UCI Health breaks through wall to create surgical megafloor
Space combines inpatient, outpatient procedures on single floor for improved efficiency, safety
IN THE NEWS: The UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Institute and Ambulatory Care Center and the UCI Health – Irvine acute care hospital are now connected through an innovative surgical megafloor.
ABC 7 captured Chad T. Lefteris, president and CEO of UCI Health and Mara Rosalsky, RN, MSN, vice president of perioperative services, break through the wall that previously split the surgical floor in half while the hospital was built. Located on the garden level, the floor is the size of three football fields side-by-side.
Rosalsky spoke with ABC 7 about the significance of this milestone, including how it will provide patients with the highest standard of care.
“The surgical megafloor combines outpatient and inpatient procedures on a single floor equipped with the latest technologies to enhance efficiency, safety and overall patient comfort.”
“In total, there will be 64 pre-op and recovery beds, 15 standard operating rooms (ORs), five interventional procedure rooms and four advanced multispecialty interventional suites for cardiac, neurological and radiology procedures where our patients will receive the highest standard of care.”
The patient entrance, pre-op and recovery spaces were built on one side of the seven-story, 144-bed hospital, where the slope of the terrain allowed ample room for tall windows and peaceful views of a natural marsh.
Plus, a sterile “core” that extends about half the length of the megafloor stores all supplies and instrumentation. An assembly-line coding process for stocking surgical carts ensures quality control and patient safety when those instruments and supplies are strategically placed at the fingertips of the many and varied surgical teams in each of the ORs.
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