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Bs HealthCare Center AFTER DARK by HGscMentor

Bs HealthCare Center AFTER DARK by HGscMENTOR

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ASSET DESCRIPTION:

Don't let your eyes fool you. Giving a low profile to the public of only a 2-story building, which actually covers only 1/4 of the actual footprint of the facility, it fits in unobtrusively almost anywhere, even amongst one-story buildings. However, it hides within it's walls two levels below ground that are four times the width of the apparent above-ground building, more than quadrupling the facilities apparent capacity.

This Health Care Center - unlike a normal small clinic or a normal huge hospital - serves the multi-purpose middle-ground needs of the communities smaller than metropolitan areas, from the suburbs of the metro areas all the way down to the tiny rural farming or industrial communities further out. Although it's not as large as some hospitals, it still supplies most of the simpler care and, when needed, emergency care that a major hospital would.

HOWEVER, it also supplies other needs for it's communities.

It is staffed with some of what would, in larger metropolitan cities, be found in hospitals. There are 30 hospital beds, 2 nurses stations, a kitchen, a lab, doctors, nurses, medical assistants, janitors, dieticians and cooks to care for patients who need to stay for a few days - for illnesses warranting surgery or a stay in intensive care they are taken to the larger hospitals in metropolitan areas.

Also within this structure, in the upper floor, can be found hospice patients, wishing to be close enough to immediate family members back in their homes that they can still be visited daily while receiving "end-of-life" comfort care.

The health center holds regular exam rooms, but also has an emergency surgery room for those who wouldn't make it on a long trip to a larger hospital without first receiving immediate surgery. There are pediatric doctors, general practicians, general surgeons, lab technicians, a small Eye Care clinic, a small Dental clinic, and a small Rehabilitation Center within these unobtrusive walls.

You may think you see more ambulances than are needed for a smaller rural area. But don't let your eyes fool you. As well as the new ambulances that are used to deliver emergency patients for medical care, the HealthCare Center has purchased many older but reliable used ambulances which they employ as "people-movers" -- picking up and delivering older folks and invalids for regular checkups, dental care, eye care, rehab, etc., on an as-needed basis since there are no busses or other public transportation available in many of these communities. If a person can't drive, for whatever reason, he receives help from the hospital to get there.

Populations in the areas serviced by this HealthCare Center are spread out few and far between so the distances traveled by these ambulances, whether true emergency vehicles or the much-needed people-movers, sometimes extend to as much as ten times the distances traveled by ambulances in metropolitan areas.

A small child care facility is staffed to look after youngsters while their parents are being looked after in exam rooms or are visiting relatives in overnight or hospice care. This ensures that the blood pressure cuff being used in the exam room doesn't take a "false reading" just due to "mom's anxiety" about what her children are up to in the lobby -- and that bedridden patients, upstairs or downstairs, are not disturbed by children of the occasional irresponsible parent.

Like all well-run healthcare facilities, this healthcare facility pays its own maintenance expenses with no help from the city, although it is funded a bit by metropolitan hospitals it is affiliated with. So the city bears no maintenance expense for it. The city does, however, help fund some of the healthcare facility's initial construction. The building is completely roofed with 5 separate solar panel arrays that supply all the electricity this structure requires, so there is almost no electricity consumption from the city.

PROPERTIES of the Healthcare Center:

Size: 7x4
Use Template Milestone
Bldg Gen: on -- all -- off -- Exp Frnt Yard: on -- off
Elect Cons: 2
Gameplay Common:
***Const Cost: 1,000
***Fire Haz: 0
***Fire Tol: 100
***Garb Accum: 8
***Maint Cost: 0
Water: Sew: 19 // Water: 19
Workers:
***Uneducated: 15
***Educated: 40 (ambulance drivers)
***Well Educated; 60 (includes ambulance staff)
***Highly Educated Workers: 35
Ambulance Count: 30 (which includes people-movers)
Curing Rate: 59
Healthcare Accumulation: 280
Healthcare Radius: 30,000
Patient Capacity: 200
Material:
***Color Vars: Blank
***Ground Offset: 0
***First Height: 3.1
***Other Height: 3
***Floor Count: 3.1

HEADS-UP for Subscribers:

BEFORE PLACING this Healthcare Center, use the landscaping/level terrain tool in your game to level out a very flat area large enough for the facility and a road BEFORE placing the road this facility will go on. If you already have a road in, just delete it in that area and then place it back in once you've leveled out a space for this facility. That will ensure the childcare play area on one side of the facility and the lounging area for patients and visitors on the other side will not encounter sloping terrain that will ruin their cobblestones or heave the tree planters off the ground.

HEARTFELT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ASSET:

I want to thank, first off, Populous, who is very patiently teaching me to make these assets (and his wife for her willingness to share her husband's time with a "newbie").

Also, I'd like to thank the other modders ( Mr. Maison, Whatif_85, and Jake Daviau) whose props have helped to make this asset so aesthetically pleasing.

LOOKING FOR ONE MORE CONTRIBUTOR:

If anyone out there knows how to make a sign that sits about waist-high on the ground (two pillars of stone or brick surrounding a flat area that holds the words - in dark blue on a white background - HEALTHCARE CENTER) please comment on this asset. I'll gladly give you kudos here - and a link to your asset screen - for creating the prop if I can use it.