What’s Behind the White Door?
By Doug Banks
Keeping everyone safe during construction is always important. However, it becomes critical to patient health and healing when that construction occurs in an active hospital near patient care space.
At University Health’s Clinical Neurosciences Center, the third and final phase of construction will transform an underutilized portion of the second floor into a second interventional radiology (IR) suite. That construction is happening adjacent to operating rooms, an MRI scan room, and the original IR suite. To keep dust and debris from migrating into the clinical care areas of the building, dust containment barriers and air filtration systems are utilized. In addition, because of the degree of construction activity and the infection-sensitive patient population, an anteroom is required to provide further infection control measures. The construction crew is required to be in “bunny suits” within the construction area and wear shoe coverings upon exiting the space.
What’s behind the white door? Eventually, a new patient care space will utilize the latest imaging technology to treat most neurological disorders. In the meantime, it is a threshold between two completely different and non-compatible realms keeping everyone safe.
