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O thercountries looktoO TM Has `intelligent hospital' continued from p.6 Over the 10 hours and 12 minutes it took to complete the 11-kilometre move, 273 patients from the Intensive Care, Mental Health and Ma ternal Child units were shuttled via eight ambu lances and 20 patient transports. A total of 280 staff, physicians and volunteers took part in the shuffle assisted by Emergency Medical Services personnel, ambulances from Halton and Peel and members of Health Care Relocations (HCR). "I'll remember that day for the rest of my life," said Hardenne. "Our teams did a great job. They were pre pared for the move, that seamless transition of 273 patients, including twin brothers in our spe cial care nursery, to the frail elderly," she said. "From Day 1, our clinical teams have been ready and have responded to every challenge that has come their way. We do view this proj ect, not just the design, the construction and the completion of the infrastructure as a huge suc cess, but even more importantly our ability to deliver on our vision -- to transform the com munity hospital experience and have exemplary patient experience as always -- has really come to fruition here." Bill Bailey, vice president of redevelopment at Halton Healthcare, told the Oakville Beaver its nice to see the vision for the hospital become a re ality after a decade of planning, four years of con struction and many more months of planning. The 1.6 million square feet of healthcare space contains 457 patient beds, employs more than 2,400 staff and integrates the latest technologies. It' s also energy efficient, incorporates a number of `green' aspects and has been built so it doesn't exactly feel like a typical hospital. "Our vision is clear -- to create with, and for the community, a distinctive centre of healthcare excellence that provides, through the efficient use of resources, the highest quality of clinical patient-centred care to the community in an innovative environment that supports physi cal, mental and emotional spiritual needs of the to acclimatize staff to the new building. Bailey said most of the challenges in the first year came from tweaking workflow to work within the larger geometry of the building. They're also "overwhelmed and pleased" with how well the hospital has been at responding to the increased demand for services while making improvements on having a more effective and efficient clinical environment. Hardenne explained the hospital anticipated it would receive a significant number of patients at the new site, but couldn't quantify how much growth it would actually realize. "Fortunately, we had our plans in place and teams in place to respond," she said. "But it has been a sustained over-30-per-cent increase in Emergency visit volumes from the day we opened. Those numbers are climbing again as we head back into our typically busy flu season and winter months." Bailey added it' s garnering global and interna tional attention for what it' s been able to accom plish over the last year. Other countries are looking to OTMH to see how it has integrated technology and has be come an "intelligent hospital." Halton Healthcare is also using what it' s learned from opening the new OTMH and ap plying it to the Milton District Hospital 330,000 sq. ft. expansion project, which is expected to be completed next spring. see Community on p.39 7 | Thursday, December 15, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) is celebrating its first anniversary at its new cam pus location. Pictured are Halton Healthcare President and CEO Denise Hardenne and William Bailey, vice-president of development, in one of the state-of-the-art patient rooms. | Graham Paine/Metroland community," he said. "The vision served us well in our decision making." As both Hardenne and Bailey speak about the hospital, they boast about what a successful year it has been for the hospital and credit, in part, the meticulous planning that went into it before its doors opened. "One of the important things we did as an organization was we started preparing it to get ready for the move from the legacy site to the new site as early as 2009," Hardenne said. "We spent a lot of time creating a framework to guide us through all of the planning and train ing and education and change management we needed to do to get our clinical team ready for Day 1 in the new facility. So that level of rigour really served us well." 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