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t's one thing to crowd around an
unrolled blueprint in a conference
room to see the design of your new
OR project, but quite another to walk
into an actual space, experience it and
see where the doors are going to be.
That's what happened when we built
"Cardboard City."
To give us a real-life look at our OR
project before the first nail was ham-
mered home, our general contractor
constructed — in real size and with real
OR CONSTRUCTION
Welcome to Cardboard City
dimensions — 10 ORs and 20
PACU bays out of cardboard in
a vacant shipping warehouse
we sub-rented near our hospi-
tal's main campus.
A team of nurses, surgical
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That