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SPOTLIGHT ON: COMMUNITY HOSPITAL GROWING UP Addition accommodates expansion in family services, robotic surgeries BY MARIE FORSZT HEALTHY ADJUSTMENTS Community Hospital’s $33 million expansion of its Munster campus includes a four-story addition above the Emergency Department Pavilion. This multiphase project will take 24 months and will add private rooms, double the capacity of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, expand the main surgical services unit and increase capacity for stroke and heart patients. C ommunity Hospital is undertaking a major construction project that both accommodates patients’ needs for privacy and enhances the delivery of quality care. Community Hospital’s $33 million expansion of its Munster campus will culminate in the addition of four stories above the Emergency Department Pavilion. When the project is complete, the hospital will be able to treat more premature infants and more stroke and heart patients and perform more surgeries. “Community Hospital is the busiest hospital in Lake County and this latest expansion will help us to respond to the growth and demand for our services,” says Donald P. Fesko, CEO, Community Hospital. 54 SU M M E R 2 013 With this expansion, the third ﬂoor of the new ED Pavilion addition will house 32 private telemetry (intermediate care unit) rooms, featuring heart monitoring and other specialized equipment. These beds will be relocated from the intermediate care unit, currently on the second ﬂoor of the hospital. Neuroscience Intensive Care and Neuroscience Intermediate Care will expand into the vacated Intermediate Care Unit to allow for the increased number of patients requiring neurosurgery, spine and stroke care. The project will relocate the Family Birthing Center to accommodate growth in family services and specialty neonatology care, supported by a partnership between Community Hospital and University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital. Through this partnership, board-certiﬁed neonatologists from the University of Chicago care for critically ill babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This relationship ensures continuity in best practices, advanced technologies and techniques used in neonatal intensive care. The top three ﬂoors in the ED Pavilion addition will encompass the Family Birthing Center. The fourth ﬂoor will house 25 private postpartum rooms plus a newborn nursery. The ﬁfth ﬂoor will have a 32-bed NICU, and the top ﬂoor will include 12 private labor and delivery rooms, with two Caesarean section suites. With the relocation of the Family Birthing Center, the second phase of the project will expand surgical services on the ﬁrst ﬂoor. There will be four additional surgical suites to accommodate the demand for robotic and other advanced or minimally invasive surgeries, four gastrointestinal procedure suites for the increase in bariatric and other related procedures, seven preoperative beds and four recovery beds. Additionally, the same day surgery unit will

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Summer 2013 - Community Healthcare

Vim & Vigor - Summer 2013 - Community Healthcare
Contents
Community Message
A Place for Peace
We’ve Got Your Back
Out of the Shadows
The Ultimate Backto- School Checklist
The Ultimate Backto- School Checklist
Join the Movement
Join the Movement
Stroke Stories
Stroke Stories
5 Steps to Better Bone Health
5 Steps to Better Bone Health
Gut Instinct
Gut Instinct
Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Prostate Playbook
Prostate Playbook
The Main Ingredient
The Main Ingredient
Looking Ahead
Looking Ahead
Virtual Health
Virtual Health
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Catherine Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Catherine Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Mary Medical Center
SPOTLIGHT ON: St. Mary Medical Center
SPOTLIGHT ON: Community Hospital
SPOTLIGHT ON: Community Hospital
Steps Toward a Cure
Steps Toward a Cure

Vim & Vigor - Summer 2013 - Community Healthcare