After-hours use of the administrative parking lot (lot B) will no longer be available to employees/physicians that do not have badge access.
At 5:00 p.m. each day, the gates on lot B have been opened, allowing employees without badge access to park in the administrative lot. This alleviated some of the parking challenges that employees were experiencing in the old parking structure. But the addition of parking spaces in the new structure minimizes the need for the ongoing employee use of lot B.
Effective Sept. 1, after-hours use of lot B will be repurposed as parking for on-call residents that are called into the hospital.
Historically the on-call residents have parked in the Wong Kerlee lot (G East); however, many times resident physicians are not able to exit the lot in the early morning in time to free up parking spaces for arriving attending physicians. This means that the attending physicians — who treat patients at multiple locations or have a short meeting at one location before leaving for another location — are having to park in the parking structure, making it challenging to quickly get from one location to another.
While parking has always been a challenge, with the recent movement of various surgeries to East Campus and Heart & Surgical Hospital to accommodate the separate licensing of the Children’s Hospital, attending physicians have experienced additional parking inconveniences. In order to provide easier access to parking in the Wong Kerlee lot for the attending physicians treating patients in multiple locations on the same day, resident access to lot G East is discontinued and allocated to lot B.
Starting Sept. 1, 2014, anyone who has been parking in Lot B in the evenings (without badge access) will need to park in the parking structures or other available parking.
These changes will be assessed for several months to determine if additional changes are necessary.