Today, Henry Ford Hospital will open the second floor and final phase of a
two-story addition that expands its Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The 24 new ICU beds on the P5 floor, as it is dubbed, bring the hospital's total number available to 156, the most of any hospital in Michigan.
P5 is 32,000 square feet, houses 16 private medical surgery rooms and is the final linchpin in the campus' three-year $310 million capital improvement campaign. The other floor in the addition, P6, opened last December and added 80 private patient rooms to the hospital. Collectively, the two floors were constructed for $32 million.
72 new jobs, mostly critical care nurses, were created by Henry Ford Hospital with the addition of P5.
Each ICU room boasts the ability for medical professionals to quickly access electronic medical records; a sleeper couch and recliner chair for families to sleep over; patient-comfort technology, including wireless access, flat-screen TV and remote-control window treatments; and attention to privacy and quiet.
Other phases of the hospital capital improvement campaign included a
simulation center and an
emergency department upgrade.
Source: Sally Ann Brown, Henry Ford Health System
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh
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