Patient Move

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Image List:

• Image 1: UC Irvine Medical Center staff begins moving patients from its 1960s-era hospital into the state-of-the-art University Hospital. Over two days, staff moved more than 180 patients, most from oncology and intensive care units.
• Image 2: Nurse Jeanmarie Wong, center, prepares to move patient Rudy Matchik, admitted for abdominal surgery, into University Hospital.
• Image 3: Scores of doctors, nurses and support staff accompany patients on their 10-minute move. Some patients were wheeled through a second-floor bridge to the new hospital and others through the basement.
• Image 4: University Hospital will feature 236 mostly private rooms when Phase II is complete in 2011. Patients in the old hospital often shared their rooms with as many as four others. Daybeds in the new hospital rooms accommodate relatives' overnight stays.
• Image 5: More than 1,000 medical professionals and support staff work in the state-of-the-art University Hospital. “We now have a facility that is worthy of our wonderful and talented staff,” said Maureen Zehntner, who retired as CEO of UC Irvine Medical Center as the new hospital opened.
• Image 6: One of more than 8,000 pieces of equipment is moved into the new hospital. The da Vinci Robotic Surgical System, above, heads to an operating room where UC Irvine physicians perform minimally invasive surgery. Each of the 15 operating rooms is outfitted with $1 million in new equipment.
• Image 7: Nurse Yrama Perez pushes a patient monitor on her way to the University Hospital's sixth floor where she cares for post-operative surgical patients like Rudy Matchik.
• Image 8: Rudy Matchik arrives at his new room, assisted by nurse Jeanmarie Wong and Victor Garcia and Marilen Segui who lift him into the bed. Matchik's private room is on the sixth floor Surgical Stepdown Unit. In the old hospital, he had a roommate.
• Image 9: Patient Rudy Matchik and his nurse Yrama Perez share a laugh in his private room on University Hospital's sixth floor. “Everything is so nice and new,” Matchik said. “I feel comfortable now.” He is stable since his abdominal surgery 12 days earlier.