Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - staten island university hospital (siuh) north is a 472-bed tertiary teaching hospital and member hospital of northwell…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - staten island university hospital (siuh) north is a 472-bed tertiary teaching hospital and member hospital of northwell health. The hospital is located at 475 seaview avenue, staten island, new york and is an owned property. Siuh is constructing an integrated women and newborn center with labor and delivery, maternity, and newborn services at its main north campus hospital site. The goal of this project is to offer the highest quality clinical care to staten island's and brooklyn's expecting mothers, their newborns and families. This project includes a new third floor with single-bedded postpartum rooms that have natural lighting in each room. The postpartum rooms will have patient bathrooms and showers, in-room newborn space, family accommodations, and medical charting stations. The project will support "couplet care" where newborns will be able to "room in" with their mothers. The new space will include registration, a waiting room, the labor, delivery and recovery rooms (LDR), support space, and on-call rooms the modernization of the hospital's obstetric and maternity facilities will be supported by CDS funding through the purchase of equipment. Items to be purchased such as nurse call system, exam tables, exam stool, labor and delivery beds, infusions pumps and intermittent compression systems relate to direct patient care, comfort and safety. Accudose cabinets along with locked refrigeration units will provide proper dispensing of pharmaceutical drugs. Srubex machines provide management and automation of surgical scrub distribution. The purchase of computer equipment including printers, copiers, and FAX machines will support the medical staff for patient registration and electronic patient medical record updates. The remaining equipment items will serve to provide the units with storage for medical supplies and carts to aid in cleaning and maintenance of units. In development of northwell health's community health needs assess ment, one of the key priorities that were to be addressed as part of the local prevention agenda was improving maternal and women's health. This project is an upgrade to and expansion of the hospital's women's health program which would consequently enhance availability to acute maternal care services and provide greater opportunities for health care providers to educate and guide women and future mothers in preparation for a healthy pregnancy. Since the project is planned in a community that is racially and ethnically diverse, IT will also advance the prevention agenda's goal of reducing racial, ethnic, economic and geographic disparities in maternal outcomes, by providing high quality maternity care that is locally accessible to patients who increasingly rely on these services.