Don: The list of cool things about the new room is long. 26″ flat panel LCD TV is at the top. It is followed closely by the DVD player. The old rooms had a 21″ old style TV and a VHS player and lots of videos that had been donated to the hospital. I guess it is a guy thing that those two items had to be at the top of my list! Shands has wireless internet throughout the many hospital buildings. They had a visitor room in the BMTU (Bone Marrow Transplant Unit) that we were in at the old hospital which is where they stored the video tapes but also had a computer in there that patients and their families could use. Yesterday our TWO visitor rooms did not have a computer but today they do! They don’t have any DVDs though.

I am sure that I couldn’t possibly list all the things that make this new building so great. Most of them are probably invisible to me. From a family member of a patient viewpoint, I can tell you that it really is a little awe inspiring. There are even two large framed photos in every room and lining the hallways. These were all taken by people who work at the hospital and there is a little name plate telling who took the photo and usually the location. The air filteration system to just too fantastic when you compare it to the one in the old room. Both quiet and super efficient. I am not going to spend any more time on this topic except to say that the staff here has been told that this is the most technologically enhanced building in Florida at this time. Michelle G. said there was an article in the Sunday paper in Tallahassee. I am sure you could find info on it online if you are into that sort of thing.