From Doors to Countertops: Signs of Finish Work on the Second Floor. Plus, Some Nursing Stations are Installed in the Emergency Department
The featured image is of the control rooms for two of the three CT Scans, which are located in the Ultrasound and CT Scan quadrant.
When one walks through a new home that is under construction, there is nothing more exciting than walking in and seeing all those “finish” things that indicate completion is near. Some of those “finish” things, I encountered today (February 21, 2020) on the second floor. They included wall paint, flooring, doors, interior glass windows, bathroom floor tile, bathroom wall tile, sinks. commodes, lockers, lights, wall plugs, wall switches, wall plates, cupboards, countertops, ceiling tiles, and light fixtures.
You know when a project is in the finish mode when the rules for finish work is posted on the corridor walls.
Rooms Behind the Facade
Between the boughs: A view of the towers from Starr Street.
The First Bulletin Board
The first bulletin board on the second floor, displaying the rules for working in the finished areas.
CT and MRI Rooms
The featured image with identifiers. I am standing in the east CT room facing the control room 1 window. Beyond is control room 2, and on the other side of the window is another CT room. To the left is the CT scan work area or as designated above the CT workroom.CT scan room with the control room window at the end of the room. Through the control window, one can look beyond and through the control room window into the other CT Scanner.The CT scan work area with the control rooms at the far end of the image.Another view of the CT scan work area.The third, and larger CT scan room that includes double doors to a main east-west corridor.The third CT scan room as viewed from the east-west corridor.Across the corridor from the third CT scan is this workroom/lab.The third CT control room. that regulates the CT scanner in the larger room.Just to the right of the CT office/imaging room, there is this passageway. To the right are dressing rooms and a patient unisex restroom. To the left are two (2) patient unisex restrooms. The gown waiting room opens to the left at the end of the passageway.One of the two toilet rooms off of the Men’s locker room.MRI control rooms, work stations, and prep (anterooms).The two MRI scan rooms are next door to each other.The MRI scan control areas between the MRI Rooms. The observation window in the center is covered with copper shielding and will be cut out before the window is installed.An oblique view of the MRI control areas.One of the MRI prep (anterooms), which is located next to the MRI control room.On February 21, 2020, installation of the copper shielding began in the MRI Scan Room 1. There are strict shielding requirements that must be adhered to when constructing an MRI scan room.By Monday (02.24.20), the majority of the CT scan room was covered with copper shielding.Off of the east-west corridor located on the north side in the Radiological/Imaging department, this north-south corridor runs between the MRI and CT/Ultrasound quadrants. In this image, we see that the doors are hung and the flooring has been laid.
Ultrasound
The room to the left is designated for an Ultrasound reading room. The Clean Utility room door is three-quarters down on the left-hand side. The Ultrasound Tech work stations are along the wall on the left. Also on the left, beyond the Clean Utility room will be lockers for the Techs. The door at the end opens up into an outpatient (major) Ultrasound room. On the right side, there are four (4) outpatient Ultrasound rooms. One room, the closest to the door on the right is designated an inpatient Ultrasound room. On the other side of the wall behind the lockers, and next to the Clean Utility room is the Multi-purpose/Team room, which opens to a north-south corridor.A look into one of the outpatient Ultrasound rooms.
Across the Corridor In route to the Emergency Department
As I snapped this photo, the tile layer (out of the picture) had just finished laying the floor tile in this restroom.The doors to the trash chutes had recently been installed in the cart room, which is located in the patient hold/elevator quadrant.Patient Holding room in the Diagnostic Imaging area.The opposite side of the Patient Holding area.In a corridor near the Patient Holding room, I spotted this three-tiered cart with sinks.
The Pediatric Emergency Department
One of the nearly completed pediatric Emergency Department’s Exam/Treatment rooms. The sink was just installed. In the two rooms left of the room in this image, plumbers were installing the sinks.
Pediatric Emergency Department — Installation of Nursing/ Charting Stations
On February 27, 2020, instalation of nursing/charting stations began in the pediatric Emergency Department.
This nursing/charting station sits in front of the door that enters into the physician workroom. At center right, there are two visible exam/treatment rooms. Aditional exam/treatment rooms can be seen along the left corridor Signs of finish work: THE EXIT SIGNS are lit. This newly installed work station is positioned at the ambulance/patient (pediatric) entry and vestibule.
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨
