Bed tower special features

Size: 275,000 square feet
Specifications: Eight floors, 144 all private patient rooms, eight additional surgery suites
Timeline: Construction began Summer 2006; completion expected Fall 2008
Architects: Engberg Anderson Design Partnership
Construction management: BE&K Building Group

Special features for patients and families

• All private patient rooms of nearly 400 square feet (double the size of current private rooms; the largest in Louisville) with handicapped accessible bathrooms
• Only 24 rooms on each nursing unit
• Hotel-like touches, including wood floors, cloth shower curtains, flat screen TV and a cushioned twin-bed width window seat designed for an overnight guest
• Two specially-equipped rooms on each floor for larger patients
• Kitchenettes and counseling rooms connected to family waiting areas on each floor
• Sleep rooms available for out-of-town families on a first-come, first-serve basis
• Wireless Internet service for the convenience of families and patients
• Healing Garden outside for patients and their families
• Views of beautiful Brown Park
• More natural light in patient rooms
• Covered parking spaces dedicated to outpatient surgery located on ground floor
• Two public elevators for access to all eight floors

The inside view

Ground (first) floor – Lobby with two elevators for the public.

Second floor – Outpatient surgery

• Eight operating rooms (for a total of 32)
• Eight recovery (Post-Anesthesia Care) beds (for a total of 64)
• 24 rooms with private bathrooms where patients prepare for surgery, then return after the procedure to be reunited with family members
• Patient registration
• Waiting room linked to the existing surgery waiting area on the second floor of the main hospital

Third floor – Oncology

• Outpatient infusion center for IV treatments, including chemotherapy and blood transfusions

Fourth floor – Medical/Surgical

Fifth floor – Neurosciences for care of stroke and neurological surgery patients

Sixth floor – Women’s Health, medical/surgical care exclusively for women

Seventh & eighth floors – Orthopedics

• Dedicated floor for total joint replacement patients
• On-site physical therapy gym

Estimated cost: $130 million, including equipment and furnishings

Funding sources: Primarily from government-sponsored bonds, along with private donations.

The Baptist East Auxiliary led the way by donating the first $200,000 to the Baptist Hospital East Foundation for construction. Play a part in bringing these improved services to Baptist East’s future patients – consider a gift to the Baptist Hospital East Foundation today. Call (502) 896-7495.