Exciting Professional Development
This morning I learned that my group won the job of designing an entirely new hospital in one of the most beautiful spots in the country. I needed this. My decades of hard work and experience will come into play here, creating a really special facility that will serve the public and the industry in exemplary fashion. Like Hank Rearden and Howard Roark...I will create something very good. Then, I'll head to my Gulch... I even got a little teary-eyed when I got the news this morning...
I wondered who actually did that sort of design work. It seems that on new construction, a great deal could be done with minimum effort to manage airflow and provide more UV sterilization in hallways and common areas, for pathogen control. UV systems could be set to switch off temporarily if anyone were to pass through an area.
I also think it would be useful to set up some rooms (for highly infectious or brittle patients) with glass between the patient/provider section and a separate family section, maybe even with separate hallways, so that patients could be visited and have family nearby, maybe just inches away, but who would be physically in a separate part of the building, with no airflow or contamination between the room sections.
i.e.:
=====================hall for staff
[PR][PR][PR][PR][PR][PR]
[VR][VR][VR][VR][VR][VR]
=====================hall for visitors
where [PR] is Patient Room and
[VR] is the visitor's section if each room.
The patient/staff section and the visitor section would be isolated from each other, with only glass, shades, and an intercom between.
Just something to think about.
I don't know anyone else to suggest this to.
I may also have a three-year John Galt role. It is with a local transit agency. Keeping their world motors running, ya know.
Keep us informed of the progress. And invite us to the opening.