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Fast Facts
- Offers a secure, safe and efficient work environment
- Offers an abundance of natural light throughout with windows in every inpatient room
- Covers over 1.3 million square feet
- Opens with 479 beds and transitions to 608 beds by 2011/2012
- Will ramp up from 12 operating rooms to 18
- Uses the finest technology and sterilization procedures
- Will have retail pharmacy, gift and flower shop and other retail services (as construction is completed)
- Accommodates 2,570 vehicles (available parking spaces)
- Increased lounge space for patients and families to meet
- More teaching and communication spaces
- Increased privacy and space for patient care resulting in higher quality of care
- Improved workflow for staff to maximize efficiency
- Hand-held wireless devices that allow patients to directly alert nurses anywhere in the department in addition to the nursing station call centre
- Pharmacy robot and computerized carts dispense medications and improve patient safety
- New environment and supports will improve timeliness and quality of care
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