Armand (Left) using a LAN tester to check each of the 240 cables, while Joel punches down the last of the cable pairs.

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Wires inserted and ready to be punched.

Just past the halfway mark.

Norberto and Joel "punching down" a data switch which in this case refers to an automatic device that connects data-processing machines to one another. There were 240 cables of Cat 5 with 4 pairs of wires each; that's 960 connections.

What a mess, and you thought your entertainment center was a rats nest, but at least it wasn't our mess. This is one of the data switches found next to one of the data switches we were installing.

Looking down the hallway on the eighth floor, this part of the hospital is only used for storage and hiding the electricians.

Joel and I found this in the electrical closet in the old building at Good Samaritan Hospital, obviously in the oldest wing. The newest thing in this power panel is the three red wire nuts. I like the "T" tap they made at the left. They just pulled a 250 through all the floors and tapped into the wire at each panel. When is the last time you saw cloth covered wire?

Checking out the city slickers

Norberto and Joel on the roof of the Hospital (sorry Norberto, I'll get a better shot of you on monday)

Performance Electric at Good Samaritan Hospital

Performance Electric is currently providing Good Samaritan Hospital with electrical and communication upgrades to various locations at the Hospital.

Good Samaritan was founded by Sister Mary Wood in 1885 with a nine-bed facility in Los Angeles California. With help from St. Paul's Episcopal Church and generous donation from a good samaritan "Mrs Mark Severance" in 1886 the hospital begins to grow along with the Los Angeles area. In 1911 the hospital moved to it's current location and in 1927 construction began to the wing shown in the photograph. Good Samaritan has the distinction of being the first hospital in history with the worlds first live birth from a frozen embryo. There as also some darker history involving the hospital: Shortly before midnight on June 4th 1972, Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Senator Kennedy was rushed by ambulance first to the Central Receiving Hospital and then to the good Samaritan Hospital, where six neuro-surgeons labored more than three hours to remove a bullet from Robert Kennedy. For the next 24 hours, doctors fought to save Mr Kennedy but died in the early hours of June 6th.