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41 MuIti-year redevelopmient being done in two phas SHalton Hospitals z E BuldngOu 0 0 - HeihCr »Az h omnt a rwtehs pls rsucs rmsaft pchv bensrthd ofptetEii Builingo ur nex Asv th Te emnd hasulgrofn the mos- Spait roesore, romae staff toispace, v of-it p atit ceive in d prngtn. aae tv feofJoseph Brant Hospital te o a w tne fi yeas The end re staf the mrore thanes poss-ileo inative wil e ane onse ealthy cetre nd ob parking ara. tive ofbicrnof opant Hospl itqal, y the work people help to provide, that's what equals high quality," he said. "Buildings are the enabler. The space is a tool in a tool kit that has to be laid out to facilitate and sup- port excellent care" Phms one The multi-year redevelopment and expan- sion is being done in two phases. Construction on phase one, which includes the Halton McMaster Family Health Centre and an 823-space parking garage, started ear- ly fast year and wîil be completed this spring. Construction costs for the first phase are ap- proximately $24 million. The health centre will occupyabout46 percent of the 40,000-square- foot building, with the remainder used for the hospital's administrative offices. The family health centre, which likely wilI be open to the public as early as this summer, is expected to see 8,500 patients initially. That number will grow to 10,000 per year. The current Halton McMaster Family Health Centre opened on Harvester Road in May 2010. Staff wiII relocate when the permanent facility is ready. The new building will be a family medicine practice, as well as a teaching facility. "It is going to provide clinical care for a large number of patients - citizens of Burlington and Halton Region - but is also going to be a teaching hub for our education program for the whole Halton Region, said Dr. David Price, professor and chair of the Department of Fam- ily Medicine, McMaster University. "There wilI be family medicine residents, medical stu- dents, nurse practitioner students, physician assistant students, midwifery, social work, pharmacy, etc." The construction of the Halton McMaster Fam- ily Health Centre marks Joseph Brant Hospital as a designated clinical education campus of McMaster University, with students learning such specialties as emergency medicine, sur- gery, obstetrics and family medicine. Vandewall expects some of the top medical students at Joseph Brant Hospital will want to stay. "If physicians are trained in a community, there is a very high probability they are going to stay in that community and practise after- wards' said Vandewall. "The conversion rate is roughly about 80-plus per cent in McMaster's experience. What that means is we are grow- îng physicians in Burlington for Burlingtonr" Meanwhile, drivers will be able to start using the parking garage this spring. After the hos- pital's redevelopment is complete, there will Ibm DpIkw mur'hai angey WaIpUTW 0"iLtudhs Next wehk, Haiton Hospital: Building Our Héalth Gam~ %RI kom* a Halto Heulwam Servilées Georeto«ws HospitaL For aff thse stories, photos and vWde, visit http:Insidehal- ton.com/video/4395970. Above is an artist's rendering of the Burlington hospital with a view from Lakeshore Road. .Supplied iflustration be in excess of 1,400 parking spots - 500 more than now. phase two Phase two construction will start early in 2015 and wrap up in late 201 8/early 2019. It includes a new seven-storey patient tower, whîch will be built on the southwest side of the hospital. The existing building also will be renovated. The new tower will take about 30 months to construct, with another 18 months of renovations to the existing hos- pital. «We don't have the luxury of excess space within the hospital, so we have to build the new tower first and once (it) is complete, we wiIl occupy the new tower and complete the renovation" said Henri Dekker, director of re- development and facilites at the hospital. Among the new features is an expanded and renovated diagnostic imaging and medical diagnostics area, larger operating rooms and a new post-anesthetc care unit, a new main entrance, as welt as expanded ambulatory care area, cancer clinic and intensive care unit. There also will be an expanded, mod- ernized laboratory. An enclosed footbridge will connect the new patient tower, health centre and parking ga- rage. There will also, be a new expanded-capacity emergency department on the first floor of the new tower. It will be designed in a way to maximize patient flow. «lt will have an impact by having a designed space that's state-of-the-art; it's best prac- tice, 50 it's set up to maximize the patient experience,7 said Dr. Paul Faulkner, chief of emergency medicine. "lt will be more fluid, it will be more comfort- able, it will be better for them in terms of privacy, safety and simple things like access to washrooms that are better designed for patients' he said. "(They) wilI have privacy where they can be interviewed, assessed and examined and they won't have conver- sations being heard7 According to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, total time spent in the Jo- seph Brant Hospital emergency room for nine out of 10 patients in January 2014 was 27.5 hours for complex conditions and 5.6 hours for minor or uncomplicated condi- tions. The provincial averages for total time (waiting, treated and discharged/admitted) spent in emergency roomns was 11.1 hours for complex conditions and 4.1 hours for minor or uncomplicated conditions, wile the provincial target is eight hours and four hours respectively. "Certainly our goal -is ail of these times will decrease as we develop processes that en- able us to be more efficient to flow pa- tients through the department in a more timely fashion, to do things dlfferently,' said Faulkner. More beds for admitted patients is expected to alleviate pressure on the emnergency de- partment. Joseph Brant Hospital currently has 239 funded beds, with sometimes as many as 30 more beds needed due to almost daily over- capacity. The expanded and redeveloped hospital will have in excess of 300 beds. «We have an aging population, so we have increasing needs that need to be met foýr our community,n responded Vandewall when asked why the hospital is overcapacity. "The other key point is we have not seen redevel- opment in this community for over 40 years, s0 we're operating programs today in this hospital in hafthe space t hey should be op- erated in." Seventy per cent of rooms in the redevel-M