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Trinity CEO Reveals Hospital Improvements

NEW ADDITION — Matt Grimshaw, chief executive officer of Trinity Health System, provided a tour of the 183,400-square-foot addition to Trinity Medical Center West that is nearly completed. The tour included an early look at the hospital's future waiting area. -- Warren Scott

STEUBENVILLE — As Matt Grimshaw, chief executive officer of Trinity Health System, led a group of visitors through the new, $75 million addition to Trinity Medical Center West, he noted it was designed to better accommodate efforts by the hospital's staff and improve the experience of its patients.

Making his way through the 183,400-square-foot addition, he stepped into one of 36 single-patient rooms on the fourth and fifth floors, noting that means all future patients will stay in a private room.

"That will make us unique in this region," said Grimshaw, who added the position of each bed will be angled to enable staff to easily transport all patients from their rooms while providing each a view outside through a picture window nearby.

"There have been lots of studies on the benefits of natural lighting for recovery. It is real," he said.

Grimshaw added each room will include a large television, recliner chair and sofa bed long enough to seat three guests or accommodate a 6-foot-tall sleeping visitor.

He pointed to a lightweight chair hanging on the wall, noting it may serve as additional seating for a guest or allow a doctor or staff member to speak to the patient eye to eye.

Grimshaw added the restroom for each room is spacious enough to allow easy access to a roll-in shower.

He led the visitors to the third floor and the hospital's surgical hub, where surgery for a wide range of conditions, minor and more serious, will be performed.

The floor includes a post-operation area with 16 beds, an isolation room and expanded nursing stations for the hospital.

Grimshaw noted many of the patient's rooms can be converted to intensive care units if needed, and two have ceiling-mounted lift systems to assist staff in transferring patients with special conditions from their beds.

He said the first floor will include a trauma center, with separate rooms for patients and a separate entrance for ambulance crews; a pharmacy and private cubicles for patient registration.

But its overall appearance will be that of a hotel lobby, with spacious areas for waiting and one with a shorter table designed for children, Grimshaw said.

He noted the area is illuminated by large chandeliers fitted with energy-efficient LED bulbs also found in other areas of the addition.

Grimshaw said exposed steel beams extending through the structure represent the city's ties to the steel industry. He added an effort was made to draw on the architectural style of older local buildings, with the addition's exterior featuring locally produced brick in hues found in existing structures.

"We wanted this building to look like it fit in the Ohio Valley," he said.

Grimshaw said the decision was made to make the most of space between the existing building and the new construction by creating larger rooms that can accommodate a bigger gathering of family for a patient facing end-of-life or other unique circumstances.

He said the addition will be

"That's the moving parts, the connections, we're dealing with today," he said, adding the project is tentatively slated for completion in June.

Grimshaw said the pandemic, which imposed space restrictions on even construction crews, and supply chain issues have delayed the construction by about 18 months.

Ground was broken for the addition in 2019.

But Grimshaw said officials with Trinity Health System had envisioned the expansion in 1997, with the addition of the north tower and a new birthing center steps in its direction.

"It's been a long time coming. After 25 years of talking about this, it's finally come to fruition," he said.

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It's Official: Trinity Health's New Hospital, ER To Open Sunday Morning

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Note: this has been corrected to reflect that the move will take place Sunday, April 30, at 6 a.M. Citizens should continue using the current hospital downtown until then.

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – Trinity Health will formally open its new hospital and Emergency Trauma Center this Sunday.

All hospital services are relocating to the new medical campus in southwest Minot as of Sunday, April 30, at 6 a.M.

At that point, the old emergency department downtown will no longer accept patients. Providers will continue to evaluate and treat patients who are already in cue, but new patients will be asked to go to the new campus after 6 a.M.

Area ambulance crews and state health partners will begin transporting patients from the old facility to the new one throughout the day.

The new campus is located at 2305 37th Avenue SW, a mile and a half west of the U.S. Highway 83 and 37th Avenue SW intersection.

Trinity Hospital, Trauma Center To Move Sunday

Trinity Health has announced it will relocate its hospital services, including the Emergency Trauma Center, to its new Healthcare Campus and Medical District on Sunday, starting at 6 a.M. On Sunday.

The new campus is located at 2305 37th Ave. SW, a mile and a half west of the U.S. Highway 83 and 37th Avenue Southwest intersection.

Dr. Jeffrey Sather, medical director of the Emergency Trauma Center, says the ETC transition will begin at 6 a.M. Sharp.

"When the magic hour of 6 o'clock arrives, the new ER will open for business and the old emergency department will no longer accept patients. We'll continue to evaluate and treat patients that are already here until all are taken care of, but we won't accept any new patients after 6 a.M. Those patients will need to go to the new campus," Sather said.

Also at that time, area ambulance crews and state health partners will begin transporting inpatients from the old hospital facility to the new hospital in regular intervals in a process expected to take most of the day.

"The goal is to move patients over a single day," said Elliot Leinen, associate director of Decision Support for Trinity Health. "The move will begin in the morning and will be finished when the last patient has been safely transferred to the new campus."

It is recommended that family and friends avoid visiting patients at the new hospital until all patients have been safely moved, preferably after Monday.

The long-anticipated move will be a highly choreographed production for every hospital department as they begin seeing patients at the new facility while closing out activity at the old hospital. Leinen said the move will culminate hundreds of hours of planning and training in what has been a highly coordinated effort to make the transition as seamless as possible.

Assisting will be teams comprised of internal and external experts with subject-matter expertise and experience moving hospitals. Other key players will include regional and statewide EMS personnel. Staff involved in the transfer of patients will be well-trained clinical staff who care for patients on a day-to-day basis.

"Each patient's needs will be evaluated up to the targeted move time to ensure that we are fully prepared to safely transfer the patient," Leinen said.

The relocation of hospital services will be the final step in a multi-faceted transition process. Earlier in the week, dozens of specialty physicians with hospital-based practices began seeing patients at the new Medical Office Building, which sits adjacent to the north of the new hospital. Other Trinity Health providers, including FirstCare Walk-In Clinic, primary care providers and non-hospital-based specialists, will remain at their current locations.

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