Photo: University of Michigan Health’s D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care, a new 12-story, 690,000-square-foot hospital, was designed by HOK and built by Barton Malow. | Photo Credit: Michigan Health
By Lindsey Coulter
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Community members got their first chance to see the newly constructed University of Michigan Health’s D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion on Nov. 12. Guests received a guided tour of the 12-story, 690,000-square-foot hospital, which was designed by HOK and built by Barton Malow before the facility officially welcomes patients.
The $920 million pavilion has 264 private rooms, all capable of intensive care, 20 state-of-the-art operating rooms, an intraoperative MRI and three interventional radiology suites. The new hospital features high-level specialty care services for neurology, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, oral maxillofacial surgery, spine, cardiovascular medicine, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery and thoracic surgery patients.
To improve and tailor the patient experience, the project was designed in partnership with patients and care teams to ensure spaces are both patient centered and family centered. Visiting and family spaces were prioritized; however, the design also balances and addresses the specific and evolving needs of care providers. Centralized collaboration spaces in each patient area enhance continuity of care, while patient rooms allow for more complex care, including capability for all spaces to support intensive care
David C. Miller, M.D., M.P.H., U-M’s executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of Michigan Medicine, said in a statement that the state-of-the-art facility (which represents the organization’s largest increase in adult inpatient capacity in four decades) will greatly expand access to complex, patient-centered care.
“This bold, new inpatient facility is a labor of love more than a decade in the making,” added Linda Larin, M.B.A., chief operating officer for the Adult Hospitals at U-M Health. “The pavilion was designed for the present and future of health care — for our patients, as well as the dedicated care teams who deliver exceptional services every day.”
Additional neurosciences services include a 24-bed neurocritical care unit, 40 intensive care unit beds, a dedicated stroke unit with 100-foot gait and balance system and a designated epilepsy monitoring unit equipped with EEG for continuous brain activity monitoring, day room for safe monitoring of seizures. On the third and first floors, the pavilion connects to the U-M Health Frankel Cardiovascular Center. The facility’s 12th floor will be home to a cardiology intensive care unit and a heart failure unit.
“At University of Michigan Health, we have tremendous multi-disciplinary teams who treat a host of neurological conditions at a time when more people are requiring complex treatment and management,” said Dawn Kleindorfer, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology at U-M Health and Robert W. Brear Professor of Neurology at U-M Medical School. “The incredible features of the pavilion will enhance our care team’s abilities and further advance U-M Health’s status as a premier destination for neurosciences care.”
Michigan Medicine leaders prioritized environmental sustainability when designing the pavilion, including use of construction materials, water- and energy-efficient infrastructure and other key factors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the health care carbon footprint. The facility is designed to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum Green Building Certification, the highest possible rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, which reflects the organization’s strategic aims to protect planet earth while saving lives.