Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak staff celebrated a construction milestone as construction crews lifted the final steel beam of the new expanded Emergency Center into place. Crews are installing 688 tons of steel for the expansion project.
The Emergency Center expansion will open next summer. Renovations to upgrade the current emergency center will be complete by Fall 2018.
The 125,300-square-foot Emergency Center will nearly double the size of the current 70,000-square-foot facility. The new Emergency Center will feature 125 private rooms, 16 of which will be dedicated to Beaumont Children’s patients.
Technology in the new Emergency Center will include:
- ability to monitor patients in every room with devices that can send results to medical staff in a fast, efficient manner
- noninvasive heart monitoring and testing equipment to evaluate heart and trauma patients quickly
- ability to communicate information, such as images and lab results, to caregivers throughout the hospital and physician offices via a secure instant messaging computer system
- handheld devices for all caregivers with all patient information readily accessible to facilitate patient care
- digital imaging, providing immediate imaging test results
- an MRI machine in the Emergency Center to expedite patient imaging
