Beyond production
Train where it looks real
Our hospital set is a complete, standing environment — trauma bay, nurses' station, patient rooms, treatment room and connecting corridors, all under one roof in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, CA. It was built for film crews. It works just as well for the people who do this for real.
What's in the room
One continuous space. A patient can be walked from the bay through triage into a treatment room, down the corridor and into a private room without a cut, a reset, or leaving the building.
- Operating room
- Table, surgical light, anaesthesia column, monitors, stainless scrub doors
- Reception & waiting
- Counter, gang seating, double entrance doors
- VIP ward
- Private room with bed, lounge seating and a sitting area
- Standard ward
- Multiple beds with monitors, curtain track and bedside tables
- Physician's office
- Desk, seating and shelving off the corridor
- Corridor
- Runs the length of the set and connects every room
- Elevator
- At the operating room end of the corridor
Why book a set
Instead of a working hospital
A real ward means beds out of service, infection control, patients and privacy rules, and a schedule you do not control. Here there is no clinical risk to manage and no one to work around — you can run the same scenario eleven times and stop for notes in the middle of it.
Instead of building a lab
A permanent simulation suite is square footage, capital and a build. If you need one twice a semester, or four times a year for in-service days, renting one that already exists costs a fraction of standing one up.
Instead of a conference room
The environment is the training. A trauma bay teaches spatial habits — where the crash cart is, how wide the corridor is, what you can and cannot reach — that a hotel ballroom with a folding bed in it cannot.
What's here, and what you bring
Worth being plain about this, because it is the first thing a procurement officer asks. This is a purpose-built environment, not a licensed clinical facility, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Here already
- The built environment — walls, doors, corridors, glazing, flooring, signage
- Dressing and set decoration: beds, counters, cabinetry, seating, charting stations
- Practical fixtures that light up and can be dressed — monitors, exam lights, headwall panels, call buttons
- Wall sections that pull out for camera, and an accessible overhead grid
- Power, Wi-Fi, restrooms, on-site parking, holding and break space
- Ground-level load-in for your own equipment and cases
You bring
- Manikins, task trainers and any simulation technology
- Clinical consumables, sharps, linens and PPE
- Real oxygen, suction and medical gas — the wall panels are practical fixtures, not live services
- Your own faculty, facilitators, standardised patients and observers
- Any recording or debrief kit beyond the room itself
Who it suits
- Nursing & allied health programs
- Skills days, OSCEs, cohort assessments, capstone scenarios
- Hospital in-service training
- Code drills, new-protocol rollout, onboarding cohorts
- EMS, fire and first response
- Hand-off and transport scenarios that start outside and end at the bedside
- Medical device & pharma
- Sales training, demo and launch video, trade-show and FDA training content
- Health brands & agencies
- Product photography and campaign content in a setting that reads clinical
- Research & UX
- Workflow studies, human-factors testing, usability sessions in a realistic room
The rest of the building
The hospital is not the only environment here, and the same logic applies to each of them — a real room beats a described one.
- Restaurant
- Dining room and a full lit back bar, standing and dressed.
- Mall & Bridal Shop
- A bridal boutique, a retail shop and a coffee counter with practical storefronts.
- School — Classroom, Library, Cafeteria & Locker Room
- Four separate school interiors, not one classroom and a hallway.
- Corporate Office
- Reception lobby, open workspace, private office and conference room.
- Green Screen Stage
- Green screen under a hung truss, in the same building as the sets.
Booking it
Priced by the hour from $89, by group size, with a 4-hour minimum — so a half-day skills session is not priced like a shoot day. Weekday daytime is our quietest time and the easiest to get, which usually suits a teaching calendar better than it suits a film crew.
Recurring cohorts and multi-date bookings are what we would most like to fill the calendar with. If you need the same room the same week every term, say so — that is worth a different number.
Not on this list?
We are early in opening the stage up beyond film, so this page describes what the building can do rather than a catalogue of things we have already done. If you are trying to do something that isn't here, ask — the answer is usually yes, and knowing what people want is genuinely useful to us.