Welcome to the Fifth Floor — The San Manuel Maternity Pavilion.
The 5th-floor that sits on top of the podium, from which the Adult Hospital and Children’s Hospital rise is the Maternity/Labor and Delivery Floor, which has been named the San Manuel Maternity Pavilion. The whole 5th floor, which sits on top of the podium is dedicated to all things Labor and Delivery. Examples of the services on this floor include but are not limited to a Well-Baby Nursery; Postpartum Patient Rooms; Antepartum Patient Rooms; Labor and Delivery; Exam Rooms; Cesarean Operating Rooms; and Obstetric Exam (Triage).
As there is great interest in this floor, this post will be updated as construction changes occur. Currently, the various rooms are being framed with metal studs. Electrical, plumbers, and pipe fitters are also working on the floor. Soon the drywall crew will be on the floor in force. They make my job much harder: once they put up the drywall, I can no longer slip the through the metal studs to get to the next room(s). The maze begins! I’ll do my best to describe, in laymen’s terms, what’s in the images.
Where is The San Manuel Maternity Pavilion?
It is from this floor that all three towers rise.
Master Image of the Interior
This image was taken from the east interior wall in the corridor on the north side of the 5th floor. In the image above, the east/south corridor (1) extends to the south – east/west corridor. The long corridor in the center of the image (2) will take a dog-leg turn to the left at about where the tip of the arrow is, and then straightens out and continues on to the west end of the floor. Number 3 to the right is an entryway to the stairs. On each side of the north – east/west corridor is postpartum rooms that continue to the tip of the arrow where the corridor doglegs to the left. To the left, there are five postpartum rooms and to the right, there are seven postpartum rooms. Also on the right, there will be two nursing stations. The next image will visit number 1, the east – south corridor.
The Following two Images Link to No. 1 in the Master Photo Above
This image ties in with the photo above. This east corridor runs south off of the north – east/west corridor. To the left are eight (8) nurse/staff offices with windows that look out toward the east. In front of the offices, there will be a nurses station. On the right, there are six (6) postpartum patient rooms.This closeup takes one a little further down the corridor. At the end of the hall there is an antepartum/postpartum patient room (currently without doors). This room faces the south – east/west corridor
This Image Links to No. 2 in the Master Photo Above
Facing West: Walking a little further down the corridor past the east- south corridor, we come upon six (6) postpartum patient rooms. Only three (3) of the doors to the rooms are visible. Two nurses stations will be in front of these rooms. Across the corridor, to the left, will be six (6) postpartum patient rooms. toward the end of the corridor, there will be a family waiting room on the right just before the corridor juts to the left. Facing east: The same corridor as in the image above, which gives another perspective of nurses station location, on the left. The two (2) stations will be positioned in front of the postpartum patient rooms to the left and facing the postpartum patient rooms to the right. The bright light at the end of the hall is where the external aerial lift stops. Down the north east/west corridor before the corridor bends to the left is another hallway, which parallels a panel of windows that looks out onto the roof. On the right are three (3) ‘children’s’ public elevators just beyond the blank wall. Behind the ‘children’s’ public elevators are the stairs, and just beyond the stairs is the back wall to two (2) adult service elevators and two (2) adult patient elevators.
At the West End of the North Corridor
At the west end of the north corridor is the staff lounge located in the northwest corner. The room will have a view of the San Bernardino mountains to the north and a view of the Medical Center to the west.XIAOYI
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 🔨
