Alegent Health Mercy Hospital will begin a $3.7 million remodeling project next month to make more patient rooms private and family-friendly.
The project will include 52 patient rooms on the hospital's second and fourth floors, beginning with 22 on second, said Marie Knedler, vice president and chief operating officer.
The renovation is similar to one completed on the hospital's third floor six years ago, Knedler said.
"We converted to all private rooms, and that has just been the greatest thing we've done for patients, families and confidentiality," she said.
Nurses and supplies will be decentralized. Instead of a central nurses station, the floors will have several smaller "pods" around the unit, Knedler said. That will move nurses and supplies closer to patients and reducing walking for staff. Mobile computers will be used to record patient information.
Future projects will include remodeling the intensive care unit and the behavioral health area, she said.
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Alegent Health Mercy Hospital is preparing to launch a $27 million capital improvement project that will allow the facility to meet area healthcare needs for the next 10 years, Alegent Health officials said Wednesday.
Design work is slated for completion in January 2008. Officials expect to break ground in spring 2008 and finish the project in three phases from January to May 2009
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Alegent Health Mercy Hospital will break ground Tuesday for a $25 million expansion and remodeling project.
A ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the hospital at 800 Mercy Drive.
The project will include construction of a 12,000-square-foot addition and renovation of more than 32,000 square feet of existing space, said Marie Knedler, vice president and CEO. . . .
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Alegent Health Mercy Hospital broke ground this morning for a $25 million expansion and remodeling project.
Completion is expected by 2011. . . .
The construction and renovation at Mercy is part of Alegent Health's "Generation Patient" initiative, a $325 million reinvestment into the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Supported in part by philanthropy, all five Alegent Health metro hospital locations will be enhanced and expanded to better serve health care consumers in the region.
Construction and renovation plans began last year at the organization's three other metro hospitals including Bergan Mercy Medical Center, Lakeside Hospital and Midlands Hospital in Papillion. Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center began its renovation earlier this summer. . . .
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
