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Show IHCs Caring Magazine . i '..". . . . : J. -" . 1 Medical excellence requires the support of excellent facilities. IHC is now investing $1.2 billion to rebuild and update its hospitals. hos-pitals. This is being achieved while keeping keep-ing charges low and without taxpayer subsidies. The new facilities are designed around new ways of caring for patients and reflect the input of physicians, nvrses, other clinical staff members, and patients. Step 1 (the "functional design" process) is to have doctors and other caregivers discuss their patients' needs. In Step 2, the clinical team sits down with the architects to work on the building build-ing design. "Thirty years ago, hospitals were designed primarily by architects with relatively little input from the clinical staff, " said John Rich, IHCs vice-president of Facility Planning and Development. "Today's hospitals are designed by clinical staff expressly with patient needs in mind. " These new facilities include state-of-the-art computer information systems and medical equipment. Private rooms are the rule, and rooms for special diagnostic and surgical procedures are much more spacious spa-cious than those in older facilities. Most of the buildings are designed to last for at least 30 years and are able to be expanded as the needs of the local population popu-lation change. One indicator of hospital size used to be the number of beds, but that measure is no longer very meaningful, because the nature of care has changed. For example, in 1975 the ratio of inpatient to outpatient outpa-tient procedures was about 1:1. Now it is about 1:25. Many hospitals admit fewer inpatients today than they admitted 25 years ago! Here is an overview of some major IHC facilities currently under construction or recently completed: McKay-Dee Hospital Center Location: Ogden, Utah Approx. Investment: $190 million Opening Date: Spring 2002 The new McKay-Dee Hospital is located on 65 acres several blocks from the current cur-rent facility. When completed, the 284-room 284-room hospital will be nearly twice the square footage of the existing facility. The construction will result in expanded services for the heart institute, emergency emer-gency department, intensive care unit, and the women and children's center. - - :0 L?rn mm .- I I 8 iiS 1 I'll WS I l - b. m mm e a -u. a t. n i ii in nr j ii in I INI I ! "'II II II U ' 3p ul. t-UgjLj-',4. The new McKay-Dee Eospital Center in Ogden is scheduled to open in spring 2002. In Logan, IHC physicians are practicing in a new Budge Clinic which opened last fall on the campus of Logan Regional Medical Center. IHC Health Center-Budge Center-Budge Clinic Location: Logan, Utah Approx. Investment: $8 million Opening Date: September 2000 The new IHC Health Center Budge Clinic replaced an aging Budge Clinic facility. Built adjacent to Logan Regional Hospital, the facility offers greater convenience con-venience for patients and physicians. In addition, shared services with the hospital hospi-tal help reduce operating costs. The new ing facility. The new facility will house additional inpatient services, a behavioral health center, and administrative offices. Valley View Medical Center Location: Cedar City, Utah Approx. Investment: $30 million Opening Date: Fall 2002 The new 95,000-square-foot hospital is designed with the capability to double its capacity and grow with the community. commu-nity. The hospital will have 46 percent Flans are in place for a new Valley View Medical Center, scheduled to open in Cedar City in 2002. clinic will eventually house 24 physicians physi-cians in a variety of specialties. Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Location: Provo, Utah Approx. Investment: $117 million Opening Date: 1999 (Phase I) 2003 (Phase II) The hospital opened its Phase I West Building in 1999. The building combines all women's and children's services into one location. A new south building will be completed during 2003 that will add another 96,000 square feet to the exist- more space than the existing facibty. All rooms will be private rooms. Key areas such as the operating rooms, the nursery, and the emergency department will be significantly expanded. Heber Valley Medical Center Location: Heber City, Utah Approx. Investment $10 million Opening Date: October 1999 This facility was designed with a layout that will allow future expansion. It is a 16-bed facility with office space for six physicians. |