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John Muir Health Breaks Ground for Concord Expansion
Concord, Feb. 7, 2008 - The start of a major expansion at John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus was celebrated this afternoon with a ceremonial groundbreaking event.
The new five-story, 174,000-square-foot patient tower at the medical center on East Street in Concord will house 61 new private rooms, an expanded emergency department, and the John Muir Cardiovascular Institute.
"Building on a long tradition of providing compassionate, technologically advanced care to the East Bay community, the new patient care tower is designed to meet the region's health care needs well into the future," says J. Kendall Anderson, president and CEO of John Muir Health.
The patient care tower will be the new home of the John Muir Cardiovascular Institute, long renowned as one of the Bay Area's most advanced and comprehensive resources for cardiovascular care. The medical center currently provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for cardiovascular patients as well as a formalized program to speed the care of emergency patients experiencing chest pain.
"The new facility will support us in our continuing commitment to provide cardiovascular patients with the most advanced medical care available," says Thomas Harlan, president and CAO of John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus. "It will enable us to continue to attract the most highly skilled and trained physicians and clinical staff while enhancing the patient care experience."
The Cardiovascular Institute will feature 4 cardiac catheterization labs, 12 pre-operative/recovery beds, a dedicated 12-bed cardiovascular ICU, 49 telemetry beds, and a separate entrance and waiting area.
The patient care tower will also house a new, expanded emergency department to accommodate more than 45,000 emergency patients annually. Private treatment rooms will increase from 26 to 32. A medical imaging suite will be located nearby, featuring a new state-of-the-art CT scanner, digital X-ray and ultrasound for speedy diagnosis of critically ill patients.
Patient rooms in the tower - 61 new private rooms in all - were designed to prioritize optimal space planning, noise reduction and privacy. The rooms incorporate natural elements and well-planned choices in lighting, colors and textures - all features now known to contribute to improved health and patient satisfaction.
The highly sophisticated, technologically advanced features of the new patient care tower have been carefully balanced with attention to creating a comfortable and healing environment for patients and their families and with an eye to flexibility as community needs change over time. When it opens, the new eco-friendly facility will be as paperless, filmless and wireless as possible.
The groundbreaking for the Concord expansion follows the start of a major expansion project on the Walnut Creek campus. In mid-January, John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus broke ground on a five-story, 347,000-square-foot tower that will house 230 new private rooms, a 24-bed ICU, a 35-bed intensive care neonatal nursery, 12 spacious surgical suites and a greatly expanded space for trauma and emergency services.
(Posted February 8, 2008)