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News - Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana Illinois USA |
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| Carle Foundation Hospital to Build Nine-Story Patient Bed Tower Housing Heart and Vascular Institute |
| Date : - 14/12/2010 |
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Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approves amended construction plan
Urbana, IL – The state of Illinois has given formal approval for Carle Foundation Hospital to build a nine-story, 390,000 square-foot patient bed tower on its campus in Urbana, which will include Carle Heart and Vascular Institute. Patients will benefit from enhanced services and increased space for care with all private rooms.
Carle's Campus Modernization Project, initially approved by the state in 2008, has been on hold due to uncertain economic conditions. Plans for the patient bed tower have been revised, which will decrease construction costs by an estimated $17 million, and Carle is now ready to begin. Although the entire project was previously approved by the state's Review Board, the Board had to review and approve the revised plans in compliance with their procedural rules.
"We are thrilled the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved this plan, which will help us provide the kind of care our patients and their families will require in the years to come," said James C. Leonard, MD, president and chief executive officer of The Carle Foundation.
"During the last five years we've made great strides in improving the patient experience in central Illinois, renovating and building what was needed at Carle, but this facility will make a significant difference in provision of care. Not only that, but it will mean an infusion into the local economy, with construction jobs now and with potential for added healthcare workforce in the future."
Total number of construction jobs will vary over the 27-month project, scheduled for March 2011-June 2013, averaging 100-150 workers at any given time. Peak staffing level is expected to be 250 construction workers. The goal is to use as much local labor and as many local contractors as possible; with 60 percent of the project coming through local channels, Carle estimates a $100 million impact on the area's economy.
By enhancing and consolidating services for cardiovascular, neurosciences and intensive care, Carle will be able to better address emergent, acute and chronic conditions to improve the overall health of the community. The new bed tower will include 136 single patient rooms to replace inadequate rooms from buildings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s.
Included in the new tower is space for consolidating Carle Heart and Vascular Institute into one location; outpatient and inpatient services will be in the same building and will allow for much better clinical efficiency, access and technology improvements. Changes to the plan that are within Carle Foundation Hospital's current licensed bed composite, include moving 16 additional medical/surgical beds from existing hospital space, maintaining rehabilitation beds in current space and adding excavated basement space. These beds will accommodate significant increases in utilization where Carle Foundation Hospital is regularly at or nearing capacity for patients needing care. The upgraded building plans account for the region's current needs and will accommodate space for future expansion.
"Patients' needs have evolved, and Carle must be able to care for them in facilities built for today's clinical environment. It means accommodating more advanced, larger equipment and beds in a building designed to achieve the best possible patient outcomes," said Stephanie Beever, RN, MS, vice president of Strategic Business and Regional Network Development.
"As the area's level one trauma center and certified primary stroke center, Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding community, as well as patients referred by our regional partners will benefit from improvements that will be achieved with the new tower at Carle," Beever added.
This is the last phase of Carle's Building Innovations initiative, which included significant renovations to the main campus and a new Digestive Health Center.
Site work for the project will begin in the first quarter 2011. Carle's Campus Modernization Project is expected to be complete with the new building occupied in 2013.
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| Reference : - www.carle.org |
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