Two-story video totems displaying changing nature scenes are sentinels along the hallway. As you exit the public elevators near the front of the hospital, you'll see a seating area that overlooks the main lobby. Rehabilitation Services, which spans the front part of the second floor, has a glass wall through which patients riding bikes or walking on treadmills can watch activities in the lobby. Occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy and audiology services are located in this area. If you walk back into the major corridor that runs parallel to Harper Street, the next stop is pre-admission testing and the future site of the CMC clinical laboratory.
Respiratory care is directly behind the pre-admission and clinical lab area.
Across from it is the outpatient nephrology and dialysis area where patients and families will learn about peritoneal dialysis. Next is radiology which takes up about half the second floor and includes several X-ray machines, fluoroscopes, ultrasound equipment and a computerized tomography scanner. A site has been prepared for a magnetic resonance imager. The new radiology site offers filmless technology, which enables doctors to access radiologic studies by computer and review them in their offices, just one of many features that will help make the hospital accessible to community physicians and convenient for the faculty. The trauma elevators, which go from the first floor pediatric emergency department to the helideck on the roof of the CMC, are near radiology, a frequent stop for young trauma patients arriving at the hospital.