Hospital undergoes major expansion

  • 2014-05-26
Sparrow Health System has expanded its surgical center, which is located at Sparrow Hospital on Lansing's Main Street.

The expansion, which carried a price tag of $15m, more than doubled the center's size, to a total of 16,000 square feet.

The renovated space includes 10 new operating rooms, as well as touch-screen monitors, equipment that saves space, and floors that are designed to reduce fatigue for doctors and nurses who are on their feet all day. The center also includes a lab for frozen specimens—the first at Sparrow.

Ara Pridjian, Sparrow's medical director for cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, describes the new surgical suites with one word: “big”. The older operating rooms are described as being cramped, while the new ones seem spacious enough to serve as a wedding venue.

The renovated center is only part of an ongoing renovation Sparrow has undertaken over the last three years. Sparrow, which is based in Lansing, will spend over $250m in this effort. New construction will be carried out in phases and will include post-surgical and pre-surgical facilities, and a unit to care for patients recovering from anesthesia.

Community members will be interested in this, so hospital officials could work with brochure printers to create a handout for local distribution. The material could explain the renovations, and invite people to see the new facilities.