THE OLOMOUC TEACHING HOSPITAL HAS A NEW DIAGNOSTIC DEPARTMENT AND A CENTRE FOR WOMEN

17. 09. 2010

On 17 September 2010, two new state of the art departments of the Olomouc Teaching Hospital were ceremonially opened. “Today, we are ceremonially opening two more buildings with up-to-date adaptations and modern equipment. I am glad we have been able to gradually improve the environment for our patients in this manner,” said Radomír Maráček, director of the Olomouc Teaching Hospital.

The first part of the contract comprised of relocating the PET/CT Department of the Nuclear Medicine Clinic to new premises. The construction of a new building for the Hybrid PET/CT Camera Department is one of the important steps in preparing the reconstruction of the Franz Joseph Building where this diagnostic department has been located until today. The department examines 3,500 patients annually.

The new building was constructed on the land in front of the existing clinic building on sloping-terrain; it has no basement  and the structure is hidden under the terrain from three directions. The department uses radiopharmaceuticals as a contrast medium in examining patients. Radiopharmaceuticals are delivered here in radiation-shielded containers  and the used material is stored in a cooled waste storage facility where it loses its radiation after a prescribed period of time. Soil water from the department is drained through a separate sewage system branch. The examination room has a special RTG radiation shielding system installed on its walls and doors, in the floor as well as in the ceiling.

The structure has a rectangular ground plan, and from a construction point of view it is a reinforced-concrete monolith with internal partition walls built of bricks. There is a strip window in the headwall; the other parts are lit by means of a sun tunnel through the roof. The waiting room is entered through the main entrance door, and the other premises (the reception desk, toilets, including the barrier-free ones, technical background premises, application room) are accessible from there.  There is also a changing room for staff, day-care room with a fitted kitchen, study-rooms of doctors, a study-room of a physicist, store room, shower room, control room, room for evaluation of medical examination results, and examination room. The laboratory is entered through a filter. The non-traditional architectonic plan and modern design of the building provide a more pleasant environment for those in poor health. The construction took only six months and the total cost amounted to CZK 36 mill. VAT excluded.

The second newly opened structure is the reconstructed Building T, originally accommodating the Psychiatric Clinic. The new “Centre for Women” was created and the Genetic and Mammography Departments were moved there. The reconstruction caused no changes in the ground plan or altitudinal dimensions of the building. It is a three-storey structure with a lower basement and a kerb hipped roof. The elevator underwent an overall reconstruction, a machine room for the air-conditioning and fire-fighting systems as well as changing rooms for the staff of the Medical Genetics Institute were built in the attic area. Due to the changed spatial arrangement, the barrel ceilings on the first underground floor had to be supported. After a detailed survey of the construction, the ceiling structures were also replaced or reconstructed.

The spatial arrangements of individual floors of the building were adapted so that they would meet the new functional requirements. The facade of the whole building was repaired with external insulation and its new paintwork now corresponds to the surrounding buildings. The ceiling structure on the 3rd above ground floor and the perimeter walls of the converted attic are fitted with heat insulation. The building also has wooden windows with insulating double glazing units and interior Venetian blinds. The entrance and interior doors are also completely new. Together with new floors, the reconstructed premises were also fitted with new damp-proofing, and damp walls were also redeveloped with sanitation plastering and advanced ventilated walls. The new plastering, cladding and painting of walls, and the technological distribution systems was also carried out.. Among other things, the building also accommodates a seminar room for 50 students, changing rooms for students, changing rooms for staff, a shower room, toilets, two mammography departments, a sonograph department, a room for evaluation of medical examination results, the archive, examination rooms, study-rooms for doctors and nurses, waiting rooms, cabins, store rooms, children’s playroom and the reception office.

The building was under reconstruction from January to July this year and the cost of the building part amounted to CZK 56.8 mill. VAT excluded.  The total cost, including the equipment for both buildings, exceeded CZK 120 mill. of which the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic provided approx. 40 per cent, while the remaining part was funded by the hospital from its own resources. The construction was implemented by the Surface Construction Branch of OHL ŽS. “Our company has rich experience in the area of health care facilities reconstruction and development. I believe that the patients as well as the staff of the Olomouc Teaching Hospital will be satisfied with our work,” said Michal Štefl, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the OHL ŽS, a.s.