The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital plans move-in drills before it moves from the main campus to a new 14-floor tower in December, according to an article on The Gazette website.
That Dec. 10 move will involve transferring young patients — possibly more than 100 — along with equipment, staff and faculty into the new, 507,000-square-foot UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital in one day, the article said.
To prepare, the hospital will conduct two dry runs in October and November. First, officials will sit down for a “table top exercise” to talk through logistics.
“We’re talking about moving kids, so obviously safety and quality is at the forefront of everybody’s mind,” Scott Turner, co-chief operating officer and executive director of the Children’s Hospital, said in the article. “So we will have three drills just to make sure that everything’s going to go just the way we’ve scripted it and planned it.”
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