UMass Memorial Medical Center H8 Medical Surgical Nursing Unit and Compounding Pharmacy

Healthcare Snapshots featured UMass Memorial Medical Center H8 Medical Surgical Nursing Unit and Compounding Pharmacy in a highlight of E4H’s upgrade project in Worcester, MA. Understanding patients’ needs for private beds and realizing the underutilization of many multi-bedded rooms at the Memorial Campus this project adds a new (16) bed medical surgical nursing unit and renovates an existing (8) bed medical surgical nursing unit. Understanding the need for private rooms and seeing the underutilization of mulit-bedded rooms, this (16) bed unit plus the (8) bed renovation unit accounts for 24 of the 28-33 beds needed to support the specialized services of HVAC, medical gas upgrades needed, and clinical support spaces needed. Read the article