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December 10, 2014
▼ KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL
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Tim-Br Mart The iconic family owned home hardware store in Lake Country is set to close its doors at the end of this year. ...............................
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Billing it as the most high tech heart surgical facility in B.C. and rivalling anything else in Canada, Kelowna General Hospital is looking forward to a September 2015 opening for its Interior Heart and Surgical Centre. The four-storey building dominates the corner of Pandosy Street and Rose Avenue. It’s a hive of activity as construction crews complete their tasks while the hospital community continues its daily routine. Inside the new building, Doug Rankmore, CEO of the KGH Foundation, looks in some amazement as the complex of 15 operating rooms take on character with massive pieces of machinery starting to populate the spaces. “This is the raceway around the ORs,” Rankmore said, looking either way along a wide corridor—one side of four that surround the rooms where the business of surgery will soon be performed, deep steel sinks fitted outside each doorway. “All the ORs are accessed from the outside in, and the inside is a sterile core.” Having watched the process from planning to construction, Rankmore was excited to now see the rooms be outfitted with surgical equipment. “It’s becoming very real. The last time we
were in the building there wasn’t even paint on the walls, certainly none of the booms were in,” he said.
Doug Rankmore Throughout these ORs the booms, each costing up to $450,000 before they are outfitted with surgical equipment, are suspended from the ceiling—for good reason, Rankmore explained. “If you look in a traditional OR there is a fair amount of equipment on the floor. The booms
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DR. GARY GOPLEN compares the new operating rooms under construction in the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre at Kelowna General Hospital with traditional style ORs.
replace a lot of that—it gets it up and easier to
sterilize everything.” A sterile environment
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THE CORNER of Pandosy Street and Rose Avenue has a new profile, with the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre set to be completed by September 2015.
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is a huge deal in any hospital. The entire design of this facility starts with how to let cleaning staff get at everything—right out to door hinges. Additionally, the offfloor booms are out of the way to facilitate easy access by the surgical team to the patient and equipment. “Increasingly as we get more techniques we need new equipment,” said Dr. Gary Goplen, co-chairman of the KGH Foundation Be a Lifesaver Campaign. A former chief of surgery at KGH, Goplen said the design and layout of the ORs take future growth into consideration. “The new equipment takes up
room.” Used to cramped quarters, surgeons and the five of six specialists in these ORs will have room to carry out their functions. “With this sort of set up there will be lots of room for patient management, and for teams who come in to help. Suffice to say these rooms are stateof-the-art—we can offer big city surgery in here,” he said. It was up to Dr. Guy Fradet, co-chair of the fundraising campaign with Goplen, to explain the piéce de résistance in the IHSC—the hybrid operating room. SURGICAL CENTRE A3
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