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Can't wait 'til it opens to public! Then I'll take pics from anywhere inside! There will be awesome views!

Will it be open to the public?

I thought it was just an office building?

From the other day:

Great photo aeon, where is that taken from?

Thanks a million for your photos aeon, they are just brilliant!

The NRAH is huuuuuuge. SAHMRI looks fabulous as always. By far my favourite building in Adelaide atm, and it isn't even complete!

So much potential exists for the Riverbank shown there. It's easy to visualise some of the ideas and plans the Government has in mind about that area.

How many more beds and facilities will it have compared to old RAH?

It depends what you mean by 'beds.'

If you mean space for beds then it won't have any extra as the RAH initially had 800 beds however 150 of those were closed and that space converted to specialist wards (ie, beds reduced by 2/3rds) or office space/training space.

It would be impossible to reopen all of those beds in the existing RAH because of internal modification/renovation.

The new RAH will have 800 beds. rather than the existing 650ish.

More staff will obviously be required but it remains to be seen if the new facilities will allow for cost saving in certain departments such as pharmacy dispensary and orderly/logistics due to automation of much of the process and robotics.

New facilities on the other hand, well, it's a lengthy list but some of my peers are stating that we're losing certain facilities as well although they haven't elaborated at this point other than we are losing residential services. The old residential building is a s*** hole but it is very cheap to stay in and out-of-towners would use it. I think the trade off is space for a family member in every room in the new RAH.

I suppose key differences are:
- single rooms with ensuite and space for a family member to stay in. This is good in most regards but on the downside, single rooms make it harder for staff to observe patients from a consolidated location so the recommendation is a staff increase. Also, some patients like the social aspects of bays. (I personally think there is more benefit in single rooms though)
- Every room has a view. I'll save you from any risk of me delving delightedly into various social theories such as Talcott Parsons' 'Sick Role' and Erving Goffman's theory of 'self presentation' but all of that aside, people who are mentally and emotionally happier heal faster. Having a nice view does wonders to someone's outlook on circumstances.
- Robotic delivery systems with specialised logistics lifts. Automates delivery of food trolleys, linen trolleys, drugs deliveries, etc.
- Automated pharmacy dispensary. Saves on multiple dispensary staff and expedites delivery which is hugely important on discharge day. Some say 'who monitors the robots to prevent error?' But in places where it is used, there is a 0% error rate in dispensary. Of course drugs are checked by nursing staff on arrival at the ward.
- Double helipad (never heard of two choppers needing to land at once but too many helipads is a nice problem to have.
- Separated psychiatric services (This is difficult to ascertain for existing literature and the blueprints. It appears as though emergency psychiatric services may be separate from the main ED which would be a godsend but it may simply be the case that psych emerg still goes through the main department but only moves onto the ward when admitted in which case there is no difference with the existing RAH)
-Extra ED space. Mike Rann said 'No patient will need to wait in the corridor again' as he opened the current RAH ED. Within two years it was so common for patients to be in the corridors that corridor space was given its own bed numbers and IV hooks. Extra ED space is almost never a bad thing except for induced demand. (Sometimes a long wait is therapeutic in its own right)

There's heaps more but it's late and I'm tired.

From today 11/8/13 last tower crane dismantled yesterday and removed today

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rhino wrote:Great photo aeon, where is that taken from?

Was just out the window of a commercial flight that happened to go in the right direction

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Unf. How could anyone not love this building? It is pure class.

The east side is nearly complete 8 Sept 2013

Is anyone aware of any street views in all the various fly-overs and renderings done that shows what the end view is likely to be for this sucker? It seems it is going to be wedged in to the east with the new University buildings, and once the nRAH is complete, am trying to figure out how much of this quite amazing facade / structure will become hidden and what it will look like in its surrounds - perhaps I will just have to wait a few years to see them all go up though.