While moving apartments might seem like a hassle, moving 850 employees and all their office supplies into a newly furnished office would be nothing short of a logistical nightmare.
UNC Health Care managed just that, when it successfully moved a large percentage of its administrative operations into its new Eastowne campus off of U.S. 15-501. Including employees, more than 1,100 people spearheaded the move.
By moving the administration’s operations to Eastowne, UNC Health Care aimed to make life easier for the hospital’s non-medical staff.
“It makes sense, it makes financial sense, it made efficiency sense and patient sense to do this,” said Anna Story, project manager for the UNC Health Care system.
The buildings that were previously occupied by the expenses and accounting department have been either reappropriated or demolished.
“Most of the administrative stuff for the hospital that doesn’t have to be at the hospital is located here,” she said. “And so therefore the space it occupied previously is now better suited for clinical or hospital space.”
The project has been 14 months in the making but is finally nearing its completion as most employees have moved into the new offices.
Story said the move will bring increased efficiency and productivity.
“The purpose was to primarily facilitate efficiencies and to improve co-location so that people from different departments could benefit by being close to one another and maybe share processes and reduce redundancies,” she said.
