University of Michigan regents OK $163 million plan for old Mott Hospital
The old C.S. Mott Hospital will be used to house more than 100 patient beds for University Hospital.
Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com
Plans for the facility call for an eight-room operating suite, 95 general patient care beds and 25 intensive care beds.
Moving beds over to the old Mott facility will allow University Hospital to accept more patients and better accommodate growth, officials say. In June, U-M Hospitals and Health Centers projected significant growth this year. Officials foresaw a 2.3 percent increase in patient days and a 4 percent rise in outpatient activity from the 2010-11 fiscal year to 2011-12. The university also projected a rise in occupancy from 85.2 percent to 86.7 percent.
The university vacated the former Mott Hospital in December when it opened its new $754 million C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital but was mum about concrete plans for repurposing the old facility.
Comments
Kara Gavin
Fri, Apr 20, 2012 : 8:15 a.m.
For full information about this project, please visit http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/hospital-expansion-0419 thinker: Yes, we will need to have Certificate of Need approval for the project and added beds, ORs and medical imaging. You'll see that mentioned in the materials at the link above.
Sparty
Fri, Apr 20, 2012 : 12:25 p.m.
Helps to read all the info first and then think upon it, doesn't it ? LoL.
thinker
Fri, Apr 20, 2012 : 1:09 a.m.
Can hospitals just decide they want more beds and get them? Don't they have to have a CON (certificate of need)? And did U of M get one?