ISSUE 16
2019
LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
Preparing to Usher in a New Era of Neurosurgical Care as U-M’s ‘Hospital of the Future’ Becomes Reality We are coming to the end of another year, and as always, it has been a meaningful one in the U-M Department of Neurosurgery. Since finishing up our centennial year, we’ve had another busy twelve months, complete with many new challenges and much excitement. Perhaps most notably, in September of this year, the Regents of the University approved the plan to build a new, state-of-the-art neurosciencefocused hospital on the University of Michigan’s medical campus. The new hospital will be located in an area of campus that previously housed the Kresge Laboratories, which were torn down years ago. I have personally referred to this area as the “grassy knoll” for a number of years. It is located right next to the Frankel Cardiovascular Center. The new hospital will have 12 floors, with 20 operating rooms, and 264 beds. These 264 beds will be housed in private rooms; each room is unique in that it can be converted from a standard room to an ICU. This ICU capability for all of the rooms will allow us to expand as necessary for critically ill patients.
Although the hospital will have a neuroscience focus, there will be sufficient beds to backfill the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, which is bursting at the seams. Faculty and staff across the health system worked together with patients and families to assist with the design of the new hospital in order to ensure its patient-centric focus, and to ensure that it meets the many different needs of those it will serve. The state-of-the art technology provided in this new hospital will include an intra-operative MRI scanner, and a hybrid OR suite, which will allow for endovascular as well as open procedures to be performed. In addition, there will be a specific staging room, which will allow for whole cell therapy to be prepared just outside the operating room. This is an important feature that will enable us to work with a variety of cellular therapies, which are becoming increasingly important in the care of our patients. C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2
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