New inpatient tower (staff) [Music playing] The new inpatient tower on the main campus of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center signals the future of advanced care for our fast-growing region. Opening in 2026, the state-of-the-art tower will be the newest addition to our main campus. Along with our expert care in heart, cancer and neurology, the new inpatient tower will provide coordinated care for every patient, whether receiving treatment for a routine sickness or a rare condition. We're excited for the new special touches we'll be able to offer for women and infants and all of our patients and families needing extra support. The new inpatient tower is designed to highlight Ohio State's strength as the region's only academic health center to offer life-changing research, quality patient care and enhanced training for tomorrow's health care professionals. Staff, faculty and learners will enjoy many of the new inpatient tower’s amenities. The new inpatient tower will be flooded with natural light in its lobbies and from large windows throughout its 24 floors. In fact, there is a large 9-foot by 9-foot window in every patient room, offering light and city and campus views. Throughout the upper floors and staff lounges, staff will enjoy sweeping views of Ohio Stadium, The Ohio State University campus and downtown. The second floor will offer a retail area with food, coffee shops, a gift shop, a pharmacy, seating areas and quiet areas for staff and the public. The building features several enhancements with convenience for staff in mind. To-go areas will be available for staff to place and pick up food orders from the second floor BistrOH. Several hoteling workstations will be available for staff who work off-site at other facilities. Staff elevators will feature unique controls to efficiently deliver staff throughout the hospital. There are dividable conference rooms and event spaces that can be used for conferences and meetings. Each unit will have a charting and team room space for use by consultation teams and primary management teams. There will be a new pneumatic waste and linen system for efficient removal of materials from patient and surgical floors. Workplace inclusivity was integral in the space planning, with several important results. The locker areas that require staff to change include all-gender changing rooms. There are also private changing rooms within gendered locker rooms and faculty lounges. Clinical floors will have staff lactation rooms with a total of 33 private pumping areas, a significant increase over the 5 we have today. The pumping areas each include breast pumps, a hand-washing sink, an under-counter refrigerator and a microwave. There will also be a computer so staff members can work while pumping if they wish. Self-care is promoted throughout the new inpatient tower with spaces designed to help staff decompress. The sanctuary will offer a beautiful space for reflection and prayer. Faculty, staff, learners, patients and families will be able to relax in the outdoor terrace that overlooks additional green space and the Olentangy River. And each clinical department and inpatient unit contains respite rooms and staff lounges. Protecting the safety of staff as well as patients and the public was a high priority in planning building security. Visitor management systems will be in place to protect our faculty, staff, learners, patients and other visitors. Additionally, the building can be immediately locked down in an emergency. Access control to clinical areas will be tightly managed and new visitor management controls will be implemented in this building. Security measures include lockable doors, visitor management system, lock/buzz-in doors on patient floors, public and securable nonpublic waiting spaces and duress buttons. As a model for 21st century hospitals, the new inpatient tower brings researchers and clinicians into closer proximity so they can translate groundbreaking discoveries into better patient care more quickly than ever. The streamlined collaboration will encourage staff flow and improve efficiency. As this diagram shows, the new inpatient tower connects with The James Cancer Hospital via the pavilion on every floor and, whenever possible, aligns clinical disciplines between the hospitals. The pavilion creates a synergy between the two buildings with programs that serve them both. Larger state-of-the-art clinical spaces within the new inpatient tower will create the opportunity for larger teams of medical experts to work together and for learners to collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines on complex cases. The tower's 10th floor can convert into a pandemic floor designed to better care for and isolate patients while keeping clinical staff safe. A side by side comparison of the operating room in the new inpatient tower compared to an operating room in Doan shows the difference in what is possible. Standard ORs in the new inpatient tower are 50% larger than ORs currently in use. They will have space for the latest surgical lighting and boom technology. Trauma and hybrid ORs are even larger for more specialized equipment. Naturally, everyone wants to know about parking. We have good news to share as the West campus buses will drop off at the North end of the new tower. The closest faculty staff parking is in a new garage, recently opened on Old Cannon, with 1,100 spaces. The Wexner Medical Center garage, which replaced the North and South Cannon garages that were demolished, is for patients and visitors only, with a total of 1,887 spaces. It has a bridge that connects to the inpatient tower. The new inpatient tower was able to issue its bond as a green bond due to the significant sustainability features of this space, energy and water efficient design, investing in technology to allow for diverting significant amounts of food waste, and designing key spaces to recycle items such as specialty plastics from our operating rooms, and harvesting natural light and connecting to nature, such as the outdoor green terrace attached to the café. Buckeye pride is infused in every floor of the new inpatient tower and as activation begins in 2025 for the tower's opening in 2026, we hope you'll share in the pride of knowing you'll be part of a facility that truly defines the future of world-class care in Ohio. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center logo [Text on screen Activation 2025 Opening 2026]