A new kind of hospital...

Resource specialist Randy Recker stocks specially-designed hospital room supply cabinets twice a day – at 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. – at the Collaborative Care unit at Appleton Medical Center in Appleton, Wis., Wednesday afternoon, April 30, 2008. The cabinets in each room slide out into the hallway, allowing them to be stocked from outside the room, reducing intrusion or exposure to ill patients. This concept and others that are part of the Collaborative Care unit design, which is more time and space efficient, will expand into other ThedaCare locations in the coming years.