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PDF With our Safe Place Infant Abduction System we protect our youngest patients more effectively, monitoring infant and pediatric patients assigned to the Women and Children Center. Kids will be kids, and the system is designed to alert the staff when our curious and energetic pediatric patients get to close to an exit, when new parents wander too close to exit doors, or if security bands are tampered with or removed without authorization. These actions trigger a complete lock down of the unit to include the elevators.
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With a consistent flooring color palette as a foundation, the designers created a neutral palette of base wall colors and a different set of accent colors for each floor. Finding one’s way in a large building such as a hospital can be difficult and place-making can create “visual landmarks” or architectural elements that are easily identifiable among typically repetitive corridors.
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For caregiver communication, technology is the nurse’s friend. A sophisticated patient call system has features that allow patients to better convey their requests to the nurse. The nurse-call hand-held device has message options. The patient can press either a general request button or need-specific button for pain medication, water or toileting requirements. The call system has specific tones to alert the staff. Long gone are the days of the “call bell.” When life-threatening emergencies occur, nurses have only to press a nearby button to activate the hospital’s emergency response team.
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The hospital moves patients from one floor to another every day, and ambulances transport patients regularly, but moving an entire hospital all at once was clearly out of the ordinary. TMC treated the move as if we had been hit with a significant disaster and had to do a full patient evacuation.
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Faithful to our vision, embracing our objectives of safety, compassionate care, and efficiency, we met our goal: operating rooms designed for patient safety in a staff-friendly futuristic environment. This was accomplished by high-level integration systems, shelving suspended from the ceiling to house equipment for surgical cases, high-definition video, flat-panel monitors, state-of- the art LED lights with cameras, computers, automated medication delivery systems, in-room video monitoring and direct access communication to a secure station.
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Almost every patient admitted to TMC will receive at least one medication during their stay. In fact, we dispense approximately 1.6 million doses of medication annually. That’s almost 4,000 doses a day.
And with over 3,000 different medications in TMC Pharmacy Department, you can understand why our motto is [...]
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The primary focus of Environmental Services is cleaning the facility, which is an around-the-clock responsibility. At any given time, EVS Techs, as they are called, can be found cleaning anything from a patient room to a public restroom and lots of flooring in between. Although the types of areas to be cleaned vary widely, the goal remains the same, to provide a clean environment that is safe from an infection-control perspective and one that is aesthetically appealing.
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The weapons are two automatic washers, an ultrasonic cleaner and ten sterilizers. The washers have multiple heads that force water and detergent through the instrument trays to wash, rinse and condition the instruments. It is quite similar to a very large automated dishwasher. The ultrasonic cleaner uses vibrations to release the debris from instruments with lumens (the cavity or channel within a tubular structure), and intricate configurations.
Continue Reading →TMC has a new state-of-the art data center that houses 150 servers, a high-end PC that houses applications and databases. All new PCs and a new phone system were also installed in the facility, along with a new Cardiology PACS system, a Picture Archiving and Communication System allows a digital image of an organ or bone to be displayed on a PC for viewing by a physician.
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The new TMC kitchen was designed to accommodate At Your Request—Room Service Dining®, a service similar to one you would find in a hotel. Patients are given a restaurant-style menu with approximately forty-eight entrees and ninety-five side items to choose from. Would you like scrambled eggs for dinner? No problem. The complete menu is available all day.
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Chip Off The Old Block
Call it sawdust in his veins. Chip Piazza had known he wanted to build things since he was a kid. There was no doubt construction would be his future. “My father, Pete, was a residential contractor, so I was around building all the time. I liked drawing house plans in the drafting program in high school. Building picked me, I didn’t pick it,” he said. “I pretty much knew what I wanted to be, being around construction so much as a kid.”
A Thousand One-Night Stands
In his own way, Joe Hicks is Texoma’s version of the great impresario of the Follies, except that Ziegfeld’s shows ran for months, and Hicks’ shows all bring down the curtain after one performance.
A Helping Hand
“I’m on a mission,” is not a statement often heard coming from the lips of today’s youth, unless it refers to the latest video game. It appears that young people are not as active in foreign countries as they were in the hippie days. As always, appearances can be deceiving. Do some digging, and you will find that today’s youth are concerned about things besides the latest movie or game.
