NEW HOSPITAL PLANS

Huggins Hospital will replace much of the existing physical plant with a new two story, 101,000 square foot facility, located adjacent to the hospital’s existing Medical Arts Center. The new facility will allow us to expand clinical and patient service areas and provide the most advanced high tech diagnostic and critical care services to Southern Carroll County.

The new addition will house all of the hospital’s patient care, clinical and administrative functions and will be connected to the Medical Arts Center and Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitative Care Center by connecting corridors.                       

Key Facility Highlights:

          Outpatient Care Level

• An expanded Emergency Department with two dedicated trauma and cardiac rooms and a dedicated treatment room for psychiatric emergencies.
  

• An expanded Surgical Services Department with three larger sized operating rooms to meet the increasing surgical demand.
  

• An expanded Ambulatory Surgery Center with adjacent Post Anesthesia Care Unit for inpatient procedures.
  

• Larger, private outpatient treatment rooms.
  

• An expanded Medical Imaging Department adjacent to the Emergency Department trauma rooms with immediate access to the CAT Scanner.
  

• Dedicated space for potential new services such as outpatient infusion clinics, chemotherapy, a wound clinic, diabetes treatment and community education.
  

• A Women’s Imaging Suite with private waiting and diagnostic imaging rooms.
  

• A centrally located Cardiopulmonary Department with internal stress testing capability.
  

• An expanded Clinical Laboratory with comfortable, private specimen collection and testing areas.
  

• A clinical skills laboratory to meet the education, mentoring and advancement needs for nursing and clinical departments.
  

• Three Healing Gardens to provide patients, families, visitors and staff a natural space for reflection, prayer and meditation.
  

• An expanded Food Service and Nutrition Department that will include an inviting dining area, outside dining deck and expanded hours to accommodate patients, families, visitors and staff.
  

• Dedicated space for community or other emergency response measures.
  

• Relocation of Adult Day Care Services and the Visiting Nurses Association.
  
  Inpatient Care Level
  

• A new Women’s Health and Obstetrics Unit with 3 labor, delivery, recovery and post-partum (LDRP) rooms and one post partum room.
  

• Four bed Intensive Care Unit with separate nursing station.
  

• Seventeen large private patient rooms that meet infection control, privacy standards and dedicated space for a family member to stay as needed.
  

• Eight Observation Bed Unit with shared, central nursing station.

The facility will cost $51.6 million dollars to build and the architecture and placement of the new hospital will provide ease of access through a single all-weather entry to a new lobby, improved parking, and abundant green space and landscaping. The interior design of the new hospital will encourage healing through the use of natural materials and colors, healing garden areas offering a quiet area for reflection,  and a connection to the environment through thoughtfully placed windows, skylights and a central atrium with clerestory windows.




Medical Staff Supports New Hospital Plans

“I believe Huggins Hospital is at a cross road. Huggins Hospital is largely an antiquated facility looking toward the future. We could easily give way to the various forces at play and fade away with a status quo stance or we can reaffirm our commitment to the communities we serve by investing in necessary facilities so that we can continue to be a first rate, community hospital for the next hundred years. The Huggins medical staff unanimously supports the Hospital’s rebuilding project.”

	Stephen Fleet, MD President Huggins Medical Staff

From Our Chair
 

“The Board of Trustees takes great pride in this new facility. As a non-profit organization, we have the opportunity to channel revenues back into facilities, programs and services that enables us to better serve our communities. This new facility will ensure that our residents and visitors will have access to the most modern health care services and treatment today and in the years ahead.”                                                                      

	Gregory A.  Eldridge, Chairman Huggins Hospital Board of Trustees