The New patient tower

Plans for the new patient tower include…

Basement: Patient parking and pick-up.

First floor: Emergency department (ED), imaging, ED lab, meditation room, registration, coffee and gift shop, outpatient blood-draw station, and elevators and escalators that will easily guide people to the sky bridges.

Second floor: Interventional suites (operating rooms, cardiac cath lab), surgery recovery, satellite pharmacy, and frozen-section lab.

Third floor: Respiratory therapy, sterile processing, and rapid- response laboratory.

Fourth through seventh floors: 30 patient rooms on each floor, beginning with Intensive Care on the fourth floor.

Plans for the Winter Street hospital include…

Some inpatient services will remain in the newer parts of the Winter Street hospital.

The Psychiatric Medicine Center will move from its location at the end of Oak Street into the north tower of the hospital, which is the newest part of the building (built in 1986). The Regional Rehabilitation Center will move from its Center Street location, also to the north tower.

Several of the hospital’s administrative functions that are housed at other locations, such as the marketing and finance departments, will move back into the Winter Street hospital.