewish Hospital is one.

The funds now on hand, together with the
allocation being made available through the
Greater Detroit Hospital Fund, will permit
the early construction of the Jenish Hospital.

On receipt of the request from the Greater
Detroit Fund, the Jewish Hospital Association
asked the Jewish Welfare Federation to con-
duct a special drive (1) as a service to the Jewish
community which is to benefit from the pro-
ceeds of the Greater Detroit Fund and (2) as
our part of the civic obligation to the enlarge-
ment and improvement of medical facilities for
the entire community.

Recognizing the validity of the request, Fed-
eration, through action of its executive com-
mittee and board of governors, has accepted
the assignment in behalf of the organized Jew-
ish community and already has taken the first
steps to insure a successful campaign.

Toward the creation of the Jewish Hospital
rHany of us have planned and worked since its
conception many years ago. It was toward the
creation of a great medical center that more
than $2,300,000 was subscribed in our first
campaign in 1944-46.

Individuals and family groups will want
to help make possible the modern facilities for
hospital care, medical education and scientific
research, together with the 200 beds for adult
and child patients and the 60 bassinets for
newborn babies.

By subscribing amounts required to create
selected departments or units, contributors
may establish memorials, designated by fit-
tingly inscribed tablets, to honor beloved rela-
tives or friends or to stand as everlasting
evidence of their own concern for the welfare of
their fellowmen.

The plans reveal a wide choice of memorial
opportunities. Units designed for the care of
mothers and babies in the maternity wing,
parts of the surgical, radiology, laboratory,
pediatric, physical therapy, dietary and other
departments and facilities for medical educa-
tion and research may be created by subscribers
for service to their own families, their friends
and the entire community.

THE JEWISH HOSPITAL DIVISION

OF THE

GREATER DETROIT HOSPITAL FUND

601 OWEN BLDG.

DETROIT 26; MICH.