[Images: Time lapse footage of Monash clinicians, staff and architects viewing one-to-one plans at Big Plans facility]
[Images: Robert McIlwraith, Principal Project Manager VHBA talks to camera]
Robert McIlwraith: Today we are here for the Monash Medical Center Tower expansion project, a seven story development above the existing emergency department.
[Images: Rachel Rosler, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Monash Medical Centre talks to camera]
Rachel Rosler: It's been really exciting here for Monash Health to be able to bring all of its clinicians together to be able to see what the tower is gonna look like.
[Images: Monash staff and architect consult wall projected plan of section of the new build plans in front of a prop hospital bed]
[Images: Robert McIlwraith, Principal Project Manager VHBA talks to camera]
Robert McIlwraith: Being able to project the plans at a one-to-one scale gives us invaluable insight into the design. It’s probably as close as we can get to viewing the final products well before it's built.
[Images: Staff move prop beds, wheelchairs and wall sections around the projected floor plans]
[Images: Emma West, Project Director, Monash Medical Centre Tower Expansion Project talks to camera]
Emma West: And what's been brilliant today is actually seeing it at scale and test our workflows. Having the hospital bed here, having a wheelchair here, that's enabled our clinicians who have helped to design it, to actually walk it through and see the scale and understand some of the relationships.
[Images: Christine Chen, Director of Opthalmology Monash health talks to camera]
Christine Chen: This whole experience is kind of help us visualize how that's gonna look and feel. Be like when I get in there to do my surgical work, I can see what I'm doing. This kind of helps us visualize that.
[Images: Rachel Rosler moves a wall prop into position on the projected floor plans]
[Images: Rachel Rosler, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Monash Medical Centre talks to camera]
Rachel Rosler: We were pushing beds around before and to see if they would fit into doorways. It's much easier to change a wall now than you stand it up and it's a bit more expensive, or even impossible to do it later.
Robert McIlwraith: What we're looking at getting out of today is making sure we get the design as perfect as possible.
[Images: Rachel Rosler, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Monash Medical Centre talks to camera]
Rachel Rosler: It's actually surprised me the way it's brought up a lot of conversations about workflow. I thought it would just be about doorways and beds, but actually it's about how the whole clinical workflow is gonna come together.
[Images: A staff member pushes a prop hospital bed through a doorway opening and into a unit space as staff consult about the design of that space]
[Images: Emma West, Project Director, Monash Medical Centre Tower Expansion Project talks to camera]
Emma West: The new build for our tower expansion, having an intensive care, a perioperative suite, and birth suites and maternity ward all co-located will really ensure that we can continue to deliver high quality care to our patients and also provide our staff with the facilities and the equipment that they need to be able to do their job.
[Images: Christine Chen, Director of Opthalmology Monash health talks to camera]
Christine Chen: We can deliver world class care, not just for now, but designing it so that we can accommodate technology that's gonna come 10 years down the track.
[Images: Rachel Rosler, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Monash Medical Centre talks to camera]
Rachel Rosler: I think it's brought a level of excitement to everyone and the staff, including me. We really have genuinely made some differences that will go through to the build.
[Images: Time lapse footage of Monash clinicians, staff and architects viewing one-to-one plans at Big Plans facility]
Robert McIlwraith: It's an absolute privilege to be involved at this level.
[Images: A partnership screen with a white background displays the text ‘In partnership with’ Monash Health (logo)]
[Images: A sliding transition screen then displays the Victorian Health Building Authority and Victoria State Government logos and the url vhba.vic.gov.au]
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