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The Women’s and Children’s Pavilion at Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center was designed and built to provide community residents greater access to high quality maternal and pediatric care. To do so, the Pavilion would need integrated state-of-the-art technology accessible to physicians, nurses, therapists, and staff. Adding to the complexity of the project was the need to combine the expertise, systems, and standards of two care providers — Mercy Gilbert and Phoenix Children’s.
A critical component of the project was the need to combine the expertise, systems, and standards of two care providers. Aptitude understood the project’s complexity and began due diligence and knowledge gathering to determine integration needs. Aptitude project leaders met regularly with key stakeholders to establish scope and schedule, discuss existing systems, design concepts and needs requirements, and discover the needs of two healthcare operators.
With two nurse call systems under a single roof and separate side-by-side communications rooms for each provider’s IT staff, the project created unique systems integration demands. In addition, eight different vendors with separate budgets, procurement processes, and systems installation concepts were identified during the initial phases.
With its broad and deep industry experience, and well-crafted planning and coordination, Aptitude was able to coordinate with all stakeholders to keep the project moving forward without schedule setbacks or additional costs. In fact, Aptitude was able to streamline all systems, immediately restoring over $260,000 back into the project budget. As the installation and integration of the pavilion’s key platforms progressed, Aptitude identified new ways to save costs.
Aptitude used state-of-the-art VCD technologies to visualize project design needs. With building information modeling (BIM), the company established alternate cable path routes within an adjacent building, reducing the backbone cable tray cost by around $70,000. This helped in streamlining the integration of other crucial facility systems, including hardware, emergency call services, and networked computer systems throughout the new facility, adding even more value for the owner.
By working closely with Dignity Health and Phoenix Children’s Hospital as a trusted advisor in building systems integration and going above and beyond for the client, Aptitude will help deliver Arizona’s most sophisticated healthcare facility dedicated to women and children.
