15 October 2006 12:59
Ukrainian Experts Visit Children’s Clinics in Chicago
A group of Ukrainian experts led by Director of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund’s Hospital to Hospital Program Vira Pavliuk went on a working trip to the US. From October 9 to 13, our experts visited three children’s medical institutions: Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center in Seattle, and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford.
In course of the trip the experts familiarized themselves with the structure and functioning of the children’s hospitals. The major goal of the trip was searching for a base model for the Children’s Hospital of the Future.
October 9, the Ukrainian professionals visited the Children’s Hospital in Chicago. This is a truly modern institution. An interesting engineering solution was introduced for delivering the medicine to the units: pipes are embedded into the walls, through which a capsule is moving (in the photo). This process is completely computerized. The nurse workstation is conveniently situated in a niche so that the nurse can watch the patients in their wards through special windows without blocking the corridor.
Everything at the hospital is aimed at securing the child’s comfort. In part, the floors, in addition to common numbers, have animal names. The halls are lit in different colors. Everything is arranged so that the children saw it as a kind of game.
The rooms for the little patients have a secret of their own. The ‘scary stuff’ (IV infusion sets, syringes, various cables and switches) are hidden from the kids’ eyes behind a cheerful cartoon. In the photo – a blue picture of a cowboy.
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