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Show IHC's Caring Magazine Medical excellence requires the support of excellent facilities. IHC is now investing at least 30 years and are able to be expanded as the needs of the local popu- $1.2 billion to rebuild and update its This is being achieved while keeping charges low and without taxpayer subsidies. lation change. hos-pita- b. The new facilities are designed around new ways of caring for patients and reflect the input of physicians, nurses, other clinical staff members, and " patients. Step 1 (the "functional design is other doctors and have to process) caregivers discuss their patients' needs. In Step 2, the clinical team sits down with the architects to work on the building design. "Thirty years ago, hospitab were designed primarily by architects with relatively little input from the clinical staff," said John Rich, IHC's of Facility Planning and Development. "Today's hospitab are designed by clinical staff expressly with " patient needs in mind. These new facilities include rt computer information systems and medical equipment. Private rooms are the rule, and rooms for special diagnostic and surgical procedures are much more spacious than those in older facilities. Most of the buildings are designed to last for 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 procedures was about 1:1. Now it is about 1:25. Many hospitab 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-De- e Hospital Center Location: Ogden, Utah Approx. Investment: $190 million Opening Date: Spring 2002 IHC Health Center-Bu- dge 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 for patients and physicians. In addition, shared services with the hospital help reduce operating costs. The new rent facility. When completed, the hospital is designed with the capability to double its capacity and grow with the community. The hospital will have 46 percent The new 95,000-square-fo- ot 284-roo- m Location: Provo, Utah Approx. Investment: $117 million Opening Date: 1999 (Phase I) 2003 (Phase II) spring 2002. Location: Cedar City, Utah Approx. Investment: $30 million Opening Date: Fall 2002 hospital will be nearly twice the square footage of the existing facility. The construction will result in expanded services for the heart institute, emergency department, intensive care unit, and the women and children's center. Utah Valley Regional Medical Center McKay-De- e Valley View Medical Center The new McKay-De- e Hospital is located on 65 acres several blocks from the cur- clinic will eventually house 24 physicians in a variety of specialties. The new ing facility. The new facility will house additional inpatient services, a behavioral health center, and administrative offices. ( The hospital opened its Phase I West Building in 1999. The building combines Hospital Center in Ogden is scheduled to open in 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 facility. private rooms. Key areas such as the operating rooms, the nursery, and the emergency department will be significantly expanded. All rooms will be 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 facility with office space for six 16-b- physicians. |