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Spacious new digs get thumbs up as 40 patients are transferred

“Patient is on the roll.”

With that cue from a hospital security guard, five-year-old Justin Pinchart was wheeled out of his cramped room on the fourth floor of the UW Hospital, and cruised to his fancy new digs at the American Family Children’s Hospital next door.

The nine-minute trip through a maze of hallways and several elevators was swift, with his mom Diane and dad Dan at his rolling bedside, plus several attentive nurses and moving company employees hired to do some of the heavy lifting.