York Hospital is building a multi-million pound two-storey light steel frame extension to improve the emergency department.
This requires significant work to deliver a vital new eight bedded resuscitation area, along with improvements to both the waiting room and the consultation and treatment areas to increase capacity and provide better care for patients.
Work is due to take 60 weeks to expand and redesign the department's urgent and emergency care facilities. The extension to the emergency department includes twelve new assessment and treatment cubicles.
The children's waiting and treatment area will be separate from the adult area. There is a new resuscitation zone which will increase capacity significantly, with a dedicated area for children. There will also be a new infectious diseases cubicle that includes a point of care testing laboratory and glazed cubicles for privacy and infection control. The project is being managed by Kier with Brebur delivering the steel framing systems package.
Image: York Hospital/Kier/ Curtins
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