A test of quick change artistry is scheduled for early May when the Blue Water Hotel will be transformed from swank waterfront hostelry into a 100-bed hospital for the care of the chronically ill. The last winter guests will leave the Blue Water on April 30, contractors will move in, and on May 15 the Ft. Lauderdale Beach Hospital will admit its first patients. "It's a big task," says Dr. Louis L. Amato, medical tor of the proposed hospital, "but there's a tremendous need for care of the chronically ill in this area.
Swank Beach Hotel To Become Hospital Mar 24, 1957 Fort Lauderdale News (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Newspapers.com
