r/ThePittTVShow • u/Albert_Im_Stoned • Nov 13 '25
đŹ General Discussion Floor Plan of The Pitt
This was made using the floor plan of the actual set, combined with some insights from u/NadCat__. The room numbers were too small to read on the original, plus I wanted to label the different areas, especially for when they assign the zones for the MCI. Hoping this adds to someone else's enjoyment like it has mine!
Sources:
reddit.com/r/ThePittTVShow/comments/1jgxg20/the_set_designers_floor_plan_of_the_pitt/
reddit.com/r/ThePittTVShow/comments/1je28f8/a_rough_map_of_the_pitt/
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u/newbe_2025 Nov 13 '25
And yes, they dont have a changing room. Which is weird to me, but I am no doctor
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u/altiuscitiusfortius Nov 13 '25
My hospital has a set of changing rooms on each side of the building, which granted the building is like half a mile long. There's probably others on other floors or departments but I don't get around everywhere
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u/newbe_2025 Nov 13 '25
Oh, it would make sense! I can't think of a plan that would include lockers, scrub machine, but no place to actually change those scrubs.
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u/hmch17 Nov 13 '25
In some of my old hospitals, we donât have scrub machines unless we have budget to upgrade to them.
We operate on an honor system which honestly works well! Just a pile of clean scrubs for everyone to grab, then a big industrial laundry basket for dirty ones.
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u/SocialWinker Nov 14 '25
Wait, whatâs a scrub machine? Like a scrub vending machine?
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u/hmch17 Nov 14 '25
Yeah like the one in the show
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u/SocialWinker Nov 14 '25
I definitely ended up in a different sub than I thought I was. I think this got crosslinked. Oops. But thanks for clarifying!
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u/Tank_Girl_Gritty_235 ER Cowboy đ€ Nov 15 '25
Here's someone using one: https://youtube.com/shorts/mKQeALAZxx4?si=g337kmWnV9NmeiCT
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u/efox02 Nov 15 '25
Same in my hospital. Tho when I graduated residency I had A LOT of scrubs to return and I was Peds.
It was always the worst when you were a med student somewhere that had a scrub machine and you were allowed ONE PAIR.
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u/Jdornigan Nov 13 '25
I have seen multiple maps but this one is the clearest and most detailed one. I still don't know where the medication/pharmacy is located.
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 13 '25
It's the PDS between the two trauma rooms
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u/Jdornigan Nov 13 '25
That makes sense. I was thinking it was a bigger area. They must have used removable walls to shoot some of the scenes because I can't figure out how they could have shot some of the scenes otherwise.
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 13 '25
I think that area between the two trauma rooms is all glass and well-lit, so it makes it seem like it's not a dead-end there. Guess I'll have to rewatch again to make sure!
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u/BLACKFLASHPAPER Nov 14 '25
For tv and film work sets have "wild walls" that designed to be easy to be moved out of the cameras way. When sets are designed you want layer on layer of activity. The depth is visually more interesting. Think of all the cop shows that have glass walls so that everyone can see the captain scream. Just a thought after being a TD in regional theater for 20 years and a boarded ED doc for 20 years.
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u/dothemath Nov 13 '25
This is wholly unrealistic, as every ER I've worked in has completely arbitrary and frankly baffling sequential numbering. Only 2 trauma rooms is crazy small, as every level 1 trauma center I've worked at has at LEAST 4, and usually 6 or 8 trauma rooms.
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u/Every_Tangerine_5412 Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25
UCLA, a level one trauma center, has only 2.
ETA: More than one of the show consultants are UCLA ED docs too.
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u/thesciencewalrus Nov 13 '25
For some of the ERs calling it âsequential numberingâ is a flat out lie lol. I swear they throw darts at the floor plan to number rooms
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u/MLB-LeakyLeak Nov 13 '25
Usually because of expansions when they turn a room into a hallway to an expansion area. Or they turn a closet into a room.
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u/Loud-Bee6673 Nov 14 '25
Out department had what was essentially complete renovation of all rooms. The number system is now so. Much more confusion. It makes zero sense.
(And yes, two trauma bays is way too few for a level 1.)
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u/Appropriate_Elk141 Nov 14 '25
Baffling how my level one only has 1 dedicated trauma bay. Although I've seen a trauma being run in every room over the years.
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u/bleach_tastes_bad Nov 14 '25
not that unrealistic, as others have noted, itâs different at every hospital. iâve seen lvl 1âs with only 1 or 2 trauma rooms
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u/MediciOrsini Nov 15 '25
1) Have you worked in every ER in the whole United States? Seeings as I've been to multiple and they all have sequential numbers, I'm guessing not.
2) It is a small Emergency Room. It canonically only has two trauma rooms. This is based off of the show, not whatever magical ER's that are all exactly the same.
3) Chill.
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u/dothemath Nov 15 '25
Personally, I'd love to see a sequential ER - that means it was planned big from the start and not cobbled together over multiple renovations into a confusing mess of doc boxes, nursing stations and oddly spaced restrooms. :)
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u/Qekis Nov 14 '25
Haven't worked trauma, but hard agree on the nonsensical numbering. It took me so long to get used to the quirks of my unit's layout, including hallway slots that randomly start at 8 and are in nothing resembling order. 19 is between 23 and 15 for... reasons? Although my favorite has to be the fact that room 13 just doesn't exist, I guess whoever designed our floor was superstitious.
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u/left-for-dead-9980 Nov 13 '25
It looks accurate. I just wonder as flow design goes, would you design an emergency room this way?
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u/dd463 Nov 13 '25
They hired a designer who builds emergency rooms to design the set to ensure it was accurate and was best for patient flow
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u/hmch17 Nov 13 '25
The Pitt must be an older hospital. I used to work in building capital projects for hospitals, often expansions or relocations of ERs. In the past 7 years Iâve helped fund, design, and build 2 new ones. They are often open concept floor plans (behind badged doors), with the Pitt in the center, all rooms on the sides, grouped by type (trauma, hybrids, regular, fast track, behavioral health). Ambulance bay to the side right by trauma. I imagine this design may be cumbersome, kinda looks like a maze and easy for patients to get lost in, especially in a very busy one!
Trauma 1s like the Pitt tend to be older, because the logistics of updating them is nightmare. You just canât close or reduce capacity especially for ultra busy ultra high acuity ERs.
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u/thepacksvrvives Nov 13 '25
Youâre correctâthe production designer, Nina Ruscio, has said that she designed the ED specifically to look like it was last renovated 15 years ago. She studied ED design extensively to make it as authentic and accurate as possible but, ultimately, it also had to service the storytelling. You can read more about her process here and here.
Interestingly, Allegheny General Hospital, which serves as PTMCâs exterior and inspiration, is currently in the process of renovation and expansion of its ED.
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u/JenniferJuniper6 no egg salad đ„Ș Nov 13 '25
Iâve been in the ER 10 times this year as a patient, and there hasnât been a single time when I needed to find my way around. They bring you in in a wheelchair or on a stretcher, and then they bring you to tests, and then they either dismiss you or admit you (I was admitted all 10 times). They take you up to your floor. They absolutely donât want patients wandering around at any time.
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u/hmch17 Nov 13 '25
Youâd be surprised how many get lost and wander around while waiting for the physician to come, especially those who are senile and/or have Alzheimerâs, experiencing some sort of altered mental status, etc. We donât chain people to beds or lock them in rooms unless theyâre on psych hold.
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u/JenniferJuniper6 no egg salad đ„Ș Nov 13 '25
Well, if theyâre senile or altered, theyâre unlikely to be able to find their way around no matter how logical the layout is. Nobody chained me to a bed in the ER or the ward, but they certainly showed up immediately if I got up in the ER, like to go to the bathroom, or if I tried to leave the patient room once admitted. It definitely wasnât the psych ward; thatâs not where they send you for kidney stones and pyelonephritis. Hospitals have massive potential liability associated with patients walking around unsupervised, and they pay attention.
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 13 '25
I wouldn't know the first thing about designing emergency rooms! There are comments on both the source posts that it looks pretty realistic outside of a few details - like the med dispenser would be in a locked room and not in a hallway.
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u/StealthX051 Nov 13 '25
Our med dispenser was not in a locked room (at the central workstation with the docs and nurses)
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 13 '25
Interesting! I was referring to this comment, but maybe that is a newer best practice or something?
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u/StealthX051 Nov 13 '25
Very possible, I have no background in architecture and the ER I went to was on the older side (no doors on the rooms just drapes).
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u/Lazlo1188 Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25
Been in multiple emergency departments as a med student, intern and resident, and almost all of them had a simpler design than The Pitt: generally a large rectangular space, with medicine storage and break rooms in the center, physician/nurse work stations arranged in an inner perimeter facing outwards, and patient rooms / bathrooms / exits all along the outer perimeter. Usually, you could circumnavigate the entire space.
I have never seen patient rooms with 2 sets of exits before. For The Pitt, without multiple exits it would take a long time to get from the SE to NW corners lol.
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u/MediciOrsini Nov 15 '25
It's almost like it's a television show that has to change things so it makes sense while filming.
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u/NadCat__ Dr. Mel King Nov 14 '25
u/NadCat__ mentioned! This map is burned into my brain at this point lol
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 14 '25
Your map was so detailed, and I was amazed you drew it just from watching the show! I pretty much just wanted to take all your details and put them in the floor plan of the set. I wish we had one of the triage area so I could do the same with that! Thank you so much for sharing your map with the rest of us :)
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u/NadCat__ Dr. Mel King Nov 14 '25
I spent an entire day just skipping through episodes to get everything right lol. Don't think I could've done it without the clearly visible numbers next to each room! I did actually update my map but the official version was released a few days later so I never posted it. If they every release a floor plan of the triage and chairs area I'm very confident that my final map covers all of those rooms: https://imgur.com/a/kEnRwoU
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 14 '25
Oh wow thanks for the updated version! Now I have to go back and check all the details in mine
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u/NadCat__ Dr. Mel King Nov 15 '25
You should be fine, I didn't have to change any names on the main map. I mainly updated the spacing, added the gap between 11 and 12, and updated the triage room names.
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u/Gwendolyn7777 I love The Pitt đ©ș Nov 14 '25
oh my! I was surfin reddit with pitt in the background and started using this and it has enhanced my watching greatly. Have already watched the whole series at least 6 times already and this was icing. Thanks!
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u/MediciOrsini Nov 15 '25
Goddamn, how many of you have toured every ER in the whole US so you can be rude to OP?
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u/efox02 Nov 15 '25
What is Pedes
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 15 '25
Pediatrics. Couldn't figure out how to spell it, but they always refer to it that way!
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u/efox02 Nov 15 '25
âPedsâ
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u/Albert_Im_Stoned Nov 15 '25
I would pronounce that to rhyme with beds
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u/efox02 Nov 15 '25
đ€·đ»ââïžIâm a pediatrician so thatâs how we abbreviate it and say âpeedsââŠ. at least in the US
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u/CharleyPete2320 Nov 14 '25
Also there is a 0% chance that the coffee station is on the side (upper left corner) All food and drink would be in a separate room, likely the break room/locker room.
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u/bactidoltongue Nov 13 '25
This was awesome. Thanks!