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Printed, good.
>> So, we're getting ready to move in.
We're less than 12 hours away.
We move in at three o'clock this morning, and
we're just putting all the final touches,
the things you absolutely have to have to bring a patient here.
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At 3 AM, we shut our old triage down in our old building.
We opened the doors here, and one by one we bring our patients
from the old space to the new space.
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>> We're very excited because the new pediatric inpatient and
emergency department combined unit, or the pediatric center at
Johns Hopkins Baby Medical Center will be opening tomorrow.
This is something we've been waiting for for a long time.
This will be a setting where pediatric patients and
their families will be seen in a very specific environment
catered only to children.
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My name's Michelle Harvey, I'm from patient support services
and I deal with our Cerecom phones, which speaks about 250,
or more different languages.
Helps communication with the patients, and
things like that, and patients family members.
>> Change over.
>> We have fences to take down,
coz we have all temporary fences up right now.
And just make sure that all of our routes are open for
ambulance traffic to come in, and
patients to come in the new entrance.
>> A lot of looking at the way that we do our workflows.
Re-examining them, doing dress rehearsals,
seeing if that works.
Making tweaks, looking at them again.
A lot of education and training for people with the building,
life safety, how to evacuate,
as well as bringing staffs together.
Coz in bringing the emergency department pediatrics staff and
patient pediatric staff together to make a children's center.
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>> Five, six, seven.
>> Lot more room, lot more spacious,
lot more creature comforts.
Particularly if you look up on the third floor,
they're very nicely acquainted room.
The experience is supposed to be no way for the patients.
So, we have a family lounge and
we have a results waiting lounge.
And the expectation is patients will move through
much more quickly.
>> Well, what we're gonna do is we're gonna combine the care of
emergency department patients, as well as inpatient pediatric
patients, to be cared for by the same team.
And this saves a number of steps.
It saves that transmission from the time that somebody's
admitted from
the Emergency Department to a different setting.
Often times, having to wait in the emergency department until
room is available on a different floor,
in a different part of the hospital,
to be back by different set of doctors and nurses.
>> We try to make it as homely as possible for our patients.
We want them to feel they're in a hospital, they're sick,
we want them to feel better.
But at the same time, we want them to make it more like home.
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[CROSSTALK] >> And
I thank you for all that you've done.
I bless you and I thank you for all that you do for others.
So, I think blessing of the hands is important because
it shows people that we respect what they do,
we honor what they do.
I think everybody has their own spirituality and
then incorporates that into their work, and
recognizes that we consider their work to be holy work.
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>> So the transition went off with out a hitch.
It was very smooth, no problems.
And looks like we're up and running like we should be.
>> It's a great day for our patients.
We've waited a long time for this.
The last emergency room we had was built more than 20
years ago, and really didn't give us enough room
to take care of the people that come to us for care.
I couldn't be happier today to see this open for
our neighbors and our patients.
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