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The large window allowed in plenty of sunlight and provided a panoramic view of the outdoors. A chair near his bed could be converted into a sleep er for an overnight visitor, a special room service menu and an errand running concierge were only a phone call away. “It’s airy, it’s light — it’s really like a resort or a hotel,” the 64-year- old retired sheet-metal worker from Marshall said while surveying his surroundings from his bed. For McAuliffe, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery to repair his heart, his favorite room feature was a bathroom he could call his own. Bronson is among a growing number of new or renovated hospi tals in Michigan and throughout the United States whose patients recu perate in private rooms. Besides There's quite a reduction in operational costs if you can reduce your infection rate. after a little more than three years, Sardonesail| Private rooms allow doctors to spcaij candidly w ith their patients without wonyin^ violating the Health Insurance Accountability Act, a sweeping overhaul of fa) health care privacy laws that took effect last A Perhaps most importantly, patients in m ual rooms find an environment that’s i UCLA Medical Center is building a in,J campus hospital w ith 525 rooms, all of wfel] be private. Each room will fea bu i It-in w i ndow seat that will a— into a bed for a patient’s loved J Studeni A planned expansion ot ■ t l uesl u Children’s Hospital in St.PeteniP e - ()(11 Fla., is to feature a new, 2#1 pediatric hospital andanoutpl services complex. Except fori lider Trar saidTS Di Faculty half the neonatal intensive cart® ^ nc " all the patient rooms w ‘Over the last 25 or30yeanj (P c ass, y n Richard Van Enk epidemiologist I’ve been in this business, been becoming more prevalent here and I’m sure sJ w here.” said Tim Strouse,viced idem of operations and the pern overseeing the construction prosody Pic I he February edition of tiJ ring hue. Jhere pen minute r “We as ialuating I sue on th increased privacy, hospital officials say other ben efits to not having wards or semiprivate rooms include less risk of acquiring an infection from another patient and no risk of getting an incom patible roommate. “We have found dial this has had a wonderful, positive impact on patient satisfaction." said Frank J. Sardone, president and chief executive officer of Bronson Healthcare Group, which oper ates the hospital. “Patients and families absolute ly love the private rooms. None of them ever want to go back to having a semiprivate room.” The 348-bed hospital opened in December 2(KX) at a cost of $181 million. From the time of its conception in the early 1990s, Bronson offi cials never wavered in their desire for addressing patients’ privacy. Sardone said. The advantages include some significant cost savings for the hospital, including about $500,000 per year in patient-transfer costs. A four-year study by Dr. Richard Van Enk, an epidemiologist on staff, found that the number of hospital- acquired diseases and infections dropped by 11 percent between 1999 and 2002. resulting in fur ther annual savings of $1.2 million. “There’s quite a reduction in operational costs if you can reduce your infection rate," Van Enk said. The extra cost required to construct an all-private hospital has almost been recovered in the savings Student Student spotting American Demographicsmagtoatfle will \< almost all new hospital rooms beingbmljculty.' single rooms. “As there becomes more traosputneygflibmit tlu whole health care structure. I think private r«r become sort of a function of that because fd make demands of what their dollars are J lor,” said John McManus, the publication.; tor-in-chief. i It costs more for hospitals that have only sJ moms because tower patients can be cared ij one time, but Bronson officials “feel thet outweigh that cost.” Sardone said. The rate for one night of room and boailj Bronson is SI.459. a cost covered by Media Medicaid and most private insuranceptaatap the hospital has only individual room rates. 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