Improving the Surgical Services
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Shelbye Maynard, RN, Clinical Director of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Same Day Surgery and Endoscopy; with Paul Pudimat, MD, Chief of Anesthesiology, shown in a sample PACU Recovery room. |
An increasing number of surgeries are being performed at Backus Hospital, and the nature of those procedures is changing, as well.
Overall, annual inpatient and outpatient surgical volume has grown 17 percent over the past five fiscal years, from 9,705 to 11,384. Backus now performs more than twice as many outpatient procedures compared to inpatient, making current waiting areas ill-equipped for today's volume.
Simply put, the overall surgical space allocation and configuration, while suitable a decade ago, is not able to accommodate today's inpatient and outpatient activity, and the functional space was not designed for accommodations patients have come to expect: effective processing, private family consultation or adequate visitor waiting space.
The expansion project does not call for new surgical suites, but focuses on significant upgrades to patient bays and surrounding support space areas, allowing for sufficient room to conduct private consultations and to improve access, convenience and privacy to the visitor waiting space.
THE PROJECT INCLUDES:
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A virtual view of the Same Day Surgery waiting and reception area. |
- 9,000 square feet of new space and additional renovated space.
- 19 new/renovated Same Day Surgery bays, large enough for family visitation.
- 18 new recovery bays, with 3 new larger isolation rooms.
- Dedicated pre-admission and assessment area.
- New elevator for patient access.
- Spacious, open waiting area.