ATLANTIC CITY CAMPUS EXPANSION PROJECT

Expansion Updates

In 2007, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (ARMC) completed a $98 million, 198,000 square foot addition to the Atlantic City campus.

In October 2007, our Grand Opening celebration introduced the public to the new Emergency Center, Radiology Department (floors one and two) and the new pedestrian bridge from Caesars Atlantic City’s parking garage.

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• Expansion Update: February 2008
• Construction Update: June 2007
• What does the new patient tower include?
• Wayfinding
• Healing Arts Program
• Hospital Profile

Construction Update: February, 18 2008
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s Atlantic City Campus will open floors 3, 4 and 5 of the George F. Lynn Harmony Pavilion over the next eight days. Pending Department of Health approval, the schedule is as follows:

• 3 Harmony, the new Intensive Care Unit, will open Tuesday, February 19
• 4 Harmony, a surgical floor, will open Wednesday, February 20
• 5 Harmony, a medical/pulmonary and telemetry floor, will open Tuesday, February 26

To see a floor plan, click here.

Construction Update: June 2007

	The new Harmony Pavilion as viewed from the Caesar's parking garage. You can clearly see the Trauma Center's new helipad on the roof.		In this view from Caesar's garage you can see the pedestrian walkway over Michigan Avenue. Patients and visitors will never have to brave the elements or traffic—they can park in the garage and enter the medical center through the safe and environmentally controlled walkway.
	The pedestrian walkway will lead to the second floor reception area of the Harmony Pavilion. From this reception area there will be a grand staircase and an elevator down to the main lobby.		The Harmony Pavilion incorporates the latest research on effective hospital architecture. Think of a bullseye design. At the center, hidden from patients and visitors, are all of the back-of-the-house necessities, including bedding, supplies and files. The next ring of activity is the nursing stations. Then, around the perimeter of the floor, are the spacioius patient rooms with plenty of natural light.
	The main lobby of the Harmony Pavilion has a three-story glass foyer. This photo was taken from the second floor, which has a balcony overlooking the main lobby. There will be a 30-foot waterfall down one wall of the lobby to offer relaxing sights and sounds.		This photo shows the view through the pedestrian walkway from the second floor of the Harmony Pavilion, looking toward the parking garage.

What will the new patient tower include?

The Atlantic City Campus of AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center is undergoing a major expansion to meet the growing healthcare needs of our community. The expected completion date of the new seven-story Patient Tower is October of 2007.

The new Patient Tower will feature:

• a new Emergency Department with its own diagnostic imaging suite
• a new behavioral health area in the ED
• a new radiology department
• a new intensive care unit with 26 private rooms
• four new medical surgical floors with 30 private inpatient rooms each
• on top of the new tower will be a brand new helipad with a trauma stabilization room that connects directly to the ED by elevator

This expansion project also includes the renovation of 23,000 square feet of the existing hospital, and the construction of a pedestrian bridge from Caesars parking garage over Michigan Avenue right into the second floor of the hospital. There will be a grand staircase and elevators down to the new lobby.

Wayfinding

To help visitors find their way in the large new hospital, AtlantiCare will be implementing a special signage system, called “wayfinding,” which uses visual icons as well as words. This system is already in place at ARMC’s Mainland Campus in Pomona, and has been very successful. The four different sections of the Atlantic City Campus will be named Friendship Pavilion, Harmony Pavilion, Wellness Pavilion, and Heritage Pavilion.

Friendship (formerly the east wing)		Harmony (new Patient Tower)		Wellness (formerly the south wing)		Heritage (formerly the Michigan wing)

Healing Arts Program

A committee representing Atlantic City’s diverse cultures is overseeing the incorporation of the “healing arts” into the expansion of ARMC’s Atlantic City Campus. Research has shown that visual arts and music can speed healing and calm tension. AtlantiCare’s Healing Arts Program began with the new Center for Childbirth and new Emergency Department at ARMC’s Mainland Campus, and it will now be expanded to the Atlantic City Campus Patient Tower and to the new AtlantiCare offices in the Airport Commons in Egg Harbor Township.

Our Healing Arts Program was recently highlighted in an article in The Press of Atlantic City, which referenced the request for proposals for artwork for the ARMC Atlantic City Campus expansion. More than 500 pieces of artwork of all mediums will be incorporated throughout the new Patient Tower to foster a healing and calming environment. More than 50 artists will be showcased through this work, 40 of which are from New Jersey. Selections were made by the Art Committee which is seated by 30 diverse community representatives.

Hospital Profile

AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s Atlantic City Campus was Atlantic City’s first hospital, founded in 1898. For more than a century, ARMC City has remained a regional leader in acute care services. Now a 276-bed teaching hospital, ARMC’s Atlantic City Campus is the home of the region’s only Level II Trauma Center; a regional psychiatric crisis center; a comprehensive center for surgical weight loss; and a complete array of inpatient and ambulatory healthcare services, including obstetrics and gynecology. The ARMC Atlantic City Campus features physicians dedicated to caring for critically ill or injured patients. In-house surgeons, anesthesiologists, and board certified emergency physicians are available around the clock to meet all of our patients’ needs. The Atlantic City Campus is staffed to serve the expanding resident population and the more than 35 million tourists who visit the Atlantic City area each year.

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