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Clara Maass Medical Center
Emergency Department Renovation
Belleville, New Jersey

When it came to the expansion and renovation of Clara Maass Medical Center’s emergency and ambulatory departments,  the rehabilitation services suite and endoscopy/minor procedure department, they turned to Torcon

The project was completed in four phases to minimize staff and patient inconveniences and to maintain normal hospital operations. Under the first phase of the project, Torcon relocated rehabilitation medicine from the existing emergency department to a converted administration area in another building on the hospital grounds.

Phase Two relocated the existing emergency department into the area that rehabilitation medicine had vacated. This phase proved to be the especially challenging, as existing conditions made it difficult to fit new ductwork within the above ceiling space.

During Phase Three the existing endoscopy suite was relocated into the area vacated by the emergency department. The renovated area was made up of parts of three adjacent buildings.

During the final phase of the project, Torcon renovated the area previously occupied by endoscopy and created a pediatrics emergency department.

A top priority throughout all construction phases was safety and a concern for patient privacy and patient/family and staff stress. Much of the work completed by Torcon was also complicated by the need to conduct major construction operations within an active hospital environment. As an example, Torcon renovated the hospital’s same-day surgery department while maintaining full departmental operations. A new operating room was also added within an existing sterile procedure area—among active operating rooms and post-op recovery.