1. Vanderbilt Emergency Department Renovation Project
Starting December 2003
Completion April 2005
The Vanderbilt Emergency Department is getting a much needed renovation to be completed in February or March, 2005.

2. What’s Changed C1 - C8 = 8 beds T1-T3 = 3 beds E1-E8 = 8 beds
M1-M5 = 5 beds
FT 1-3 = 3 beds
Total Beds = 27
+ 2 Respond Rooms
16,400 Square Feet
Treatment Rooms = 16 beds
Trauma Rooms = 4 beds
Observation = 7 beds
Fast Track = 4 beds
Swing = 4 beds
Chest Pain/Stroke = 10 beds
Total Beds = 45
+ 8 Respond Rooms in TVC
+ Additional 40 slice CT
33,900 Square Feet
The current ED has 27 treatment spaces in 16,400 square feet. Psychiatric care space is provided in 2 rooms, called RESPOND rooms. The new ED will essentially double the size of the ED to 45 treatment spaces in 33,900 square feet. Medically cleared psych patients will await disposition in the psych holding area located in the Vanderbilt Clinic outside of the Emergency Department.

5. The new Emergency Department will fill the space between the current emergency department and the Vanderbilt Clinic. The single floor structure will be structurally sound in order to build a 10 story patient care tower during a future construction project.

6. A separate ambulance entrance will be located in the acute area of the department. Walk in patients will enter between the acute and non-acute wings of the department.

7. Ambulances back in from 22nd Avenue
Ambulance traffic is rerouted in the new plan. Ambulances will arrive via 22nd avenue and back into unloading areas at the acute wing of the department.

10. Psychiatric Transition Unit
EXPANDED ED
Medically cleared psych patients will not continue to occupy ED treatment spaces while awaiting disposition. Instead, they will be relocated to the Vanderbilt Clinic space vacated by the move of the Peds ED to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.
PSYCH
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