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A construction crew lifts pods with walls already installed onto a structure that will be an 8,700-square-foot administration building and training center for Muskogee Community Hospital.
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Published November 21, 2008 11:19 pm -

New hospital erects building in less than 2 days


By Donna Hales
Phoenix Staff Writer

An 8,700 square foot administration building and training center at the Muskogee Community Hospital will take less than two days to erect, a spokesman said.

At 7:30 a.m. Friday, a cement slab was all that was at the site near the new 45-bed hospital, which is expected to open in the first quarter of 2009.

By 11 a.m. Friday, four of 14 “pods” with walls already insulated, sheetrocked and finished — ready for painting — had been lifted in place by a huge crane.

The building is expected to be complete today, said MCH spokesman and investor Mark Roberts.

The walls were made of “sandwich-insulated” panels with Styrofoam in the middle.

“They’re completely air tight,” said Roberts, pounding his fist on the solid wall.

The lower floor will include a surgery suite, a room that is like one in an emergency room, a patient room, etc., “so we can do clinicals in it,” Roberts said.

All four nursing schools in the area will have access to the training facility, off Main Street and Harris Road. They will have keys to it and will agree on their schedules for training, Roberts said.

The training center is going to be used by the American Red Cross, EMS, Career Technology, Connors State College, Bacone and Northeastern State University, Roberts said.

But at first, it will be used solely to train medical personnel of the hospital. Every possible scenario will be trained for, Roberts said.

Simulation mannequins will be available for nurses and other medical personnel to “treat.”

Roberts said he understands the mannequins are made so real you don’t realize you’re not working on a real person.

The second floor will be for the administration, with the exception of the hospital administrator, who will have his office in the hospital.

The building interior will be painted and equipped within a month, Roberts said.



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