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Michelle Hopkins:
Hello and welcome to the new Cincinnati Children's Critical Care Building. I'm Michelle Hopkins. This remarkable facility is our largest ever expansion and will feature to 249 state-of-the-art private rooms for our most fragile and complex cases. It's an effort that is years in the making, and it is finally ready for you the community to come inside. So, let's go take a look.
As you walk into the atrium, you will see a beautiful new mural, the Fountain of Life. A collaborative project between Cincinnati Children's, Kolar Design, and Artworks. It's a tribute to how we work together to create a respectful and inclusive environment.
This is the new emergency department in Urgent Care check-in lobby. These facilities are co-located with separate waiting areas. The new emergency department is 90,000 square feet, nearly three times the current space. That's a lot of room for exciting new features, innovative technologies, and so much more.
I'm joined now by Dr Patty Manning, chief-of-staff here at Cincinnati Children's. Tell us about the Emergency Department.
Dr. Patty Manning:
We are so excited to finally be in this new space. It's been a long time coming, and there's so many great features that we want to share with our patients and families and our referring providers. So right here in the Emergency Department, we've gone from 51 to 60 treatment rooms, which greatly expands our ability to care for our local patients and families. We have five shock trauma suites, including two trauma elevators with direct access to our helipad.
We've got embedded imaging, which means that patients here who need a CT or an X-ray or an ultrasound, they can get that right here in the Emergency Department without leaving. We've got a 24- hour Emergency Pharmacy, a decontamination center, and a research lab right here in the Emergency Department. And near and dear to my heart as a developmental pediatrician, our dedicated 12 treatment rooms that are specially designed to meet the needs of patients who present with developmental behavioral or mental health concerns. These spaces will really ensure the safety and efficiency of care for this special population.
Michelle Hopkins:
You know I was looking around and I noticed a lot of staff support areas.
Dr. Patty Manning:
You know, our clinical staff and providers, they are our heroes, and really felt a commitment to provide them with space that was not only functional but welcoming. So, around the Emergency Department and throughout the building, you see areas that include natural light views, outdoor terraces, dedicated staff lounges, and all these spaces were really intended to provide our staff, functional efficient and safe places to do their work. And staff had input into the design and development of the spaces as well.
Michelle Hopkins:
Thank you, Dr Manning
One of the most remarkable things about the new Critical Care Building is how it was truly designed with patients and families in mind. We partnered with our patient family advisory council to ensure that the design decisions reflected what patients and families expect today, including larger and more family friendly rooms, designed to minimize disturbances. There are also dedicated relaxation and renewal spaces and more conference rooms to discuss treatment plans and options with care teams. We've even added an integrative care fitness center offering our families 24/7 access to equipment and space to exercise and decompress.
The upper floors in the new building contain our specialty units. Floor three houses a new 48 Bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with 360-degree procedure lights, which allow for less patient movement and a safer care experience. One floor up is our new NICU featuring 56 patient beds, and the innovation of spectral lighting, a groundbreaking technology developed right here at Cincinnati Children's. The system provides physiologic stimulation of important light sensitive proteins, with a goal of improving health outcomes for our tiniest patients. Another shining example of discovery, going from bench to bedside.
As we make our way up, the 5th floor is where you'll find our Bone Marrow Transplant unit, featuring in room telemedicine, designed to minimize exposure for transplant patients. The 6th floor houses our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, featuring 46 patient beds as well as two specialty cardiothoracic operating rooms, one hybrid OR and three pre-op rooms. It's also where you'll find the skybridge connector for ease of transferring cardiac patients for cath lab procedures or cardiac MRI imaging in the main building.
Thank you for joining us today on this virtual tour through the new Critical Care Building here at Cincinnati Children's. As you learned on our tour, this state-of-the-art facility is a wonderful addition to our community and will help Cincinnati Children's continue to thrive in our mission to create better outcomes for our patients.
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