If the walls could talk - hospitals

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I have always found building infrastructure to be fascinating.  Hospitals especially - they have so much stuff hidden in their walls.  Gas lines, all sorts of signalling and networking. I would love to be able to see a hospital room before the wall coverings were installed.  I am imagining that this is even more so with the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where our President and First Lady are recovering from their bout of Wuhan Flu.

I was curious what their rooms looked like and The London Daily Mail delivered:

Inside Walter Reed: The 'Nation's Medical Center' where Trump will be treated for coronavirus in a secure 'Presidential Suite'
Now that he has arrived at Walter Reed National Medical Center for observation and treatment for COV-19, President Trump will be in the hands of 7,000 or so staff members including some of the nation's top doctors.

Trump will stay in the hospital's designated Presidential Suite, a lavish portion of one of its 88 buildings.

Known as Ward 71, the Presidential Suite is one of six special patient rooms reserved for high-ranking military officers and members of the White House cabinet.

The suite is 'specially outfitted with protective devices and communications gear used in support of the president,' wrote Rear Admiral Connie Mariano, who served as a physician to both presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and was director of the White House Medical Unit.

Here are two photos from the article:

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More at the site. Nice day room and dining room - there is also a full exam room, ICU bed, reception area. I would love to be able to poke through and see what kinds of security and communications there are.  Once a geek, always a geek...

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