Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge

The Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge is what used to be the Children’s Hospital of Austin, before they moved to the new, fabulous Dell Children’s Hospital of Central Texas at Mueller. Talk about a fast turnaround! Walking in here, you can’t even tell that just a few short months ago (Children’s opened in July or August, I think) it used to be a full blown hospital. It’s still a work in progress, but the progress they have made is fanfuckingtastic!
I came here for my new hire orientation before I could start my job at the fabulous hospital next door. The classrooms are clean, well lit, have built in microphone systems, and the temperatures are well maintained. I hate it when you have to go to some ridiculous training and it effing freezing in there! I had no such problem here. Also, the tables and chairs are on wheels, easing the process of accomodating masses of people (there were nearly 100 in my orientation).
The former operating rooms have been turned into skills labs, so new nurses and healthcare workers can practice their nursing techniques on mannequins, Seton network style. The upper floors are still being worked on, there are remnants of Children’s Hospital décor, which is on its way out. There’s also a library upstairs, which is badge access only, so employees of the network can come to do research and whatnot uninterrupted.
Its amazing what can happen to a place in a few short months!