Vendor Integration
When engineering complicated spaces, for example integrated operating rooms, catheterization labs, hybrid ORs, & electrophysiology labs, typically there are multiple vendors with very specific needs which the owner/contractor are required to provide. Each vendor is responsible for a portion of the work for their system yet there are gaps between the various vendor’s responsibilities. These gaps are not always obvious until the end of construction when the vendors are moving in and do not have everything they need.
Having extensive experience with these types of rooms and spaces, Tanner Engineering intercepts this issue in design. We focus on integrating the various elements, ensuring that each team member (vendors, owners, contractors, etc) are coordinated. This attention to detail ensures that the final product will provide the users with the intended capabilities, while maintaining the project schedule and reducing end-of-project change orders.
Interventional Cardiology Suite Lab
Sharp Grossmont Hospital – La Mesa, CA
Originally constructed in 1955, Sharp Grossmont Hospital is the largest healthcare facility in East San Diego County, serving an area of over 750 square miles.
Designed for the current health needs of the community years before the much anticipated Heart and Vascular Building’s new Cath Labs and cardiovascular services would be available, the new state-of-the-art Interventional Cardiology Suite was designed to meet the current needs of the facility for a state-of-the-art Cath Lab and for the long-term future as an additional radiology room capable of interventional radiology. This new Interventional Cardiology Suite is situated on the edge of the active, working radiology department.
As a room designed to meet the needs of various healthcare teams of providers, this room had 7 different vendors for the various equipment. With the imaging equipment, surgical lights & booms, and physiological monitoring system having the most infrastructure heavy systems. In a room with very stringent limitations of space for the pathways for these systems, it was imperative to ask the right questions and receive all of the required information up front to allow for full coordination and integration. If a conduit or pathway was missed, it would not be possible to add it later without extensive delay and cost to the owner. Tanner Engineering provided the vendor integration for this highly complicated project.
The resulting room quickly became the preferred Cath Lab in the facility by the staff.
Owner:
Grossmont Healthcare District
Architect/Lead:
Richard Yen and Associates
Size:
7,000 sq ft
Value:
$5,200,000
Tanner Services:
Vendor Integration, Lighting, Power, Nurse Call, Voice/Data, Power Distribution