The Week of December 17, 2018 — More Steel and More GFRC Panels Go Up
The featured image for this week is one that I have been waiting to capture for some time: The existing Medical Center towers as viewed from the 10th floor (roof) of the new Children’s Hospital.
A View From the Roof of the Children’s Hospital
As soon as I disembarked from the lift cage, I looked to my right (east)–WHAT A SPECTACULAR VIEW! Looking toward the west: The view not so spectacular.Looking down the corridor between the Children’s Hospital (left) and Adult Hospital (right) towers, over the existing Medical Center towers, and on to the west end of the Inland Empire. In the center of the corridor is the roof of the podium. The east elevation of the elevator tower as viewed from the roof of the Children’s Hospital.
The Second Floor
The Emergency Room
The Emergency entrance is on the south side of the podium. The ER runs the length (east to west) of the south elevation with the entrances on the second level of the podium. The GFRC crew will finish installing the exterior panels under the ledge, which is designated by the blue arrows.
On the east side, and inside the ER behind the GFRC panels, Jack and I begin a little trek down the halls of the ER. Jack points out the ER exam/treatment rooms on the left. To the right will be one of the nursing/ physician stations. A wider vies of an ER nursing/physician station area. On the north and south sides are patient exam/treatment rooms.
Still making our way down hall of the ER going east to west. The exam/treatment rooms continue to run the length of the hall as seen on the left.
After having turned right (north), we came across another hall that ran east to west. On the right more exam/treatment rooms could be seen all the way down the hallway.
Two MRI Rooms
Just north of the ER exam/treatment rooms there are two MRI rooms.
Northwest Hallway
The northwest extension exterior where the pedestrian bridge will connect to take foot traffic to Schuman Pavilion.The northwest corner step out extension overlooks the main entrance to the existing Medical Center and Children’s Hospital.Looking east down the hallway, which in this image is part of the step out extension. To the left, construction has begun on the elevator tower which will connect to the pedestrian bridge. Moving from the step out extension, the north corridor continues to run east toward the Fluoroscopy rooms and Radiology suites.One of the Fluoroscopy room: notice the overhead steel support, which will anchor the ceiling rails from which the motorized X-ray Tube will be hung.
Manual Shut off Valves fro Medical Gasses and Medical Vacuum System
In my wanderings on various floors, I have noticed more and more of these rectangle boxes positioned between the metal studs and covered with cardboard. Jack lifted the cardboard, which reveled, in this box, four (4) manual shut off valves. Three (3) for medical gasses and one (1) dedicated to a medical vacuum system. Each of the pipes are labeled the right of each valve. To the right of the box (in the image above), the pipes are neatly attached and labeled to a a lateral support. From left: Oxygen, Nitrous Oxide, Medical Air, and Medical Vacuum.
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 🔨
