St. Joseph, Mich.-based Spectrum Health Lakeland is moving its outpatient operating rooms into a new patient tower being built on the hospital's main campus, The Herald-Palladium reports.
What you should know:
1. Bart Berndt, Spectrum Health's executive director of perioperative clinical care services, confirmed the move. The hospital decided to centralize all of its surgical services to lower patient costs.
2. Despite moving the surgery center's operating rooms out of the hospital's Center for Outpatient Services, the former surgery center will continue to offer imaging and lab services.
3. Spectrum plans to spend $160 million to develop its patient tower, which will be five stories and 260,000 square feet. In addition to housing the entire inpatient and outpatient surgical department, the tower will also house an intensive care unit, a heart catheter lab and the hospital's endoscopy department.
4. In total, the tower will have 12 operating suites, four general surgery rooms, two orthopedic rooms, two neurosurgery rooms, a cardiac room and a trauma surgery room.
5. Spectrum Health is still determining the "best use" for the operating space in the former surgery center.
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