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Dr. Jason Persoff, the Hotel2Hospital project\u2019s co-leader, in a patient room in the Hyatt. He holds the book that the team wrote based on its lessons learned during the project\u2019s first year. Photo by Todd Neff for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For two weeks in late July, the Hyatt Regency Aurora-Denver Conference Center<\/a> across Colfax Avenue from the Anschutz Medical Campus<\/a> boasted, in addition to its usual amenities (lobby with fireplace, outdoor pool, caf\u00e9), two intensive care units, a radiology suite, a fully secured medication room, a nurse station, and patient rooms.<\/p>\n

All that \u2014 plus wiring for computers and medical equipment; new pipes for electrical conduit, oxygen, and medical vacuum lines; floor coverings laid over hotel carpeting; walls cut away to turn three hotel rooms into a single four-bed ICU; and much more \u2014 had been assembled in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

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A Hyatt room converted to a hospital room. Photo by Todd Neff for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two weeks later, this impromptu hospital a stone\u2019s throw from the 678-bed UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital<\/a> would be gone. And that was the point.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a University of Colorado School of Medicine<\/a> team accepted a $12.5 million grant and a big challenge from U.S. Department of Defense. Imagine an overseas conflict that pours 1,000 wounded service members back to U.S. shores every day for 100 days. Hospitals across America would be swamped within days. How might temporary hospital capacity in the many hotels near major medical centers fill the gap?<\/p>\n

Enough lessons to fill a book<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For 18 months, the Hotel2Hospital<\/a> project\u2019s hundred-plus team members \u2014 including many UCHealth staff members \u2014 worked that problem. Year one brought enough insights about the physical, logistical, technological, and bureaucratic hurdles to fill a book<\/a>. Year two\u2019s culmination was this demonstration at the Hyatt \u2014 and another, yet-to-be published book.<\/p>\n

In year three, which commences in September, the team will help other major healthcare systems test Hotel2Hospital\u2019s approach in different jurisdictions with different hotels and different regulatory and public-safety landscapes. They\u2019ll also develop a curriculum for those who want to employ this solution in their community.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Hyatt\u2019s room 224, converted to a hospital room. This room used the hotel\u2019s queen-size bed, requiring adaptations to help the patient sit in the bed comfortably, as well as having a Hoyer lift ready to help staff get harder-to-reach patients out of the bed. Photo courtesy of the CU School of Medicine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May the need never arise. But if it should, the work done here in Colorado could save many lives around the country, says Dr. Jason Persoff<\/a>, a UCHealth emergency medicine specialist and an associate professor<\/a> at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Persoff is leading the Hotel2Hospital project with fellow emergency medicine specialist, Dr. Charles Little<\/a>. Temporary hotel conversions have several advantages over tents, conference centers, and the usual emergency-overflow hospital space, said Little, who is also a professor<\/a> at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

Hotels have their advantages as emergency hospitals<\/strong><\/h2>\n

With tents, it\u2019s hard to maintain comfortable temperatures. Bathrooms and showers are distant and difficult to access, particularly for patients with mobility problems. Tents are noisy. There\u2019s no privacy; there\u2019s always light; the beds are often cots and therefore uncomfortable; infection control and stopping the spread of communicable disease are challenges. On the infrastructure side, it\u2019s hard to bring in hospital-grade IT and patient-related infrastructure such as electrical, oxygen and medical vacuum. And the tents often end up in parking lots that can displace staff and patients in already-packed hospitals during emergencies.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Hyatt\u2019s room 219. This is what the converted rooms looked like. The Hotel2Hospital team got started at the beginning of July, and what they\u2019ll look like soon after the demonstration ends on July 25. Photo by Todd Neff for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conference centers and similar have good temperature control and avoid the parking problem, but share many of the other issues, Persoff says. What\u2019s more, there\u2019s a potential business case for hotels. In a national emergency such as the scenario Defense officials presented, there would likely be much less personal and business travel happening and a lot of empty hotel rooms as a result. Compensating a hotel for turning itself into a temporary 125- to 150-bed hospital would help keep it afloat \u2013 and keep hotel staff employed, too.<\/p>\n

But that transition takes enormous planning and skillful execution on many fronts, as a walk through the Hyatt\u2019s hospital demonstration shows. A Hyatt conference room became the five-patient \u201cLevel 1 ICU 104.\u201d The carpets had been covered with a layer of vinyl. Tracks for privacy curtains hung from high ceilings. Blue Ethernet cabling bound together with Velcro straps hung in the rafters with a variety of new power conduit and copper pipes and hoses for oxygen and medical vacuum.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Hotel2Hosital team turned three adjacent second-floor Hyatt hotel rooms into a four-person ICU complete with power, oxygen, medical vacuum, telehealth access, and more \u2013 in just two weeks. Photo by Todd Neff for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Headwalls at the heart of the hotel-to-hospital conversion<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ryan Schultz, the CU School of Medicine\u2019s program manager on the project, noted the differences in the pipes and fittings they tested as they learned what could be done fastest. For long runs, they\u2019d use copper-lined hoses; pressure fitting work best in hallways, and old-school soldering and braising works as you get closer to headwalls, he said.<\/p>\n

Headwalls were the key element in the conversion. These would be prebuilt, placed in front of standard hospital walls, and connected to the above pipes as well electrical and data lines. The headwalls mimic what\u2019s behind a hospital bed in an ICU or patient room, so they have ports for oxygen, suction, and power, plus nurse call buttons and power for mobile workstations and IV-pole medication dispensers.<\/p>\n

Upstairs on the second floor, the Hotel2Hospital team\u2019s collaboration of doctors, nurses, architects, engineers, IT professionals, a construction team led by GH Phipps Construction, procurement experts, UCHealth managers, emergency-management consultants from All Clear Emergency Management Group, and others reconceived several rooms along a stretch of hallway with vinyl floors and new copper piping and steel conduit running much of its length.<\/p>\n

The medication room, complete with metal-mesh window protection per Colorado health department regulations, has a full workstation for printing orders and a Pyxis machine for automated medication dispensing. The adjacent laboratory has capabilities for several blood and urine tests. (For more complex needs, a courier would bring samples to the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital\u2019s clinical lab on at least an hourly basis.)<\/p>\n

The radiology suite has a 1,100-pound portable X-ray machine, an ultrasound machine, and a PACS system to capture and display medical images. Patient rooms retain the hotel room\u2019s table and chairs, bureau, and TV, but add headwalls and vinyl flooring. The team showed that a hotel bed can work as a hospital bed with some adaptations \u2013 and also that hospital beds can work in a converted hotel room.<\/p>\n

\"Persoff
Persoff in the radiology suite, formerly (and soon to be again) the Hyatt\u2019s room 228. The 1,100-pound mobile X-ray machine in the foreground led the team to put extra thought into the flooring. Photo by Todd Neff for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IT integration was the hardest part<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Hotel2Hospital team knocked out walls separating three hotel rooms to create a four-bed ICU upstairs. It has telehealth and UCHealth Virtual Health Center<\/a> patient-monitoring connectivity afforded by industrial-grade mesh Wi-Fi and a Starlink satellite-internet terminal on the roof.<\/p>\n

\"UCHealth
UCHealth employees work to change a hotel room into a temporary emergency hospital. A Hyatt room converted to a hospital room. Photo by Todd Neff for UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the Hotel2Hospital systems are integrated with UCHealth\u2019s Epic electronic health record to ensure continuity of care. That and other computer-related wrinkles made IT integration the toughest part of the effort, Persoff says. Also challenging, he says, was understanding and satisfying various regulatory mandates, ranging from fire code and safety rules to state health department and city of Aurora requirements.<\/p>\n

To make sure it all came together, the team simulated cardiac arrests, sepsis alerts, staff emergencies, behavioral emergencies, and evacuations. It all worked, though with pressurized air substituting for oxygen, because you can\u2019t pipe oxygen without a special license or an emergency declaration, Persoff said.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cIt has been a research project for sure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While this hospital in a hotel will soon be gone, the hard-earned lessons from what Persoff described as \u201ca high-performing team, all moving in the same direction\u201d will live on \u2013 and, perhaps, in a time of dire need, provide emergency care for many thousands of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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