Reception (Item)

Appearance
The desk is mostly purple, the upper surfaces featuring a flecked design, the lower panels featuring a horizontal striped texture. The upper outer-facing section and the base are made of bare varnished wood. The upper section of the desk features a bell for patients to ring, and the main section features a printer, a stationery pot, a computer monitor and keyboard, and a radio.

Spooky Mode 2018
The desk is adorned by four pumpkins, one on the desk facing the patient, and three more tucked underneath.

Spooky Mode 2019
The desk has a spider's web on the main surface, another beneath the desk on the left-hand side, and a skeletal hand emerging from the pencil holder.

Overgrowth Hospital
The desk is built out of light-coloured wooden panels, but elsewise features the same items upon it.

Wanderoff Hospital
The desk is built out of various-coloured wooden panels, but elsewise features the same items upon it.

Function
Patients will make this their first port of call when they arrive at the hospital. From here the Assistant staffing the desk will direct the patient to their first diagnosis room (generally the GP's Office). If there are multiple Reception desks, and/or Reception Pods, and enough assistants to staff them, then patients will be divided between them all automatically. Unlike rooms, the queues cannot be manually manipulated by the player.

In larger hospitals, it will be more efficient to build one or more Reception Rooms, as opposed to a large number of desks.

Staff
The following Staff is required before Reception will function correctly:

Trivia

 * Caption during development - 'Where patients register on arrival at the hospital.'.