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Sinai Hospital
News
WINTER 1995 ISSUE: HEART CARE
IleaIlliNews Briefs
Renovation Plans
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Critical Care Transport Service
Puts CICU on Wheels
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The specially designed
CCTS van is a mobile
cardiac intensive care
unit that brings
patients from their
homes, physician's
office or another
hospital — within
a 30-mile radius —
to Sinai for imme-
diate diagnosis and
treatment. So far, the
service has been a success
in providing critically ill pa-
tients access to Sinai's full range of cardiac
services and highly skilled medical staff. Ask your
doctor about the Sinai Critical Care Transport Service
or call 1-800-AM-9486.
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Sinai Hosts Project
Health-O-Rama
Q inai Hospital
kJ will host PI eject
Health-O-Rama,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
March 24, in the
hospital's main lob-
by, 6767 West Out-
er Drive, Detroit.
Free health screenings
-
include height and weight,
cholesterol, blood pressure,
glaucoma, and dental and oral health. Low cost screen-
ings include a 21-test blood panel, prostate specific anti-
gen and take-home colorectal screening Health-O-Rama
is a community-wide effort to promote wellness.
For additional information, call SinaiSource at 1-800-
248-3627.
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s part done of the most ambitious
undertakings in its 41-year history,
Sinai Hospital has filed Certificates
of Need applications with the Michi-
gan Department of Public Health
for major facilities renovation and
improvement of its 36-acre main
campus, located on West Outer
rive in nort west Detroit. Through this plan,
the Sinai system, with more than 30 office sites
and facilities throughout the metropolitan Detroit
area, continues its vision to become a health care
provider of choice in southeastern Michigan, as
well as reaffirms its longstanding commitment to
the City of Detroit. Scheduled to be completed in
1998, the project is expected to cost approximately
$40 million.
Reconfiguring for the Future
In answer to the increasing emphasis through-
out the health care system on outpatient care and
short-stay services, Sinai Hospital plans the con-
struction of a 60,000 square-foot ambulatory care
facility adjoining the northwest corner of the main
hospital building. The new building, which will
make medical services more convenient for both
patients and physicians and is slated to be com-
pleted by 1998, will also house three cardiac
catheterization labs and consolidate physical med-
icine and rehabilitation services. In addition, the
ambulatory care facility will refocus the entrance
of the Hospital on West Outer Drive with a single
entry point for patients and visitors. During con-
struction of the $27 million ambulatory care
facility, upgrades for the existing intensive care
and cardiac care units are also planned, at a cost
of $3 million.
Expanded ER
The expansion of the Emergency Department
is in response to the dramatic increase in patient
volume over the past three years. In fiscal 1994
alone, emergency room visits reached 42,
540, a 17.4 percent increase over 1993, and 28.3
percent more than in 1992. The renovated ER
will be configured to handle a projected 45-50,000
visits by 1996.
More Room for Moms and Babies
Fifteen new labor, delivery and recovery (LDR)
suites will make more efficient use of the existing
facilities and enhance the quality of care for moth-
ers and infants by centrally locating related
services. When the $7 million-project is complete
in 1997, all maternal and perinatal services will
be located in the reconfigured Srere Mothers and
Infants' Center.
In addition, renovation upgrades to the exist-
ing intensive care and cardiac care units are
planned. Those improvements are estimated at
S3 million, bringing the total for the entire project
to $40 million.
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S PECIAL ADVER TISEMENT
Q inai Hospital and the
1.3 Arthritis Foundation
will co-sponsor an eight-
week Arthritis Aquatics
Class at Sinai Physical
and Occupational Thera-
py at Crown Pointe,
beginning January 30.
The class, which meets
Monday and Thursday
afternoons from 4:30-
5:30 pan., is specifically
designed for individuals with arthritis, who are
ambulatory and continent of bowel and bladder. It is
not necessary to know how to swim for this gentle
exercise in a warm-water pool class. For more infor-
mation, call (810) 968-3900.
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