SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA, March 11, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- American Relocation & Logistics, a leader in quality relocation, warehousing and logistics services and one of the largest Mayflower agents in Southern California, today announced that it has completed the much anticipated move of the University of California, Irvine Medical Center into its new hospital at 101 The City Drive in Orange. This sequenced move, coordinated with UC Irvine Medical Center staff and its professional transition consultant, allowed for patient care delivery to continue at the same time that the move was being completed. American Relocation & Logistics team members completed all equipment and supply related moves as of the first week of March in anticipation of the final move of patients on March 7 and 8.
"Our move committee put the highest priority on patient care and on ensuring their well-being in this move," said Gay Serway, Transition Coordinator and senior director special projects, at the UC Irvine Medical Center. "American Relocation & Logistics services personnel are so knowledgeable and experienced that they understood exactly what our priorities needed to be. Our department managers have all unanimously praised the professionalism, quiet demeanor, reliability and willingness to help that each member of the American Relocation & Logistics team has demonstrated. They became critical members of our move team."
The UC Irvine Medical Center project required moving the equipment and supplies for a five story (plus basement), 181,500 sq.ft. building that included 13 nursing units—of which seven were intensive care units, including a 30-bed neonatal intensive care unit—11 operating rooms and recovery unit, a sterile processing department, two catheterization laboratories, a decentralized pharmacy in multiple locations, a rapid response lab, blood bank, and anatomic anthology laboratories. Over 8,000 pieces of existing and new equipment were moved into the new hospital.
The human scope was just as complicated. More than 1,600 staff members were directly moved into the new building, along with hundreds of physicians, residents, medical students and researchers. This included a core group of people working together on nine different teams along with the design and construction team: managers from clinical and facilities, equipment, materials management, clinical engineering, ancillary and support departments.
"As a recognized moving company for the City of Los Angeles, our expertise has always been in detailed, multi-phased moves," said Larry Whittet, owner and CEO of American Relocation & Logistics. "We are pleased and proud to have been involved in such an important project for the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange County."
"Since some of the items in the medical center move were sensitive and irreplaceable, including Cryovac chambers with tanks of liquid nitrogen and tissue samples that had to stay upright, a great deal of care and consideration was used," said Craig Fulmer, corporate relocation manager for American Relocation & Logistics. "We utilized our significant combined expertise and our highly skilled team to ensure the move was a success."
One of the more interesting items involved in the move was a nearly seven-foot high instrument processing workstation. It had to be carefully dismantled and then set back up to its original height and exact configuration before data systems could be reconnected.
Fulmer was in charge of the project and oversaw its day-to-day operations. He worked in tandem with the medical center's internal transition coordinator Gay Serway, the transition consultant, Nancy Hogan Baur from Pasadena-based 5Think, and also gives credit to onsite supervisors Ernie Armijo, Jeff Short and Randy Henry.
About UC Irvine Medical Center
UC Irvine Medical Center is Orange County's only university research hospital, Level I trauma center, American College of Surgeons-verified regional burn center and National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. It offers acute- and general-care service and opens its 482,000-square-foot new University Hospital in early 2009. In 2008, the medical center was included for the eighth consecutive year among the nation's best in U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals report and was selected by the Leapfrog Group for its Top Hospitals 2008 list.
About American Relocation & Logistics
American Relocation & Logistics is one of the Southland's finest household, office and industrial moving companies. The company provides disassembly of modular furniture, shelving reconfiguration, furniture repair and liquidation services as well as computerized, bar-coded warehousing services. American's professionals expertly handle all aspects of moves, including moving individuals' household goods, products and equipment or entire companies — around the corner or around the globe — using specialized equipment and computerized shipment tracking.
American Relocation & Logistics is located at 13565 Larwin Circle, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., 90670. Telephone: (562) 229-3600. Facsimile: (562) 926-6151. Website: http://www.american-moving.com.
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