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Harvard University Health Services (UHS) has launched a five-year program to renovate and reevaluate the center's services, UHS officials said yesterday.
With the opening this week of its new $280.000 clinical laboratory, located on the fourth floor of its Holyoke Center building. UHS has finished the first in a series of projects that will include converting the now defunct lab into a surgical suite, rearranging the walk-in clinic installing a...
However, discussions about possible renovations had been going on since 1976, UHS Director Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker said yesterday.
Long said that UHS has not been renovated since it was built in 1961, and that "22 years ago, it fulfilled its needs. After 20 years, the needs and expectations of the population have changed."
Long said that the program will also attempt to raise students' general opinion of UHS. "With people perceiving it as a 'student clinic,' it's depreciated. But there are real physicians, real nurses, it's a real medical facility," he added.