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Caring
outside the box
Not just thinking but also caring outside the box more than applies
to the planning that went on for the neuro intensive care unit that
opened in Emory Hospital in February. The team of physicians, nurses,
pharmacists, social workers, even the families of former patients,
that provided input for the design envisioned a space very different
from traditional hospital ICUs. Our new space brings nurses and
patients’ families close to the patients, 24/7, to improve
care and promote healing. |
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In
this issue, you’ll read about how the environment in 2D ICU
is transforming how we deliver health care. But the transformation
extends beyond just one unit. In fact, the Woodruff Health Sciences
Center is in the midst of the most extensive plan to re-cast our
physical plant in Emory history, incorporating and even pioneering
the latest insights in evidence-based design. Already we have invested
almost $580 million to create 2.1 million square feet of needed
clinical, research, and education space. Several vital new projects
are on the drawing boards or in development, with some coming online
in the next few months.
For example, a new medical education
building, the first permanent home for the School of Medicine on
the Emory campus, is slated to open soon. The building will facilitate
a new curriculum with auditoriums, small group classrooms, and a
simulation lab for teaching the newest techniques. An even larger
initiative, the construction of a new Emory Clinic, has been enabled
with a $240 million gift from the Woodruff Foundation. This new
facility—being designed by HKS in association with the planning
firm Ayers Saint Gross—will provide a setting for integrating
research, education, and care around an ideal patient-centered health
care experience.
On other parts of our campus, a new
public health building will provide innovative new space for our
growing public health programs and provide a central home for burgeoning
global health initiatives across campus, including the new Global
Health Institute. At Yerkes, the architectural firm, CUH2A, has
begun designing a 13,000-square-foot building for clinical veterinary
medical, research, and administration. Construction on an imaging
center on the Wesley Woods campus starts in May.
Also at Emory Crawford Long, the new
5,000-square-foot Center for Health Discovery and Well-Being is
nearing completion. The only center of its type in the nation, its
goal is to tackle disease before it starts, enabling interdisciplinary
teams of investigators to consider and address such risks as inherited
disease, environmental factors, and problematic personal health
and lifestyle choices.
Why are we doing all this? Because
we care. Our mission is to make people healthy. We cannot let our
programs and staff —not to mention our patients and their
families—be walled off by worn-out facilities and outworn
practices. By caring outside the box, we can transform health and
healing for the 21st century.
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