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years, her surgical team
will achieve excellent
outcomes faster than
ever.
Out with the old
The new construction
project was conceived
in order to move outpa-
tient cases out of the
hospital's main ORs,
where patients arriving
for straightforward knee scopes went through the same painstaking pre-op reg-
istration process as inpatients readying for complex neuro surgery.
In the new patient-centric surgery center, patients will no longer be forced to
find their way through a maze of windowless corridors to find the surgical wait-
ing room. "We wanted to create an environment that shows a great deal of
respect for our patients," says Ms. Muniz. "That's something we all feel on a
daily basis, but we're not always able to demonstrate it in older facilities."
The surgery center's 12 ORs will each have 3 dedicated prep/PACU rooms
where patients and their loved ones gather before and after surgery. The 36
rooms were intended to provide patients with privacy, but they're also designed
to maximize efficiencies on the day of surgery; staff members won't have to
constantly pull linens on and off of stretchers or try to figure out which bay
patients should be wheeled to after surgery, which will save time between
cases. Ms. Muniz says the 3 bays that are dedicated to each OR will be num-
bered (1.1, 1.2, 1.3/2.1, 2.2, 2.3/3.1, 3.2, 3.3, etc.) so staff know exactly where
their patients are being prepped for surgery and which rooms they should be
returned to in order to recover.
The space will be laid out in 6-room "avenues." Arriving patients will walk
down a window-lined corridor before turning down their assigned avenue. The
• ROUND TRIP Prepping and recovering patients in the same space
improves perioperative efficiencies.
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of
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