Spectrum Health Blodgett Campus expansion

[numstead]

awful, stunningly awful

[tamias6]

Its a bit cliche but its presettable.

[GRDadof3]

Oh come on, I don't think it's that bad. There are a lot of large trees in that area, especially the wheeping willows, that will cut down on the feeling of mass. In fact, I think the scaling of that drawing is making it look larger than it will actually be.

[GRguy]

OMG, is that Parlex in the rendering??? Another 65 Monroe waiting to happen

[NorthEnder]

Oh come on, I don't think it's that bad. There are a lot of large trees in that area, especially the wheeping willows, that will cut down on the feeling of mass. In fact, I think the scaling of that drawing is making it look larger than it will actually be.

[GRDadof3]

It's pretty highschool gymnasium looking.

We keep waiting for something stunning, but we keep getting pedestrian.

If only the fulton river front project could gain a marquee tenant.

[jas49503]

From what it sounds like Spectrum has setup their Hospitals in a fashion that does several things. First is Butterworth. That is for ER first and foremost. It also has associated services that would be required by ER patients that dont have to move to a diffrent hospital. The Cancer Center is going up accross the street and with its quick access to the ER it allows quicker service. As for Heart Center next to the ER no discussion there. For the childrens hospital well thats also a no brainer. So what they have developed along Michigan is primary care from the ER prespective. From what I can tell Blodgett is looking more like the Surgery center of Spectrum. Its focus will be the in house surgeries that people have to go for maitence and the such. Its hard to explain but I think you get the idea. Its more or less going to be a large surgery center with lots of private rooms to help the healing faster. Even though there is no increase in beds, they are hoping that with indvidual rooms they will be able get people healed faster. As for the Urgent Care centers all over the place, well those are to help the ER in weeding the patients. Go there first unless you think its heart problems should be the motto for the Urgent Care centers. BTW the new one on Wilson was built since the one on Canal well lets just say it was torn down for a reason and wasn't because more commerical property was required.

[MuskeMI]

This is the reason for private rooms. they have nothing to do with healing faster. you would heal the same if you had 40 people in your room, or if it were private.

[suydam]

And with all the acronym-crazy superbugs floating around a hospital, you don't want to pick those up from your roommate. (MRSA/MRSE, VRE, AmpC GNRs, ESBL GNRs, VISA, the list goes on and on).

[jas49503]

This is absolutely not true. "Semi-private" rooms (what a great name for a room with no privacy), or shared rooms, increase risks of hospital-acquired infections. And with all the acronym-crazy superbugs floating around a hospital, you don't want to pick those up from your roommate. (MRSA/MRSE, VRE, AmpC GNRs, ESBL GNRs, VISA, the list goes on and on). Additionally, studies have shown that having 2 patients in the same room increases your risk of medication errors. Saying "heals faster" is a nicer way than saying "reduces the chance that the hospital will kill/hurt you."

You're spot-on in your assessment of ER burden, but not in the private room reasoning.

[walker]

I thought that I had read somewhere that another reason for private rooms was to better comply with the HIPAA privacy requirements. So I went surfing and found this old Wall Street Journal article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1142988975...ON=wsjie/6month

According to the article, it sounds like Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo has had great success with lowering all infections, not just the superbugs.

[MuskeMI]

those people are generally moved into private rooms. most of the patients suffering from nosocomial infections are already in the ICU if a patient from a general medical/surgical floor develops an infection with one of the superbugs they are generally transfered to a private room and precautions are maintained. only a small percentage of patients in the hospital suffer from any of those super bugs at any given time with the exception of MRSA which in many centers has be come the most common form of staph.

[GRDadof3]

I don't mean to interrupt you guys but WZZM has an animated video of the expansion on their website. They also plan to tear down the Wethe building at the Southwest corner of the site (non-historic). I think the new building looks pretty cool myself, with what appears to be a large atrium up the middle.

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=88284

As well as an article in today's Press.

It also sounds like they are going to upgrade the landscaping around the campus, including the utility areas.

[MuskeMI]

I don't mean to interrupt you guys

[GRDadof3]

My bad.

I don't know what to think about the new addition. Blodgett is definitely unique in that weird brown brushed metal look - I wasn't a big fan of it but I'm not sure how this will look right next to it. I'll have to reserve judgement until I see it in person. I must have some sort of visual/spatial deficiency because buildings never look like the renderings to me (like LHCP - I didn't realize they'd be using all that stupid green glass in it based on those renderings).

Is the Withey building the really cool old ivy-covered part? I hope not...

[jas49503]

Daily. Out of my 33 patients today, one has ESBL E coli pyelonephritis, another has AmpC Enterobacter UTI AND VRE decubiti. You'll also be happy to know that 5 out of the 6 clinical isolates of VRSA in the entire world have come from Michigan. We're number 1!!

[uncus]

No, if you watch the video, it's a small squat 3 or 4 story building at the SW corner of the campus, close to Lake Drive. It looks like it was built maybe in the 70's or 80's.

[Captain_Planet]

Nope, i think that is something different. The Withey Buiding is the large 100 year + old building closest to the corner of wealthy and plymoth. . .. and i think it does have ivey on it.

[GRDadof3]

It's this one, and it will be demo'd.

[fotoman311]

Boy, that's a shame. And for parking too.

[fotoman311]

Boy, that's a shame. And for parking too.

[GRDadof3]

Well, the big trees are gone and major site work is underway at Blodgett:

[Allison Slater]

It's this one, and it will be demo'd.

[mejane]

Please tell me it hasn't been demolished yet.. the thought of bringing that building down infuriates me.

[EGR-ARCHI]

I believe that building was originally the nurse's lodge. Blodgett had a school of nursing - my mother

is a graduate. Awful to take that building down as it fits the neighborhood so well. That whole campus

is quite awful looking save for the original buildings.