Many of our associates are kicking off the new decade with new or remodeled work areas, including Environmental Services and the Surgery Family Waiting Room.

Environmental Services moved their operations this past November to the second level of the Main Hospital. You can easily find the new 3,500-square foot space if you walk past the Mail Room, and to all the way to the end to the windows that face Lafayette Street. The space is directly above the new PET/CT area at the hospital.

“This new area is great with the windows to let in the natural light,” says Karen Chapman, lead for first shift. “With this new space, we have so much more room, and we can begin to store our cleaning carts in our own areas, rather than placing them in closets or wherever we have space.”

The cleaning carts can be stored overnight in the new Environmental Services area, which allows for them to be ready to go to wherever there may be discharges during the day.

Another advantage of the new space is its increased size and a break room with a refrigerator, sink and cupboards for the Environmental Services associates.

“It took us some time to get used to the new space, but we like it. It’s much brighter,” said Larry Wells, Environmental Services associate.

Another update was given to the Surgery Registration and Waiting Room on the third level of the Main Hospital. Still under construction over the holidays, the new space will soon feature updated televisions, a computer kiosk, coffee machine, new artwork, paint and carpeting.

Millie Hilliker, outpatient surgery health unit coordinator, now sits behind a more centrally located desk in the Waiting Room. The desk area was made larger and the glass removed for Hilliker and her fellow associates to be more accessible to families and patients.