Final preparations are under way at the hospital’s new acute care wing ahead of next month’s opening.

Staff training tours are being conducted and cleaning work is progressing ahead of a final clinical scrub-down in the coming weeks.

Bermuda Hospitals Board said it was now controlling security within the building and that most of the work was finished.

“We are now in the transition period which allows for remaining construction — minor deficiency items — to be completed, and for BHB to continue orientation/training and assume responsibility for the security of the new wing,” a spokeswoman said.

“This process will continue to develop through to the opening of the acute care wing in September.

“Paget Health Services has commenced the facilities management works through their FM services provider, Black and McDonald.”

BHB said all floors of the new wing were mostly finished, and that there were plans to test-run the moving of patients, materials, food and laundry services between the general wing and the new facility.

The final commissioning of mechanical and electrical systems is also taking place, and artwork — encased in thick plexiglass for infection-control purposes — is being hung.

The outside of the building is complete, with soft landscaping finished apart from the planting of a few trees and hard landscaping due to be done by the middle of the month, according to the Bermuda Hospitals Board.

The spokeswoman said “the engraved donor pavers will be installed through the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust” from this week.

“Final installation and commissioning of the few remaining cameras and duress stations is being completed,” she added. “The contractor’s site storage containers have been removed and the new footpath is now fully open.

“The contractor’s site offices will be removed gradually through August.”