abstract
| - St. Michael’s Medical Center is an old hospital that recently has been modernized and expanded. It contains unknown number of floors and wards, however the Intensive Care Unit contains two floors: the first floor and the basement. On the first floor of the hospital's ICU ward is front foyer and hospital's reception where the patients and visitors could register themselves. Not far from the reception is waiting room with several chairs and bench seats so the visitors could wait in comfort for their families or loved ones who are on the ward. There are several books and TV's for entertainment. Behind the reception there is a door which leads to nurses' station filled with syringes, gauze, surgical masks, medicines and other medical equipment. In the reception area there are also elevators and next to them there is a door to the ICU ward. In the ward there are several rooms for patients with serious wounds or after accidents. These rooms are equipped with various facilities for patients such as curtains, cupboards or TV sets. One of the rooms is adapted more for children since apart from normal equipment there are several pictures with animals on the walls, balloons and toys. Apart from rooms for patients there is also radiology file desk and the room in which the X-rays are being held and analyzed. Behind the radiology file desk there are a double doors that lead to research ward of St. Michael’s Medical Center. It's worth to mention that the whole first floor, reception, ward and patient rooms are filled with medical posters depicting human body, internal organs or dangers of overdosing drugs. Also in front of the elevators there are four images with founders of St. Michael’s Medical Center. The basement level serves mostly as storage area and contains cloakroom with showers for nurses and doctors. Also in the basement is a morgue where the bodies of recently died patients are being kept. The morgue contains tables for autopsy, microscopes, weights for internal organs and obviously refrigerators to store corpses.
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