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In hospitals, there is never enough money to meet every department's request for capital expenditures. Generally, clinical departments that generate patient charges get priority for capital spending over non-clinical departments like the Maintenance Department, which is responsible for the physical plant For this assignment, write an essay that the Director of the Maintenance Deparment will use to help justify a request to Administration to replace the emergency generator and electrical switch gear in the hospital, which is over 20 years old and located on the ground floor of the hospital. If this capital project is approved, the generator and switch gear will be relocated to the second floor in accordance with the latest guidelines. In your essay, describe the potential consequences of not replacing the equipment and leaving it in its current location by talking about hospitals that experienced problems with their emergency power system.