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Construction for CT arrival moving along
Dominique Milburn
signal -star staff
Work on the 1.7 million ad-
dition project that will soon
house Huron's first CT Scan-
ner is moving right along,
and the anticipated equip-
ment is set to arrive early in
2010.
At present, the CT Scanner
is scheduled to be arrive at
the end of February, at which
point work to ready the digi-
tal imaging equipment for
use will begin. In all, staff
say they hope to have the
scanner operational at the
beginning of April.
The roof is up and the rest
is coming along, said CT
Scanner and Diagnostic Im-
aging Implementation Team
leader, Rick Bedard. He's
been overseeing the project
at the hospital's end since it
broke ground this year.
Currently, drywall, electri-
cal, plumbing and mechani-
cal work is set in overdrive
inside the building. Outside,
asphalting has been complet-
ed atop Montcalm Street.
The big thing, says Bedard,
is the current plans for a nec-
essary upgrade and change in
the hospital's master electri-
cal switch.
"That's a huge change-
over," he said, adding it's one
they're well prepared for.
Though a major upgrade to
the master switch could see
the Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital (AMGH)
running off of emergency
power for anywhere from
a few hours to a few days,
Photo by Dominique Milburn
A view looking east from Montcalm Street reveals construction progress on the Digital Imaging
suite at AMGH. In 2010, the hospital expects to receive Huron County's first CT Scanner.
Bedard says the process
shouldn't cause any major
hitches in operations.
While some areas of the
facility are deemed uncritical
and therefore not powered
by the emergency generator,
like some offices and store-
rooms, the main units and
services will be up and run-
ning throughout the job.
AMGH tested its emer-
gency power operations this
summer when the facility
ran on its generator for close
to four hours. That, Bedard
said, went well.
"It went very smoothly," he
said. Bedard adds the hospi-
tal could in theory be run "in-
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definitely" on its emergency
power generator.
"As long as we had the die-
sel [fuel] we could operate,"
he said.
Exactly when the electrical
changeover is going to take
place has yet to be deter-
mined and is pending some
arrival dates of equipment.
Bedard said AMGH is
working with its team of
electrical and equipment pro-
fessionals to schedule the
work.
The facility is looking at
up to two weeks of commis-
sioning after the arrival of
the new equipment, another
one to two weeks of applica-
tions training and set-up. Af-
ter that, Bedard says the new
imaging suites should be live
and ready for operations "bar-
ring any unforeseen issues."
"It's reasonable to guess
that we'll be live with our
medical imaging equipment
in early April," Bedard said,
though he added the timeline
is tentative.
"We're moving along
steadily and working through
issues as they arise," he said.
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