b'designation, which is the highest certification for electronic medical record adoption. Also, the Mackenzie Health team was recently awarded the Davies Award of Excellence for its use of health information and technology to improve the delivery of care and patient outcomes.Mackenzie Health will also be the first healthcare facility of its kind to be supported by two modular data centres connected by a fiber-optic cable installed between Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital and Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital. As Stolte explains: These data centresThe Giovanni De Gasperis Eugene Kohn Learning Centre is prominently featured support the medical devices andin this southern view of the Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital exteriortechnologies that make a hospital run. In the event of an outage at one site, asystems. With plans to incorporateNevertheless, adds Logan, the Mackenzie back-up will be available at the other siteupwards of 50 workflows down the road,Health team is taking no chances: The ensuring minimal downtime. This meansits a task that has all players at theMackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital has that our nurses and physicians will betable. One of the most important thingsdedicated an entire floor to piloting many able to provide continuous, quality care tofor us is making sure our operationalof the technologies and processes. As we patients without interruption. system integration platform, or OSIP, canspeak, staff are giving them a test run to integrate with everything else, and thatmake sure theyre comfortable with these Construction on the new Mackenzieinvolves a lot of moving parts, Logansystems and that they will work the way Vaughan Hospital broke ground in 2016.says. Its still being programmed, andthey need to in real-life situations. It is being led by PCL Constructors Canadawere well on our way.with designs from architect Stantec. WhileThere is still some time before the ribbon the project is on track to hitting its 2020Once PCL reaches substantial completionis cut on the new Mackenzie Vaughan target completion date, thats not to sayon the project, the next challenge willHospital. Building the countrys first true the work has been without its challenges.be to train staff on the new facility. Thissmart hospital has been a journey, but Every normal hospital construction hasphase includes a burn-in period overStolte says its one thats made possible its obstacles, but when you add all thesea number of months where hospitalby the projects team. As you can smart technologies to the mix, that addsteams will have the opportunity to getimagine, building the first new hospital in a whole new dynamic, says Logan. Thehands-on with the facilitys systems andYork Region in over a generation involves good thing is were all working very closelytechnologies and learn to use thema lot of work by people representing together through regular meetings andeffectively before the doors open. Peoplea wide range of construction trades. the monthly Information Communicationnormally get afraid of technology andTheir hard work, and the hard work of and Automation Technology (ICAT)think its going to add to their workload,so many others, is making it possible Steering Committee. but its been proven that the kind offor Mackenzie Health to bring our two-things were doing on this project actuallyhospital vision to reality and double our The most significant task is facilitating thereduce the workload for caregivers,communitys access to health care when successful integration of all the hospitalsnotes Logan. the new hospital opens.Architectural rendering reflecting design concepts for the new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital. Exterior colours and finishes may change with the final designBUILDERSDIGEST Quarter 4 201925'