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Beth Israel Hospital (BIH) received a $2.5-million grant this month to help finance expansion of a Harvard medical laboratory, Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, general director of BIH, said yesterday...
...expansion will cost about $12 million, and will not increase patient care costs, Rabkin said. He added that the new facility will benefit all departments active in laboratory research...
Construction of the research facility, to be named after Dana, will begin this fall and last about two years, Rabkin said. BIH, a Harvard teaching hospital, promised to expand the Thorndike Lab in 1972, when the lab moved to BIH, he added...
...Rabkin noted that hiring additional professionals depends on acquiring larger research grants. "By expanding, we're betting on the quality of the academic work of our staff," he added...
Beth Israel Hospital is working on "articulation of our own policy," according to Rabkin. It is trying to determine criteria for competence, and incurable illness. And the hospital staff is closely examining the decision process, "bending over backwards" to preserve the rights of patients and to consider opinions which "cannot be dismissed." In most cases the hospital will respect the wishes of the family, except when "the family asks for something medically unrealistic," Rabkin says...