Building New Hospital, what works best for you?

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I am reaching out to experienced OR nurses for input as to what has and has not worked in your OR's. We are in the beginning processes of designing a new hospital and I am on the OR design committee. A few questions that I'm researching right now are:

Certain brands of spotlight/surgical lighting. The company designing the building and doing the prints mentioned 'green lights', LED's, and UV lighting (UV lighting got nixed by electrical) so basically anybody work with green lights and what do you think of them?

Next, Mobile workstations (COW's WOW's whatever you want to call them) is there much difference between brands and designs? What do you use and do you like it? I know we would prefer one with a locking drawer for medications since there will be no other safe in the room to store drugs once retrieved from our main Pyxis.

Basically we are having 10 OR's all be universal so any type of case can go in any room. We are staying away from Booms because majority of the staff feel they take up to much space and we don't do enough laparoscopic cases to see it beneficial.

One concern that hit me today is we are no longer having a cysto table with built in xray machine. I'm trying to envision using a slider with padded fins; trying to take a picture of say kidney stones the rails for the sliding mechanism on the OR table seems like its something to be fighting with every time. Is there a special type table your OR uses? I know a diving board table have great clearance but can't really put fins on that :-/

Think that's it for right now, please feel free to give any advice even on items I have not brought up!

Thanks!