Henry
Ford Health system has competed an upgrade of its West Grand Boulevard
facility’s Emergency Department as the first phase of its five-year,
$300-million investment planned for the campus.
The ER work
includes a new lobby waiting area, sub-waiting rooms for family members
of patients and additional patient bays, increasing capacity from 50 to
77 exam rooms.
Marco Capicchioni, vice president of real estate,
facility and support services, describes the $10 million investment as
integral to the hospital because “the ER is our front door. It’s where
most people find their way into the hospital, so it is important that
we have space to take care of them from the first moment.”
The
next phase of work will start next spring and include an expansion of
the Henry Ford II Pavilion, which will add two floors and a total of
160 private rooms.
Capicchioni notes that architect Albert
Kahn’s original vision for the hospital called for all private rooms,
“which was innovative at the time—it still is innovative.”
Aesthetic renovations have also begun in the 17-floor clinic tower, and will continue over the next four years.
Other upgrades to be started next year include:
• adding 18 beds to the Intensive Care Unit.
• adding three new operating rooms, thus allowing four of the total of 31 operating rooms to accommodate robotic surgeries.
Source: Marco F. Capicchioni, Henry Ford Health System
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