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A Medical Center in Maywood, IL is a quaternary-care system with a 61-acre main Medical Center Campus. The heart of the Medical Center Campus is a 547 licensed bed hospital. After the Chicago area received heavy rainfall in mid-April of 2013, flooding crippled the operations in the hospital in the Clinical Laboratories, Administrative Offices and the entire Lower Level. The hospital suffered a sewage back-up due to the Des Plaines River cresting. Approximately 178,000 square feet was affected which included procedure rooms, offices, clinical lab areas and the heart of the hospital, the Blood bank.

 

SRM was mobilized for the general clean-up, renovation and rehabilitation. The damaged facility had to be vacated for several weeks while it was gutted and transformed. All Blood Bank operations were temporarily re-located to another room inside the facility. The temporary move, in and of itself, required monumental organizational efforts because overlapping and uninterrupted Blood Bank and transfusion services had to be established and maintained 24/7. Non-stop communication with all ordering nursing stations in addition to monitoring and security considerations had to be provided throughout the transition.

 

SRM was able to renovate and design the Blood Bank area around a central core island with all the ancillary and storage technologies logistically distributed around the periphery of the room. Blood Bank operations moved back into the remodeled facility on July 9, 2013.

Throughout the mitigation and repairs , SRM was able to keep all revenue centers and procedure rooms open.