Olathe Health System Newsroom

Olathe Medical Center is embarking on two major construction projects to accommodate increasing demand for critical care rooms.  The project totals nearly $19 million in construction and technology costs. The majority of the project will be the addition of a new Critical Care Unit (CCU).  

The CCU will be built above the hospital’s current Emergency Care Center in the main hospital building. Featuring 26 beds, the CCU will enhance the patient care experience and boast a number of amenities, including:

• • Large, comfortable patient rooms and waiting areas for families. 
• • Ceiling mounted medical equipment booms in every patient room that will provide for a safer patient environment as it will keep cords and stands off the floor while allowing the bed to be moved to a variety of positions. 
• • Decentralized nursing stations to maximize patient care monitoring by allowing the caregivers to be in closer proximity to patients.
• • The most current patient monitoring systems. 
• • Bedside computer charting in every room.
• • State-of-the art beds that will improve skin care.
• • A rooftop fresh-air area for patients’ families and friends.
• • Multiple family conference rooms so that medical conversations with health professionals can occur in private.

“We are building a unit that provides nothing short of the latest in technology for the critical care patient,” said Mike Jensen, Chief Operations and Development Officer. “From a patient care perspective, it’s going to be obvious we’re providing the highest level of care with the latest capabilities.”

The CCU is expected to be complete in late summer or early fall 2012.

The project also includes a new energy center. The new energy center will provide additional redundancy power and emergency heating and cooling to the entire medical center. The expansion and equipment upgrades create the platform for  future expansion of the medical center.  

ACI-Boland serves as the architect for the project and J.E. Dunn is the general contractor.  There will be no interruption or disruption of patient care at Olathe Medical Center during construction of these projects.