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| Contact: Christine Hill (612) 873-5719 |
10/06/08 |
A new 24-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), designed with input from patients, family members and staff, is the first phase of a master facility plan that will concentrate inpatient medical and surgical intensive care to one critical care floor at Hennepin County Medical Center. A planning team that included staff from the intensive care units and ancillary service departments worked with architects to design the MICU unit.
“This contemporary unit is designed to respond to the needs of our patients and creates a comfortable, safe, healing environment in an ideal work area for our exceptional medical and surgical caregivers,” said Lynn Abrahamsen, CEO. “We are pleased to be able to enhance the patient experience to match the excellent clinical outcomes expected at HCMC.”
An open house will be held in the new MICU on Tuesday, Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Medical Intensive Care Unit Patient Room features:
- All are single, private rooms
- Designated space for families and patient belongings
- Flat screen TVs, thermostats, and light-filtering window blinds
- Spacious rooms to support the critically ill patient and the needed equipment and staff
- Ability for staff to maintain visual contact with their patients
Medical Intensive Care Unit features:
- Family rooms
- Soft lighting, warm colors from nature, and large windows
- Nursing staff work stations between every two rooms to support direct visualization and convenience when accessing the patient’s electronic health record
- Decentralized medication and supply storage
- An open design to support staff to visualization and communication
- Layout that minimizes travel time and eliminates through traffic
The completion of the MICU area is part of the first phase of Hennepin’s $80 million integrated master facility plan that began in 2007. Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson, Inc. is the principal architect for the renovation projects. The master facility plan also includes replacement of the Family Medical Center in South Minneapolis and acquisition of land for a new outpatient clinic and education facility in downtown Minneapolis.
HCMC is a 446-bed Level One Trauma Center, comprehensive academic medical center and public teaching hospital with the largest emergency department in Minnesota and nationally recognized surgical and medical care, primary care and specialty clinics. For the 12th year in a row, Hennepin County Medical Center is listed in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the top U.S. Hospitals in its annual “America’s Best Hospitals” report.
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