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At about 6:30 a.m. Sunday, the Silver Cross Polyclinic campus in New Lenox was quiet. There were people rushing behind doors, juggling phones, making guaranteed everything was ready.
As the sun peaked out to the east of the hospital, an ambulance rolled down Convey 6, delivering the first patient admitted to the hospital's new location. It was a new day.
Like clockwork, 15 ambulances traveled three and a half miles between the old Joliet polyclinic and the vast New Lenox campus. Back and forth they went, rushing in 129 patients, including 100 medical and surgical patients, 16 people in rehabilitation, eight comprehensive care patients and five expectant mothers.
Just after 8 a.m., when the hospital had admitted 12 patients, a call came into the exigency department—the first for the new hospital. Amid the planned arrivals from Joliet came a miss who would be the first ER patient. And still, everything was clockwork.
“People were here around the clock last night making steady everything was ready,” said Ruth Colby the hospital's corruption president of business development. “We’ve been practicing this for months.
Source: Patch.com