“To be able to get everybody together, to collaborate and decide what the scope of work is, and then being able to implement it in record time was


amazing to watch.” - Turner Vice President and General Manager


Dan Wheeler


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retrofit project, which created a satellite patient ward supported by OES and CDPH. Te facility was set up to provide COVID-19 patient care and patient isolation. Rule said early challenges were to


define what was needed and determine what systems were usable in the facility that had largely gone unused since the Kings moved their operations to the Turner-constructed Golden 1 Center in 2016. “Understanding the current state


of the facility and figuring out what was needed was our biggest initial challenge,” Rule said. “Tere was really good multi-level, multiple agency involvement and great collaboration and support for this project. Everybody was very focused on what the purpose of the facility was – and at the same time, we were all hoping it would sit empty, to tell you the truth.” For both the Sleep Train Alternate


Care Facility and the Indio Federal Medical Station projects, Turner co-located key parties in an onsite “big room,” which fostered collabo- ration and quick decision making. Te practice facility at Sleep Train served as the big room for that project, housing between 30 to 50 contractor and agency representatives daily. It offered plenty of space for socially


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distanced “huddles” that enabled issues to be addressed and critical decisions to be made in real time.


Opportunity to Help Both projects achieved their goal


of helping ensure that California was prepared for a surge in overflow COVID-19 patients should the need arise. Tankfully, they were only lightly used as California managed to “flatten the curve” and avoid overex- tending existing hospital capacity to date. Te Indio facility housed several nursing home patients for a few days while the Sleep Train facility served a handful of patients. Both were at least partially shut down as of this printing,


with the ability to restart should the need arise. Being part of the emergency work


was personally rewarding, according to Yots, who commented, “I was humbled and honored to have even a small part in contributing in some way to the pandemic situation.” Steve Rule, who also serves as


Treasurer of AGC of California, agreed. Te long hours put into the emergency response work was “a great experience and the chance to give back a little,” he said. “It felt good to be part of something that was contrib- uting to managing the issue and this emergency.” 


Western Placer School District was one of many schools in the local community that Turner invited to create messages of hope and inspiration for patients; they were strung together in banners around patient areas at the Sleep Train Arena Alternate Care Facility.


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