Sep 30 2015
ERDMAN recently gained approval on the project programming, conceptual design, and construction for a $93.6 million patient pavilion for Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) on their Muhlenberg campus in Bethlehem, Pa.
The LVHN patient pavilion will provide complete obstetrics and rehabilitation services to families. ERDMAN is the leading partner for the design and construction of this roughly 161,000 square foot patient pavilion.
LVHN’s mission focusing on compassionate healthcare for the community is at the heart of ERDMAN’s patient centered experience design. The ERDMAN team is dedicated to delivering on LVHN’s objectives to improve quality outcomes and safety through greater continuity of care and evidence-based design interventions, increase market share through additional services to the local community, and improve operational efficiency.
Floors two and three will be reserved for obstetrics and newborn services, which will include a mother-baby unit with 20 private rooms, a nursery, a Level II NICU with 10 private rooms, eight state-of-the-art labor, delivery and recovery rooms, two operating rooms, five obstetrics triage beds, a three-bay post-anesthesia care unit area, and a four-bed antepartum unit.
Floor one will be home to the Center for Inpatient Rehabilitation–Muhlenberg. It will include 28 rehabilitation beds and is similar to the Center for Inpatient Rehabilitation–Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township.
The fourth floor of the new pavilion will be shelled and reserved for potential future growth. The project also will also include increased parking and improvements on Schoenersville Rd. between Macada Rd. and the Route 22 east on ramp.
The design is complementary to the existing LVH-Muhlenberg hospital architecture and reincorporates an entry way on the south side of the hospital campus, reestablishing Muhlenberg’s connection to Bethlehem.
ERDMAN is proud of its long standing relationship with Lehigh Valley Health Network. ERDMAN designed and constructed the Health Center at Hamburg, PA in the late 1990s and the 33,000 square foot ambulatory care Health Center in Bangor, PA in 2013. Through ERDMAN’s integrated project delivery approach, ERDMAN was able to deliver these two projects, on time, under budget, and with fewer project interruptions, paving the way for ERDMAN’s involvement in the new obstetrics ward and hospital addition.
Source: http://www.erdman.com/