Overview
Ground floor of new four-story pavilion and renovated existing building will include a greatly expanded Emergency Department that is more spacious, user-friendly, technology compatible and creates a holistic healing environment.
The Emergency Department will feature:
- Triple the current space to 40,000 square feet - equivalent to one acre of clinical space
- More than double the number of beds from 28 to 60
- Capacity increased to serve 80,000 patients a year
- Fast Track Area
- Specialized Trauma/Critical Care Suites
- Dedicated Gynecological Rooms
- Greatly enhanced Decontamination and Isolation capabilities
- Psychiatric/Behavioral Health Section
- Diagnostic Imaging equipment located within the ED for its exclusive use
Our discreet Psychiatric Emergency Section will be the first such facility available 24 hours a day in Fairfield County. It will have its own entrance and space configured for Behavioral Health patients.
Because of the tremendous volume and the objective of centralizing all aspects of emergency care, the ED will have its own CT Scanner, Ultrasound, and X-ray equipment and all of the most contemporary diagnostic equipment. For patient safety, it also will have automated pharmaceutical dispensing and vastly improved computerized monitoring technology including full cardiac monitoring capability in all rooms.
Architect
Perkins Eastman
General Contractor
Gilbane Construction
