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Beaumont West Bloomfield underwent a $40 million renovation and expansion.
Magic Makeover
Beaumont completes $40 million expansion in West Bloomfield.
ents, without being seen by their
child, can watch the therapist
work with their child. They then
receive a DVD of the treatment
he Beaumont Medical
session to study and show other
Center in West
family members so that families
Bloomfield has opened
can take an active role in their
a new Center for Children's
child's rehabilitation program.
Rehabilitation and enhanced its
Dr. Rol nick
"For further convenience, the
imaging services.
center
has its own entrance'
The CCR offers physical and
Tammie
Freund and Danny
occupational therapy, speech and
Kaufman
of
Oak
Park
take their son
language rehabilitation and social work
Benjamin
to
the
CCR
in
West Bloomfield
services for children.
for
physical
therapy.
The Enhanced facilities on Orchard
"We started at the Barnum Center in
Lake Road, between 14 and 15 Mile roads,
Birmingham
and then relocated to West
"is an expansion of the services offered
Bloomfield for treatment:' says Freund.
at the Beaumont Health Center in Royal
"Benjamin's motor skills were generally
Oak," says Michael Rolnick, Ph.D., direc-
delayed when he entered the program.
tor of speech and language pathology at
In the past five months, he's made amaz-
William Beaumont Hospital. "Before we
ing progress and at 15 months, he is now
opened this location, the waiting list for
crawling, standing, pulling himself up and
our services at the Royal Oak Center was
getting ready to walk. We are very happy
very long. Today, we are able to work with
420 children at any one time. Yet even with with his progress:"
Patients can have all of their imaging
those numbers, the demand for our ser-
needs taken care of at the West Bloomfield
vices remains very high."
Center:' explains Duane Mezwa,
The CCR provides a variety of specialty
M.D., medical director of Beaumont's
care programs for children with speech
Ambulatory Imaging. "We offer the 64-
and language disorders resulting from
slice CT [computerized tomography],
medical conditions, accidents or congeni-
digital mammography and ultrasound
tal problems.
capabilities. Mobile magnetic resonance
"Statistics show that early intervention
imaging is available three times a week."
gives children a greater chance of develop-
"The CT scanner is used to image
ing age-appropriate skills by the time they
enter school:' says Rolnick. "Children prog- the heart and other organs:' says Marc
Brodsky, M.D., director, Cardiology
ress at different rates and treatment often
Services, at Beaumont West Bloomfield.
takes time and a family commitment. Our
"It's fast, accurate and non-invasive.
treatment rooms are designed so that par-
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wonderful service for patients."
"I am very excited about the facility
Anyone who had an appointment at
because not only does it offer convenience
for patients, but future plans also call for a Beaumont West Bloomfield within the last
cardiac rehabilitation program, laboratory two years knew that major construction
was taking place. Huge cranes hovered
testing and nuclear medicine."
over the building for months and covered
Beaumont West Bloomfield performs
walkways from the parking lot to the main
about 65 digital mammographies daily.
entrance protected visitors.
Digital (computerized) mammography
(DM)has been shown to
improve breast cancer detec-
tion in premenopausal women
(under age 50) and in women
with dense breast tissue. Full-
field DM machines can image
more breast tissue with one
picture and accommodate
women with larger breasts.
Mark Werner, M.D., whose
specialty is obstetrics and
gynecology, recommends the
new machines. DM uses essen-
tially the same mammography
system as conventional mam-
mography but the system is
Physical therapist Carol Buell helps Benjamin
equipped with a digital recep-
Kaufman at the Beaumont center.
tor and a computer instead of
a film cassette. It allows faster
and more accurate results, with
That's all gone now and the $40 mil-
shorter examination times and improved
lion in renovations and expansion is just
patient comfort.
about complete. The main entrance's new
"My offices are here and patients are
location is the south side of the build-
more likely to get a mammography fol-
ing fronted by a large covered area and
lowing a visit to this office by just walking
valet service for parking. The number of
down a flight of stairs. What's more, the
procedure is less painful than the previous handicapped parking spots has more than
doubled to accommodate the increased
mammogram, the radiologist has a better
picture to read and the image is transport- number of patients expected to use the
ed to me by computer for my records. It's a facility.