Order Out of Chaos

What we want to share with you today is a little about what we call Comnmand Central.

Command Central is a room of 317 square feet on the third floor of this hospital. In this small room the following takes place:

Coffee

Lunch

Storage: Countless necessary bottles of water for all staff; all office supplies; some of the medical supplies; one printer; one photo printer; 22 chairs; one tiny cupboard; one large box/crate turned upside down to serve as our only surface area from which to work.

Traffic: Every member of the team enters and leaves this small room at least a dozen times a day. People meet to deliver and pick up supplies, exchange communication, learn about admissions/discharges, and to change and re-change schedules. Local Rotary members also visit frequently with food, encouragement, and interest. (It is their project, too.)

Noise: The guesstimate for numbers of conversations (of varying lenghts) per day in this room is 120, with as many as four going on at once.

Out of this comfortable chaos comes the results that are being described in this blog.

Kathryn Wallace