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By P.A.S\u00e9vigny<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Twelve years after The Suburban<\/i> first wrote about the small community meeting during which the MUHC\u2019s Dr. Nicholas Steinmetz discussed the need for a new and modern hospital in order to accommodate the medicine of a new century, Montreal\u2019s new super hospital is only days away from the moment when it will be ready to receive its first patients. During an exclusive media tour, communications manager Julie Paquet and Elizabeth McPhedran, her assistant, told The Suburban<\/i> that many of the hospital\u2019s innovations\u2014such as a pneumatic messenger system\u2014were the result of a broad interview process during which working hospital professionals throughout the MUHC told hospital planners about what they could do to improve the hospital\u2019s efficiency and improve patient care. <\/p>\n

Compared to the usual claustrophobic and over-bearing use of space that used to define the city\u2019s older hospitals over much of the past century, the new hospital\u2019s extensive and multi-storied use of natural light in all of its various facilities does a lot to define both its mission as a modern medical facility as well as being one of the leading medical research centers on the planet. Located amid the western reaches of the city\u2019s old Glen Yards, the entire hospital is broken up into color-coded sections that define both their form and function. While color co-ordinated walls provide a welcome break from the usual mustard gas yellows, faded ecrus and pond-scum green that usually defined Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s hospital corridors for decades, the new hospital uses subtle color codes to define its various working sectors for both its staff, its visitors and its patients. Turquoise defines the new children\u2019s\u2019 section while other colors indicate that one is in the hospital\u2019s research center, the Cedar\u2019s Cancer Center or in the old Victoria Hospital\u2019s sector. <\/p>\n

Located on the ground floor within easy access to a specially designed ambulance entry ramp, the hospital\u2019s emergency department can be expanded or retracted at will depending on its volume of patient activity. With 14 examination rooms, two triage rooms, 4 resuscitation rooms, 33 stretcher rooms and a designated medical imaging center located around a central hub, planners expect that the new emergency room\u2019s efficient work environment will offer a qualified amount of privacy for patients while offering a greater amount of patient visibility for emergency room staff. While a dedicated set of elevators can quickly move patients to other parts of the hospital, Paquet also pointed out how the department can also be quickly closed off into specific \u2018clean\u2019 and \u2018contaminated\u2019 zones in the case of some new pandemic. <\/p>\n

When compared to earlier times when a hospital\u2019s \u2018housekeeping\u2019 services usually meant little more than sweeping up the floors, mopping out the corridors and making sure the bathrooms were kept clean, the new hospital insists upon keeping a clean house that could mean the difference between life and death for some, if not several of its future patients. Aside from its emphasis upon minimally invasive surgery, the media tour also underlined how all of the hospital\u2019s 14 state-of-the-art operating rooms included modern Tele-Health (real-time medical imaging technology) equipment that were all suspended from reinforced ceiling frames in order to make it easier to quickly clean the rooms and reduce the chance for any kind of opportunistic infection. Other facilities include a fully-equipped clinical research laboratory that will carry out on-site clinical research in (or near) all of the hospital\u2019s operating theatres as opposed to the fundamental and basic research that\u2019s being carried out in laboratories in universities and hospitals all over the world. As most of the hospital\u2019s operating rooms are located within the hospital\u2019s central building block, they will be near the intensive-care sector as well as easily accessible to the building\u2019s ground-floor medical imaging center. The operating room sector will also include nearby waiting rooms that mean families and friends are never far away from the patient. While it\u2019s not the corner office, the hospital\u2019s housekeeping services also occupy well-equipped offices near the hospital\u2019s operating rooms\u2014a design innovation that once again underlines the importance of good hygiene, clean rooms and a minimal chance for any kind of post-operation infection.<\/p>\n

When compared to the bad old days when up to four patients shared a single room, the new hospital will include 344 private adult patient rooms located around a central hub that will improve patient access and visibility for the ward\u2019sworkingprofessionals. Everyunitwill have its own natural light (depending on the time of day) as well as its own spectacular view of the city. Other features will include a flat-screen television for both the patient\u2019s education and entertainment as well as well-appointed reclining couches for visiting friends and family. Other notable features include a fully equipped adventure playground for the children\u2019s hospital section as well as a well-appointed and secluded \u2018healing garden\u2019 for cancer patients who can appreciate what a little bit of sunshine can do for what could otherwise be a very bad day in the hospital\u2019s oncology clinic.
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