‘Topping Off’ Ceremony Celebrates Beaumont Milestone

Royal Oak, MI — The final steel beam was put into place in a ceremony Wednesday that celebrated a construction milestone on new expanded emergency facilities at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak.

Crews have installed 88 tons of steel in the 125,300-square-foot Emergency Center, whichwill be nearly double the size of the current 70,000-square-foot facility.

The Emergency Center will open next summer, and renovations to upgrade the current emergency center will be complete by fall 2018, according to a news release.

• Get the latest Royal Oak headlines from Patch editor Beth Dalbey
• Like Royal Oak Patch on Facebook

The new Emergency Center will feature 125 private rooms, 16 of which will be dedicated to Beaumont Children’s patients. 

• Ability to monitor patients in every room with devices that can send results to medical staff in a fast, efficient manner;
• Noninvasive heart monitoring and testing equipment to evaluate heart and trauma patients quickly;
• Ability to communicate information, such as images and lab results, to caregivers throughout the hospital and physician offices via a secure instant messaging computer system;
• Handheld devices for all caregivers with all patient information readily accessible to facilitate patient care:
• Digital imaging, providing immediate imaging test results; and
• An MRI machine in the Emergency Center to expedite patient imaging.