Thanks to the work of the exterior maintenance team, CoxHealth campuses have had something rarely seen in Springfield over the last few days: clear pavement.
The team has been working since the early morning hours Tuesday to clean surfaces around CoxHealth campuses. Supervisor Barry Harter says the job is now mostly complete.
“My goal is to get to go home sometime today,” he says. “This takes a lot of people and a lot of equipment, but it’s gone really well.”
The effort has required more than 50 pieces of machinery and more than 100 workers over the last few days. The exterior maintenance team is made up of seven CoxHealth employees, who are joined by workers and equipment from Vaught Construction.
The crew lost track of the dump-truck loads of snow that were removed somewhere after the first 100 loads. Harter says you can see the magnitude of the effort in the piles south of the main parking lot and west of the construction trailers near Ferrell-Duncan Clinic’s parking lot.
“We’ve been running 10 dump trucks non-stop since 10 a.m. Tuesday,” he says.
Engineering director Dieter Reichmann says keeping surfaces clean is a big part of maintaining safety. Thus far, there have been no reported slips or falls on the campuses.
“Every one of these guys has done a fantastic job making sure the campus exterior is as safe as possible for our patients and employees,” Reichmann says.
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