Patient rooms in the Chan Soon-Shiong Center for Life Sciences are state-of-the-art, with the most advanced patient care and monitoring systems built into the facility's infrastructure. Medical equipment can now be mounted on headwalls behind patient beds to eliminate the clutter of free-standing equipment, so each patient room has built-in headwalls that replace the "spaghetti lines" that take up space in a less modern hospital room.
In the McAlister Women's Health Center, in honor of Soni and Hobart McAlister, birthing suites feature transforming headwalls that are designed so that medical equipment and accessories can be neatly stowed away behind attractive accordion-style panels. With the equipment tucked out of sight, new moms can focus their attention on caring for their baby in the comfort of a room that looks and feels more like a bedroom than a hospital room.
In the second-floor critical care rooms, patient beds are purposely not attached to the headwalls so they can be positioned in any direction in the room. With these freestanding beds, nurses and physicians can have 360° access to patients requiring intensive care.
High-tech equipment booms are mounted from the ceiling in the Critical Care Unit for maximum maneuverability. With lifesaving monitoring devices such as cardiac monitors safely mounted on these moveable ceiling booms, the medical staff can rotate the equipment rapidly and with great precision. Medical pumps and lines are off the floor and out of the way.