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Expanding and Modernizing Our Patient Services and Facilities
Why We Need to Do It
With an expected population growth of 27 percent in the Columbia River Gorge during the next 20 years, Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital's capacity to meet our community's health needs will be challenged. Medical and surgical advances, new technologies and changes in how patients receive their care require a larger, more efficient facility. Patient and visitor privacy will be enhanced, improving our quality of patient comfort and service. Finally, facility design and construction breakthroughs of the past 30 years will allow us to enhance our hospital's energy conservation and environmental protection.
What We Are Planning to Do
We will build an addition that doubles the available square footage of the hospital. The current facility will, in turn, be completely modernized. Departments will be expanded and, in some cases, relocated to meet growth projections. The entire facility will be redesigned to meet the needs of patients and their families while providing a more efficient space for physicians and hospital staff. Reflecting our commitment to the health of our Gorge communities, the entire expansion and renovation will follow the Green Guide for Health Care, focusing on environmentally healthy and sustainable building design, construction and operations.
How Our Patients and Community Will Benefit
Expanded emergency services
- Privacy for patients in triage rooms
- Increased space for parents in pediatric rooms
- Improved technologies including equipment such as cardiac monitors
Expanded diagnostic imaging
- Providing for patient convenience, the department will be located in one area
- Private waiting area separate from the Emergency Department
- State-of-the-art MRI and nuclear medicine equipment
- A new women's imaging center, specializing in screening and diagnostic mammography, pelvic and breast ultrasound, and bone density screening
Expanded family birth center
- Dedicated caesarean section operating room
- Increased number of patient rooms and bathrooms
- Private laboring bathtubs
- Making new families more comfortable with window seats, hide-a-beds and dining tables
Expanded and enhanced surgical services
- Expansion from two to four operating rooms
Expanded same day surgery
- Increase from nine to 18 all-private patient rooms
- State-of-the-art technology in all rooms
New 10-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit
- To support patients recovering from stroke, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, orthopedic and joint surgery, amputation and general neurological disorders
Other features
- Enhanced campus will attract additional specialty physicians for our community
- Improved campus orientation and parking
- Separate patient and public spaces for confidentiality and patient safety
- Locations for healing art by local school children, led by local artists
- Build it "green"- environmentally healthy and sustainable building design, construction and operations
What You Can Do
Your gift to support service expansion and modernization is not only a vote of confidence, it's an investment in a strong, healthy, vital community for generations to come.
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