Department of Neurosurgery

UK HealthCare is not only constructing a new hospital; we are building a health care delivery system for the future. A world-class team of architects, engineers and consultants has been selected and planning is ongoing. The partnership of architectural firms GBBN and AM Kinney is coordinating the project at the local level, while drawing on the design talents of national health care architects Ellerbe Becket.

The plans for the new hospital not only will benefit UK HealthCare and its patients, but will also be an example of some of the most innovative and functional hospital design in the country.

The plans for the new patient rooms allow for greater flexibility than currently exists at most hospitals in the United States. Their size and infrastructure will give the hospital the ability to transform a regular patient room into an intensive care room, if the need exists. Our emergency services and surgical capacity will expand. And, most, if not all, patient rooms will be private.

However, planners are not focused solely on building a new hospital. The new patient care facility is the first phase of an overall facilities master plan for the entire medical and research campus – one designed to meet future health care, education and research needs. Further down the road, in Phase 2 and Phase 3, we will build a facility on the site of the existing hospital where patient care providers will provide complex outpatient care, linked with inpatient services in the new patient care facility. The medical research and educational activities of the university will primarily be located west of Limestone creating a multidisciplinary learning and research environment for the colleges of the medical center. Planning is under way to further define this part of our campus.

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