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serious problem at Iredell Memorial. Endoscopy is in a
tiny room made from a nurses' station. Patients have
to wait too long in X-ray for lack of space and often
in the halls where there is no privacy. In our north
wing, there are 28 ward beds, rooms with four people in
them. They are next-door to the semi -private rooms.
There are as many as six patients of both sexes in these
two rooms, sharing one toilet and with no private bathing
facilities.
There are many, many examples of crowded conditions
like this office for doctors and nurses, and our newborns
who have just arrived must be carried down a public
corridor when they visit their mothers. And like this
hall where parents and friends gather to see the newborns.
Like our heart station with two small rooms, and the
treadmill and related equipment on a different floor in
valuable critical care space, and like our overflowing
lab, with this tiny microbiology area.
Let me show you some of Lowrance's similar problems,
and I will then show you some examples of what we are
planning to do about them.
Lowrance's operating rooms are also too small and
their laboratory is too small. Both of us need to
enlarge the emergency room so we can treat more people
more efficiently. And Lowrance's 1930 patient rooms
are simply outmoded. There are 32 rooms with no toilets
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