the new emergency room is expected to be completed in the fall of 2012
SPRINGFIELD – State regulators have approved Baystate Medical Center’s plans to build a 70,000-square-foot emergency room as part of its ongoing Hospital of the Future expansion project.
The new emergency room will be more than three times the size of the existing emergency room, according to a news release from Baystate.
December 3, 2010 - Springfield -Baystate Medical Center hospital expansion construction site. The new emergency department is expected to be completed by the fall of 2012, sooner than had been planned. Baystate said Thursday morning that it moved up construction due to need.
The Massachusetts Public Health Council approved the project Wednesday.
Baystate Medical Center is the only Level 1 trauma center in western Massachusetts. Its emergency department cared for about 114,000 patients in 2010.
The new emergency room will cost $45 million to build and will increase the overall Hospital of the Future project cost from $251 million to $296 million.
Baystate also plans to open a six-story center of the treatment of heart and blood vessel disease in 2012. Other space in the Hospital of the Future could be used for a childrens’ hospital.
More information will be available later today.