Construction at St Joseph’s Regional Medical Center/St Joseph’s Children’s Hospital includes construction of a 173,798 square feet Critical Care Building that will feature new adult and pediatric emergency departments, surgical suites and critical care units, a rooftop helistop, as well as construction of a new lobby with educational conference facilities, and a parking garage. The 1,122-car parking garage will be built by an external organization.
Healthcare System had previously announced the completion of the first phase of this major facilities project: the opening of the new DePaul Ambulatory Care Center at St Joseph’s, located at 11 Getty Avenue, on June 15, 2009.
The new center offers state of the art facilities for outpatient adult and pediatric subspecialty services, including the Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center, the Alfiero and Lucia Palestroni Birth Defects Center, the Autism Center, the Regional Cystic Fibrosis Center, Child Development Center, the Regional Craniofacial Center, Pediatric and Adult Neurology, as well as Ophthalmology, Podiatry, Plastic Surgery, Urology, Orthopaedics, and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department.
Construction at St Joseph’s Wayne Hospital includes renovation and expansion of the Intensive Care Unit, a new 173,798 square feet Critical Care Unit (ICU/CCU), expansion of the surgical suites and post-operative area, and renovation of the lobby.
Operating rooms are being built to nearly twice the size and will be replacing two existing operating rooms with two new rooms of approximately 600 square feet, systems integrated operating rooms that are equipped to meet the current and future technologic demands of surgery. Cosmetic upgrades are also to be done to all patient rooms, increase in single patient rooms, and renovated nursing stations on patient care units
Enabling projects are underway at the St Joseph’s Regional Medical Center Paterson campus (such as the creation of the DePaul Ambulatory Care Center at St Joseph’s), while Surgical Suite and Intensive Care/Critical Care Units are being renovated at St Joseph’s Wayne Hospital on the Wayne campus.
Demolition of the Johnson Building and 100 Hospital Plaza at the St Joseph’s Regional Medical Center campus will begin in October 2009. Other milestones during Phase II include the completion of the main lobby at St Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, including the Women’s and Children’s Lobby, completion of a state of the art conference center, and completion of the board room, physician lounge and chapel renovations.
Phase three will see the construction of the new Critical Care Building, which will begin late 2009 and continue through early 2012. The Critical Care Building will include an adult emergency department, featuring five trauma bays, 50 treatment areas, nine Fast Track bays, and four triage rooms.
The pediatric emergency department features 14 bays, a surgical suite with 12 systems integrated operating rooms, pre-operative and post-operative areas, and a dedicated surgical waiting area. It will also include four critical care units: cardiac care unit/open heart cardiac care unit; surgical intensive care unit; medical intensive care unit and an intensive respiratory care unit, and a rooftop helistop.
The final phase will include the renovation of a portion of the existing emergency department, while the remainder is converted to a new outpatient entrance.
