Muskegon hospital will use Lean design for $271 million medical center

The center will bring all of Mercy Health's inpatient services together at one location


Mercy Health Muskegon (Mich.) will use Lean design for its new $271 million medical center, according to an article on the MLive website.

The center will bring all of Mercy Health's inpatient services together at one location and will reduce its number of licensed beds in Muskegon from 408 to 267. 

The center's Lean design includes single-occupancy rooms, room for family members, strategically locating surgery and emergency departments for trauma and critical patients, and placing medicines and supplies closer to the patient rooms.

The Lean architecture and new processes are result of a design process that included two-dimensional modeling of each floor progressed to architectural models, eventually even full-scale models were built and repeatedly tested.

Read the article.

 

 



May 6, 2016


Topic Area: Architecture


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