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At my local hospital, the MRI and CT are on the upper of two floors. They are heavy machines, but buildings can be built to support heavy machines.
by repiret 3y ago
At my local hospital, the MRI and CT are on the upper of two floors. They are heavy machines, but buildings can be built to support heavy machines.
- vlovich123 3y agoCouldn't find anything online except for a reddit thread with random guesses. Alternative explanations are colocating with ER (the places I go to tend to not have an ER so not sure that's the reason), or for CT & Xrays the floors might have to additionally be lead-lined if not on the first floor which adds to the cost (when there's a basement imaging can often be located there apparently). Could also be a convention that's just been established but there's no real reason.