News

October 20, 2011

State-of-the-art Critical Care Building Opens at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center

St. Joseph’s Healthcare System recently opened its state-of-the-art, $120,000,000 Critical Care Building (CCB) on the campus of St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ. The CCB was designed by architecture firm Francis Cauffman with Torcon as construction manager.

The new four-story building features an expanded emergency room on the ground floor, designed to accommodate 125,000 visits annually and a 50,000-sq.-ft. addition to the Level Two Regional Trauma Center. The upper level has 12 operating rooms and two levels of cardiac, surgical, and critical and intensive care units. Other major features of the CCB include:

• 88 treatment areas in separate Pediatric, Geriatric and Adult emergency departments, including trauma, fast-track, triage rooms and treatment bays
• 12 advanced systems-integrated operating theaters, pre-operative and postoperative areas, and a dedicated surgical waiting area
• 56 new private patient critical care rooms in critical care units including: Cardiac Care Unit/Open Heart Cardiac Care Unit; Surgical Intensive Care Unit; Medical Intensive Care Unit
• Rooftop helipad landing pad capable of accepting the larger medical helicopters
• Ambulance and mobile intensive care vestibule capable of handling multiple vehicles simultaneously

Torcon is currently continuing work on a new parking structure at the St. Joseph’s site, and renovations to the existing emergency department.