";s:4:"text";s:5880:" “It took us a little bit to get to that. “We increased the scheduling time so that all the machines can be cleaned appropriately.“I have some absolutely fantastic leadership here. You have the inpatient unit on the opposite side, so the flow of this place and the square footage and the geography, it all makes perfect sense because it was designed that way – not for COVID-19 but for solid patient care and efficiency.”Being in a new building designed for efficiency was an advantage as hospital officials set up screeners for visitors and closed some entry points.From there, it was all systems go, although it was not the opening hospital officials planned for.“Probably the most surreal moment for me is that we just opened a hospital and not even a week later we’re closing . It all makes sense. Visiting is not allowed during this time. O’Donovan called the financial cost of suspending elective surgery “significant.”“And that’s significant for many hospitals because a lot of what you’re doing is elective surgeries, elective visits and all that,” he added.The hospital avoided furloughs for any of its 400 employees. Some programs we’re at 100 percent, other programs we’re at 90 percent, so we’ve rebounded quite well.”As for St. James’ new home, even some five months after it opened its doors during that frantic, historic week in mid-March, O’Donovan remains as excited as a child opening a big present on Christmas morning.“This place has absolutely exceeded my expectations,” he said. Sachin Manthuruthil, a St. James hospitalist, said there were twin concerns during those first days at the new hospital.“That was like a one-two thing for us because not only were we getting acclimated to the new building, the new workflow and figuring out where everything was, then we have the whole COVID thing, so we actually had to prepare the hospital in case we had a major surge,” Manthuruthil said. The opening times are: Weekdays: 8.45am to 1.45pm. “Also the U of R, what are they doing, and really following suit with them, making sure that we’re lockstep with the university and all of their safety precautions and guidelines.”While all this was going on, patient care staff had to adapt to a new setting in a high-stakes environment. Search.
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Our control is to focus on the safety and precautionary measures for anyone coming in here.“Some of our patients are sick with co-morbidities. Close search. Everyone rose to the occasion. We have set ward visiting times, this allows for doctors' ward rounds, nurses to provide care and patients to rest.
How do I protect my patients?’ And that’s exactly where we went,” O’Donovan said.The hospital had to quickly develop clinical guidelines and protocols for coronavirus.“Immediately I had my physician team and senior leadership and a lot of the senior nurse managers all get together and start looking at protocols, CDC guidelines,” O’Donovan said. We still do PPE and all that for patients and patients’ families to gown up,” O’Donovan said. A majority of the programs have responded quite well. In hardship times, everyone pulled through for the betterment of the hospital and for the patients.”The pandemic and the tight visitor restrictions it necessitated has resulted in fewer people getting an inside look at the hospital. So we automatically started going into our emergency preparedness mode.”Unlike the old St. James Hospital, with its additions built over the years and numerous entrances and exits available to visitors, the new building was designed with fewer ways to enter and with foot traffic directed with greater clarity.Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic at the old hospital “would have been much more chaotic because what we could do here, we could control our entrances,” O’Donovan said. Meal times. The last thing we need is somebody coming up who is potentially COVID positive or with other illnesses to spread. Menu Close menu. “We would see that often, coming through very sick patients in our emergency department that we would admit very quickly.“I believe at the height we had eight COVID-positive patients at one time on our floor. Skip to main content NHS homepage. James Hospital had been building toward this day for about 28 months — since breaking ground in November 2017 — the opening of its brand new, $55 million, 87,300 square-feet facility on the medical campus at 7329 Seneca Road-North in Hornellsville.Preparations for moving day — transporting sick patients, setting up critical staff at two locations, transitioning confidential medical records and various equipment and furniture from St. James’ old facility on Canisteo Street in the City of Hornell to the Seneca Road hospital— had been in the works for more than a year.The result of that prep was a moving plan that had to account for dozens of contingencies: last minute hospital admissions, a flood of emergency room traffic, lost or misplaced hospital materials.But no one likely envisioned that moving day would occur while a worldwide pandemic was taking hold in New York state.“My thinking on March 17, we were moving in, and things started to rapidly (change),” recalled Bryan O’Donovan, CEO and president of St. James Hospital during an interview with The Spectator last week. .