The New Owensboro Health Regional Hospital Kicks Off First Training Day
By: Casie Mason
Updated: March 4, 2013
It's a big day for the new Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. The first employees are moving in and training begins today for some workers. It's been nearly seven years of planning and construction, three-hundred and eighty-five million dollars, on a one-hundred and sixty acre plot, but now the new Owensboro Health Regional Hospital kicks off its first day of training
here at the hospital starting with the education department.
The brand new Owensboro Health Regional Hospital is just about ready to open it's doors to the area. With new state of the art equipment and an increased staff, training day begins. "We are going to be seeing the monitors that nurses are going to be using. We will see the ones that they will be using in our units, our icu, our critical care areas. We will also be seeing training that is going to be happening on the units, so the monitors that they will have for the nurses out in the patients areas," says Jeanie Burden a clinical educator at the hospital. She tells me around 1,500 employees will eventually go through training before the hospital opens, and it's the education department that gets to go first. "A lot of our employees haven't gotten to see the hospital at all, so today is going to be the first time they are going to see it. Sometimes at other facilities they may not have all the equipment that they need right there. with the rooms that we are are using just about everything they are using will be right there. Now with this new hospital patient rooms are a third larger than what the old facility provided. Another new feature? Each patient has their very own nurse stationed right outside the window of their room. Burdon says today is a mixture of thrill and nerves as employees see the new facility for the very first time, but she and the hospital are ready to get started helping the Owensboro area. "Like it is , anytime you learn something new or a new process there is going to be a little bit of fear there, but I think that they are going to feel like they have had good training and will know how to use it." The hospital plans to open June first, so it will still have a few months of training ahead. The hospital administrators says they are excited to help serve the area with their new facility.
The brand new Owensboro Health Regional Hospital is just about ready to open it's doors to the area. With new state of the art equipment and an increased staff, training day begins. "We are going to be seeing the monitors that nurses are going to be using. We will see the ones that they will be using in our units, our icu, our critical care areas. We will also be seeing training that is going to be happening on the units, so the monitors that they will have for the nurses out in the patients areas," says Jeanie Burden a clinical educator at the hospital. She tells me around 1,500 employees will eventually go through training before the hospital opens, and it's the education department that gets to go first. "A lot of our employees haven't gotten to see the hospital at all, so today is going to be the first time they are going to see it. Sometimes at other facilities they may not have all the equipment that they need right there. with the rooms that we are are using just about everything they are using will be right there. Now with this new hospital patient rooms are a third larger than what the old facility provided. Another new feature? Each patient has their very own nurse stationed right outside the window of their room. Burdon says today is a mixture of thrill and nerves as employees see the new facility for the very first time, but she and the hospital are ready to get started helping the Owensboro area. "Like it is , anytime you learn something new or a new process there is going to be a little bit of fear there, but I think that they are going to feel like they have had good training and will know how to use it." The hospital plans to open June first, so it will still have a few months of training ahead. The hospital administrators says they are excited to help serve the area with their new facility.
