VA breaks ground for new ICU

This is an artist's rendering of the new 10,000-square-foot Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center. / COURTESY VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
This is an artist's rendering of the new 10,000-square-foot Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center. / COURTESY VETERANS ADMINISTRATION

PROVIDENCE – The Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center recently held a groundbreaking for a new 10,000-square-foot intensive care unit, which will offer state-of-the-art equipment and a location adjacent to the hospital’s existing surgical suite.
The addition will feature expanded space for staff and patients. Scheduled to be completed by July 2017, it will include nine inpatient care units, updated nursing stations and consultation rooms.
The project is being built at the same time as a new Sterile Processing Service facility, adjacent to the operating rooms on the basement and first floors, which will allow clean and soiled elevator connections to the operating room on the second floor, assuring sterile supplies will be transported directly to the operating environment, eliminating the need for carts moving through public corridors and spaces.
The general Contractor is Alares Construction of Quincy, Mass., and the architect is Environments For Health/Morris Switzer of Boston. The federally funded project’s total is $8.2 million.

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