Employees Holly Bernardi, RN, and Shelly Moore came out winners of the naming contest for the two construction cranes over the new hospital site, edging out 165 other competing entries from students and employees.
Moore and Bernardi each separately thought of and submitted the names Mac and Cheese — Mac being the taller crane situated on the north of the construction pit. Moore is manager of internal communications in the Marketing Department, and Bernardi is a nurse clinician for Children’s Hospital Specialty Team Centers.
The two women joined Rachelle Bussell, senior vice president of Advancement, and other members of the Advancement team for a tour of the construction site by Erik Chessmore, project director with McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Chessmore noted that construction is continuing with the steel installation phase — erecting, bolting and welding — for the first four floors of the new hospital complex. When that shared base is finished, work on the two clinical towers — one for children and one for adults — will begin.
Visit the Vision 2020 website for more information about the expansion of clinical care at Loma Linda University Health.