You may have noticed, I've been absent on the Blog Posting lately.  So many issues and processes to address preparing for the big move of patient from UMC to CRMC next week that I took a little break from blogging, but now I'm back. 

It has been amazing to witness the move of patients from the DeWitt Sub-Acute unit yesterday (April - Friday, no less - the 13th) to their new home on 3rd floor at UMC. The unit at UMC looks very good, bright and alive.  A great place for the patients and their families. 

We start the balance of the in-patient moves from UMC to CRMC on Monday April 16th.  On Monday, the Pediatrics unit moves to 5C short hall beds, and the Burn Unit ICU moves to 5th floor Trauma Critical Care Building.  Both of these units need to move ahead of the rest of the patient so they are in place to support flipping the switch on the Level I Trauma & Burn designation from UMC to the CRMC Emergency Department at 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday April 17th. 

Starting Tues the 17th, approximately half of the in-patients will move to CRMC, and then the balance of patients move over on the 18th.  These patients will relocate to beds available on the 10th floor, 5C, 2C and the former DeWitt unit space that we will now call 1E. 

I spent time in the Emergency Department this week with staff preparing for how we handle admissions efficiently and how we ensure we have bed capacity at CRMC to receive the UMC patients.  There are so many talented staff and physicians preparing for this move; it could not happen without them!  This past week I also had my first experience on live television on Channel 26 with Kopi & Kim on Great Day.  What an experience.  I can attest, they are as bubbly in person as they appear on TV.   This was probably the fastest 4 minutes in my life, trying to talk about a complicated topic like the UMC move of patients in a few short sentences. 

It's an exciting time, and we mark a truly historic event in the future of Fresno's healthcare next week.  I'm proud to be a part of it and very proud of the team at the hospital.  Signing off for now.