More than 50 Baptist Memorial, community and state leaders gathered to celebrate the expansion of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville’s intensive care unit.
The expansion doubles the capacity of Baptist Collierville’s ICU from seven to 14 beds, increasing the unit’s footprint to 17,000 square feet. Partially funded through a $5 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Healthcare Resiliency Program, the expansion totaled almost $11 million.
Flintco built the new ICU, formerly on the first floor, in shell and storage space on the second floor of the hospital. The expanded unit features TeleGuardian electronic ICU remote monitoring technology in each room to enhance care and a new dialysis suite that will allow four patients to receive treatment at once. A respiratory office and equipment are placed in the center of the new ICU for better efficiency and quality of care.
Now that ICU renovations are complete, construction will begin on an emergency department expansion that will include the former ICU space on the first floor, which will increase the ER size by 4,732 square feet. ESa architectural firm designed both expansions, and Belz Architecture+Construction will handle construction for the ER expansion, which is set to start immediately.