Well we are finally in our new offices! (We've been dreaming about them for months.)
We are now upstairs on the second floor above the new Sherwood Drug Mart.
All the team worked incredibly hard over a long weekend (Friday to Tuesday). I'd like to thank everyone for there dedication and effort - including all the spouses, children, and friends who came in to help too. The Marathon Saturday Ikea Furniture Buildathon went very well. Special thanks to our Practice Manager, Joanne, who will probably be dizzy for weeks after four solid days of being spun from problem to problem. Thanks also to Rob MacLellan our landlord who managed to get us in on schedule (I know it was touch and go!), Barry at Sherwood Drug Mart for his tireless help with the heavy lifiting and other jobs, and Jason at Tech Guru and Les for getting our network and servers up and running.
All the furniture for the office comes from Ikea - Ellie, the children, and I spent four days in February in the Ikeas in Elizabeth New Jersey, New Haven Connecticut, and Boston Mass. filling a 12x6 trailer and the back of the truck with tables, chairs, office supplies, and leather sofas.
I think it was all totally worth it - the new waiting rooms are fantastic with comfortable sofas and chairs, racks of subscription magazine and daily newspapers (including the Sunday New York Times which delighted one patient recently!), a large childrens' play area, and free WiFi. And the offices are spacious and light which makes providing health care much less stressful to both patients and staff. We now have eight clinical rooms and three offices rather than the three clinical rooms and one office we had before.
The move was not without glitches - the blinds were the wrong size, so we have no blinds at present, and our wonderful new electric exam tables did not arrive as planned (they won't be here now until mid June). Also, some of the nurses new uniforms (more on that later) were the wrong sizes. (That's the last time I place the uniform order!)
We hope all our staff, patients, and visitors will enjoy and the new space.
4 comments:
congratulations on your new space - perhaps you could even put up a map of the world for all the newcomers :) that would be brilliant!
You read our minds!
I was looking at getting a world map and allowing patients (and staff!)to place pins the places they come from originally.
If you haven't done this already, I highly recommend getting a Peters Map, rather than the usual Mercator based one. http://www.petersmap.com/ It more accurately presents relative area, which can come as a very educational shock to those who are used to the usual Northern-biased distortions of the Mercator projections they grew up with. Here's an excerpt of their explanation: "Which is bigger, Greenland or China? With the traditional Mercator map (circa 1569, and still in use in many schoolrooms and boardrooms today), Greenland and China look the same size. But in reality China is almost 4 times larger! In response to such discrepancies, Dr. Arno Peters created a new world map that dramatically improves the accuracy of how we see the Earth. "
That's a great idea.
(Although, being half Danish I might quite like the idea of Greenland looking really big.....)
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