Update on plazas – Ontario Argus Observer

ONTARIO Further work on the Plaza Inn Restaurant and the Saint Alphonsus Health Plaza in Ontario is at a standstill, awaiting the results of an air quality test which will be an indication on how clean the facility is.

Jason Jungling, assistant manager, said he thought the test would start Monday with the results known at the end of the week. It will take five days to conduct the test with no one going in or out of the building.

At this time, a reopening of the Plaza Inn is not expected until at least Oct. 1. Jungling said, That is tentative.

Those waiting for the Health Plaza to reopen, will need to wait a bit longer as Ken Hart, president of Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Ontario, expects to reopen sometime mid-October.

The restaurant and health facility, formerly the location of the Park Center, was flooded about a month ago, after an 8-inch underground pipe broke. Water ran for an estimated five to six hours, Jungling said in a phone interview.

After further investigation, Hart said the rupture occurred underground after a 2-inch hole appeared in the water main that supplied water to the fire sprinkler system. The hole in the pipe appeared to have been caused by age it was not from construction or otherwise related, Hart said.

The rupture happened underground which is why we got mud and silt in the building, he added.

National disaster team Belfor Property Restoration, responded to the flooding of the building and has remained on scene as they work to prepare the building for the reopenings.

As of now, the main concern is the air quality.

We have to make sure to terminally clean the building, Hart said.

That includes determining there is no mold from the water that poured into the two facilities.

Inside the restaurant, crews have sectioned off areas so if there is a zone that does not come back clean, the whole restaurant does not have to be re-cleaned, Jungling said.

However, the facility as a whole must be deemed clean for any restoration work to continue, he added.

Up until now, work in the restaurant has included removing all the carpet, tile and sheetrock up to 2-feet up from the floor, Jungling said. There are plans to install the same pattern of carpet that was installed in 2016.

Theyre planning on opening our building first, he said, before the Health Plaza. The main focus is getting our operation up and running.

In the meantime, Plaza Inn employees are being paid, Jungling said, noting the restaurants insurance covers employee wages for 60 days.

Much of the same work performed inside the restaurant is true with the Health Plaza, where carpet, equipment and sheetrock has been removed. All of the equipment is in the process of being analyzed to determine if it will be brought back to the facility, Hart said.

Much like the building itself, Hart said the equipment also has to be determined terminally clean.

As a health-care facility, our standards are really high, he said.

Once the building is determined safe after the mold spore analysis, the Health Plaza will have the green light to begin construction of the building.

Of the cost of damage, Hart said its a lot and wont have final numbers until everything is completed.

Picking up the tab for the damage caused to the building by the flooding is Saint Alphonsus, Hart said.

We are the landlord, so we take care of the building, he said.

However, equipment inside the Plaza Inn restaurant is exempted from their tab.

Most services provided by the health facility have transferred to Saint Alphonsus Health Plaza Fruitland with the exception of cardiac rehabilitation those services were moved to Nampa. All of the staff has also relocated to Fruitland, with some extended hours at the office, Hart said.

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