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Install Patient Wandering Safety System Buildings 213, 215, 500 and Sepulveda

  • Writer: Ann Seibert
    Ann Seibert
  • May 30, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Apr 17

Department of Veterans Affairs

VISN 22, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center

Los Angeles, CA

View of West Los Angeles VA Medical Center with American flag waving near a road with palm trees on a clear sky, sunny day.
Patient Wandering System install at Buildings 213, 215, and 500 at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center.

Romanyk Consulting Corp. (RCC) replaced a non-functioning patient wandering system with a new patient safety system to protect high-risk dementia patients from wandering away. This system locates patients in real-time within the CLC and clinical building.


RCC services included site visits, field investigation, studies, and user interviews to prepare drawings, specifications, and cost estimates. The team surveyed existing utilities to assess the most efficient and cost effective route the system. Wang (PM/EE) and Koehler (EE) along with RCC's in-house A/E team designed the electrical, IT and low voltage system.

Modern building entrance of the Sepulveda Outpatient Clinic featuring large glass windows, brick details, and greenery in front with clear blue sky.
Patient Wandering System installed at the Sepulveda Outpatient Clinic (OPC) and Nursing Home.

The new patient wandering safety system includes RF readers in corridors, hallways, and lobbies; display/monitoring stations at the front desk/nurse area on each level / wing; new door contacts, door controller, LF antenna, and keyed switches at each door; placement of power-over-ethernet (PoE) switches and power supply equipment on walls in TR rooms; CenTrak network equipment Stars located in corridors and lobbies; and routing of all cat. 6a cables in above-ceiling conduits; and CenTrak application and core servers and software installed in the master control room (MCR) of Building 500.


Four Affected Buildings

The project impacted four buildings belonging to the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System--three at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center (Buildings 213, 215, 500) as well as the Sepulveda Outpatient Clinic (OPC) and Nursing Home (99 Sepulveda). Buildings 213 and 215 are 4-story buildings and Building 500 is a 6-story building. The new patient wandering system impacts 17,798 SF in B213, 14,729 SF in B215, and 39,055 in B500.



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