The featured image for this post is of the fully-equipped Cardiac Cath operating room located near the southwest corner of the third floor.
Recently, as I walked the halls of the new Loma Linda University Health Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus hospital towers, I thought back to my first day on the site and wondered what was in store over the span of time it would take to construct the hospital. I wondered how the campus landscape would change. Many times, I have stood on the 16th floor terrace balcony and looked out over the campus overlooking the campus, and wondered what the early twentieth century founding pioneers would think if they had the chance to visit the twentieth-first century Loma Linda University campus.
Preoperative Holding Rooms
Near the northeast section of the third floor quadrant are the preoperative holding rooms.
The east-west preoperative holding rooms are spaced on each side of corridor. At the end of this hallway is one of the Preoperative Holding rooms. Other Preop rooms are on each side of the hallway.Turning 180 degrees in the hallway we see the two window panels that overlook the north.A closer view of one of the Preoperative Holding rooms.
The Third Floor Operating Room Suites
Another view of the Cardiac Cath operating room.Another view of the Cardiac Cath operating room looking across the operating table and into the control.A control room which looks into one of the hybrid operating rooms.One of the eight specialty operating rooms located on the southeast side of the third floor.
The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
Unlike the preoperative individual holding rooms, the PACU is a large room able to hold 22 patients. Each space includes a nursing station.
A view of a section of the PACU, stations 1 through 12.The other section of the PACU, stations 13 through 22.A view of one of the PACU bed walls and a nursing station.Space twelve’s bed wall. All of the 22 bed walls are the same.
The 16th-Floor Terrace Balcony and its Lights that Shine Out Over the Campus and the Valley Beyond
Two things that attracted me to the architectural renderings of the new adult hospital tower were its height and the portrayal of the horizontal band of light emanating from the the 16th-floor terrace balcony. As the terrace balcony neared completion, I did not see any evidence of lights being installed. Was it artistic hyperbole? I wondered.
The north elevation and main entrance of the Loma Linda University Medical Center’s adult tower. Note the band of light projecting out of the top floor above the letters.installing the LED light bars.The LED lights (a horizontal strip) during the day.Another view of the the horizontal LED lights during during the day.The terrace balcony lights at night as viewed from the campus quadrangle.When imagination meets reality. The artist’s rendering of the north elevation as illustrated in the first image becomes a reality as the project nears completion.
Mounting the LLUH Logo Sign on the Adult Tower
The installers prepare the logo sign for the long lift. The long lift begins.The scaffold with the LLUH logo aboard slowly makes its way up the east side of the building.Nearing the top.Preparing to lift the logo sign to the mounting brackets.Anchoring the logo to the mounting brackets.Connecting the electrical wires.With the logo installed a spotter watches at the scaffold makes its way down the side of the tower.After installing the logo, the installers are nearing grade.
Valet Parking Attendant Office
Just when I thought all of the steel work was completed, more steel sprouted up on the northwest side of the canopy. The steel frame is for the valet parking attendant’s office, which will be a great improvement over the popup tents used in the past. From all appearances, the office will have many of the comfort features of an office–electrical, lights, HVAC, telecommunications, and wifi. This structure is the last to be built as it sits where heavy equipment moved around the northwest side of the building.
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 🔨
