Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health System announced the U-M Board of Regents approved a $163 million project to increase capacity for growing patient demand.
The project will create a neuroscience-focused hospital in the former C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, which moved into a new facility in December. The neuroscience hospital will offer neurosurgery, neurology, the Cranial Base program, spine surgery and the Cerebrovascular Disease program. Upper floors of the building will include acute-care general medicine units.
The health system will also realign and expand services in its University Hospital to optimize cancer, cardiovascular, post-surgical and internal medicine services.
All told, the project will add 120 adult beds, including 25 intensive care beds; eight operating rooms; and new medical imaging equipment. These additions increase capacity by 18 percent for adult beds, 25 percent for ICU beds and 22 percent for ORs. UMHS has been operating at or near 90 percent of capacity for adult inpatients and 85 percent for adult intensive care patients, according to the release, as demand in these areas has grown at an annual rate of 3.7 percent and 3.4 percent, respectively, over the past four years.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014.
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The project will create a neuroscience-focused hospital in the former C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, which moved into a new facility in December. The neuroscience hospital will offer neurosurgery, neurology, the Cranial Base program, spine surgery and the Cerebrovascular Disease program. Upper floors of the building will include acute-care general medicine units.
The health system will also realign and expand services in its University Hospital to optimize cancer, cardiovascular, post-surgical and internal medicine services.
All told, the project will add 120 adult beds, including 25 intensive care beds; eight operating rooms; and new medical imaging equipment. These additions increase capacity by 18 percent for adult beds, 25 percent for ICU beds and 22 percent for ORs. UMHS has been operating at or near 90 percent of capacity for adult inpatients and 85 percent for adult intensive care patients, according to the release, as demand in these areas has grown at an annual rate of 3.7 percent and 3.4 percent, respectively, over the past four years.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014.
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