Mock-ups of St. Mary’s new hospital rooms guide planning

Faux hospital made with foam

Chief operations officer and project manager Cathy Abrams explains several polystyrene foam mock-ups of room designs for St. Mary's planned new hospital in Jefferson City.

Chief operations officer and project manager Cathy Abrams explains several polystyrene foam mock-ups of room designs for St. Mary's planned new hospital in Jefferson City. Photo by Kelley McCall.

By Angie Hutschrieder

Monday, June 27, 2011

How do you think St. Mary’s administrators, staff and architects are working to develop a model for the hospital rooms at its planned new facility? With Styrofoam?

Inside an area warehouse sits St. Mary’s current vision for the 167 private patient rooms, obstetrical rooms, emergency department exam rooms and patients’ intake areas, mainly made of Styrofoam.

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Cathy Abrams, chief operating officer and internal project manager, said in September 2008, the hospital began hosting committees of ....

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two_cents_worth 1 year, 10 months ago

Looks like a hospital room from Soviet Russa...or North Korea...Iran?

Why would they publish a picture like that...future hospital room? Mock-up or not...what were they thinkin'!!?

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JCLifer 1 year, 10 months ago

This room doesn't look as nice as the rooms in the new tower at Columbia Regional.

Once again, Columbia gets it right and Jefferson City gets laughed at.

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Rison 1 year, 10 months ago

You realize this is a model, right, Zoolander?

"What is this? A CENTER FOR ANTS?...How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?"

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JMO 1 year, 10 months ago

Folks, it is just a styrofoam mock-up and clearly an exam room - like in the ER. The purpose is to have a life-sized model to check the functionality and layout. I suspect the actual rooms will be much nicer - or at least have flooring. lol

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Newsman 1 year, 10 months ago

I think it's pretty cool. With the styrofoam, they can keep make changes to the rooms until they get them right. I think we all want our new patient rooms to be done right. The wallpaper and flooring can come later.

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