Patient Tower Nurse Station (finished in 2011) shows similar layout of what Tower 4 will look like when complete.
Laconia, NH – The Integrated Design/Build team of DiGiorgio Associates Inc. (DAI) and Monitor Builders Inc. (MBI) is working with Lakes Region General Hospital (LRGH) in Laconia on a renovation project necessary to improve the hospital’s safety, efficiency and patient care by creating state of the art single bed patient rooms in the hospital’s North 4 (N4) Tower.
DAI and MBI completed a 100,000sf, $37.5 million new patient tower with LRGH in 2011.
Goals of the N4 renovation project include addressing the antiquated infrastructure of the building by the DAI engineering team. Another goal is to recapture the five beds taken out of service when the hospital converted to all single patient rooms.
Patient Tower Single Room (finished in 2011) shows similar layout of what Tower 4 will look like when complete.
Maintaining a 20 bed unit is integral for the hospital to operate more efficiently and ensure a better nurse to patient ratio. The hospital will continue its commitment to all private room care to improve patient privacy and infection control while having sufficient beds to meet the needs of the community.
LRGH and DAI addressed the existing nursing station, which is currently inefficiently laid out and in need of upgrades, to allow for all nursing stations to be standardized for staff efficiency.
This innovative project permits the continued use of a 45 year old building at the current standard of medical care.
The renovations to the patient rooms will ensure that care is provided in a safe environment where patients will have privacy and a family based environment while ensuring improved infection control and permitting physicians and nurses to provide private, individualized care.
MBI began construction on this project in May 2014 and is anticipating an eight month construction schedule. Construction costs are approximately $3.6 million.
DAI and MBI are also currently working on several other Integrated Design/Build healthcare projects, including an $8 million emergency department addition and renovation for Harrington HealthCare at Hubbard in Webster, a $2.5 million acute care unit/central sterile renovation at Harrington’s Southbridge campus, a $1.6 million community health center renovation for Harbor Health Services, Inc. at its Plymouth location and a $1.5 million laboratory renovation at Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan, Maine.
The team recently completed design and construction of a $300,000 off-site clinic for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center in Brockton, Mass. and a $450,000 renovation for Manet Community Health Center in Hull.
Over the past 26 years, DAI and MBI’s integrated Design/Build approach has resulted in long-term partnerships with a number of health care providers across the region.
