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(Continued from rage o; future. It features a “unit dose system” with rows of
tiny* drawers to hold each patient’s medication for the day; this system gives assurance that the resident of each room gets what the doctor ordered, but that he or she never gets it twice. There’s also a pneumatic tube system for speeding of needed items where they are wanted.
A laundry, instituted two or three years ago at considerable savings to the hospital, has stainless steel machines and apparently endless stream of things to put in them. The storeroom, with shelves bearing everything from bandaids to intravenous solutions, is huge, again with the future in mind. It demonstrates just how far CMH has come, from the 50-foot trailer which held its supplies only about ten years ago.
Working off the service corridor are many of the hospital’s 270 employees, people hospital administrator Bill Gravely' calls “the unsung heroes,” those not seen by patients or visitors and felt most clearly when something goes wrong. As long as they are working well, what they do is taken for granted.
More familiar to most people, whether it is seen from a patient’s viewpoint or merely from that of the friend or relative bearing flowers and maybe a magazine, is the second floor. The elevator discharges people across from the admitting office,
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