Speedier delivery means food should arrive at its desired temperature. Hallways with fewer carts will be easier for parents and families to navigate.įaster food deliveries: Service elevators in our new hospital will allow staff to deliver food more quickly. Clearer hallways will offer a more home-like feel. More open hallways: Offstage storage will cut down on items in hallways. This separation decreases the risk of potential infection. Patients and families won’t share elevators with trash or soiled linen carts, either. How? Patients won’t be exposed as often to members of the public. Patients will rest more easily since they will be less likely to hear doors to supply rooms or lounges opening and closing.īetter infection control: Offstage elevators will limit patients’ exposure to potential infection risks. The pneumatic tube system also will be behind the scenes. Care team members will hold huddles offstage, not in hallways outside patient rooms. Fewer rolling carts in hallways means a lower noise level. Employees will use service elevators to move these items between floors. Trash, soiled linen, recycling, and food trays will be stored offstage. Quieter environment: Delivery of medicine, supplies, and equipment will be done mainly offstage. As a result, fewer people will walk past patient rooms, enhancing privacy. Also, delivery of supplies and materials will take place using offstage service elevators. This will allow patients to be transported between floors efficiently while enhancing their privacy. The onstage/offstage model offers many advantages.īetter patient privacy: Care teams will use offstage patient elevators for moving patients. This concept also guided the design of University of Iowa Health Care-Iowa River Landing, which opened in October 2012. Leading hospitals have adopted this model to increase efficiencies and offer a better healing environment. The concept of onstage and offstage is based on a model Disney developed for its theme parks. These include offices, break rooms, and patient and service elevators.

In the center, or inner core, are spaces designed for employee functions. These include public elevators, lounges, main hallways, and patient rooms. On most floors, onstage areas are located along the outer ring of our oval building. Offstage areas are behind-the-scenes spaces limited to use by employees or patients/families escorted by an employee. Onstage refers to spaces used by the public.

That’s because our new hospital features two types of spaces: onstage and offstage. Care team members will not share an elevator with other visitors when transporting patients. When our new children’s hospital opens, families and visitors won’t share elevators with food carts.

On stage vs onstage