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 Third Floor Operating Room Suites
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.
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.
Mounting the LLUH Logo Sign on the Adult Tower
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 🔨