Beaumont Hosts “Topping Off” Ceremony, Adding 193,000 Square Feet

Friday, construction crews placed the final steel beam to “top off” Beaumont Hospital - Farmington Hills’ new south tower. The hospital chain’s latest construction project cost $160 million and will add 193,000 square feet of space to the 28050 Grand River Ave campus. In addition to the new tower, Beaumont also plans renovations to other buildings on the campus, totaling over 61,500 square feet, the hospital said.

“We are excited about how this project will benefit our patients and families. The innovations and additional space will allow us to better deliver our promise of compassionate, extraordinary care,” Beaumont President Connie O’Malley, RN, said in a release.

The expansion projects to the hospital’s East Pavilion will create:

• a larger Emergency and Level II Trauma Center with 58 treatment and evaluation bays, including three dedicated trauma rooms
• a 17-bay Observation Unit
• a larger Surgical Services department with nine operating rooms (currently there are six) and 27 private patient rooms
• a 20-bed Critical Care Unit with private rooms
• a 10-bay infusion center
• an expanded family lounge area

The new five-story South Tower includes:

• 80 private patient rooms
• dedicated units for orthopedic, oncology and respiratory care patients
• a new main entrance and reception area for the entire hospital
• Sixty-five patient rooms in the existing hospital will also be renovated into private rooms as part of the project. In addition, 45 semi-private rooms will be updated. When construction is complete, the hospital will have 165 private rooms and 165 semi-private rooms, for a total 330 beds, which is the same number of beds that existed prior to construction.

Beaumont Health has spent about $150 million on the expansions, the largest set of improvements to the Farmington Hills campus in more than 20 years. Beaumont says it will “rely upon charitable giving” to raise the remaining $10 million needed for the project budget.

“So far, we have raised $5 million. We’re halfway to our goal. We are talking with community leaders and working to raise the rest of the funds,” O’Malley said.

Extensive renovations to the East Pavilion and construction on the new South Tower will continue til late 2018. Renovations of existing space should finish by late 2019, according to Beaumont.

Photo courtesy of Beaumont.