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BY TINA SFONDELES Staff reporter tsfondeles@suntimes.com June 15, 2012 4:20PM

Updated: June 15, 2012 8:59PM

A sick child in need of an organ at the newly opened Lurie Childrens Hospital got express delivery this week.

With a live donor at nearby Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a transport team used Luries fifth floor bridge to carry over the harvested organ.

And new mothers at Prentice Womens Hospital at Northwestern also got an added bonus: traveling over the bridge to visit their sick newborns at Lurie.

Week one is over for the staff and patients at the Streeterville hospital, which safely transported 126 patients from its now shuttered Lincoln Park hospital on June 9.

Nearly 15,000 boxes were relocated; about 4,700 pieces of medical equipment were moved. And more than 1,200 computers and printers were brought over.

Less than 12 hours after the move, Dr. Tord Alden was performing an emergency brain surgery in one of the new operating rooms.

Within four hours, the neurosurgeon successfully removed a brain tumor affecting a boys vision.

Alden was the first to use Luries operating rooms. At first, he says, things looked a bit different. But when the boy came in, everything snapped into place.

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