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Plasma TV and even a hide-a-bed for a guest add to the care at new Rush hospital where patients moved this weekend.
Rush University Medical Center opens new 'Tower'
by Zen Vuong
Jan 10, 2012
ZEN VUONG/MEDILL
New Rush hospital building designed to provide better care and faster service for patients.
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Rodina White's new room is "much, much larger" than her room at The Atrium. "It's just very, very comfortable," she said.
This butterfly-shaped building is designed to expedite hospital care, said Kydie Grosshuesch-Schriver, assistant unit director on 13 East Tower. The triangular nurse stations don't have a desk to separate nurses from patients. The 830,000 square-feet building contains 304 private adult and critical care beds on its top five floors. Private rooms are identical and offer a flat-screen TV, armchair, sofa with pullout bed and a small safe. As the normal hospital rooms are on the top five floors, patients get a great view of the cityscape.
The bottom floors include the emergency department, equipped to help trauma patients and even those affected by potential bioterrorist attacks or pandemics. State-of-the-art radiology equipment provides expedited service on the bottom floors of the new, green building.
One-third of The Atrium, the old hospital building at 1650 W. Harrison St., will close for renovations now that The Tower is open for patients.
