Patients will continue to be moved through the next two weeks, by the end of which all floors of the new building will be filled, she said. The tower will provide cardiovascular, thoracic, trauma, surgical and neurological intensive care to patients, Rossmann said. Final touches such as arranging furniture and training nurses on how to use new features in private rooms were underway in the otherwise empty wing. On Friday, staff prepared for the coming transfer of 48 critical care beds to the new north tower. Monday's opening comes nearly two years after Henry Ford Health officially unveiled its expansion plans for the hospital, saying the new tower promised to transform its campus. which I assume through the years we will need." "As critical care needs grow as they are in the county, we'll be able to convert any room that we need to in that tower to a critical care space. "All critical care will be in this tower," said Rossmann. And the additions will increase the hospital's number of intensive care beds from 48 to 60, enhancing the staff's ability to care for critically ill patients. The largest expansion to the hospital since it was built in 1975 and the biggest health care investment in county history, Henry Ford officials say it has been in the works for 13 years and is connected to the main Henry Ford Macomb Hospital on 19 Mile and Dalcoma Drive.Īll 160 rooms in the new tower can be converted to intensive care rooms if the demand exceeds the hospital's current capacity, said Henry Ford Macomb Hospital President and CEO Barbara Rossmann. The Janet and Jim Riehl North Tower stands five stories tall with 225,000 square feet of space for 160 private patient rooms. Clinton Township - Henry Ford Health System is set to begin transferring patients to a new $265 million wing of its Macomb hospital on Monday, an expansion hospital officials are calling a "historic and transformative step" for the county's health care.
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