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New Technology & Services
• Onsite MRI
• PET/CT scanner
• Inpatient dialysis
• Digital mammography
• Smart IV pumps
• Equipment and people locators
• Inpatient physical therapy gym
• At Your Request meal service for patients
Other New Features
• All private rooms
• Private discharge area
• Expanded cafeteria menu and hours
• Easy way-finding
• Back corridors for patient privacy and movement of staff and supplies
• 200-seat conference center
• Wireless connection throughout the building
Medical Office Pavilion
• First Floor: Business office, HR, Accounting, Foundation, Education. Future coffee shop
• Marketing,
• Second Floor: Diabetes Education and Bariatric Centers
• Garden Level: IS, Medical Staff Office
• Back portion of first and second floors available for doctor offices.
 The “Green Leaf” Gift Shop
Name selected by the Bickner family who chose the Gift Shop for their naming opportunity.
Outpatient Services Center
• Blood draw lab, EKG
• Cardiac Clinic (stress testing, nuclear medicine)
• Pulmonary Function Testing
• Pre-op Counseling
• Patient Registrars
• Pain Management Clinic
• Radiology: MRI, PET/CT, 64-slice CT, Xray, Ultrasound
Discharge Lobby
• Shared reception desk
• Off-stage discharge gives patients and families more privacy when they leave the hospital.
• Nursing home and other direct admits enter here.
• Holding room for nursing home patients coming for testing
• Conference room area for EMS personnel to do reports
Center for Behavioral Health
• Locked unit located at the back of the building on the first floor.
• 6 private patient rooms
• Recreation area, kitchen, enclosed outdoor patio
Med/Surg/Tele/Peds
• 70-beds, first and second floor
• Unique Y configuration; pods of 12 rooms
• Eliminates expansive hallways; keeps supplies and caregivers close to patients.
• Staffing efficiencies. Can fill up one pod at a time as patient census allows.
• Specially equipped rooms for dialysis, first floor
• Ceiling mounted lifts for patient and staff safety, second floor
• Pediatrics area, second floor
 Med/Surg: What’s New
• Shared receptionist
• Charge nurse desk at head of the Y
• No central nursing station
• Nursing documentation stations between every two rooms.
• Room for care conferences and huddle areas for staff to share reports.
Med/Surg Patient Room
• All private; bigger than the semi private rooms in the old hospital
• 3 zones: caregiver, patient, family
• Interactive TV for patient education, entertainment
• Wireless computer hookup for patients and visitors
• Toilet/shower large enough for hair-washing, bathing
• Mobile bed; can be moved closer to window or shower for shampoo.
• Thermostat control for each room; also adjusted remotely from a computer.
• Refrigerators also have wireless temperature control.
Cafeteria
• 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. M-F, no break in service.
• Beverages, Grab and Go Snacks weekend hours 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Sky Ranch Grill: 7-9 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 5-7 p.m.
• Salad & Soup Station
• Innovation Station: Entrees, sides and made to order
• Sandwiches made to order, and Grab and Go
• 24/7 vending areas in Garden Café & Emergency Department
Conference Area
• Can be divided into 5 smaller rooms; max capacity 200 without tables.
• Ceiling mounted projection system
• Adjacent to kitchen for ease of serving food
• Storage for table and chairs.
 Ambulatory Surgery
• 25 private bays pre & post care surgery outpatients (Old hospital had beds and chairs for 15 patients).
• Private consultation room
Special Procedures
• 2 large endoscopy suites
• 1 general
• 1 for vascular procedures and eventually, diagnostic cardiac catheterization
Operating Rooms
• 7 rooms
• 1 for c-sections; 1 for urology procedures
• Ceiling mounted booms for freer, safer movement of people and equipment
• Computer workstation for viewing of archived diagnostic images
• Adjoining corridor for storing equipment
• Dumbwaiter system to quickly send specimens to Lab.
• Central Sterile supply nearby
Recovery Rooms
• 9 Phase 1 recovery bays for patients who come immediately from surgery.
• 1 private isolation room
• Immediately adjacent to OR & ICU
 Intensive Care Unit
• 12 large rooms strictly for critically ill patients
• Ceiling mounted booms house oxygen, IVs, monitors so people can move around more freely.
• Toilet but no shower
• 24/7 visiting hours
• Breakaway glass doors
• Central nursing station
• Central monitoring station for all telemetry patients in the hospital
• Located next to OR.
The Maternity Suites
• Locked unit. 14 rooms
• 10 Labor Delivery Recovery Post Partum (LDRP) suites, including 1 true isolation room
• 1 pre-delivery room, 1 post-surgery recovery room
• Nursery accommodates routine procedures, high level and general care.
• Breastfeeding room
• Located directly above Emergency Department and next to operating rooms.
Emergency Department
• ED staff at reception desk
• 15 large private rooms
1 detox, trauma area with 2 bays (with booms),
1 Ear Nose Throat room (with a shampoo sink for better irrigation of scalp wounds)
2 dedicated isolation rooms
1 pediatric resuscitation room.
• Flex room for “fast track” (sore throat, earaches, etc., 5 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.)
• Large central nursing station accommodates two teams for better flow and communication.
• Zones can be locked down for security.
• Private and larger grieving/ consultation room
• 4 patient bathrooms in the treatment area
• Bathroom attached to gyne room; patient can shower after a sexual assault exam.
• Trauma elevators: One large enough allow entire team to work on patient.
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