To Life! HEALTH & 1TNESS -MS 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- Ruthan Brodsky Special to the Jewish News T 30 July 5 . 2007 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.